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CBS/NYT Poll: Americans divided on Obama job performance in final year — As President Obama prepares to give his last State of the Union address, the country is split on his job performance: 46 percent of Americans approve, while 47 percent disapprove. — His approval rating has hovered …
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Obama, Democrats at odds before State of the Union address — Tensions between liberal Democrats and President Obama are bubbling up as the president heads to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to deliver his final State of the Union address to a restless Congress.
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Obama goes it alone in his last State of the Union — What to Watch for in Obama's Final State of the Union — Barack Obama's final State of the Union won't have the traditional laundry list of requests for Congress — Washington (CNN)The White House says President Barack Obama's State …
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Daily Kos and FIRST FREEDOM
Meredith Shiner / Yahoo Politics:
Obama, with an eye toward history, will give a different kind of State of the Union
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Politico
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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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Paul out of main debate, won't join undercard
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New York Times, Outside the Beltway and Hit & Run
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Rand Paul, bumped from main debate stage, will boycott Thursday's undercard
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Talking Points Memo, Politico 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.
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Politico, ABC News, KCCI-TV, Political Wire and Liberal Values
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
War over gay marriage to play out at SOTU — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — President Obama's effort to stack the audience with those who support his causes at his last State of the Union Address is being rebuffed by conservatives inviting guests that challenged Obamacare and gay marriage.
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Amanda Stone / The White House:
Meet the Guests in the First Lady's 2016 State of the Union Box
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CNN:
Biden says Obama offered financial help amid son's illness — Washington (CNN)As his eldest son faced the prospect of resigning as Delaware's attorney general amid health concerns, Vice President Joe Biden received an offer that floored him: financial support from his boss, President Barack Obama.
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Politico, Political Wire, The Week, New York Times and Mashable
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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Daily Mail:
RISE IN MIGRANTS LEAVING GERMANY FOLLOWING COLOGNE SEX ATTACKS — Germany has started sending a growing number of migrants back to Austria since the New Year's Eve sex attacks in Cologne shocked the country. — Some of the departing migrants said they did not want asylum in Germany …
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Bloomberg Business:
Chinese Gaming Billionaire Buys U.S. Gay Dating App Grindr — Beijing Kunlun Tech offers $93 million for 60 percent stake — Kunlun shares hit maximum daily limit in share trading — One of China's newly minted technology billionaires signed a deal to buy a controlling stake in Grindr …
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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Grindr Sells Stake to Chinese Company
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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
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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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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.
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Washington Post, addictinginfo.org and No More Mister Nice Blog
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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BBC:
David Bowie dies of cancer aged 69
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Why Republicans Wouldn't Actually Repeal Obamacare — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan attend an unveiling ceremony for a bust of former Vice President Dick Cheney on December 3, 2015. — Last week, in a bold example of their governing prowess …
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Washington Post, BarbWire.com, Bloomberg View and The Hill
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 …
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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.
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