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6:50 PM ET, December 19, 2014

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com:
Source: Hackers send new message to Sony  —  The hackers behind a devastating cyberattack at Sony Pictures have sent a new message to executives at the company, crediting them for a “very wise” decision to cancel the Christmas day release of “The Interview,” a source close to the company told CNN.
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Frank Pallotta / CNNMoney.com:
Sony exec fires back at President Obama  —  Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton, denying that the studio had “caved” by scrapping next week's opening of “The Interview,” fired back Friday after President Obama said the studio had “made a mistake.”  —  “The president, the press …
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Hollywood Cowardice: George Clooney Explains Why Sony Stood Alone In North Korean Cyberterror Attack  —  EXCLUSIVE: As it begins to dawn on everyone in Hollywood the reality that Sony Pictures was the victim of a cyberterrorist act perpetrated by a hostile foreign nation on American soil …
FBI:
Update on Sony Investigation … Today, the FBI would like to provide an update on the status of our investigation into the cyber attack targeting Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE).  In late November, SPE confirmed that it was the victim of a cyber attack that destroyed systems …
New York Post:
Sharpton to have say over how Sony makes movies  —  Al Sharpton holds a press conference at the Greenwich Hotel following his meeting with Sony executive Amy Pascal.  —  Coming to a theater near you: Al Sharpton.  —  Hollywood came to the Rev. Al Thursday as embattled Sony …
Discussion: TPNN, Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
Associated Press:   Obama: Sony decision to cancel movie a ‘mistake’
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Obama Defends Cuban Opening but Faults Sony Over Movie in Year-End News Conference
Discussion: Political Wire
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Theaters cancel screenings of ‘Team America’ citing Paramount Pictures
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:   Obama: Sony Made “A Mistake”
Laura Wides-Munoz / Associated Press:
Obama's Cuba switch forces exile groups to adapt  —  MIAMI (AP) — Hours before President Barack Obama announced an end to a half-century of U.S. efforts to isolate Cuba's communist government, the Cuban American National Foundation opened the doors to its inviting new headquarters …
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Obama signs massive defense spending bill
Discussion: Agence France-Presse
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:   Obama renews tax breaks, creates ABLE accounts
Associated Press:   Obama: Debate to lift Cuban trade embargo not expected soon
Koran Addo / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Some witnesses lied to Michael Brown grand jury, McCulloch says.  So why have them testify?  —  Certain witnesses who spoke before the grand jury investigating the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown told obvious lies under oath, St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch said Friday.
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Rocco Parascandola Police / NY Daily News:
SEE IT: NYPD plainclothes officer delivers body blows to youth as he's being cuffed, Internal Affairs investigating  —  'I can't believe he just did that after everything that's happened' a witness says as the boy is punched repeatedly while three NYPD officers try to subdue and cuff him in an incident caught on video.
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Carimah Townes / ThinkProgress:
Video: NYPD Officers Caught Arresting, Repeatedly Punching Boy
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Rand Paul and Marco Rubio wage Twitter battle on Cuba  —  The first battle of the GOP primary began on radio and cable news, spilled over to Twitter and splashed across Facebook and the wider Internet, a preview of the Republican Party's coming cage match over foreign policy.
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Rand Paul / Facebook:
Senator Marco Rubio believes the embargo against Cuba …
Discussion: Bloomberg Politics and BuzzFeed
Mary Bruce / ABC News:
In Case You Missed It, Obama Made History Today: Calls Only on Female Reporters … Mark this down as a historic day in White House history.  —  President Obama has just become the first president to field questions from only female reporters at a White House press conference.
Discussion: Politico and 6abc.com
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Putin's Bubble Bursts  —  If you're the type who finds macho posturing impressive, Vladimir Putin is your kind of guy.  Sure enough, many American conservatives seem to have an embarrassing crush on the swaggering strongman.  “That is what you call a leader,” enthused Rudy Giuliani …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
A Dictator's Best Friend
Discussion: JustOneMinute, The Dish and Slate
Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
Woman Seeks Trademark For “I Can't Breathe,” Dying New York Man's Final Words  —  Buster  —  An Illinois woman is seeking to trademark the dying last words of the New York City man who gasped “I can't breathe” while being arrested by NYPD cops for selling loose cigarettes.
Emily Dreyfuss / Wired:
MIT Computer Scientists Demonstrate the Hard Way That Gender Still Matters  —  An aerial view of the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  David L Ryan/The Boston Globe/Getty Images  —  “We're 3 female computer scientists at MIT, here to answer questions about programming and academia.
Discussion: The Dish
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The Unidentified Queen of Torture  —  For the past eight months, there has been a furious battle raging behind closed doors at the White House, the C.I.A., and in Congress.  The question has been whether the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence would be allowed to use pseudonyms as a means …
Brittany Bronson / New York Times:
Your Waitress, Your Professor  —  LAS VEGAS — ON the first day of the fall semester, I left campus from an afternoon of teaching anxious college freshmen and headed to my second job, serving at a chain restaurant off Las Vegas Boulevard.  The switch from my professional attire to a white dress shirt …
Discussion: BillMoyers.com and Hullabaloo
Ken Dilanian / Associated Press:
Bush officials gave CIA wide latitude  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — In July 2004, despite growing internal concerns about the CIA's brutal interrogation methods, senior members of George W. Bush's national security team gave the agency permission to employ the harsh tactics against an al Qaida facilitator …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Slantpoint
Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko / Sheridan Press:
Dog shoots man: Accidental shooting injures man  —  SHERIDAN — The Johnson County Sheriff's Office has released its findings on the shooting of a man Monday on Murphy Gulch Road.  —  Sheriff Steve Kozisek said Richard L. Fipps, 46, of Sheridan had driven to Murphy Gulch Road with two employees to move a vehicle that had become stuck.
 
 
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