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Associated Press:
SYRIA SAYS IT ACCEPTED RUSSIAN WEAPONS PROPOSAL — MOSCOW (AP) — Syria said Tuesday it has accepted Russia's proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control for subsequent dismantling. — Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Tuesday after meeting …
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Politico:
The United States of weakness — Red lines that may or may not be real, retaliatory strikes that may or may not be hours from launch, congressional debates that may or may not be necessary for the president to do what he wants—whatever that happens to be this hour.
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Senators working on new Syria plan — A powerful group of senators is quietly drafting a new proposal that could forestall military action in Syria if the country relinquishes its chemical weapon stockpile, according to a source familiar with the deliberations.
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Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Syria accepts Russian proposal on weapons; France to bring resolution to Security Council — BERLIN — An unexpected Russian proposal for Syria to avert a U.S. military strike by transferring control of its chemical weapons appeared to be gaining traction on Tuesday, as Syria embraced it …
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Robert Costa / National Review:
McConnell to Vote ‘No’ — In remarks this morning on the floor, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) will announce that he's voting against on the Syria resolution. National Review has obtained the text of his remarks (see below). In the speech, McConnell says that even though he's voting “no,” he's not an isolationist.
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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 …
New York Times:
White House Backs Global Push to Secure Syria's Arsenal — WASHINGTON — The White House and a bipartisan group of senators joined the international diplomatic momentum on Tuesday to avert an American military attack on Syria over its use of chemical munitions in that country's civil war …
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NBCNews:
‘Peaceful solution’: Syria accepts Russia deal to hand over chemical weapons — Syria confirmed it would accept a Russian-brokered proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control Tuesday, hours after France announced it would seek a U.N. Security Council resolution seeking a similar plan.
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Syria: Government Likely Culprit in Chemical Attack — New Evidence based on Rocket Analysis, Witness Accounts — (New York) - Available evidence strongly suggests that Syrian government forces were responsible for chemical weapons attacks on two Damascus suburbs on August 21, 2013.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama's accidental diplomacy — President Barack Obama has stumbled into a possible resolution of the Syria showdown, after an act of apparently accidental U.S. diplomacy seemed to deliver a potential way to wriggle out of his political predicament. — Secretary of State John Kerry suggested …
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New York Times:
Obama Backs Idea for Syria to Cede Control of Arms
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Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:
Syria Could Avoid Attack, Obama Says
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Steve Clemons / Reuters:
Manchin-Heitkamp: The Senate's Compelling Alternative Syria Resolution
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Wall Street Journal:
Syria Backs Russian Plan for Weapons
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Ben Shapiro / BREITBART.COM:
PEACE IN OUR TIME: OBAMA CAVES TO PUTIN, ASSAD, IRAN
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Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Obama: “I understand” American people aren't with me on Syria strike
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Los Angeles Times:
White House takes ‘hard look’ at Russian proposal on Syria
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Kerry's claim that he opposed Bush's invasion of Iraq — “You know, Senator Chuck Hagel, when he was senator, Senator Chuck Hagel, now secretary of defense, and when I was a senator, we opposed the president's decision to go into Iraq, but we know full well how that evidence was used to persuade …
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Mark Murray / NBCNews:
Nearly sixty percent of Americans want Congress to vote no on Syria — President Barack Obama faces a “tall order” in convincing Americans on Syria with nearly 60 percent who say they want their member of Congress to oppose the use of military force there, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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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 …
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John Tierney / The Atlantic Online:
Your Annual Reminder to Ignore the U.S. News & World Report College Rankings — The list's real purpose is to “exacerbate the status anxiety” of prospective students and parents. — The annual college rankings by U.S. News & World Report are out today, and with their release will come …
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Washington Monthly and The Huffington Post
Amanda Watts / CNN:
Newlywed, newly dead — (CNN) — A woman in Montana is accused of pushing her husband off a cliff after an argument. The pair had been married for just more than a week. — Jordan Linn Graham made an initial appearance in court Monday to face a charge of second-degree murder.
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Cathryn Kulat / The Hill:
Conservatives skeptical of GOP ObamaCare defunding move — House Republican leaders will have to overcome a skeptical conservative bloc to pass a plan that would force the Senate to vote on defunding ObamaCare before enacting a critical spending measure. — Lawmakers on Tuesday offered …
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John B. Taylor / Wall Street Journal:
The Weak Recovery Explains Rising Inequality, Not Vice Versa — Obama blames tax cuts that began under Reagan for today's slow growth. The data don't back him up. — Last year at this time a debate raged about whether economic growth and job creation has been abnormally slow compared …
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Jon Favreau / The Daily Beast:
Jon Favreau on Obama's War for Peace — ‘Peace requires responsibility,’ the president said when he accepted his Nobel Peace Prize. He could say those words again Tuesday night about his proposed Syria strike, says Jon Favreau. — Forget the politics. Forget the whip counts.
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