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5:10 PM ET, January 27, 2016

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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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Rush Limbaugh:
Trump Refuses to Play by the Rules  —  RUSH: You've heard the phrase “the game.”  Every business has aspects of it that are considered the game, and that's the routine.  And the game is characterized by everybody knowing the rules of the game.  People involved in it play by the rules.
Chris Spargo For / Daily Mail:
Donald Trump feud causes panicking Fox News CEO Roger Ailes to call Ivanka and Melania in attempt to get the frontrunner BACK to the debate - but he'll only speak to Murdoch  — The network's CEO has reportedly reached out to both Ivanka and Melania Trump to try and get the Republican front-runner to change his mind
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.
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Paul: With Trump gone, GOP will have its ‘best debate’  —  Rand Paul argued that Republicans are in for their best presidential debate of the cycle on Thursday night with party front-runner Donald Trump absent from the stage after refusing to participate.  —  “It's sort of a double-win for me …
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Trump's Debate Boycott Throws Fox News Into Chaos
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Rand Paul makes main debate stage
Discussion: Hot Air
Donald J Trump for President:
TRUMP CAMPAIGN STATEMENT ON FOX NEWS DEBATE
Politico:
DonaldDuck: TRUMP WALKS INTO TRAP? …
Discussion: Vox and The Daily Caller
Sam Reisman / Mediaite:
Fox News Responds to Trump's Latest ‘Twitter Poll’ With First-Rate Trolling
Les Zaitz / Oregonian:
Robert ‘LaVoy’ Finicum shot and killed while charging police, driver says  —  BURNS - Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, the spokesman of the refuge occupation, was shot and killed after he charged police during a roadside stop north of Burns on Tuesday, according to a man on Facebook who claims …
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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 …
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Eyewitnesses knock down conspiracy theories about LaVoy Finicum dying with his hands up  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  The Bundy militants and their supporters are trying to turn LaVoy Finicum into a right-wing martyr, but two eyewitnesses deny that he was shot and killed in cold blood by law enforcement officers.
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.
Ryan Korsgard / Click2Houston.com:
DeLoreans to go back to the future and into production  —  HUMBLE, Texas - The DeLorean is going back to the future and into production.  —  We first saw the time machine three decades ago in the movie, “Back to the Future.”  But the last time a DeLorean was built was about 35 years ago.
Camille Paglia / Salon:
Hillary's “blame-men-first” feminism may prove costly in 2016  —  Hillary lags among men, again.  Is it misogyny, or her brand of feminism?  The story too hot for the New York Times  —  During her two presidential campaigns, Hillary Clinton has consistently drawn greater support from women than men.
Discussion: Althouse and The Daily Caller
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Former Rep. John LeBoutillier / The Hill:
We are witnessing the end of the House of Clinton
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Reid: 'I'm kind of pulling' for Trump  —  Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) backpedaled Wednesday after joking that, among the current Republican presidential field, he's considering backing Donald Trump for the nomination.  —  “Look we've gotten along fine,” the Democratic leader told reporters.
Discussion: Salon, Hullabaloo and Politico
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Mark Carlson / KCRG-TV:
Man Charged for Throwing Tomatoes at Donald Trump During Iowa City Stop
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mashable
Tom Wheeler / Re/code:
It's Time to Unlock the Set-Top Box Market  —  Thanks to advances in technology, American consumers enjoy unprecedented choice in how they view entertainment, news and sports programming.  You can pretty much watch what you want, where you want, when you want.
Conor Dinan / Talking Points Memo:
Jeb Bush Rises To Second Place In New Hampshire Poll  —  Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) surged into second place in a New Hampshire poll released Wednesday by the Emerson College Polling Society, although real-estate billionaire Donald Trump retained a double-digit lead in Granite State.
Discussion: The Week
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Candace Smith / ABC News:
Jeb Bush Suggests Donald Trump Is Not a Christian
Discussion: RedState, abc13.com, Mediaite and Daily Kos
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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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Indictment Deals Blow to G.O.P. Over Planned Parenthood Battle
Discussion: Washington Post
CNN:
Why I'm voting for Trump  —  (CNN)They are showing up in droves to see Donald Trump: Men and women, overwhelmingly white, frustrated with the country's first black president, fearful that they are being displaced by minorities and immigrants, and nostalgic for the way America used to be.
Darcie Loreno / fox8.com:
George Clooney adopts dog no one wanted from Ohio animal rescue … COLERAIN TONWSHIP, Ohio — A shelter dog from Ohio that no one seemed to want has been rescued by a family of A-listers.  —  Nate the terrier was originally rescued from his former owner, who was described as a hoarder.
Discussion: WTKR-TV
ABC News:
ABC News Announces Criteria For New Hampshire Republican Debate
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Should The Times Have Been a Tougher Watchdog in Flint?  —  Almost a year ago, last March, The Times published a frightening article about the drinking water in Flint, Mich.  —  Here's an excerpt: … The article appeared on Page A16 in print.  Then, more than six months went by.
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and Mediaite
 
 
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Molly Born / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Man charged with killing legislator's sister had previous arrests
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Keith Rogers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
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Spencer Kornhaber / The Atlantic:
A Person Can't Be ‘Diverse’ … Ava DuVernay, the director of Selma …
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Mother Jones:
Map: Which States Allow Gay Marriage?
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Deborah Danan / Breitbart:
Israeli Jew in German Refugee Camp Encounters Swastikas and Anti-Semitic Slurs
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Daily Mail:
Muslims are ‘not like us’ and we should just accept they will never integrate, says former …
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