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3:25 PM ET, January 4, 2016

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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's provocative first TV ad raises the temperature of GOP race  —  NEW YORK — Donald Trump's ad begins with a shot of President Obama and Hillary Clinton.  Then comes a U.S. battleship launching a cruise-missile strike.  From there it moves swiftly through an explosive montage …
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ABC News:
Bill Clinton Brushes Off Trump Attacks  —  We're exactly four weeks away from the Iowa caucuses — and the 2016 presidential race is switching into high gear.  Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is holding a rally in Massachusetts tonight after releasing his first television ad of his 2016 campaign …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's new TV ad: Make America great by keeping the darkies out  —  As the final, frenzied push towards the first presidential voting begins, Donald Trump has unveiled a riveting new television ad that perfectly sums up Trumpism in all its xenophobic glory — and also perfectly captures …
Dara Lind / Vox:
Donald Trump's first TV ad is a greatest hits of his campaign's most controversial ideas
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Trump: Cruz copying my immigration plan
Discussion: Bloomberg Business and RedState
NBC News:
Ted Cruz Calls for Oregon Armed Protesters to ‘Stand Down’  —  Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Monday called for armed protesters who occupied a federal building in Oregon to “stand down peaceably.”  —  “Every one of us has a constitutional right to protest, to speak our minds,” Cruz told reporters in Iowa.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Marco Rubio On Oregon Standoff: “You Can't Be Lawless”  —  The Republican presidential candidate added that he thinks there is too much federal control over land in the western United States.  —  Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  Marco Rubio on Monday addressed …
Jacob Sullum / Hit & Run:
The Absurdly Harsh Penalties That Sparked the Oregon Rancher Protest  —  As Ed Krayewski noted yesterday, the armed men who are occupying an office building at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon broke off from a demonstration protesting the sentences received by two ranchers …
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Cruz urges armed protesters in Oregon to ‘stand down’ … Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Monday slammed the protesters who have taken over a federal building in rural Oregon, urging them to lay down their arms.  —  “Every one of us has a constitutional right to protest …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House calls Oregon standoff a ‘local law enforcement matter’
Discussion: Politico
Nick Gass / Politico:
GOP candidates call for end to armed standoff at Oregon refuge
Carissa Wolf / Washington Post:
Armed men, led by Bundy brothers, take over federal building in rural Oregon
Matt Adams / Fox 59:
Indianapolis bar's response to customer's complaint about ‘ruined’ New Year's Eve goes viral  —  Missing Attachment Missing Attachment  —  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Jan. 4, 2015) - A woman suffered a heart attack during a New Year's Eve celebration at a downtown Indianapolis bar …
Discussion: WTKR-TV and KFOR-TV
Jessica Diehl / Vanity Fair:
Blowhards Beware: Megyn Kelly Will Slay You Now  —  The brightest star at Fox News, Megyn Kelly is a newly minted role model for women who sees her gender as irrelevant, and a conservative champion who transcends politics with her skillful skewering of windbags of both parties, most notably Donald Trump.
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Heckler disrupts Hillary Clinton town hall over Bill Clinton's sexual history  —  DERRY, N.H. — One day before former president Bill Clinton arrives in New Hampshire to campaign for his wife, Hillary Clinton, she was confronted with questions about allegations involving his sexual history at a town hall meeting in the state on Sunday.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Chelsea Clinton to headline fundraiser at SoulCycle in Tribeca
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Elections Have Consequences  —  You have to be seriously geeky to get excited when the Internal Revenue Service releases a new batch of statistics.  Well, I'm a big geek; like quite a few other people who work on policy issues, I was eagerly awaiting the I.R.S.'s tax tables for 2013, which were released last week.
Discussion: Vox and addictinginfo.org
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:   G.O.P. Presidential Hopefuls Gird for a Month of Mud-Flinging
David P. Goldman / Asia Times:
Saudi Arabia stews in policy hell: Spengler  —  Last week's mass executions in Saudi Arabia suggest panic at the highest level of the monarchy.  The action is without precedent, even by the grim standards of Saudi repression.  In 1980 Riyadh killed 63 jihadists who had attacked the Grand Mosque of Mecca …
Discussion: Power Line
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
U.S. fears Saudi tensions with Iran could affect fight against ISIS
Discussion: USA Today, The Daily Caller, Hot Air and CNN
Antoinette Ramseur / WTKR-TV:
Woman shot to death in apartment while mother and children were inside  —  Newport News, Virginia - A 25 year-old woman was shot to death in her Heritage Trace apartment just after 1:30am, on Heritage Way off Warwick Boulevard.  —  The victim's name has not been released by police …
Discussion: WTVR-TV and New York's PIX11
Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:
Every year, I take on a personal challenge to learn new things and grow outside my work at Facebook.  My challenges in recent years have been to read two books every month, learn Mandarin and meet a new person every day.  —  My personal challenge for 2016 is to build a simple AI to run my home and help me with my work.
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Rubio: Obama has ‘deliberately weakened America’  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is accusing President Obama of intentionally weakening America at home and abroad.  —  “It's now abundantly clear: Barack Obama has deliberately weakened America,” Rubio said early Monday during a speech …
Discussion: RedState, Washington Post and Daily Kos
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
LA Renters Rat Out Airbnb Users, Get Evicted Instead  —  Via Mike Hewlett's Twitter feed comes this tale of overregulation of rental spaces in the Venice Beach area of Los Angeles.  —  The LA Times reports: … This doesn't quite rise to the level of seriousness evinced by, say …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Moe Lane
 
 
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Kevin Rector / Baltimore Sun:
Deadliest year in Baltimore history ends with 344 homicides
Discussion: The Last Refuge
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Cuomo to Lift Minimum Wage for Workers at New York Universities
Cincinnati.com:
Arlington Heights disbands its PD; Hamilton County Sheriff will patrol instead
Reuven Blau / New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Jonathan Zizmor, who ran subway ads on cosmetic surgery, retires at age 70
Discussion: Gothamist and New York Times
 Earlier Items: 
Harlan Elrich / Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: Hit & Run and Joanne Jacobs
Economist:
Of slavery and swastikas  —  The University of Missouri's efforts …
Discussion: Mediaite
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why GOP moneymen won't attack Trump
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Nick Gass / Politico:
Obama rolls out gun control strategy
Discussion: Washington Post and CNN
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
One year, two races: Inside the Republican Party's bizarre, tumultuous 2015
NEWS.com.au:
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Mother Jones:
When He Was 16, This Man Threw One Punch—and Went to Jail for Life
New York Post:
Here's the bottom line of the Hillary e-mail dump
Discussion: Power Line