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| DAVID CARR: 1956- 2015 |
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NYT: David Carr, Times Critic and Champion of Media, Dies At 58
David Carr, a writer who wriggled away from the demon of drug addiction to become an unlikely name-brand media columnist at The New York Times, and the star of a documentary about the newspaper, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 58. Mr. Carr collapsed in The Times newsroom, where he was found shortly before 9 p.m. He was taken to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Earlier in the evening, he moderated a panel discussion about the film “Citizenfour” with its principal subject, Edward J. Snowden; the film’s director, Laura Poitras; and Glenn Greenwald, a journalist. Read more..
Huffington Post: Tributes Pour In For David Carr
@MarcLeibovich: David Carr was equal parts sweetheart, truth-teller and ass-kicker. And such a great colleague/journalist. I can't believe this.
@NickKristof: David Carr stood out because at a time when the news industry is struggling for its soul, he exemplified both soul and integrity. RIP
@AOScott: David Carr is one of the finest journalists and one of the best human beings I've ever known.
@SethMeyers: Of all the cats, David Carr was the coolest. He will be missed.
@Bourdain: This is turning out to be an awful, awful week. The Last Real Newsman
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| NORTH CAROLINA SHOOTING |
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The Hill: FBI Launches Probe Into Chapel Hill Shooting
The FBI is investigating the shooting death of three Muslim-American students earlier this week in Chapel Hill, N.C.. "The FBI is continuing to provide assistance to the Chapel Hill Police Department to process evidence related to a triple homicide investigation. The FBI has also opened a parallel preliminary inquiry to determine whether or not any federal laws were violated related to the case,” said the FBI in a statement to The Hill. The announcement came as more than 5,000 according to reports gathered at N.C. State University to mourn the deaths of Deah Barakat, 23; his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, 21; and her sister Razan Abu-Salha, 19. Read more..
NYT: Funeral For Muslims Killed In Chapel Hill Draws Thousands
The three friends drove here Thursday from Blacksburg, Va., 190 miles to the north. Dressed in hijab and fashionable dresses, carrying a fabric floral arrangement in a gold-colored pot, they came for the funeral of the three Arab-American students who were gunned down at their home a couple of days earlier. Once here, the friends found themselves among more than 5,000 people streaming onto a soccer field. Like them, many had traveled from hours away, across the state and region — bearded men in suits and sweatshirts, college students, young white couples dressed in suits and church dresses, Jewish men in skullcaps, and men and women in traditional Muslim dress. Some spoke Arabic, or chatted in Spanish and French. Television journalists from national and international outlets crowded around. Old friends from the region’s many major universities embraced with handshakes and hugs. Read more..
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NBC News: Poll: 54 Percent Want Congress To Back Obama's Authorization Against ISIS
A majority of Americans support President Barack Obama's proposed authorization to use force against ISIS, the Islamic State group, according to an exclusive NBC News/Marist poll conducted after Obama sent his authorization to Congress. But the public is divided when it comes to having confidence in the president's strategy against ISIS, as well as whether Obama will be remembered more for ending a war - like the Iraq war - or starting a new one. On Wednesday, the president announced that he was asking Congress to vote to allow the use of U.S. military force against ISIS. His proposed authorization would last for three years and would have no geographical limitations.Read more..
Washington Post: Senate Confirms Ashton B. Carter As Secretary Of Defense
Ashton B. Carter, a physicist with long experience in national security circles, handily won Senate confirmation Thursday as secretary of defense, becoming President Obama’s fourth pick in six years to lead the Pentagon. The Senate voted 93 to 5 to approve Carter’s nomination, paving the way for him to be sworn into office sometime in the next few days. Voting against him were five Republicans senators: Roy Blunt (Mo.), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Mark Kirk (Ill.), James E. Risch (Idaho) and John Boozman (Ark.). Carter, 60, will replace Chuck Hagel, the former Republican senator from Nebraska who agreed in November to step down after Obama lost confidence in his leadership. The White House has said it wanted a new Pentagon chief to oversee the fight against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, as well as the continued drawdown of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Read more..
NPR: FBI Director Faces 'Hard Truths' Of Policing Minority Communities
There's a reason why new agents are required to visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial during their training, says FBI Director James Comey. It's the same reason he keeps on his desk a copy of Attorney General Robert Kennedy's one-page approval of a request to wiretap King: "To ensure that we remember our mistakes and that we learn from them." In a speech on law enforcement and race Thursday at Georgetown University, Comey shared his thoughts on improving policing in minority communities. The director acknowledged there's a disconnect between federal and local law enforcement, and communities of color and said that debating the nature of policing is important. "We can roll up our car windows, turn up the radio and drive around these problems," he said. "Or instead we can choose to have an open and honest discussion about what our relationship is today, what it should be, what it could be, what it needs to be if we took more time to better understand one another." Read more..
NYT: U.S. Orders Alabama To License Gay Unions
A federal judge here ruled on Thursday that the local probate judge cannot refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, potentially adding some clarity to a judicial quarrel that has roiled Alabama for most of a week. The order by Judge Callie V. S. Granade of Federal District Court came after a brief hearing and prompted cheers and crying in the halls of the probate court here, where several couples obtained licenses and were married before the license office closed. While Judge Granade had declared Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional on Jan. 23, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy S. Moore, insisted in his own order Sunday night that Judge Granade’s ruling did not apply to the state’s probate judges and directed them not to comply.Read more..
AP: Top Democrats Call On Oregon Governor To Resign
Oregon's top Democrats urged Gov. John Kitzhaber to resign Thursday, saying he cannot lead the state effectively amid a growing ethics scandal involving his fiancee, a green-energy consultant suspected of using their relationship to land contracts for her business. Senate President Peter Courtney said he and House Speaker Tina Kotek asked Kitzhaber, a Democrat who recently started his fourth term, to step down. "I finally said, 'This has got to stop,'" Courtney told reporters after he and Kotek met with the governor. "I don't know what else to do right now. It seems to be escalating. It seems to be getting worse and worse." Read more..
The Hill: Senate To Try Again On House DHS Bill
The Senate is going to vote again on a procedural motion to consider a bill reversing President Obama’s executive actions on immigration and fund the Department of Homeland Security. Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) filed a motion to hold additional votes to end a Democratic filibuster of the bill, setting up as many as three more attempts. The votes are expected to take place the last week of February, as Congress will be out of town next week for a recess. With Democrats opposed to the measure, it appears McConnell’s latest effort is doomed for failure. But the decision suggests Senate Republicans want to signal one more time to their House colleagues that they are trying to move the House-approved bill. Read more..
NBC News: Obama to Announce Executive Action On Cybersecurity
In a continuing push on cybersecurity, President Obama is expected to announce an executive order to encourage information-sharing between the private sector and the government. Ahead of the president's cybersecurity summit at Stanford University on Friday, Director of the National Economic Council Jeff Zients and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel briefed reporters about the gathering and the administration's efforts. The conference will focus on how to increase cybersecurity for government and businesses and how to bolster consumer protections, which Zients called "two sides of the same coin." Announcements by companies of new commitments to improve cybersecurity as well as executive action by Obama to encourage information sharing are expected. Calling cybersecurity, "one of the defining challenges of the 21st century for us," Daniel said that although the president has been concerned about it since taking office, an ever-growing percentage of the threats he is briefed on are cyber-related. Read more..
USA Today: Senators Seek End To Economic Embargo On Cuba
As the White House moves to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba after a 50-year freeze, a bipartisan group of senators is trying to open up more trade opportunities for American businesses. ... On Thursday, six senators — four Democrats and two Republicans — filed a bill that would end the embargo. That would allow American companies to export their goods to Cuba, allow Cubans to sell their goods in the USA and eliminate banking restrictions that inhibit those processes. "By laying the groundwork for normal commercial relations, we can begin to provide greater access to the Cuban people to American products and more democratic ideas," said Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., who visited Cuba last month and met with officials at Cuba's agriculture ministry. The bill is sponsored by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and co-sponsored by Stabenow and Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Mike Enzi, R-Wyo. Read more..
NBC News: Senate GOP Delays Vote On Attorney General Nominee
Senate Republicans on Thursday said they are not yet ready to vote on Loretta Lynch's nomination as attorney general, delaying a committee vote on the president's choice to head the Justice Department until later this month. The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, will not vote on Lynch until Congress returns from its Presidents' Day recess the last week of February. Democrats have condemned Republicans for delaying the nomination, citing the speed in which Ash Carter's nomination for Secretary of Defense is being processed. Carter is expected to be confirmed by the Senate Thursday afternoon. Despite the delay, Lynch's nomination is expected to pass out of the committee and the full Senate is expected to confirm her. Read more..
The Hill: House Conservatives Push McConnell To Gut Filibuster
A growing number of House GOP conservatives are pressuring Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday to invoke the "nuclear option" and change the chamber's rules to pass a bill defunding President Obama's executive actions on immigration. Reps. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho) and Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) said McConnell should change Senate rules, so the House-passed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill, which includes language to revoke Obama's immigration-related actions, can bypass a Democratic filibuster in the upper chamber. Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) also endorsed the idea at a Thursday news conference. He said there’s a “way to change the rules to allow us to move forward” and “take away the ability to filibuster.” Read more..
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| ISIS THREATENS U.S. MARINE BASE & OTHER STORIES FOR THIS FRIDAY MORNING... |
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Reuters: ISIS Fighters Reportedly Seize Parts Of Iraqi Town, Threatening U.S. Marine Base
Islamic State insurgents took control on Thursday of large parts of the western Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi, threatening an air base where U.S. Marines are training Iraqi troops, officials said. Al-Baghdadi, about 85 km (50 miles) northwest of Ramadi in Anbar province, has been besieged for months by the radical Sunni Islamist militants who captured vast swathes of northern and western Iraq last year. Militants attacked al-Baghdadi from two directions earlier in the day and then advanced on the town, intelligence sources and officials in the Jazeera and Badiya operations commands said. The officials said another group of insurgents then attacked the heavily-guarded Ain al-Asad air base five km southwest of the town, but were unable to break into it. Read more..
AP: Canadian Al-Jazeera Journalist Mohamed Fahmy Released From Egyptian Prison
Canadian Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy has been released from an Egyptian prison, pending a retrial. Fahmy's brother tweeted that he was let out early Friday after more than a year in prison. He posted $33,000 bail following a court decision to allow him to walk free. It was not clear if another Al-Jazeera journalist, Baher Mohammed, also was being released. Fahmy spent more than 400 days in detention after he was charged with terrorism for providing the Muslim Brotherhood, now declared a terrorist organization, with a platform. Read more..
Washington Post: Iranian Prison Authorities Allow Post Reporter To Get Medical Treatment
Iranian prison authorities have allowed jailed Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian to get outside medical treatment and receive some care packages in recent weeks amid a groundswell of signatures on an online petition urging his release. Ali Rezaian, the imprisoned reporter’s brother, said Thursday in an interview that his sibling briefly left prison twice recently to see specialists who prescribed antibiotics for infections in his eye and groin area. “He’s feeling better,” said Ali Rezaian, who noted that the infections went untreated for more than a month. “But as a result of the delayed treatment, it’s harder for him to recover.” Read more..
NPR: Reports: Military Agrees To Provide Chelsea Manning With Hormone Therapy
The U.S. military has decided that it will provide Chelsea Manning with hormone therapy while she is a prisoner at the Army's Fort Leavenworth prison. If you remember, Manning, the army private who was convicted in the biggest leak of classified information in American history, announced that she was a woman in the summer of 2013. She said she wanted to begin hormone therapy immediately and sued the military to allow it. According to USA Today, which broke the story, this is the first time the U.S. military makes such an accommodation. Read more..
Huffington Post: 2 More Women Accuse Bill Cosby Of Sexual Assault'
Two more women came forward Thursday to accuse Bill Cosby of sexual assault. At a press conference organized by attorney Gloria Allred, two former models, Linda Brown and Lise-Lotte Lublin, made statements alleging how Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted them in 1969 and 1989, respectively. Both women spoke while visibly weeping and declined to answer further questions. Allred called on the public to support the women by believing their stories, protesting Cosby's shows, and pushing to reform statute of limitations laws. "It appears that Bill Cosby thinks he's 'far from finished,'" Allred said, referencing the title of the 77-year-old comedian's 2013 comedy special. "But we are also far from finished." Read more..
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