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9:35 AM ET, January 8, 2016

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Randy Billings / The Portland Press Herald:
LePage makes racially charged comment at Bridgton meeting  —  A Republican critic of the governor calls the remark during a town hall meeting with residents Wednesday ‘one of the most offensive statements yet from this Governor.’  —  Gov. Paul LePage made a racially charged comment in Bridgton …
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Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
Governor Delivers Racist Rant At Public Meeting  —  Drug dealers with stereotypically black names are importing heroin to Maine and leaving pregnant white women behind when they leave the state again, Gov. Paul LePage (R) told a town hall meeting on Wednesday.
Ldutson / Get Right:
LePage: “These types of guys” impregnating white women in Maine
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and WABI-TV
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump disrupts Sanders' stronghold  —  Burlington, Vt. — Donald Trump's Thursday night rally has created the biggest political fracas here since 1981, when in the midst of the Cold War the city elected a socialist mayor named Bernard Sanders.  —  Ahead of Trump's visit …
Discussion: ABC News
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Trump, Cruz on brink of epic clash  —  Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz are circling each other in the race for the Republican nomination and appear to be on the brink of an epic clash.  —  While the candidates have for months observed a kind of truce, party insiders believe that's about to change …
Discussion: Political Wire
Eliza Collins / Politico:
Priebus ‘100 percent’ confident he can rally Republican Party behind Cruz or Trump
Discussion: Political Wire
Eliza Collins / Politico:
Bush declines 4 times to commit to endorsing Trump
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
Jonah Goldberg / Townhall.com:
The Term ‘Neocon’ has Run its Course  —  In interviews and on the stump, Sen. Ted Cruz likes to attack President Obama, Hillary Clinton and “some of the more aggressive Washington neocons” for their support of regime change in the Middle East.  —  Every time we topple a dictator, Cruz argues …
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
The GOP Establishment's Civil War  —  A free-for-all between Christie, Rubio, Cruz and others, while Trump hovers above it all.  —  What everyone's waiting for is the winnowing.  New Hampshire and Iowa will force some Republican candidates out.  When we know who's still in we'll have a surer sense of the contours of the race.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics:
THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — DECEMBER 2015  —  Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 292,000 in December, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.0 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.  Employment gains occurred in several industries, led by professional and business services …
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos and NPR
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Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Added 292,000 Jobs in December; Unemployment Rate at 5%
Discussion: Bloomberg Business and The Week
Barack Obama / New York Times:
Guns Are Our Shared Responsibility  —  THE epidemic of gun violence in our country is a crisis.  Gun deaths and injuries constitute one of the greatest threats to public health and to the safety of the American people.  Every year, more than 30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by guns.
WRTV-TV:
Trooper prays with driver upset over his daughter's cancer diagnosis  —  BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — It can be stressful enough to see a police car behind you, but imagine getting pulled over after learning your child is dying from cancer.  —  Rodney Gibson was driving on SR 37 in Monroe County Monday …
Discussion: fox8.com, WTVR-TV and fox13now.com
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Avianne Tan / ABC News:
Indiana Cop Brings Speeding Driver to Tears With Prayer Rather Than Ticket
Discussion: The Last Tradition
Associated Press:
Obama Mocks ‘Conspiracy’ at Forum on Gun Control  —  President Barack Obama mocked conspiracy theorists and tore into the National Rifle Association for pushing “imaginary fiction,” as he described his plans to tighten gun control rules as modest first steps toward tackling gun violence in America.
Discussion: Politico, Bearing Arms and CNN
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Obama makes case on guns at CNN town hall
David French / National Review:
It's a Bad Day for the Clintons When Vox Fairly Explains the Rape Allegation Against Bill  —  I must admit, when I clicked this morning on Vox's “explainer” of Juanita Broaddrick's rape allegation against Bill Clinton, I expected a whitewash.  I was wrong.  Not only did Dylan Matthews …
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ABC News:
For Democrats, a Stable of Surrogates Ready to Campaign
Discussion: Politico and abc13.com
Steven Nelson / Associated Press:
Congressman Readies Ted Cruz Eligibility Lawsuit With Eye on Mom  —  A Florida Democrat and some Obama “birthers” agree about Cruz.  —  Yo mama so Canadian?  Ted Cruz says he's eligible for the presidency, but others disagree.  —  Billionaire businessman Donald Trump suggested this week …
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Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:
Watchdog: Clinton email responses ‘inaccurate and incomplete’  —  The State Department has been providing “inaccurate and incomplete” responses to requests for emails and other documents involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a watchdog says in a new report released Thursday.
Wall Street Journal:
Missing U.S. Missile Shows Up in Cuba  —  Inert Hellfire missile sent to Europe for a training exercise makes mysterious trip, sparking concerns over loss of military technology  —  An inert U.S. Hellfire missile sent to Europe for training purposes was wrongly shipped from there to Cuba in 2014 …
CBC News:
Snowy owl spotted soaring by Montreal traffic camera  —  White and black-spotted bird spreads its wings against snowy backdrop  —  Spectacular images of a snowy owl in flight have been captured by Transport Quebec's traffic camera along Montreal's Highway 40.
Discussion: Mashable, WHNT-TV, WGN-TV and WCMH-TV
Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg Business:
U.S. Marshals Raid Hoverboard Booth at CES  —  The maker of the Onewheel electric skateboard called in federal marshals to shut down the booth of a company making a similar product.  —  On Thursday afternoon, two U.S. federal marshals showed up at the Consumer Electronics Show to conduct a raid.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Exclusive: House Republicans recruited Carson for Speaker  —  House Republicans reached out to GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson in 2014 about replacing John Boehner as Speaker of the House, Carson told The Hill on Thursday.  —  “They were looking for an alternative …
Jack Mirkinson / Salon:
Rahm Emanuel is a national disgrace: Why he represents every worst instinct of the Democratic Party  —  The Chicago mayor's ties to a shocking police cover-up get stronger by the day.  This should come as no surprise  —  The scandal surrounding Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel's grossly corrupt …
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Planned Parenthood to give Clinton its first-ever primary endorsement  —  Planned Parenthood is throwing its support behind Hillary Clinton, delivering what will be the organization's first-ever endorsement in a presidential primary.  —  “Let's be clear — reproductive rights and health …
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Jon Austin / Daily Express:
Yellowstone about to blow? Scientists warning over SUPER-VOLCANO that could kill MILLIONS
Kareem Shaheen / Guardian:
Madaya: residents of besieged Syrian town say they are being starved to death
Discussion: NBC News and NPR
Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Ramadi Grapples With Scars of War After Its Return to Iraqi Hands
Alex Belth / Esquire:
The Candidate We Love to Hate and Hate to Love
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Barrett Holmes Pitner / The Daily Beast:
President Obama Isn't Taking People's Guns—But Maybe He Should
Discussion: Truth Revolt
Anahad O'Connor / New York Times:
New Dietary Guidelines Urge Less Sugar for All and Less Protein for Boys and Men
Discussion: Tech Insider and Gizmodo
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Bloomberg Business:
George Soros Sees Crisis in Global Markets That Echoes 2008
Discussion: New York Times and NPR
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Says He Favors Big Tariffs on Chinese Exports
Spiegel Online:
Police Report Outlines ‘Chaotic and Shameful’ New Year's Eve
 

 
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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:
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