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11:50 PM ET, January 10, 2018

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Moira Donegan / thecut:
I Started the Media Men List My name is Moira Donegan.  —  In October, I created a Google spreadsheet called “Shitty Media Men” that collected a range of rumors and allegations of sexual misconduct, much of it violent, by men in magazines and publishing.  The anonymous, crowdsourced document …
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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 …
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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Bradley P. Moss / Politico:
This Is How Trump's Lawyers Are Probably Prepping Him for the Mueller Showdown  —  As reports emerge that special counsel Robert Mueller is looking to put President Donald Trump in the interview chair, you're probably wondering how the president's legal team can and should prepare him for that meeting if it happens.
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
New York Times:
Trump Sidesteps Question on Mueller Interview
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
GOP may skip budget, kneecapping 2018 ambitions  —  Republican leaders are considering skipping passage of a GOP budget this year — a blow to the party's weakened fiscal hawks that would squash all 2018 efforts to revamp entitlements or repeal Obamacare.  —  White House and Hill GOP leaders discussed …
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:   Trump's secret plan to scrap Obamacare
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  —  Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her jailed sext-a-holic hubby Anthony Weiner have withdrawn their pending divorce case, The Post has learned.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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Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News:   Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin opt to settle divorce out of court to spare young son embarrassment
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.
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.
Discussion: Axios
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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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Immigration agents target 7-Eleven stores in nationwide sweep
Discussion: Fox News, Breitbart, IJR, TheBlaze and Axios
My Site:
You can count on me  —  I am unequivocally running for re-election and confident that my views reflect the values and the needs of my constituents here in Orange County.  I've never run away from a fight over things I believe and I'm not about to start now.  I have faith in myself and I have faith in our voters.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Rep. Darrell Issa to retire, handing Democrats another big pick-up opportunity in California
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:   Retirements of veteran Republicans fuel GOP fears of losing House majority
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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Associated Press:
The Latest: Oil companies dispute climate lawsuit claims  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on New York City's actions on oil investments, and lawsuit against oil companies over climate change (all times local):  —  Some of the oil companies being sued by New York City over claims they contributed …
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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.
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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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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Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:   EXCLUSIVE: New York State Sen. Jeff Klein Accused Of Sexual Misconduct
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
WREG-TV:
Navy veteran's mother denied visa to attend his funeral  —  BLYTHEVILLE, Ark. — He proudly served his country, but when it came time to bury him, a Navy veteran's father said the government wouldn't grant his son's mother a visa to attend his funeral.  —  Ngoc Truong, a four-year Navy veteran …
Discussion: Raw Story and KTLA
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: The Hill
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 …
Discussion: Axios
Kelly Cohen / Washington Examiner:
Andrew McCabe told FBI staff to ‘hang in there’ after James Comey firing  —  FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe tried to keep up the morale at the FBI after it was revealed that Director James Comey was fired, according to a letter McCabe wrote then that was released Wednesday.  —  “First, thank you.
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.
Adam K. Raymond / New York Magazine:
Jared Kushner Is Turning His Focus to Prison Reform  —  Trump senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner has a long list of responsibilities in the White House, including bringing peace to the Middle East and transforming the federal government so it runs “like a great American company.”
Discussion: Breitbart, Raw Story and Axios
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Democrats to invite sex misconduct victims to Trump's State of the Union  —  WASHINGTON — Some Democratic House members are planning to invite victims of sexual assault to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address later this month to highlight the issue, according to an aide …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Wesley Morgan / Politico:
Military investigating shooting in newly leaked Afghan combat video
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Lisa Ryan / thecut:
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Owen Bowcott / The Guardian:
Julian Assange's bid for diplomatic status rejected by Britain
Discussion: Gizmodo
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Trump administration ends registry for substance abuse, mental health programs
Discussion: Axios
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
Breitbart News Just FIRED Steve Bannon. It's A Good Day For Andrew Breitbart's Legacy.
Discussion: NBC News
Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. man held in deadly Kansas ‘swatting’ case now wanted in Canada over similar hoax call to cops
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A high-ranking Obama Commerce Dept. official commuted by taxi — and billed the government
Kevin McCoy / USA Today:
IRS private debt-collection program hurts low-income Americans
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Issa retiring from Congress
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