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12:15 AM ET, January 31, 2016

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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Donald Trump reclaims lead in latest Iowa Poll  —  Donald Trump has muscled ahead in Iowa, regaining his lead on the brink of the first votes being cast in the 2016 presidential race.  —  Trump stands at 28 percent, while rival Ted Cruz has slid to 23 percent.
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Caleb Howe / RedState:
RESULTS ARE IN: Winner of Des Moines Register's Final Iowa Poll Before The Caucus  —  The big political news of the weekend is here, and the Des Moines Register's poll results are out.  Here we go:  —  Trump wins.  Cruz is close.  Rubio third, and Carson fourth.  Here's the rest of the field.
John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Overtakes Cruz in Final Iowa Poll Before Caucuses  —  Donald Trump has overtaken Ted Cruz in the final days before Iowa's caucuses, with the fate of the race closely tied to the size of Monday evening's turnout, especially among evangelical voters and those attending for the first time …
Des Moines Register:
Clinton keeps slim edge over Sanders in latest Iowa Poll  —  Hillary Clinton has kept a tight grip on her slim lead over Bernie Sanders in the waning hours leading into the Iowa caucuses, a new Iowa Poll shows.  —  Clinton is the top pick for 45 percent of likely Democratic caucusgoers …
Discussion: TIME and Daily Kos
Des Moines Register:
A closer look at the GOP's Iowa Poll results  —  Horse race rank: No. 1  —  Support: 28 percent, up from 22 percent  —  Mainstream Republicans are helping carry the New York businessman into the lead.  —  Thirty-eight percent of likely GOP caucusgoers identify themselves as primarily mainstream …
MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:
Iowa Political Parties Acknowledge Major Gap in Online Caucus Tool
Discussion: Associated Press and abc13.com
Sarah Rumpf / Independent Journal Review:
He Said He Was An Undecided Iowan Until He He Received This Controversial Mailer From Ted Cruz.  —  Sarah Rumpf is a journalist, attorney, and caffeine addict living in Austin, Texas.  Follow her on Twitter @rumpfshaker.  —  ShareTweetEmail  —  Independent Journal Opinion is an opinion platform …
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Top Iowa elections official slams Cruz mailer  —  AMES, Iowa — Iowa's top elections official condemned Ted Cruz's campaign on Saturday for sending mailers to Iowa voters designed to look like official documents that accuse them of a “VOTING VIOLATION” for failure to turn out in past elections.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP braces for Trump Iowa result  —  Republican senators, the pillars of the party establishment, are anxiously awaiting the Iowa caucuses on Monday to find out if Donald Trump is the real deal or simply a media-hyped mirage.  —  GOP strategists expect between 150,000 and 185,000 voters will turn out …
Discussion: Politico
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Iowa Official Criticizes Cruz Campaign Over Mailer  —  HAMLIN, Iowa — Iowa's secretary of state chastised the presidential campaign of Senator Ted Cruz on Saturday for sending a mailer that he said violated “the spirit of the Iowa caucuses” and misrepresented state election law.
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Cruz Endorser Questions Authenticity Of Mailers That Campaign Confirmed Were Real  —  AMES, Iowa — Iowa radio host Steve Deace, a top Ted Cruz endorser in this state, claimed on Saturday that controversial mailers sent to Iowa voters by the Cruz campaign were inauthentic …
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Flag thrown on Ted Cruz's Iowa ground game
Sundance / The Last Refuge:
Unbelievable - Ted Cruz Campaign Sends Out Personal “Shaming Letters” To Iowa Voters...
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Nomination  —  Voters have the chance to choose one of the most broadly and deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history.  —  For the past painful year, the Republican presidential contenders have been bombarding Americans with empty propaganda slogans …
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New York Times:
A Chance to Reset the Republican Race  —  The battle to be the Republican choice for president has been nasty, brutish and anything but short.  The hope among some Republicans is that the Iowa caucuses on Monday and the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 9 will promote a candidate who can appeal …
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Clinton: I didn't generate any ‘top secret’ emails
Discussion: RedState
Denver Post:
At least 9 people taken to area hospitals  —  Multiple shootings and a stabbing were reported at the Denver Coliseum Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016.  (Andy Cross, The Denver Post)  —  Multiple shootings and at least one stabbing have been reported at the Denver Coliseum Saturday afternoon.
Discussion: Fox News, WTVR-TV and The Right Scoop
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Sanders, Clinton Campaigns Agree To More Debates, Disagree On The Details  —  MANCHESTER, Iowa — The campaigns of the two major candidates for the Democratic nomination have agreed to hold four more debates, should they be sanctioned, sources from both the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigns tell BuzzFeed News.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
DNC moving to assert control as more Democratic debates agreed
Discussion: Hot Air, Yahoo Politics and Mediaite
Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: US declares 22 Clinton emails ‘top secret’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration confirmed for the first time Friday that Hillary Clinton's unsecured home server contained closely guarded government secrets, censoring 22 emails with material requiring one of the highest levels of classification.
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New York Post:
Hillary's lame excuses for her e-mail misconduct are crumbling
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
22 Clinton Emails Deemed Too Classified to Be Made Public
Daily Mail:
EU leaders insist there is ‘NO LINK’ between the migrant crisis and New Year sex attacks in Cologne - and vow to bring about an end to ‘false accusations’  —  There is ‘no link’ between the migrant crisis and the wave of sex attacks in Cologne during New Year celebrations, EU officials believe.
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Matthew Holehouse / Telegraph:
EU leaders: ‘No link’ between Cologne sex attacks and migrant crisis
Discussion: Pamela Geller and National Review
BBC:
Why does Sweden have more boys than girls?  —  There is something odd going on with the ratio between boys and girls in Sweden.  The latest estimates suggest there are 123 boys for every 100 girls among 16 and 17-year-olds.  That's an even greater imbalance than in the same age group in China.
Baltimore Sun:
Obama to visit Baltimore County mosque, marking first visit to a U.S. mosque as president … President Barack Obama will visit a mosque in Baltimore County next week amid growing concern about hostility directed toward Muslim Americans — marking the first time Obama has visited a U.S. mosque as president.
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RFE / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Finland To Follow Sweden In Expelling Nearly 20,000 Migrants
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New York Post:
New York Giants' Jay Bromley accused of attempted rape
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Oliver Darcy / TheBlaze.com:
Paul Ryan on Who Is to Blame for Divided GOP & Why Being Called ‘Establishment’ Is ‘Sign of Success’
Discussion: Mediaite
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Pentagon won't demote Petraeus
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