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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.
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 …
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” …
CNNMoney:
Wolff's Trump book going on sale four days early amid furor  —  The publisher of Michael Wolff's new book about President Trump is rushing it onto bookshelves.  —  “Due to unprecedented demand, we are moving the on-sale date for all formats of ‘Fire and Fury,’ by Michael Wolff, to Friday …
Discussion: IJR, more at Mediagazer »
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.
James Fallows / The Atlantic:   It's Been an Open Secret All Along
John Harwood / CNBC:   Questions about Trump's fitness raised by bombshell new book pose growing threat for Republicans in 2018 elections
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
President Trump tries to quash bombshell book
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
Madison Park / CNN:
Despite blast by Trump, Bannon reiterates support for President
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 …
Jennifer Kaplan / Bloomberg:
Sessions Ending Obama-Era Policy That Ushered in Legal Weed
Discussion: naked capitalism
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Trump Moves to Open Nearly All Offshore Waters to Drilling  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will allow new offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all United States waters, it announced Thursday.  The plan would give the energy industry broad access to drilling rights in most parts …
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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 …
Associated Press:
Trump moves to vastly expand offshore drilling off US coasts
Discussion: ThinkProgress and 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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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's explanation for shutting down his voter fraud commission is just as untrue and partisan
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
New York Times:
U.S. Will Withhold Security Aid From Pakistan  —  WASHINGTON — The United States will suspend nearly all security aid to Pakistan, the Trump administration announced on Thursday, in a sign of its frustration with the country's refusal to confront terrorist networks operating there.
Discussion: Axios, NPR and The Week
Mark Zuckerberg:
Every year I take on a personal challenge to learn something new.  I've visited every US state, run 365 miles, built an AI for my home, read 25 books, and learned Mandarin.  —  I started doing these challenges in 2009.  That first year the economy was in a deep recession and Facebook was not yet profitable.
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Matt Lauer still trying to have a hand in ‘Today’  —  Matt Lauer just can't let it go.  —  We're told the disgraced “Today” show host has been firing off notes to producers from his sofa giving unsolicited feedback on the latest episodes.  —  Sources say Lauer — who was swiftly canned …
 
 
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Meryl Streep rips Melania and Ivanka Trump over ‘silence’ on sexual harassment
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Heart benefit of moderate drinking greater in wealthy people
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Confusion over Trump's border wall delays spending talks
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CNN:
Trump Organization gave Russia-related documents to Mueller, Capitol Hill
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Tracy E. Gilchrist / Advocate:
Mike Pence Swears In Doug Jones as Gay Son Looks On
Discussion: Mashable
Tara Golshan / Vox:
I asked 7 Republican senators about Trump's nuclear button tweet. They seemed unfazed.
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
Loveday Morris / Washington Post:
Islamic State declares war on rival Hamas with video execution
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
GOP strategist: Republicans will turn on Trump, impeach him if party is blown out in midterms
Lee Drutman / Vox:
There is no separation of powers without divided government
 

 
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

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The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

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