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4:35 PM ET, December 28, 2015

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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Clinton Most Admired Woman for Record 20th Time  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — Americans again name Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama the woman and man living anywhere in the world they admire most.  Both win by wide margins over the next-closest finishers, Malala Yousafzai for women and Pope Francis and Donald Trump for men.
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Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
Trump plots big TV ad blitz that could change campaign landscape  —  When Donald Trump and his team were planning his presidential campaign, they drew up a budget of $25 million for television advertising in the third quarter of this year.  —  They wound up spending zero for the rest of 2015.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump ties with Pope Francis in U.S. poll for second most-admired man in the world  —  Americans named Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama as their most admired woman and man in the world in 2015, with Donald Trump earning the same share of admiration as Pope Francis …
CBS News:
Why Sanders thinks he can win Trump's supporters  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, faulted Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for converting voters' legitimate concerns into hatred and said he can win over some of those voters with his message about improving the economy.
Benjy Sarlin / MSNBC:
2015: The year everyone was wrong about the GOP race  —  The one consistently correct prediction about the Republican primaries this year was that your best guess as to what happens next was probably wrong.  —  While the Democratic race largely fell into line with early expectations …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Bush challenges Trump to one-on-one debate
Discussion: Daily Kos
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump: ‘Sexist’ Bill Clinton won't help Hillary
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Rick Santorum: Trump Wasn't In ISIS Propaganda, I Was
Discussion: Washington Post
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:   Colbert: Trump is playing my old character better than I could
David McCabe / The Hill:
DNC chairwoman: Trump represents ‘new low’ in GOP presidential politics
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and New York Times
Amanda Holpuch / Guardian:
Bernie Sanders: I can win the backing of Donald Trump supporters
Discussion: alan.com
Steven Ginsberg / Washington Post:
Ben Carson on the brink: ‘A process like this is pretty brutal’  —  Two days before Christmas, with his presidential campaign fading fast, Ben Carson sought to take control at his manse in the countryside west of Baltimore.  —  A video crew was in the front living room preparing to film a campaign ad.
Bruce Weber / New York Times:
Meadowlark Lemon, Harlem Globetrotters' Dazzling Court Jester, Dies at 83  —  Meadowlark Lemon, whose halfcourt hook shots, no-look behind-the-back passes and vivid clowning were marquee features of the feel-good traveling basketball show known as the Harlem Globetrotters for nearly a quarter-century …
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Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast — Samuel L. Jackson ('The Hateful Eight')  —  The 67-year-old, whose films have grossed more than any other actor's in history, opens up about reuniting with Quentin Tarantino and Spike Lee, Oscars “bulls**t,” his stutter, the N-word, cops and the “hate” of his golfing buddy Donald Trump.
Office of Inadequate Security:
191 million voters' personal info exposed by misconfigured database  —  A misconfigured database leaking the personal information of over 191 million voters was reported to DataBreaches.net by researcher Chris Vickery.  This report includes some of the results of an investigation by Vickery …
Discussion: Forbes, Politico, Gizmodo and Engadget
Reuters:
Special Report: Pentagon thwarts Obama's effort to close Guantanamo  —  In September, U.S. State Department officials invited a foreign delegation to the Guantanamo Bay detention center to persuade the group to take detainee Tariq Ba Odah to their country.  If they succeeded …
Discussion: alan.com and Common Dreams
Christina Carrega-Woodby / New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Queens student claims cops wrongfully arrested, beat him for walking dog without leash  —  A 25-year-old college student says he was wrongfully arrested and beaten by Queens cops for walking his puppy outside his home without a leash.  —  Nicholson Gregoire stepped outside …
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Huckabee: I Never Defended Or Supported Josh Duggar  —  Huckabee in May: “Josh's actions when he was an underage teen are as he described them himself, ‘inexcusable,’ but that doesn't mean ‘unforgivable.’”  —  Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee …
Discussion: Mediaite
Clark Collis / EW.com:
THIS WEEK'S COVER: BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH CASTS A SPELL AS DOCTOR STRANGE IN EW'S FIRST LOOK ISSUE  —  This week's First Look issue of Entertainment Weekly offers a very early peek at Benedict Cumberbatch in Marvel's new superhero film, Doctor Strange (out Nov. 4).  How early?
Discussion: ABC News, Mashable, Gizmodo and Deadline
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Grand Jury Declines to Indict Officers in Tamir Rice Case, Prosecutor Says  —  An Ohio Grand Jury has declined to indict two police officers in the death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was shot dead by a Cleveland police officer last year, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty said today.
George Soros / Guardian:
The terrorists and demagogues want us to be scared.  We mustn't give in  —  It's not easy to resist the threats and the hysteria that surround us, but we must do, as fear is the greatest danger to open society  —  pen societies are always endangered.  This is especially true of America …
Discussion: Business Insider and Politico
Bill Zeeble / Around the Nation : NPR:
Tornado Victims In North Texas Recall Train Sound As They Sought Shelter  —  At least 11 people died when tornadoes plowed through North Texas on the night after Christmas.  At least eight of them were killed when a tornado picked their vehicles off a highway east of Dallas.
Reed Tucker / New York Post:
Step inside the mansion built for Jesus' return  —  Even Jesus has been priced out of Manhattan.  —  In Riverdale, The Bronx, on the second highest peak in all five boroughs, sits a mansion fit for a king — and we don't mean LeBron James.  —  The house, variously known as Chapel Farm …
Discussion: alan.com, Raw Story and Telegraph
Nora Kelly / The Atlantic:
Disappearing Presidential Candidates  —  Hey, remember Scott Walker?  That corn-fed, Kohls-shopping, union-busting, unintimidated governor of a blue state who had a real shot at next July's nominating convention?  —  He's probably sitting in his Madison, Wisconsin, office right now reading …
Discussion: American Prospect
 
 
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Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News:
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New riot ideology: Results through coercion
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

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