memeorandum: Pentagon to recall most furloughed workers, Hagel says (Craig Whitlock/Washington Post)

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U.S. Says Navy SEALs Stage Raid on Somali Militants — NAIROBI, Kenya — A Navy SEAL team targeted a senior leader of the Shabab militant group in a raid on his seaside villa in the Somali town of Baraawe on Saturday, American officials said, in response to a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall …

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New York Times:

U.S. Raids in Libya and Somalia Strike Terror Targets — CAIRO — American commandos carried out raids on Saturday in two far-flung African countries in a powerful flex of military muscle aimed at capturing fugitive terrorist suspects. Members of a Navy SEAL team emerged before dawn …

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Kimberly Dozier / ABC News:

A U.S. military official tells The Associated Press that Navy SEALs have raided a Somali coastal town looking for a specific al-Qaida suspect in connection with the Nairobi shopping mall attack, but did not get their target. — A former U.S. military official also confirms the raid by the SEALs, but no other details have been provided.

defense.gov:

IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Statement by Secretary Hagel on the Pay Our Military Act — Today I am announcing that most DoD civilians placed on emergency furlough during the government shutdown will be asked to return to work beginning next week. — Immediately after President Obama signed …

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Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:

Pentagon to recall most furloughed workers, Hagel says — The Pentagon will recall most of its furloughed civilian workers in the coming days, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Saturday, in a move that could substantially ease the impact of the government shutdown on the federal workforce.

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Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:

Hagel recalls most defense staff — The Pentagon has ordered roughly 400,000 furloughed civilian employees back to work. — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered the worker recall in a department-wide memorandum issued Saturday. — After consulting with the Justice Department and Department …

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Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon to Recall Most Workers

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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:

Iwo Jima Memorial Closed, Barricades Erected (Update: Vets Break Through) — Another open-air memorial in the Washington area is closed and barricaded off: the Iwo Jima Memorial, just across the bridge from D.C. in Rosslyn, Virginia. A source sends along this picture of the barricade set …

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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
NBC: Police Remove Vietnam War Veterans at Memorial Wall

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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: Battle of the Barrycades - Vets storm Vietnam Memorial, U.S Park Police called in

nbcwashington.com:
Closure of War Memorials Continues to Cause Conflict

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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:

Arizona Is Only State To Stop Welfare Checks During Shutdown — Arizona appears to be the only state to have stopped cutting welfare checks during the federal government shutodown, the Arizona Republic reported Friday. — Republican Gov. Jan Brewer's administration announced this week …

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Mary K. Reinhart / Arizona Republic:

Experts: Arizona only state to halt welfare checks during shutdown — FONT: — Policy experts say Arizona appears to be the only state in the nation so far to have withheld welfare checks because of the federal shutdown, a move key state lawmakers want Gov. Jan Brewer to reverse.

Associated Press:

TEXT OF OBAMA'S EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE AP — President Barack Obama conducted an interview Friday with AP White House Correspondent Julie Pace that covered a wide range of topics - the government shutdown, the debt ceiling, health care, foreign affairs and the name of Washington's professional football team.

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Fox News:

Democrats say House vote for back pay shows GOP wants government to stay closed — FILE: October 3, 2013: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor after a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.REUTERS — The Republican-led House passed a bill Saturday to give thousands …

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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
GOP finds its shutdown message

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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:

NYT reporter: Obama admin “most closed, control-freak administration I've ever covered” — Remember when the media rushed to talk about transparency in the Barack Obama “Hope and Change” era? Good times, good times. Leonard Downie, who once worked as the executive editor of the Washington Post …

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Leonard Downie Jr / Washington Post:
In Obama's war on leaks, reporters fight back

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Gail Collins / New York Times:

Frankenstein Goes to Congress — Our question for today is: Why don't the Republicans just throw in the towel? Really, this is not going well for anybody. — Lots of reasons. There's Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, the General Patton of the government shutdown.

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ThinkProgress:

Federal Judge Smacks House Republican For Demanding Exemption From Republican Shutdown — Countless lawsuits where the United States is a party are now in limbo, thanks to the fact that the Justice Department lacks the resources to litigate them so long as the government is shut down.

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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
A federal judge tells Congress what it can do with its urgent “Fast and Furious” litigation.

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Chris Muir / Day by Day Cartoon:

Obamaha Beach.

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Margery A. Beck / Associated Press:

Neb. high court nixes teen's request for abortion — OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — In a split decision released Friday, the Nebraska Supreme Court rejected a 16-year-old ward of the state's request to waive parental consent to get an abortion, saying the girl had not shown she is sufficiently mature …

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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:

Some in G.O.P. Try to Pick and Choose Amid Spending Fight — WASHINGTON — Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, a hard-core leader of House conservatives who helped force a government shutdown in a fight over the scope of federal health care spending, sent out a statement on Wednesday bragging …

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