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11:15 AM ET, January 11, 2020

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Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Bernie Sanders leads the Iowa Poll for the first time, just weeks before the Iowa caucuses  —  U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders leads the Democratic field three weeks ahead of Caucus Day in Iowa — narrowly overtaking his closest competitors, who remain locked in a tight contest just behind him.
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Washington Post:
Biden holds wide lead among black voters in Democratic presidential race, Post-Ipsos poll finds  —  Former vice president Joe Biden is far and away the favored candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination among black Americans, boosted by his personal popularity …
Discussion: ABC News
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
How a High Schooler Scooped Everyone on the Iowa Poll  —  Three times now, Arjav Rawal has tweeted the results before their official release, beating even CNN, a poll sponsor.  —  For more than 24 hours, the political world eagerly awaited the release of the latest Iowa Poll.
Discussion: ABC News
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Endangered Democrats sound the alarm on Bernie and Warren
Discussion: Salt Lake Tribune
Annie Linskey / SFGATE:   Some Democrats alarmed at impending all-white debate
Kim Norvell / Des Moines Register:
Elizabeth Warren holds on to 2nd place in Iowa Poll, showing some strengths, weaknesses
Discussion: Politico
Associated Press:
Iran says it ‘unintentionally’ shot down Ukrainian jetliner  —  A woman mourns outside the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton, Alberta, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, during a vigil for those killed after a Ukrainian passenger jet crashed, killing at least 63 Canadians, just minutes after taking off from Iran's capital.
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Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
Iran Says It Unintentionally Shot Down Ukrainian Airliner  —  After maintaining for days that there was no evidence to show one of its missiles had struck the plane, the Iranian military said it was an accident caused by human error.  —  Iran announced early Saturday that it had accidentally shot …
Oleksandr Savochenko / Agence France-Presse:   Ukraine demands punishment for Iran plane downing
Babak Dehghanpisheh / Reuters:   Iran says military shot down plane in error, after denial drew scrutiny abroad
Washington Post:
Trump now claims four embassies were under threat from Iran, raising fresh questions about intelligence reports  —  President Trump said on Friday that a senior Iranian general killed by a U.S. drone strike had been planning attacks on four U.S. embassies, a claim made to justify the decision …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Rationale for Killing Soleimani Is Falling Apart  —  Why did the United States kill Iranian general Qasem Soleimani?  President Trump, in remarks to the nation the morning after the attack, gave a clear rationale.  Soleimani “was planning new attacks on American targets, but we stopped him.”
Associated Press:
White House considers expanding travel ban to more countries  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is considering expanding its much-litigated travel ban to additional countries amid a renewed election-year focus on immigration issues by President Donald Trump, according to four people familiar with the deliberations.
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Justin Caruso / The Daily Caller:
Trump Says He Will Use Executive Privilege To Prevent John Bolton Testimony  —  President Donald Trump said in a new interview on Fox News' “The Ingraham Angle” that he would use executive privilege to prevent former White House aide John Bolton from testifying in an impeachment trial.
Discussion: Fox News and Redstate
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
John Bolton impeachment testimony will be blocked, Donald Trump says
Discussion: CNN, Los Angeles Times and Fox News
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
The Trump Administration Has Been Preparing To Expand The Travel Ban, Documents Reveal
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump angered by House ally's push to limit his authority on Iran  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican and staunch Trump ally, pushed other Republicans to vote in favor of limiting the president's authority in the military confrontation with Iran, drawing ire from the president …
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:   Congress doesn't seem to have the courage that our Founding Fathers expected
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Allies Explore Buyout of Conservative News Channel One America News Network  —  Hicks Equity Partners, a family investment firm tied to Republican National Committee co-chair Thomas Hicks Jr., is pitching GOP donors on possible deal  —  Allies of President Trump are pursuing an effort …
New York Times:
Stephanie Grisham: Trump's Press Secretary Who Doesn't Meet the Press  —  A presidency in crisis, a nation on the brink of war — and a White House press secretary who was largely out of sight.  —  It's not every day that the White House press secretary is offered $200,000 to appear on camera …
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Washington Post:
George Conway and Neal Katyal: How Pelosi should play her impeachment cards  —  George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York and an adviser to the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super PAC.  Neal Katyal, a law professor at Georgetown University, is the author of “Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump” …
Discussion: Contemptor, ABC News and Breitbart
Heather Vogell / ProPublica:
We Found Major Trump Tax Inconsistencies.  New York's Mayor Wants a Criminal Investigation.  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday …
Discussion: CNBC, HillReporter.com and Alternet.org
Aya Batrawy / Associated Press:
New Oman ruler vows to uphold late sultan's peaceful policy  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Oman's new ruler, Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, vowed Saturday to uphold his predecessor Sultan Qaboos bin Said's foreign policy approach, which steered the Arab country through choppy Persian Gulf waters …
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Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair:
You Won't Believe What Trump Said About His Middle Name  —  Special correspondent Gabriel Sherman dishes on the White House's Iran scramble, Don Jr.'s electoral ambitions, and—most importantly—the latest evidence of the president's mental decay.  —  In the midst of the Golden Globes …
Wall Street Journal:
Washington, Beijing Agree to New Dialogue to Pursue Reforms, Address Disputes  —  Semiannual talks, to be announced next week with phase-one deal, would be separate from second-phase trade negotiations  —  WASHINGTON—The U.S. and China have agreed to semiannual talks to push for reform …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
F.B.I. Apologizes to Court for Botching Surveillance of Trump Adviser, and Pledges Fixes  —  In a rare public filing, the bureau said it would extend wiretap changes to other tools for collecting data on suspected spies and terrorists.  —  WASHINGTON — A chastened F.B.I. told a secretive court …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
FBI Director Tells Surveillance Court He ‘Deeply Regrets’ Failures In Carter Page FISA Process
Discussion: Power Line
Jacque Talbot / Daily Express:
Michelle and Barack Obama advising ‘friends’ Harry and Meghan on life outside Royal Family  —  MICHELLE and Barack Obama have been advising Prince Harry and Megan Markle on their new life outside the Royal Family, insiders have claimed  —  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are friends …
Merrill Matthews / The Hill:
The blue-state exodus gains momentum  —  Nine years ago I published a piece that asserted, “Voters around the country are concluding it's better to be red than dead” — applying almost the exact opposite meaning to an old phrase referring to communism.  New Census Bureau figures appear to confirm my prediction — mostly.
Yahoo News:
Curtain falls on Chinese film festival as censorship intensifies  —  One of China's longest-running independent film festivals has decided to shut down against the backdrop of mounting government censorship, saying it was no longer possible to run a “purely independent” festival in the country.
New York Times:
In Blow to Beijing, Taiwan Re-elects Tsai Ing-wen as President  —  The victory was a remarkable comeback for Ms. Tsai and suggested that Beijing's pressure campaign had backfired.  —  TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan's voters delivered a stinging rebuke of China's rising authoritarianism on Saturday …
Ryan Nobles / CNN:
Mike Lee signs on to Bernie Sanders' bill to prevent funding for military intervention in Iran  —  Sources: Trump furious over House War Powers vote  —  (CNN)Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah has agreed to co-sponsor Sen. Bernie Sanders' legislation that would freeze funding for any military action …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Wall Street Journal:
Swiss Back Channel Helped Defuse U.S.-Iran Crisis  —  The U.S. sent an encrypted fax via the Swiss Embassy in Tehran urging Iran not to escalate, followed by a flurry of back and forth messages  —  BERN, Switzerland—Hours after a U.S. strike killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani …
Discussion: Redstate and Washington Times
Dan Desai Martin / The American Independent:
Wisconsin dairy farmers suffer massive blow thanks to Trump's trade war  —  Wisconsin lost 818 dairies in 2019 as farmers across the country suffer from Donald Trump's trade war with China.  —  The state of Wisconsin, famous for its cheese, lost 10% of its dairy farms in 2019, Dairy Herd Management reported on Thursday.
 
 
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Andrew Sheeler / Sacramento Bee:
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Discussion: The Hill
Agence France-Presse:
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Anita Chabria / Associated Press:
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 Earlier Items: 
CNN:
Instagram says it's removing posts supporting Soleimani to comply with US sanctions
Discussion: RAPPLER
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
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David Gelles / New York Times:
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Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Kerry on $1.7 Billion Payment to Iran: ‘We Gave Them a Little Bit of Money’
Discussion: American Thinker
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Brokaw: Today's media destructive, '24/7 rage about what's pissing people off'
Discussion: NB Blog
Nick Arama / Redstate:
BREAKING: Iranian National With Machete, Pick Ax Detained on Bridge Near Mar-a-Lago
Discussion: Palm Beach Post, WPTV and Daily Mail