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New York Times:
Sony's ‘The Interview’ Will Come to Some Theaters After All — LOS ANGELES — Sony Pictures said on Tuesday that it had secured a limited theatrical release for “The Interview” on Christmas Day. — “We have never given up,” Michael Lynton, chief executive of Sony Entertainment, said in a statement.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com:
Groundswell of support for ‘The Interview’ — Six of out 10 Americans think Sony overreacted by canceling the Christmas release of “The Interview.” And with each passing day, more of those people — including writers, independent theater owners and members of Congress — are speaking out.
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Talking Points Memo, Weekly Standard, FOX31 Denver, FishbowlDC, Politico and Inside Movies, more at Mediagazer »
Robert Wilonsky / Pop Culture Blog:
Sony Pictures CEO ‘excited’ to release ‘The Interview’ on Christmas Day — Randall Park, center, as North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in The Interview, which you could get to see as soon as this week — Update at 1:12 p.m.: It's become next to impossible to access the Alamo DFW's website — and, no, it's not being hacked.
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Mashable, Towleroad News #gay, Bloomberg Politics, Weekly Standard, Hit & Run, Daily Signal, KTLA, Hinterland Gazette, PopWatch, VentureBeat and Telegraph
Dave McNary / Variety:
‘The Interview’ to Screen in Select Theaters on Christmas
‘The Interview’ to Screen in Select Theaters on Christmas
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Bloomberg Politics, Tech Times, The Daily Caller, WGBH News, Engadget, The Huffington Post and Inside Movies
Dana Ford / CNN:
North Korea's Internet is being disrupted
North Korea's Internet is being disrupted
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The Week, The Daily Caller and New York Magazine
Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
The Big Lie of the Anti-Cop Left Turns Lethal — The real story behind the murder of two NYPD officers — Since last summer, a lie has overtaken significant parts of the country, resulting in growing mass hysteria. That lie holds that the police pose a mortal threat to black Americans …
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protein wisdom, CANNONFIRE, Weekly Standard, The PJ Tatler and Washington Post
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Politico:
De Blasio's nightmare
De Blasio's nightmare
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Sky Dancing, Hot Air, Gawker, New York Post, Washington Post, Balloon Juice, No More Mister Nice Blog, Ed Driscoll, The PJ Tatler and Hullabaloo
New York Post:
Shamed De Blasio begs New Yorkers to report threats on cops
Shamed De Blasio begs New Yorkers to report threats on cops
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Fox News, Reuters, Hot Air, The Hugh Hewitt Show and Power Line
New York Times:
Mr. de Blasio's Call for Harmony
Mr. de Blasio's Call for Harmony
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Townhall.com, CounterPunch, The Mahablog, The Huffington Post, Raw Story, Daily Kos, susiemadrak.com, CNN, The Intercept, Slantpoint, Corey Robin and Washington Post
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
O'Reilly Tears Into ‘Villain’ de Blasio: He Needs to Resign Immediately
O'Reilly Tears Into ‘Villain’ de Blasio: He Needs to Resign Immediately
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Yahoo! News and The Huffington Post
Bernard B. Kerik / TIME:
Bernie Kerik: War Is Being Waged on Our Homeland
Bernie Kerik: War Is Being Waged on Our Homeland
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alicublog, Slantpoint, Fox News Insider and Gothamist
Michelle Jamrisko / Bloomberg:
Economy Grows Most Since '03 on U.S. Consumer-Spending Gains — The U.S. economy roared into overdrive in the third quarter as consumer and business spending fueled the biggest expansion in more than a decade. — Gross domestic product grew at a 5 percent annual rate from July through September …
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Third-Quarter GDP Revised Up to 5.0% Growth — WASHINGTON—The U.S. economy posted its strongest growth in more than a decade during the third quarter, supported by robust consumer spending and business investment. — Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods …
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Bloomberg View, Reuters, Outside the Beltway, Mediaite, Political Wire and Gallup
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
GDP grows by 5 percent as US economy picks up strong pace
GDP grows by 5 percent as US economy picks up strong pace
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Politico, Sky Dancing and Prairie Weather
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Pelosi: Boehner must force Grimm to resign — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is turning the heat up on Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), urging him to call for Rep. Michael Grimm's (R-N.Y.) resignation. — Grimm is expected to plead guilty Tuesday to a felony charge of tax evasion.
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Politico, ABC News, Staten Island Advance, NPR, The Huffington Post, Political Wire, Talking Points Memo and National Review
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John Marzulli / NY Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: 911 operators made ‘anti-police’ remarks, causing quarrel with FDNY dispatchers as 2 NYPD cops were dying, sources say — The war of words occurred when news broke that NYPD cops Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot Saturday. One dispatcher allegedly said the cops ‘deserved it,’ said a law enforcement source.
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Michelle Conlin / Reuters:
Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow police — (Reuters) - From the dingy donut shops of Manhattan to the cloistered police watering holes in Brooklyn, a number of black NYPD officers say they have experienced the same racial profiling that cost Eric Garner his life.
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Hinterland Gazette and Mediaite
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Mitch McConnell: Senate 'didn't do squat for years' — Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says his biggest challenge will be righting the course of Congress, adding — in a swipe at outgoing Majority Leader Harry Reid — that his own chamber “basically didn't do squat for years.”
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Mitch McConnell's New Senate Goal: Turn Republican Dial to Yes
Mitch McConnell's New Senate Goal: Turn Republican Dial to Yes
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Washington Post, PoliticusUSA and Washington Monthly
Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
The IRS Scandal, Day 593 — Daily Caller: BOMBSHELL REPORT: IRS Targeted ‘Icky’ Conservative Groups: — Top IRS officials specifically targeted tea party groups and misled the public about its secret political targeting program led by ex-official Lois Lerner, according to a bombshell new congressional report.
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Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
BOMBSHELL REPORT: IRS Targeted ‘Icky’ Conservative Groups
BOMBSHELL REPORT: IRS Targeted ‘Icky’ Conservative Groups
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Power Line, Washington Examiner, CNN and Ed Driscoll
Greg Munno / The FOIA Project:
FOIA Suits Jump In 2014 — More freedom of information lawsuits were brought against the federal government in fiscal year 2014 than in any year since at least 2001, according to a new analysis of court records by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).
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The Huffington Post
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
NYT, Vice, Mother Jones top FOIA suits
Emily Gosden / Telegraph:
BBC's Quentin Sommerville laughs uncontrollably as he attempts to report on burning drugs — Reporter repeatedly collapses into giggles in front of pile of burning narcotics — He has braved gunfire to report from some of the world's most treacherous regions.
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New York Magazine, Mediaite, Tech Times, The Huffington Post, PopWatch, Gawker and Metro.co.uk
Kelly P. Kissel / Associated Press:
Arkansas to appeal federal gay marriage ruling — LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas' attorney general says he will appeal a federal judge's ruling that found voters were wrong to ban gay marriage during a referendum 10 years ago. — Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said Tuesday he would file …
Jessica Chasmar / Washington Times:
PSA encourages kids to steal parents' guns, hand over to teachers … A startling new anti-gun ad released by a San Francisco-based production company encourages children to commit a series of crimes by stealing their parents' guns and turning them over to school officials, The Daily Caller reported Monday.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Guns.com, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, WTVR-TV, KRON4, UPROXX and Liberty Unyielding
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Alyssa Zauderer / New York's PIX11:
Southwest jet gets wing clipped in collision at LaGuardia Airport — The wing of a Southwest Airline was clipped. (Photo by Christiana Peppard) — LAGUARDIA AIRPORT, Queens (PIX11) - Two passenger jets collided at LaGuardia Airport Tuesday morning. — The wing of the Southwest Airlines …
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WTVR-TV, FOX31 Denver and Gawker
Michael Brown / TMZ.com:
'AND HE'S DEAD, DEAD MICHAEL BROWN' [VIDEO] — The Glendale, CA Elks Lodge is investigating a shocking incident that went down in the club a week ago Monday, when a performer sang a song celebrating the death of Michael Brown ... for an audience that included a number of retired and current cops ... and TMZ has the video.
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Liberaland, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Mediaite
Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
How many crimes can you see being committed in this anti-gun ‘public service’ ad? — I've gotten several e-mails about this ad, and one reader asked: If a child does what the protagonist did — would the filmmakers be criminally punishable or subject to civil liability?
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Liberty Unyielding, Raw Story, Hit & Run and Clayton Cramer
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Giuliani's claim that Obama launched anti-police ‘propaganda’ — “We've had four months of propaganda, starting with the president, that everybody should hate the police.” — Giuliani made headlines after his statement on Fox News, which he repeated the next day on CNN.
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JustOneMinute and Mediaite