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New York Times:
Police Respect Squandered in Attacks on de Blasio — Mayor Bill de Blasio has spent weeks expressing his respect and admiration for the New York Police Department, while calling for unity in these difficult days, but the message doesn't seem to be sinking in.
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Arrests plummet following execution of cops — It's not a slowdown — it's a virtual work stoppage. — NYPD traffic tickets and summonses for minor offenses have dropped off by a staggering 94 percent following the execution of two cops — as officers feel betrayed by the mayor and fear for their safety, The Post has learned.
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ABC News:
Bill De Blasio News — ... committed suicide. Some key developments in the aftermath: — NYPD RECRUIT GRADUATION Mayor Bill de Blasio , whose relationship with the New York Police Department has been particularly tense in recent weeks, was booed ...
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Steve Scalise / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
‘I detest any kind of hate group’ — Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise said he doesn't support “any of the things I read about” a white supremacist group that organized an event at which Scalise appeared in 2002. — In an exclusive interview Monday with NOLA.com |
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Bill Clark / Roll Call:
What Scalise and Vitter Told Roll Call About David Duke in 1999 — Back in 1999, Roll Call interviewed white supremacist leader David Duke about the possibility he would seek the House seat vacated by the resignation of Republican Rep. Bob Livingston. As part of that report …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Former KKK leader says his political adviser was ‘friendly’ with Rep. Scalise
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Washington Post:
House Majority Whip Scalise confirms he spoke to white nationalists in 2002
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Steve Scalise / NOLA River:
Steve Scalise's role in 2002 white nationalist event ignites political firestorm
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
House majority whip Scalise acknowledges speaking at white nationalist event in 2002
Dan Friedman / NY Daily News:
Michael Grimm has decided to resign from Congress days after pleading guilty: sources — EXCLUSIVE: The Staten Island Republican, who won reelection in the fall, has decided to vacate his seat after speaking with Rep. John Boehner. — WASHINGTON — Rep. Michael Grimm has decided to resign …
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Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Michael Grimm, in a Reversal, Will Resign From Congress
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Fox News:
At least 40 bodies, debris found in search for missing AirAsia plane — At least 40 bodies have been found in the area where AirAsia Flight 8501 last made contact with air traffic controllers, along with debris from the plane. — The bodies were found in the Java Sea about six miles from the plane's last known point of contact.
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AirAsia: Bodies, Debris Found in Search for Missing Jet — Wreckage spotted floating in Indonesian waters today is connected to the missing AirAsia jetliner that crashed into the Java Sea Sunday with 162 people aboard, according to the airline. — “AirAsia Indonesia regrets to inform …
abc7.com:
Autopsy reveals Ezell Ford was shot in arm, back, abdomen — An autopsy report, released on Monday, revealed Ezell Ford was shot three times: in the right arm, right back and right abdomen. — The report was made public more than four months after Ford, 25, was fatally shot by LAPD officers …
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Hunter Walker / Business Insider:
Potential Hillary Challenger Paid Nearly $100,000 In Campaign Donations To His Family — See Also — FORGET BRIDGEGATE: Chris Christie May Be Responsible For ‘Traffic Armageddon’ Across The Northeast — Hillary Clinton Is Getting Terrible Reviews On The Campaign Trail, And There Might Be A Very Simple Reason Why
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
What is Paul Krugman afraid of? — Paul Krugman is a lot of things. New York Times op-ed columnist. Nobel prize-winning economist. Arcade Fire fanboy. Obama administration frenemy. — But the side of Krugman I've always found most interesting is the sci-fi obsessive.
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Suzanne Daley / New York Times:
Greek Patience With Austerity Nears Its Limit — NEA IONIA, Greece — Alexandra Nikolovieni, 55, lost her job escorting young children on a school bus four years ago and has not been able to find another one since. To help financially, her daughter and her son-in-law, who have two children, moved into her house.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Eschaton
Tal Kopan / Politico:
FBI briefed on alternate Sony hack theory — FBI agents investigating the Sony Pictures hack were briefed Monday by a security firm that says its research points to laid-off Sony staff, not North Korea, as the perpetrator — another example of the continuing whodunit blame game around the devastating attack.
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Caitlin Emma / Politico:
Testing under fire — Republicans may consider slashing the number of federally required tests. — Republicans on the Hill are finding unusual common ground with teachers unions about an overthrow of the annual testing mandate embedded in No Child Left Behind.
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Slate:
The 10 Worst Civil Liberties Violations of 2014 — It's been an exceptionally awful year. — The world may not actually be falling apart—but it feels like America is. From police brutality and botched executions to voter suppression and election corruption, 2014 was a terrible year for civil liberties in the United States.
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Politico:
2015, the year the GOP strikes back at Obama food policies — The Obama administration is becoming increasingly involved in what Americans put on their dinner plates and in their cereal bowls, from requiring school children to be served fruit to eliminating trans fats in doughnuts.
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Why Hillary Clinton doesn't need to win the white working class — Few questions in American political debate recur with the regularity of this one: Can Democrats win the white working class? — As soon as it's time to start contemplating the next election, commentators begin to ask this question …
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