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An Iowa win might make the Trump train unstoppable — DES MOINES — Ted Cruz and Donald Trump do agree on one thing—if Trump wins Iowa, he might be unstoppable on his way to winning the Republican presidential nomination. — And they are not alone. — A wide range of senior Republicans …
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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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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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GOP insiders: It was a rough night for Ted Cruz — In the final debate before Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses, Ted Cruz had the worst night of the seven GOP presidential candidates on stage Thursday . — That's according to a plurality of the Republican members of The POLITICO Caucus …
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Ted Cruz threatened to leave the debate after a ‘mean question’
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Top 10 moments of the GOP debate
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Santorum, Huckabee to attend Trump's anti-debate event
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Biden: Trump or Cruz nomination ‘a gift from the Lord’
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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

With no Trump onstage, GOP debate focuses on Cruz, policy, other issues

What happens in Iowa . . . doesn't matter
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Washington Monthly


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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A memo from POLITICO's founder and publisher Robert Allbritton — A memo sent by Robert Allbritton, founder and publisher of POLITICO: — “A decade ago, early in 2006, I made a decision to start a new newspaper focused on Capitol Hill. The idea, as I saw it at the time …
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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 …


Politico's Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen departing
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The Daily Caller

Politico Will Lose Its Co-Founder and 4 Others
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Politico and FishbowlDC


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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Oregon militia standoff: one dead after Ammon Bundy and others arrested
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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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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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How to watch Donald Trump's veterans event
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Mediaite, Washington Post and Talking Points Memo


Document: Snyder Admin Trucked In Clean Water for State Building in January 2015 — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News from Progress Michigan January 28, 2016 Contact: Sam Inglot, 616-916-0574, sam@progressmichigan.org Document: Snyder Admin Trucked In Clean Water for State Building …
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Michigan Officials Quietly Gave Bottled Water To State Employees Months Before Flint Residents
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Long Before Helping Flint, Michigan Officials Were Shipping Clean Water to Their Own Workers
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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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Why Is Jim Gilmore Even Running for President?
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Yahoo Politics

Sanders workers are masquerading as Culinary members to campaign inside hotels
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Jeb Bush is best choice for Republican nomination — It's time to stop treating the election of the next president of the United States as a game show without serious consequences. For Republicans fighting for both the soul of their party and the White House, the best choice is former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
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The Hill


Apple Said Developing Wireless-Charged Phone for as Soon as 2017 — Technology could power devices further away than charging mats — Apple said trying to overcome technical challenge of distance — Apple Inc. is working with partners in the U.S. and Asia to develop new wireless charging technology …


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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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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