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10:15 AM ET, December 17, 2015

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Bloomberg.com:
Shkreli, CEO Reviled for Drug Price Gouging, Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges  —  32-year-old suspected of plundering Retrophin to pay debts
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Justin Hunte / HipHopDX:
Martin Shkreli Plans To Bail-Out Bobby Shmurda
Discussion: Bloomberg Business and TMZ.com
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Criminal Charges to Be Brought Against Enrique Marquez, Ex-Neighbor of San Bernardino Shooters  —  Federal prosecutors have decided to bring criminal charges against the friend and former neighbor of one of the San Bernardino shooters.  —  Several federal law enforcement officials tell NBC News …
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Strike Two For Pair of New York Times Reporters  —  Today, FBI director James Comey said that the San Bernardino shooters never talked openly about violent jihadism on social media: “So far, in this investigation we have found no evidence of posting on social media by either of them at that period …
Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:
Congress's $12 billion giveaway to health insurers  —  As Congress rushes to pass an omnibus tax/spending bill for the coming year, it's concocting a special tax break for health-insurance companies.  —  And it amounts to a back-door bailout.  —  Until this week, insurance-company lobbyists …
Discussion: Newsalert
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House praises sweeping omnibus, tax deal  —  The White House gave a thumbs-up on Wednesday to a sweeping year-end deal on taxes and government funding.  —  “We feel good about the outcome, primarily because we got a compromise budget agreement,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama meets with Bloomberg to talk guns
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Budget Deal Raises Spending, and the Deficit, Through Tax Breaks
Discussion: Washington Post
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Funding deal hits backlash over increase in foreign worker visas  —  The $1.1 trillion omnibus bill includes language that would dramatically increase the number of visas available for foreign workers, setting off alarm bells among conservatives and labor unions.
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon
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Jim Newell / Slate:
The Paul Ryan Compromise
Discussion: The Week
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Omnibus Spending Bill Sells Out American Workers
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Defense Secretary Conducted Some Official Business on a Personal Email Account  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter relied on a personal email account to conduct a portion of his government business during his first months at the Pentagon, according to White House …
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Adelson son-in-law orchestrated family's purchase of Las Vegas Review-Journal  —  The son-in-law of billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson arranged the $140 million purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Adelson's behalf, sources confirmed Wednesday.  —  Patrick Dumont …
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fiorina Stands by Claim Ex-General Keane Was Pushed Out by Obama (Which Keane Refuted)
Discussion: alan.com
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Lessons From the Mistrial in the Freddie Gray Case … The trial of officers charged with killing Freddie Gray has moved quickly all along: The prosecutor brought charges with nearly unprecedented speed, within two weeks of Gray's death.  And now the first trial has ended just as quickly …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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Baltimore Sun:
Mistrial declared in trial of Officer William Porter in death of Freddie Gray
Dayna Evans / New York Magazine:
Millionaire Cleared of Rape Charge After Claiming He Tripped and His Penis Fell Into Teen  —  That's not how these things work.  —  37.8k  —  32.7k  —  5k  —  Pin It  —  Ehsan Abdulaziz, a Saudi millionaire property developer, was cleared of rape charges in London this week …
Discussion: Independent Journal
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Daily Mail:
Saudi millionaire cleared of raping teenager after telling court he may have accidentally …
Judicial Watch:
Team led by Middle Eastern Woman Caught Surveilling U.S. Facility on Mexican Border  —  A Middle Eastern woman was caught surveilling a U.S. port of entry on the Mexican border holding a sketchbook with Arabic writing and drawings of the facility and its security system, federal law enforcement sources tell Judicial Watch.
MSNBC:
Exclusive: Homeland Security rejected plan to vet visa applicants' social media  —  Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security considered a specific policy to strengthen security screenings for foreign visa applicants' social media accounts, but the proposal was ultimately rejected …
Fox News:
Yale fail: Ivy leaguers sign ‘petition’ to repeal First Amendment  —  Trigger warning!  This story and video may be unsuitable viewing for the “safe space” crowd.  —  Looking to understand just how controversial the debate over free speech on our college campuses really is …
Ingrid Burrington / The Atlantic:
The Environmental Toll of a Netflix Binge  —  My favorite part of highways in the American midwest are the wind turbines.  Not so much the massive wind turbines on the horizon, begging for a contemporary Don Quixote to come at them, but the bits and pieces of wind turbines …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
The Paris agreement is another false ‘turning point’ on the climate  —  History, on the “right side” of which Barack Obama endeavors to keep us, has a sense of whimsy.  Proof of which is something happening this week: Britain's last deep-pit coal mine is closing, a small event pertinent to an enormous event …
Ethan Barton / The Daily Caller:
EPA Awards $542M To Colleges That Watchdog Never Audits  —  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials gave $542 million to colleges and universities in grants to study everything from pollution caused by backyard grilling to hotel shower use, but those funds have never been audited by a government watchdog.
Discussion: Instapundit
Seth Rosenberg / Facebook:
Introducing Transportation on Messenger  —  Messenger is your place to communicate seamlessly with everyone - from making plans with friends, sharing pictures and moments with your loved ones, sending money, and talking to your favorite businesses about a purchase or getting updates on your item's delivery.
Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
How Democrats Could Win the White House Again in 2016-Report  —  To win the presidency in 2016, Democrats must climb a steep hill: persuade Americans to keep them in power for a third straight term at a time of voter frustration at the status, heightened fear of terrorism and low approval ratings for outgoing President Barack Obama.
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Will GOP candidates' strikingly hawkish stances alienate swing voters?
Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
The U.N. Sent 3 Foreign Women To The U.S. To Assess Gender Equality. They Were Horrified.
Lisa Cox / Sydney Morning Herald:
Julie Bishop defends ASIO chief Duncan Lewis over calls schooling Coalition MPs
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
“Blow-Me.org” Congressman: Clinton “An Idiot” And “A Liar” For Use Of Private Email Server
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