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Shkreli, CEO Reviled for Drug Price Gouging, Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges — 32-year-old suspected of plundering Retrophin to pay debts
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Martin Shkreli Plans To Bail-Out Bobby Shmurda
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Criminal Charges to Be Brought Against Enrique Marquez, Ex-Neighbor of San Bernardino Shooters — Federal prosecutors have decided to bring criminal charges against the friend and former neighbor of one of the San Bernardino shooters. — Several federal law enforcement officials tell NBC News …
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Strike Two For Pair of New York Times Reporters — Today, FBI director James Comey said that the San Bernardino shooters never talked openly about violent jihadism on social media: “So far, in this investigation we have found no evidence of posting on social media by either of them at that period …
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Breitbart:
Paul Ryan Betrays America: $1.1 Trillion, 2,000-Plus Page Omnibus Bill Funds ‘Fundamental Transformation of America’ — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)'s first major legislative achievement is a total and complete sell-out of the American people masquerading as an appropriations bill. — Too harsh, you say?
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Funding deal hits backlash over increase in foreign worker visas — The $1.1 trillion omnibus bill includes language that would dramatically increase the number of visas available for foreign workers, setting off alarm bells among conservatives and labor unions.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Omnibus Spending Bill Sells Out American Workers
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Dayna Evans / New York Magazine:
Millionaire Cleared of Rape Charge After Claiming He Tripped and His Penis Fell Into Teen — That's not how these things work. — 37.8k — 32.7k — 5k — Pin It — Ehsan Abdulaziz, a Saudi millionaire property developer, was cleared of rape charges in London this week …
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Neetzan Zimmerman / The Hill:
Putin praises Trump: He's a really brilliant and talented person — Russian President Vladimir Putin had kind words for his “stablemate” Donald Trump during an annual end-of-the-year Q-and-A session in Moscow. — “He's a really brilliant and talented person, without any doubt,” …
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Max Seddon / BuzzFeed:
Putin Endorses Donald Trump For President — The Russian for “tremendous!” is ! — Maxim Zmeyev / Reuters — Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a qualified endorsement of Donald Trump's candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday, saying he hoped Trump's election …
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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Carly Fiorina Digs in on Claim That General's Retirement Was Due to Obama Dispute
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fiorina Stands by Claim Ex-General Keane Was Pushed Out by Obama (Which Keane Refuted)
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Lessons From the Mistrial in the Freddie Gray Case … The trial of officers charged with killing Freddie Gray has moved quickly all along: The prosecutor brought charges with nearly unprecedented speed, within two weeks of Gray's death. And now the first trial has ended just as quickly …
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Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:
Congress's $12 billion giveaway to health insurers — As Congress rushes to pass an omnibus tax/spending bill for the coming year, it's concocting a special tax break for health-insurance companies. — And it amounts to a back-door bailout. — Until this week, insurance-company lobbyists …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House praises sweeping omnibus, tax deal
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama meets with Bloomberg to talk guns
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Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Adelson son-in-law orchestrated family's purchase of Las Vegas Review-Journal — The son-in-law of billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson arranged the $140 million purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Adelson's behalf, sources confirmed Wednesday. — Patrick Dumont …
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Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
Adelson Family Confirms They Purchased Las Vegas Journal-Review
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Ingrid Burrington / The Atlantic:
The Environmental Toll of a Netflix Binge — My favorite part of highways in the American midwest are the wind turbines. Not so much the massive wind turbines on the horizon, begging for a contemporary Don Quixote to come at them, but the bits and pieces of wind turbines …
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Defense Secretary Conducted Some Official Business on a Personal Email Account — WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter relied on a personal email account to conduct a portion of his government business during his first months at the Pentagon, according to White House …
MSNBC:
Exclusive: Homeland Security rejected plan to vet visa applicants' social media — Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security considered a specific policy to strengthen security screenings for foreign visa applicants' social media accounts, but the proposal was ultimately rejected …
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Politico, The Hill, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, Western Journalism, Washington Free Beacon, NBC News and Washington Times
Judicial Watch:
Team led by Middle Eastern Woman Caught Surveilling U.S. Facility on Mexican Border — A Middle Eastern woman was caught surveilling a U.S. port of entry on the Mexican border holding a sketchbook with Arabic writing and drawings of the facility and its security system, federal law enforcement sources tell Judicial Watch.
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Window for an independent Trump bid is wide open — Donald Trump could campaign for the Republican nomination well into March before deciding to ditch the GOP and mount an independent bid for the White House. — According to a POLITICO analysis, the obstacles standing in his way are few …
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
2016: The Trump Election — The best Republican debate of the year was also the last.
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New York Times, Hot Air and Vox
Katherine Landergan / Politico:
After public letter, no written directive from Christie on Syrian refugees — A month ago, Governor Chris Christie joined other governors in saying that he would not allow Syrian refugees into his state in the wake of the Paris attacks. — Reinforcing his hard-line position …
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Sandra Pedicini / Orlando Sentinel:
Walt Disney World, SeaWorld, Universal install metal detectors at theme parks — Photos of the 46 rides listed as “attractions” at the four Walt Disney World theme parks. … In a sign of how jittery the nation has become about terrorism and gun violence, all three major Orlando theme parks …
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