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Clinton Versus Christie, Deportations Dropped in 2013, Florida Bypasses New York in Population: P.M. Links

Scott Shackford | 12.27.2013 4:30 PM


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    Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie are currently neck-and-neck in an irrelevant poll for the presidential race in 2016 I should feel guilty for even referencing, but I don't.

  • The ACLU is planning to appeal today's ruling that the National Security Agency's bulk phone metadata collection is legal.
  • Today the Connecticut Police is releasing thousands of pages of redacted documents related to their investigation of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.
  • There was a 10 percent decrease in deportations in 2013, the first time the number has dropped since Barack Obama was elected president.
  • Florida is fixing to surpass New York in population, if it hasn't already, making it the third most-populous state.
  • A professor in Iowa faked creating an AIDS vaccine in order get millions in federal grants.
  • Iran's nuclear chief says they're still working on developing new centrifuges for uranium enrichment.

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Scott Shackford is a policy research editor at Reason Foundation.