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Nick Ralston / Sydney Morning Herald:
Martin Place, Sydney siege gunman identified as Man Haron Monis — Siege hostage taker identified as Man Monis — The man who held more than a dozen people hostage, placing Sydney's CBD into lockdown is no stranger to the NSW police or the judiciary. — Self-described cleric …
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CNN:
Sydney gunman reportedly demands ISIS flag as some hostages escape — Sydney (CNN) — Australia, and the world, looked on with dread Monday as a gunman holding hostages inside a darkened Sydney cafe demanded an ISIS flag and a phone call with Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
BBC:
Australia commandos end Sydney cafe siege
Australia commandos end Sydney cafe siege
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Guardian, Talking Points Memo, Washington Free Beacon, NPR and New York Magazine
ABC News:
Gunman Dead in Sydney Hostage Crisis, Standoff Comes to an End
Gunman Dead in Sydney Hostage Crisis, Standoff Comes to an End
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LeakSource, Washington Post, 9news.com.au, CNN, UPROXX, Mediaite, Hot Air and JustOneMinute
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Fox's Hasselbeck Uses Sydney Siege to Defend CIA Torture Program
Fox's Hasselbeck Uses Sydney Siege to Defend CIA Torture Program
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Daily Kos, The Huffington Post and ThinkProgress
Michelle Innis / New York Times:
Sydney Hostage Siege Ends With Gunman and 2 Captives Dead as Police Storm Cafe
Sydney Hostage Siege Ends With Gunman and 2 Captives Dead as Police Storm Cafe
Steve Inskeep / WBUR:
Sen. Warren Warns That Spending Bill Sets Dangerous Precedent — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. (right), a member of the Senate banking committee, and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., ranking member of the House financial services committee, express their outrage to reporters …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Dodd-Frank Damaged in the Budget Bill
Dodd-Frank Damaged in the Budget Bill
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Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Financial Times and Washington Center …
Steve Inskeep / NPR:
‘Warning Shot’: Sen. Warren On Fighting Banks, And Her Political Future
‘Warning Shot’: Sen. Warren On Fighting Banks, And Her Political Future
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Washington Post, OnPolitics and The Daily Caller
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Get Ready for the Obama Boomlet — Remember when pundits loved the president? The conditions are right for that old feeling to return. — Remember when pundits loved Barack Obama? It's been quite a few years now. But I suspect some of the adoration is about to come back. — There are three reasons.
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Hot Air
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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Don't Bet On Clinton Faltering In Iowa A Second Time
Don't Bet On Clinton Faltering In Iowa A Second Time
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Washington Monthly and Wall Street Journal
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Elizabeth Warren poses a challenge to Hillary in 2016
Elizabeth Warren poses a challenge to Hillary in 2016
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The PJ Tatler, CNN, National Review and Washington Post
Russell Berman / The Atlantic Online:
Finally, a New Surgeon General — President Obama nominated Vivek Murthy to be U.S. surgeon general on November 13, 2013. The Senate health committee signed off on him in February. On Monday, one year, one month, and two days after his selection, the Senate is poised to confirm him to a post that has been vacant since July.
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Daily Kos and Capital New York
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Erik Telford / Washington Examiner:
Senate Republicans need to decide who their leader is
Senate Republicans need to decide who their leader is
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Washington Post, The Daily Caller, ABC News and The Dish
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Cleveland Cops Demand Apology For Browns Player's Tamir Rice Protest Shirt — A Cleveland police union has demanded that the Cleveland Browns football team apologize for a player who wore a T-shirt before Sunday's game protesting the police shootings of two black people.
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Flex, Mediaite, Prairie Weather and Hullabaloo
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Marquis Moore.jpg / PennLive.com:
Harrisburg man insulted by racial slur found on Zembie's receipt — Marquis Moore displays a Zembie's receipt containing a racial slur a bartender used to identify him with after he placed a to-go order at the Harrisburg bar Saturday night. … Marquis Moore was about to eat an order …
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Raw Story, Mediaite, Jezebel and Liberaland
CBS News:
Most Americans consider waterboarding to be torture: poll — A barbed wire fence surrounds a military area is in the forest near Stare Kiejkuty village, close to Szczytno in Northeastern Poland, in this January 24, 2014 file photo. Poland threatened to halt the transfer of al Qaeda suspects …
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John Bacon / Associated Press:
Report: Shooting spree leaves up to 5 dead in Philly suburbs — WPVI-TV reports that a gunman is barricaded in a house in Souderton, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Police were called after two people were found dead in a home. Three others were found shot to death in two other locations.
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New Jersey Online, The Gateway Pundit and FOX News Radio
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Tmrickert / CBS Philly:
Multiple People Reportedly Dead After Montgomery County Shootings
Multiple People Reportedly Dead After Montgomery County Shootings
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thereporteronline.com, The Gateway Pundit and Shakesville
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Dick Cheney Defends the Torture of Innocents — When I was growing up, Americans thought of torture as a tactic used by history's villains. A brutal dictator might keep a depraved regime in power with torture. People in foreign countries might suffer inside torture chambers.
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CNN, Salon, NBC News, Outside the Beltway, Washington Monthly, New Yorker, New York Magazine, Hit & Run and The Intercept
PolitiFact:
2014 Lie of the Year: Exaggerations about Ebola — Thomas Eric Duncan left Monrovia, Liberia, on Sept. 19, for Dallas. Eleven days later, doctors diagnosed Duncan with Ebola. — Eight days after that, he was dead. — Duncan's case is just one of two Ebola-related fatalities in the United States …
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and Liberal Values
Jessica Pressler / New York Magazine:
12. Because a Stuyvesant Senior Made Millions Picking Stocks. His Hedge Fund Opens as Soon As He Turns 18. — Rumors, on Wall Street, can be powerful. A whisper can turn into a current that moves markets, driving a stock price up or sending it tumbling.
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Business Insider, Fox News, Gawker, UPROXX, New York Post and The PJ Tatler
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
A Shooter, His Victim and Race — TAMPA, Fla. — IAN MANUEL is a black man who has spent most of his life in prison. Yet he still has a most unusual advocate calling for his release: a white woman whom he met when he shot her in the face. — Manuel fired the bullet when he was barely 13 …
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Guns.com and Joanne Jacobs
Mark Bittman / New York Times:
Is It Bad Enough Yet? — THE police killing unarmed civilians. Horrifying income inequality. Rotting infrastructure and an unsafe “safety net.” An inability to respond to climate, public health and environmental threats. A food system that causes disease. An occasionally dysfunctional and even cruel government.
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CANNONFIRE and The PJ Tatler
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Bill would require data on police killings — Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) has introduced legislation requiring the Justice Department to collect data on how many people are killed by police officers. — Reliable data on police shootings due to “excessive force” is not available …
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Talking Points Memo and Colorlines
Derek Draplin / The College Fix:
CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Hate-crime vandalism against conservative student — Security camera footage obtained Sunday by The College Fix shows a group of females changing into hoodies and other baggy clothing and proceeding to vandalize a conservative student's apartment doorway.
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Hit & Run and National Review