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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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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Fox News Statement Taunting Trump Was ‘100 Percent’ Roger Ailes — But now he's frantic to get the billionaire back into the Thursday-night debate. — As the war between Fox News and Donald Trump ratchets up, Roger Ailes is fighting off criticism from his senior executives over his handling of the crisis.
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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
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Rush Limbaugh and The Gateway Pundit
Brian Flood / The Wrap:
Fox News' Chris Wallace on Trump: ‘The Media Has Treated Him Too Well’
Fox News' Chris Wallace on Trump: ‘The Media Has Treated Him Too Well’
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Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
JD Rucker / RedState:
Donald Trump is Setting Up Fox News to be the Scapegoat for an ‘Unfair’ Iowa Loss
Donald Trump is Setting Up Fox News to be the Scapegoat for an ‘Unfair’ Iowa Loss
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News Watch and Hot Air
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Trump's Debate Boycott Throws Fox News Into Chaos
Trump's Debate Boycott Throws Fox News Into Chaos
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NBC News and No More Mister Nice Blog
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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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Eyewitnesses knock down conspiracy theories about LaVoy Finicum dying with his hands up
Eyewitnesses knock down conspiracy theories about LaVoy Finicum dying with his hands up
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Oregonian, Balloon Juice, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Jawa Report and Des Moines Register
Les Zaitz / Oregonian:
FBI tells Oregon refuge occupiers to leave as authorities set up roadblocks
FBI tells Oregon refuge occupiers to leave as authorities set up roadblocks
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, The Truth About Guns, The Bob and Chez Show, Balloon Juice and OPB
Pacific Patriots Network:
Pacific Patriots Network - Official Statement for Immediate Release
Pacific Patriots Network - Official Statement for Immediate Release
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Vocativ, Raw Story and Right Wing Watch
Les Zaitz / Oregonian:
Oregon standoff spokesman Robert ‘LaVoy’ Finicum killed, Bundys in custody after shooting near Burns
Oregon standoff spokesman Robert ‘LaVoy’ Finicum killed, Bundys in custody after shooting near Burns
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
GOP slashes Feb. debate undercard contest — ABC News will not include an undercard contest during its Republican presidential debate in February, according to new criteria released from the network. — The decision threatens to cut the debate stage to as few as six candidates just three days before New Hampshire primary.
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ABC News:
ABC News Announces Criteria For New Hampshire Republican Debate
ABC News Announces Criteria For New Hampshire Republican Debate
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CNNMoney, Business Insider and TVNewser
Conor Dinan / Talking Points Memo:
Jeb Bush Rises To Second Place In New Hampshire Poll
Jeb Bush Rises To Second Place In New Hampshire Poll
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The Week
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Paul: With Trump gone, GOP will have its ‘best debate’
Paul: With Trump gone, GOP will have its ‘best debate’
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Hot Air, The Week and PoliticusUSA
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.
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Jessica Hopper / ABC News:
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
With no Trump, Cruz goes from hunter to hunted
With no Trump, Cruz goes from hunter to hunted
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Yahoo Politics, Hot Air, Da Tech Guy Blog and Vox
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.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Sanders says Obama not trying to ‘tip scales’ for Clinton — President Obama isn't trying to tip the scales in favor of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential race, Bernie Sanders said Wednesday following a meeting at the White House. — It was the Vermont senator's first one-on-one meeting …
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PoliticusUSA and Joe.My.God.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
DNC throws cold water on unsanctioned New Hampshire debate
DNC throws cold water on unsanctioned New Hampshire debate
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Talking Points Memo, RH Reality Check, Daily Kos, Reuters, UnionLeader.com, New York Times and The Week
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.
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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.
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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.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, CANNONFIRE, Althouse and The Daily Caller
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.
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KFOR-TV
Michael Calderone / Associated Press:
Bloomberg Editor Quits Over Fear The Company Can't Cover Michael Bloomberg Aggressively — “The bottom line is, you can't cover the circus unless you can write about one of the biggest elephants in the room,” said Kathy Kiely. — Can Bloomberg aggressively cover Bloomberg?
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
RNC breaks fundraising record with $105M haul in 2015 — The Republican National Committee (RNC) says it raised $105.6 million in 2015 — a fundraising record for the party in a non-election year. — RNC Chairman Reince Priebus announced the total in a tweet Wednesday morning, adding that the party has $18.7 million on hand.
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.
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