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Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
“You Can't Make This S— Up”: My Year Inside Trump's Insane White House  —  Author and columnist Michael Wolff was given extraordinary access to the Trump administration and now details the feuds, the fights and the alarming chaos he witnessed while reporting what turned into a new book.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Wolff taped interviews with Bannon, top officials  —  Michael Wolff has tapes to back up quotes in his incendiary book — dozens of hours of them.  —  Among the sources he taped, I'm told, are Steve Bannon and former White House deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Demands That Publisher Halt Release of Critical Book  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump escalated his attack on a new book portraying him as a volatile and ill-equipped chief executive on Thursday as his legal team demanded that the author and publisher halt the release of the account scheduled …
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Forget Treason.  Money Laundering Is Serious.  —  Steve Bannon's charge against Trump's son isn't the worst thing he's saying about the president's inner circle.  —  Trump watchers have been treated to a world-class cage match over the last couple of days between President Donald Trump …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Axios AM  —  Jeffrey Smith / New York Magazine (Used by permission)  —  Amid the firestorm over Michael Wolff's forthcoming book “Fire and Fury,” a lawyer for President Trump says legal action against Steve Bannon is “imminent,” accusing the former White House aide of breaking a confidentiality …
John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump attorney sends Bannon cease and desist letter over ‘disparaging’ comments  —  Lawyers on behalf of President Donald Trump sent a letter Wednesday night to former White House Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon demanding he refrain from making disparaging comments against the president and his family.
John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump legal team blasts explosive Michael Wolff book in cease-and-desist letter  —  President Donald Trump's lawyer, Charles Harder, has demanded on behalf of his client that author Michael Wolff and his publisher immediately “cease and desist from any further publication, release or dissemination” …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: White House officials discuss removing Katie Walsh from outside group  —  Senior White House officials are debating whether Katie Walsh should be fired from Trump's main outside group, America First, after comments she reportedly made to the author Michael Wolff, according to two sources with direct knowledge.
Michael Wolff / British GQ:
How Donald Trump's White House team handles his giant ego  —  Soon after the inauguration of Donald Trump on 20 January 2017, GQ columnist Michael Wolff was granted special access to the White House.  Over seven months, in more than 200 interviews with the president and his staff …
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
White House Bans Staff From Using Personal Mobile Phones at Work
John Harwood / CNBC:   Questions about Trump's fitness raised by bombshell new book pose growing threat for Republicans in 2018 elections
Madison Park / CNN:
Despite blast by Trump, Bannon reiterates support for President
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump's break with Bannon over Wolff book shows the limits of loyalty
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Politico
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
President Trump tries to quash bombshell book
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
Sadie Gurman / Associated Press:
AP NewsBreak: US to end policy that let legal pot flourish  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding the Obama-era policy that had paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish in states across the country, two people with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press.
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Washington Examiner:
Reps. Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan: It's time for Jeff Sessions to go, as shown by the latest FBI leak … As the first year of the Trump administration comes to a close, one can't help but look back on how allegations of “Russian collusion” dominated the headlines of almost every news agency.
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Justice Department ‘Looking Into’ Hillary Clinton's Emails— Again … Justice Department officials are taking a fresh look at Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state, The Daily Beast has learned.  —  An ally of Attorney General Jeff Sessions who is familiar …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Cory Gardner just showed how Senate Republicans could check Trump if they wanted to  —  But they don't want to.  —  This morning, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced changes to Obama-era marijuana policy guidelines that had in effect allowed several states to move forward with pot legalization …
Jennifer Kaplan / Bloomberg:
Sessions Ending Obama-Era Policy That Ushered in Legal Weed
Discussion: naked capitalism
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Trump administration to expand drilling off U.S. continental waters  —  The Trump administration unveiled a controversial plan Thursday to permit drilling in most U.S. continental shelf waters, including protected areas of the Arctic and the Atlantic, where oil and gas exploration is opposed …
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Trump Moves to Open Nearly All Offshore Waters to Drilling
Discussion: Motherboard
Associated Press:
Trump moves to vastly expand offshore drilling off US coasts
Discussion: Axios
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Democrat on defunct voting commission says Kobach lied about why it dissolved  —  Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap (D) had strong words for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) on Thursday after Kobach tried to lay blame for the failure of President Trump's Election Integrity Commission …
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USA Today:
Trump disbands controversial voting commission, citing ‘endless legal battles’
Richard Morgan / Washington Post:
I read decades of Woody Allen's private notes.  He's obsessed with teenage girls.  —  His 56-box archive is filled with misogynist and lecherous musings.  —  Woody Allen is making a new movie.  Just kidding: He doesn't make new movies.  What he's editing now, “A Rainy Day in New York,” …
Discussion: Shakesville
New York Daily News:
Socialite Jacqueline Kent Cooke accused of smacking lawyer with her glass purse in anti-Semitic attack  —  Millionaire NFL heiress Jacqueline Kent Cooke allegedly got blitzed on New Year's Eve, spewed anti-Semitic remarks in a Manhattan restaurant and then bashed a man bloody with her glass purse …
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Virginia just determined control of its state house by picking a name out of a bowl  —  The random drawing to settle a tied race delivered the house majority to Republicans.  —  Virginia settled the outcome of a tied House of Delegates race that would determine control of the chamber …
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Republican wins drawing to decide control of Virginia statehouse
Discussion: Axios
Wall Street Journal:
Dow Industrials Cross 25000 for First Time  —  Should it close above that mark, milestone would represent the fastest 1,000-point gain in the blue-chip index's history  —  The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped past 25000 for the first time Thursday, on pace to notch the fastest run to a fresh 1,000-point milestone in history.
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Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Dow breaks above 25,000 for the first time ever after strong jobs data
Discussion: CNNMoney, The Atlantic and IJR
 
 
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
What Democrats can learn from the centrists who got Bill Clinton to the White House
Tracy E. Gilchrist / Advocate:
Mike Pence Swears In Doug Jones as Gay Son Looks On
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
I asked 7 Republican senators about Trump's nuclear button tweet. They seemed unfazed.
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
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