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12:45 AM ET, September 16, 2014

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Jeremy Rogalski / KHOU-TV:
New accusations: Peterson injured another son while disciplining 4-year-old  —  The four-year-old is by a different mother than the alleged victim in the Montgomery County case, in which Peterson is charged with felony injury to a child.  —  CONNECT  —  Photos and text messages obtained …
Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
Kirsten Gillibrand: I Couldn't Tell My Harasser ‘To Go F*** Himself’  —  Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said Monday that when a male labor leader harassed her about her weight several years ago after she'd had a baby, she had a few choice words she couldn't say at the time.
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand drops f-bomb on video  —  Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is giving more details, and dropping f-bombs, about her experience with sexist comments she's received about her weight, saying she couldn't tell a male colleague “to go f— himself.”  —  “At that moment, if I could have just disappeared, I would have.
Discussion: RedState and Booman Tribune
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Have Nerds Betrayed the Left?  —  Thomas Frank has identified the enemy of true populism: political science.  —  Shares  —  A couple of weeks ago, Tom Frank, author of What's the Matter With Kansas?, sympathetically interviewed academic-activist Cornel West, both of whom agreed that Barack Obama has betrayed the left.
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Thomas Frank / Salon:
All these effing geniuses: Ezra Klein, expert-driven journalism, and the phony Washington consensus
Susie Madrak / Latest from Crooks and Liars:   Thomas Frank: What's The Matter With The Democratic Party?
Sharyl Attkisson / Daily Signal:
Benghazi Bombshell: Clinton State Department Official Reveals Details of Alleged Document Review  —  As the House Select Committee on Benghazi prepares for its first hearing this week, a former State Department diplomat is coming forward with a startling allegation: Hillary Clinton confidants …
The Huffington Post:
Lindsey Graham Worries Islamic State Will Destroy Americans, Wipe Out Mankind  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday slammed President Barack Obama's strategy for combating Islamic State militants and said the president needs to significantly step up military action …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE, Daily Kos and ThinkProgress
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Allie Jones / Gawker:
Limbaugh on Sexual Assault: “No Means Yes If You Know How to Spot It”  —  The sweaty armpit of talk radio now fancies himself to be a “seduction” expert.  On his show today, Rush Limbaugh decried Ohio State's new policy instructing students to get explicit, verbal consent before having sex …
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
This Is What's Truly At Stake In The Battle For Senate Control  —  Arguably the most significant consequence of a Republican Senate takeover in 2014 is absent from the campaign trail, and hardly registers in any polls asking Americans what their top election issues are.  —  It's not Obamacare.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Urban Outfitters / TwitLonger:
TwitLonger  —  Urban Outfitters sincerely apologizes for any offense our Vintage Kent State Sweatshirt may have caused.  It was never our intention to allude to the tragic events that took place at Kent State in 1970 and we are extremely saddened that this item was perceived as such.
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Sarfraz Manzoor / New York Times:
Multiculturalism and Rape in Rotherham  —  LONDON — A man recently came to visit the member of Parliament for Rotherham, Yorkshire, and he had a question.  Now in his late 50s, he had arrived from Pakistan three decades earlier.  After a lifetime of hard work, he could not understand …
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Daily Mail:
Rotherham child-sex victim confronts her alleged abuser in the street... but SHE is arrested by a van load of police
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
The Great Unraveling  —  It was the time of unraveling.  Long afterward, in the ruins, people asked: How could it happen?  —  It was a time of beheadings.  With a left-handed sawing motion, against a desert backdrop, in bright sunlight, a Muslim with a British accent cut off the heads …
Discussion: Ed Driscoll
Tim Sifert / Arizona GOP:
AZGOP's 1st Vice Chairman Resigns  —  PHOENIX - 1st Vice Chairman of the Arizona Republican Party Russell Pearce today submitted his resignation to Robert Graham, Chairman of the Arizona Republican Party.  Pearce made the following statement:  —  “As an unapologetic conservative …
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Please—Let's Not Destroy ISIS  —  Obama's mission is hard enough without him stating a clearly unachievable goal.  Why do presidents feel they have to sound like John Wayne?  —  Americans should support this mission against ISIS.  One may well choose to do so warily, because …
Jason Stein / JSOnline:
Absentee ballot mailings halted in push to restart voter ID law  —  Election officials, Michelle Avila (right) and June Gray check a voters identification during the February 2012 primary, the last time a voter ID requirement was in place in Wisconsin.  A federal court ruling restoring the law …
The Hill:
Republicans to limit Obama's aid to moderate Syrian rebel forces  —  House Republicans expect to unveil legislation Monday evening that would give President Obama the authority to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels, but with some limits on that authority.  —  The House Armed Services Committee …
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Hullabaloo
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
US Labor Board Orders CNN to Rehire Fired Workers  —  The National Labor Relations Board ruled against the CNN cable television network on Monday in an 11-year-old labor dispute, ordering the network to rehire or compensate about 300 former workers.  —  The NLRB agreed with a November 2008 ruling …
Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Lobbyist, lawyer Thomas H. Boggs Jr. dead at 73  —  Thomas H. Boggs Jr., who sat for years at the epicenter of Washington legal and political circles as the city's marquee name in lobbying and political fund-raising, died Sept. 15 at his home in Chevy Chase.  He was 73.
Abby Simons / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Minnesota Poll: Franken leads McFadden by double digits  —  But double-digit lead over McFadden is reversed in northern Minnesota.  —  U.S. Sen. Al Franken leads his Republican challenger Mike McFadden by double digits, but that lead narrows dramatically outside the metro area and flips …
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
New Zealand Launched Mass Surveillance Project While Publicly Denying It  —  AUCKLAND, New Zealand—The New Zealand spy agency, the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), worked in 2012 and 2013 to implement a mass metadata surveillance system even as top government officials publicly insisted …
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Josh Boak / Associated Press:
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Dem Sen. Harkin: Hillary Clinton's fingerprints ‘all over’ ObamaCare
Discussion: The Daily Banter, CBS DC and BuzzFeed
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Witnesses say Utah man killed by police was running away, attorney says
Marissa Evans / Morning Consult:
The Three Words That Shift Views On Medicaid
Discussion: Firedoglake
Elisabetta Povoledo / New York Times:
In Weddings, Pope Francis Looks Past Tradition
Discussion: ABC News and Hot Air
Hadas Gold / Politico:
POLITICO promotes two amid expansion in Europe, U.S.
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Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
Coca Cola, Heinz And Other Major Food Companies Warn Climate Change Threatens Business
Discussion: EcoWatch
Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Holder Says Private Suit Risks State Secrets
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Democrats Put Cultural Issues in Their Quiver
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
David Millward / Telegraph:
Backing for Condoleezza Rice to take over scandal hit NFL
Ari Phillips / ThinkProgress:
Largest City In Vermont Now Gets All Its Power From Wind, Water And Biomass
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Associated Press
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans' Trust in Executive, Legislative Branches Down
USA Today:
Senate has a secret book of rules
Discussion: Washington Post
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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