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12:16 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
Ldutson / Get Right:
LePage: “These types of guys” impregnating white women in Maine
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and WABI-TV
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  —  A speeding truck driver was recently surprised by the kindness of an Indiana state police officer who chose to pray with him rather than ticket him.  —  Rodney Gibson said he was so upset this past Monday …
Discussion: The Last Tradition
Kendall Breitman / Bloomberg Business:
Cruz: McCain Questions Citizenship Because He Secretly Backs Rubio  —  The Texas senator's rebuttal comes hours after McCain said during a Phoenix radio interview that Cruz's birth abroad and his eligibility to become president is “worth looking into.”  —  Ted Cruz responded to John McCain questioning …
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Rich Lowry / Politico:
Ted Cruz Is Nixon, Not Goldwater  —  The lazy conventional wisdom is that Ted Cruz is the new Barry Goldwater doomed to suffer an electoral landslide defeat should he win the Republican nomination.  —  Not only is this wrong about Cruz's general-election chances, it may compare Cruz to the wrong 20th-century Republican forebear.
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 …
Discussion: LewRockwell
Steven Nelson / Associated Press:
Congressman Readies Ted Cruz Eligibility Lawsuit With Eye on Mom
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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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
From Whitewater to Benghazi: A Clinton Scandal Primer
Nathan McDermott / BuzzFeed:
Huckabee: Evangelical Leaders Won't Endorse Me Because I'll “Slay The Dragon”  —  Mike Huckabee said in an interview on Wednesday that evangelical groups won't support his presidential campaign out of fear they would no longer be able to fundraise if Christian policies were to actually be put in place.
Discussion: RedState and Hot Air
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Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
A Dejected Mike Huckabee Is Now Just Burning Bridges With The Religious Right
Discussion: Fox News and Joe.My.God.
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Bitter Mike Huckabee says Christian groups would rather rake in dough than see President Huckabee end abortion
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.
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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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Rubio launches new lines of attack against Christie
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump On Rubio's Boots: “Those Heels Were Really Up There”  —  “It helps to be tall.”  —  Donald Trump said Thursday that Marco Rubio might have been better off not rocking the shiny black boots with a heel that has had his opponents cracking jokes all week.
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Spiegel Online:
Police Report Outlines ‘Chaotic and Shameful’ New Year's Eve  —  An internal police protocol has revealed the full extent of the violence in Cologne on New Year's Eve.  According to the report, which SPIEGEL has seen, officials were overwhelmed and powerless to help some people calling for help.
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Justin Huggler / Telegraph:
Suspects in Cologne sex attacks ‘claimed to be Syrian refugees’
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Des Moines Register:
Last Slide  —  Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson …
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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Jason Hancock / Kansas City Star:
Missouri bill defines sex between lobbyists, lawmakers as a gift  —  Lobbyists would have to disclose sexual relations with a lawmaker or their staff to the Ethics Commission  —  The 2016 Legislative session began Wednesday … JEFFERSON CITY  —  Lobbyists who have sex with a Missouri lawmaker …
Tricia Bishop / Baltimore Sun:
Do you know the gun owners in your circle? … It's inevitable when my husband and I visit family these days that the subject of violence in Baltimore comes up.  Often, I'm the one who raises it.  But when it came up last week on a trip to see my parents in Georgia, I got my back up.
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.
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
Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
The Pugnacious, Relentless Progressive Party That Wants to Remake America … At a recent private dinner in Manhattan, a small group of leftists plotted to take over America.  —  The group, a dozen community organizers and activists from all over the country, had convened at a sushi restaurant …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Lindsay Gibbs / ThinkProgress:
After Horrific Rape Charges, Tennessee High School Cancels Basketball Season  —  Three basketball players at Ooltewah High School in Tennessee have been charged with the aggravated rape and assault of a 15-year-old freshman teammate on December 21.  —  Now, as the investigation …
 
 
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Alex Belth / Esquire:
The Candidate We Love to Hate and Hate to Love
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WCDC-TV:
PHOTOS: 17 miners safe after getting stuck in elevator at NY salt mine
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Bush declines 4 times to commit to endorsing Trump
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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:
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College Republicans to Protest Obama's Gun Control Town Hall at George Mason University
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Cole Waterman / MLive.com:
Couple gets engaged at Walmart, steals sex toys at mall, police say
Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Pat Harrington Jr., ‘Schneider’ of TV's ‘One Day at a Time,’ dies at 86
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Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
Cellphone plans are getting cheaper — thanks, Obama! (and T-Mobile)
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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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
 
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