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5:30 PM ET, January 28, 2016

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The Federalist:
Trump's New Pro-Veterans Website Directs All Donations To Trump's Personal Foundation  —  After ducking the final Republican presidential debate heading into next week's Iowa caucuses, GOP front-runner Donald Trump announced that he would hold his own pro-veterans event during the debate to raise money for veterans.
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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.
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.
Kim LaCapria / snopes:
The Kelly Beguiles  —  A Saudi prince doesn't really “co-own” Fox News, and Fox political commentator Megyn Kelly didn't pose with him.  —  Claim: A photograph shows Fox political commentator Megyn Kelly posing with a Saudi prince who co-owns Fox News.  —  MOSTLY FALSE
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Fox says Donald Trump is not telling the truth about its debate ad rates
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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 …
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 …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Hillary Clinton and the audacity of political realism
Alex Seitz-Wald / MSNBC:
Sanders camp suspicious of Microsoft's influence in Iowa Caucus
Discussion: The Hill, Hot Air and The Verge
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 …
Jon Ralston / Ralston Reports:
Sanders workers are masquerading as Culinary members to campaign inside hotels  —  Operatives from Bernie Sanders' campaign have donned Culinary union pins and secured access to employee areas inside Strip hotels to try to garner votes for the Feb. 20 caucus, sources confirm.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Bernie Sanders in ‘overall very good health,’ doctor writes  —  Bernie Sanders is “in overall very good health,” the attending Senate physician said in a letter released Thursday summarizing the Vermont senator's medical evaluation.  —  “You are in overall very good health and active …
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:   Bernie Sanders Is Democrats' Top Beneficiary of Outside Spending, Like it or Not
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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Evan Perez / CNN:
Oregon occupiers: What officials say happened at traffic stop  —  (CNN)A high-speed getaway attempt and a reach for the waistband are said to have prompted police SWAT team members to open fire on a group of leaders of the Oregon armed occupiers.  —  A law enforcement official described …
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Conrad Wilson / OPB:
More Arrests As FBI Negotiates With Remaining Militants
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 …
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Pema Levy / Mother Jones:
Cruz's Closing Argument in Iowa: Trump Is a Liberal in Disguise
Discussion: Mediaite and Yahoo Politics
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Michigan Officials Quietly Gave Bottled Water To State Employees Months Before Flint Residents  —  The Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget decided to haul water coolers into the Flint state building in January of 2015 out of concern over the city's water quality …
Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: Man carrying two guns and a copy of the Koran hidden in a bag is arrested at DisneyLand Paris as police hunt woman accomplice  —  A man has been arrested at DisneyLand Paris carrying two handguns, ammunition, and a copy of the Koran, but police are still hunting his female companion.
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.
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
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Clinton Foundation on collision course with campaign  —  The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation increasingly seen as a distraction by supporters of Hillary Clinton's presidential bid is considering dialing back its activity during the campaign and a potential Clinton presidency …
Andre Walker / Townhall.com:
Ten Years Ago Today Al Gore Said The World Would End Because of Climate Change  —  Watch out world, and we are sorry if you had not realised before reading this, the world is ending today.  That's because today is the day that climate change entrepreneur, and former US Vice President …
Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
Fresh off saying Maine should revive the guillotine to decapitate drug dealers, Gov. Paul LePage (R) said Wednesday that private citizens should get in on the criminal-killing action too.  —  “I tell ya, everybody in Maine, we have constitutional carry,” LePage said in an on-camera interview in Lewiston …
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 …
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
 
 
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Angelica Serrano / Des Moines Register:
Why Iowa fast-food workers are going on strike
Tom Metcalf / Bloomberg Business:
Zuckerberg's Fortune Passes Kochs
Discussion: Mashable and NBC News
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump Leads Iowa; Some Rays of Hope for Cruz, Rubio
Discussion: Members
Chicago Tribune:
Dennis Hastert nearly died, lawyer says; judge postpones sentencing
Discussion: Political Wire and Chicagoist
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Ex-Pentagon chief donates to Feingold
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Antoinette Ramseur / WTKR-TV:
Six family members dead in murder-suicide in Chesapeake
Discussion: The Atlantic and AOL
Daily Mail:
Lunch between the French and Iranian leaders is CANCELLED after President Hollande refused …
Discussion: The Federalist
Tajha Chappellet-Lanier / The Atlantic:
A Suspension for Melissa Click
Discussion: The Week
Matt Bai / Yahoo Politics:
So much for the political revolution. In 2016, everything old is new again.
Discussion: MSNBC and Agence France-Presse
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
An Unprecedented Threat to Privacy
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