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12:30 PM ET, January 3, 2018

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David Smith / The Guardian:
Trump Tower meeting with Russians ‘treasonous’, Bannon says in explosive book … Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon has described the Trump Tower meeting between the president's son and a group of Russians during the 2016 election campaign as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic” …
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Michael Wolff / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump Didn't Want to Be President  —  One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration's shocked first days.  —  Election Night: It “looked as if he had seen a ghost.”  —  On the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Kellyanne Conway settled into her glass office at Trump Tower.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Steve Bannon touches the third rail of Trumpworld  —  Steve Bannon gave an interview to author Michael Wolff that is jaw dropping — even by Bannon's extreme standards.  —  Why this matters: Bannon's comments won't surprise anyone who's spoken to him, but as on the record statements they are shocking sources close to the president.
Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Bannon: 2016 Trump Tower meeting was ‘treasonous’
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
WAR: Bannon Goes To War With Trump, Calls Trump-Russia Campaign Activities ‘Treasonous’
Discussion: IJR
New York Times:
The Republicans' Fake Investigations  —  A generation ago, Republicans sought to protect President Richard Nixon by urging the Senate Watergate committee to look at supposed wrongdoing by Democrats in previous elections.  The committee chairman, Sam Ervin, a Democrat, said that would be …
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Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Trump-Russia dossier firm just told all in bombshell NY Times op-ed  —  The opposition research firm that prepared the Trump-Russia dossier just broke its silence in a revealing New York Times op-editorial story which debunks the Republican spin machine desperate to prop up Donald Trump's sinking presidency.
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Fusion GPS founders say they were ‘shocked’ by contents of ‘Steele dossier’
Discussion: RedState
Mike Allen / Axios:
Some White House officials fear accidental war  —  President Trump's boast last night that he has a “bigger & more powerful” Nuclear Button (caps, Trump's) than North Korea has some administration insiders worried that we could blunder into war.  —  What they're saying …
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CNN:
North Korea calls hotline to South Korea in diplomatic breakthrough  —  Seoul (CNN)North Korea and South Korea established contact for 20 minutes on a hotline that's been dormant for almost two years Wednesday, a major diplomatic breakthrough following a year of escalating hostility that could pave the way for future talks.
New York Times:
Trump Says His ‘Nuclear Button’ Is ‘Much Bigger’ Than North Korea's
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Trump taunts North Korea: My nuclear button is ‘much bigger,’ ‘more powerful’
Jake Sherman / Politico:
STAKES IN THE GOV'T SHUTDOWN FIGHT …
Discussion: Associated Press
Greg Privett / WAAY-TV:
Doug Jones does not invite Senator Richard Shelby, picks ex-VP Joe Biden as escort  —  Traditionally, Alabama's senior senator would have escorted Jones down the Senate aisle to swear-in  —  Senator-elect Doug Jones is bucking longstanding tradition.  —  In Washington DC, tomorrow …
Discussion: Axios and IJR
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Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Senate Transforms With Arrival Of 2 New Democrats
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Associated Press:
2 Democrats to be sworn in as senators, narrow GOP majority
Discussion: NBC News
Howard Koplowitz / al.com:
Doug Jones picks Joe Biden to escort him for swearing-in ceremony
Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Russia probe grand jury looks like ‘a Black Lives Matter rally,’ says witness  —  The federal grand jury handing down indictments for special counsel Robert Mueller doesn't appear to include any supporters of President Donald Trump, according to one witness who recently testified before the panel.
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Josh Delk / The Hill:
Fox's Kilmeade: Mueller grand jury not even ‘demographically pursuing justice’
Discussion: Hullabaloo and ThinkProgress
James Risen / The Intercept:
My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror … I was sitting in the nearly empty restaurant of the Westin Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, getting ready for a showdown with the federal government that I had been trying to avoid for more than seven years.
TMZ.com:
Paul Sorvino Says About Harvey Weinstein, ‘I Will Kill That MF’ for Blacklisting Mira  —  Paul Sorvino seems to prefer street justice to the whole judicial thing ... because he wants revenge against Harvey Weinstein in the worst way.  —  Sorvino was leaving Bristol Farms in WeHo Tuesday night …
John Annese / New York Daily News:
‘ISIS selfie’ at Met stirs NYPD probe  —  The NYPD is investigating images of what appears to be ISIS supporters taking selfies outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in view of One World Trade Center.  —  The Met photo shows a masked and hooded man with the ISIS logo on his scarf …
Discussion: IJR
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Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
NYPD investigating ‘ISIS selfies’ outside NYC museum: report
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Jihad Watch
Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Hard-Liners and Reformers Tapped Iranians' Ire.  Now, Both Are Protest Targets.  —  TEHRAN — Antigovernment protests roiled Iran on Tuesday, as the death toll rose to 21 and the nation's supreme leader blamed foreign enemies for the unrest.  But the protests that have spread to dozens …
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New York Times:
Florida's 1.5 Million Missing Voters  —  Everyone remembers that the 2000 presidential election was decided by 537 votes in Florida.  Far fewer remember another important number from the state that year — 620,000, the Floridians who were barred from voting because state records showed …
John Gallagher / Detroit Free Press:
Architect of Detroit's Renaissance Center left troubled legacy for skyline gem … Probably no architect ever made a bigger impact with a single building on Detroit's skyline than John Portman, designer of the Renaissance Center.  —  Portman died Friday in Atlanta at age 93 …
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
‘THEY SAID THIS DAY WOULD NEVER COME’  —  Ten years ago today Barack Obama won the Iowa Caucuses, en route to the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, and ultimately the presidency.  —  That first victory shocked the world.  Obama had entered a race with few endorsements …
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Hoda Kotb's ‘Today’ salary won't even compare to Lauer's  —  Hoda Kotb made history by officially landing Matt Lauer's former “Today” show job — but she is still being paid around $18 million less per year than her disgraced male predecessor.  —  On Monday, Kotb was named co-anchor of the NBC franchise …
Washington Post:
The NSA's top talent is leaving because of low pay and flagging morale … The National Security Agency is losing its top talent at a worrisome rate as highly skilled personnel, some disillusioned with the spy service's leadership and an unpopular reorganization, take higher-paying, more flexible jobs in the private sector.
Discussion: Raw Story and Axios
Axios:
CNN attacks Trump's mental stability, fitness for office  —  After Trump's Twitter tantrums yesterday — calling for the jailing of a political opponent and bragging his nuclear button is bigger than North Korea's — CNN used its powerful platforms and people to suggest the president is mentally unstable.
Discussion: Raw Story
Tim Lockette / Anniston Star:
Star's former publisher acknowledges assault on reporter  —  H. Brandt Ayers, former publisher of The Anniston Star and current chairman of the board of the company that owns the newspaper, acknowledged Tuesday that he assaulted a reporter in her Anniston home in the 1970s.
 
 
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Paul Musgrave / Washington Post:
There is no secret master plan. Trump is the WYSIWYG president.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Ex-Homeland Security Officials Urge Faster Action on DACA
Kashana Cauley / New York Times:
Erica Garner and How America Destroys Black Families
Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
The Case for the Subway
Discussion: Axios
Brandon Conradis / The Hill:
Trump ICE pick: Politicians who run sanctuary cities should be charged with crimes
OutSmart Magazine:
At Least 35 LGBTQ Texans Are Running for Office in 2018
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Romney Changes Location on Twitter as Utah Senate Seat Opens
Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Michele Bachmann eyeing run for Franken's Senate seat
Jason Samenow / Washington Post:
Monster storm to blast East Coast before polar vortex uncorks tremendous cold late this week
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic raised another $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary training partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators

Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Palo Alto Networks says it has observed exploitation of two zero-days in its PAN-OS firewall OS; researchers say hackers have compromised 2,000+ firewalls

Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
SCOTUS dismisses Meta's appeal of a lower court order reviving a shareholder lawsuit for allegedly misleading investors on the 2015 Cambridge Analytica scandal

 
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