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Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
John Kerry gives Syria week to hand over chemical weapons or face attack  —  US secretary of state tells London press conference with William Hague that US intelligence blames Assad regime for gas attack  —  The US secretary of state has said that President Bashar al-Assad has one week …
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Opposition to Syrian Airstrikes Surges  —  Obama Job Approval Slips into Negative Territory  —  Over just the past week, the share of Americans who oppose U.S. airstrikes in Syria has surged 15 points, from 48% to 63%, as many who were undecided about the issue have turned against military action.
Fox News:
Obama backs off ‘red line,’ opens door to ‘diplomatic track’ on Syria  —  President Obama on Monday took a sharp turn away from his “red line” threat to Syria on the eve of taking his case to the American people, saying in an interview with Fox News that he's open to negotiations …
CNN:
CNN poll: Don't attack Syria  —  Washington (CNN) — As President Barack Obama presses his case for a strike on Syria, a new national survey shows him swimming against a strong tide of public opinion that doesn't want the United States to get involved.  —  The CNN/ORC International poll released …
Joshua Keating / Slate:
Kerry: Turn Over Your Chemical Weapons Now or Face ... “Unbelievably Small” Consequences  —  Secretary of State John Kerry's case for a U.S. strike in Syria seems to rest on two assumptions.  One, that it is a crucial test for U.S. national security and the values of the civilized world comparable to the rise of Nazi Germany.
Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:
Syria Could Avoid Attack, Obama says … If Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gives up his chemical weapons, a military strike would “absolutely” be on pause, President Obama said today.  —  “I consider this a modestly positive development,” Obama told ABC News' Diane Sawyer in an interview …
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Kerry Says Syria Should Hand Over All Chemical Arms  —  LONDON — Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that if President Bashar al-Assad wants to avert an attack on Syria, he should hand over all of his chemical weapons within one week.  —  Asked if there were steps the Syrian president …
CBS News:
Bashar Assad tells Charlie Rose U.S. should “expect every action” in response to Syria strikes  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO  —  President Bashar Assad warned Sunday that if President Obama decides to launch military strikes on Syria, the U.S. and its allies should “expect every action” in retaliation.
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Obama: ‘Breakthrough’ is possible on Syria  —  Washington (CNN) — Russia's proposal for Syria to surrender its chemical weapons to international control was a “potentially positive development,” but could be a stall tactic, President Barack Obama told CNN on Monday.
Tal Kopan / Politico:
John McCain: John Kerry ‘unbelievably unhelpful’  —  Sen. John McCain was not a fan of Secretary of State John Kerry's remarks Monday in London that intervention in Syria would be “unbelievably small,” calling it unhelpful.  —  “Kerry says #Syria strike would be “unbelievably small” …
Michael Kelley / Business Insider:
Vladimir Putin Puts John Kerry In Check On Syria
Tal Kopan / Politico:
John Kerry under fire for ‘unbelievably small’ comment
Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Strike to degrade Syrian forces would still be limited
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Obama hits new low on foreign policy in CNN polling
Discussion: Business Insider
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:   The Way Out?  —  Is this the beginning of the White House turn?
George C. Edwards III / Politico:
Why President Obama's Syria speech won't matter
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Harry Reid may delay Syria vote
Discussion: CNN
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Always Look Out for the Opportunity
Discussion: USA Today and The Dish
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Kerry's Comments on Syria Are a Shift Over Strike
Discussion: The Monkey Cage and msnbc.com
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
U.S. open to Russian chemical weapons proposal
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and CNN
Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House to take a ‘hard look’ at Syrian offer on weapons
Discussion: Politico
clickorlando.com:
No charges filed in George Zimmerman's alleged gun threat against wife  —  George Zimmerman, Shellie Zimmerman say the other was aggressor … LAKE MARY, Fla. -  —  No charges have been filed against George Zimmerman on Monday as the investigation continues into if he threatened …
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Vivian Kuo / CNN:
Zimmerman in police custody in Florida  —  (CNN) — George Zimmerman was taken into custody Monday after an apparent domestic altercation with his wife and her father at a home in Lake Mary, Florida, police said.  —  “As of right now, (George Zimmerman) has been placed in investigative detention …
USA Today:
Police: Zimmerman wife not pressing charges
ABC News:
George Zimmerman in Custody After Gun Incident
Discussion: Gawker and Southern Beale
John Fund / National Review:
How Not to Win Over Congress  —  If anyone in the Obama administration thought having former Democratic representative Jane Harman appear on NBC's Meet the Press to support the Syrian war resolution was a good idea, he must be cringing now.  —  Harman, a former congresswoman from California …
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Jonathan Allen / Reuters:
President Obama's over-the-top lobbying push
Discussion: Politico, The Hill and Hit & Run
Deirdre Walsh / CNN:
Senior House GOP aides: WH not reaching out to House Republicans
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Let's Please Stop Pretending That Obama is Reluctant to Take Military Action  —  E.J. Dionne chastises Democrats for not supporting President Obama on Syria: … Wait a second.  I realize that Dionne is only talking about Syria here, but in the past five years Obama has (a) …
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Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Western Maryland secessionists seek to sever ties with the liberal Free State  —  The push by 50 western Virginia counties to secede in 1863, forming West Virginia at the height of the Civil War, was led by a charismatic store-clerk-turned-lawyer who famously urged his supporters: “Cut the knot now!
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Meet The Maryland Republicans Who Want To Secede
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Post:
Diary bombshell: RFK's secret slams against Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Gov. Cuomo  —  The Post exclusively reported Sunday how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. grappled with what he called his “lust demons” and kept a scorecard of more than two dozen conquests in a secret diary.
Stephanie Simon / Politico:
Historian remains key ally of right  —  Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul were headline attractions at a conference in Iowa this summer that brought hundreds of conservative Christian pastors together to talk faith and politics.  —  But they weren't the only draw.
 
 
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