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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Jeb Bush cancels Iowa TV buy, shifts money to ground game — Jeb Bush's campaign is canceling its Iowa television advertising buy and shifting money to double staff on the ground in January, the final month before the high-stakes Iowa caucuses. — The news will raise questions about whether …
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
This is just the blood-letting the Republican Party needs — It's getting hot in here. — Tuesday morning, the political-action committee supporting Jeb Bush released an extraordinarily nasty — and inaccurate — ad bashing Marco Rubio for missing key intelligence briefings on the Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump muses about losing Iowa — Donald Trump seemed to come to terms Tuesday with an unfamiliar prospect: He might lose in Iowa, the first state to weigh in on the Republican presidential nominating contest. — At a campaign rally in Council Bluffs, Trump ran through a list of polls showing …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Bush campaign shifts resources to early states in strategy shake-up — Jeb Bush's campaign, searching for momentum in a race that hasn't gone its way, is deploying nearly all of its staff in its Miami headquarters to early states and shifting millions of dollars in TV ad reservations.
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Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Billionaire Trump to spend millions on ads in GOP race
Billionaire Trump to spend millions on ads in GOP race
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump makes pitch to Iowa evangelicals
Trump makes pitch to Iowa evangelicals
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David McCabe / The Hill:
Chrome extension scrubs Trump from the web — Americans tired of the media fixation on real estate mogul and presidential candidate Donald Trump have a new tool at their disposal, courtesy of a Brooklyn web developer. — The Trump Filter extension for Chrome, created by Rob Spectre …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Why I said Hillary Clinton had the ‘Worst Year in Washington’
Why I said Hillary Clinton had the ‘Worst Year in Washington’
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Carol Christian / Houston Chronicle:
Man charged with setting Houston mosque fire was a devout attendee — A Houston man has been arrested in connection with a suspected arson at a mosque on Christmas Day. — A spokeswoman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed that the man was arrested early Wednesday …
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Nicole Weisensee Egan / People.com:
Arrest Warrant Issued for Bill Cosby for Alleged January 2004 Sexual Assault of Andrea Constand — An arrest warrant has been issued for entertainer Bill Cosby for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple employee Andrea Constand at his Elkins Park, Pennsylvania mansion in January 2004 …
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Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Bill Cosby Charged in Sexual Assault Case
Bill Cosby Charged in Sexual Assault Case
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Mark Bixler / CNN:
Bill Cosby to face sexual assault charges
Bill Cosby to face sexual assault charges
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Orlando Sentinel:
Cops: Mom shot, killed daughter mistaken for intruder — Police say a St. Cloud mother accidentally shot and killed her daughter late Tuesday night, mistaking her for an intruder. … Privacy Policy — Police say a St. Cloud mom accidentally shot and killed her 27-year-old daughter late Tuesday night …
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Alfred Ng / New York Daily News:
Tx. pol posts denied marital rape, tried cheating drug test — A Texas lawmaker's career could be over after his posts denying marital rape surfaced on Tuesday, along with a flood of other shady writing. — Texas state representative Jonathan Stickland's dirty digital tracks came to light …
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Texas GOP lawmaker: ‘Rape is non-existent in marriage, take what you want’
Texas GOP lawmaker: ‘Rape is non-existent in marriage, take what you want’
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The White House / Medium:
Behind the Lens: 2015 Year in Photographs — One of the best and most challenging aspects of my job is whittling down a year's worth of photographs to the final selections for my annual Year in Photographs. Every year, I attempt to keep it less than 100 photos—and every year I fail in that goal.
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Chris Velazco / Engadget:
AT&T to ditch most two-year phone contracts on January 8th — AT&T's long affair with the two-year contract continues to wind down, Engadget has learned. According to an internal document sent to employees this morning, new and existing customers will only be able to get new phones by paying …
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic:
Beards, Why? … Paul Ryan: House speaker, Wisconsinite, Republican standard-bearer, and now, lumber-sexual? In an Instagram post late last month, the congressman unveiled a spray of chestnut stubble across his face. “I'm the first Speaker to sport a beard in about 100 years,” he said.
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Les Zaitz / Oregonian:
Militiamen, ranchers in showdown for soul of Burns — BURNS - The strangers carrying the whisper of danger arrived in the vast territory of the Harney Basin just before the holidays. — Ammon Bundy once helped his father repulse the government in an armed showdown on a Nevada desert.
New York Times:
Cleveland's Terrible Stain — Tamir Rice of Cleveland would be alive today had he been a white 12-year-old playing with a toy gun in just about any middle-class neighborhood in the country on the afternoon of Nov. 22, 2014. — But Tamir, who was shot to death by a white police officer that day …
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The Tamir Rice Shooting Reveals the Darkness at the Heart of Open Carry Laws
The Tamir Rice Shooting Reveals the Darkness at the Heart of Open Carry Laws
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Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Ted Cruz's Fundraising Jumps in 4th Quarter — Sen. Ted Cruz raised almost $20 million for his presidential campaign in the fourth quarter — a 66% increase over the previous three-month period, according to a campaign officials and a memo that shows how the Texas Republican's fundraising pace accelerated as he has gained in the polls.
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Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Pataki Was Running for the Nomination of a GOP That No Longer Exists — Once upon a time there was a “lane” for moderate Republicans in presidential primaries, and being governor of New York was an automatic qualifier for the nomination. No more. — The classic comment about the impact …
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