Bre Payton, a promising journalist and conservative commentator, dies at 26 after succumbing to swine flu infection
Bre Payton was found unconscious and barely breathing on Thursday morning before she was rushed to a hospital in San Diego, California
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A promising political journalist, 26, who was placed into a medically-induced coma after she was found unconscious and barely breathing at her apartment in Southern California, has died.
On Thursday morning, Bre Payton, a frequent TV commentator and staff writer for right-wing news website The Federalist, was admitted into the ICU at a hospital in San Diego, Daily Mail reports.
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