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11:15 PM ET, January 9, 2020

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Who Will Win The 2020 Democratic Nomination?  —  Our latest forecast for how many pledged delegates each candidate will win after all states have voted  —  FiveThirtyEight's model simulates the primary season thousands of times to find the most likely outcome for each candidate.
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden and Sanders vie for lead in Nevada, Biden tops Trump  —  Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders remain the top picks for the Democratic nomination among Nevada caucusgoers, while Elizabeth Warren fades and Tom Steyer gains momentum.  In the general election contest …
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren's surprising closing argument  —  Elizabeth Warren is often portrayed in media as a figure of the left-wing, locked in a battle with Bernie Sanders for the progressive base of the party.  In fact, polling frequently shows she's the second choice not just of Sanders voters …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
How Serious Is Tom Steyer's Polling Surge?
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Races tighten between Trump and Democrats in Wisconsin
Discussion: The Hill
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Surging Steyer qualifies for Democratic debate
Discussion: Axios, The Hill, MSNBC and CNN
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden ahead by 21 points among South Carolina Democrats
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
Video Shows Ukrainian Plane Being Hit Over Iran  —  The New York Times has obtained video that shows the moment a Ukrainian airliner was hit minutes after takeoff from Tehran.  —  Video verified by The New York Times appears to show an Iranian missile hitting a plane above Parand …
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Newsweek:
Iranian missile system shot down Ukraine flight, probably by mistake, sources say  —  The Ukrainian flight that crashed just outside the Iranian capital of Tehran was struck by an anti-aircraft missile system, a Pentagon official, a senior U.S. intelligence official and an Iraqi intelligence official told Newsweek.
New York Times:
Iranian Missile Accidentally Brought Down Ukrainian Jet, Officials Say, Citing Early Evidence  —  An Iranian surface-to-air missile brought down the jetliner, killing everyone aboard, Canada's prime minister said, citing intelligence reports and echoing U.S. officials' conclusions.
Associated Press:
US officials: ‘Highly likely’ Iran downed Ukrainian jetliner
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
GOP senator who erupted over Iran briefing shares awful new details  —  If President Trump made the decision to assassinate the supreme leader of Iran, would he need to come to Congress to get authorization for it?  —  The Trump administration won't say.  —  That remarkable claim …
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Tensions with Trump over Iran expose concerns about the role of Congress in making war
Discussion: Alternet.org and Daily Kos
Will Steakin / ABC News:
Trump hits campaign trial in Ohio amid dampening Iran crisis
Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart and IJR
Paul LeBlanc / CNN:   Amash says ‘I do think’ Trump abused his power with Soleimani strike
Just Security:   Why the 2002 AUMF Does Not Apply to Iran
Washington Post:
Justice Dept. winds down Clinton-related inquiry once championed by Trump.  It found nothing of consequence.  —  A Justice Department inquiry launched more than two years ago to mollify conservatives clamoring for more investigations of Hillary Clinton has effectively ended with no tangible results …
Afua Hirsch / New York Times:
Black Britons Know Why Meghan Markle Wants Out  —  It's the racism.  —  Ms. Hirsch is the author of “Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging.”  —  The British press has succeeded in its apparent project of hounding Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, out of Britain.
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Rebecca English / Daily Mail:
Harry and Meghan to step back as senior royals
Natalie Kitroeff / New York Times:
Boeing Employees Mocked F.A.A. in Internal Messages  —  “We regret the content of these communications, and apologize to the F.A.A., Congress, our airline customers, and to the flying public for them,” the company said.  —  Boeing sent Congress more than a hundred pages of documents on Thursday …
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Army general denies request by officer pardoned by Trump to have his Special Forces tab reinstated  —  An Army general has denied a request by an officer pardoned in an open murder case by President Trump to have his Special Forces tab reinstated, setting up a potential showdown between senior defense officials and the White House.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Trump Has Made Us All Stupid  —  The decline of discourse in the anti-Trump echo chamber.  —  Donald Trump is impulse-driven, ignorant, narcissistic and intellectually dishonest.  So you'd think that those of us in the anti-Trump camp would go out of our way to show we're not like him …
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
College Professor Out After Joke Suggesting Iran List U.S. Cultural Targets  —  Asheen Phansey is no longer employed by Babson College after joking that Iran should target Minnesota's Mall of America and a home of the Kardashian family.  —  An adjunct professor is no longer on staff …
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Adam Steinbaugh / FIRE:
Babson College abandons freedom of expression, fires professor over Facebook post criticizing Trump threat to bomb Iran cultural sites  —  At Babson College, the climate of freedom of expression feels like 2003 all over again.  Today, the college announced its completion of a “thorough investigation” …
Tom Winter / NBC News:
Surveillance video from Jeffrey Epstein's first apparent suicide attempt ‘no longer exists’  —  Officials at the federal jail housing Epstein preserved video from the wrong floor due to a clerical error.  —  The surveillance footage taken from outside Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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Devan Cole / CNN:
‘I left parts of my body in Iraq’: Duckworth rips into GOP rep who said Democrats ‘love’ terrorists  —  Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who lost both of her legs serving in the Iraq War, on Thursday ripped into the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee …
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Wall Street Journal:   Trump's New National Security Team Made Fast Work of Iran Strike
CNN:
How Pompeo convinced Trump to kill Soleimani and fulfilled a decade-long goal
Discussion: KTLA
Molly Ball / TIME:
'We've Upped the Ante.' Why Nancy Pelosi Is Going All in Against Trump  —  Nancy Pelosi isn't wild about the question.  The impeachment of President Donald Trump is under way, and I've asked the Speaker of the House if she thinks it's the most important thing she'll ever do.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell backs measure to change Senate rules, dismiss impeachment without articles  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is backing a resolution to change the Senate's rules to allow for lawmakers to dismiss articles of impeachment against President Trump before the House sends them over.
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New York Times:
Kushner's Global Role Shrinks as He Tackles Another: The 2020 Election  —  Ivanka Trump's husband will now supervise her father's re-election campaign, but he continues to weigh in with advice to the president on a range of other matters.  —  WASHINGTON — When senior administration officials gathered …
Discussion: Raw Story
Eric Blaisdell / Times Argus:
Bill would ban cellphone use for those under 21  —  MONTPELIER — A bill has been introduced in the state Senate that would make it illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to use or possess a cellphone.  —  The bill, S.212, would make such possession or use a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum of a year behind bars and a $1,000 fine.
Rudy Giuliani / The Daily Caller:
The Supreme Court Should Step In To Rule This Impeachment Unconstitutional  —  Democrats' obsession from day one to impeach President Donald J. Trump, without regard to substance or process, led them to change the grounds for impeachment every couple of months.
Discussion: Washington Post, Fox News and Raw Story
CREW:
CREW Sues DOJ for Failing to Release Whitaker's Financial Disclosures  —  Who is Matthew Whitaker?  —  Whitaker joined the Trump administration in October 2017 and served as Acting Attorney General from November 2018 to March 2019.  —  Prior to his tenure in the Trump administration …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Maybe Nominating Bloomberg for President Isn't a Crazy Idea  —  Not long ago, my teenaged kids and one of their friends asked me what I thought about Michael Bloomberg's presidential campaign.  The question momentarily took me aback, since even though I spend hours a day following campaign coverage …
Philip Van Cleave / Politifact.com Truth-O …:
Did Biden laud a Paul Ryan proposal to cut Social Security as Bernie Sanders' campaign said?  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders argues that former Vice President Joe Biden sided with a Republican effort to cut Social Security.  —  “In 2018, Biden lauded Paul Ryan for proposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare …
Discussion: Bern Notice
CNN:
Trump takes credit for decline in cancer deaths.  The American Cancer Society says he's wrong  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump insinuated in a tweet on Thursday that his administration played a role in the US cancer death rate hitting a record low in 2017.  The American Cancer Society says that's not true.
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Millions of Americans devastated to learn they were ardent fans of Soleimani this whole time  —  “The only ones that are mourning the loss of Soleimani are our Democrat leadership and our Democrat presidential candidates.”  — Nikki Haley  —  “They are in love with terrorists.
Discussion: CNN
 
 
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
The Trailer: Their candidates lost. Here's what they say about the race now.
Robert Mackey / The Intercept:
Republicans Attack Democrats for Saying Qassim Suleimani Was Assassinated, and Reporters Play Along
Discussion: The Federalist
Sarah Posner / New Republic:
The Evangelicals Who Pray for War With Iran
Discussion: SantaFeToday.com and CBS News
Alex Thomas / IJR:
New GOP Senator Will Sit on Committee Overseeing Agency That Regulates Her Husband's Business
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Trump remarks ignite conflicting claims about plot against US embassy
New York Times:
Who Killed the Knapp Family?
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump, in a raucous rally, takes on Democrats and touts Soleimani killing
Charlotte Edwards / New York Post:
New research finds Jupiter is flinging asteroids at Earth
Discussion: The Sun
 Earlier Items: 
Priscilla DeGregory / New York Post:
Judge denies Trump's bid to have E. Jean Carroll's defamation suit tossed
Discussion: New York Times
Kathy Mccormack / Associated Press:
Dixville Notch finds enough people to retain claim to fame
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Eric Garcetti endorses Joe Biden for president
Discussion: Axios
Spectrum News NY State of Politics:
A Visual Representation of New York in 2020, as Designed by Cuomo
Discussion: New York Post and Twitchy
U.S. Department of Justice:
Queens Woman Sentenced to 15 Years' Imprisonment for Teaching and Distributing Information …
Discussion: Fox News and The Hill
Noah Bookbinder / Washington Post:
The Senate has conducted 15 impeachment trials. It heard witnesses in every one.
Ali Zerdin / Associated Press:
Statue mocking Donald Trump torched in Slovenia
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Susan Page / USA Today:
Exclusive: Americans say Soleimani's killing made US less safe, Trump ‘reckless’ on Iran
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk:
Rumble announces a $775M investment from Tether and plans to use $525M to fund a tender offer for ~70M shares of its common stock; RUM jumped 50%+ after hours

 
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