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6:45 AM ET, January 10, 2015

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New York Times:
Prosecutors Said to Recommend Charges Against Former Gen. David Petraeus  —  WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors have recommended bringing felony charges against retired Gen. David H. Petraeus for providing classified information to his former mistress while he was director …
Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
Romney Tells Donors He Is Considering 2016 White House Bid  —  Former Massachusetts Governor and 2012 Nominee Didn't Give Timetable for Decision  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney , the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, told a meeting of donors Friday that he is considering …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Mitt Romney says he's considering a 2016 run  —  Mitt Romney told a group of longtime supporters on Friday that he is considering running for president in 2016, POLITICO has learned.  —  “Everybody in here can go tell your friends that I'm considering a run,” the 2012 Republican presidential nominee …
Kansas City Star:
Four people shot during robbery-gone-bad at Shawnee gun store  —  ›  —  ‹  —  Four people were shot and another was punched in the face Friday afternoon during an attempted robbery of a Shawnee gun store, police said.  —  The gunfight broke out after four robbers entered She's A Pistol …
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Karoli / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
3 Injured, 1 Dead In Kansas Gun Store Robbery  —  More guns did not equate to a win for anyone.  —  KMBC.com: … There's a video on KMBC's site with more details, but this piece of the transcript was interesting: … Whenever guns are part of the interaction, the entire calculus changes.
Kisha Henry / kmbc:
Owner of Shawnee gun shop killed in robbery, suspects also shot  —  The owner of a Shawnee, Kan. gun shop was killed and several suspects were shot during a robbery at his business on Friday afternoon.  —  Images from the scene  —  Police were called to Johnson Drive and Nieman Road …
Jeremy Scahill / The Intercept:
Al Qaeda Source: AQAP Directed Paris Attack  —  UPDATED — A source within al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has provided The Intercept with a full statement claiming responsibility for the attack against the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris: … Arabic-language excerpts from the statement are being circulated widely on Twitter.
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Agence France-Presse:
Al-Qaeda in Yemen threatens France with new attacks: SITE  —  Washington (AFP) - A top sharia official from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) threatened France with fresh attacks following those at the Charlie Hebdo magazine and at a Jewish supermarket, SITE monitoring group said Friday.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters:
Britain's MI5 chief warns al Qaeda in Syria planning mass attacks on West
Discussion: Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
In Story About Colorado NAACP Attempted Bombing, MSNBC Uses Image From FRANCE [VIDEO]  —  On his MSNBC show Thursday, host Chris Hayes ran a segment about an attempted bombing which took place outside of the building housing the Colorado Springs NAACP that used images from a completely unrelated incident which occurred in France.
Discussion: Twitchy, Weasel Zippers and TPNN
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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:   FBI Releases New Details About NAACP Bombing
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Dean Baquet calls N.Y. Times critic ‘a—hole’  —  New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet called an associate professor at the USC Annenberg School an “a**hole” on Facebook today after the professor took a shot at Baquet for not running Charlie Hebdo's Muhammed cartoons.
Josh Margolin / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Chris Christie Was Interrogated By Feds Over Bridge Scandal … Gov. Chris Christie, a potential presidential contender, was interrogated recently by federal investigators probing the 2013 lane-closure scandal that has threatened his political future, officials confirmed to ABC News.
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Report: Christie Interviewed By Feds Investigating BridgeGate
Bob Jordan / app.com:
GWB scandal investigation reaches Jersey City
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Michel Euler / ABC News:
Paris Terror Attack: 4 Hostages Killed Before Police Staged Final Assault  —  Police killed three terror suspects today in twin terror attacks in the suburbs of Paris that left four hostages dead and a nation on edge.  —  Some hostages were seen fleeing the site of one standoff …
Discussion: KTLA and American Spectator
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Associated Press:
Amnesty: Nigeria massacre deadliest in history of Boko Haram  —  2 photos  —  YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of bodies — too many to count — remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International suggested Friday is the “deadliest massacre” in the history of Boko Haram.
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BBC:
Saudi blogger Badawi ‘flogged for Islam insult’  —  A Saudi Arabian blogger has been publicly flogged after being convicted of cybercrime and insulting Islam, reports say.  —  Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail, was flogged 50 times.  The flogging will be carried out weekly, campaigners say.
Catherine Lucey / Associated Press:
Iowa Republicans to Meet to Determine Fate of Straw Poll  —  Republicans in Iowa are meeting to decide whether to carry on this summer with their presidential straw poll, a summer political tradition that critics decry as a sideshow.  —  Despite criticism from some prominent Republicans …
Discussion: Politico
Ben Miller / Talking Points Memo:
Yes, Free Community College Is Major, But Not Just For The Reason You Think  —  The Obama Administration made waves last night with its announcement of a proposal to make two years of community college free nationwide.  The idea is being called ambitious and a “potential game-changer.”  And it is.
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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
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Boston picked to bid for Olympics
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Fayetteville woman accidentally shoots husband
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
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Owen Jones / Guardian:
Charlie Hebdo: Norway didn't give in to Islamophobia, nor should France
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

 
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