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The Federalist:
Bre Payton, Beloved Staff Writer At The Federalist, Has Passed Away — Bre Payton, our beloved staff writer for The Federalist, passed away on Friday in San Diego, California following a sudden illness. — Bre was born in California on June 8, 1992, to George and Cindy Payton.
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Bre's Story — Around 8:30 this morning, December 27th, Bre's friend went into her room and found her unresponsive and barely breathing. She immediately called 911 and Bre was taken to the hospital where she was admitted to the ICU, sedated & intubated, and doctors began working up a diagnosis.
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Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Bre Payton, Staff Writer for The Federalist, Dies at 26
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Honolulu Star-Advertiser, The Gateway Pundit, Townhall and Mediaite
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
May the wonderful Bre Payton rest in peace
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The Federalist
The Daily Beast:
Tucker Carlson's Show Sheds Advertisers After Immigration Comments: Report — Tucker Carlson's nightly show on Fox News has been hemorrhaging advertisers since the conservative host said that immigration makes the United States “poorer and dirtier and more divided” on Dec. 13, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
A Lighter Ad Load Is The New Normal for Tucker Carlson's Fox News Show — ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ has averaged about 28 ads per night since his comments about immigration, including a larger number of “house” promotions. — Tucker Carlson Tonight has settled into a new advertising pattern since …
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Congress ends with Trump's fight for wall, shutdown and GOP leaders hard to find — Republicans are ending the 115th Congress in an all-too-familiar spot: standing on the sidelines while President Trump picks a fight they wanted to avoid as he ignores what they consider major conservative accomplishments.
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
'We're in this for the long haul': Both sides brace for a lengthy shutdown
Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
Nancy Pelosi Is Spending Shutdown at Hawaii Resort
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USA Today, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, Townhall, Conservative News Today and The Gateway Pundit
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
The Thinnest Skins In Media In 2018 — What follows is a list of our favorite media piss-babies and corncobs of the past year. A quick note to the piss-babies and corncobs themselves: Any communication with me regarding this post will be considered on the record.
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Instapundit
Alan Blinder / New York Times:
North Carolina Elections Board Dissolves, Adding New Chaos in House Race — The North Carolina state elections board dissolved on Friday under a court order, two weeks before its much-anticipated hearing to consider evidence of possible absentee ballot fraud in the disputed November election for the Ninth District's seat in Congress.
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Axios, Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why the Bernie Movement Must Crush Beto O'Rourke — The first skirmish of the 2020 Democratic primary, a wave of attacks on Beto O'Rourke by supporters of Bernie Sanders, took almost everybody by surprise. On the outside, it looks like one of those inscrutable, personality-driven online spats that characterize the Twitter era.
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David M. Drucker / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Got Lucky”: Why G.O.P. Insiders Fear Beto and Biden Over Warren and Sanders
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Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Week, more at Mediagazer »
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
Margot Kidder Played Every Character, No Matter How Small, With a Vivid Inner Life … Her fierce portrayals were informed — if not powered — by personal upheaval. — B. 1948 — MARGOT KIDDER'S ONLY child, Maggie McGuane, wasn't sure she wanted to talk with me.
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
The Trump team just gave weird, insulting advice to furloughed federal workers who can't make rent — The Trump Administration just offered up bizarre and insulting advice for furloughed federal workers, proposing that they beg their landlords to exchange manual labor instead of rent …
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CNBC, IJR, Boing Boing and The New Civil Rights Movement
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Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost:
Shutdown Leaves Government Contractors Without Work And Likely No Back Pay
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ThinkProgress, Daily Kos and Splinter
CNN:
Federal employees prepare for a long shutdown
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Raw Story, Hill Reporter, Bloomberg and The Daily Beast
Jeremy Herb / CNN:
House Republicans wrap their investigation into FBI's handling of Clinton and Russia probes — (CNN)The Republican leaders of two House committees say their investigation into the FBI's handling of Hillary Clinton's email server and its probe of alleged coordination between the Trump campaign …
Juliet Linderman / Associated Press:
Shutdown could block federal aid to farmers hit by trade war — WASHINGTON (AP) — The end of 2018 seemed to signal good things to come for America's farmers. Fresh off the passage of the farm bill, which reauthorized agriculture, conservation and safety net programs …
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New York Times, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, Joe.My.God. and Daily Kos
BuzzFeed News:
These Are 50 Of The Biggest Fake News Hits On Facebook In 2018 — After spending two years launching third-party fact-checking programs, rolling out News Feed updates, and investing in other anti-misinformation initiatives, Facebook is still the home of viral fake news.
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Boing Boing, more at Mediagazer »
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen? Child Soldiers from Darfur — KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family's cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
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Peter Gosselin / ProPublica:
If You're Over 50, Chances Are the Decision to Leave a Job Won't be Yours — Tom Steckel hunched over a laptop in the overheated basement of the state Capitol building in Pierre, South Dakota, early last week, trying to figure out how a newly awarded benefit claims contract will make it easier for him do his job.
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Urban Institute
Matthew Rozsa / Salon:
Rudy Giuliani now wants Robert Mueller to be investigated — Rudy Giuliani is now calling for special counsel Robert Mueller to be investigated for “destruction of evidence” — Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who has worked as President Donald Trump's lawyer since April …
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The Hill
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
France faces lawsuit for rescinding harsh carbon tax — Four NGOs, including Oxfam and Greenpeace, have initiated legal proceedings against the French government, claiming that France has defaulted on its environmental obligations by eliminating, under intense pressure from “Yellow Vests,” the stiff carbon tax it had imposed.
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The Daily Caller and Watts Up With That?
John Stanton / BuzzFeed News:
Immigration Advocates Are Alarmed By The Rising Numbers of Asylum-Seekers Crossing The Arizona Border — Hundreds of people from Central America have begun turning up in a remote stretch of desert between Yuma and Ajo, Arizona, in an apparent response to Trump administration policies …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller appears to respond early in subpoena fight at Supreme Court — Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office appears to have responded to a foreign company's bid to get the Supreme Court to step into a fight over a grand jury subpoena served on the firm. — Most details of the case …
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Raw Story
Pelosi / Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Names Douglas N. Letter New General Counsel of the House — San Francisco — Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi announced today that she will appoint Douglas N. Letter to be the new General Counsel of the House of Representatives. — Until February 2018, Letter served as the Director …
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Talking Points Memo, Law & Crime and The Last Refuge
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Pompeo heading to Brazil for inauguration of far-right president — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will head a U.S. delegation to Brazil seeking to foster closer ties with the far-right incoming president, Jair Bolsonaro, and discuss ways to counter the Venezuelan government.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Hasn't Ordered Afghan Troop Withdrawal, White House Says — Official last week said 7,000 U.S. troops were coming home — Latest Pentagon report describes conflict as at ‘an impasse’ — Donald Trump hasn't ordered the Pentagon to withdraw troops from Afghanistan …
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Political Wire, Breitbart and Axios
Joyce White Vance / Slate:
The Justice Department's Integrity Is at Stake — I worked at the Justice Department for 25 years, most of them as a line prosecutor. For the last seven and a half of those, I served as the U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Alabama. I didn't work in the Justice Department's headquarters building …
Sun-Sentinel:
UNPREPARED AND OVERWHELMED — Failures by the Broward County Sheriff's Office and school district cost children their lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. — A gunman with an AR-15 fired the bullets, but a series of blunders, bad policies, sketchy training and poor leadership helped him succeed.
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