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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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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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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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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
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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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
Food and Drug Administration:
FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg's statement on FDA's blood donor deferral policy for men who have sex with men — For Immediate Release — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is a science-based regulatory agency that works to protect and promote the public health.
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Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
F.D.A. Lifting Ban on Gay Blood Donors — WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that it would scrap a decades-old lifetime prohibition on blood donation by gay and bisexual men, a change that experts said was long overdue and could lift the annual blood supply by as much as 4 percent.
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Politico:
De Blasio's nightmare — New York's mayor has lost the police — and maybe much more than that. — Bill de Blasio, like his progressive political idol Barack Obama, is finding out that you can't do the New Politics if you don't pay attention to the old politics.
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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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New York Times:
Mr. de Blasio's Call for Harmony
Mr. de Blasio's Call for Harmony
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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
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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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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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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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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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 …
US Census / Releases by Year:
Florida Passes New York to Become the Nation's Third Most Populous State, Census Bureau Reports — By adding an average of 803 new residents each day between July 1, 2013 and July 1, 2014, Florida passed New York to become the nation's third most populous state, according to U.S. Census Bureau state population estimates released today.
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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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