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6:20 AM ET, January 21, 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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Eric Bradner / CNN:
CNN/WMUR Poll: Trump leads, Cruz climbs in New Hampshire  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump holds a 20-point lead in the New Hampshire Republican primary, a new CNN/WMUR poll shows.  —  Behind him, there's still a scrum for second place — with support for No. 2, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, on the rise.
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.
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Cruz Works to Cut Rubio's Lifeline in New Hampshire
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Bush, Rubio Have Spent $91M in Ads vs. Trump and Cruz's $8M
Discussion: Politico and Naked Politics
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Sarah Palin's Circle of Victimhood  —  In endorsing Donald Trump, Sarah Palin faced a challenge.  How does a woman who has built her brand on hating cultural elites endorse a billionaire, Manhattan TV star?  Her answer: by turning Trump into a victim.  —  She began by reasserting her own victimhood.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
What Palin does for Trump, and to Cruz  —  AMES, Iowa — In September, when Donald Trump appeared before a giant rally in Dallas, a person in the Trump circle described the coming months of the campaign.  Sure, a big event like Dallas got headlines, but Trump knew he couldn't do the same rally …
ABC News:
Palin's Re-Emergence Underscores GOP Split  —  If the Republican Party is on the verge of an implosion, Sarah Palin may have been the one who lit the fuse.  —  Palin's complicated relationship with GOP leaders over the past eight years is a microcosm of the party's broader struggles with its most restive members.
Discussion: Politico
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.
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Glenn Beck To Hit Campaign Trail In Iowa With Ted Cruz  —  Conservative radio host and former Fox News personality Glenn Beck will appear with Ted Cruz this weekend as the freshman senator makes a final push in Iowa.  —  Pro-Cruz super PAC Keep the Promise is organizing the events where Beck …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
McCain: ‘I respect’ Palin's decision on Trump
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Palin links son's domestic-violence arrest to Obama's neglect of veterans
Nick Gass / Politico:
Meghan McCain on Palin's Trump endorsement: It was hard to watch
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Sarah Palin Suggests Arrested Son Track Suffers From PTSD
Discussion: Politico and WCDC-TV
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
‘Top Secret’ Email Revelation Changes ‘Nothing,’ Clinton Says  —  Hillary Clinton dismissed a report that emails she sent on her private email server contained a high level of classified material.  —  Speaking to NPR's Ari Shapiro in San Antonio, Texas, on Wednesday, the Democratic presidential …
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Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Clinton campaign accuses Obama appointee of trying to smear Clinton  —  Inspector General says dozens of Clinton emails contained classified information  —  Campaign spokesman Brian Fallon calls the information part of a “coordinated leak”  —  Inspector General was nominated by Obama, unanimously confirmed by Senate
Einer Elhauge / Salon:
Ted Cruz is not eligible to run for president: A Harvard Law professor close-reads the Constitution  —  The closer you study the Constitution, the weaker Ted Cruz's case squares with the actual meaning of “natural-born”  —  The argument that Ted Cruz is eligible to run for president initially looked strong …
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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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.
Chicago Tribune:
Democrats on Rauner CPS takeover plan: ‘Not going to happen’  —  Illinois Senate Republican leader Christine Radogno says the proposal by Republican lawmakers to allow state oversight of Chicago Public Schools is a “lifeline” for the district.  Jan. 20, 2016.  (WGN-TV)
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.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump On Diversity At Oscars: ‘The Whites’ Don't Get BET Nominations  —  Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he was “sad” that no black actors were nominated for an Academy Award, but noted that white people are not nominated for any Black Entertainment Television Awards.  —  “I think it's a tough situation.
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
CNN:
Nearly all of Detroit's schools closed due to sickouts as Obama visits  —  Complaints of health hazards at Detroit schools  —  (CNN)Nearly all of Detroit's public schools closed Wednesday in the latest, largest instance of protesting teachers calling in sick — turning what was supposed …
 
 
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Lawmaker: Obama Admin Fueling ‘Campaign to Destroy Israel’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Washington Post
USA Today:
How water crisis in Flint, Mich., became federal state of emergency
Eric Sandy / Scene and Heard:
The Grand Jury in the Tamir Rice Case Did Not Take a Vote on Charges (Updated)
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
Walmart Corporate:
More Than One Million Walmart Associates to Receive Pay Increase in 2016
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Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
Are At-Risk Students Bunnies to Be Drowned?
Lindsay Putnam / New York Post:
I couldn't fulfill my sugar addiction — so I turned to sex
Discussion: Daily Mail and Newsalert
Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:
Racial bean-counting is making schools unsafe
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Donors changing tune on Trump
Rand Paul / Facebook:
Electing Gollum should not be our objective
 

 
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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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