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Obama Tells Federal Employees He'll "Keep Working With Congress" to Reach a Deal Katie Pavlich The Government Shutdown continues, with no clear end in sight. While President Obama told federal employees in an email that he is willing to work with Congress, not much has actually happened yet. Townhall's Katie Pavlich writes: Despite telling federal employees he will work with Congress, President Obama has repeatedly told Speaker of the House John Boehner he will not negotiate. Although the letter is dated October 1, many employees didn't see until today when they were allowed to check government issued email for 15 minutes. [Keep Reading] Meet Scott Walker’s First Democratic Challenger Daniel Doherty DOJ Breaks Own Rules In Shutting Down AMBER Alert Website (UPDATE: It's Back) Christine Rousselle Why Terry McAuliffe Can’t Be Trusted on Abortion...Especially in One of America's Most Pro-Life States Cortney O'Brien ATF Recieves Letter from ACLU After Censorship of Fast and Furious Whistleblower Katie Pavlich MSNBC Host: “I am Suggesting that” Ted Cruz Doesn’t Love America Daniel Doherty 5 Cases to Know This Supreme Court Session Nicole Bailey VIDEO: White Soldier Killed in Racially Charged Attack A 20-year-old soldier was stabbed to death when walking home from a party celebrating his return from military service. The white soldier was reportedly assaulted by a group of five black men for his race; the entire community is shaken. [Keep Reading] Why is Violence Against Teachers Being Covered Up? Scottie Hughes Baltimore teacher Jeff Slattery struggles with fear every day. He literally has to force himself out the door as he heads to his classroom. In December 2010 at Baltimore Community High School Slattery stopped a student without a hall pass. The student got physical. [Keep Reading] U.S. Elite Team Questions Seized al-Qaeda Leader on Navy ship An elite U.S. interrogation team is questioning the senior al Qaeda figure who was captured in Libya and then taken onto a Navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea, U.S. officials said on Monday. [Keep Reading] VIDEO: George Will: "Republicans Now Have What Liberals Are Supposed to Admire... Diversity" In discussing the government shutdown on Fox News, George Will says that Republicans now have the diversity that liberals are supposed to admire. [Keep Reading] A Cup of Civility: The Lesson in the Starbucks Non-Backlash Jeff Jacoby It has been more than two weeks since Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz issued a "respectful request" for customers to stop bringing guns into his company's coffee shops, and the response by and large has been one of courteous compliance. [Keep Reading] French Far-Right Pulls Ahead in Local Election France's far-right National Front (FN) knocked out left-wing rivals and won twice as many votes as the center-right UMP in the first round of a local election in southern France, a sign of growing popularity for the anti-immigrant party. [Keep Reading] VIDEO: U.S. Job Growth Down 10% from 2012 Alexandre Douzet, CEO of The Ladders discusses the state of American jobs on Bloomberg. 2013 was weak, and the government shutdown and the Affordable Care Act have already had an impact. [Keep Reading] Change your species, race? Why not? Matt Barber File this under, "Oh, for crying out loud." There was a time when planning a family was a relatively straightforward process. A young wife might ask her new hubby, “How many children should we have?” To which he might reply, “Let’s just try for one of each.” [Keep Reading] Obama Thanks FEMA for Work During Shutdown President Barack Obama is thanking workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency for doing their jobs under "less than optimal circumstances" during the government shutdown. [Keep Reading] VIDEO: Pentagon Recalls Workers U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered 350,000 furloughed Pentagon civilians back to work despite the government shutdown. The action is legal due to a bill President Obama signed last Monday, assuring that all military servicemen would be paid during the closure. Hagel announced Saturday this can include those who support the "morale, well-being, capabilities and readiness of service members." [Keep Reading]