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Is New Hampshire about to flip the script for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders? — David Axelrod is CNN's senior political commentator and host of the podcast “The Axe Files.” He was senior adviser to President Barack Obama and chief strategist for the 2008 and 2012 Obama campaigns.
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Clinton and Sanders just had the election's most explosive exchange to date — The niceties are finished. — After a string of debates where Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders discussed (and occasionally disagreed about) the fine points of progressive policy, the two finally had a full-fledged throwdown Thursday night.
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Hillary Clinton Is Again Put on the Defensive Over Perceived Ties to Wall Street — MANCHESTER, N.H. — Hillary Clinton appeared frustrated. — Dozens of prominent economists and academic experts have endorsed her plans to regulate the financial sector. Her policies would …
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A Debate Between a Hedgehog and a Fox — Clinton and Sanders debate on January 18, 2016. David Goldman / AP — With the New Hampshire primaries just days away, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders met on a debate stage in Durham on Thursday. In their first one-on-one matchup …
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Poll: Sanders nearly tied with Clinton nationwide
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Fight Night! — Senior Night Out turns into Fight Night …
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Bernie Sanders ad claims or implies endorsements from New Hampshire newspapers
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Insiders: Bernie scored in debate with Wall Street slams
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Democratic Presidential Debate: 7 Moments That Mattered
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In Democratic Debate, Candidates Clash on Money's Role
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Hillary Clinton's Problem Isn't That She's Not Progressive, It's That She's Cautious
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Our Man in New Hampshire: The Exit of Martin O'Malley
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Political Wire

Think the Iowa polls were bad? Wait until New Hampshire — Pollsters in Iowa are searching for answers after they failed to predict Ted Cruz's victory over Donald Trump and Marco Rubio. It might even be worse next week in New Hampshire. — Pollsters and other observers surveyed …
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New poll shows Rubio closing in on Trump — PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — With four days until New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary, the Republican contest is tightening at the top and churning in the middle as nearly a third of likely Republican voters say they could still change their mind …
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Political Wire


Trump on Cruz feud: 'I don't care about that anymore' — Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN)The day after accusing Ted Cruz of winning the Iowa caucuses unfairly and asking for a rematch in the state, Donald Trump says he's now over it. — “I'm so much into this, into New Hampshire …
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Carson: Cruz staff must be punished for ‘deceptive’ voicemail — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is warning rival Ted Cruz that he must hold his campaign staff accountable for suggesting the retired neurosurgeon was dropping out of the 2016 race.
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit and Radio Iowa


Donald Trump Holds Substantial Lead in New Hampshire, According to Poll
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Poll: Trump Holds Lead in New Hampshire as Rubio Gains Ground
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An Editorial — Joseph W. McQuaid, Publisher: Of polls, pundits, and rubes
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National poll: Sanders zooms into virtual tie with Clinton
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Now starring in a Christie ad: Rick Santorum
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Talking Points Memo and The Resurgent

EXCLUSIVE-Voicemails: ‘Ben Carson Suspending Campaigning’; Cruz: ‘Accurate Report’


NYC crane collapse: 1 killed, 3 injured after crane falls on cars in TriBeCa — LOWER MANHATTAN — A massive crane collapsed onto a row of cars in TriBeCa Friday morning, killing one person and injuring three others. — Reports of the fallen crane at 40 Worth St., near Church Street …
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At least one person killed, two seriously injured when construction crane collapses in lower Manhattan — One person was killed and two more were seriously injured when a construction crane tumbled onto a Tribeca street Friday morning, officials said. — The crane fell on a row of parked cars …
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Why Liberals Should Support a Trump Republican Nomination — He'd probably be a better president than his rivals. — The initial stupefaction and dismay with which liberals greeted Donald Trump's candidacy have slowly given way to feelings of Schadenfreude— reveling in the suffering of others …
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The Daily Caller

Time for Chelsea Clinton's Easy Ride to End — When precisely did Chelsea Clinton complete her transition from a White House kid whom journalists agreed to treat as off-limits to a public figure deserving of the full scrutiny of the press corps? — The unsettling answer to the question appears to be, “Not yet.”
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News


In Iran, State-Backed Companies Win From Lifted Sanctions — TEHRAN — Only weeks into what was widely anticipated to be a helter-skelter, post-sanctions rush of Western money and expertise into Iran, limits to the country's opening are beginning to emerge as the conservative leadership seeks to limit the reach of Western influences.
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Washington Free Beacon


Donald Trump supporters think about morality differently than other voters. Here's how. — Moral Foundations Theory was invented to compare different human cultures. But it can also explain our political landscape. — How on Earth can anyone vote for that ... [fill in the blank]?
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Mother Jones


Obama risks being stained by Clinton scandal — As new revelations make clear the intentional and likely criminal nature of Hillary Clinton's email scheme, President Obama is risking his legacy on a potentially devastating corruption scandal. — There is nothing to suggest Obama has intervened …


Refugees Go Clubbing In Russia, Harass Girls, Wake Up In Hospital The Next Morning — A group of 51 refugees were brutally assaulted outside a night club in Murmansk, Russia, after they groped and molested women at a night club Saturday. — The refugees had previously been ordered to leave Norway for …
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