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7:20 PM ET, January 20, 2016

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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Bob Dole Warns of ‘Cataclysmic’ Losses With Ted Cruz, and Says Donald Trump Would Do Better  —  Bob Dole, the former Kansas senator and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, has never been fond of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.  But in an interview Wednesday, Mr. Dole said that the party would suffer …
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Adam C. Smith / Tampa Bay Times:
Florida poll: Trump 48%!!, Cruz 16%, Rubio 11%, Bush 10%  —  Florida's Republican primary would be a Donald Trump blowout if held today, according to a Jan. 15-18 poll by Florida Atlantic University Business and Economics Polling Initiative.  Trump leads with a whopping 47.6 percent support …
Florida Atlantic University:
Polls  — Donald Trump has surged nearly 12 points in the last two months and is closing on half of the GOP vote in Florida, where Hillary Clinton has improved in all head-to-head matchups against GOP frontrunners  — Trump leads the GOP field with 47.6 percent, followed by Ted Cruz at 16.3 percent …
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Cruz Works to Cut Rubio's Lifeline in New Hampshire
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Bush, Rubio Have Spent $91M in Ads vs. Trump and Cruz's $8M
Discussion: Politico and Naked Politics
Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
Sarah Palin: Arrested son was ‘hardened’ by war  —  Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin appeared to suggest Wednesday that her son's arrest this week on domestic violence charges stemmed from the effects of his experiences as a soldier in Iraq.  —  Track Palin, a 26-year-old Iraq veteran …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Meghan McCain on Palin's Trump endorsement: It was hard to watch  —  For Meghan McCain, Sarah Palin's endorsement of Donald Trump was difficult to watch.  —  The daughter of Sen. John McCain, who picked Palin to be his running mate in 2008, said she was specifically pained because of Trump's past remarks …
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
The Most Mystifying Lines of Sarah Palin's Endorsement Speech  —  Sarah Palin's meandering, fiery, sarcastic, patriotic and blustery speech endorsing Donald J. Trump for president on Tuesday in Ames, Iowa, does not easily submit to categorization.  —  Mrs. Palin has always been a singular force on the campaign trail.
Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
Donald Trump: Sarah Palin could ‘play a position’ in my administration
Kyle Blaine / BuzzFeed:
So, Uh, Here's The Full Text Of Sarah Palin's Bizarre Trump Speech
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Palin links son's domestic-violence arrest to Obama's neglect of veterans
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Sarah Palin Suggests Arrested Son Track Suffers From PTSD
Discussion: Politico and WCDC-TV
Kimm Fesenmaier / The California Institute …:
Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet  —  Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system.  The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth …
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iopscience.iop.org:
EVIDENCE FOR A DISTANT GIANT PLANET IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM  —  Konstantin Batygin1 and Michael E. Brown1  —  • © 2016.  The American Astronomical Society.  All rights reserved.  • The Astronomical Journal, Volume 151, Number 2  —  Export citation and abstract … CiteULike
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
New evidence suggests a ninth planet lurking at the edge of the solar system
Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Astronomers Find Evidence Of Ninth Planet At Edge Of Solar System
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
'90s Scandals Threaten to Erode Hillary Clinton's Strength With Women  —  This month, Lena Dunham, wearing a red, white and blue sweater dress with the word “Hillary” emblazoned across the chest, told voters how Hillary Clinton had overcome sexism in her political career.
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Alarmed Clinton Supporters Begin Focusing on Sanders's Socialist Edge
CNN:
CNN/WMUR poll full results: New Hampshire Democrats - CNNPolitics.com
CNN:
New Hampshire CNN/WMUR poll results: Republicans - CNNPolitics.com  —  Donald Trump maintains his wide lead in New Hampshire, and with just under three weeks to go until the first in the nation balloting begins, no single candidate has a clear hold on second place.
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
CNN/WMUR Poll: Trump leads, Cruz climbs in New Hampshire
Discussion: The Last Refuge
William La Jeunesse / Fox News:
Rifle capable of taking down helicopter found at ‘El Chapo’ hideout purchased through Fast and Furious program  —  A .50-caliber rifle found at Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman's hideout in Mexico was funneled through the gun-smuggling investigation known as Fast and Furious, sources confirmed Tuesday to Fox News.
Justin Gillis / New York Times:
2015 Was Hottest Year in Recorded History, Scientists Say  —  Scientists reported Wednesday that 2015 was the hottest year in recorded history by far, breaking a record set only the year before — a burst of heat that has continued into the new year and is roiling weather patterns all over the world.
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GQ:
The Confessions of R. Kelly  —  Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (effective 1/4/2014) and Privacy Policy (effective 1/4/2014).The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with prior written permission of Condé Nast.
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
As Supreme Court Clerk, Ted Cruz Made Death Penalty His Cause  —  The memos of Supreme Court clerks evaluating death row petitions usually consist of a brief review of the facts and then a dispassionate legal analysis as to whether the court should hear the case.  —  Not so for Ted Cruz.
Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
It Is Now Cheaper To Rent A Dry Bulk Tanker Than A Ferrari  —  China's slowing growth has crushed shipping rates to such an extent that hiring a 1,100-foot merchant vessel would set you back less than the price of renting a Ferrari for a day.
Discussion: Newsalert
Zachary Mider / Bloomberg Politics:
What Kind of Man Spends Millions to Elect Ted Cruz?  —  In 2010, Arthur Robinson, a research chemist, decided to run for Congress in southern Oregon.  Robinson, now 73, was not your average candidate.  In a lab on a sheep ranch in the Siskiyou Mountains, he's spent the last couple of years collecting thousands of vials of human urine.
Ted Nugent / Facebook:
Our unholy rotten soulless criminal America destroying government killed 4 Americans in Banghazi.  Period!  What sort of chimpass punk would deny security, turn down 61 requests for security, then tell US forces to STAND DOWN when they were ready to kickass on the allapukes & save American lives!
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Donors changing tune on Trump  —  Republican donors are quietly coming around to the idea that Donald Trump could be their party's nominee for president.  —  While many major Republican donors still cannot abide the idea of Trump as their party's 2016 standard-bearer …
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Leaked ISIS document: we're cutting fighter salaries in half  —  Though the American media often portrays ISIS as an unstoppable, terrifying juggernaut, the truth is that the group is in real trouble, and is actually losing ground in its core Iraqi and Syrian holdings.
 
 
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Eric Sandy / Scene and Heard:
The Grand Jury in the Tamir Rice Case Did Not Take a Vote on Charges
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Donna Rachel Edmunds / Breitbart:
VIDEO: Migrant to Sweden Says He'll ‘Kill 10 People’ And ‘Eat Humans’ During Anti-Western Bus Tirade
Discussion: Truth Revolt
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
President Obama May Require Federal Contractors to List Campaign Gifts
Kathryn Watson / The Daily Caller:
Gov't Builds $75 Million Facility Federal Cops Can't Use
Discussion: Instapundit
Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
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Lindsay Putnam / New York Post:
I couldn't fulfill my sugar addiction — so I turned to sex
Discussion: Daily Mail and Newsalert
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Sen. Grassley gently raps Cruz
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:
Racial bean-counting is making schools unsafe
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“Chicago Tonight” has learned that Gov. Bruce Rauner …
Duke Open Campus Coalition / The Chronicle:
An open letter to President Brodhead
Discussion: Power Line
Rand Paul / Facebook:
Electing Gollum should not be our objective
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Strategist: Trump Supporters Are ‘Single Men Who Masturbate To Anime’
Discussion: Althouse
Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
Can Hillary take ‘13 Hours’ of truth?
Discussion: Power Line and The Hill
James Fallows / The Atlantic:
Why Twitter Doesn't Work with Sarcasm, Chap. 823
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV
 
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