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Obama Says We're Hitting ISIS Hard, Trump Is So Totally Healthy, It's Amazing, First Freddie Gray Trial Concludes: P.M. Links

Scott Shackford | 12.14.2015 4:30 PM


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  • Even healthier than Teddy Roosevelt?
    Credit: Gage Skidmore / photo on flickr

    President Barack Obama today said the United States and its allies are hitting ISIS "harder than ever" and moving forward with their strategies.

  • Donald Trump has a letter from his doctor declaring that he'd be the "healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency."
  • The trial of the first (of six) police officers charged for a role in the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore concluded today.
  • It's the third anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which means more calls for gun control.
  • The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 today that federal arbitration regulations trump California's laws, meaning lawyers can't file a class-action lawsuit over DirecTV termination fees.
  • Also, the Supreme Court blocked an Alabama court from denying the parental rights of a lesbian woman who was granted adoption in Georgia of her ex-partner's children.
  • A Vox contributor wants to know why humans don't do more to protect mother nature from … um … itself.

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Scott Shackford is a policy research editor at Reason Foundation.