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9:40 PM ET, December 19, 2014

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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 …
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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.
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 …
Joseph Marks / Politico:
What does a cyber counterattack look like?  —  President Barack Obama promised at his year-end news conference Friday that the U.S. will respond “proportionally” to North Korea's cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment, but the conventional options available to him are ineffective …
Discussion: The Hill and Los Angeles Times
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
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Hollywood Cowardice: George Clooney Explains Why Sony Stood Alone In North Korean Cyberterror Attack
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Theaters cancel screenings of ‘Team America’ citing Paramount Pictures
Michael Moynihan / The Daily Beast:
Castro's Hipster Apologists Want to Keep Cuba ‘Authentically’ Poor  —  The thawing of diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba has elicited a lot of patronizing, asinine fretting about the imminent “Americanization” of Cuba.  —  Alan Gross was in a cheery mood, having survived a grim five-year stint in a Cuban prison.
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Laura Wides-Munoz / Associated Press:
Obama's Cuba switch forces exile groups to adapt
Discussion: ABC News
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:   Obama renews tax breaks, creates ABLE accounts
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:   Obama signs massive defense spending bill
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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Mike Hayes / BuzzFeed:
Prosecutor Says He Knew Some Witnesses Were Lying To The Ferguson Grand Jury  —  St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch says he knew some of the witnesses who said they saw Michael Brown get shot were lying, but he let them testify to the grand jury anyway.  —  Bob McCulloch  —  Reuters
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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David Weigel / Bloomberg Politics:
Rand Paul Battles Marco Rubio Over Cuba Policy
Discussion: Politico
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
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Women rule Obama presser
Discussion: USA Today, Vox and Hot Air
ABC News:
How One Man Is Terrorizing Neighbors With a Hostile Holiday Decoration Display  —  Homeowners on Fairley Road in Ross Township, Pennsylvania, say their neighbor Bill Ansell is terrorizing them year round with his hostile anti-Christmas spirit.  —  “Any opportunity he has to make our life a hardship …
Discussion: 6abc.com
Brian Mahoney / Politico:
Obama labor board comes down hard on McDonald's  —  In a significant victory for fast-food demonstrators, the Obama administration filed 13 legal complaints on Friday against McDonald's USA, LLC, alleging 78 instances in which it violated federal labor law by punishing workers for taking part in fast food protests.
Discussion: Slantpoint
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NLRB:
NLRB Office of the General Counsel Issues Consolidated Complaints Against McDonald's Franchisees …
Rachael Bade / Politico:
How bad would an IRS shutdown be?  —  The IRS chief's warning on Thursday that drastic budget cuts may force a shutdown for perhaps days is his latest bid to illustrate the impact of starving the tax agency.  —  But how bad would it really be?  —  Story Continued Below
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
IRS warns of possible shutdown
Chad Mills / WIS-TV:
Family finds creepy surprise after Craigslist buy  —  A Midlands family says a couch they bought just about a month ago has infested their home with bed bugs.  —  They have a warning about where they bought that couch.  —  They bought it on craigslist, and with roughly 5,000 pieces …
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.
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
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
A Vermont Senator Asks, Why Not a Socialist President?  —  AMES, Iowa — Senator Bernard Sanders, an independent from Vermont who calls himself a socialist, was riding in the back seat of a rented blue minivan this week when his aide abruptly announced they were being pulled over by the Iowa State Police for speeding.
Discussion: Washington Post
 
 
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