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5:25 PM ET, January 5, 2016

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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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The White House:
FACT SHEET: New Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence and Make Our Communities  —  Gun violence has taken a heartbreaking toll on too many communities across the country.  Over the past decade in America, more than 100,000 people have been killed as a result of gun violence …
CNN:
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.
Ali Weinberg / ABC News:
Tearful Obama on Gun Control: Excuses ‘No Longer Suffice’
Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
Ghoulish Wall Street Speculators Pour Money Into Gun Companies
Jeb Bush / The Gazette:
Barack Obama's executive orders trample on the Second Amendment
Marina Koren / The Atlantic:
Obama's Emotional Speech on Gun Control
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama, Dems all in on gun control in 2016
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Signal
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  —  “They don't get any backlash, not on the level that we're getting.”  —  Members of the armed anti-government group occupying a remote federal building near Burns, Oregon, have some shaky ideas …
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 …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Shakesville
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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.
Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:   Bankers Flood Across The Rio Grande In Bizarre New Ted Cruz Ad (VIDEO)
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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.
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 …
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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Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:
The Impossible Could Be A Real Contender In 2016  —  Look out, Hillary Clinton.  —  WASHINGTON — If you live in the early voting states of Iowa or New Hampshire, you can't turn on a TV without seeing a presidential campaign ad.  You can't pick up a landline phone, if you have one, without hearing a campaign message.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Esquire:
AMERICAN RAGE: THE ESQUIRE/NBC NEWS SURVEY
Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times
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
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?
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
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
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Norfolk woman finds cat sealed inside ‘cardboard tomb’
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Joan Biskupic / Reuters:
Obama administration asks U.S. top court to reject Texas abortion law
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
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Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
Amid Jockeying For 2016 Funds, Latino Leaders Blast Progressive Donor Group's Ties To New Competitor
Discussion: RedState
CourierPostOnline.com:
ACLU : No ‘God bless America’ in Haddon Heights school
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Aamer Madhani / USA Today:
GOP lawmakers call for firing of Mizzou professor who called for ‘muscle’
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Newsalert
Enoch Power / THE NEW REFORM CLUB:
An Open Letter to Mark Steyn, Simon Heffer, Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart (London), and His Grace, Archbishop Cranmer
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Santorum: I'll Bomb Iran If They Don't Dismantle Nuclear Program
Tasnim News Agency:
IRGC's 2nd Underground “Missile City” Unveiled
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Trevor Noah: Open carry laws turned Texas into a nonstop gay pride parade for gun nuts
Discussion: Towleroad and addictinginfo.org
John Ortved / New York Times:
The Dress Code for Power Lunching at the Four Seasons
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Bill gutting ObamaCare would save half-trillion over a decade, CBO finds
 

 
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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Sources: ~100 NYT Tech Guild members cross the picket line to work on Election Day; NYT engineer and union steward Benjamin Harnett says the figure is under 50

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

 
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