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5:35 PM ET, February 5, 2016

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James Pindell / BostonGlobe.com:
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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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Poll: Sanders nearly tied with Clinton nationwide  —  Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has dramatically cut into the nationwide lead of primary rival Hillary Clinton, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.  —  The poll released Friday finds Clinton leading the race …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ben Carson Compares Cruz's Reaction To Iowa Controversy To Clinton's Benghazi Response  —  “I'm not saying that it rises to the level up Benghazi, I'm saying it's the same kind of attitude.”  —  Mark Wilson / Getty Images  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  Ben Carson questioned the Christian morality …
Fred Thys / WBUR:
WBUR Poll: In N.H., Democratic Race Tightens Slightly, Trump Stays Ahead On GOP Side  —  With four days to go until voting, a new WBUR poll finds a somewhat tightening race in the Democratic presidential primary.  —  The poll (topline, Democratic crosstabs) — conducted over three nights …
Erick Erickson / Townhall.com:
Cruz vs. Rubio
Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
Wife crashes her own funeral, horrifying her husband, who had paid to have her killed  —  Noela Rukundo sat in a car outside her home, watching as the last few mourners filed out.  They were leaving a funeral — her funeral.  —  Finally, she spotted the man she'd been waiting for.
Discussion: theGrio, Shakesville and The Week
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Richard Hooper / BBC:
Spared by the hitmen with principles  —  One year ago a group of gunmen in Burundi was hired to kill a woman visiting from Australia.  But the hit did not go as planned, leaving her with a chance to turn the tables on the man who wanted her dead.  —  “I felt like somebody who had risen again,” says Noela Rukundo.
Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
Why did MSNBC put Rachel Maddow on the debate stage?  —  Rachel Maddow did a pretty good job in questioning Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders at MSNBC's Democratic debate last night.  —  But she shouldn't have been on that stage as a moderator, sitting next to Chuck Todd, NBC's political director and moderator of “Meet the Press.”
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
MSNBC's Democratic debate is lowest rated of the season
Ryan Gully / Eye Opener:
Hills That Defy Gravity: That's Weird  —  A strange phenomenon can be experienced on a hill in the small town of Middlesex, New York.  The location on Newell Road has come to be known as “Spook Hill.”  —  At the peak of the road, just as the pavement appears to decline, a car stopped in neutral will roll backwards up-hill.
Discussion: WQAD-TV
Melissa Fares / Reuters:
Sanders supporters banned from Tinder after campaigning on dating app  —  Stumping for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Tinder is getting some women banned from the online dating app after sending campaign messages to prospective matches.  —  Two women - one from Iowa …
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Eric Bradner / CNN:   Bernie Sanders: Prolific Democratic Party fundraiser
CNNMoney:
Bernie Sanders to appear on ‘Saturday Night Live’ with Larry David
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
Allison Yang / New York's PIX11:
NYC crane collapse: 1 killed, 3 injured after massive crane crashes onto cars; it was ‘like an earthquake’  —  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. …
Discussion: WTVR-TV, Fox 59 and Q13 FOX News
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The Twitter Blog:
Combating Violent Extremism  —  Like most people around the world, we are horrified by the atrocities perpetrated by extremist groups.  We condemn the use of Twitter to promote terrorism and the Twitter Rules make it clear that this type of behavior, or any violent threat, is not permitted on our service.
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Eamon Javers / CNBC:
Twitter shuts down 125K terrorist accounts
Discussion: The Tower and The Week
CNN:
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.
Discussion: TheStreet.com
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Martin Longman / Washington Monthly:
The Democratic Camps are Getting Nasty
Discussion: Mother Jones
Los Angeles Times:
Sluggish jobs report raises questions about the direction of U.S. economy  —  Workers inspect Ford F-150 trucks before they get painted at the company's Kansas City Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Mo.  —  For the last two years, America's job-creation machine has been like “The Little Engine That Could …
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Andy Nguyen / Eye Opener:
We're Gunna Eat HOW Much On Super Bowl Sunday?! … Super Bowl is the second largest day for food consumption in the U.  —  S.?  —  Here are some  —  game day  —  numbers for you to chew on.  —  According to the National Chicken Council, more than 1.3 billion wings are expected to be devoured
Discussion: Fox17, WQAD-TV and FOX 61
Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Donald Trump Cancels All New Hampshire Events Today  —  I don't know if Donald Trump doesn't understand how much the voters of Iowa and New Hampshire expect to have their pinky ring kissed, or whether he doesn't care.  In either event, he still appears to have learned very little from his loss in Iowa.
Discussion: CNN and The Week
Jack Shafer / Politico:
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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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
The chart above plots the popularity of the baby name “Hillary” between 1970 and 2014.
Discussion: RedState
Kate Hairopoulos / Dallas Morning News:
Johnny Manziel's father: If son doesn't get help, QB 'won't live to see his 24th birthday'  —  Johnny Manziel's family is concerned for his well-being as his NFL career and personal life falter, but the quarterback has twice declined to be admitted to area rehabilitation facilities in the last week …
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
RJ editorial board endorses Marco Rubio for Nevada Republican caucus  —  With Iowa's caucuses in the rearview mirror and New Hampshire's primaries just ahead, we are reminded that the 2016 presidential race — the real race — finally is underway.  After many months of considering candidates' positions …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Washington Post airbrushes Obama's mosque visit
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Anti-Trump super-PAC's secret weapon: John McCain
Miles Brignall / Guardian:
‘Error 53’ fury mounts as Apple software update threatens to kill your iPhone 6
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Utah Fusion Center Warns Cops: Watch Out for Don't-Tread-on-Me Flags
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
The sexist double standard behind why millennials love Bernie Sanders
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Is Going To The Next Fox Debate Hosted By Megyn Kelly
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Katy Barnato / CNBC:
Citi: World economy trapped in ‘death spiral’
Andrew Blake / Washington Times:
Obama depicted as murderous devil in downtown Moscow
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