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11:55 AM ET, January 28, 2014

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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama to Raise Minimum Wage Under Federal Contractors  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to sign an executive order requiring that janitors, construction workers and others working for federal contractors be paid at least $10.10 an hour, using his own power to enact a more limited version …
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Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Obama to use executive action to raise minimum wage for federal contractors  —  President Obama will announced plans to use his executive authority to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour for federal contract workers during the State of the Union address, the White House said Tuesday.
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos, CNN, Hot Air and Althouse
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Lawmakers demand Obama dump Clapper
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Gibbs: Obama ‘Stopped Trying’ to Change Washington Long Ago
Discussion: Hot Air and National Review
Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
Obama Hiking Minimum Pay for New Federal Contracts
Discussion: Politico
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Barack Obama's State of the Union deja vu
Discussion: CNN
Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico:
State of the Union 2014: How far will Obama go?
Discussion: CNN
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Democrats hope Obama's State of Union speech will be start of populist agenda
USA Today:
Obama to raise minimum wage for some federal workers
Discussion: The Hill
Jon Pareles / New York Times:
Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94  —  Pete Seeger, the singer, folk-song collector and songwriter who spearheaded an American folk revival and spent a long career championing folk music as both a vital heritage and a catalyst for social change, died Monday.
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Bart Barnes / Washington Post:
Pete Seeger, legendary folk singer, dies at 94  —  Pete Seeger, a 20th-century troubadour who inspired and led a renaissance of folk music in the United States with his trademark five-string banjo and songs of love, peace, brotherhood, work and protest, died Monday night after being hospitalized in New York for six days.
Jethro Mullen / CNN:
Legendary folk singer Pete Seeger dies at 94
Discussion: alicublog and The Jawa Report
Bob Minzesheimer / USA Today:   Folk singer Pete Seeger dies at age 94
Domenico Montanaro / NBCNews:
Poll: Christie numbers tank as scandals continue  —  Chris Christie's political future looks to be in serious danger with more Americans believing the embattled New Jersey governor is lying about the bridge closure scandal than telling the truth, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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Mark Murray / NBCNews:
NBC News poll: Pessimism defines the state of the union  —  As President Barack Obama enters his sixth year in the White House, 68 percent of Americans say the country is either stagnant or worse off since he took office, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Patrick O'Connor / Washington Wire:
WSJ/NBC Poll: Sharp Reversal on Chris Christie
Discussion: TIME
Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
What is wrong with this guy?  He is such a jerk!  He is a repeat offender!  —  This posting is not about Wendy Davis.  It is not about her views.  This is about a man who has pattern of being disrespectful to women:  —  We are a big nation with different viewpoints.
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Wendy Davis hits back at Bristol Palin
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:   Erick Erickson Responds To Greta Van Susteren With Graphic Anti-Abortion Screed
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Matthews goes after McCain critic  —  Sen. John McCain, under fire from the Arizona GOP for not being conservative enough, got an unlikely ally in his defense against the state party's censure of the senator, as MSNBC host Chris Matthews went after the author of the Arizona GOP's critique of McCain.
Discussion: CNN
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The Hill:
56 Dems endorse Hillary for 2016  —  Fifty-six Democratic lawmakers say they would endorse Hillary Clinton for president if she launches a 2016 White House bid, according to a survey conducted by The Hill.  [SEE COMPLETE LIST]  —  Twenty-two congressional Democrats had already publicly endorsed Clinton.
Yahoo! News:
Exclusive: Democratic senators to file amicus brief in Hobby Lobby birth control case  —  In a brief to be filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, 19 Democratic senators are siding with the Obama administration against evangelical Christian businessmen who argue that paying …
Yahoo! News:
How Rick Santorum is laying the groundwork for another presidential run  —  WASHINGTON — Talk about campaign trail déjà vu.  —  As hundreds of bundled-up supporters gathered around him on a freezing January day, Rick Santorum towered over a lectern and rallied his troops.
Discussion: TheBlaze.com
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
How Republicans Lost the Farm  —  On a recent Monday in San Antonio, Texas, Tom Vilsack, the secretary of agriculture, got up to speak to an auditorium full of farmers.  Vilsack, a doughy, wavy-haired former governor of Iowa, wore a grim expression as he gripped the lectern.
New York Times:
Backing in G.O.P. for Legal Status for Immigrants  —  WASHINGTON — The House Republican leadership's broad framework for overhauling the nation's immigration laws will call this week for a path to legal status — but not citizenship — for many of the 11 million adult immigrants …
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Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Democrat wins Virginia Senate recount, giving Gov. Terry McAuliffe's agenda a crucial boost  —  VIRGINIA BEACH — Democrats prepared to seize control of the Virginia Senate on Monday after winning a recount by just 11 votes in a razor-thin special election, giving Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe's first-year agenda a crucial boost.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Matt Ford / The Atlantic Online:
Giant Hologram of Turkish Prime Minister Delivers Speech  —  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan couldn't attend a political party meeting in the city of Izmir on Sunday, so he decided to send the next best thing: a giant hologram of himself.  —  In a scene straight out of Star Wars …
Michael Booth / Guardian:
Dark lands: the grim truth behind the ‘Scandinavian miracle’  —  Television in Denmark is rubbish, Finnish men like a drink - and Sweden is not exactly a model of democracy.  Why, asks one expert, does everybody think the Nordic region is a utopia?  —  For the past few years the world …
Discussion: The Local
 
 
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Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
Durable goods orders unexpectedly plunge in December
Discussion: NewsBusters and Hot Air
BBC:
Ukraine's PM Azarov and government resign
New York Times:
Glass Cage Silences Morsi During Egyptian Trial
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and NPR
Fred Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
Fred Barnes: The Curse of the State-of-the-Union First Responder
Discussion: Power Line and Weekly Standard
Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
Stephens: Kurt Vonnegut's State of the Union
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
Karzai suspects U.S. is behind insurgent-style attacks, Afghan officials say
 Earlier Items: 
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Michelle Obama wants $10 donations to ‘help protect Obamacare’
BBC:
German cows cause methane blast in Rasdorf
Discussion: Liberaland
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Google Glass to Be Covered by Vision Care Insurer VSP
John Aloysius Farrell / Politico:
The State of the Union Curse
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama's Puzzle: Economy Rarely Better, Approval Rarely Worse
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Jose DelReal / Politico:
Group unveils State of the Union drinking game
ThinkProgress:
The Five Worst Things About The New Republican Proposal To Replace Obamacare
 

 
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Ruth La Ferla / New York Times:
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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