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5:15 PM ET, December 12, 2014

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Danny Vinik / The New Republic:
The Week Elizabeth Warren Decided to Run for President  —  Or may have decided.  We won't know for a few months whether the Massachusetts senator will challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, but if she chooses to run, we're going to look back at this week as a pivotal moment in Warren's decision-making.
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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 …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Democrats who voted for the CRomnibus have received twice as much money from the finance industry as the ‘no’ voters
Lisa Lerer / Bloomberg Politics:
Welcome to the Democrats' Post-Obama Family Feud
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Down and Out  —  The Democratic Party's losses at the state level …
inSourceCode / Committee on Oversight & …:
Issa Subpoenas ObamaCare Architect Jonathan Gruber  —  Last night, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., subpoenaed ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber for all documents and communications with federal, state, or local government employees related …
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Natalie Villacorta / Politico:
Darrell Issa subpoenas Jonathan Gruber
Discussion: Daily Kos
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:   Gruber subpoenaed over ObamaCare contracts
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Inside the Collapse of The New Republic  —  Last Friday morning, Chris Hughes, the owner of The New Republic, and Guy Vidra, the magazine's C.E.O., presided over a meeting at the publication's Penn Quarter offices in Washington, D.C. It had been a busy twenty-four hours: a day earlier …
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Ex-CIA director defends rectal rehydration  —  Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden on Thursday defended revelations from Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats that the agency used rectal rehydration on detainees.  —  “These were medical procedures,” Hayden said during a tense interview on CNN's “The Lead with Jake Tapper.”
Discussion: Liberaland
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Charles Krauthammer: A travesty of a report
Discussion: Guardian
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.”  Update: Dowd says she didn't send an advance copy of the column.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The full demise of Rolling Stone's rape story  —  Even as Rolling Stone's Nov. 19 story “A Rape on Campus” unraveled last week, the magazine claimed that writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely did her due diligence in investigating an alleged gang rape on Sept. 28, 2012, at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house …
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ABC News:
New Questions Raised About Rolling Stone's UVA Rape Story
Discussion: The Federalist, Vox Popoli and Hot Air
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
McCain says “most likely” running for re-election  —  Washington (CNN) — John McCain says he is “most likely” running for re-election in 2016, but is aware that he will be a top target for conservative groups gunning for establishment Republicans in primaries.
Discussion: OnPolitics
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Politico:
Conservatives rage against the machine
Susie Madrak / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Cop Shows Up At Penn Student's Room To Question Her About Activist Facebook Post  —  If only they were this diligent about investigating right-wing domestic terrorists.  —  Activists also report that the day after the town hall was held at Calvary United Methodist Church …
Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Dogs in Heaven?  Pope Francis 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 …
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 …
KPTV-TV:
School shooting reported in North Portland; at least two victims  —  At least two people were shot at Rosemary Anderson High School in Portland on Friday.  —  A Portland Fire and Rescue officials said three people were transported to the hospital.  Two of them are confirmed gunshot victims.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Blow Me Domain Registered To Republican Congressman  —  The website could have been registered by Farenthold, or possibly as a prank by someone not associated with the Texas conservative.  —  Whoisology.com / Via whoisology.com  —  The website Blow-me.org is registered to Republican Texas …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Jeb Bush Keeps Eye on Center of 2016 Fray  —  WASHINGTON — When former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida quietly visited Senator John McCain in his Capitol Hill office this fall, discussion turned to a subject of increasing interest to Mr. Bush: how to run for president without pandering to the party's conservative base.
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.”
Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Nonemployed: The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind  —  The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind  —  Many men aged 25 to 54 have decided that low-wage jobs will not improve their lives.  Their absence from the work force has consequences for the nation.
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.
 
 
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Matt Bai / Yahoo! News:
The ‘24’ Effect  —  I have three vivid memories of watching television …
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Julie Beck / The Atlantic Online:
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Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Obama opens fraud-ridden benefits programs to illegal immigrants
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Women flood ranks of GOP
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