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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 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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Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
Obama: Longest war in US history is ending — HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama says the longest war in American history is coming to a responsible conclusion. — Obama is welcoming the end of U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan. The war came to a formal end Sunday with a ceremony in Kabul.
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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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Associated Press:
AirAsia plane missing with 161 people on board
AirAsia plane missing with 161 people on board
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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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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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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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David Rogers / Politico:
Nothing funny about ‘The Interview’ — Just when did assassination become a subject for American humor? — This is a nation which still mourns Abraham Lincoln, John Kennedy, and Martin Luther King — all assassinated. It is living through a period of renewed racial violence …
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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Jyoti Thottam / Al Jazeera America:
The Year in Ebola: How to stop the next outbreak — After 2014's epidemic devastated West Africa, the need for investing in health infrastructure is clear — On Dec. 28, 2013, a one-year-old boy named Emile Ouamouno died of Ebola in Meliandou, Guinea. After Emile died — he was the …
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David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Allen West: Obama Wants Blacks ‘Vomiting Dissension’ To Create Myth Of Modern-day Racism — Former Republican Rep. Allen West declared on Sunday that President Barack Obama was responsible for creating a myth of modern-day racism by prompting a “vomiting” of dissension from black Americans.