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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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ABC News, Politico, Bloomberg Business, Hot Air and Taylor Marsh
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Sean Rayford / Associated Press:
Ben Carson Calls For Investigation Of Muslim Guests Attending State Of The Union
Ben Carson Calls For Investigation Of Muslim Guests Attending State Of The Union
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Daily Kos
Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
President Obama on Donald Trump: ‘Talk to me if he wins’
President Obama on Donald Trump: ‘Talk to me if he wins’
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Hot Air, Wall Street Journal, Politico and Mother Jones
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Obama goes it alone in his last State of the Union
Obama goes it alone in his last State of the Union
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theGrio, RedState, FIRST FREEDOM and Daily Kos
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Kim Davis to attend State of the Union
Kim Davis to attend State of the Union
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Little Green Footballs, Mashable, Vox, Politico, Hot Air, Shakesville, Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
War over gay marriage to play out at SOTU
War over gay marriage to play out at SOTU
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Right Wing Watch, PinkNews, Towleroad, Mashable, The Week, Mediaite, Joe.My.God. and The White House
CBS News:
CBS/NYT Poll: Americans divided on Obama job performance in final year
CBS/NYT Poll: Americans divided on Obama job performance in final year
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Speaker.gov and Politico
Deirdre Shesgreen / Cincinnati.com:
Obergefell to be Obama's guest at final State of the Union
Obergefell to be Obama's guest at final State of the Union
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NOM Blog, Right Wing Watch, Vox and CNN
Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
Ben Carson: ‘Abnormal’ LGBT People Shouldn't Get ‘Extra Rights’
Ben Carson: ‘Abnormal’ LGBT People Shouldn't Get ‘Extra Rights’
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Gay Star News, liberalamerica.org and Towleroad
Ilya Sheyman / MoveOn.Org:
The Top 5 Reasons MoveOn Members Voted to Endorse Bernie (with the Most Votes and Widest Margin in Our History) — With a record-setting 78.6 percent of 340,665 votes cast by the MoveOn membership, Senator Bernie Sanders has won MoveOn.org Political Action's endorsement for president …
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Quinnipiac poll: Sanders surges to retake lead in Iowa — Bernie Sanders leads Hillary Clinton in a major Iowa poll for the first time since September, the latest sign the Democratic primary race is tightening between the two candidates. — The Vermont senator wins 49 percent of likely caucusgoers …
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Bloomberg Business, The Moderate Voice, Power Line, Washington Post, Washington Free Beacon, New York Times and Mashable
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump/Cruz Close in Iowa; Birther Issue Could Hurt Cruz; Sanders Gaining on Clinton — PPP's newest Iowa poll continues to find a very close Republican race in the state- Donald Trump's at 28% to 26% for Ted Cruz, 13% for Marco Rubio, 8% for Ben Carson, and 6% for Jeb Bush.
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Washington Post, Mediaite, PoliticusUSA and Political Wire
The Hill:
Dem ‘nail-biter’ in early states
Dem ‘nail-biter’ in early states
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ABC News, Bloomberg.com, Scared Monkeys, Yahoo Politics and Bloomberg Business
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Races to Close Enthusiasm Gap With Bernie Sanders in Iowa
Hillary Clinton Races to Close Enthusiasm Gap With Bernie Sanders in Iowa
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Business Insider, Hullabaloo, Washington Post, Politico, Washington Free Beacon, Truth Revolt and Althouse
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Bernie Sanders Takes Slim Lead Over Hillary Clinton in New Iowa Poll
Bernie Sanders Takes Slim Lead Over Hillary Clinton in New Iowa Poll
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Associated Press, Latino Rebels and 6abc.com
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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CNN:
Biden praises Sanders on income inequality, calls Clinton ‘relatively new’ to the fight — Washington (CNN)Vice President Joe Biden offered effusive praise for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders Monday, lauding Hillary Clinton's chief rival for doing a “heck of a job” …
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Mary Brigid McManamon / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz is not eligible to be president — Mary Brigid McManamon is a constitutional law professor at Widener University's Delaware Law School. — Donald Trump is actually right about something: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) is not a natural-born citizen and therefore is not eligible to be president or vice president of the United States.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Has Started Playing ‘Born In The USA’ At Rallies To Taunt Cruz — Now that he has raised questions about Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) Canadian birth and American citizenship, Donald Trump has started playing Bruce Springsteen's “Born in the USA” before campaign rallies, according to reports in The Weekly Standard and the Texas Tribune.
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New York Times, Political Wire, Trail Blazers Blog, CNN, The Week, Weekly Standard and Hullabaloo
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Brutalism of Ted Cruz — In 1997, Michael Wayne Haley was arrested after stealing a calculator from Walmart. This was a crime that merited a maximum two-year prison term. But prosecutors incorrectly applied a habitual offender law. Neither the judge nor the defense lawyer caught the error and Haley was sentenced to 16 years.
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RedState, Salon, Washington Post, The Daily Banter, No More Mister Nice Blog, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Hullabaloo
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
4 Problems With Media Confusion Over Ted Cruz's Quoting Of Scripture
4 Problems With Media Confusion Over Ted Cruz's Quoting Of Scripture
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The Right Scoop
Elizabeth Doran / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Whitesboro residents vote to keep controversial ‘racist’ village seal — The controversial Whitesboro village seal, which residents voted Monday night to keep. (Provided photo) — Whitesboro residents voted Monday night to keep the village's controversial seal, rather than replace it with a new image.
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New York Daily News, WCDC-TV, Mediaite, The Week, lohud.com, Talking Points Memo, Fusion, Outside the Beltway and Refinery29
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Skyler Srivastava / WKTV-TV:
Votes tabulated over controversial seal, as The Daily Show visits the Village of Whitesboro
Votes tabulated over controversial seal, as The Daily Show visits the Village of Whitesboro
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Talking Points Memo and Associated Press
Richard D. Kahlenberg / New York Times:
Strong Unions, Strong Democracy — IF the questions that came up during oral argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association on Monday are any guide, the ruling bloc of conservative justices appears ready to render a decision later this year that would significantly weaken public sector labor unions.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Supreme Court Strikes Down Florida “Jury Recommendation” Death Sentencing Scheme
Supreme Court Strikes Down Florida “Jury Recommendation” Death Sentencing Scheme
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USA Today, SCOTUSblog, New York Times and The Marshall Project
Speisa:
German police: It's an Arab rape game called Taharrush, and now it has come to Europe — After the NYE mass assaults against women in several European cities, the German Federal Criminal Police Office, BKA, now say that the Arab “rape game” Taharrush has established itself in Europe.
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The Gateway Pundit, Walid Shoebat and Israel Matzav
Luke Hammill / Oregonian:
Oregon standoff: Militants say they'll reveal exit plan Friday — BURNS — The armed militants occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge announced Tuesday morning that they will drive into Burns at the end of the week to hold a community meeting and inform residents when they will leave.
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
CNBC:
Pentagon: 2 Navy boats in Iranian custody; Iran assures crew will be returned promptly — The crew of two small Navy craft are being held by Iran, but American officials have received assurances from Tehran that the crew and vessels will be returned safely and promptly.
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NBC News, RedState, Fox News, Pamela Geller, The Federalist, Hot Air, Mediaite and The Iran Primer
The Local:
‘We told you so,’ Eastern Europe tells Germany — Leaders of Eastern European states opposed to Germany's open-door refugee policy have been quick to tell Germany ‘we told you so’ after the Cologne sexual assaults. — Influential politicians across Eastern Europe have pointed to the Cologne attacks …
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Patterico's Pontifications and Vlad Tepes
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CNN:
ISIS member behind deadly Istanbul blast, PM says — Read more about this story at CNN Turk. — Istanbul (CNN)The suicide bomber who killed at least nine foreigners on Tuesday in a popular central Istanbul tourist area belonged to ISIS, officials said — an attack that shows the group's nerve, reach and capacity for terror.
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Washington Post, New York Times, Pamela Geller and ThinkProgress
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Sanders: Law enforcement should handle campus rape — Bernie Sanders called for all rape accusations on college campuses to be handled through law enforcement, a controversial stance that puts him at odds with many advocates. — Decrying rape and sexual assault on campuses as an “epidemic …
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Textbook sales leader says national Common Core education standards are ‘all about the money’ as teacher insists bureaucrats created a ‘new f**king system that f**king sucks to sell more books’ — Conservative muckraker group Project Veritas caught a textbook sales executive …
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Talking Points Memo, TheBlaze.com, RedState, NewBostonPost, The Federalist and Liberty Unyielding