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12:05 AM ET, January 10, 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 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
New York Times:
Iranian Missile Accidentally Brought Down Ukrainian Jet, Officials Say, Citing Early Evidence
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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Zachary Basu / Axios:
House passes war powers resolution condemning military action against Iran  —  The House voted 224-194 on Thursday in favor of a symbolic war powers resolution directing President Trump to halt the use of military force against Iran unless he obtains approval from Congress.
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
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 …
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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Molly Ball / TIME:
'We've Upped the Ante.' Why Nancy Pelosi Is Going All in Against Trump
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.
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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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” …
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 …
Natalie Kitroeff / New York Times:
Boeing Employees Mocked F.A.A. and ‘Clowns’ Who Designed 737 Max  —  The company expressed regret at the embarrassing communications it sent to investigators on Thursday, which included a comment that “this airplane is designed by clowns, who are in turn supervised by monkeys.”
Discussion: UPI, The Verge and NPR
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
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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Associated Press:
An Iranian general dies in U.S. attack, and innocents suffer  —  TORONTO (AP) — The worst had passed, it seemed, and the United States and Iran no longer appeared poised at the edge of war.  —  “All is well!”  President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday night, days after a U.S. drone strike killed Iran's …
Discussion: Twitchy
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Tim Hepher / Reuters:   U.S. to join probe of jet disaster, no missile link: Iran official
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.
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
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 …
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.
Robert Mackey / The Intercept:
Republicans Attack Democrats for Saying Qassim Suleimani Was Assassinated, and Reporters Play Along  —  The extent to which Republican talking points shape the political debate on American television was on full display on Tuesday's edition of “The View,” when Meghan McCain falsely accused …
Discussion: The Federalist
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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John Kerry / New York Times:
Diplomacy Was Working Until Trump Abandoned It
Discussion: The Week
Jerry Iannelli / Miami New Times:
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
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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
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Charlotte Edwards / New York Post:
New research finds Jupiter is flinging asteroids at Earth
Discussion: The Sun
Priscilla DeGregory / New York Post:
Judge denies Trump's bid to have E. Jean Carroll's defamation suit tossed
Discussion: New York Times
Adam Shaw / Fox News:
US defends Soleimani strike at UN amid accusations of ‘military adventurism’
Discussion: Associated Press
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.