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3:15 PM ET, September 25, 2014

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Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Eric Holder To Step Down As Attorney General  —  Eric Holder Jr., the nation's first black U.S. attorney general, is preparing to announce his resignation Thursday after a tumultuous tenure marked by civil rights advances, national security threats, reforms to the criminal justice system …
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Benjamin Goad / The Hill:
Eric Holder to resign  —  Attorney General Eric Holder, one of president Obama's longest serving lieutenants, will announce his resignation Thursday, according to the Justice Department.  —  Holder, widely rumored to have been planning his departure before the unrest in Ferguson thrust …
Discussion: ABC News and Hot Air
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Eric Holder to step down
Discussion: ABC News
Associated Press:
White House: Holder Resigning as Attorney General
Discussion: Politico
CNN:   Holder to resign after successor is confirmed
Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Eric Holder to Step Down as Attorney General
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Video Shows South Carolina Cop Shooting Black Man Without Any Apparent Provocation  —  South Carolina state trooper Sean Groubert was arrested on Wednesday and charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature after a video emerged of him shooting a driver named Levar Jones that he pulled over for a seat belt violation.
Discussion: Shakesville, Hit & Run and Daily Kos
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Yep, We Need Dashcams
Discussion: WLTX-TV and Unfogged
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Cheney rips Obama for ‘Ferguson’  —  Dick Cheney says it's “outrageous” that President Barack Obama mentioned the summer's unrest in Ferguson, Mo., while speaking about ISIL during a speech at the United Nations.  —  “I was stunned,” the former vice president said on Wednesday during an interview on Fox News' “Hannity.”
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Economist:
Mission relaunched  —  The fight against Islamic State will help define America's role in the world  —  FOR more than three years, Barack Obama has been trying to avoid getting into a fight in Syria.  But this week, with great tracts of the Middle East under the jihadist's knife, he at last faced up to the inevitable.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama's exceptional U.N. address
Richard Grenell / Fox News:
Obama's condemnation of Ferguson, Missouri, during UN talk was a mistake
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Colorado's Politics Are as Divided as They Get  —  Obama no more popular in the Centennial State than elsewhere  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Of the handful of extremely close U.S. Senate races this year, the battle over the Colorado seat being defended by Democratic Sen. Mark Udall is one of the closest …
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Jeb Bush Returns to Fray and Finds Going Rough
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Kay Hagan's Surprising Strength
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Romney 2016 is for real  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL 2016 ELECTIONS MITT ROMNEY  —  Is Mitt Romney, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination and lost in 2008, ran again and won the nomination but lost the general election in 2012, really thinking about running yet again for president in 2016?
New York Post:
Zoo in coverup after groundhog dropped by de Blasio dies  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio couldn't hold onto the Staten Island Zoo's squirming groundhog.  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio has groundhog blood on his hands!  —  A week after Hizzoner dropped Staten Island Chuck in front of a crowd of spectators on Feb. 2 …
Danny Vinik / The New Republic:
One of Romney's “Mad Men” Is Trying to Convince America That “Republicans Have Feelings”  —  Wednesday's Politico Playbook contained a massive scoop that Mike Allen, uncharacteristically, had buried in the email newsletter: “New effort reminds everyone that Republicans are people, too.”
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Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
New GOP ad campaign: ‘Republicans Have Feelings’
Discussion: Daily Signal and Raw Story
Jack Shafer:
War without end: The U.S. may still be fighting in Syria in 2024, 2034, 2044 . . .  This must be what perpetual war looks like.  —  In a Pentagon briefing yesterday, Army Lieutenant General Bill Mayville called the cruise missiles and bombs flung at targets in Syria “the beginning of a credible and sustainable persistent campaign.”
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
A Terror Cell That Avoided the Spotlight
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The Clinton team is following reporters to the bathroom.  Here's why that matters.  —  Amy Chozick is the reporter tasked with covering the Clintons — and the runup to the now-almost-inevitable Hillary Clinton presidential bid — for the New York Times.  Sounds like a plum gig, right?
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Iraq looms large again for Hillary Clinton as she weighs another White House bid
Discussion: CNN and RedState
BuzzFeed:
SD Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Somehow Plagiarized Biographical Sentence  —  Mary Burke had her own policies plagiarized.  —  Susan Wismer For South Dakota / Via Facebook: SusanForSD  —  Democratic gubernatorial South Dakota nominee appears to have plagiarized parts of her issues page …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Fox Hosts Dub Female Fighter Pilot Who Bombed ISIL ‘Boobs On The Ground’ (VIDEO)  —  Two male co-hosts of Fox News' “The Five” cracked sexist jokes Wednesday about the United Arab Emirates' first female fighter pilot.  —  Kimberly Guilfoyle took a moment to salute Major Mariam Al Mansouri …
Discussion: Raw Story and Gawker
Rob Davis / Oregonian:
Forest Service says media needs photography permit in wilderness areas, alarming First Amendment advocates  —  The U.S. Forest Service has tightened restrictions on media coverage in vast swaths of the country's wild lands, requiring reporters to pay for a permit and get permission before shooting …
Paul A. Offit / Wall Street Journal:
The Anti-Vaccination Epidemic  —  Whooping cough, mumps and measles are making an alarming comeback, thanks to seriously misguided parents.  —  Almost 8,000 cases of pertussis, better known as whooping cough, have been reported to California's Public Health Department so far this year.
Discussion: Washington Post
Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Gabby Giffords's Gun-Control Ads Are Being Criticized Because They're Working  —  Strange but true: getting shot in the head will make a person want to defeat political candidates who oppose gun control laws.  Actually, getting shot in the head is usually fatal.
Discussion: National Review
 
 
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
FAA ready to approve drones for Hollywood
New York Times:
Miss a Payment? Good Luck Moving That Car
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Inside the Koch Brothers' Toxic Empire
Discussion: Bloomberg View
Theodore Dalrymple / City Journal:
The Reeducation of Dinesh D'Souza
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Leslie SalzilloFollow / Daily Kos:
Rush Limbaugh Must Be Terrified - He's Releasing Secret ‘Facts’ About StopRush
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Ashe Schow / Washington Examiner:
This Democrat likes spending your taxes, but doesn't like paying hers
Discussion: RedState
Agence France-Presse:
Ukraine to shut Russia border, seek EU membership
Discussion: Firedoglake, Reuters and Hot Air
Jeff Greenfield / The Daily Beast:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Levels With Us on Why She's Not Retiring
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