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2:40 PM ET, January 7, 2016

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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
John McCain: “I Don't Know” If Cruz Is Eligible For Presidency With Canadian Birth  —  McCain, the Republican nominee in 2008, was born in the Panama Canal Zone when it was a U.S. territory.  —  Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  Arizona Sen. John McCain …
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Andrew McCarthy / National Review:
Ted Cruz, Natural Born Citizen  —  Senator Ted Cruz is wise to laugh off Donald Trump's intimation that his constitutional qualifications to serve as president may be debatable.  —  The suggestion is sufficiently frivolous that even Trump, who is apt to utter most anything that pops into his head …
Rich Lowry / Politico:
Ted Cruz Is Nixon, Not Goldwater
A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:   Cruz's path to victory
Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Ethanol Backers Mobilize Against Ted Cruz in Iowa Republican Race
Justin Huggler / Telegraph:
Suspects in Cologne sex attacks ‘claimed to be Syrian refugees’  —  Leaked police report claims senior police officers feared fatalities and that one of those involved in attacks told officers: “I am Syrian.  You have to treat me kindly.  Mrs Merkel invited me”
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BBC:
Cologne sex attacks ‘require police rethink’  —  Police in Germany will have to rethink their tactics following attacks on women in the city of Cologne on New Year's Eve, a senior official has said.  —  Ralf Jaeger, interior minister for North Rhine-Westphalia, said police had to “adjust” …
Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:
Germany springs to action over hate speech against migrants
Spiegel Online:
Police Report Outlines ‘Chaotic and Shameful’ New Year's Eve
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Howie Carr / Boston Herald:
RINOs Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Chris Christie chasing fool's gold  —  It's a shootout in the lifeboat — the Republicans in Name Only (RINO) lifeboat.  —  All the also-rans in the GOP presidential field are firing wildly at one another, trying to grab that coveted fourth-place finish in Iowa and
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Christie: If Rubio were nominee, Hillary would ‘cut his heart out’  —  GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie says rival Marco Rubio doesn't have what it takes to go up against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, arguing she would “cut his heart out” in the general election.
Discussion: Washington Post
Eliza Collins / Politico:
Rubio mocks media coverage of his boots: ‘This is craziness’
Daily Mail:
Marco walks tall!  Rubio channels Nicolas Sarkozy and wears some well-heeled boots while campaigning in New Hampshire
The Hill:
Bill Clinton rape accuser: Hillary ‘tried to silence’ me  —  A woman who publicly accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978 is resurrecting her claims on social media.  —  “I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me,” Juanita Broaddrick tweeted Wednesday.
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The Bill Clinton scandal machine revs back up and takes aim at his wife  —  The ghosts of the 1990s have returned to confront Hillary Clinton, released from the vault by Donald Trump and revved up by a 21st-century version of the scandal machine that almost destroyed her husband's presidency.
Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
The Pugnacious, Relentless Progressive Party That Wants to Remake America … At a recent private dinner in Manhattan, a small group of leftists plotted to take over America.  —  The group, a dozen community organizers and activists from all over the country, had convened at a sushi restaurant …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Email Shows CNN's Invite Only Gun Control “Town Hall” With Obama is a Total Sham  —  Following his executive actions this week, President Obama will participate in what CNN is calling a “town hall” style discussion about gun control at George Mason University tomorrow night.
Discussion: Bearing Arms
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Veepstakes cloud Senate GOP hopes of preserving majority  —  The Republican imperative to put together a strong White House ticket is butting up against the party's dream of preserving the Senate GOP majority.  —  Republican strategists say Sens. Rob Portman of Ohio and Kelly Ayotte …
Discussion: The Week
Annie Karni / Politico:
Sanders cracks Clinton's Nevada firewall  —  LAS VEGAS — Hillary Clinton has been on the ground in Nevada since last April.  Bernie Sanders only began building up his organization here late in the fall.  —  But the state that's been touted as Clinton's firewall against the Vermont senator …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Sanders: Clinton lacks courage to stand up to Wall Street
CNN:
Man with cleaver killed by Paris police on anniversary of Charlie Hebdo attacks  —  Deadly shooting outside Paris police station  — Police kill man with cleaver after he tried to enter a northern Paris police station, officials say  —  (CNN)Police shot and killed a man wielding …
Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Washington Post:
New charges allege religious leader, who has ties to the Duggars, sexually abused women  —  Ten women on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Bill Gothard, who for decades was a major force in the conservative Christian homeschooling movement, charging him and leaders in his ministry with sexual abuse, harassment and cover-up.
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
NOAA: U.S. posts second-hottest year on record  —  The United States posted its second-hottest year on record in 2015, government scientists reported Thursday, extending the streak of warmer-than-average annual temperatures.  —  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration …
Discussion: The Week
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
George Zimmerman rips Obama's ‘crocodile tears’ on guns  —  George Zimmerman is accusing President Obama of insincerity for weeping over mass shooting victims one day ago.  —  “He made an announcement and I could think when I saw it was crocodile tears,” Zimmerman, who shot and killed a black teenager in 2012, told TMZ.
Lindsay Gibbs / ThinkProgress:
After Horrific Rape Charges, Tennessee High School Cancels Basketball Season  —  Three basketball players at Ooltewah High School in Tennessee have been charged with the aggravated rape and assault of a 15-year-old freshman teammate on December 21.  —  Now, as the investigation …
Discussion: timesfreepress.com, Raw Story and all
Hasani Gittens / NBC News:
$700M Powerball Rollover Prize Is Largest in U.S. History  —  Here's the bad news: You didn't win the monster Powerball jackpot Wednesday night.  —  The good news: Neither did anyone else.  —  That means the jackpot will roll over to an estimated $700 million — the largest lottery prize in U.S. history …
Discussion: AOL, Joe.My.God. and Maxim
Moe Lane / RedState:
Washington Post admits that, no: electric cars were NOT worth it.  —  At least, if you use the rule of thumb that any time you ask a question in a headline then the answer is always going to be ‘no:’ “The government has spent a lot on electric cars, but was it worth it?”
Discussion: Washington Post and Hit & Run
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Alabama Governor's Office Sues Obama Administration Over Syrian Refugees  —  President Obama shakes hands with Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley upon arrival in Birmingham, Alabama, on March 26, 2015.  —  Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images  —  Alabama officials entered the legal fray over the resettlement …
Marco Rubio / USA Today:
Convention can restore limited government  —  Our republic is under siege by the Washington establishment in both parties.  —  America was built on the revolutionary idea that our rights come from God, not from government.  To protect those rights, our founders created a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
 
 
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Oklahoma oil magnate Harold Hamm has his eye on Rubio
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