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3:10 PM ET, January 20, 2015

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CNNMoney.com:
Paris mayor: We intend to sue Fox News  —  Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo told CNN Tuesday she intends to sue Fox News in the wake of the channel's coverage of supposed “no-go zones” for non-Muslims.  —  Hidalgo said the channel had “insulted” her city.  —  “When we're insulted …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
CNN Correspondent Confronts Bobby Jindal Over False Comments About Muslims  —  Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) struggled to substantiate his claims that European cities have been taken over by Muslim extremists during an interview with CNN correspondent Max Foster on Monday in London.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com:
MSNBC guest won't apologize for remark about Jindal  —  An MSNBC guest's assertion that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal “might be trying to scrub some of the brown off his skin” sparked criticism on Monday — but not an apology from the guest.  —  Arsalan Iftikhar, a human rights attorney and commentator …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
City of Paris to sue Fox News
Doreen Carvajal / New York Times:
Fox News Becomes the Unwilling Star of a French TV Satire
Ryan Ellis / Forbes:
Obama's New State Of The Union Tax Hike On Middle Class 529 College Savers  —  Hoping to dominate the narrative on a holiday weekend and on the eve of the annual “State of the Union” speech, the Obama White House late Saturday night leaked some of the new tax ideas in their upcoming budget.
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Ron Fournier / National Journal:
Is Obama More Interested in Progress or Politics?  —  From his State of the Union address, five ways to judge the president's motives.  —  Republicans just seized control of Congress.  President Obama's job-approval ratings just jumped.  Gas prices and the unemployment rate are down.
Jason Russell / Washington Examiner:
Obama has proposed tax hikes in every State of the Union
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Obama tries to steal GOP thunder  —  President Obama, no longer handcuffed by worries about vulnerable red-state Democratic senators, has been putting Republicans on their back foot.  —  The GOP hoped Obama would be humbled by the midterm elections that saw Democrats swept from power in the Senate.
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David Frum / The Atlantic Online:   The Real Target of Obama's Speech on Tuesday? Hillary Clinton
New York Post:
ISIS executes 13 teens for watching soccer  —  demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State slogans in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, northwest of Baghdad.  —  ISIS jihadists publicly executed 13 teenage boys for watching a soccer match.
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Obama in a Word: ‘Good,’ ‘Incompetent’  —  Fewer See This Year's State of the Union as More Important  —  As public perceptions of Barack Obama have changed over the course of his presidency, so too have the words used to describe him.  —  The national survey by the Pew Research Center …
Discussion: Politico, Washington Post and The Week
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama has worst State of the Union record since Ford, study shows
Molly Balkenbush / fox4kc.com:
9-month-old dies after being shot in the head by 5-year-old brother in NW Mo.  —  ELMO, Mo. - An infant has died after being shot in the head in Northwest Missouri.  —  According to the Nodaway County Sheriff's Office, the nine-month-old baby boy was shot shortly before nine o'clock Monday morning …
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Brian Burnes / Kansas City Star:
Northwest Missouri boy fatally shoots 9-month-old brother
Discussion: Associated Press and FOX2now.com
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Like Romney More Than Jeb Bush — WSJ/NBC Poll
Discussion: Politico and Hinterland Gazette
Brad Heath / USA Today:
New police radars can ‘see’ inside homes  —  At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies quietly deployed radars that let them effectively see inside homes, with little notice to the courts or the public.  —  WASHINGTON — At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped …
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
America's Middle Class Is Unlucky  —  At this stage in Obama's presidency, ambitious tax proposals to soak the rich are the political equivalent of desert rain dances—sometimes impressive, often well-meaning, always doomed, and essentially ceremonial.  The administration's latest tax-modification ritual …
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Majority still supports single-payer option, poll finds  —  More than five years after the single-payer system was scrapped from ObamaCare policy debates, just over 50 percent of people say they still support the idea, including one-quarter of Republicans, according to a new poll.
Discussion: Common Dreams and susiemadrak.com
Mike Lux / Crooks and Liars:
Why Elizabeth Warren Strikes Such A Chord  —  It seems like just about everyone these days is talking about Elizabeth Warren.  I saw Jay Leno- not a very political guy or especially progressive- the other day on Bill Maher's show, talking about how shocked he was that Elizabeth Warren …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Washington Post
Soeren Kern / Gatestone Institute:
European ‘No-Go’ Zones: Fact or Fiction?  —  Part 1: France … The jihadist attack on the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French magazine known for lampooning Islam, has cast a spotlight on so-called no-go zones in France and other European countries.  —  No-go zones are Muslim-dominated …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and RedState
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Obama trolls, talks trash with a purpose  —  Politically, President Obama has never been weaker, after losing both House and Senate.  At the same time, he has never talked tougher.  There is a connection between the two.  —  Obama recently told Democratic lawmakers that he's going to “play offense” in coming months.
Discussion: VodkaPundit and Betsy's Page
Eclectablog:
VIDEO: Rick Santorum thinks we have an immigration problem ... with LEGAL immigrants (UPDATED)  —  Rick Santorum's grandfather came to America in 1923 as an immigrant but that fact does not deter him from thinking that we have a big problem in this country that's “almost as bad” as illegal immigration.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Holly Yan / CNN:
Up to 50,000 gallons of oil spilled in Yellowstone River; residents told not to drink water  —  Story highlights  —  (CNN)A Montana pipeline burst sent as much as 50,400 gallons of oil gushing into the Yellowstone River, prompting the governor to declare a state of emergency.
 
 
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama's State of the Union guests include illegal immigrant, gun violence victim, Ebola doctor
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Supporters say Clinton developing smarter, more relevant campaign for 2016
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