A.M. Links: Congress Unveils $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill, Declassified Documents Declare Assault Benghazi "Terrorist Attack," Israel Wants John Kerry To Leave the Country Alone

  • Congress unveiled a
    $1.1 trillion spending bill
    that would prevent another
    government shutdown while boosting funding levels slightly for
    military and domestic programs – but not for Obamacare.

  • Declassified documents
    show that top military and civilian
    officials briefed President Obama on the assault on Benghazi
    minutes after it occurred, and described it to him as a “terrorist
    attack.”
  • Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon wants Secretary of State
    John Kerry to
    leave Israel alone
    .
  • A December surge in Obamacare sign-ups helped push enrollment
    for the last three months of 2013 to over 2.1
    million
    .
  • Two former California police officers were found
    not guilty of all charges
    in the brutal beating death of
    schizophrenic homeless man Kelly Thomas.
  • Russia has declared Radio Free Europe journalist David Satter
    persona non grata, making him the
    first American reporter
    to be banned from the country since the
    collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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