memeorandum: Pope urges ‘tenderness’ as millions fete Christmas (Sarah Benhaida/Agence France-Presse)

6:10 PM ET, December 24, 2014

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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 — Updated at 3:15 a.m. with new details. — BERKELEY • A Berkeley police officer fatally shot a suspect who pointed a gun at him late Tuesday, St. Louis County police said early today. — Police did not identify the person killed …

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KSDK-TV:

Police release video of officer-involved shooting — A man in Berkeley, Missouri is dead after a confrontation with police late Tuesday night. Police say the man was armed and pulled his gun on an officer, who then fired several shots. VPC — CONNECT

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ABC News:
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

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Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Officer Fatally Shoots Armed Man Near Ferguson, Police Say

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Associated Press: Officer kills armed 18-year-old near Ferguson

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 …

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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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Agence France-Presse:
Sony streams North Korea comedy online

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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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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:

Bachmann: Obama Supports ‘The Agenda Of Islamic Jihad’ At ‘Every Turn’ — The way Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) sees it, President Barack Obama has been supporting Islamic jihad “at every turn.” — “And I have been very surprised, to answer your question, to see the President of the United States …

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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?

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Jeremy Diamond / CNN: 5 takeaways from Jeb Bush emails

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.

Discussion: Mashable and Gothamist

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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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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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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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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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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