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A.M. Links: Jon Stewart Quits Daily Show, NBC Suspends Brian Williams, Obama Seeks War Powers Bill to Fight ISIS

Damon Root | 2.11.2015 9:00 AM

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    Jon Stewart is stepping down from The Daily Show.

  • NBC has suspended Brian Williams.
  • The Obama administration will seek a war powers bill from Congress authorizing the U.S. to fight ISIS.
  • The Justice Department is expected to release its report on the Ferguson, Missouri, police shooting death of Michael Brown sometime this week.
  • "A man who portrayed himself as an avowed atheist on social media was in custody early Wednesday after allegedly gunning down three Muslim students in a condominium complex near the University of North Carolina hours earlier."
  • Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has opened an office in Iowa, making him the first GOP presidential hopeful to stake out turf in preparation for that state's "first in the nation" 2016 caucuses.

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books). His next book, Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment (Potomac Books), will be published in June 2026.

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