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12:55 PM ET, December 29, 2015

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Annie Karni / Politico:
6 moments that could haunt Hillary Clinton  —  Hillary Clinton, her aides will tell you, is focused solely on winning the Democratic primary.  Hillary Clinton, Democratic strategists with ties to the campaign will tell you, has one eye planted on the general election in everything she says and does.
Discussion: America Rising and The Hill
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump expands his attacks on the Clintons  —  Donald Trump defended and expanded upon his attacks on the Clintons on Tuesday, asserting once more that mentioning former President Bill Clinton's past infidelities was “fair game” if Hillary Clinton kept hitting him for his own views on women …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump Once Blogged That Hillary Clinton Would Make A Great President  —  Less than a decade ago, Donald Trump could be spotted on TV or in print gushing over Hillary Clinton.  He publicly praised her health care plan (it had an individual mandate).  He said he liked Clinton and her husband “very much.”
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Six Factors That Could Make a Difference for Republicans in 2016  —  Will next year's dynamics be a continuation of this one's—or a return to politics as usual?  —  Just four weeks before the first votes of the 2016 presidential contest are cast in Iowa's caucuses, a bizarre …
Discussion: Politico
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
Marco Rubio's Path to Victory  —  Dan McLaughlin has a very convincing look at how Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) 94% waits out Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100%'s early wins.  As we move in the calendar, we get to more moderate states, and Rubio's odds go up.  —  What we have to consider, however, is voter psychology.
Discussion: Hot Air
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Are Primary Polls Finally Predictive?  No, but This Is When the Fun Starts  —  You have undoubtedly heard that primary polls aren't necessarily very predictive far from an election.  With just a month to go until the Iowa caucuses, I'm writing to tell you that ... it's still true.
Lauren French / Politico:
House rebels crusade for Cruz
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Bush super PAC criticizes Rubio for missing votes in U.S. Senate
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook, presented by NextGen Climate - 3 days till 2016, 34 days to Iowa - SIREN: Trump and RNC to share data - BEN GINSBERG's GOP convention chaos scenarios: Longer than 4 days?!  — LAME DUCK TAKES FLIGHT: Obama plans year of globetrotting  —  By Mike Allen (@mikeallen …
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Benjamin L. Ginsberg / Wall Street Journal:
Flirting With a Chaotic GOP Convention
Discussion: Politico and New York Times
Evan Perez / CNN:
‘Affluenza’ teen Ethan Couch detained in Mexico  —  (CNN)Mexican authorities have detained so-called “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch and his mother near the popular Mexican Pacific beach resort town of Puerto Vallarta, officials briefed on the matter told CNN.  —  Couch went missing earlier this month …
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Reuters:
Exclusive - Islamic State ruling aims to settle who can have sex with female slaves  —  Islamic State theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when “owners” of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captured females.
Discussion: Jezebel
Ashe Schow / Washington Examiner:
Harvard Law dean compares microaggressions to violence, sexual assault  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  In a move that should surprise no one who has been watching the utter meltdown of privileged college students this year, a Harvard Law School dean has compared “microaggressions” to sexual assault and violence.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
How Donald Trump destroyed the Republican Party in 2015  —  History will remember 2015 as the year when The Republican Party As We Knew It was destroyed by Donald Trump.  An entity called the GOP will survive — but can never be the same.  —  Am I overstating Trump's impact, given that not a single vote has been cast?
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg View:
Bernienomics 101  —  The day after Christmas, Bernie Sanders asked a question on Twitter: “You have families out there paying 6, 8, 10 percent on student debt but you can refinance your homes at 3 percent.  What sense is that?”  —  Finance types may snicker.
Discussion: Hot Air
WRGT-TV FOX 45 News:
Woman Shoots, Kills Home Invasion Suspect In Trotwood  —  TROTWOOD — A home invasion turns deadly when the homeowner takes the safety of her family into her own hands.  —  One of three home invasion suspect was shot and killed during the incident, and has been identified …
CNN:
No indictment in Tamir Rice case, prosecutor says  —  (CNN)An Ohio grand jury has decided not to return an indictment in the 2014 police shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, prosecutor Tim McGinty said Monday.  —  Rice was holding a pellet gun when he was shot.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump: Union Leader publisher a ‘lowlife’  —  Donald Trump took aim at his latest target in the media world — this time, Joe McQuaid, publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader.  —  “He's a real lowlife, there's no question about it,” Trump said on New Hampshire television station WMUR …
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Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg.com news:
‘Get Out and Vote,’ Donald Trump Tells Supporters
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Steve Ragan / CSO:
Database configuration issues expose 191 million voter records  —  Massive database exposed to public, major political data managers deny ownership  —  A misconfigured database has led to the disclosure of 191 million voter records.  The database, discovered by researcher Chris Vickery …
Discussion: The Verge, Gizmodo and Engadget
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Jad Mouawad / New York Times:
T.S.A. Moves Closer to Rejecting Some State Driver's Licenses for Travel
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New York Post:
Olive Garden is charging $400 a person for NYE dinner
Discussion: Eater and KFOR-TV
Noah Rothman / Commentary Magazine:
Ben Carson's Collapsing Campaign
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Steven Rattner / New York Times:
2015: The Year in Charts
Discussion: Mother Jones
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Pope and change  —  You know the answer to these year-end questions but just play along.
M. Alex Johnson / NBC News:
Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead Dies at 70, Band Confirms
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Brendan O'Connor / Gawker:
Trump Flip-Flops on Wages After Sanders Makes a Pass at His Supporters
Discussion: Guardian and CBS News
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Trump given access to RNC's voter file
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Obama's Economic Performance Is Even Better Than It Looks
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
CNN:
Creature from the deep surfaces in Japanese harbor
Discussion: Washington Post and Mashable
Daily Mail:
Sixty thousand New Yorkers sign up for ‘tiny house’ …
Discussion: Althouse
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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