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2:40 PM ET, January 28, 2016

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ABC News:
Clinton Seen as Winner in November; Trump Inspires Anxiety  —  Most Americans expect that Hillary Clinton would prevail against her leading GOP opponent in November, while Bernie Sanders' chances are rated less well.  The thought of Donald Trump as president inspires high levels of public anxiety …
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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Trump Strong in Three Early States as Clinton and Sanders Battle: Poll  —  With just four days to go until the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump has pulled ahead of Ted Cruz with a seven-point lead among likely Iowa GOP caucus-goers, while Hillary Clinton remains just three points in front …
Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
Ted Cruz Gathers Hundreds To Oppose Abortion  —  DES MOINES, IOWA — Banning abortion and withdrawing federal funding for Planned Parenthood were the main themes of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz's rally Wednesday night in West Des Moines, where several hundred Iowans literally spilled …
Alex Seitz-Wald / MSNBC:
Sanders camp suspicious of Microsoft's influence in Iowa Caucus
Discussion: Hot Air and The Verge
Matt Bai / Yahoo Politics:
So much for the political revolution. In 2016, everything old is new again.
Discussion: MSNBC and Agence France-Presse
Pema Levy / Mother Jones:
Cruz's Closing Argument in Iowa: Trump Is a Liberal in Disguise
Marist Poll:
1/28: Trump Leads in IA, NH, and SC... Clinton and Sanders Competitive in IA, Sanders up in NH, Clinton Leads in SC
NBC News:
First Read: All About Turnout in Iowa
J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
CNN Political Commentator Stuns Trump Spox by Blasting ‘Sick and Vile’ Wounded Warriors Stunt  —  The fireworks were exploding early on Thursday morning ahead of the Fox News Republican debate, which frontrunner Donald Trump has repeatedly said he will not attend.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Trumph of the Will  —  I wanted to make a couple related observations about this Donald Trump debate drama.  —  First, an admission.  —  When I heard last night that Trump was pulling out of the Fox News GOP primary debate I was quite certain he had every intention of finally attending tomorrow night's event.
Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders's fiction-filled campaign  —  SEN. BERNIE Sanders (I-Vt.) is leading in New Hampshire and within striking distance in Iowa, in large part because he is playing the role of uncorrupted anti-establishment crusader.  But Mr. Sanders is not a brave truth-teller.
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Conrad Wilson / OPB:
More Arrests As FBI Negotiates With Remaining Militants  —  The FBI took three additional militants into custody Wednesday, as occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge began to trickle away from the site they have held for 26 days, and as the militants arrested Tuesday faced indictment in federal court.
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TIME.com:
Barbie's dress won't fit.  —  I'm sitting in a bright pink room at Mattel's headquarters in El Segundo, Calif., playing with a Barbie that only 20 people in the world know exists.  Her creation has been kept so secret that the designers code-named the endeavor Project Dawn so that even their spouses …
Myriah Towner For / Daily Mail:
US father tried for THEFT after he took his 12-year-old daughter's mobile phone away as a punishment  — He had been charged with theft of property after taking his daughter's iPhone 4 when he found an inappropriate text in September 2013  — Teen's mom, Michelle Steppe …
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
It's Still Bill Clinton, but the Old Magic Seems Missing  —  MASON CITY, Iowa — Bill Clinton came to the vote-rich city of Mason City on Wednesday night and recounted his wife's life experiences, recited her policy ideas, and ripped into the Republicans a bit.
Discussion: Althouse and The Week
Reuters:
Campaigning in style: How Jeb Bush blew through his warchest  —  There were stays at boutique hotels featuring rooftop pools, private soirees at members-only, jacket-and-tie clubs and fundraisers at the Four Seasons, the St. Regis and the Mandarin Oriental.  —  In the world of Jeb Bush …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Daily Kos and The Week
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
An Unprecedented Threat to Privacy … Throughout the United States—outside private houses, apartment complexes, shopping centers, and businesses with large employee parking lots—a private corporation, Vigilant Solutions, is taking photos of cars and trucks with its vast network of unobtrusive cameras.
Greg Botelho / CNN:
WHO leader: Zika virus ‘spreading explosively’  —  It is reasonable to estimate that there could be 3 million to 4 million cases of Zika virus in a 12-month period in the Americas, WHO official Dr. Sylvain Aldighieri said Thursday.  —  He cautioned that this is only an estimate …
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
FBI's Hillary Clinton email investigation not letting up  —  Six months after it began, the federal investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server shows no signs of slowing down.  —  Former FBI officials said the length of the probe is not unusual and speculated that a decision …
Eva Schloss / Newsweek:
Anne Frank's stepsister: ‘Donald Trump is acting like Hitler’  —  Eva Schloss, 86, is an Auschwitz survivor and the stepsister of Anne Frank.  Both Frank and Schloss were Jewish refugees in Amsterdam together and the pair played together as children until their families were forced into hiding in 1942.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, CNN and Telegraph
Michael C. Bender / Bloomberg Business:
Jeb Bush Hopes to Have George W. Bush on Trail Next Month  —  Many South Carolina Republicans have been urging Jeb Bush to bring his brother to the state he won twice.  —  michaelcbender  —  George W. Bush left the White House with an approval rating of 34 percent, and he remains …
Discussion: Political Wire
DNAinfo Chicago:
Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams To Block Audio, Records Show  —  CHICAGO — Why are so many police dashcam videos silent?  —  Chicago Police Department officers stashed microphones in their squad car glove boxes.  They pulled out batteries.  Microphone antennas got busted or went missing.
 
 
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Antoinette Ramseur / WTKR-TV:
Six family members dead in murder-suicide in Chesapeake
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Tyler Cowen / Marginal REVOLUTION:
Illiberal Reformers*, on Progressives and eugenics
Discussion: Crooked Timber and EconLog
Martin Daubney / Telegraph:
Advertisers now portray men the way they portrayed women in the 1950s: as either dumb or pretty
Discussion: Shot in the Dark
Daily Mail:
Lunch between the French and Iranian leaders is CANCELLED after President Hollande refused …
Discussion: The Federalist
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Clinton Foundation on collision course with campaign
Tajha Chappellet-Lanier / The Atlantic:
A Suspension for Melissa Click
Discussion: The Week
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Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
Citizens United Demands Why Clinton Donor Wasn't Jailed After Numerous Deaths
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Instapundit
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
The admiral in charge of Navy intelligence has not been allowed to see military secrets for years
New York Post:
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