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9:50 AM ET, August 6, 2013

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos  —  The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family's stewardship of one of America's leading news organizations after four generations.
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Jeff Bezos / Washington Post:
Jeff Bezos on Post purchase  —  To the employees of The Washington Post:  —  You'll have heard the news, and many of you will greet it with a degree of apprehension.  When a single family owns a company for many decades, and when that family acts for all those decades in good faith …
The Atlantic Online:
The Politics of New Washington Post Owner Jeff Bezos  —  The Amazon.com founder and CEO is a strong backer of gay marriage and an internet sales tax but otherwise fairly opaque.  —  In a shocking announcement late Monday, The Washington Post Co. announced that it's selling its eponymous newspaper …
John F. Harris / Politico:
What is Jeff Bezos thinking?  —  Within minutes of the news going public, I had an email from a recognizable byline at the Washington Post that captured my feelings exactly: “Holy.  S**t.”  —  In the heyday of this singular American institution, those two words were the very phrase …
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Can Bezos Save the Washington Post From Print's Dismal Economics?  —  It's certainly been a news-filled week for journalists: Newsweek, my former employer, was sold to two guys you've never heard of for an undisclosed sum; the New York Times sold the Boston Globe to Red Sox owner John Henry …
Washington Post:
Graham details anatomy of Washington Post deal
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Emily Bell / Business Insider:
Jeff Bezos' Shocking Washington Post Buy Was Not A Business Deal — It Was A Cultural Statement
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Amazon's Founder to Buy The Washington Post
Discussion: DealBook, GigaOM and Prairie Weather
CNN:
Drone strikes kill militants in Yemen; Americans urged to leave  —  Britain advises against travel to Yemen Analysis: Dangers of al Qaeda in Yemen Sources: Al Qaeda plot in final stages  —  (CNN) — A pair of suspected U.S. drone strikes killed four al Qaeda militants in Yemen …
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Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
The Al Qaeda Obama Forgot  —  The short distance between the president's rhetoric on terror and its empirical disproof.  —  In May, Barack Obama told an audience at the National Defense University that the core of al Qaeda was “on the path to defeat.”  The “future of terrorism,” …
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Resurgent al Qaeda casts doubt on Obama's national security record  —  Groups affiliated with al Qaeda have grown in strength over the last year, prompting new challenges for the Obama White House that has touted its record in fighting terror groups.  —  President Obama declared al Qaeda …
Discussion: Hot Air and Jammie Wearing Fools
New York Times:
Qaeda Leader's Edict to Yemen Affiliate Is Said to Prompt Alert  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's decision last week to close nearly two dozen diplomatic missions and issue a worldwide travel alert resulted from intercepted electronic communications in which the head of Al Qaeda …
Justin Sink / The Hill:   White House: ‘Core’ of al Qaeda has been ‘greatly diminished’
Des Moines Register:
Family Leader says it could fill straw poll's gap  —  Gov. Branstad on competing Straw Polls: Gov. Branstad on competing Straw Polls  —  If state party officials decide to scrap the Iowa straw poll, as Gov. Terry Branstad has suggested, a nonprofit evangelical conservative group is ready to fill in the gap.
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Lara Seligman / The Hill:
RNC chief: NBC, CNN ‘promoting’ Dems
Discussion: Politico
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
RNC Says No Debates If NBC and CNN Don't Pull Clinton Movies
Variety:
CNN Calls Republicans' Hillary Clinton Threat 'Disservice to ‘Voters’
Discussion: The Hinterland Gazette and GOP.com
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Wendy Davis: 'I don't know what happened in the Gosnell case'  —  Texas state senator Wendy Davis spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Monday afternoon about her 13-hour filibuster of a bill limiting late-term abortion, her life story, and her future in politics.
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an ‘emergency’  —  (Reuters) - Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an “emergency” that the operator is struggling to contain, an official from the country's nuclear watchdog said on Monday.
New York Times:
Chicago Sees Pension Crisis Drawing Near  —  CHICAGO — Corporations are moving in, and housing prices are looking better across the region.  There has been a slight uptick in population.  But a crushing problem lurks beneath the signs of economic recovery in Chicago: one of the most poorly …
Discussion: Via Meadia and The Shadow League
Nanci G. Hutson / News-Times:
‘Jeopardy!’ ruling under fire  —  NEWTOWN — Newtown eighth-grader Thomas Hurley III was thrilled to be chosen as a contestant on the Kids Week episode of the television game show “Jeopardy!” that was filmed in February and aired this week.  —  He was up against a tough competitor right …
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
The Front Man  —  Conservatives have for years attempted to put our finger upon precisely why Barack Obama strikes us as queer in precisely the way he does.  There is an alienness about him, which in the fever swamps is expressed in all that ridiculous Kenyan-Muslim hokum …
Discussion: Ed Driscoll
 
 
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Steve Peoples / The Republic:
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Manipulating the U.S. Intelligence Community Shouldn't Be This Easy
Discussion: Power Line
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Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Daily Kos
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
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Discussion: The Reaction and Mediaite
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