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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.
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Washington Times, The Moderate Voice, RedState, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
Reuters:
Trump's Fox News debate fight widens Republican rift — Donald Trump will widen a rupture between his supporters and the Republican Party establishment on Thursday when he boycotts a presidential debate in a snub to Fox News only days before the 2016 election season starts in earnest.
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Kim LaCapria / snopes:
The Kelly Beguiles — A Saudi prince doesn't really “co-own” …
The Kelly Beguiles — A Saudi prince doesn't really “co-own” …
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Vox, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, Right Wing Watch, Business Insider, Daily Kos and Mediaite
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Santorum, Huckabee to attend Trump's anti-debate event
Santorum, Huckabee to attend Trump's anti-debate event
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Politico, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, UPI and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Trumph of the Will — I wanted to make a couple related …
The Trumph of the Will — I wanted to make a couple related …
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Little Green Footballs and The Moderate Voice
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.
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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.
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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CNN, VegasInc.com, ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, Slantpoint, Politico, Daily Kos and The Daily Caller
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Study: Bernie Sanders's single-payer plan is almost twice as expensive as he says
Study: Bernie Sanders's single-payer plan is almost twice as expensive as he says
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Washington Post, Balloon Juice, New York Times and The Huffington Post
Hadas Gold / Politico:
A memo from POLITICO CEO Jim VandeHei — A memo from POLITICO CEO Jim VandeHei: — “So now you know the news: I am leaving POLITICO after the election. — The timing is poetic: it will mark my 10th Anniversary, almost to the day. I came in just as the Barack Obama phenomenon exploded …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Massive Shakeup At Politico With Co-Founder Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen Set To Leave — Who will win the morning now? — Washington Bureau Chief, The Huffington Post — Politico CEO Jim VandeHei is expected to leave the company he co-founded later this year in what staffers believe will be a major shake-up.
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and Mediaite
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Politico's Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen departing
Politico's Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen departing
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The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Politico Will Lose Its Co-Founder and 4 Others
Politico Will Lose Its Co-Founder and 4 Others
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FishbowlDC
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
How to watch Donald Trump's veterans event
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Marco Rubio's Camp Sees Opening if Donald Trump Wins in Iowa
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
For Years, Trump's Charity Gave Veterans Little More Than Peanuts
For Years, Trump's Charity Gave Veterans Little More Than Peanuts
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Fox News, Washington Post, CNN, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, PoliticusUSA, The Federalist, BizPac Review, The Daily Beast, RedState, Hot Air, ThinkProgress and The Hill
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 …
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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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Detroit Free Press, FiveThirtyEight, Slantpoint, The Bob and Chez Show, The Atlantic, Balloon Juice and RH Reality Check
Julia Lurie / Mother Jones:
Long Before Helping Flint, Michigan Officials Were Shipping Clean Water to Their Own Workers
Long Before Helping Flint, Michigan Officials Were Shipping Clean Water to Their Own Workers
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Common Dreams, The Week and Daily Kos
USA Today:
FBI releases video of shooting death of Oregon protester — The FBI arrested three more people in connection with the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. The arrests come a day after eight armed protesters were taken into custody.
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Mediaite, Washington Times and Oregonian
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Evan Perez / CNN:
Oregon occupiers: What officials say happened at traffic stop
Oregon occupiers: What officials say happened at traffic stop
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Mashable, Raw Story, American Power, Bearing Arms, KOIN-TV and WSPA-TV
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 …
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Tucker Carlson / Politico:
Donald Trump Is Shocking, Vulgar and Right — About 15 years ago, I said something nasty on CNN about Donald Trump's hair. I can't now remember the context, assuming there was one. In any case, Trump saw it and left a message the next day. — “It's true you have better hair than I do,” Trump said matter-of-factly.
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Olivier Knox / Yahoo Politics:
Biden: Trump or Cruz nomination ‘a gift from the Lord’ — Vice President Joe Biden told fellow Democrats on Thursday that they should see it as “a gift from the Lord” if Republicans nominate Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas or billionaire businessman Donald Trump for president in 2016.
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Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
Ted Cruz Gathers Hundreds To Oppose Abortion
Ted Cruz Gathers Hundreds To Oppose Abortion
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Cruz for President, Right Wing Watch, RH Reality Check, Advocate and Washington Monthly
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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Politico, The Last Tradition, Hot Air, Power Line and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Hillary Clinton and the audacity of political realism
Hillary Clinton and the audacity of political realism
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Consortiumnews.com and Campaign for America's Future
Michael A. Cohen / BostonGlobe.com:
What happens in Iowa . . . doesn't matter
What happens in Iowa . . . doesn't matter
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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.
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Tops His Rivals in Use of Outside Money
Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Is This the End of the GOP as We Know It? — Historian Rick Perlstein on the rise of Trump, the fall of Reagan, and the fate of contemporary conservatism. — Rick Perlstein has established himself as the pre-eminent historian of modern conservatism. Starting in 2001, with Before the Storm …
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Raw Story, Hullabaloo, The Conversation and Crooked Timber
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.
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RedState, Townhall.com, Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller and Bearing Arms
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
WH: Obama doesn't want Supreme Court appointment — White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Thursday threw cold water on the idea President Obama would accept an appointment to the Supreme Court after he leaves office. — Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton floated …
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Mediaite, Towleroad, The Daily Caller, LifeNews.com, BizPac Review, MSNBC and Hot Air