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Des Moines Register:
Last Slide — If there's one thing Democrats and Republicans agree on this year, it's the fact that the next president will face enormous challenges. — Domestically, this president must work with Congress in confronting the issues of immigration, health care, increased threats to national security …
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New York Times:
Bloomberg, Sensing an Opening, Revisits a Potential White House Run — Galled by Donald J. Trump's dominance of the Republican field, and troubled by Hillary Clinton's stumbles and the rise of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont on the Democratic side, Michael R. Bloomberg has instructed advisers …
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Des Moines Register:
Last Slide — Republicans have the opportunity to define their party's future in this election. They could choose anger, pessimism and fear. Or they could take a different path. — The party could channel that frustration and pursue true reform. It could renounce its fealty …
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New York Times and RedState
Des Moines Register:
Register faced tough decision in endorsements — Today, The Des Moines Register's editorial board made its endorsements for the Democratic and Republican nominations for president. — It was the culmination of six weeks of formal endorsement interviews with candidates to discuss the issues …
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The Intercept:
Hillary Clinton Laughs When Asked if She Will Release Transcripts of Her Goldman Sachs Speeches — After Hillary Clinton spoke at a town hall in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Friday, I asked her if she would release the transcripts of her paid speeches to Goldman Sachs. She laughed and turned away.
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The Daily Caller and New York Times
John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Des Moines Register Endorses Rubio and Clinton in Iowa Caucuses
Des Moines Register Endorses Rubio and Clinton in Iowa Caucuses
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The Daily Caller
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump: I could shoot people in streets and not lose support — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump thinks there's not much he could possibly do to erode his support. — Lauding his fans' loyalty at a campaign event in Sioux Center, Iowa, on Saturday, Trump said he could kill people and still be popular.
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Glenn Beck endorses Cruz, tears into Trump — Conservative commentator Glenn Beck on Saturday endorsed Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz for the White House. — Beck compared Cruz to the 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, and gave him a compass that belonged to the first one, George Washington.
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The Gateway Pundit
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump says he could shoot people and still wouldn't lose voters — Sioux Center, Iowa (CNN)Donald Trump boasted Saturday that support for his presidential campaign would not decline even if he shot someone in the middle of a crowded street. — “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue …
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Anna Palmer / Politico:
Chuck Grassley introduces Donald Trump at Iowa rally — PELLA, IOWA — Sen. Chuck Grassley gave a rousing introduction speech at a Donald Trump rally, but he didn't go so far as to endorse the 2016 Republican candidate. — “We have an opportunity once again to make America great again,” …
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Talking Points Memo, National Review and The Daily Caller
Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Trump Says He Could ‘Shoot Somebody’ and Still Maintain Support
Trump Says He Could ‘Shoot Somebody’ and Still Maintain Support
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Talking Points Memo, BuzzFeed, WCMH-TV and rubber hose
Oliver Lane / Breitbart:
REPORT: Locals Fled Pool After Migrants Masturbated Into Jacuzzi, Defecated Into Kid's Pool, Invaded Girls Changing Rooms — A German swimming bath has banned migrants from entering the premises after a group of men went on an obscene rampage, laughing in the faces of pool staff when challenged about their grotesque behaviour.
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David Perlmutt / The Charlotte Observer:
Good Samaritan fatally shot by man he was trying to help in Catawba County — Authorities say Marvin Jacob Lee, 27, in jail charged with murder — Lee's car was stuck when helpers arrived to give car a push — As helpers called police to help, suspect began to fire a pistol
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Raw Story, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Last Tradition
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Rubio early-state strategy comes with potential risks — Marco Rubio's campaign appears to be coalescing around a unique and potentially risky strategy to catch fire in the GOP presidential primary, one that isn't predicated on success in either Iowa and New Hampshire.
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National Review
Amy Davidson / New Yorker:
The Contempt That Poisoned Flint's Water — Even before the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, was found to be tainted with lead—before water from some areas tested at more than twice the level considered to be toxic waste, and public-health officials said that every last child in the city …
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Fusion, Detroit Free Press and The Week
Rory Mulholland / Telegraph:
Police arrest 24 after migrants stormed ferry temporarily closing Port of Calais — Mayor ordered closure after 500 migrants break off from demonstration and break into port compound. Police arrests could include Britons. — The port of Calais was temporarily closed on Saturday after a ferry …
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Power Line and Vlad Tepes
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Biden: U.S. and Turkey prepared for military solution in Syria — Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday said the U.S. and regional ally Turkey are prepared to seek a military solution in Syria to try to solve the nation's five-year-long civil war. — Speaking after a meeting …
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Jihad Watch and Weasel Zippers
Tracybloomktla / KTLA:
Road Travel Ban to Go Into Effect in New York City as Massive Winter Storm Hits East Coast — A massive winter storm clobbered a huge swath of the eastern United States on Saturday, pounding cities such as Washington and New York with snow and stranding hundreds of motorists from Kentucky to Pennsylvania on icy interstates.
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Trump Spokeswoman: Malcolm X Is ‘My Idol,’ Republicans Are Racist — Since joining the Trump campaign as a national spokeswoman in November, Katrina Pierson has served as an attack dog of sorts for Donald Trump, attempting to expose his critics and opponents as faux conservatives …
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Mediaite, RedState, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Right Scoop
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Why the Justice Department Won't Work with the FBI on Clinton's E-mail Case — nother day, another double-take reading the New York Times. — The latest shoe in the investigation of Hillary Clinton's scandalous mishandling of classified information dropped heavily this week.
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