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8:00 AM ET, January 12, 2016

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Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Rand Paul and Carly Fiorina Cut From Next Republican Mainstage Debate  —  Republican presidential candidates Rand Paul and Carly Fiorina have been cut from the next mainstage debate on Thursday.  —  According to a newly-announced lineup by debate host Fox Business Network …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Fiorina Says People Are Tired Of Politicians Renouncing Their Canadian Citizenship  —  Rage against the professional political class.  —  Sean Rayford / Getty Images  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  Republican presidential candidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina says she finds …
Discussion: RedState
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Paul out of main debate, won't join undercard  —  Rand Paul and Carly Fiorina have been booted to the undercard in Thursday night's Republican primary debate as the number of main-stage candidates was cut to seven by stricter polling criteria.  —  Paul, who is struggling to gain traction …
Discussion: New York Times and Hit & Run
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Rand Paul, bumped from main debate stage, will boycott Thursday's undercard
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and The Week
David Jackson / USA Today:
Paul, Fiorina bumped from next prime-time GOP debate
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
The Hill:
Dem ‘nail-biter’ in early states  —  The Democratic presidential race is tightening just weeks before the Iowa caucuses, renewing the sense among some Democrats that Bernie Sanders could sweep the first two voting states and challenge Hillary Clinton over the long haul.
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Liz Goodwin / Yahoo Politics:
Bernie Sanders: Clinton is not as ‘inevitable’ as she once was  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders accused Hillary Clinton of taking an increasingly aggressive stance against him because she's nervous that he is beating her in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Discussion: KCCI-TV, ABC News and Liberal Values
USA Today:
USA TODAY/Rock the Vote poll: Millennials' agenda for the next president
Discussion: Grist and Mashable
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Tax Plan Would Place 4% Surcharge on Incomes Over $5 Million
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Is This The End of ‘The New Republic’?  —  After spending ‘over $20 million’ on the political and cultural journal, Chris Hughes' decision to sell ‘TNR’ could mark its death knell.  —  In what some knowledgeable observers characterized as the death knell for a nearly 102-year-old American institution …
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
New Republic Owner Chris Hughes Puts Magazine Up For Sale
Chris Hughes / Medium:
The New Republic's Next Chapter
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Journalists: Stop Complaining About Sean Penn  —  Awakened from its holiday hibernation, the journalistic orthodoxy massed yesterday to attack Sean Penn and Rolling Stone for their 11,000-word story/interview with Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera—aka El Chapo.
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Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Inside the Dramatic Raid That Took Down ‘El Chapo’
Discussion: The Week, Raw Story and 6abc.com
Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court conservatives appear ready to overturn mandatory union fees  —  People participate in a Jan. 11 rally at the Supreme Court in Washington as the justices heard arguments in Friedrichs vs. California Teachers Assn.  —  Reporting from Washington
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Seems Poised to Deal Unions a Major Setback
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Father of Koch Brothers Helped Build Nazi Oil Refinery, Book Says  —  The father of the billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch helped construct a major oil refinery in Nazi Germany that was personally approved by Adolf Hitler, according to a new history of the Kochs and other wealthy families.
Tim Jonze / Guardian:
Was David Bowie saying goodbye on Blackstar?  —  From Lazarus to Dollar Days, the songs on Bowie's inspired new album speak of illness, death and heaven - and offer intriguing insights about the man who sang, 'I'm not a pop star, I'm a blackstar'  —  One thing that struck reviewers …
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Considered Secret Plan to Spark Palestinian Protests  —  Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton considered a secret plan created by her then-advisers to foment unrest among Palestinian citizens and spark protests in order to push the Israeli government back to the negotiating table …
CNN:
Cologne aftermath: Pakistanis, Syrian attacked in wake of New Year's assaults  —  Backlash in Germany after gang sex assaults  —  (CNN)Gangs of men have attacked and injured two Pakistanis and a Syrian man in Cologne, Germany, in the aftermath of an unprecedented wave of mob sex assaults on women in the city on New Year's Eve.
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Daily Mail:
Syrian ISIS supporter shot dead outside Paris police station had been arrested for sexually …
Discussion: Pamela Geller and Vlad Tepes
John H. Sununu / UnionLeader.com:
Another View — John H. Sununu: Don't drink the Trump Kool-Aid  —  Most of us know “Drinking the Kool-Aid” refers to a commitment to an idea without comprehending the implications of that commitment.  We remember that this phrase derives from the horrible tragedy of 1978 where 900 followers …
WOOD-TV:
Teen behind deadly crash didn't have legal license  —  PORTAGE, Mich. (WOOD) — A 17-year-old accused of causing a deadly crash while trying to outrun officers didn't have a legal license, records show.  —  David Michael Mills will be charged with driving while his license was suspended, revoked or denied, causing death.
Discussion: WIVB-TV
Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times:
Michelle King is new superintendent for Los Angeles Unified School District  —  Michelle King served as L.A. Unified's No. 2 administrator under the two previous superintendents before applying for the top job herself.  —  The Los Angeles Board of Education on Monday named Deputy Supt.
Discussion: EdSource and Diane Ravitch's blog
Meredith Shiner / Yahoo Politics:
Obama, with an eye toward history, will give a different kind of State of the Union  —  The White House is billing President Obama's seventh and final State of the Union address as “untraditional,” an opportunity to move beyond the usual laundry list of policy proposals and ambitions toward …
Discussion: Politico
Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business:
Google Chairman Thinks AI Can Help Solve World's ‘Hard Problems’  —  AI could help with population growth, education, Schmidt says  —  Field getting crowded with Facebook, Microsoft also investing  —  Google's chairman thinks artificial intelligence will let scientists solve some of the world's …
Discussion: Business Insider and The Verge
 
 
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Black Fox News Guest Says Black Americans are ‘Poorer, Dumber and More Criminalized’
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