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Jeb Bush / Facebook:
A Note from Jeb Bush — Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah! — Like many of you, our family was blessed with the opportunity to gather together over the recent Thanksgiving holiday. — Columba and I are so proud of the wonderful adults our children have become, and we loved spending time with our three precious grandchildren.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Reuters:
Jeb Bush to ‘actively explore’ U.S. presidential bid — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush will “actively explore” a run for the presidency in 2016, he announced on Tuesday, making him one of the first major Republicans to formally move toward a possible candidacy.
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Gary Fineout / Associated Press:
Jeb Bush to ‘actively explore’ run for president — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Jeb Bush is taking his most definitive step yet toward running for president. — The former Republican Florida governor on Tuesday told his followers on Facebook and Twitter he has decided “to actively explore …
New York Times:
Pakistani Taliban Attack on Peshawar School Leaves 145 Dead — Aftermath of School Attack in Pakistan Aftermath of School Attack in Pakistan — The scene on Tuesday in Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan after more than 100 people were killed in a Taliban attack on a school. — Video by Quynhanh Do on
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BBC:
Pakistan Taliban ‘kill 100’ in assault on Peshawar school — At least 100 people, mostly children, have been killed in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say. — Five or six militants wearing security uniforms entered the school, officials said.
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International Business Times, The Moderate Voice, New York Magazine and The Gateway Pundit
Jibran Ahmad / Reuters:
Over 120 Pakistanis, mostly children, killed in Taliban high school attack — (Reuters) - At least 126 people, most of them children, were killed on Tuesday when Taliban gunmen stormed a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, taking hundreds of students hostage in the bloodiest insurgent attack in the country in years.
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Daily Mail:
'Our classmates were shot in front of us... I felt bullets flying past my head': Boy aged 10 recounts horror of seeing friends gunned down in Pakistani school slaughter as Taliban fighters massacred more than 100 children — A 10-year-old boy caught up in the Peshawar school massacre that saw …
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International Business Times and Vox Popoli
Mushtaq Yusufzai / NBC News:
Kids Shot ‘One by One’: More Than 100 Dead in School Attack
Kids Shot ‘One by One’: More Than 100 Dead in School Attack
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Power Line, Creeping Sharia and Weekly Standard
CNN:
At least four children dead as Taliban storm Pakistan school
At least four children dead as Taliban storm Pakistan school
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The PJ Tatler and FOX News Radio
Saad Khan / Agence France-Presse:
Carnage as Taliban storm Pakistan school, kill 130
Carnage as Taliban storm Pakistan school, kill 130
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TIME, Taylor Marsh and Slantpoint
Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
EXCLUSIVE: New York Mag's Boy Genius Investor Made It All Up — In an exclusive Observer interview, Mohammed Islam, said to have investment returns of $72 million as a hs senior, admits he invented the whole story — Damir Tulemaganbetov and Mohammed Islam (r) in the office of 5WPR …
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Terrence McCoy / Washington Post:
New York Magazine's $72 million teenage stock trader says he made it all up
New York Magazine's $72 million teenage stock trader says he made it all up
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney.com:
Story of the $72 million teen trader unravels
Story of the $72 million teen trader unravels
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Tech Times, Ed Driscoll, Gawker and UPROXX
Politico:
Ted Cruz reignites GOP civil war — Republican senators pounded Ted Cruz over the weekend, lashing him for his procedural tactics and ultimately voting in large numbers against his immigration gambit. — Now, Cruz's allies off Capitol Hill are looking for revenge. — Story Continued Below
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NewsMax.com, Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
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Jim Malewitz / Politico:
Ted Cruz trolled over surgeon general vote — The Senate's confirmation of Vivek Murthy to surgeon general on Monday gave Democrats a chance to troll GOP firebrand Ted Cruz on twitter. — Implying the Republican senator paved the way for a vote after over 500 days without a surgeon general …
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CNN, Daily Kos, The Atlantic Online and Hot Air
Melissa Healy / Los Angeles Times:
New surgeon general approved despite remarks on guns, contraception
New surgeon general approved despite remarks on guns, contraception
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Slantpoint
Charles Hoskinson / Washington Examiner:
Unqualified nominees get their jobs — thanks, Harry — On Monday night, the Senate confirmed Vivek Murthy as U.S. Surgeon General. His was just one of two dozen nominations that Republicans had hoped to avoid confirming by running out the clock on Congress's lame duck session.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Warren Can Win — Elizabeth Warren's memoir begins with the story of a family in collapse. She was 12 years old when her father had a heart attack. — His recovery was slow. Unable to work, the family's finances tanked. The Studebaker was repossessed.
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Trevor Eischen / Politico:
David Brooks: Elizabeth Warren has chance of being nominated
David Brooks: Elizabeth Warren has chance of being nominated
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
John Yoo: If the Torture Report Is True, CIA Officers Are at Legal Risk — A surprising admission by an attorney who was instrumental in enabling the Bush Administration's brutal interrogation practices — The debate over the CIA interrogation program pits critics who insist illegal torture took place …
Des Moines Register:
Iowa Straw Poll likely to live on despite controversy — Remember the predictions that the much-ridiculed Iowa Straw Poll was going to its grave? — Not so fast. — The event is likely to live on almost as-is, despite some resistance — including from the governor.
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Iowa GOP chairman: Straw poll likely to survive
Iowa GOP chairman: Straw poll likely to survive
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Associated Press
Roger Simon / Politico:
(Burp) Here comes Mitt! — Are you ready for Romney in 2016? — Mitt Romney has become the acid reflux candidate: He just keeps coming back up. — There has been poll after poll, story after story and now, over the weekend, a “Ready for Romney” website emerged that may or may not be serious.
Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
“Witness 40”: Exposing A Fraud In Ferguson — TSG probe unmasks grand jury witness who spun fabricated tale — The grand jury witness who testified that she saw Michael Brown pummel a cop before charging at him “like a football player, head down,” is a troubled, bipolar Missouri woman …
Karoli / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
George W. Bush Cancels Trip Overseas For Fear Of Arrest — Too bad they fear authorities abroad more than they fear those at home, eh? — UPDATE: This is a story from 2011. Our mistake! — Granted, it's the Daily Mail reporting the story, but there's definitely a ring of truth to it.
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Bloomberg:
Russian Rate Jump Fails to Stop Ruble Crash — The ruble plummeted into a freefall, losing as much as 19 percent as panic swept across Russian financial markets after a surprise interest-rate increase failed to stem the run on the currency. — The ruble plunged to as weak as 80.10 per dollar …
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Maxim Lott / Fox News:
Campus turns on Muslim conservative who penned satire — Of all the notes Omar Mahmoud said were affixed to his campus apartment, the one on the right is one of the tamest. — A Muslim conservative who took on political correctness at his college campus found out just how angry the very folks he was lampooning can get.
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The Jawa Report and The College Fix
Plain Dealer:
Cleveland Browns receiver Andrew Hawkins delivers emotional response to Cleveland police union's reaction to ‘Justice for Tamir Rice’ shirt — Adam Ferrise, Northeast Ohio Media Group By Adam Ferrise, Northeast Ohio Media Group — CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland Browns wide receiver Andrew Hawkins defended …
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Michael Paulson / New York Times:
Can't Have Your Cake, Gays Are Told, and a Rights Battle Rises — LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Jack Phillips is a baker whose evangelical Protestant faith informs his business. There are no Halloween treats in his bakery — he does not see devils and witches as a laughing matter.
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Paul Kendrick / Talking Points Memo:
C'mon, Stop Blaming Obama For Failing To Cure America Of Racism — A few days ago in a Fox News segment called “Post-Racial President Keeps Dividing America,” Judge Jeanine said “Americans, once hopeful that after electing the first African-American president the issue of race would be a thing of the past …
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Raw Story