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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
JPMorgan CEO helped whip votes  —  JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon made calls to lawmakers on Thursday urging them to support the “cromnibus” spending bill, House Financial Services Committee ranking member Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) told reporters.  —  Dimon's involvement came amidst progressives enraged …
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Politico:
Conservatives rage against the machine  —  Opponents of Obama's immigration action hoped the GOP would use budget to push back harder on issue  —  Conservatives began the lame-duck session enraged over President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration and hell-bent on unraveling …
Discussion: Bloomberg View
The Hill:
House approves $1.1T bill to fund government despite Dem uprising  —  The House on Thursday approved a $1.1 trillion bill funding most of the government through September despite an outcry from Democrats and significant defections in both parties.  —  By a vote of 219-206 …
Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
GOP to Bring Up Bill Blocking Obama Immigration Action — Next Year
Discussion: Washington Post and Hot Air
Joel Gehrke / National Review:
Sources: Leadership Promised to Pull Cromnibus
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
House passes $1.1 trillion spending bill
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Michel du Cille, Post photojournalist who won Pulitzer three times, dies at 58 … Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who was a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of Ebola patients …
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Torture Is Who We Are  —  A country, like a person, is what it does.  —  Torture, declared President Obama this week, in response to the newly released Senate report on CIA interrogation, is “contrary to who we are.”  Maine Senator Angus King added that, “This is not America.  This is not who we are.”
Will Carr / Fox News:
Veteran Fox News correspondent Dominic Di-Natale dead at 43  —  Dominic Di-Natale, a globetrotting journalist whose work at Fox News Channel and other news organizations took him to Usama bin Laden's compound, demonstrations in Egypt's Tahrir Square and, more recently, to the scene of racially charged riots in Ferguson, Mo., has died.
Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Leaked Emails Reveal Maureen Dowd Promised To Show Sony Exec's Husband Column Before Publication  —  The end result: kudos at the studio and an email to Dowd after it published saying, “you're amazing.”  —  New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd speaks during a taping of Meet the Press at the NBC studios.
Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Dogs in Heaven?  Pope Leaves Pearly Gate Open  —  Pope Francis has given hope to gays, unmarried couples and advocates of the Big Bang theory.  Now, he has endeared himself to dog lovers, animal-rights activists and vegans.  —  Trying to console a distraught little boy whose dog had died …
Anthony Weiner / Business Insider:
Rand Paul And Apple Have The Same Strategy  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and Apple both seem to understand the marketplace.  —  Apple is betting bipartisan concern about intrusive government snooping will help sell phones, and Paul is creating a pretty impressive presidential campaign based on the same play.
Discussion: CNN and Mediaite
CBS News:
ISIS issues guidelines for sex slavery  —  Shares -  —  Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have kidnapped thousands of women and girls in their raids on non-Sunni Muslim towns and villages across northern Syria and western Iraq.  —  Many of the captives are believed to be sold …
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Ed Rendell trash-talks ‘pathetic’ Chris Christie's Cowboys loyalty  —  (CNN) — Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Gov. Chris Christie's unapologetic love for the Dallas Cowboys is “pathetic,” adding that it's rooted in a “basic inferiority complex.”  —  “If you are a Jerseyite …
ABC News:
New Questions Raised About Rolling Stone's UVA Rape Story … The college students described as friends of the alleged rape victim Jackie in an explosive Rolling Stone article revealed their identities to ABC News today, and said that some of the magazine's story is false.
Discussion: The Federalist and Vox Popoli
William McGurn / New York Post:
Tortured tantrums: Feinstein's fake fury  —  Angus King raises an excellent point about torture.  It's just not the point he probably intended.  —  This week on CNN, Maine's Independent senator was asked about the Senate Democrats' release of a scathing report saying the CIA interrogation program …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Charles Krauthammer: A travesty of a report  —  The report by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding CIA interrogation essentially accuses the agency under George W. Bush of war criminality.  Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein appears to offer some extenuation when she reminds us …
Discussion: Guardian
Politico:
Backers: Romney more open to 2016 run  —  He has sounded unimpressed with the emerging GOP field, associates say.  —  For most of the past year, Mitt Romney supporters have publicly said he should consider running again.  And for most of the past year, Romney has seemed uninterested.  —  Until recently.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Women flood ranks of GOP  —  Republicans believe they had a breakthrough year with female candidates, electing several with unimpeachable resumes to Congress in 2014.  —  The GOP will send Capitol Hill its youngest-ever woman, 30-year-old Rep.-elect Elise Stefanik (N.Y.); …
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mike Pence lays out vision for a presidential campaign.  But will he be a candidate?  —  INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has strong ideas about what the next Republican presidential nominee should be like.  —  A “solutions conservative” with a record of policy reform originating in the states.
Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show and Politico
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Alan Keyes: Obama Will Become America's Hitler, Destroy Country Like The Twin Towers  —  Longtime conservative activist and former Reagan administration official Alan Keyes appeared on Tuesday's edition of “Trunews” to warn that President Obama is trying to become the next Adolf Hitler.
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Jessica Sooknanan / WSB-TV:
Families to pose with Santa, firearms at local gun range  —  SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. —  Families will be able to snap a photo with Santa Claus and a firearm of their choice at a Sandy Springs gun range Saturday.  —  Sandy Springs Gun Club and Range will host the event where families can pose …
Discussion: Raw Story and PoliticusUSA
 
 
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Nonemployed: The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind
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Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
Bobby Jindal's Prayer Rally Materials Blame Gays & Legal Abortion For Hurricane Katrina
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Daniel Wiser / Washington Free Beacon:
Bachmann to Obama at White House Christmas Party: Bomb Iran
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and New York Magazine
Plain Dealer:
In Arizona, the first hints of what a John Kasich presidential campaign might look and sound like
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Inside the collapse of the year's biggest tax deal
Discussion: Political Wire and Bloomberg View
WFAA-TV:
Allen parents allege ‘racial bullying’ by coach
Discussion: Raw Story and Hinterland Gazette
Bloomberg:
Mysterious '08 Turkey Pipeline Blast Opened New Cyberwar Era
Discussion: Just Security
Politico:
Tea party fumes over campaign finance plan
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Republicans seek to cripple IRS
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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ character names revealed (in coolest way possible) — exclusive
Discussion: Screen Rant and Mashable
Martin Chulov / Guardian:
Isis: the inside story
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

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