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6:15 PM ET, January 7, 2016

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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: WTVR-TV, fox8.com 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 …
The Hill:
Bill Clinton rape accuser: Hillary ‘tried to silence’ me  —  A woman who publicly accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978 is resurrecting her claims on social media.  —  “I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me,” Juanita Broaddrick tweeted Wednesday.
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Christie: If Rubio were nominee, Hillary would ‘cut his heart out’
Discussion: Washington Post
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The Bill Clinton scandal machine revs back up and takes aim at his wife
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Planned Parenthood to back Clinton
Discussion: ABC News
Rep. G.K. Butterfield / theGrio:
CBC chair G.K. Butterfield endorses Hillary Clinton, says she is best candidate to improve black lives
Discussion: Washington Post
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.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
John McCain: “I Don't Know” If Cruz Is Eligible For Presidency With Canadian Birth  —  McCain, the Republican nominee in 2008, was born in the Panama Canal Zone when it was a U.S. territory.  —  Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  Arizona Sen. John McCain …
Kendall Breitman / Bloomberg Business:
Cruz: McCain Questions Citizenship Because He Secretly Backs Rubio
Justin Huggler / Telegraph:
Suspects in Cologne sex attacks ‘claimed to be Syrian refugees’  —  Leaked police report claims senior police officers feared fatalities and that one of those involved in attacks told officers: “I am Syrian.  You have to treat me kindly.  Mrs Merkel invited me”
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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.
BBC:
Cologne sex attacks ‘require police rethink’  —  Police in Germany will have to rethink their tactics following attacks on women in the city of Cologne on New Year's Eve, a senior official has said.  —  Ralf Jaeger, interior minister for North Rhine-Westphalia, said police had to “adjust” …
Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:
Germany springs to action over hate speech against migrants
Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
A Dejected Mike Huckabee Is Now Just Burning Bridges With The Religious Right  —  Mike Huckabee has made no secret of his disappointment in fact that Religious Right leaders have failed to rally around his presidential campaign, with many of them instead backing Ted Cruz.
Discussion: Fox News and Joe.My.God.
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Bitter Mike Huckabee says Christian groups would rather rake in dough than see President Huckabee end abortion
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: Washington Monthly
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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 …
Nik DeCosta-Klipa / Boston Globe:
Watch: Donald Trump supporters tear up 'America's Already Great' sign at Lowell rally  —  An identifying theme of Donald Trump's campaign rallies has been protesters disrupting the event and subsquently being removed from the venue by security.  —  Trump's rally Monday in Lowell was no exception.
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Zach Despart / Burlington Free Press:
Burlington raises concerns over Trump event
Discussion: protein wisdom, Mediaite and NBC News
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
First on CNN: Megadonor Dick Uihlein gives $1 million to Ted Cruz's Super PAC  —  (CNN)Dick Uilhlein, one of the top Republican megadonors nationwide, has decided to back Ted Cruz's presidential campaign and has donated $1 million to his super PAC.  —  Uilhlein committed on Wednesday evening …
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Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
Hank Greenberg Gives $10 Million to Super PAC Backing Jeb Bush
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Email Shows CNN's Invite Only Gun Control “Town Hall” With Obama is a Total Sham  —  Following his executive actions this week, President Obama will participate in what CNN is calling a “town hall” style discussion about gun control at George Mason University tomorrow night.
Discussion: Slantpoint and Bearing Arms
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
College Republicans to Protest Obama's Gun Control Town Hall at George Mason University
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story, Washington Post and CNN
Des Moines Register:
Last Slide  —  Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson at a campaign rally with 500 people in Cedar Rapids shouted out to a fifth-grade class: “Who's the worst student?”  —  Carson's question, intended as a joke in an anecdote about how he felt in elementary school …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Says He Favors Big Tariffs on Chinese Exports  —  Donald J. Trump said he would favor a 45 percent tariff on Chinese exports to the United States, proposing the idea during a wide-ranging meeting with members of the editorial board of The New York Times.
Cole Waterman / MLive.com:
Couple gets engaged at Walmart, steals sex toys at mall, police say  —  BAY CITY, MI — Shortly after a Bay City man proposed to his girlfriend at Walmart, the pair shoplifted jewelry and sex toys, police say, leading the newly engaged couple to spend their New Year's Eve in jail.
New York Times:
52 Places to Go in 2016  —  A metropolis that has it all.  —  An ancient wine region gets a stunning update.  —  The Mediterranean on a dime.  —  Visit the U.S. Virgin Island's quiet corner before big development.  —  A century of protecting America's magnificence.
Discussion: WOOD-TV, City Desk and CBS Detroit
Wall Street Journal:
Top U.S. Officials to Meet With Tech CEOs on Terror Concerns  —  Discussion to center on whether social-media firms can do more to thwart terrorists  —  Senior Obama administration officials will hold high-level discussions with Silicon Valley CEOs on Friday, an escalation of their attempts …
Discussion: The Hill and Business Insider
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Trump campaign official arrives at Oregon standoff to help militants combat ‘psyops’  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Jerry DeLemus, a Trump campaign official and the husband of New Hampshire state Rep. Susan DeLemus, has arrived in Burns, Oregon — where some of his associates …
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Planned Parenthood, In Its First Primary Endorsement, Backs Hillary Clinton  —  Planned Parenthood, which has become an ideological minefield in the 2016 presidential election, said Thursday that it would endorse Hillary Clinton — its first endorsement in a presidential primary in the nonprofit's 100-year existence.
 
 
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Bill Clinton Wanted to Accept a North Korean Speaking Gig
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Ryan: Obama gun actions ‘a distraction’
Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Pat Harrington Jr., ‘Schneider’ of TV's ‘One Day at a Time,’ dies at 86
Discussion: American Spectator and NBC News
Mario Sevilla / KRON4.com:
Antioch school teacher's aide in custody after viral video shows assault on boy
Discussion: Antioch Herald
Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
Cellphone plans are getting cheaper — thanks, Obama! (and T-Mobile)
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Can Likely Voter Models Be Improved?
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Alabama Governor's Office Sues Obama Administration Over Refugee Resettlement
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Veepstakes cloud Senate GOP hopes of preserving majority
Discussion: The Week
Marco Rubio / USA Today:
Convention can restore limited government
Associated Press:
17 miners rescued from salt mine near Ithaca
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