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11:00 AM ET, September 16, 2013

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Navy.mil:
Active Shooter at Washington Navy Yard  —  WASHINGTON (NNS) — An active shooter was reported inside the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters building (Bldg.  197) on the Washington Navy Yard at 8:20 a.m. (Eastern Time).  —  There is one confirmed injury.
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Washington Post:
Police search for active shooter on grounds of Washington Navy Yard in Southeast D.C.  —  A D.C. police officer is among the people shot at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning.  —  A police spokesman confirmed at 9:20 a.m. that the officer was shot near the room where a lone gunman …
Austin Wright / Politico:
Shooter stalks Washington Navy Yard  —  Five people were injured Monday after an active shooter was reported at the Washington Navy Yard on the edge of Capitol Hill, the Washington Metropolitan Police Department confirmed.  —  Three civilians, one metropolitan police officer and one base officer were shot …
Discussion: ABC News
Dan Morrison / CBS DC:
4 Killed, 8 Injured at Washington Navy Yard
Discussion: WND and The Lonely Conservative
David Wessel / Wall Street Journal:
Summers Withdraws Name for Fed Chairmanship  —  Former Treasury Secretary Calls Obama, Cites ‘Acrimonious’ Coming Confirmation  —  WASHINGTON— Lawrence Summers, a former U.S. Treasury secretary, called President Barack Obama Sunday to say he is pulling out of the contest to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve.
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New York Times:
Summers Pulls Name From Consideration for Fed Chief
Robert Kuttner / The Huffington Post:
Summers' End
Bloomberg:
Summers Quit Fed Quest After Democrats Spurned Obama Favorite
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Five reasons Obama should name Janet Yellen to chair the Federal Reserve
Ben White / Reuters:
With Larry Summers out, what's next?
Discussion: Politico, The Fix and The Reaction
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Conservatives: Obama will blink  —  A weakened President Obama will back down if there is a standoff over funding ObamaCare and preventing a government shutdown, House conservatives say.  —  They are urging Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and NationalJournal.com
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James R. Carroll / USA Today:   Ky. Sen. Mitch McConnell faces hard choices on spending
John Fund / National Review:
Congress's Exemption from Obamacare
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
As Health Care Law Proceeds, Opposition and Uncertainty Persist  —  One-in-Four Backs Efforts to Make the Law Fail  —  As a key step in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act approaches, public views of the 2010 health care law are as negative as ever, and many are unaware of the elements …
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USA Today:
USA TODAY/Pew poll: Health care law faces difficult future  —  THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT: STILL A TOUGH SELL  —  Three years after President Obama signed his signature health care overhaul, Americans are as negative toward it as they have ever been, and disapproval of the president on the issue has reached a new high.
Discussion: Weekly Standard, NBCNews and Hot Air
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
ABC News panel laughs out loud after GOP rep. says Obamacare delay is a ‘favor’ to Obama
Discussion: Mediaite
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Thompson to Concede to de Blasio in Mayoral Primary  —  William C. Thompson Jr. will withdraw from the mayor's race on Monday morning at City Hall, ending his second bid to run the city, according to people told of the plan.  —  Mr. Thompson, a Democrat, will endorse his rival, Bill de Blasio …
Discussion: Towleroad News #gay
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Azi Paybarah / Capital New York:
Sources: Cuomo working on an end to Democratic mayoral primary  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo will hold an event with Bill de Blasio and Bill Thompson later this morning to help bring an end to the Democratic mayoral primary, according to multiple sources.  —  De Blasio won Tuesday's primary …
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Identity Politics, in a Brand-New Form
Discussion: Politicker and Daily Kos
Detroit Free Press:
How Detroit went broke: The answers may surprise you - and don't blame Coleman Young  —  Detroit is broke, but it didn't have to be.  An in-depth Free Press analysis of the city's financial history back to the 1950s shows that its elected officials and others charged with managing …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Betsy's Page
Dylan Byers / Politico:
President Obama holds fire — but media doesn't  —  President Barack Obama is damaging his presidency, weakening America's standing in the world, and displaying “inexplicable” incompetence.  —  The media figure making those accusations isn't Bill O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh, Charles Krauthammer or Glenn Beck.
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN 2016 Poll: Clinton favored for Democrats; no clear GOP leader  —  Washington (CNN) — A new national poll in the battle for the 2016 Democratic and Republican presidential nominations indicates what you would expect: Hillary Clinton is the overwhelming Democratic frontrunner …
Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:
Obamacare will question your sex life  —  A man holds a sign at the ‘Exempt American from Obamacare’ rally on Sept. 10, 2013  —  'Are you sexually active?  If so, with one partner, multiple partners or same-sex partners?  Be ready to answer those questions and more the next time you go to the doctor …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Give Jobs a Chance  —  This week the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee — the group of men and women who set U.S. monetary policy — will be holding its sixth meeting of 2013.  At the meeting's end, the committee is widely expected to announce the so-called “taper” — a slowing of the pace at which it buys long-term assets.
Discussion: Paul Krugman
Jeffrey Goldberg / Bloomberg:
New Syria Agreement Is a Big Victory.  For Assad.  —  A couple of months ago, the Obama administration was — at least rhetorically — targeting Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad for removal.  Today, the U.S. has in a perverse way made Assad its partner.  —  The U.S. and Syria …
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
A Win-Win-Win for Everyone (Except the Syrians)
 
 
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
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Former NSA and CIA director says terrorists love using Gmail
Telegraph:
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Discussion: Guardian and BBC
Matthewjbuettner / CBS Denver:
Officials Say Nearly 19,000 Homes Damaged, Destroyed In Flooding
Discussion: TalkLeft