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2:45 PM ET, November 24, 2014

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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Hagel Said to Be Stepping Down as Defense Chief Under Pressure  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down under pressure, the first cabinet-level casualty of the collapse of President Obama's Democratic majority in the Senate and a beleaguered national security team …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
How Do You Spell Scapegoat? H-A-G-E-L
Discussion: BuzzFeed, NBC News and National Review
ABC News:
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to Step Down
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com:
Exclusive: Why TV anchors met secretly with Ferguson officer who shot Michael Brown  —  Practically every journalist covering the death of Michael Brown would like to interview Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Brown.  —  In the pursuit of that interview …
Discussion: Politico, New York Magazine and theGrio
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USA Today:
Reports: Ferguson grand jury has made decision  —  Evidence presented to the grand jury in Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson's case may or may not be released after their decision is released.  It's up to the judge to make the evidence available.  VPC  —  A St. Louis County grand jury …
Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Darren Wilson has married his girlfriend  —  • By Christine Byers cbyers@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8087  —  CLAYTON  • Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson married his girlfriend, also a Ferguson police officer, on Oct. 24.  —  Wilson, 28, wed Barbara Spradling, 36, in Overland.
Discussion: New York's PIX11
Washington Post:
Grand jury reaches decision in case of Ferguson officer  —  A grand jury has reached a decision on whether to indict Darren Wilson, the white Ferguson, Mo. police officer whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager sparked days of turbulent protests, sources close to the process said.
Discussion: The Daily Banter
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Police: Woman Saying She's ‘Ready For Ferguson’ Shoots, Kills Self By Accident  —  St. Louis police were investigating an incident in which a woman waving a gun inside a vehicle and saying she was “ready for Ferguson” apparently shot herself in the head by accident, CNN reported Sunday.
Discussion: Mediaite and Booman Tribune
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Shimon Prokupecz / CNN:
Police: Woman allegedly kills herself with gun bought to prepare for Ferguson unrest  —  St. Louis (CNN) — A woman appears to have accidentally fatally shot herself in the head with a gun bought to prepare for possible Ferguson-related unrest, according to sources briefed on the police investigation.
Discussion: Gawker, Time, Raw Story and Liberaland
David Sims / The Atlantic Online:
The Gospel of Rudy Giuliani  —  On Sunday, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani went on Meet the Press to discuss the killing of Michael Brown.  Giuliani offered the kind of candor and tough talk that almost made him president: … Yes.  It's almost as if killers tend to murder people who live near them.
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John McCormick / Bloomberg Politics:
Rand Paul Shows Early Strength in New Hampshire Poll  —  Republican Rand Paul is showing early strength for a possible 2016 presidential bid in the first primary state, where a Bloomberg Politics/Saint Anselm New Hampshire Poll shows him running slightly ahead of more established names.
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
N.H. poll: Romney leads GOP field
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Olivia Nuzzi / The Daily Beast:
Rand Paul Declares War on ISIS—and Allows Boots on the Ground  —  The Kentucky senator, seeking to define himself as a foreign-policy heavyweight ahead of 2016, will introduce a measure in the Senate next month declaring war on the terror group.  —  “The most important” part of Rand Paul's assessment of …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Rand Paul Calls for a Formal Declaration of War Against ISIS
John Fund / National Review:
Lincoln — or Schoolyard Bully?  —  Even some of Obama's allies cast a cold eye on his penchant for lawmaking.  —  President Obama held a private screening of the Steven Spielberg movie Lincoln at the White House in late 2012, and an ABC News reporter tweeted that Obama was “incredibly moved” …
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Erin Alberty / Salt Lake Tribune:
Killings by Utah police outpacing gang, drug, child-abuse homicides  —  1. Officer Bron Cruz' body camera shows him beginning to raise his gun toward Dillon Taylor as Taylor walks away.  2. Taylor continues to face away from Cruz.  Cruz can be heard ordering Taylor, “Get your hands out, now.”
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
William H. Frey / The New Republic:
The Suburbs: Not Just for White People Anymore  —  The new racial dynamics of the American dream, in three eye-opening graphics  —  The classic image of an American metropolis was that of a polyglot city surrounded by mostly white suburbs—the “chocolate city/vanilla suburbs” of the 1950s and 1960s …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Reuters:
Iran nuclear talks extended seven months after failing to meet deadline  —  (Reuters) - Iran and six powers failed for a second time this year on Monday to resolve their 12-year dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions and gave themselves seven more months to overcome the deadlock that has prevented them from clinching an historic deal.
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Wall Street Journal:
No Iran Nuclear Deal Seen by Monday Deadline
Discussion: Fox News and Israel Matzav
 
 
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Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
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Nicole Hensley / NY Daily News:
Transgender woman buried by family as a man at Idaho funeral
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Giving thanks for government
Manu Raju / Politico:
Mitch McConnell preps for 2016 battle
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Bigger Than Immigration  —  Don't let yourself get lost in the weeds.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Thousands of lost Lois Lerner IRS emails found by IG
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Rocco Parascandola / NY Daily News:
9-month-old girl shot inside Brooklyn home while dad cleaned gun: police
 

 
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