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11:55 AM ET, January 27, 2016

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Les Zaitz / Oregonian:
Oregon standoff spokesman Robert ‘LaVoy’ Finicum killed, Bundys in custody after shooting near Burns  —  BURNS - Oregon standoff spokesman Robert “LaVoy” Finicum was killed and other leaders of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation were arrested Tuesday after the FBI …
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John Sepulvado / OPB:
Occupation To Standoff: FBI Surrounds Militants Still Inside Malheur Refuge  —  FBI officials have established checkpoints around the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge as a handful of armed militants remain inside.  —  OPB spoke with the new leaders inside the compound, which include militant Jason Patrick.
Fox News:
Full statement on Trump declining to participate in Fox News/Google Debate  —  As many of our viewers know, FOX News is hosting a sanctioned debate in Des Moines, Iowa on Thursday night, three days before the first votes of the 2016 election are cast in the Iowa Caucus.
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Donald J Trump for President:
TRUMP CAMPAIGN STATEMENT ON FOX NEWS DEBATE  —  (New York, NY) January 26th, 2016 - As someone who wrote one of the best-selling business books of all time, The Art of the Deal, who has built an incredible company, including some of the most valuable and iconic assets in the world …
Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg Business:
Trump, Fox News at War After He Decides to Skip Debate  —  The Republican front-runner says that the cable network treated him “unfairly” at a past debate.  —  Citing unfair treatment by Fox News, Donald Trump will not participate in the Republican presidential debate on Thursday, his campaign manager told reporters on Tuesday.
Politico:
DonaldDuck: TRUMP WALKS INTO TRAP?  Empty podium at Fox debate could tarnish dominance - FOX: 'can't give in to terrorizations' against Megyn Kelly - SURVEY OF GEOFF GARIN'S FRIENDS: Elite's Marco fever cools  —  By Mike Allen (@mikeallen; mallen@politico.com) and Daniel Lippman (@dlippman; dlippman@politico.com)
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump says he won't participate in GOP debate on Fox News
New York Times:
Donald Trump's Campaign Says He'll Skip Debate
Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz challenges Donald Trump to a ‘mano a mano’ debate
Discussion: Politico and Daily Kos
Former Rep. John LeBoutillier / The Hill:
We are witnessing the end of the House of Clinton  —  A column for The Hill analyzing the current state of the 2016 presidential race.  —  It is the beginning of the end of the House of Clinton:  —  1. There is the stench of political death around Hillary, Bill, Chelsea and the entire House of Clinton.
Discussion: Politico
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Anti-Sanders attack ad isn't quite what it seems to be  —  Republicans have made no secret of the fact that they'd prefer to run against Bernie Sanders in the general election.  Whether or not their assumptions are correct is a separate question, but GOP officials, convinced that the senator …
Associated Press:
Sanders Says No Tragedy If He Loses Iowa; He Can Still Win
Discussion: ABC News, abc13.com and Politico
New York Times:
Bernie Sanders at a Crossroads: Attack Hillary Clinton or Stay Positive?
Discussion: Salon
Daily Mail:
Muslims are ‘not like us’ and we should just accept they will never integrate, says former racial equalities chief Trevor Phillips  —  Muslim communities are not like others in Britain and the country should accept they will never integrate, the former head of the equalities watchdog has claimed.
Discussion: Telegraph and Vox Popoli
John Diedrich / JSOnline:
FBI thwarts mass shooting at Milwaukee Masonic center  —  A terrorist-style plot intended to kill dozens of people with automatic weapons at a Masonic center in Milwaukee was foiled this week by FBI agents, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.  —  Samy Mohamed Hamzeh discussed his plan to attack …
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Federal Bureau of Investigation Arrests Milwaukee Man Who Planned Mass Shooting; Man Charged …
Chip Reid / CBS News:
Wounded Warrior Project accused of wasting donation money  —  A CBS News investigation into a charity for wounded veterans, the Wounded Warrior Project, looks into how the charity spends its donation money.  —  What caught our attention is how the Wounded Warrior Project spends donations compared to other long-respected charities.
Discussion: RedState, WJAX-TV, Fox News, The Week and WKRG-TV
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Is Bernie Sanders Really Naive About Iran? … In the final days before she and Bernie Sanders face the voters of Iowa, Hillary Clinton is leveling the same attack she leveled against Barack Obama.  She's saying that on foreign policy, she's the only adult in the race.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Republicans point fingers: Who let Trump get this far?  —  With time running out until the first primary votes are cast, establishment Republicans have begun a ferocious round of finger-pointing over who is to blame for the party's failure to stop Donald Trump.
John Feehery / The Hill:
The rise of the misinformed voter and Donald Trump  —  I was meeting with some D.C. press secretaries about a complicated legislative issue when it became clear to me that everything has changed since I left Capital Hill in 2005.  —  We were talking about strategies to get our messages out back home.
New York Times:
Vindication for Planned Parenthood  —  One after the other, investigations of Planned Parenthood prompted by hidden-camera videos released last summer have found no evidence of wrongdoing.  On Monday, a grand jury in Harris County, Tex., went a step further.
 
 
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Deborah Danan / Breitbart:
Israeli Jew in German Refugee Camp Encounters Swastikas and Anti-Semitic Slurs
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's biggest fan is an excitable 9-year old girl from Maine [Video]
Jocelyn Maminta Medical / WCTX-TV:
A public health emergency spreading quickly
Discussion: WCDC-TV
ABC News:
Clinton's Lead Over Sanders Shrinks to Its Smallest Margin
Discussion: Hot Air and abc13.com
Bill Pennington / New York Times:
C.T.E. Is Found in an Ex-Giant Who Died at 27
 Earlier Items: 
Noah Smith / BloombergView.com:
Free Trade With China Wasn't Such a Great Idea
Candace Smith / ABC News:
Jeb Bush Says He Doesn't Think Donald Trump Is a Christian
Los Angeles Times:
Column This time, the conservative crackup is real
Discussion: Mother Jones
Robert J. Gordon / BloombergView.com:
Goodbye, Golden Age of Growth
Phillip Inman / Guardian:
Anger as government blocks TTIP legal documents relating to health service
Discussion: The Huffington Post
David Smith / Guardian:
Robert Gates: Republicans' grasp of national security is at a child's level
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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