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8:45 PM ET, January 2, 2016

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Not A Blog:
Last Year (Winds of Winter)  —  The last post from the Lost Post, and the one you've all been waiting for.  —  Back when this was one long long long post, before Live Journal sent it to the cornfield, I mentioned opening with Dickens' line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
For Donald Trump, Lessons From a Brother's Suffering  —  One evening in the 1960s, Donald J. Trump, still in college but eager to make it big, met his older brother, Freddy, for dinner in a Queens apartment complex built by their father.  —  Things went bad fast.
Tiffany Ap / CNN:
Al-Shabaab recruit video with Trump excerpt: U.S. is racist, anti-Muslim  — Trump has called for a ban on all Muslims traveling to the U.S. and surveillance on Muslim communities  — Hillary Clinton claimed earlier that Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric was being used by ISIS to recruit fighters
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Liam Stack / New York Times:
Qaeda Affiliate Uses Video of Donald Trump for Recruiting  —  Al Qaeda's branch in Somalia released a recruitment video on Friday that criticized racism and anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States and contained footage of the Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump announcing …
New York Post:   Why America is right to think Obama's losing the War on Terror
Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Iranian Protesters Ransack Saudi Embassy After Execution of Shiite Cleric  —  Iranian protesters ransacked and set fire to part of the Saudi Embassy in Tehran on Saturday after Saudi Arabia executed an outspoken Shiite cleric who had criticized the kingdom's treatment of its Shiite minority.
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Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Global outcry after Saudi Arabia executes Shi'ite cleric, 46 others  —  Shi'ite Muslims and others around the world are outraged after Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shi'ite cleric as part of a mass execution of 47 prisoners Saturday.  —  Nimr al-Nimr was an outspoken critic …
New York Post:
Elevator hero wished woman ‘Happy New Year’ before being crushed to death  —  A 25-year-old man wished “Happy New Year” to a woman just before he saved her life by shoving her from a faulty elevator that suddenly took a plunge — but the brave act cost him his own life, witnesses said.
Discussion: BizPac Review
Morning Call:
Coroner leaves scene where missing Allentown boy's tablet may have been found  —  The search continues Saturday morning in East Allentown for Jayliel Vega Batista, a missing 5-year-old autistic boy who wandered off from a New Year's Eve party on Thursday night.  —  Of The Morning Call
Bob Owens / Bearing Arms:
RADICAL IDEA: Maybe Obama Admin Should Try Prosecuting Gun Crimes  —  Barack Obama talks tough to Press Corps cameras about “gun violence” when the mood strikes him (which it never seems to do when the perpetrators and victims are black) and cries crocodile tears about how “something needs to change.”
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Obama plans curbs on guns
John Hinderaker / Power Line:   On Guns, the Democrats Aren't Serious
Sopan Deb / CBS News:
Meet the man behind the “Trump is disgusting” skywriting  —  PASADENA — A millionaire real estate developer — who also happens to be a donor to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's presidential campaign - is behind the aerial messages at the Rose Bowl calling GOP front-runner Donald Trump “disgusting” and he says that there's more to come.
TMZ.com:
Chris Brown — Accused of Punching Woman ... Vegas Cops Investigate  —  ACCUSED OF PUNCHING WOMAN  —  Vegas Cops Investigate … Chris Brown is at the center of a battery investigation after a woman claims the singer punched her in the face.  —  The victim tells us she was at a private party …
Bob Price / Breitbart:
Texans Celebrate Open Carry with ‘Uncovering’ of Handguns at Capitol  —  AUSTIN, Texas - Nearly two hundred open carry advocates gathered on the south steps of the Texas State Capitol to celebrate “uncovering day” for gun owners who are licensed to carry.  —  The rally, sponsored …
Stephen Miller / Bloomberg Business:
Dale Bumpers, Defender of Clinton in Impeachment, Dies at 90  —  Dale Bumpers, the former U.S. senator from Arkansas who capped an almost 30-year political career by delivering the closing statement in President Bill Clinton's impeachment defense in 1999, has died.
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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Conor Dougherty / New York Times:
App Makers Reach Out to the Teenager on Mobile
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Jane Onyanga-Omara / USA Today:
Kim Jong Un says he's ready for war in New Year speech
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Report: Emails show Chicago coordination after shooting
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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

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
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