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5:50 PM ET, January 28, 2016

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The Federalist:
Trump's New Pro-Veterans Website Directs All Donations To Trump's Personal Foundation  —  After ducking the final Republican presidential debate heading into next week's Iowa caucuses, GOP front-runner Donald Trump announced that he would hold his own pro-veterans event during the debate to raise money for veterans.
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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.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
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.
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
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Trump Campaign Manager: Trump Will Debate Cruz Once Judge Rules Him Eligible To Run
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Bernie Sanders in ‘overall very good health,’ doctor writes  —  Bernie Sanders is “in overall very good health,” the attending Senate physician said in a letter released Thursday summarizing the Vermont senator's medical evaluation.  —  “You are in overall very good health and active …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump Leads Iowa; Some Rays of Hope for Cruz, Rubio
Discussion: Members
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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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
Jon Ralston / Ralston Reports:
Sanders workers are masquerading as Culinary members to campaign inside hotels  —  Operatives from Bernie Sanders' campaign have donned Culinary union pins and secured access to employee areas inside Strip hotels to try to garner votes for the Feb. 20 caucus, sources confirm.
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Major Nevada union accuses Sanders aides of posing as union members
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Daily Caller
Alex Seitz-Wald / MSNBC:
Sanders camp suspicious of Microsoft's influence in Iowa Caucus
Discussion: The Hill, Hot Air and The Verge
Evan Perez / CNN:
Oregon occupiers: What officials say happened at traffic stop  —  (CNN)A high-speed getaway attempt and a reach for the waistband are said to have prompted police SWAT team members to open fire on a group of leaders of the Oregon armed occupiers.  —  A law enforcement official described …
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Conrad Wilson / OPB:
More Arrests As FBI Negotiates With Remaining Militants
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
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Is Democrats' Top Beneficiary of Outside Spending, Like it or Not  —  DES MOINES — As he swung through Iowa this week, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont rarely passed up a chance to bash the rising tide of money in politics, a system he said on Tuesday was “corrupt and undermining American democracy.”
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.
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Michigan Officials Quietly Gave Bottled Water To State Employees Months Before Flint Residents  —  The Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget decided to haul water coolers into the Flint state building in January of 2015 out of concern over the city's water quality …
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.
Andre Walker / Townhall.com:
Ten Years Ago Today Al Gore Said The World Would End Because of Climate Change  —  Watch out world, and we are sorry if you had not realised before reading this, the world is ending today.  That's because today is the day that climate change entrepreneur, and former US Vice President …
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Clinton Foundation on collision course with campaign  —  The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation increasingly seen as a distraction by supporters of Hillary Clinton's presidential bid is considering dialing back its activity during the campaign and a potential Clinton presidency …
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 …
 
 
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John R. Schindler / The New York Observer:
Why Hillary's EmailGate Matters
Discussion: American Thinker and Hot Air
Angelica Serrano / Des Moines Register:
Why Iowa fast-food workers are going on strike
Tom Metcalf / Bloomberg Business:
Zuckerberg's Fortune Passes Kochs
Discussion: Mashable and NBC News
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Ex-Pentagon chief donates to Feingold
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Six family members dead in murder-suicide in Chesapeake
Discussion: The Atlantic and AOL
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Daily Mail:
Lunch between the French and Iranian leaders is CANCELLED after President Hollande refused …
Discussion: The Federalist
Tajha Chappellet-Lanier / The Atlantic:
A Suspension for Melissa Click
Discussion: The Week
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
An Unprecedented Threat to Privacy
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
The admiral in charge of Navy intelligence has not been allowed to see military secrets for years
Reuters:
Campaigning in style: How Jeb Bush blew through his warchest
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Daily Kos and The Week
 

 
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