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Jennifer Mann / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Berkeley officer kills suspect who pulled gun; police say victim was ‘known’ to police — A Berkeley police officer fired at least three shots at a suspect who pulled a gun on him, the St. Louis County Police chief said at a Wednesday morning news conference.
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Berkeley officer fatally shoots teenager at gas station
Berkeley officer fatally shoots teenager at gas station
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KSDK-TV:
Police release video of officer-involved shooting
Police release video of officer-involved shooting
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St. Louis County Police
St. Louis County Police
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ABC News:
Video Shows Moments Before Police Shooting Near Ferguson, Missouri
Video Shows Moments Before Police Shooting Near Ferguson, Missouri
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Sebastian Murdock / The Huffington Post:
Antonio Martin, Black Teenager, Fatally Shot By Police 2 Miles From Ferguson: Report
Antonio Martin, Black Teenager, Fatally Shot By Police 2 Miles From Ferguson: Report
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Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Officer Fatally Shoots Armed Man Near Ferguson, Police Say
Officer Fatally Shoots Armed Man Near Ferguson, Police Say
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com:
YouTube tentatively agrees to stream ‘The Interview’ — YouTube, the world's largest video web site, has tentatively agreed to help Sony Pictures distribute “The Interview” via the Internet, according to sources with direct knowledge of the ongoing negotiations. — The sources cautioned that the deal could still fall apart.
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The Official Google Blog:
“The Interview” now available on Google Play and YouTube Movies — Last Wednesday Sony began contacting a number of companies, including Google, to ask if we'd be able to make their movie, “The Interview,” available online. We'd had a similar thought and were eager to help …
Washington Post:
CDC reports potential Ebola exposure in Atlanta lab — One scientist may have been exposed to the Ebola virus and as many as a dozen others are being assessed for potential exposure at a lab of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, agency officials said Wednesday.
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Susan Levine / Politico:
CDC lab breach may have exposed technician to Ebola — A technician at the CDC's special pathogens laboratory in Atlanta may have been exposed to Ebola this week when a sample of the deadly virus was incorrectly marked and moved within the facility, officials said Wednesday.
Washington Post:
Jeb Bush e-mails offer a look at the Republican's hands-on style as governor — The new governor of Florida was feeling exhausted and beleaguered. It was after 10 o'clock at night, and Jeb Bush was still going through angry e-mails. — He forwarded a message lambasting him as …
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Nancy Benac / Associated Press:
Again? Really? What if it's Bush-Clinton in 2016?
Again? Really? What if it's Bush-Clinton in 2016?
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
5 takeaways from Jeb Bush emails
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Bachmann: Obama Supports The Agenda Of Islamic Jihad “At Every Turn” — “And I have been very surprised, to answer your question, to see the president of the United States, at every turn, cut the legs off of our ally, Israel, and in fact embrace and lift up the agenda of Islamic jihad.”
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David McCabe / The Hill:
Obama plays round of golf with Malaysia's prime minster — President Obama golfed with the prime minister of Malaysia on Wednesday as he continued his annual winter vacation in Hawaii. — Prime Minister Najib Razak joined the president on the golf course. The foursome was completed by White House aides Joe Paulsen and Mike Brush.
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Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Woman who makes $6K a month off Airbnb rental ordered to stop — A woman has been “profiteering” from her government-subsidized, rent-controlled Central Park duplex by renting out bedrooms through Airbnb, a Manhattan judge said, ordering her to stop immediately.
Bob Fredericks / New York Post:
CUNY newspaper editorial calls for violent protests — Gordon Barnes, the editor-in-chief of The Advocate, penned the disturbing editorial calling for violent protests. — A disturbing editorial in a CUNY grad-student newspaper calls for rioters protesting the deaths of Eric Garner …
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David Weigel / Bloomberg Politics:
This Christmas, Be Grateful You Didn't Put All Your Money in Oil and Gold — The Ron Paul portfolio hasn't done so well. — Two days after the 2012 election, gold seller Doug Eberhardt told readers that his site was experiencing a traffic surge. “I noticed quite a few hits on my site …
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Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Why Israeli-Palestinian Peace Failed — TEL AVIV — I sat down with Tzipi Livni, Israel's lead negotiator with the Palestinians during months of talks that collapsed last April, to get a sense of how she viewed that failure and to take Israel's pulse in the run-up to the March election.
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Sarah Benhaida / Agence France-Presse:
Pope urges ‘tenderness’ as millions fete Christmas — Vatican City (AFP) - The pope led Christmas Eve mass in the Vatican on Wednesday calling for “tenderness” and “warmth” after a violence-plagued year as millions of Christians began marking the holiday. — The Argentine pontiff's brief homily …
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
That time Obama wore a tiara — Sporting a tiara in a photo posted Wednesday, President Barack Obama seems to have broken his own rule of “you don't put stuff on your head if you're president.” — But that's the power of the Girl Scouts. — Story Continued Below
Associated Press:
IS captures Jordanian pilot after warplane crashes in Syria — Associated Press 1 hr ago — AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Islamic State group militants on Wednesday captured a Jordanian pilot after his warplane crashed in Syria while conducting airstrikes, and a Jordanian official said it was believed …
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