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Stephen Sherrill / GQ:
America's 20 Craziest Politicians — How do you feel about facts? Do you hate them? Are they super annoying, like science? Are you frightened of communists, Muslims, and vaginas? Good news! This month, America is inaugurating a new class of elected representatives …
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Kyle Smith / New York Post:
Hey GQ, can't find any crazy Democrats? Here's 16 — Photo: Getty Images; AP; WireImage; Getty Images; Getty Images; Reuters — In a survey of the “Craziest Politicians of 2014,” GQ had difficulty locating any Democrats. Seventeen out of 20 on the list were Republicans …
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Washington Monthly, Hullabaloo and Hot Air
David Cohen / Politico:
Obama marks Afghanistan milestone — President Barack Obama on Sunday praised the official end of the 13-year U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan, offering his remarks to coincide with a handover ceremony there. — “On this day,” Obama said in a statement, “we give thanks to our troops …
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John Vidal / Observer:
Pope Francis's edict on climate change will anger deniers and US churches — Pontiff hopes to inspire action at next year's UN meeting in Paris in December after visits to Philippines and New York — He has been called the “superman pope”, and it would be hard to deny that Pope Francis has had a good December.
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Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, Addicting Info and Hullabaloo
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John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Pope Francis Is Set To Get Tough On Climate Change
Pope Francis Is Set To Get Tough On Climate Change
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Giuliani urges de Blasio to apologize for police remarks — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Sunday rebuked police officers who have turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio but urged his Democratic successor to apologize for remarks that infuriated the police amid searing tension among the department and communities of color.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
De Blasio Delivers Quiet Eulogy to Crowd of Unfriendly Faces, and Many Backs
De Blasio Delivers Quiet Eulogy to Crowd of Unfriendly Faces, and Many Backs
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Gothamist, ABC News and New York Post
David McCabe / The Hill:
CNN bumps politics to cover missing plane — CNN bumped its normal political coverage on Sunday morning to cover the missing AirAsia flight. — Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) were both scheduled to appear on the channel's flagship Sunday political talk show …
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
10 senators who could lose reelection in 2016 — Senate Republicans will have to work hard to retain their recently won majority as they face a tough 2016 electoral map. — They have 24 seats up compared to Democrats' 10, including seven in states President Obama carried twice.
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The Atlantic Online:
The Tragedy of the American Military — The American public and its political leadership will do anything for the military except take it seriously. The result is a chickenhawk nation in which careless spending and strategic folly combine to lure America into endless wars it can't win.
Michele Corriston / People.com:
Chris Rock & Wife Malaak Compton-Rock Split — Chris Rock and his wife are divorcing after nearly 20 years together. — “After much contemplation and 19 years of marriage, Chris and I have decided to go our separate ways,” Malaak Compton-Rock, a philanthropist and founder of the nonprofit styleWorks, said in a statement Sunday.
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Hinterland Gazette and TMZ.com
Alexandra Jaffe / CNN:
CNN/ORC Poll: Bush surges to 2016 GOP frontrunner — Washington (CNN) — Jeb Bush is the clear Republican presidential frontrunner, surging to the front of the potential GOP pack following his announcement that he's “actively exploring” a bid, a new CNN/ORC poll found.
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BostonGlobe.com, The Daily Caller, Scared Monkeys and The Other McCain
CBS St. Louis:
Ferguson Officer Admits Calling Memorial “A Piece of Trash” — FERGUSON (KMOX) - Police public information officer Tim Zoll is on unpaid leave after the city says he did make degrading comments about a memorial to Michael Brown, despite his early denials. — The makeshift memorial …
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USA Today, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, Liberaland, Scared Monkeys, KSDK-TV, Slantpoint, ThinkProgress, Yahoo! News, Gawker, Hinterland Gazette and Mediaite
Roy Wenzlthe / Wichita Eagle:
Charles Koch's views on criminal justice system just may surprise you — › — ‹ — Of all the contentious history between Koch Industries and the U.S. government, the Corpus Christi, Texas, case from 1995 is the one that Charles Koch remembers most vividly.
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Kendi Anderson / timesfreepress.com:
Woman shoots up Hixson neighborhood … Jennifer Clouse was standing in her yard Friday in her quiet Hixson neighborhood when she saw a woman quickly drive past her house holding a gun out of the window as if it were a cigarette. — “She was just casually holding a gun, and wearing a baseball hat …
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PoliticusUSA and Talking Points Memo