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4:20 PM ET, January 28, 2016

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J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
CNN Political Commentator Stuns Trump Spox by Blasting ‘Sick and Vile’ Wounded Warriors Stunt  —  The fireworks were exploding early on Thursday morning ahead of the Fox News Republican debate, which frontrunner Donald Trump has repeatedly said he will not attend.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Trumph of the Will  —  I wanted to make a couple related observations about this Donald Trump debate drama.  —  First, an admission.  —  When I heard last night that Trump was pulling out of the Fox News GOP primary debate I was quite certain he had every intention of finally attending tomorrow night's event.
Peter Sterne / Politico:
HuffPost to publish anti-Trump kicker with all Trump coverage  —  The Huffington Post has started appending an editor's note to the bottom of posts about Republican presidential contender Donald Trump, calling him a “racist,” a “liar” and a “xenophobe,” and reminding readers of his proposal …
Kim LaCapria / snopes:
The Kelly Beguiles  —  A Saudi prince doesn't really “co-own” Fox News, and Fox political commentator Megyn Kelly didn't pose with him.  —  Claim: A photograph shows Fox political commentator Megyn Kelly posing with a Saudi prince who co-owns Fox News.  —  MOSTLY FALSE
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Fox says Donald Trump is not telling the truth about its debate ad rates
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Ed Mazza / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Tells Bill O'Reilly It's ‘An Eye For An Eye’ In War With Fox News
Discussion: Politico and Bloomberg Business
ABC News:
Clinton Seen as Winner in November; Trump Inspires Anxiety  —  Most Americans expect that Hillary Clinton would prevail against her leading GOP opponent in November, while Bernie Sanders' chances are rated less well.  The thought of Donald Trump as president inspires high levels of public anxiety …
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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Trump Strong in Three Early States as Clinton and Sanders Battle: Poll  —  With just four days to go until the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump has pulled ahead of Ted Cruz with a seven-point lead among likely Iowa GOP caucus-goers, while Hillary Clinton remains just three points in front …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
FBI's Hillary Clinton email investigation not letting up  —  Six months after it began, the federal investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server shows no signs of slowing down.  —  Former FBI officials said the length of the probe is not unusual and speculated that a decision …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Hillary Clinton and the audacity of political realism
Alex Seitz-Wald / MSNBC:
Sanders camp suspicious of Microsoft's influence in Iowa Caucus
Discussion: The Hill, Hot Air and The Verge
TIME.com:
Barbie's dress won't fit.  —  I'm sitting in a bright pink room at Mattel's headquarters in El Segundo, Calif., playing with a Barbie that only 20 people in the world know exists.  Her creation has been kept so secret that the designers code-named the endeavor Project Dawn so that even their spouses …
Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders's fiction-filled campaign  —  SEN. BERNIE Sanders (I-Vt.) is leading in New Hampshire and within striking distance in Iowa, in large part because he is playing the role of uncorrupted anti-establishment crusader.  But Mr. Sanders is not a brave truth-teller.
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Madeline McMahon / Bloomberg Business:
Sanders Says He'll Struggle to Win Iowa With Low Voter Turnout
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Conrad Wilson / OPB:
More Arrests As FBI Negotiates With Remaining Militants  —  The FBI took three additional militants into custody Wednesday, as occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge began to trickle away from the site they have held for 26 days, and as the militants arrested Tuesday faced indictment in federal court.
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Myriah Towner For / Daily Mail:
US father tried for THEFT after he took his 12-year-old daughter's mobile phone away as a punishment  — He had been charged with theft of property after taking his daughter's iPhone 4 when he found an inappropriate text in September 2013  — Teen's mom, Michelle Steppe …
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Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
Ted Cruz Gathers Hundreds To Oppose Abortion  —  DES MOINES, IOWA — Banning abortion and withdrawing federal funding for Planned Parenthood were the main themes of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz's rally Wednesday night in West Des Moines, where several hundred Iowans literally spilled …
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Pema Levy / Mother Jones:
Cruz's Closing Argument in Iowa: Trump Is a Liberal in Disguise
Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: Man carrying two guns and a copy of the Koran hidden in a bag is arrested at DisneyLand Paris as police hunt woman accomplice  —  A man has been arrested at DisneyLand Paris carrying two handguns, ammunition, and a copy of the Koran, but police are still hunting his female companion.
Eva Schloss / Newsweek:
Anne Frank's stepsister: ‘Donald Trump is acting like Hitler’  —  Eva Schloss, 86, is an Auschwitz survivor and the stepsister of Anne Frank.  Both Frank and Schloss were Jewish refugees in Amsterdam together and the pair played together as children until their families were forced into hiding in 1942.
Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
Fresh off saying Maine should revive the guillotine to decapitate drug dealers, Gov. Paul LePage (R) said Wednesday that private citizens should get in on the criminal-killing action too.  —  “I tell ya, everybody in Maine, we have constitutional carry,” LePage said in an on-camera interview in Lewiston …
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
It's Still Bill Clinton, but the Old Magic Seems Missing  —  MASON CITY, Iowa — Bill Clinton came to the vote-rich city of Mason City on Wednesday night and recounted his wife's life experiences, recited her policy ideas, and ripped into the Republicans a bit.
Discussion: Althouse and The Week
Reuters:
Campaigning in style: How Jeb Bush blew through his warchest  —  There were stays at boutique hotels featuring rooftop pools, private soirees at members-only, jacket-and-tie clubs and fundraisers at the Four Seasons, the St. Regis and the Mandarin Oriental.  —  In the world of Jeb Bush …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Daily Kos and The Week
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
An Unprecedented Threat to Privacy … Throughout the United States—outside private houses, apartment complexes, shopping centers, and businesses with large employee parking lots—a private corporation, Vigilant Solutions, is taking photos of cars and trucks with its vast network of unobtrusive cameras.
 
 
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump Leads Iowa; Some Rays of Hope for Cruz, Rubio
Discussion: Members
Chicago Tribune:
Dennis Hastert nearly died, lawyer says; judge postpones sentencing
Discussion: Political Wire and Chicagoist
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Ex-Pentagon chief donates to Feingold
Antoinette Ramseur / WTKR-TV:
Six family members dead in murder-suicide in Chesapeake
Discussion: The Atlantic and AOL
Tyler Cowen / Marginal REVOLUTION:
Illiberal Reformers*, on Progressives and eugenics
Discussion: Crooked Timber and EconLog
Michael C. Bender / Bloomberg Business:
Jeb Bush Hopes to Have George W. Bush on Trail Next Month
Discussion: Political Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Daily Mail:
Lunch between the French and Iranian leaders is CANCELLED after President Hollande refused …
Discussion: The Federalist
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Clinton Foundation on collision course with campaign
Tajha Chappellet-Lanier / The Atlantic:
A Suspension for Melissa Click
Discussion: The Week
Matt Bai / Yahoo Politics:
So much for the political revolution. In 2016, everything old is new again.
Discussion: MSNBC and Agence France-Presse
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
The admiral in charge of Navy intelligence has not been allowed to see military secrets for years
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video has a framework deal for NBA broadcast rights for at least a decade, starting in 2025-26; ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the finals
 
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