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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Mueller adds veteran cyber prosecutor to special-counsel team — Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has added a veteran cyber prosecutor to his team, filling what has long been a gap in expertise and potentially signaling a recent focus on computer crimes.
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New York Times:
Trump Sidesteps Question on Mueller Interview — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday declined to commit to being interviewed by the special counsel investigating whether his campaign colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election, backing off a promise he made last year to talk to Robert S. Mueller III under oath.
Bradley P. Moss / Politico:
This Is How Trump's Lawyers Are Probably Prepping Him for the Mueller Showdown
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Julia Marsh / Page Six:
Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner call off divorce — Say it ain't so, Huma. — Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her jailed sext-a-holic hubby Anthony Weiner have withdrawn their pending divorce case, The Post has learned. — Abedin was scheduled to appear in Manhattan Supreme Court Wednesday afternoon …
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
The Crime Is Worse Than The Coverup — On multiple occasions in 2016, and perhaps stretching back into the previous year, Donald Trump's presidential campaign fielded solicitations from Russian spies and cutouts offering up stolen Democratic Party emails and other assistance in the election.
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
10 Takeaways From Glenn Simpson's Fusion GPS Senate Testimony
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Elliot Spagat / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: 7-Eleven probe opens new front on immigration — LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. immigration agents descended on dozens of 7-Eleven stores before dawn Wednesday to open employment audits and interview workers in what officials described as the largest operation against an employer under Donald Trump's presidency.
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TMZ.com:
Harvey Weinstein — Attacked at Scottsdale Restaurant — EXCLUSIVE — Harvey Weinstein was attacked Tuesday night at a restaurant ... TMZ has learned. — Weinstein was at Elements restaurant at the Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort in Scottsdale, eating dinner with his sober coach when 2 men sat at a table next to them.
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Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
A Feminist Twitter Campaign Targets Harper's Magazine and Katie Roiphe — It started with a tweet on Tuesday afternoon. By the next morning, five writers were said to have pulled stories planned for future issues of Harper's Magazine — an effort to pressure the magazine not to reveal …
Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
GOP negotiators say Trump aide Stephen Miller is standing in the way of an immigration deal — WASHINGTON — Here's one thing even Republicans negotiating an immigration deal agree on: Trump aide Stephen Miller is hurting their chances of getting anything done.
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Top Fox News D.C. Reporter James Rosen Left Network After Harassment Claims — On the Friday before Christmas, Fox News confirmed that its chief Washington correspondent, James Rosen, had left the network. He had worked there for 18 years and had become something of a legend.
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Nick Penzenstadler / USA Today:
Trump sold $35M in real estate in 2017, mostly to secretive buyers — President Trump's companies sold more than $35 million in real estate in 2017, mostly to secretive shell companies that obscure buyers' identities, continuing a dramatic shift in his customers' behavior that began during the election, a USA TODAY review found.
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Trump's secret plan to scrap Obamacare — Early last year as an Obamacare repeal bill was flailing in the House, top Trump administration officials showed select House conservatives a secret road map of how they planned to gut the health law using executive authority.
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
GOP may skip budget, kneecapping 2018 ambitions
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Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Republicans Have 4 Convicted Criminals Running For Congress In 2018 — Three of them are bragging about it. — WASHINGTON When Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County sheriff, announced his Senate candidacy on Tuesday, he became the fourth viable Republican 2018 congressional candidate who's been convicted of a crime.
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New Yorker:
Michael Wolff Says That Washington Will Bury Trump — While I was eating breakfast at the Four Seasons in Georgetown on Tuesday morning, a veteran Washington journalist stopped by my table to say hello. “Nice to see you,” Michael Duffy, a former editor at Time, deadpanned, with a grin on his face …
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Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller and New York Magazine
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Post reporter Joel Achenbach suspended for 90 days for ‘inappropriate workplace conduct’ — The Washington Post suspended reporter Joel Achenbach on Wednesday for what it called “inappropriate workplace conduct” involving current and former female colleagues.
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Harriet Sinclair / Newsweek:
DONALD TRUMP'S SPIRITUAL ADVISER PAULA WHITE SUGGESTS PEOPLE SEND HER THEIR JANUARY SALARY OR FACE CONSEQUENCES FROM GOD — Donald Trump's spiritual adviser has suggested that people send her money in order to transform their lives, or face divine consequences.
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The Daily Caller
Andy Koval / FOX59:
New layoffs at Carrier factory year after Trump deal … INDIANAPOLIS — A new round of layoffs is taking effect at the Carrier Corp. factory in Indianapolis a little more than a year after President Donald Trump touted a deal that save some of the plant's jobs.
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
White House memo: Kelly orders West Wing staff no personal phones, no smart watches — With an eye on bolstering cyber security protocols and cracking down on leaks to the media, Chief of Staff John Kelly issued a memo to staff on Wednesday outlining the administration's new ban …
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Tamar Lapin / New York Post:
Confused readers are buying the wrong ‘Fire and Fury’ — SEE ALSO — It's “Fire and Fury” fever. — Confused readers are buying a military book in droves all because it has a title similar to Michael Wolff's bombshell “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” according to a new report.
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Kevin McCoy / USA Today:
IRS private debt-collection program hurts low-income Americans — The Internal Revenue Service's handling of its private debt-collection program is harming lower-income Americans who can least afford to repay tax debts, a federal watchdog warned Wednesday. — The program also may be a waste …
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Trump administration ends registry for substance abuse, mental health programs — The federal government has ended a national registry designed to provide information to the public about evidence-based mental health and substance use interventions and programs.
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Axios
Devin Leonard / Bloomberg:
The Most Awful Transit Center in America Could Get Unimaginably Worse — Think Penn Station is bad? Let's go into the crumbling, disaster-prone tunnels that lie beneath. — To get to New York's Penn Station, every northbound Amtrak passenger makes the last leg of their journey …
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Axios
Rob Haskell / Vogue:
Serena Williams on Motherhood, Marriage, and Making Her Comeback — On a moist South Florida morning at the end of a relentless hurricane season, their wedding only a week away, Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian are seated side by side at their long kitchen table discussing the Marshmallow Test.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Oprah vs. The Donald, and The Winner Is... TV personality Oprah Winfrey is the likely winner over President Trump if the 2020 election were held today, but there are a lot of undecideds. — The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters …
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David Sirota / International Business Times:
Trump Administration Waives Punishment For Convicted Banks, Including Deutsche — Which Trump Owes Millions — The Trump administration has waived part of the punishment for five megabanks whose affiliates were convicted and fined for manipulating global interest rates.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Seeks to Change Rules on Bank Lending to the Poor — Regulators plan to revamp rules governing banks under the Community Reinvestment Act — The Trump administration plans to unveil a major revision to decades-old banking rules that mandate lending to poor borrowers.
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The Daily Caller
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Democratic Leader in State Senate Accused of Sexual Misconduct — ALBANY — The leader of a powerful group of renegade Democrats in the New York State Senate has been accused by a former staff member of forcibly kissing her outside an Albany bar in 2015. — The allegation surfaced …
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Morgan Cook / sandiegouniontribune.com:
Grand jury subpoena issued in Rep. Duncan Hunter criminal investigation … A federal grand jury is slated to hear evidence this month regarding certain transactions in Rep. Duncan Hunter's campaign treasury, which has been under scrutiny since the spring of 2016 as a result of frequent personal expenditures.
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Los Angeles Times
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Gillibrand Vows to Block Trump's Likely Choice for U.S. Attorney in Manhattan — Senator Kirsten Gillibrand plans to use a prerogative given to home-state senators to try to block the confirmation of Geoffrey S. Berman if he is nominated by President Trump as the United States attorney in Manhattan, her spokesman said on Wednesday.
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The Hill
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Issa retiring from Congress — (R-Calif.) will not seek reelection this year, he announced on Wednesday, increasing Democrats' chances of flipping his swing district in their favor. — Issa barely won reelection in 2016 by just over half a percentage point in a San Diego-area district …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Tuesday's DACA negotiation stunt showed how dangerously we've lowered the bar for Trump — He remembers names (that are written on placards) — congratulations, America! — Donald Trump's entire political career has been a bizarre exercise in large-scale lowering of the bar …
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Reuters:
Myanmar prosecutor seeks Official Secrets Act charges against two Reuters reporters — YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar prosecutors sought charges on Wednesday against two Reuters reporters under the Official Secrets Act, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 14 years, the reporters' lawyer said.
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Axios
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
Tonya Harding Would Like Her Apology Now — In the movie, “I, Tonya,” the disgraced figure skater looks back on the 1994 Nancy Kerrigan scandal and her struggles to tell her side of the story. — BATTLE GROUND, Wash. — Tonya Harding's name isn't Tonya Harding anymore.
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Josh Blackman / National Review:
A Ludicrous Ruling That Trump Can't End DACA — The Supreme Court has reversed this judge's DACA decisions before, and it will do so again. — On January 20, 2017, the executive power peacefully transitioned from President Obama to President Trump. At least one judge in San Francisco didn't get the memo.
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