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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and America's politics of epiphany — Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg during the Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa, on January 14, 2020. Scott Olson/Getty Images
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NBC News:
Pay close attention to New Hampshire's independent voters — 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. — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Arguably the most important group to watch …
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CNBC, Politico and The Guardian
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump's ‘dream scenario’ unfolds: Dem disarray ahead of 2020 — Inside Donald Trump's reelection campaign, Joe Biden is a shadow of the past. — Once his chief rival in the 2020 Democratic presidential field, and the cause of so much presidential angst that Trump mounted a pressure campaign …
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Raw Story and The Guardian
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Centrist voters cut Biden out of the picture — DOVER, New Hampshire — The Democratic presidential race in New Hampshire appears to be changing too quickly for the polls to keep up. The stories that hit the news on Sunday focusing on Joe Biden's difficulties might actually have understated the former vice president's problems.
CBS Boston:
Exclusive NH Primary Tracking Poll: Sanders First, Buttigieg Second, Surging Klobuchar Third
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The Hill
Washington Post:
New Hampshire primary updates: Democrats barnstorm; Trump will rally in N.H. tonight
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Joe.My.God.
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Pete Buttigieg calls for deficit reduction, swiping Bernie Sanders
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The Dispatch, Reason, Balloon Juice, CNN, Washington Post, Common Dreams and Axios
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
How the Iowa Caucuses Became an Epic Fiasco for Democrats — The problems that beset the Democratic Party's first state caucus of the presidential race ran far deeper and wider than one bad app. — DES MOINES — The first signs of trouble came early. — As the smartphone app for reporting …
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Bleeding Heartland, No More Mister Nice Blog and Bad News
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Washington Post:
Top Democrats turn on each other after Iowa, complicating the party's chances against Trump
Politico:
Iowa Democrats: Buttigieg edges Sanders for delegates
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Talking Points Memo, Fox News, Daily Kos, The Week, Vox, Associated Press, electionlawblog.org, The Gateway Pundit, Townhall and Wolfie's Words
Jason Sattler / USA Today:
Moderate Democrats have a duty to consider Sanders. He has a clear path to beating Trump.
Kyle Smith / New York Post:
Political correctness at 2020 Oscars exposes Hollywood's hypocrisy — And you thought Hollywood was the sacred land of John Wayne. Marilyn Monroe. Humphrey Bogart. — Nah, that's not it at all. “We have gathered on the ancestral lands of the Tongva, Tataviam and the Chumash,” …
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Page Six
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Wall Street Journal:
Four Members of China's Military Indicted for Massive Equifax Breach — Disclosed in 2017, hack into the credit-reporting company compromised data on roughly 145 million Americans — WASHINGTON—Four members of China's military have been indicted by the U.S. government on charges of hacking …
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Raw Story, more at Techmeme »
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Behind the scenes of Michael Bloomberg's “be boring” campaign — Mike Bloomberg's campaign feels corporate. It's calm, orderly and punctual. His audiences clap politely, and you can't walk two steps without running into a paid staffer with talking points. Nobody whoops or yells.
Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
Oscars 2020 recap: ‘Parasite’ breaks barriers, Eminem's unexpected performance — “Parasite” won best picture and best directing. — via — “Parasite” was the breakout star of this year's Oscars by breaking barriers: the film became the first non-English movie to win best picture.
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Townhall, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, Variety, Page Six, NewsOne, The Wrap, New York Post, Deadline, Mediaite, Vanity Fair, UPI and Associated Press
Laura Meckler / Washington Post:
Girl chosen by Trump to symbolize failing schools attends a popular charter program — The Philadelphia fourth-grader whom President Trump singled out during his State of the Union address as one of thousands of students “trapped in failing government schools” actually attends a sought-after charter school.
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The Root
Gabriel Schoenfeld / USA Today:
Sanders has a bizarre radical past that Trump and Republicans would use to destroy him — Sanders has radical fringe skeletons dangling in closets without doors. He's destined to fail in a general election, perhaps in a 49-state rout. — The Iowa Democratic caucuses might have ended in fiasco …
CNN:
This man says he's stockpiling billions of our photos — If Hoan Ton-That is feeling the pressure, he isn't showing it. — Over the last month, fears about facial recognition technology and police surveillance have intensified, all thanks to Ton-That's startup, Clearview AI.
Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:
Merkel's Succession Plan Unravels as Protégée Ends Leadership Bid — Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to step down as chairwoman of Germany's CDU — BERLIN—Angela Merkel's handpicked successor as head of Germany's conservatives has abandoned her ambition to become chancellor …
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Schumer asks inspectors general to investigate whistleblower retaliation after Vindman firing — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is asking that every agency inspector general investigate retaliation against whistleblowers who report presidential misconduct, after the firing …
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CNN, The Independent, Common Dreams, Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Haaretz:
App Used by Netanyahu's Likud Leaks Israel's Entire Voter Registry — Names, identification numbers and addresses of over 6 million voters were leaked through the unsecured Elector app — The Likud has uploaded the full register of Israeli voters to an application, causing the leak of personal data on 6,453,254 citizens.
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Palestine DeepDive and News of the Jews, more at Techmeme »
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
In Amazon's Bookstore, No Second Chances for the Third Reich — The retailer once said it would sell “the good, the bad and the ugly.” Now it has banished objectionable volumes — and agreed to erasing the swastikas from a photo book about a Nazi takeover. — SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon is quietly canceling its Nazis.
Matt Dixon / Politico:
Florida lawmaker ditches Biden for Bloomberg — A Florida Democratic state senator is bolting Joe Biden's campaign to support Michael Bloomberg, the first signs of defection in the Sunshine State, which has long been considered Biden Country. — Jason Pizzo of Miami, who endorsed Biden in July …
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
The evolution of Trump's Muslim ban — Donald Trump's campaign call for all Muslims to be barred from entering the United States has morphed over the past three years into a complex web of travel and immigration restrictions placed, to varying degrees, on 7% of the world's population.
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