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1:30 PM ET, January 28, 2015

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republican leaders look for escape plan on immigration  —  Republican leaders in the House and Senate are boxed in on immigration and searching for a way out.  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) are struggling to find a way to fund the Department …
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Alex Roarty / National Journal:
The ‘War on Women’ Isn't Over Yet  —  Critics say Democrats' focus on “women's issues” failed in 2014, but the party has no plans to abandon the line of attack.  —  Democrats are far from finished with their “war on women” campaign strategy, midterm losses be damned.
Discussion: Washington Post and Instapundit
Politico:   Homeland Security funding on the brink
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Obama scraps plan to tax college accounts
Discussion: Politico and Weekly Standard
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:   House plots new lawsuit against Obama's immigration orders
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Michelle Obama's uncovered head draws Saudi Twitter critique  —  First lady Michelle Obama faced backlash from Twitter users in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for not wearing a head covering during her brief visit there with the president.  —  Obama wore loose-fitting clothes including a long blue jacket …
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Associated Press:
Michelle Obama navigates limits on women in Saudi Arabia  —  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — For first lady Michelle Obama, just a few hours in Saudi Arabia were enough to illustrate the stark limitations under which Saudi women live.  —  Joining President Barack Obama for a condolence visit …
english.ahram.org.eg:
Saudis on Twitter criticise Michelle Obama for visiting Saudi with her hair uncovered
Discussion: Addicting Info
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Obama Is Setting Up Hillary Clinton to Fail  —  The president's approval rating is inching up, but there's little public enthusiasm for his liberal agenda.  That puts Clinton in an uncomfortable position.  —  President Obama delivered his penultimate State of the Union with renewed confidence …
Discussion: Politico
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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
Hillary Clinton agrees to testify on Benghazi, panel's ranking Dem says
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
What to call a president's husband? Bill Clinton has ideas
Discussion: OnPolitics and New York Magazine
Politico:
Koch donors give Marco Rubio early nod  —  Straw poll at donor summit rates 5 GOP hopefuls.  —  Getty  —  The Koch brothers' conservative network is still debating whether it will spend any of its massive $889-million budget in the Republican presidential primaries, but the prospect …
kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: January 2015  —  Bianca DiJulio, Jamie Firth, and Mollyann Brodie … The Public's Views Of King V. Burwell And Exchanges  —  The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case, King v. Burwell, in March about whether the health care law says people in all states …
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Domenico Montanaro / PBS NewsHour:   Republicans to vote on repealing Obamacare ... again
Maayan Lubell / Reuters:
Anti-tank missile fired at Israeli military vehicle on Lebanon frontier: army  —  (Reuters) - An anti-tank missile was fired at an Israeli military vehicle near the Lebanon border on Wednesday, wounding four soldiers, a military source said.  —  The incident came several hours after Israel launched …
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New York Post:
Sheldon Silver to resign as Assembly speaker  —  Scandal-scarred Sheldon Silver Tuesday night agreed to resign as the powerful Assembly speaker.  —  Silver's decision to quit — amid calls from fellow Democrats to do so — came less than a week after being busted by the feds for allegedly using …
Discussion: Gothamist and Fox News
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Bloomberg.com:
Sheldon Silver Built Power by Speaking Softly While Punishing Foes
Discussion: JP Updates
Adam B. Lerner / Politico:
Mike Huckabee complains of ‘trashy’ women at Fox News  —  Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said in a recent radio appearance that while in New York for his Fox News show, he experienced significant culture shock from all the “trashy” women swearing in a professional setting.
Discussion: Hot Air and Political Wire
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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Huckabee Couldn't Deal With Women At Fox News Who Swore In The Office
Danielle Douglas-Gabriel / Washington Post:
Obama drops proposal to cut tax benefits of 529 college savings plans  —  President Obama on Tuesday abandoned a proposal to end a major tax benefit of popular college savings accounts used by millions of American families after the White House faced mounting criticism from lawmakers and parents.
Discussion: Eschaton and The Week
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Politico:
The importance of being Ernst  —  The just-elected Iowa senator aims to be a player in 2016.  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — Sen. Joni Ernst hasn't been in office a month, but she's already delivered the GOP response to the State of the Union.  And now the Iowa Republican is looking to parlay …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Americans think Pats cheated, rooting for Seahawks  —  Americans think the Patriots cheated in the AFC Championship game- and they're rooting for the Seahawks on Sunday- but in some ways their poll numbers haven't fallen that far because the Patriots weren't all that popular to begin with.
Discussion: Mediaite, NBC News and Fusion
Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
New All-Female ‘Ghostbusters’ Cast Chosen  —  The Paul Feig-directed reboot is eyeing a summer shoot in New York.  —  Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy  —  The all-new, all-female Ghostsbusters are here.  —  Melissa McCarthy, who was already in talks for one of the leads …
Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:
Canada Casts Global Surveillance Dragnet Over File Downloads  —  Canada's leading surveillance agency is monitoring millions of Internet users' file downloads in a dragnet search to identify extremists, according to top-secret documents.  —  The covert operation, revealed Wednesday by CBC News …
Andrew Roth / New York Times:
North Korean Leader to Visit Russia in May  —  MOSCOW — North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, plans to visit Moscow this May in his first trip abroad since assuming power in 2011, a Kremlin spokesman announced on Wednesday.  —  The confirmation from Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and The Week
Spokesman.com:
Testimony: ‘Ramifications upon my church,’ questions on bathroom use, ‘parading their genitalia’  —  The first four people to testify this morning at the HB 2 hearing all spoke against the bill, including Pastor Jeff Estes of Fellowship Baptist Church in Meridian, who said …
Discussion: KTFT, Addicting Info and Raw Story
 
 
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
ACLU moves to block return of ‘torture report’ to Hill
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James Glanz / New York Times:
N.F.L. Investigator Seeks to Consult Columbia Physicist Over Patriots' Deflated Footballs
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GOP lawmakers confront Jim DeMint over ratings
Discussion: Washington Post
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Loretta Lynch defends Obama's immigration action
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
Brendan Bordelon / National Review:
Internal Emails Show Al Jazeera English Banning Use of Terms ‘Terrorist,’ ‘Militant,’ ‘Islamist’
Discussion: Mediaite, Truth Revolt and TPNN
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PR Newswire:
House Bill on VA Bonuses Misses the Mark on Accountability at the Department of Veterans Affairs, says AFGE
Discussion: Fox News
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Will Jeb Bush deport four million illegal immigrants?
Austin American-Statesman:
Rick Perry loses second request to dismiss case against him
The Onion:
NYC Mayor: ‘Reconcile Yourselves With Your God, For All Will Perish In The Tempest’