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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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Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Rep. Darrell Issa To Retire, Adding To Record GOP Exodus From Congress
Rep. Darrell Issa To Retire, Adding To Record GOP Exodus From Congress
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Michael Tackett / New York Times:
Republican Retirements Raise Talk of Democratic Wave in November
Republican Retirements Raise Talk of Democratic Wave in November
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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.
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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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Megan Jula / Mother Jones:
How Oprah Helped Spread Anti-Vaccine Pseudoscience
How Oprah Helped Spread Anti-Vaccine Pseudoscience
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
55 minutes at the table: Trump tries to negotiate and prove stability — He acted the part, listening intently and guiding the conversation with the control of a firm but open-minded executive. He spoke the part, offering a mix of jesting bon mots and high-minded appeals for bipartisanship.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Tuesday's DACA negotiation stunt showed how dangerously we've lowered the bar for Trump
Tuesday's DACA negotiation stunt showed how dangerously we've lowered the bar for Trump
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge blocks Trump wind-down of Dreamers program
Judge blocks Trump wind-down of Dreamers program
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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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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 …
Andrea Mandell / USA Today:
Exclusive: Wahlberg got $1.5M for ‘All the Money’ reshoot, Williams paid less than $1,000 — Mark Wahlberg was paid $1.5 million for reshooting his scenes in All the Money in the World, three people familiar with the situation but not authorized to speak publicly about it tell USA TODAY …
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Reuters:
South Korea's Moon says Trump deserves ‘big’ credit for North Korea talks — SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in credited U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday for helping to spark the first inter-Korean talks in more than two years, and warned that Pyongyang would face stronger sanctions if provocations continued.
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James Griffiths / CNN:
South Korea's Moon credits Trump with ‘huge’ contribution to North Korea talks
South Korea's Moon credits Trump with ‘huge’ contribution to North Korea talks
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Anthony Brooks / WBUR:
WBUR Poll: Baker's Popularity Continues To Soar, While Trump's Continues To Slump 04:58 — Play — Gov. Charlie Baker continues to enjoy the kind of approval ratings that most politicians can only dream of. — That's according to a new WBUR poll (topline results, crosstabs) …
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POLL: Joe Arpaio in dead heat with Martha McSally in GOP race for U.S. Senate seat in Arizona — abc15.com staff, wire reports — PHOENIX - A Tuesday poll from ABC15/OHPI shows Joe Arpaio skyrocketing to the top of the Republican Primary for U.S. Senate in Arizona.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Poll: Arpaio statistically tied with McSally in GOP primary for Arizona Senate
Poll: Arpaio statistically tied with McSally in GOP primary for Arizona Senate
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
I'm Proud We Published the Trump-Russia Dossier — Exactly one year ago BuzzFeed published what's now known simply as “the dossier”: a set of reports put together by a former British intelligence officer named Christopher Steele during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Transcript raises questions about FBI's handling of Trump-Russia concerns
Transcript raises questions about FBI's handling of Trump-Russia concerns
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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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CNN:
Judge blocks Trump administration plan to roll back DACA — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)A federal judge in California late Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration's efforts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. — Judge William Alsup also said the …
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's image rehabilitation show
United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations:
U.S. Senator Ben Cardin Releases Report Detailing Two Decades of Putin's Attacks on Democracy, Calling for Policy Changes to Counter Kremlin Threat Ahead of 2018, 2020 Elections — U.S. Remains Vulnerable to Russian Interference without Unequivocal Presidential Leadership, Learning Lessons from European Democracies
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
White House Official Floated Withdrawing U.S. Forces to Please Putin
White House Official Floated Withdrawing U.S. Forces to Please Putin
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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.
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.
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Michael Douglas Gets Out Front Of Potential Harassment Story To Preemptively Deny Sordid Accusation — Groundbreaking journalism that exposed decades old accusations of sexual harassment and sexual assault beginning with Harvey Weinstein has ended the careers of a growing list of powerful Hollywood men.
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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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Page Six:
Socialite in alleged Jew-bashing meltdown says she's the victim — Jacqueline Kent Cooke — the socialite daughter of former Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke who was arrested after allegedly making an anti-Semitic slur at a Manhattan restaurant resulting in a sidewalk scuffle — insists she was misheard and is the victim.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Are Democrats' Senate Chances In 2018 Overrated? — After Democrat Doug Jones won a stunning victory in Alabama's special election for the U.S. Senate last month, lots of smart people whose work I read and follow, such as The New York Times's Nate Cohn, declared that the battle for Senate control in 2018 was a “toss-up.”
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Washington To Get Boris Nemtsov Plaza In Front Of Russian Embassy — The local government in Washington, D.C., has approved a measure to rename the street in front of Russia's embassy after slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. — In separate votes on January 9 …
Anne Blythe / Raleigh News & Observer:
NC congressional districts struck down as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders — RALEIGH — A panel of federal judges struck down North Carolina's election districts for U.S. Congress on Tuesday as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders and gave lawmakers until Jan. 29 to bring them new maps to correct the problem.
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Melanie Schmitz / ThinkProgress:
Oops! White House admits it has zero evidence of voter fraud in 2016 election — In a court filing on Tuesday, the White House announced that it had not uncovered any preliminary findings of voter fraud in the 2016 election and that it would be destroying confidential voter data initially collected …
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Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed:
J.D. Vance Is Now Seriously Considering Running For Senate In Ohio — J.D. Vance is now seriously considering a US Senate campaign in Ohio and discussing the prospect with Republicans in Washington, following overtures from party donors and leaders who believe he would be their best candidate.
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