Morning Round-Up 1-16

Feature of the Day: Facebook Is Now Obsessed With the News Business—And The News Business Should Be Grateful and Afraid

Morning Headlines

Domestic                                                          

Associated Press

1. Woman to Testify Against Google Glass Citation
2. Scandal-Struck Christie to Meet With Sandy Victims
3. Mass. Monks Brewing Beer Like European Brothers

Politico

1. How Washington beat Wall Street
2. Retirements hurt Democrats’ House prospects
3. Inside the House GOP’s immigration push

Reuters

1. Exclusive: U.S. government failed to secure Obamacare site: experts
2. Spying plunges U.S.-German ties lower than Iraq war: Merkel ally
3. Pentagon cuts littoral combat ships buy to 32: Navy Times

Wall Street Journal

1. Hefty Bank Fees Waylay Soldiers
2. Senate Benghazi Report Spreads Blame
3. Key Lawmaker to Call for Sweeping Disability Fraud Review

Washington Post

1. Lawmakers seek to stymie plan to shift control of drone campaign from CIA to Pentagon
2. Obama expected to turn to Congress to help decide fate of NSA phone data collection
3. Our politics may be polarized. But that’s nothing new.

Washington Times

1. Benghazi Was Preventable: Hillary Clinton cited for security lapses
2. Light saver: Spending bill throws lifeline to incandescent bulbs
3. Cheating alleged in U.S. nuclear missile force

Top Conservative Stories of the Day:

The American Conservative

1. Experiments in Living
2. Social Conservatives Attacked for Soft Paternalism

Breitbart

1. Hamas Trains 13,000 Teens to Emulate ‘Suicide Martyrs’
2. Rep. Frank Wolf: Benghazi Report Never Tells Why CIA Annex Was There At All

The Blaze

1. ‘In America, How Does Such A Thing Happen?’

 The Daily Caller     

1. Yet another Obamacare deadline pushed back

CNSNews.com

1. Stevens Cabled Washington: CIA Says ‘AQ [Al Qaeda] Training Camps Within Benghazi’
2. USA Falls, Again, to 12th Place in Index of Economic Freedom Report

National Review

1. A Tale of Two Scandals
2. The GOP’s Data Surge

Washington Free Beacon

1. Ignoring Threat from Al Qaeda Endangers Homeland, Experts Warn
2. Chinese Defense Ministry Confirms Hypersonic Missile Test

Top Liberal Stories of the Day:

The Daily Beast

1. Proof of Life: America’s last POW
2. Republicans Fault Dempsey on Benghazi

Talking Points Memo

1. Emails Raise Questions About Christie’s Trash-Talking Mouthpiece
2. Republicans Are Brining Back Reconstruction-Era Voting in N.C.

ThinkProgress

1. Congressman’s New Jobs Plan: Deny Women Abortions So They Can Make More Babies