memeorandum: ABC severs debate partnership with Union Leader (Hadas Gold/Politico)

9:10 PM ET, January 10, 2016

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Mark Murray / NBC News:

Poll: Neck-And-Neck 2016 Races in Iowa, New Hampshire — Three weeks until the first presidential nominating contest, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are running neck and neck in Iowa, while Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are also locked in a tight race in the Hawkeye State.

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CBS News:

Hillary Clinton responds to Trump's attacks on Bill — When it comes to Republican Donald Trump repeated attacks about her husband's sex life, Hillary Clinton has one message for Donald Trump: “Didn't work before, won't work again.” — Trump has spent weeks attacking former President Bill Clinton …

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Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders Even in Early Races, Poll Finds

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CBS News:
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Kyle Cheney / Politico: Gun control feud between Clinton and Sanders escalates

Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Gabby Giffords to endorse Clinton amid gun feud with Sanders

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Ollie Gillman For / Daily Mail:

Sean Penn LED authorities to El Chapo: Actor under investigation after meeting with world's most wanted drug lord while he was on the run in Mexico - unwittingly guiding officials to his lair — Sean Penn met with El Chapo while he was on the run in Mexico last year and the actor is now under investigation

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Breitbart:
Sean Penn Interviews El Chapo for Rolling Stone... SHOCK: Magazine Gives Fugitive Drug Lord Editorial Control

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ABC News:
Marco Rubio Calls Sean Penn's ‘El Chapo’ Guzman Interview ‘Grotesque’

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Associated Press:
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Rolling Stone:
Watch Two Minutes of El Chapo's Exclusive Interview, Just Before His Recapture

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Sean Penn / Rolling Stone:
El Chapo Speaks

Hadas Gold / Politico:

ABC severs debate partnership with Union Leader — ABC is cutting off their partnership with the New Hampshire Union Leader for the Republican primary debate on Feb. 6, an ABC spokesperson has confirmed. — The paper was set to have a co-branding relationship for the debate …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Talking Points Memo and The Right Scoop

Alyssa Bereznak / Yahoo Politics:

The State of the Union will be digitized, live-streamed, tweeted and, oh yeah, broadcast — On Tuesday night, President Obama will deliver his sixth and final State of the Union address. And as details trickle out about what it will include, it's clear that the administration is focused equally on both the message and the medium.

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Brent Baker / NewsBusters:

CNN's Cooper Lets Slip: White House Press Corps ‘Agrees’ With Obama — Share it Tweet it — Ooops. CNN's Anderson Cooper seemingly let slip on Thursday night what anyone who has a watched a presidential press conference already knows, but journalists are usually loath to admit …

Kim Willsher / Observer:

‘I went to join Isis in Syria, taking my four-year-old. It was a journey into hell’ — Sophie Kasiki is one of the few women to escape from Raqqa, the stronghold of Islamic State — Sophie Kasiki stared at the photograph of a young English-speaking boy in a camouflage uniform …

Discussion: Guardian and Daily Mail

Bradford Richardson / The Hill:

Economist: GOP may win 47 states in general election — Supply-side economist Arthur Laffer is predicting Republicans will win the White House in a landslide this year, regardless of the nominee. — “I would be surprised if the Republicans don't take 45, 46, 47 states out of the 50,” …

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Paul: Cruz eligibility may reach SCOTUS — Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday pressed questions about GOP presidential rival Ted Cruz's eligibility to be president, saying he believes that the issue will have to be resolved by the Supreme Court if Cruz gets elected president.

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Ramin Setoodeh / Variety:

Sylvester Stallone on Donald Trump, Republicans and Running for Office — Sylvester Stallone has packed many jobs onto his resume over the years: movie star, screenwriter, director, producer and painter of Kafkaesque portraits, but in a new interview with Variety, he revealed …

Discussion: The Right Scoop and The Gateway Pundit

USA Today:

Gas prices could drop toward $1 a gallon — In some gas stations around the country, the price of a gallon of regular has dropped below $1.42. AAA and GasBuddy, two organizations that follow gasoline prices, say that gasoline prices below $2 will not be unusual in most of the United States.