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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Manning retains Ari Fleischer amid HGH allegations — Peyton Manning has enlisted the services of former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer amid allegations that the Denver Broncos quarterback was sent human growth hormone (HGH) while recovering from a neck injury in 2011.
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ESPN:
Documentary links Peyton Manning, other pro athletes to use of PEDs — Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning has been listed in an Al Jazeera undercover probe as one of several prominent professional athletes who were supplied illegal performance-enhancing drugs from an Indiana-based anti-aging clinic.
Travis Waldron / The Huffington Post:
Explosive Documentary Links Peyton Manning, Major Athletes To Doping Ring … An Indianapolis anti-aging clinic supplied quarterback Peyton Manning with human growth hormone, a performance-enhancing drug banned by the NFL, a pharmacist who once worked at the clinic asserts in a new special report from Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit.
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Slantpoint, ProFootballTalk, Associated Press, CBS Philly, Scared Monkeys, Vox Popoli and The Daily Caller
Michael Walsh / New York Post:
Elites and media really hate Donald Trump's voters — To hear the patronizing wise men of the Republican Party tell it, anyone who would vote for Donald Trump for president must be deranged. “Trumpkins,” they call them, mental midgets and xenophobic troglodytes who've crawled …
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The Hill, ABC News, Politico, Breitbart, Chicago Boyz and Instapundit
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump's fans are excited to rally — but they're not sure they'll show up to vote — DES MOINES — When Donald Trump held one of his boisterous rallies at the state fair grounds this month, Bonnie and Randy Reynolds arrived two hours early to make sure they could snag some seats.
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Hot Air, Outside the Beltway and Althouse
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Trump fires back, hitting Bill Clinton's ‘penchant for sexism’
Trump fires back, hitting Bill Clinton's ‘penchant for sexism’
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Politico and Hot Air
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
The Wild Ideas You Missed While Donald Trump Was Talking
The Wild Ideas You Missed While Donald Trump Was Talking
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us3.campaign-archive2.com and Hullabaloo
Eric W. Dolan / Raw Story:
Uncle accidentally shoots 2-year-old niece in the face while trying out new Christmas gift — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — A 2-year-old girl in Oregon was rushed to the hospital after being shot in the face on Christmas morning by her uncle.
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Salem-News.com, addictinginfo.org and KGW-TV
Dean Balsamini / New York Post:
Stabbing of 9-year-old boy eyed as ISIS tryout — An alleged jihadist arrested in June on charges that he plotted to blow up Times Square may also be the fiend who stabbed a 9-year-old Staten Island boy in the neck five months earlier in what some investigators now believe was a botched ISIS audition.
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National Review and New York's PIX11
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Wills Robinson For / Daily Mail:
Student who 'plotted a terrorist attack on Times Square and tried to kill an FBI also stabbed a boy …
Student who 'plotted a terrorist attack on Times Square and tried to kill an FBI also stabbed a boy …
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Jihad Watch and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Natalie Pompilio / Washington Post:
Pornographic email scandal roils Pennsylvania politics — PHILADELPHIA — Over the past 15 months, beleaguered Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane has released a steady stream of messages retrieved from a state email server that show state officials and employees trading pornographic, racist and misogynistic messages.
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Booman Tribune
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Supreme Court Justice Doubts Mass Internment Would Happen Again in US — In a rare sit-down interview with ABC News, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer said he doubts mass internment would happen again in the U.S. Even though the Supreme Court has never technically overturned …
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Althouse
Eli Stokols / Politico:
The GOP's New Hampshire nightmare — BERLIN, N.H. — Chris Christie is mocking Marco Rubio for not showing up. An hour's drive up the road, Jeb Bush is hammering away at Donald Trump — oh, and there he goes attacking Christie, too. Just a few blocks up the road, Rubio is quietly lashing Ted Cruz …
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ABC News and Boston Herald
Jim Siegel / The Columbus Dispatch:
End gerrymandering, Kasich says — Gov. John Kasich says he wants to change the way Ohio draws congressional districts, but other supporters of the idea say it will take a change of heart by Ohio's federal lawmakers to make it happen. — Ohio's congressional districts are currently drawn …
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Scripting News and ThinkProgress
Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Ted Cruz: Republicans Love Him in Iowa, Loathe Him in D.C. — Gap in perception fuels Texas senator's 2016 outsider strategy — Sen. Ted Cruz is getting rock-star treatment at his 2016 presidential-campaign events. In Iowa, the state he has visited more than any other …