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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 — Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her jailed sext-a-holic hubby Anthony Weiner have withdrawn their pending divorce case, The Post has learned.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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Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News:
Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin opt to settle divorce out of court to spare young son embarrassment — Huma Abedin and convicted perv Anthony Weiner agreed Wednesday to finalize their divorce out of court, seeking to protect their 6-year-old son from an embarrassing public separation.
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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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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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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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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
Immigration agents target 7-Eleven stores in nationwide sweep
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Axios
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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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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Gloria Pazmino / Politico:
De Blasio plans big oil lawsuit, calls on city pension funds to divest — Mayor Bill de Blasio will sue the country's five biggest oil companies alleging climate change and global warming led to Hurricane Sandy and its catastrophic fallout and the companies should pay for the city's resiliency upgrades.
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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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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
55 minutes at the table: Trump tries to negotiate and prove stability
55 minutes at the table: Trump tries to negotiate and prove stability
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KNXV:
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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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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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 …
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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 …
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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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.
Wilson Ring / Associated Press:
Vermont poised to enact legal pot through Legislature — MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The state Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a bill that would allow the recreational use of marijuana, putting Vermont on course to become the first state in the country to legalize pot by an act …
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Axios
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) …
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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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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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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Natalie Brand / KING-TV:
Gov. Inslee unveils carbon tax plan — The proposed tax of $20 per metric ton of carbon emissions would begin in 2019. — Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee has unveiled details of his latest effort to get legislative approval on a new tax on carbon emissions from fossil fuels.
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Transcript raises questions about FBI's handling of Trump-Russia concerns — Private investigator stopped cooperating with FBI as he suspected it had been compromised, his employer told committee … It was nine days before the 2016 US election and Christopher Steele suddenly had a bad feeling about what was going on inside the FBI.
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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.”
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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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
DACA Immigration Protections Must Continue for Now, Judge Says
DACA Immigration Protections Must Continue for Now, Judge Says
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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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David Ljunggren / Reuters:
Exclusive: Canada convinced Trump will soon pull plug on NAFTA - sources — LONDON, Ontario (Reuters) - Canada is increasingly convinced that U.S. President Donald Trump will soon announce that the United States intends to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, two government sources said on Wednesday.
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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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