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Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg:
Joe Biden Could Be Impeached by GOP Over Ukraine if He Wins, Iowa Senator Says — Iowa Senator Joni Ernst warned Sunday that Republicans would immediately push to impeach Joe Biden over his work in Ukraine as vice president if he win the White House. — “I think this door of impeachable whatever …
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NBC News:
John Kerry overheard discussing possible 2020 bid amid concern of ‘Sanders taking down the Democratic Party’ — That he would even discuss the possibility suggests that prominent members of the Democratic Party remain deeply unsettled by the current field. — DES MOINES, Iowa …
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NBC News:
The stakes for Biden tonight in Iowa are enormous — First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — DES MOINES, Iowa — No one has more at stake tonight than Joe Biden.
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Politico, Washington Post and New York Times
Politico:
Sanders, Warren go separate ways in closing pitches — CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Bernie Sanders' surrogates booed Hillary Clinton, lit up members of the Democratic National Committee, and proudly noted that people were “freaking out” that he would win. — Meanwhile, at a canvass launch Saturday …
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Associated Press, The Hill, Washington Post, Fox News and Slate
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Biden: Impeachment hasn't ‘shaken my faith’ in working with Republicans — The former vice president said 'no one's' found anything wrong with his son Hunter Biden's dealings in Ukraine. — Former Vice President Joe Biden said the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump haven't …
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Raw Story
Daniel Politi / Slate:
Poll: Biden, Sanders Tied for First Place in Iowa
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Daily Kos, JONATHAN TURLEY, NBC News and HuffPost
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump advisers say they're trying to “promote the rise” of Bernie Sanders
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Esquire, Fox News and PJ Media Home
Lara M. Brown / The Hill:
Democrats need a ‘dark horse,’ not a frontrunner, to win in November
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Politico, Associated Press and The Guardian
New York Times:
New U.S. Travel Ban Shuts Door on Africa's Biggest Economy, Nigeria — The visa rules will affect nearly a quarter of the people on the African continent, including many hoping to join loved ones already in the U.S. — The newlyweds had already been apart for half their yearlong marriage.
Chris Chavez / Sports Illustrated:
President Trump Congratulates ‘The Great State of Kansas’ After Chiefs Super Bowl Victory — President Trump deleted a tweet congratulating the “Great State of Kansas” after the Chiefs' Super Bowl win. The Chiefs play in Missouri. — President Donald Trump took to Twitter …
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Politico, Mediaite, The Guardian, New York Times, CNN, HuffPost and Common Dreams
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump attacks Bloomberg's height hours before their dueling Super Bowl ads
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The Gateway Pundit, Redstate, Axios, Breitbart, Bloomberg, Mediaite, Los Angeles Times, The Hill, Raw Story, Vox, Florida Politics, CNN, One America News Network, The Independent and Politico
Amy Qin / New York Times:
Virus Pummels Wuhan, a City Short of Supplies and Overwhelmed — It is nearly impossible to get the care they need to treat, or even diagnose, the coronavirus, say residents at the crisis' center. — WUHAN, China — Weak with fever, An Jianhua waited in line for seven hours outside …
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The Atlantic and Associated Press
HuffPost:
Taxpayers Get $3.4 Million Tab So Trump Can Host Super Bowl Party For His Club Members — The president's latest trip to his Palm Beach resort and nearby golf course brings the taxpayer-funded total for his golfing hobby to $130.4 million. — Taxpayers shelled out another $3.4 million …
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The Independent and Outside the Beltway
New Yorker:
Qassem Suleimani and How Nations Decide to Kill — A new frontier in the use of assassination. — When nation-states engage in the bloody calculus of killing, the boundary between whom they can target and whom they can't is porous. On January 3rd, the United States launched a drone strike …
Blake Hounshell / Politico:
‘Truly bizarre circumstances’: Anonymous book agents refute whisper campaign against Trump official — The agents for the senior Trump administration official who penned an anonymous New York Times op-ed and best-selling book are breaking their silence to swat down a whisper campaign pinning …
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Raw Story
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Leak: Man Who Bankrolled Brexit Boasted of WikiLeaks Backchannel — Hacked Twitter messages raise legal questions over Cambridge Analytica, undeclared foreign lobbying, and links between Julian Assange and the Brexit and Trump campaign teams. — NEW YORK—The man who bankrolled the campaign …
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Raw Story
Joe Mcdonald / Associated Press:
Built in 10 days, China's virus hospital takes 1st patients — BEIJING (AP) — The first patients arrived Monday at a 1,000-bed hospital built in 10 days as part of China's sweeping efforts to fight a new virus that is causing global alarm. — Huoshenshan Hospital and a second 1,500-bed facility due …
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Ridiculous attacks on ‘American Dirt’ are fresh reason to nix ‘cancel culture’ — “American Dirt,” published last week, is a fast-paced novel about a mother-and-son pair of migrants on the run from murderous drug lords. It has received glowing praise from some of America's …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Simple Reason Trump Does What He Does — Trump's credo, from ‘Access Hollywood’ to impeachment. — It wasn't the most notorious part of the “Access Hollywood” tape, but it was the most revealing: “And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”
Associated Press:
YouTube: No “birther” conspiracy videos for 2020 election — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — YouTube is making clear there will be no “birtherism” on its platform during this year's U.S. presidential election. — Also banned: Election-related “deepfake” videos and anything that aims …
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One America News Network
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Gerhardt: The Entire White House Defense Team Will Face Bar Charges — There have been suggestions that the White House defense team could be brought up on bar charges for their arguments in the Senate. I have previously written that such statements by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others are vindictive and ill-informed.
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Power Line and Instapundit
Wall Street Journal:
Lamar Alexander's Finest Hour — His vote against witnesses was rooted in constitutional wisdom. — By The Editorial Board — Senate Republicans are taking even more media abuse than usual after voting to bar witnesses from the impeachment trial of President Trump.
Richard L. Hasen / The Atlantic:
The Alarming Prospect of the Supreme Court Deciding the 2020 Election — If the country's nine justices wind up deciding the presidential race, things could get very ugly very quickly. — Among the many strange and worrying truths about American elections, one has a tendency to get lost …
New York Times:
Jeff Bezos Is Sued by His Girlfriend's Brother — Michael Sanchez says he was trying to protect his sister in a lawsuit complaint. — The brother of Jeff Bezos's girlfriend has filed a lawsuit accusing Mr. Bezos and his security consultant of defaming him in connection …
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Mother Jones
Associated Press:
Man wearing fake bomb stabs 2 in London and is shot to death — LONDON (AP) — Police in London say a man who strapped on a fake bomb and stabbed two people on a London street before being shot to death by police was recently released from prison, where he was serving for terrorism offenses.
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