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6:40 AM ET, December 30, 2014

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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
House majority whip Scalise acknowledges speaking at white nationalist event in 2002  —  Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the House majority whip, acknowledged Monday that he spoke at a gathering hosted by white nationalist leaders while serving as a state representative in 2002 …
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Washington Post:
House Majority Whip Scalise confirms he spoke to white nationalists in 2002  —  Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the newly elected House majority whip, acknowledged Monday that he spoke at a gathering hosted by white nationalist leaders while serving as a state representative in 2002 …
Bill Clark / Roll Call:
What Scalise and Vitter Told Roll Call About David Duke in 1999  —  Back in 1999, Roll Call interviewed white supremacist leader David Duke about the possibility he would seek the House seat vacated by the resignation of Republican Rep. Bob Livingston.  As part of that report …
Matt Sledge / The Huffington Post:
Majority Whip Steve Scalise Struggles To Distance Himself From David Duke
Discussion: Mediaite
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Report: GOP Whip Spoke At White Nationalist Meeting In 2002
Discussion: Booman Tribune
New York Times:   Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana Acknowledges Addressing Racist Group in 2002
Lamar White, Jr / cenlamar.com:
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise Was Reportedly an Honored Guest at 2002 International White Supremacist Convention
Politico:   Steve Scalise's office: Likely he spoke to white supremacist group
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
No. 3 House Republican leader spoke to white supremacist group
The Huffington Post:
New Republican Whip Allegedly Addressed Supremacist Group in 2002
Discussion: Roll Call and Washington Monthly
Dan Friedman / NY Daily News:
Michael Grimm has decided to resign from Congress days after pleading guilty: sources  —  EXCLUSIVE: The Staten Island Republican, who won reelection in the fall, has decided to vacate his seat after speaking with Rep. John Boehner.  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. Michael Grimm has decided to resign …
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Politico:
Michael Grimm resignation expected soon  —  New York GOP Rep. Michael Grimm — who pleaded guilty to a felony tax charge last week — is expected to resign from Congress this week, possibly as early as Tuesday, Republican sources said.  —  Grimm talked to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Monday, the sources said.
Discussion: Daily Kos and ABC News
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Why Hillary Clinton doesn't need to win the white working class  —  Few questions in American political debate recur with the regularity of this one: Can Democrats win the white working class?  —  As soon as it's time to start contemplating the next election, commentators begin to ask this question …
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Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Obama Went on the War Path in 2014 Not Just for His Legacy, But Hillary's Too
Discussion: US News and NPR
New York Post:
Scared NYPD cops letting minor crimes slide  —  Officers at slain cop Rafael Ramos' funeral.  —  With cops on edge following the assassination of two patrol officers on a Brooklyn street, many officers have started turning a blind eye to some minor crimes, sources told The Post …
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Obama sorry golf schedule changed wedding location  —  (CNN) — President Barack Obama apologized to a couple after his golf game in Hawaii forced the bride and groom to relocate their wedding Sunday.  —  According to a report out from Bloomberg, the couple — both captains in the Army …
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Michael C Bender / Bloomberg Politics:
Soldiers Relocate Wedding to Accommodate Obama's Golf Game
Dave Barry / Washington Post:
THERE'S JUST NO EXPLAINING 2014  —  It was a year of mysteries.  To list some of the more baffling ones:  —  A huge airliner simply vanished, and to this day nobody has any idea what happened to it, despite literally thousands of hours of intensive speculation on CNN.
Discussion: Ordinary Times and Gawker
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Politico:
2015, the year the GOP strikes back at Obama food policies  —  The Obama administration is becoming increasingly involved in what Americans put on their dinner plates and in their cereal bowls, from requiring school children to be served fruit to eliminating trans fats in doughnuts.
Allie Grasgreen / Politico:
Colleges: Game plan set for student, faculty travel to Ebola-affected regions  —  It's the most wonderful time of the year on college campuses, as finals conclude and students and faculty flock home for the holidays.  But when their destination involves Ebola-stricken nations, things get a little more complicated.
Caitlin Emma / Politico:
Testing under fire  —  Republicans may consider slashing the number of federally required tests.  —  Republicans on the Hill are finding unusual common ground with teachers unions about an overthrow of the annual testing mandate embedded in No Child Left Behind.
Los Angeles Times:
Ezell Ford autopsy prompts new protests, calls for caution  —  The autopsy of Ezell Ford, a mentally ill black man killed by police in South Los Angeles in August, shows he was shot three times — once in the right side, once in the right back and once in the right arm.
Discussion: Gawker, Slantpoint and KTLA
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Natasha Vargas-Cooper / The Intercept:
Exclusive: Jay, Key Witness from ‘Serial’ Tells His Story for First Time, Part 1  —  On Jan. 13, 1999, Hae Min Lee, an 18-year-old high school student from Baltimore, went missing.  About a month later, police uncovered her body in a nearby park; an autopsy would later find that she was choked to death.
New York Times:
U.S. Said to Investigate Sheldon Silver, New York Assembly Speaker, Over Payments  —  Federal authorities are investigating substantial payments made to the State Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, by a small law firm that seeks real estate tax reductions for commercial and residential properties …
Discussion: Gawker, The PJ Tatler and Slantpoint
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Obama nominees in doubt  —  Democrats pushed through dozens in December, but Republicans have all the leverage now.  —  Democrats are still dancing in the end zone after running up the score on dozens of President Barack Obama's nominees during the lame duck.
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Ted Cruz is billed as a Passover vacation attraction  —  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a likely Republican presidential candidate and a vocal pro-Israel hawk, is being advertised as a featured attraction at a string of ritzy resort vacation getaways catering to religious Jews.
Tal Kopan / Politico:
FBI briefed on alternate Sony hack theory  —  FBI agents investigating the Sony Pictures hack were briefed Monday by a security firm that says its research points to laid-off Sony staff, not North Korea, as the perpetrator — another example of the continuing whodunit blame game around the devastating attack.
Discussion: Firedoglake
 
 
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