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7:45 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.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Rick Santorum: Trump Wasn't In ISIS Propaganda, I Was
Discussion: Washington Post
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump: ‘Sexist’ Bill Clinton won't help Hillary
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:   Colbert: Trump is playing my old character better than I could
Amanda Holpuch / Guardian:   Bernie Sanders: I can win the backing of Donald Trump supporters
Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
No charges for Cleveland police officers in shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice  —  After more than a year of investigation, a Cleveland grand jury declined to bring charges against either of the two police officers involved in the November 2014 shooting of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was playing with a toy weapon in a park.
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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.
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Cleveland Officer Will Not Face Charges in Tamir Rice Shooting Death
Discussion: Hot Air and Balloon Juice
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Bush challenges Trump to one-on-one debate  —  Jeb Bush on Monday challenged Republican front-runner Donald Trump to a one-on-one debate.  —  Speaking to a gathering at the Forum Club in Palm Beach, Fla., Bush was asked by the moderator what he would say to Trump if he were to walk in the room at that moment.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Benjy Sarlin / MSNBC:
2015: The year everyone was wrong about the GOP race
Candace Smith / ABC News:
Jeb Bush Gives a Selfie Lesson
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.
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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Brandon Griggs / CNN:
Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon, famed hoops jester, dies at 83
Daily Mail:
Sixty thousand New Yorkers sign up for ‘tiny house’ development: 265 square foot apartments with retractable beds attract huge wave of interest... but would you pay up to $3,000 a month for this?  —  More than 60,000 people have applied to live in new apartments the size of garages in Manhattan.
Discussion: Althouse
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
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump: Union Leader publisher a ‘lowlife’  —  Donald Trump took aim at his latest target in the media world — this time, Joe McQuaid, publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader.  —  “He's a real lowlife, there's no question about it,” Trump said on New Hampshire television station WMUR …
Discussion: Political Wire
Matt Friedman / Politico:
Public document complicates Christie's pro-life conversion story  —  The story of how Gov. Chris Christie converted from being pro-choice to pro-life 20 years ago is touching and deeply personal, and he tells it frequently at town hall meetings.  —  It goes like this: In 1995 …
Discussion: alan.com, Drudge Retort and Daily Kos
Eliza Collins / Politico:
State Dept. counts ‘bringing peace’ to Syria as a 2015 win  —  The State Department is counting “bringing peace” to Syria as one of its wins in 2015.  —  A boastful recap of the State Department's accomplishments, written by spokesman John Kirby, includes the bold subheadline of “Bringing Peace …
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 …
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 …
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
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: Jezebel and Mediaite
 
 
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Obama's Economic Performance Is Even Better Than It Looks
CNN:
Creature from the deep surfaces in Japanese harbor
Discussion: Washington Post and Mashable
Michael Scott Davidson / Watchdog Sarasota:
Scarred: ‘Come get UR bite’
Discussion: Raw Story and Hit & Run
Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
Puerto Rico police officer shoots and kills three fellow officers
Reuters:
Special Report: Pentagon thwarts Obama's effort to close Guantanamo
Discussion: alan.com and Common Dreams
Reed Tucker / New York Post:
Step inside the mansion built for Jesus' return
Discussion: alan.com, Raw Story and Telegraph
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Allysia Finley / Wall Street Journal:
Go Live Elsewhere, We're Cutting Carbon Here
Katie Kieffer / Townhall.com:
Don't Let Hillary Draft Your Daughter
Discussion: Red Alert Politics
Nora Kelly / The Atlantic:
Disappearing Presidential Candidates
Discussion: American Prospect
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
David Spade: Obamas too ‘thirsty’ for attention
Joel Kotkin / Orange County Register:
Seeing the West as worse
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Enduring Popularity of Fraud
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Republicans split on attacking climate science
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