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Dylan Byers / Politico:
NBC News: Brian Williams suspended for 6 months without pay — NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams has been suspended for six months without pay following his false claims about an experience he had during the Iraq war, NBC News president Deborah Turness announced Tuesday night.
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
D'Souza: Brian Williams a ‘Liberal Con Man Whose Con Is Finally Up’ — Hours before Brian Williams's suspension was announced, author Dinesh D'Souza took a shot at Williams and called him “another liberal con man whose con is finally up.” — D'Souza told Steve Malzberg, “I mean …
New York Times:
Brian Williams Suspended From NBC for 6 Months Without Pay
Brian Williams Suspended From NBC for 6 Months Without Pay
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Following Suspension, Brian Williams Probably Wishes He'd Gotten the Tonight Show Job He Wanted
Following Suspension, Brian Williams Probably Wishes He'd Gotten the Tonight Show Job He Wanted
Dylan Byers / Politico:
How to read the Brian Williams news
How to read the Brian Williams news
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Capital New York, Hot Air, Ed Driscoll, The Last Refuge and New York Magazine
Don Kaplan / NY Daily News:
NBC will resolve Brian Williams controversy ‘today or tomorrow’: sources
NBC will resolve Brian Williams controversy ‘today or tomorrow’: sources
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Philly.com, The Moderate Voice, Newsweek, FOX News Radio and FTVLive
WRAL-TV:
Three college students killed in Chapel Hill shooting; 46-year-old man charged — CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A 46-year-old Chapel Hill man has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder after three college students were shot and killed Tuesday evening at a condominium complex on Summerwalk Circle in Chapel Hill, authorities said.
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Tammy Grubb / Raleigh News & Observer:
Chapel Hill police arrest man in triple homicide — CHAPEL HILL — Police charged a Chapel Hill man Wednesday with first-degree murder in the deaths of three Muslim students in a quiet neighborhood near Meadowmont just south of N.C. 54. — Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, is being held …
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Mark S. Getzfred / New York Times:
Man Charged in Deaths of 3 Students Near University of North Carolina
Man Charged in Deaths of 3 Students Near University of North Carolina
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Washington Post and Blue Nation Review
Saeed Ahmed / CNN:
3 Muslim students shot to death in apartment near UNC Chapel Hill
3 Muslim students shot to death in apartment near UNC Chapel Hill
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Daily Mail, Fox News, Shakesville, Washington Times, Twitchy and The Daily Caller
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Jon Stewart leaving The Daily Show — Jon Stewart, the host of Comedy Central's ‘The Daily Show,’ will step down later this year, the president of the network confirmed in a statement to POLITICO on Tuesday. — “For the better part of the last two decades, I have had the incredible honor and privilege of working with Jon Stewart.
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The A.V. Club:
Jon Stewart says he's leaving The Daily Show — Ending one of the most venerable and trusted careers in making a complete mockery of the news, Jon Stewart has announced that he is stepping down as host of The Daily Show. According to sources who were there (some of whom are already passing word along …
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Jon Stewart Will Leave ‘The Daily Show’ on a Career High Note — Jon Stewart, who turned Comedy Central's “The Daily Show” into a sharp-edged commentary on current events, delivering the news in layers of silliness and mockery, said on Tuesday that he would step down after more than 16 years as its anchor.
Adam Chandler / The Atlantic Online:
Exit Jon Stewart
Exit Jon Stewart
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Variety, The Last Refuge and The Verge
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama: I didn't mislead voters on gay marriage — President Obama is denying a former top political adviser's contention that he intentionally deceived voters about his position on gay marriage in an interview published Wednesday. — The president said David Axelrod, his former senior adviser …
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Power Line, Hot Air and Jammie Wearing Fools
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BuzzFeed:
Full Transcript Of BuzzFeed News' Interview With President Barack Obama — FULL TRANSCRIPT: — BuzzFeed News: So, eight years ago, today actually, you announced your campaign in Springfield. I read that speech last night and I was struck by how much it's a generational call to your generation, I guess to some degree mine.
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Obama Defends His Legacy: “These Are The Kinds Of Things You Learn” — WASHINGTON — On Feb. 10, 2007, Barack Obama stood outside the state capitol in Springfield, Illinois, and announced his candidacy for president, promising a generational call to change the “ways of Washington,” gauzily promising a “future of endless possibility.”
The Hill:
Obama's ISIS war powers request to ban ‘enduring’ troops — The White House will ask Congress to approve military action against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that bans “enduring offensive ground operations.” — Administration officials briefed lawmakers on Tuesday …
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Associated Press:
Obama sends Congress request for military force against IS
Obama sends Congress request for military force against IS
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Hot Air and The Right Scoop
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Obama to Seek War Power Bill From Congress, to Fight ISIS
Obama to Seek War Power Bill From Congress, to Fight ISIS
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Washington Post, Political Wire and Bloomberg View
Josh Rogin / Bloomberg View:
Obama's War Authorization Limits Ground Forces
Obama's War Authorization Limits Ground Forces
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al.com:
Grandfather visiting Alabama from India stopped by police while taking walk, left partly paralyzed — Madison police last week roughed up a 57-year-old Indian citizen who was walking on the sidewalk outside his son's home, leaving the older man temporarily paralyzed and hospitalized with fused vertebrae.
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Raw Story and Hullabaloo
New York Times:
Emerging Clinton Team Shows Signs of Disquiet — Lingering tensions between Hillary Rodham Clinton's loyalists and the strategists who helped President Obama defeat her in 2008 have erupted into an intense public struggle over who will wield money and clout in her emerging 2016 presidential campaign.
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The Hugh Hewitt Show
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Ed Kilgore / Talking Points Memo:
How Conservatives Are Pushing Liberals Out Of Christianity — Most of the public controversy over the president's remarks at this year's National Prayer Breakfast involved his reminder that Muslims were not alone in harboring “sinful tendenc[ies] that can pervert and distort our faith.”
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Washington Monthly, Tea Party, The Moderate Voice, New York Times, Slate and The Daily Caller
T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
Jeb Bush dumps emails, home addresses, and social security numbers of Florida residents online — Jeb Bush, a rumored 2016 Republican presidential candidate, just decided to publish hundreds of thousands of emails sent to him during his time as governor of Florida.
Wall Street Journal:
New Questions Swirl on an Affordable Care Act Challenger — Plaintiff Listed Motel as Her Address, Which Was Basis for Her Legal Grounds — One of the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case against the Affordable Care Act listed a short-term-stay motel as her address when she joined the lawsuit …
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