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John F. Harris / Politico:
Iowa Road Trip: Do Reporters Know Anything? — DES MOINES—What's going to happen? — The Uber driver, learning my occupation, wants to know. So, too, newsroom colleagues who cover beats other than politics. So, too, family members, who not unreasonably imagine that I must have gained some insight by leaving them to travel here.
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The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, Fox News and Outside the Beltway, more at Mediagazer »
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The Intercept:
Pork Plant Workers Turn Out for Sanders in First Caucus in Iowa — The first caucus in Iowa was held at noon at a union hall in Ottumwa, about an hour and a half from Des Moines, where meatpackers and other workers unable to vote in the evening's official caucuses were given the chance to cast ballots at a satellite caucus.
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FiveThirtyEight, VICE and Wall Street Journal
Tim Alberta / Politico:
Whoever Wins Iowa, They Won't Be Back
Whoever Wins Iowa, They Won't Be Back
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Breitbart and Washington Post
Lissandra Villa / TIME:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A ‘Dangerous’ Mistake for Democrats Not to Embrace the Eventual Nominee
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: A ‘Dangerous’ Mistake for Democrats Not to Embrace the Eventual Nominee
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National Review, Axios, Vox, Politico, Vanity Fair, The Resurgent, Raw Story and The Hill
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Conspiracy theories swirl over canceled Iowa poll, pushed by Sanders and Yang supporters
Conspiracy theories swirl over canceled Iowa poll, pushed by Sanders and Yang supporters
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Bleeding Heartland, more at Mediagazer »
Michael Kruse / Politico:
'We Don't Want to F— It Up': How Trump Got Inside Iowa's Head
'We Don't Want to F— It Up': How Trump Got Inside Iowa's Head
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Raw Story
Pew Research Center:
Democrats on Twitter more liberal, less focused on compromise than those not on the platform — The political views and primary candidate preferences of Democrats on Twitter differ from those who are not on the platform, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in January.
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National Review
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Iowa might have just witnessed the start of a Democratic Party takeover — If you were an alien visiting Iowa this weekend and were asked to guess the order of Monday's results based on nothing but watching the top four Democrats speak, you would predict a Bernie Sanders victory …
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Fox News, The Hill, The Daily Beast, Associated Press, Washington Post and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
What Is the Election Needle? And Why Will We Have 4 of Them Tonight? — A closer look at our election forecaster before the Iowa caucuses. — Shortly before 9 p.m. Eastern on Monday, we expect the first returns from the Iowa Democratic caucuses. If you choose to follow the results live tonight …
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Washington Post Threatened Another Star Reporter Over His Tweets — The newspaper's Kobe Bryant tweet mess last week wasn't the first time WaPo bosses got into heated clashes with reporters over social-media policy. — The Washington Post's controversial decision to punish a reporter …
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Emily Peck / HuffPost:
Staffers Say Sexism Runs Deep At The Washington Post — There's an “understated respectability” that is “secretly pernicious,” said one woman. — Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez received death and rape threats for a tweet she sent out late last month linking to a story …
Axios:
Scoop: Veterans Affairs deputy secretary James Byrne fired — Veterans Affairs deputy secretary James Byrne was fired Monday morning, three Trump administration officials tell Axios. The White House confirmed that Byrne is no longer with the administration. — Why it matters: The VA has recently been in inner turmoil.
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Politico, CNBC, The Hill, Raw Story and Task & Purpose
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Biden: Impeachment hasn't ‘shaken my faith’ in working with Republicans — The former vice president said 'no one's' found anything wrong with his son Hunter Biden's dealings in Ukraine. — Former Vice President Joe Biden said the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump haven't …
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Axios, Politico, Patterico's Pontifications, Slate, Fox News, Raw Story, Common Dreams, The Hill, New York Post, Breitbart, The Daily Caller and HuffPost
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Blake Hounshell / Politico:
‘Truly bizarre circumstances’: Anonymous book agents refute whisper campaign against Trump official — The literary agents for the senior Trump administration official who penned an anonymous New York Times op-ed and best-selling book are breaking their silence to swat down a whisper campaign pinning …
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Raw Story
Eric Roston / Bloomberg:
Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Don't Know Why — There are dozens of climate models, and for decades they've agreed on what it would take to heat the planet by about 3° Celsius. It's an outcome that would be disastrous—flooded cities, agricultural failures …
The Guardian:
Political journalists boycott No 10 briefing after PM's aide tries to ban selected reporters - live news — The day's political developments, including Johnson's speech on EU trade talks, and Barnier publishing EU's draft negotiating guidelines — In response to my colleague Rowena Mason's report …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Thinking the Kansas City Chiefs are from Kansas, and Trump's many other geography flubs — For years, one of the Republican Party's favorite digs at President Barack Obama was to point to his “57 states” flub. Obama momentarily confusing his having visited 47 states with 57 states was cause for much laughter at his expense.
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One America News Network, CNN, The Daily Beast, Raw Story and Contemptor
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New York Times:
New U.S. Travel Ban Shuts Door on Africa's Biggest Economy, Nigeria — The visa rules will affect nearly a quarter of the people on the African continent, including many hoping to join loved ones already in the U.S. — The newlyweds had already been apart for half their yearlong marriage.
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Daniel Larison / The American Conservative:
Trump Expands The Cruel, Unnecessary Travel Ban
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
2020 Democrats Are Bringing Butter Knives to a Gunfight — CEDAR RAPIDS—Heading into tonight's Iowa caucus, the clock may be ticking faster on the Democratic presidential candidates than they believe. — All of the leading contenders have campaigned energetically and extensively across …
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Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Bernie Sanders climbing in new NH poll on eve of Iowa caucuses
Jeff Stone / CyberScoop:
As Vault 7 trial begins, Joshua Schulte's attorneys will argue he's a whistleblower — Nearly three years after WikiLeaks began publishing secret CIA hacking tools, the legal team for the former agency employee who allegedly stole those files will try to convince a jury he did so in order …
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Rebecca Davis O'Brien / Wall Street Journal:
Ex-CIA Engineer Goes on Trial for Massive Leak
Politico:
Graham and Biden's falling out, closing arguments and other news from today's trial — House impeachment managers and the president's legal team are delivering closing arguments, marking their last chance to sway senators ahead of Wednesday's vote to convict or acquit President Donald Trump.
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Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
White nationalist has long worked at conservative outlets under real name — Guardian findings support watchdog's report that ‘Paul Kersey’, a prominent author and activist, is actually Michael J Thompson — A new report has revealed that a prominent white nationalist author …
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Susan Collins' Campaign Is Being Helped by a Mysterious Hawaii Company — The two states, shall we say, are not exactly close to each other. — A mysterious Hawaii company may have illegally funneled a six-figure contribution to a political group boosting an embattled Republican Senator 5,000 miles away …
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POLITICUSUSA and Political Wire
Cliff Sims / Washington Times:
Bolton now promotes the anti-Trump agenda of Schiff and Pelosi — Mr. Bolton's entire career could be summed up as “Bolton First” — ANALYSIS/OPINION: — Nobody elected John Bolton to anything. — That reality is at the core of what appeared to frustrate Mr. Bolton and numerous …
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Breitbart
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
BuzzFeed News is recruiting teenagers to make election-themed TikTok and Instagram videos — BuzzFeed News is looking for a few good teens. The news division of the popular entertainment site is recruiting a brand new type of employee — dubbed “Teen Ambassadors” — who will create original TikTok …
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
How a Clash of Egos Became Bigger Than Fixing the Subway — Even as New York transit emerged from a crisis, a feud grew between Andy Byford, the subway leader, and his boss, Gov. Andrew Cuomo. — One day in October, three powerful figures in New York affairs met for a serious lunch at Fraunces Tavern in Lower Manhattan.