Hillary gains ground in New Hampshire: poll  —  Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is cutting further into primary rival Bernie Sanders's New Hampshire lead, picking up 7 net points overnight, according to a UMass Lowell/7 News tracking poll released Friday.

Clinton Says Victory Is Still Possible in New Hampshire  —  After a near-miss in Iowa, she's looking for another revival from Granite State voters as Bernie Sanders holds lead in polls.  —  jeneps  —  Hillary Clinton is looking at the past as a possible prologue to next Tuesday's New Hampshire primary.

Why can't Hillary Clinton find a good answer on Goldman Sachs?  Maybe there isn't one.  —  Stop a random person on the street, ask them to describe Hillary Clinton's biggest problem as a candidate, and a list that is almost certain to include the following will emerge.

Iraqi migrant rapes a 10-year-old boy at a swimming pool in Vienna and tells police it was a ‘sexual emergency’ because he hadn't had sex in months  —  A 10-year-old boy was so brutally raped by an Iraqi migrant in a swimming pool cubicle that he had to be hospitalised for his injuries.

Illegal immigrant is arrested over murder of American nanny in Austria after she took him in to stop him being deported - and is revealed to have raped underage girl  — Lauren Mann, 25, was found half-naked, face-down on a mattress at her apartment in Austrian capital last month

House votes to make ballot collection a felony  —  PHOENIX — Republican lawmakers approved a measure Thursday that would make felons out of people who return the early ballots of others to the polls.  —  The 34-23 House vote, with every Democrat present opposed, was propelled by arguments that the current system is ripe for fraud.

Rubio Immigration Record  —  Politico reports:  —  “Arturo Vargas, the executive director for the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, said Rubio, the son of Cuban exiles born in Miami, blocked ‘scorched-earth’ legislation that sought to clamp down on illegal immigration.

Trent Lott: I'd have thrown out Cruz for ‘liar’ speech  —  Trent Lott (R-Miss.) says he would take a hard line with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) if he was still running the Senate.  —  Cruz, a presidential candidate, assailed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in a floor speech last year …

Twitter To Introduce Algorithmic Timeline As Soon As Next Week  —  A Tweetstorm is brewing in San Francisco.  —  Say hello to a brand new Twitter.  The company is planning to introduce an algorithmic timeline as soon as next week, BuzzFeed News has learned.

DHS ordered me to scrub records of Muslims with terror ties  —  Amid the chaos of the 2009 holiday travel season, jihadists planned to slaughter 290 innocent travelers on a Christmas Day flight from the Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan.  Twenty-three-year old Nigerian Muslim Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab intended …