Obama Still Promising to Close Guantanamo Bay, Donald Trump Says NFL is Weak Like America, David Bowie Dead: A.M. Links

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  The White House chief of staff said President Obama is still planning to close Guantanamo Bay.

• At a rally in Nevada, Donald Trump criticized NFL penalties for head-on-head collisions, calling the football league, like America, weak.
• In an interview on This Week, Bernie Sanders said Bernie Sanders was Democrats' most electable presidential candidate.
• Sean Penn's Rolling Stone interview with Joaquín Guzmán Loera helped Mexico track the drug cartel leader down.
• Police in Cologne clashed with anti-Islam protesters who are demonstrating following a series of sexual assaults in the city on New Year's Eve attributed to Muslim men.
• A Doctors Without Borders hospital in Yemen was bombed, killing four and injuring at least 10.
• David Bowie is dead.

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