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Emotional Obama calls for ‘sense of urgency’ to fight gun violence — Watch “Guns in America,” CNN's townhall meeting with President Obama on Thursday at 8 p.m. ET — (CNN)President Barack Obama grew emotional Tuesday as he made a passionate call for a national “sense of urgency” to limit gun violence.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Obama wipes away tears as he calls for new gun measures — President Barack Obama wept openly Tuesday as he delivered a forceful defense of new executive actions on gun violence, a set of modest proposals to tighten loopholes that likely face quick legal challenges and could be vulnerable to reversal by a Republican White House.
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Ali Weinberg / ABC News:
Tearful Obama on Gun Control: Excuses ‘No Longer Suffice’
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Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
Ghoulish Wall Street Speculators Pour Money Into Gun Companies
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Jeb Bush / The Gazette:
Barack Obama's executive orders trample on the Second Amendment
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The White House:
FACT SHEET: New Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence and Make Our Communities
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Reuters:
Obama, wiping tears, makes new push to tighten gun rules
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama, Dems all in on gun control in 2016
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Marina Koren / The Atlantic:
Obama's Emotional Speech on Gun Control
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Guardian:
Authorities plan to cut off power to militia at occupied Oregon refuge — Armed militants will begin their third day at the wildlife refuge and have vowed to remain for months in protest at over the treatment of two local cattle ranchers — Federal authorities are planning to cut off …
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Lydia O'Connor / The Huffington Post:
Oregon Militants Say They're Getting Worse Treatment Than Black Lives Matter Movement
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Des Moines Register:
Last Slide — Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who is seeking …
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Is the Oregon Standoff Evidence of a Racial Double Standard?
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Scott McKay / American Spectator:
We Need a Conservative Alinsky
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BBC:
Germany shocked by Cologne New Year gang assaults on women — The mayor of Cologne has summoned police for crisis talks after about 80 women reported sexual assaults and muggings by men on New Year's Eve. — The scale of the attacks on women at the city's central railway station has shocked Germany.
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Melissa Eddy / New York Times:
Coordinated Attacks on Women in Cologne Were Unprecedented, Germany Says — BERLIN — German authorities said on Tuesday that coordinated attacks in which young women were sexually harassed and robbed by hundreds of young men on New Year's Eve in the western city of Cologne were unprecedented in scale and nature.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump and Cruz send shivers down GOP spines — With only weeks before GOP primary voters first cast their ballots, the level of alarm among establishment Republicans about the enduring dominance of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz is reaching new heights. — In private conversations with several former aides …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ted Cruz: Trump Will Let Deported Immigrants Back In, I Won't — “He's advocated allowing folks to come back in and become citizens. I oppose that.” — youtube.com — Ted Cruz said during an appearance in Iowa on Monday that there's a difference between him and Donald Trump on immigration.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
This crowd shot from Donald Trump's Massachusetts rally is absolutely mind-boggling — Donald Trump went to Lowell, Mass. — a town about five miles south of the New Hampshire border — for one of his now trademark big-arena rallies on Monday night. This is what the crowd looked like per WaPo's Jenna Johnson.
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Jon Palmer / CBS Boston:
Donald Trump-Tom Brady T-Shirt: Trump Approves
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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets — Longer tweets are coming soon to Twitter. — Twitter is building a new feature that will allow users to tweet things longer than the traditional 140-character limit, and the company is targeting a launch date toward the end of Q1 …
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Ben Quinn / Guardian:
MPs to debate banning Donald Trump from UK — Parliamentary hearing triggered by 560,000-signature petition after Republican presidential candidate called for US to bar Muslims — MPs are to debate calls for the US presidential candidate Donald Trump to be banned from the UK following …
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David Granger / Esquire:
A Few Words About Esquire's February Cover Star, Donald Trump
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Federal Trade Commission:
Lumosity to Pay $2 Million to Settle FTC Deceptive Advertising Charges for Its “Brain Training” Program — Company Claimed Program Would Sharpen Performance in Everyday Life and Protect Against Cognitive Decline — The creators and marketers of the Lumosity “brain training” …
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Mark Chesnut / FIRST FREEDOM:
From The Editor | Ban Antics In New York — What's an anti-gun state legislator to do when the state in which he or she lives already has some of the most restrictive gun-control laws in the nation? Realistically, short of banning all guns and ammunition magazines, what's left to do in the state of New York?
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NBC News:
Trump Has Highest Support Among White Evangelicals: Poll — With the presidential primaries in full swing, Donald Trump maintains his sizable lead over the rest of the Republican field. Among Republican or Republican-leaning registered voters, Trump has 35% support compared to 18% for Ted Cruz …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump: It Would Be Interesting To Ask Bill Clinton The Difference Between Him And Cosby — Trump added that he respects women and that he would protect them. — Hello, it's me. — David Duprey / ASSOCIATED PRESS — w.soundcloud.com — Donald Trump says it would be “very interesting” …
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David M. Schwartz / Newsday:
Steve Israel says he won't seek re-election to Congress … Filler: Steve Israel skewers LI, D.C. (and gets it right) — Janison: LI pol packs a punchline — More national politics … Politics — Rep. Steve Israel … TV — Rep. Israel's book may become TV series
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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Bill gutting ObamaCare would save half-trillion over a decade, CBO finds — A GOP-led effort to repeal the biggest parts of ObamaCare would cost about $42 billion less than previously expected, saving more than a half-trillion dollars over a decade, the congressional budget scorekeeper said Monday.
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