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7:55 AM ET, September 10, 2013

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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 …
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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.
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.
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 …
New York Times:
A Diplomatic Proposal for Syria  —  Secretary of State John Kerry may not have expected his casual suggestion that Syria avert American military action by giving up its chemical weapons to be taken seriously.  But it may have created a diplomatic way out for President Obama …
Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Obama: “I understand” American people aren't with me on Syria strike  —  (CBS News) WASHINGTON — In an interview Monday, President Obama responded to a surprising late proposal that could head off a military strike against Syria.  The Syrians agreed to a Russian proposal to put …
Susan Crabtree / Washington Examiner:
Obama would ‘absolutely’ delay strike if Syria turns over weapons  —  BARACK OBAMA POLITICO SYRIA PENNAVE CHEMICAL WEAPONS  —  President Obama said he would put military strikes against Syria on hold if Bashar Assad's government turned over control of its chemical weapons to international observers …
David Rothkopf / CNN:
Kerry, Clinton and a glimmer of hope on Syria  —  Editor's note: David Rothkopf writes regularly for CNN.com.  He is CEO and editor-at-large of the FP Group, publishers of Foreign Policy magazine, and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.  Follow him on Twitter.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid delays Senate vote on Syria (Video)
Matt Smith / CNN:
Syria chemical arms plan promising 'if it's real,' Obama says
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Harry Reid may delay Syria vote
Discussion: CNN
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Way Out?  —  Is this the beginning of the White House turn?
Discussion: Guardian and Hot Air
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Kerry Says Syria Should Hand Over All Chemical Arms
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Kerry's Comments on Syria Are a Shift Over Strike
Discussion: The Monkey Cage, Politico and msnbc.com
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 …
Discussion: Shakesville and Most Recent
ABC News:
George Zimmerman in Custody After Gun Incident … George Zimmerman was released without charges today after his wife called 911 to say Zimmerman punched his father-in-law in the nose and threatened to shoot him and his wife.  —  Zimmerman, acquitted in July of the murder of teenager Trayvon Martin …
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Obama hits new low on foreign policy in CNN polling  —  Washington (CNN) - One day before President Barack Obama gives a prime time speech to make his case against Syria, a new national poll indicates the president's approval rating on foreign policy has hit an all-time low.
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Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:   Poll Finds Support Fading for Syria Attack
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Opposition to Syrian Airstrikes Surges
Deirdre Walsh / CNN:
Senior House GOP aides: WH not reaching out to House Republicans  —  Washington (CNN) - Senior House Republican aides are frustrated that the Obama administration has done little to reach out to rank-and-file House GOP members to make the case for why military action is needed in Syria.
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Jonathan Allen / Reuters:
President Obama's over-the-top lobbying push
Discussion: Politico, Hit & Run and The Hill
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
U.S. open to Russian chemical weapons proposal
Ariel Ben Solomon / Jerusalem Post:
What is Israel's interest in Syria?  —  While the Assad regime is linked to Iran and Hezbollah, some experts say most of the groups opposing him are in one way or another close in ideology to either al-Qaida or the Muslim Brotherhood.  —  What is Israel's interest in Syria and the possibility of a US-led attack?
Discussion: Israel Matzav
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!
Skip Navigation / ACLU:
House v. Napolitano  —  In May 2011, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts challenging the suspicionless search and seizure of electronics and personal data belonging to David House …
Discussion: New York Times and Prairie Weather
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Labor, with union membership declining, will woo non-workers  —  Facing what AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka called a “crisis” of membership, officials took the dramatic step at their annual convention of adopting a resolution that invites anyone in the country to join, regardless of union affiliation.
Discussion: Power Line
 
 
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