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4:15 PM ET, December 22, 2014

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New York Times:
Attack Is Suspected as North Korean Internet Collapses  —  SAN FRANCISCO — North Korea's already tenuous links to the Internet went completely dark on Monday after days of instability, in what Internet monitors described as one of the worst North Korean network failures in years.
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Martyn Williams / North Korea Tech:
North Korea's Internet link is flaky today  —  If you've been trying to connect to North Korean Internet sites in the last 24 hours, you might have been unsuccessful.  —  Connectivity between North Korea and the rest of the world has been spotty for much of the time, according to Dyn Research.
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
How Obama Took Sony's Crisis From Bad to Worse
Discussion: Hot Air and New York Times
Daily Mail:
North Korea threatens to ‘blow up’ …
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
The NY Police Union's Vile War with Mayor De Blasio  —  To criticize the mayor for telling his black son what every other father of a black youth must say is divisive and fails to see what's wrong in America.  —  I covered New York politics for 15 years, and I saw some awfully tense moments between …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama's ‘propaganda’ pushed people to ‘hate the police,’ Giuliani says  —  President Obama has engaged in “propaganda” encouraging people to “hate the police,” former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) charged a day after two New York City police officers were shot and killed in their patrol car …
Scott Stump / Today:
NYPD Chief Bill Bratton on police tension: 'We're in a change moment'  —  New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton believes that Mayor Bill de Blasio has lost the trust of “some officers,” telling TODAY's Matt Lauer the city finds itself in a “change moment.”
Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary Magazine:
As Police Die, Racism Narrative Unravels
New York Times:
Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses  —  Since the day President Obama took office, he has failed to bring to justice anyone responsible for the torture of terrorism suspects — an official government program conceived and carried out in the years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
BBC:
Singer Joe Cocker dies aged 70  —  Singer Joe Cocker, best known for his cover of the Beatles' With A Little Help From My Friends, has died aged 70.  —  The singer song-writer from Sheffield had a career lasting more than 40 years with hits including You Are So Beautiful and Up Where We Belong.
Luke Mullins / Washingtonian:
How David Gregory Lost His Job  —  Last summer, Gregory was let go from his gig as host of “Meet the Press.”  Here's an inside look at his fall from the top—and what it says about the state of TV news.  —  David Gregory was driving through the mountains of New Hampshire when he got the call …
Discussion: The Verge, Mediaite and Politico
Stephen Losey / Home I Military Times I Military News …:
AMERICA'S MILITARY: A conservative institution's uneasy cultural evolution  —  THE FORCE IS CHANGING — OFTEN RELUCTANTLY — ALONGSIDE THE CIVILIAN SOCIETY IT SERVES  —  In this series on:  —  AMERICA'S MILITARY  —  Obama's mark on the military  —  A DEEPLY UNPOPULAR COMMANDER IN CHIEF …
Gabriel Snyder / The New Republic:
A Letter from the Editor  —  Shortly before the first issue of The New Republic went on sale a little over a century ago, our founding editor Herbert Croly outlined his vision to a reporter from The New York Times: “The magazine, which is to be a weekly review of current political and social events …
Manu Raju / Politico:
Tea partier braces for primary challenge from the establishment  —  Mike Lee's position back home is turning the GOP civil war on its head.  —  Tea party favorite Mike Lee roiled the GOP establishment four years ago when he knocked off a sitting senator on his way to the Republican Senate nomination in Utah.
John Marzulli / NY Daily News:
Rep. Michael Grimm to plead guilty to felony count of tax evasion, sources say  —  The Staten Island Republican was charged in a 20-count indictment with hiding more than $1 million in income and wages at a Manhattan restaurant he co-owned  —  Rep. Michael Grimm will plead guilty on Tuesday …
New York Times:
New York Officers' Killer, Adrift and Ill, Had a Plan  —  Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who had drifted between friends and family members for most of his short life, alienating most of them and failing at almost anything that he tried, decided to come home on Saturday.
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Senator Blames His Own Constituents For NYC Cop Killing
Discussion: Salon, Daily Kos, Slantpoint and BuzzFeed
Associated Press:
Tribes tread carefully into marijuana discussions  —  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation had bitter debates when it was deciding whether to allow casinos on the reservation and if alcohol should be sold in them.  The arguments focused on the revenue and jobs casinos and liquor …
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Julie Bykowicz / Bloomberg Politics:   Native Americans Perplexed by Obama's Latest Marijuana Gift
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
US Corps Claim Billions In Assets In Cuba And Now They'll Want It Back  —  When the Castro regime assumed power in Cuba in 1959, it quickly nationalized the assets of almost every foreign corporation within its borders as the country transitioned to communism.
Discussion: New York Times
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Patrick Oppmann / CNN:   Cuban spy's ultimate mystery: How he got his wife pregnant from a U.S. prison
Agence France-Presse:
Pakistan to execute 500 terror convicts in coming weeks: officials  —  Masroor Gilani  —  Pakistan plans to execute around 500 militants in coming weeks, officials said Monday, after the government lifted a moratorium on the death penalty in terror cases following a Taliban school massacre.
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
How Vermont's single-payer health care dream fell apart  —  It was Friday, December 12, when Robin Lunge began worrying that Vermont's single-payer plan was doomed.  —  Lunge, Gov. Peter Shumlin's director of health reform, had spent weeks trying to make the math work for a a public health insurance plan …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Washington Post
Michael Tarm / Associated Press:
Blagojevich brother: I was fed ‘pawn’ to get then-governor  —  CHICAGO (AP) — The brother of imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (bluh-GOY'-uh-vich) says in a new book that prosecutors tried to use him as a pawn to get his sibling on charges that he attempted to sell President Barack Obama's old Senate seat.
Richard Lough / Reuters:
Captive orangutan has human right to freedom, Argentine court rules  —  Reuters 15 hrs ago  —  BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An orangutan held in an Argentine zoo can be freed and transferred to a sanctuary after a court recognized the ape as a “non-human person” unlawfully deprived of its freedom, local media reported on Sunday.
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BBC:
Court in Argentina grants basic rights to orangutan
Discussion: Towleroad News #gay and The Awl
 
 
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Hugh Hewitt / Washington Examiner:
Jeb called go, and they're off
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Frederik Pleitgen / CNN:
Author's journey inside ISIS: They're ‘more dangerous than people realize’
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Appeals court strikes down NC abortion provision
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
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Ariel Kaminer / New York Times:
Accusers and the Accused, Crossing Paths at Columbia University
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Putin, Neocons and the Great Illusion
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
G.O.P. Hopes for Unity May Be Upset by Ben Carson
Discussion: Liberaland and Balloon Juice
Scott Greer / The Daily Caller:
Time: Right-Wing Militias Are The Real Threat To Cops
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Bill Madden / NY Daily News:
Yankees will pay for education of children of NYPD cop Rafael Ramos who was killed while on duty Saturday
 

 
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