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7:40 PM ET, January 28, 2016

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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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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders unloads on The Washington Post  —  DES MOINES — Move over, Donald Trump.  Stand aside, Fox News.  There's a new feud underway between a presidential candidate and a news media organization — this one between a Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and the editorial page of this newspaper.
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.
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:   Bernie Sanders Is Democrats' Top Beneficiary of Outside Spending, Like it or Not
Olivier Knox / Yahoo Politics:
Biden: Trump or Cruz nomination ‘a gift from the Lord’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:   Trump Leads Iowa; Some Rays of Hope for Cruz, Rubio
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
WaPost: Sanders campaign ‘fiction’
Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story and CNN
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Trump Campaign Manager: Trump Will Debate Cruz Once Judge Rules Him Eligible To Run  —  “Once you've gotten that ruling from the federal judge and you're the last man standing in this presidential contest next to Donald Trump, we'll be happy to have a debate with you one-on-one, anywhere you want.”
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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
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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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
How to watch Donald Trump's veterans event  —  Thursday night was supposed to belong to Fox News.  —  But Donald Trump upended Fox's plans by choosing to skip the latest Republican debate in favor of his own fundraiser for veterans in Des Moines, Iowa, creating unexpected competition for the cable news channel.
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 …
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
For Years, Trump's Charity Gave Veterans Little More Than Peanuts
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 …
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 …
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Progress Michigan:
Document: Snyder Admin Trucked In Clean Water for State Building in January 2015  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Contact: Sam Inglot, 616-916-0574, sam@progressmichigan.org  —  Latest revelation shows unequal treatment in Flint Water Crisis  —  LANSING — The Snyder administration quietly trucked …
Julia Lurie / Mother Jones:
Long Before Helping Flint, Michigan Officials Were Shipping Clean Water to Their Own Workers
Discussion: The Week, Common Dreams and Daily Kos
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
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 …
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Hillary Clinton and the audacity of political realism
Michael A. Cohen / BostonGlobe.com:
What happens in Iowa . . . doesn't matter
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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
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.
Jenna Portnoy / Washington Post:
Va. will once again recognize concealed carry permits from other states  —  RICHMOND — Gov. Terry McAuliffe plans to announce Friday that Virginia will restore handgun reciprocity agreements with nearly all states, in a stunning reversal of a firearms policy that had angered Republicans and gun rights advocates across the nation.
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 …
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Shake-Up at Politico Is Expected After November Election  —  A founder of Politico, Jim VandeHei, and one of the organization's best-known journalists, Mike Allen, plan to leave the publication after the November presidential election, according to two people with knowledge of the matter …
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.
 
 
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