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11:30 AM ET, December 15, 2015

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Veronica Rocha / Los Angeles Times:
All LAUSD schools closed after bomb threat called in to board member, police say  —  All Los Angeles Unified School District campuses were closed Tuesday morning after a bomb threat was called in to a board member, police said.  —  It is unclear when the threat was made and to which school board member …
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Tracybloomktla / KTLA:
LAUSD Closes All Campuses Amid ‘Credible Threat’ to ‘Many Schools’  —  All Los Angeles Unified School District schools were closed Tuesday until further notice after LAUSD received a “credible threat,” according to school district officials and police.  —  LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines addressed …
Eliza Collins / Politico:
Trump rises, Carson collapses in Post/ABC poll  —  Donald Trump has hit his highest level of support yet in a new Washington Post/ABC News poll of registered Republicans out Tuesday: 38 percent.  —  Despite the widespread blowback over Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. …
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
How Trump Could Win, and Why He Probably Won't  —  Despite controversy after controversy, Donald Trump still dominates the polls.  With his seemingly impervious lead, it is tempting to declare that he is a clear front-runner for the nomination.  —  He has, after all, defied all expectations …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
In face of criticism, Trump surges to his biggest lead over the GOP field  —  Following his proposal to temporarily bar Muslims from entering the country, Donald Trump has increased his lead in the Republican primary to its largest margin yet, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
5 things to watch in tonight's debate
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Trump Audience Member Yells Nazi Salute as Protester Removed From Las Vegas Rally  —  Some Donald Trump supporters attending the Republican presidential candidate's rally in Las Vegas on the eve of the next GOP debate treated protesters with unusual hatred Monday night.
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Trump Campaign Rally Erupts In Chaos And Ugly Confrontation  —  LAS VEGAS — Donald Trump's campaign rally had only been underway for a few minutes Monday night when the first angry eruption occurred.  —  The Republican frontrunner had invited a supporter up to the stage to recount how his son was killed by an undocumented immigrant.
Discussion: Shakesville
Lauren French / Politico:
Ryan: Budget package a true compromise  —  Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that negotiators will unveil their trillion-dollar government spending bill Tuesday.  —  The package will be finalized just one day before the deadline to keep the government funded, ensuring that Congress will need …
Discussion: Fox News Insider
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Kathleen Miller / Bloomberg Business:
Oil Export Plan Last Obstacle to U.S. Spending Bill, Reid Says
Discussion: Politico
Burgess Everett / Politico:   McConnell vows ambitious agenda in treacherous 2016
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
First Truth, Now Chappaquiddick  —  Some time ago-several decades, actually-a group of us at my law firm formed a Chappaquiddick Book Club.  We read three or four books on the fatal car accident that should have ended Ted Kennedy's public career.  The facts are much worse than most people realize …
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Emily Summars / Enid News & Eagle:
Man drives pickup into Alva hotel lobby  —  ALVA, Okla. — A Texas man accused of driving his pickup into the lobby of an Alva hotel is facing felony charges in the incident.  —  John Parsley, 62, of Gonzales, Texas, faces two felony counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon …
Discussion: myfox8.com, Towleroad and WSLS-TV
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M. Alex Johnson / NBC News:
Disgruntled Guest Rams Truck Into Oklahoma Hotel Desk, Just Missing Two Women
Discussion: Boing Boing
Rush Limbaugh:
Cruz Forces Trump Blunders  —  RUSH: On this program, ladies and gentlemen, we have praised repeatedly the way Ted Cruz has been behaving in this campaign.  We have praised his strategy.  We have recognized what he's doing and have praised it, called it out, and this program has been front …
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Max Boot / Commentary Magazine:   Ted Cruz: The Anti-Reagan
James Surowiecki / New Yorker:
In Defense of Philanthrocapitalism  —  When Mark Zuckerberg, the C.E.O. of Facebook, announced that he would be donating ninety-nine per cent of his Facebook stock to a new nonprofit organization, he got his share of positive headlines.  But the move was also dismissed as a tax-avoidance scheme …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Rick Noack / Washington Post:
Multiculturalism is a sham, says Angela Merkel  —  German Chancellor Angela Merkel's refugee policy has attracted praise from all over the world.  Time magazine and the Financial Times newspaper recently named her Person of the Year, and delegates applauded her for so long at her party's convention on Monday that she had to stop them.
Discussion: Truth Revolt
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Inside the 2016 black market for donor emails  —  Scott Walker has begun selling access to his email list to pay off his leftover presidential debt, renting out the email addresses of hundreds of thousands of supporters to former rivals, including Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Ted Cruz and Ben Carson.
Discussion: Political Wire
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Terrorism Fears Drag Down Obama's Support in New Poll  —  The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., have vaulted terrorism and national security to become the American public's top concern, and they've helped drive President Barack Obama's job rating to 43 percent …
Politico:
Huckabee: Top aide's departure doesn't mean campaign in trouble  —  Mike Huckabee says losing his top spokeswoman isn't a sign of things to come and that he's still all in on the 2016 campaign.  —  Earlier Monday, Huckabee's communications chief, Alice Stewart, confirmed to POLITICO that she was …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:   Carson, Huckabee, Fiorina earned speaking fees during campaign
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Liberal Hispanic activists assail Rubio, Cruz as ‘traitors’ to their culture  —  Liberal Hispanic groups have launched a new campaign designed to turn Latino voters against the two Cuban-American Republicans who have risen to the top tier of the GOP presidential field …
Discussion: Instapundit
Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
The Cruz Imposture  —  The Texas senator's foreign policy is closer to Obama's than he lets on.  —  Not everything in Ted Cruz's foreign policy speech on Thursday at the Heritage Foundation was awful.  There was enough intellectual heft in there to suggest that the senator from Texas …
Daily Mail:
Syrian refugees in Norway had execution images on mobile phones  —  Hundreds of asylum-seekers entering Norway were discovered to have images of ‘executions’ and ‘severed heads’ on their mobile phones.  —  The revelation comes amid heightened fears that ISIS is exploiting the migrant crisis …
Dusty Lane / Q13 FOX News:
Pasco man gets Amber Alert on his phone just as he's parking next to car in question  —  Missing Attachment Missing Attachment Missing Attachment  —  PASCO - Can you even imagine?  —  A Pasco man was pulling into a Wendy's parking lot Monday night when he got an Amber Alert on his phone.
Discussion: KFOR-TV and New York's PIX11
Steve Schmadeke / Chicago Tribune:
Judge acquits Chicago police commander of abuse charge despite DNA evidence  —  Glenn Evans, one of the Chicago Police Department's 22 district commanders, is accused of chasing a suspect, Rickey Williams, into a building, shoving the barrel of his service weapon “deep down” his throat …
 
 
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Kate Taylor / New York Times:
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
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