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10:30 AM ET, December 16, 2014

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New York Times:
Pakistani Taliban Attack on Peshawar School Leaves 145 Dead  —  Aftermath of School Attack in Pakistan Aftermath of School Attack in Pakistan  —  The scene on Tuesday in Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan after more than 100 people were killed in a Taliban attack on a school.  —  Video by Quynhanh Do on
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BBC:
Pakistan Taliban ‘kill 100’ in assault on Peshawar school  —  At least 100 people, mostly children, have been killed in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say.  —  Five or six militants wearing security uniforms entered the school, officials said.
Daily Mail:
'Our classmates were shot in front of us... I felt bullets flying past my head': Boy aged 10 recounts horror of seeing friends gunned down in Pakistani school slaughter as Taliban fighters massacred more than 100 children  —  A 10-year-old boy caught up in the Peshawar school massacre that saw …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Jibran Ahmad / Reuters:
Over 120 Pakistanis, mostly children, killed in Taliban high school attack  —  (Reuters) - At least 126 people, most of them children, were killed on Tuesday when Taliban gunmen stormed a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, taking hundreds of students hostage in the bloodiest insurgent attack in the country in years.
Discussion: Gawker and Mediaite
CNN:
At least four children dead as Taliban storm Pakistan school
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and FOX News Radio
Saad Khan / Agence France-Presse:
Carnage as Taliban storm Pakistan school, kill 130
Discussion: TIME, Taylor Marsh and Slantpoint
Mushtaq Yusufzai / NBC News:
Kids Shot ‘One by One’: More Than 100 Dead in School Attack
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Politico:
Ted Cruz reignites GOP civil war  —  Republican senators pounded Ted Cruz over the weekend, lashing him for his procedural tactics and ultimately voting in large numbers against his immigration gambit.  —  Now, Cruz's allies off Capitol Hill are looking for revenge.  —  Story Continued Below
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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Jim Malewitz / Politico:
Ted Cruz trolled over surgeon general vote  —  The Senate's confirmation of Vivek Murthy to surgeon general on Monday gave Democrats a chance to troll GOP firebrand Ted Cruz on twitter.  —  Implying the Republican senator paved the way for a vote after over 500 days without a surgeon general …
Discussion: Hot Air
Charles Hoskinson / Washington Examiner:
Unqualified nominees get their jobs —  thanks, Harry  —  On Monday night, the Senate confirmed Vivek Murthy as U.S. Surgeon General.  His was just one of two dozen nominations that Republicans had hoped to avoid confirming by running out the clock on Congress's lame duck session.
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Weekly Standard
Politico:
Vivek Murthy confirmed as surgeon general
Discussion: Hot Air
The Hill:   Manchin sides with NRA against Obama's surgeon general nominee
Ken Kurson / The New York Observer:
EXCLUSIVE: New York Mag's Boy Genius Investor Made It All Up  —  In an exclusive Observer interview, Mohammed Islam, said to have investment returns of $72 million as a hs senior, admits he invented the whole story  —  Damir Tulemaganbetov and Mohammed Islam (r) in the office of 5WPR …
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Trevor Eischen / Politico:
David Brooks: Elizabeth Warren has chance of being nominated  —  New York Times columnist David Brooks says Elizabeth Warren has a “significant and growing chance of being nominated” as the Democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential election.  —  In an op-ed titled “Warren Can Win,” …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Bill Clinton: Eric Garner 'didn't deserve to die'
Discussion: Washington Times
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Get Ready for the Obama Boomlet
Discussion: Hot Air
John Lewis / The Atlantic Online:
Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and the ‘Other America’
Jeb Bush / Facebook:
A Note from Jeb Bush  —  Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!  —  Like many of you, our family was blessed with the opportunity to gather together over the recent Thanksgiving holiday.  —  Columba and I are so proud of the wonderful adults our children have become, and we loved spending time with our three precious grandchildren.
Roger Simon / Politico:
(Burp) Here comes Mitt!  —  Are you ready for Romney in 2016?  —  Mitt Romney has become the acid reflux candidate: He just keeps coming back up.  —  There has been poll after poll, story after story and now, over the weekend, a “Ready for Romney” website emerged that may or may not be serious.
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Iowa GOP chairman: Straw poll likely to survive  —  The head of the Hawkeye State's GOP says he believes the Iowa Straw Poll has enough support to take place next summer, despite disdain from establishment Republicans and Gov. Terry Branstad's continued concerns about the event, according to news reports.
Plain Dealer:
Cleveland Browns receiver Andrew Hawkins delivers emotional response to Cleveland police union's reaction to ‘Justice for Tamir Rice’ shirt  —  Adam Ferrise, Northeast Ohio Media Group By Adam Ferrise, Northeast Ohio Media Group  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland Browns wide receiver Andrew Hawkins defended …
Michael Kinsley / Vanity Fair:
The Irony and the Ecstasy  —  Every serious G.O.P. presidential aspirant invokes the glorious era of Ronald Reagan, to which the country must return.  Ignore the fact that, for the likes of Paul Ryan and Rand Paul, Reagan's actual record—from increased bureaucracy to higher deficits—should be seen as a complete failure.
Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
“Witness 40”: Exposing A Fraud In Ferguson  —  TSG probe unmasks grand jury witness who spun fabricated tale  —  The grand jury witness who testified that she saw Michael Brown pummel a cop before charging at him “like a football player, head down,” is a troubled, bipolar Missouri woman …
Discussion: Raw Story
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
David Garth, 84, Dies; Consultant Was an Innovator of Political TV Ads  —  David Garth, a pugnacious and indefatigable pioneer of the political commercial, who helped elect governors, senators and four New York City mayors, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan.  He was 84.
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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
The world according to Garth
Discussion: ABC News
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
John Yoo: If the Torture Report Is True, CIA Officers Are at Legal Risk  —  A surprising admission by an attorney who was instrumental in enabling the Bush Administration's brutal interrogation practices  —  The debate over the CIA interrogation program pits critics who insist illegal torture took place …
Paul Kendrick / Talking Points Memo:
C'mon, Stop Blaming Obama For Failing To Cure America Of Racism  —  A few days ago in a Fox News segment called “Post-Racial President Keeps Dividing America,” Judge Jeanine said “Americans, once hopeful that after electing the first African-American president the issue of race would be a thing of the past …
Discussion: Raw Story
Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Govt urges dismissal of lawsuit over immigration  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is urging dismissal of a lawsuit that would dismantle the president's immigration program, an initiative designed to spare nearly 5 million people in the U.S. illegally from deportation.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
That big CIA ‘torture’ report?  Americans just shrugged.  —  A new poll from the Pew Research Center is the first to gauge reactions to last week's big CIA report on “enhanced interrogation techniques” — what agency critics call torture.  —  And the reaction is pretty muted.
 
 
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