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7:15 AM ET, January 12, 2016

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Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Rand Paul and Carly Fiorina Cut From Next Republican Mainstage Debate  —  Republican presidential candidates Rand Paul and Carly Fiorina have been cut from the next mainstage debate on Thursday.  —  According to a newly-announced lineup by debate host Fox Business Network …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Fiorina Says People Are Tired Of Politicians Renouncing Their Canadian Citizenship  —  Rage against the professional political class.  —  Sean Rayford / Getty Images  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  Republican presidential candidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina says she finds …
Discussion: RedState
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Paul out of main debate, won't join undercard  —  Rand Paul and Carly Fiorina have been booted to the undercard in Thursday night's Republican primary debate as the number of main-stage candidates was cut to seven by stricter polling criteria.  —  Paul, who is struggling to gain traction …
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Rand Paul, bumped from main debate stage, will boycott Thursday's undercard
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and The Week
David Jackson / USA Today:
Paul, Fiorina bumped from next prime-time GOP debate
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
Liz Goodwin / Yahoo Politics:
Bernie Sanders: Clinton is not as ‘inevitable’ as she once was  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders accused Hillary Clinton of taking an increasingly aggressive stance against him because she's nervous that he is beating her in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Discussion: KCCI-TV, ABC News and Liberal Values
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USA Today:
USA TODAY/Rock the Vote poll: Millennials' agenda for the next president
Discussion: Grist and Mashable
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Tax Plan Would Place 4% Surcharge on Incomes Over $5 Million
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Journalists: Stop Complaining About Sean Penn  —  Awakened from its holiday hibernation, the journalistic orthodoxy massed yesterday to attack Sean Penn and Rolling Stone for their 11,000-word story/interview with Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera—aka El Chapo.
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Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Inside the Dramatic Raid That Took Down ‘El Chapo’
Discussion: The Week, Raw Story and 6abc.com
Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court conservatives appear ready to overturn mandatory union fees  —  People participate in a Jan. 11 rally at the Supreme Court in Washington as the justices heard arguments in Friedrichs vs. California Teachers Assn.  —  Reporting from Washington
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Seems Poised to Deal Unions a Major Setback
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Father of Koch Brothers Helped Build Nazi Oil Refinery, Book Says  —  The father of the billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch helped construct a major oil refinery in Nazi Germany that was personally approved by Adolf Hitler, according to a new history of the Kochs and other wealthy families.
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Considered Secret Plan to Spark Palestinian Protests  —  Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton considered a secret plan created by her then-advisers to foment unrest among Palestinian citizens and spark protests in order to push the Israeli government back to the negotiating table …
John H. Sununu / UnionLeader.com:
Another View — John H. Sununu: Don't drink the Trump Kool-Aid  —  Most of us know “Drinking the Kool-Aid” refers to a commitment to an idea without comprehending the implications of that commitment.  We remember that this phrase derives from the horrible tragedy of 1978 where 900 followers …
BBC:
David Bowie dies of cancer aged 69  —  Singer David Bowie, one of the most influential musicians of his era, has died of cancer at the age of 69.  —  A statement was issued on his social media accounts, saying he “died peacefully, surrounded by his family” after an “18-month battle with cancer”.
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CNN:
Cologne aftermath: Pakistanis, Syrian attacked in wake of New Year's assaults  —  Backlash in Germany after gang sex assaults  —  (CNN)Gangs of men have attacked and injured two Pakistanis and a Syrian man in Cologne, Germany, in the aftermath of an unprecedented wave of mob sex assaults on women in the city on New Year's Eve.
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Daily Mail:
Syrian ISIS supporter shot dead outside Paris police station had been arrested for sexually …
Discussion: Pamela Geller and Vlad Tepes
Meredith Shiner / Yahoo Politics:
Obama, with an eye toward history, will give a different kind of State of the Union  —  The White House is billing President Obama's seventh and final State of the Union address as “untraditional,” an opportunity to move beyond the usual laundry list of policy proposals and ambitions toward …
Discussion: Politico
Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business:
Google Chairman Thinks AI Can Help Solve World's ‘Hard Problems’  —  AI could help with population growth, education, Schmidt says  —  Field getting crowded with Facebook, Microsoft also investing  —  Google's chairman thinks artificial intelligence will let scientists solve some of the world's …
Discussion: Business Insider and The Verge
Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times:
Michelle King is new superintendent for Los Angeles Unified School District  —  Michelle King served as L.A. Unified's No. 2 administrator under the two previous superintendents before applying for the top job herself.  —  The Los Angeles Board of Education on Monday named Deputy Supt.
Discussion: EdSource and Diane Ravitch's blog
Des Moines Register:
Last Slide  —  Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said Monday that the issue of whether U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is legally eligible to run for the presidency because he was born in Canada is “fair game” on the Republican campaign trail.  —  “When you run for president of the United States, any question is fair game.
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
New Republic Owner Chris Hughes Puts Magazine Up For Sale  —  Facebook co-founder, who purchased the title in 2012, says magazine needs a new business model  —  The New Republic, the century-old magazine that was rocked a year ago by the mass exodus of its staff following an effort by its owner …
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Chris Hughes / Medium:
The New Republic's Next Chapter
Justin Kroll / Variety:
‘Star Wars’ Han Solo Spinoff: Actor Shortlist Revealed (EXCLUSIVE)  —  Disney and Lucasfilm are inching closer to finding their young Han Solo for the upcoming untitled “Star Wars” spinoff.  —  Sources tell Variety that after seeing thousands of actors, execs have cut the list …
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Bush super PAC seeks to blunt Rubio's momentum  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  Jeb Bush's super PAC turned up the heat on Marco Rubio on Monday, unveiling a new $3 million-plus television spot to the Washington Examiner that accuses the Florida senator of being an immigration flip-flopper who supports amnesty.
 
 
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Emails Show Hillary Helped Friend Navigate Federal Contracts
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
White House renews pledge to close Gitmo
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Black Fox News Guest Says Black Americans are ‘Poorer, Dumber and More Criminalized’
Discussion: addictinginfo.org and Raw Story
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
DNC chief: Nikki Haley rebutting Obama because of GOP's ‘diversity problem’
Discussion: LifeNews.com, Politico and Mediaite
 Earlier Items: 
Jack Jenkins / ThinkProgress:
Catholic Diocese Rejects Texas' Open Carry Law
Discussion: KFOX-TV and Raw Story
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Angry white women
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Oregon Democrat Blames Obama Administration For Bundy Standoff