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6:20 AM ET, September 26, 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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Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
Fox Host: Holder Ran The DOJ ‘Much Like The Black Panthers Would’  —  Fox News host Andrea Tantaros said Thursday during a discussion about Attorney General Eric Holder's reported resignation that he ran the Department of Justice “much like the Black Panthers would.”
Discussion: The Mahablog
Benjamin Goad / The Hill:
GOP to Obama: Don't use lame-duck Congress to replace Holder  —  Conservatives are warning President Obama against using a lame-duck session of Congress to push through Attorney General Eric Holder's replacement, even as the White House signals its intention to fill the post quickly.
Colin Campbell / Business Insider:
Al Sharpton Says He's Helping The White House Pick The Next Attorney General  —  The Rev. Al Sharpton said his civil rights organization, the National Action Network, is “engaged in immediate conversations” with the White House as they work to name a successor to Attorney General Eric Holder …
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Why Holder Quit  —  The backstory of how Obama lost his ‘heat shield.’  —  The Holder-Napolitano rivalry was legendary: Once, after the former Arizona governor asked Holder about his future plans, the AG joked to a friend, “Sometimes I feel like Janet is touching me just to see if I'm still warm.”
Discussion: Hot Air
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Why Holder quit  —  The backstory of how Obama lost his ‘heat shield.’  —  It's oddly fitting that Attorney General Eric Holder - a stubbornly independent career prosecutor ridiculed by Barack Obama's advisers for having lousy political instincts— would nail his dismount.
Rush Limbaugh:
Eric Holder Resigns, Will Be Replaced by Al Sharpton or Some Other Obama Clone
Discussion: The Hill, Mediaite, Politico and Hot Air
Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
AG Holder to step down following six-year tenure
Discussion: Balloon Juice
David Nather / Politico:
Eric Holder's real legacy
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Eric Holder Resigns, Setting Up Fight Over Successor
David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
With Eric Holder's Exit, Obama Loses a Key Ally
Reuters:
U.S. Attorney General Holder, a close Obama ally, to step down
Discussion: Washington Post
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Conservatives Launch ‘Unprecedented’ Campaign Against Pro-Marriage Equality Republicans  —  National Organization for Marriage, Family Research Council, and CitizenLink lash out against candidates “working to actively alienate the Republican base.”  —  Olaf Faeskorn/Tisei for Congress
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Beating Brownback Would Redeem 2014  —  After reading Patrick Caldwell's very thorough explanation of why Gov. Sam Brownback's in danger of losing in November, I'm more convinced than ever that whether or not Republicans are kept from taking control of the Senate, it would be an important …
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Inside the Koch Brothers' Toxic Empire
Politico:
How Sen. Kay Hagan's husband won stimulus cash  —  When Kay Hagan voted for President Barack Obama's 2009 economic stimulus package, the Democratic senator hailed it as “the best way forward for working families across North Carolina.”  —  One of the families that later benefited is her own.
Discussion: RedState
Zeina Karam / Associated Press:
Iraqi PM: Plot To Attack US, Paris Subways  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Iraq's prime minister said Thursday that captured Islamic State militants have told Iraqi intelligence agents of an alleged plot to attack subways in the United States and Paris, but French and American officials said they had no such information.
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Why We're Talking About Mitt Romney  —  I've been mostly ignoring the various “Romney 2016!” trial balloons floated by various parties over the last six months or so (including by some of my dear friends, alas), but now that someone as sober and well-informed as Byron York has weighed in with a …
Alicia A. Caldwell / Associated Press:
US: Immigrant Families Fail To Report To Agents  —  3 photos  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of young families caught crossing the border illegally earlier this year subsequently failed to meet with federal immigration agents, as they were instructed, the Homeland Security Department has acknowledged privately.
Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN:
Ferguson police chief tells CNN: I will not step down  —  Watch the full interview with Police Chief Tom Jackson on “Anderson Cooper 360°” tonight at 9 p.m. ET.  —  (CNN) — Ferguson, Missouri, Police Chief Thomas Jackson — under fire for his department's handling of the Michael Brown shooting …
Brendan Bordelon / National Review:
Dem Candidate's Film Studio Failed to Pay Taxes While Taking Subsidies to Make a Movie Criticizing Farm Subsidies  —  The Democratic House candidate for New York's 21st congressional district received three separate tax warrants on his documentary-film company for failing to pay state taxes …
Discussion: Power Line
Eliana Johnson / National Review:
Wisconsin's Dilettante  —  The daughter of Trek Bicycle founder Richard Burke, the woman gunning for Scott Walker's job, is the scion of a prominent Wisconsin family who's had the wealth to flit from one career to another.  —  In an election being litigated primarily on economic issues, Mary Burke has touted her business experience.
Discussion: Hot Air and BuzzFeed
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:   SD Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Somehow Plagiarized Biographical Sentence
 
 
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Daily Mail:
FBI says it has identified ‘Jihadi John’ seen in ISIS execution videos but will not reveal his identity or nationality
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Daily Banter
Dylan Byers / Politico:
‘60 Minutes’ lands Obama interview
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
GOP poll: Dem trails in Alaska Senate race
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Incredibly Insipid War on Women 2.0
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
Dylan Byers / Politico:
‘Meet the Press’ finishes third, again
 Earlier Items: 
Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Gabby Giffords's Gun-Control Ads Are Being Criticized Because They're Working
Paul A. Offit / Wall Street Journal:
The Anti-Vaccination Epidemic
Discussion: Washington Post
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Colorado's Politics Are as Divided as They Get
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
Jack Shafer:
War without end: The U.S. may still be fighting in Syria in 2024, 2034, 2044 . . .
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Video Shows South Carolina Cop Shooting Black Man Without Any Apparent Provocation
Discussion: Hit & Run, Shakesville and Daily Kos
New York Times:
Miss a Payment? Good Luck Moving That Car
Discussion: Bloomberg View and Discourse.net
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Cheney rips Obama for ‘Ferguson’