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4:35 PM ET, January 14, 2018

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Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post:
Meet the 24-year-old Trump campaign worker appointed to help lead the government's drug policy office  —  In May 2016, Taylor Weyeneth was an undergraduate at St. John's University in New York, a legal studies student and fraternity member who organized a golf tournament and other events to raise money for veterans and their families.
Associated Press:
The Latest: Durbin spokesman: GOP senator has no credibility  —  The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):  —  A spokesman for Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin is questioning the credibility of a Republican senator who says President Donald Trump did not refer …
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Breitbart
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Noah Weiland / New York Times:
G.O.P. Senator Says Trump Didn't Use Vulgarity for Haiti and African Nations  —  WASHINGTON — A Republican senator who attended a Thursday immigration meeting at the White House forcefully denied on Sunday that President Trump had used the phrase “shithole countries” in describing Haiti and African nations …
Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
Rand Paul says it's ‘unfair’ to call Trump racist  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday that it is “unfair” to call President Donald Trump a racist but said his recently reported controversial comments about immigrants from Haiti and African countries are unhelpful.
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
GOP senator: Trump did not make ‘s—hole’ comment
Discussion: Power Line, Instapundit and The Week
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump does more damage to himself than his opponents ever manage to do
Discussion: Politico
NBC News:
Flake to denounce Trump media attacks as Stalinist in Senate speech  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Flake is planning to slam President Donald Trump's attacks on the press on the Senate floor this week in a speech that will compare the president's use of the term “enemy of the people” to describe the media to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
Discussion: RedState, Political Wire and Axios
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Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Trump is like Stalin with ‘enemy of the people’ language: GOP senator to say in speech
Discussion: Breitbart
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's nightmare  —  Trump's day of reckoning ... The one thing that could dramatically diminish President Trump's chances of avoiding impeachment and chalking up legislative wins is Democrats winning the House.  — And, thanks to series of recent developments, Trump knows this no longer just seems plausible, but probable.
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John Bowden / The Hill:   Lewandowski: 'We've got a real problem' if Dems retake the House
Alia Wong / The Atlantic:
Pandemonium and Rage in Hawaii  —  Why would my 22-year-old brother be calling so early on a Saturday morning?  I'd ignored the first call.  But the second time the phone rang, I picked it up.  He was panicking, his voice trembling uncharacteristically: He'd just received the emergency alert warning …
Joseph Weber / Fox News:
Chelsea Manning confirms Senate bid, says 'Yup, we're running'  —  Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst convicted of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, confirmed Sunday that she's running in Maryland for a Senate seat.  —  “Yup, we're running for Senate,” …
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Katie Way / babe:
I went on a date with Aziz Ansari.  It turned into the worst night of my life  —  She approached him because she recognized his camera flash — Aziz Ansari was taking pictures at the 2017 Emmy Awards after-party with a film camera, not a digital one.  “I stood up, and I'm like tipsy at this point and feeling really confident.
Louise Radnofsky / Wall Street Journal:
White House Disputes Trump Quote in Journal Interview  —  The Wall Street Journal stands by what it reported and releases audio of disputed portion of interview  —  WASHINGTON—The White House disputed that President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Thursday that …
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Tom Sykes / The Daily Beast:
British Political Leader's Girlfriend Sent Vile Racist Abuse of Meghan Markle … The girlfriend of the leader of the radical pro-Brexit British political party UKIP made a series of racist remarks about Meghan Markle, sending texts to a friend in which she said Prince Harry's “black American” …
Discussion: Daily Mail, theGrio and The Guardian
Washington Post:
Vulgarity used by president projected onto Trump hotel in D.C.  —  The expletive President Trump used last week in a discussion about immigration in the Oval Office and other slogans were projected Saturday night onto an outer wall of the Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington.
Discussion: IJR and Mashable
BBC:
Turkey plane: Panic as jet skids off runway at Trabzon  —  Panic broke out on a passenger jet when it skidded off the runway at a Turkish airport and plunged down the side of a cliff overlooking the sea.  —  The Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-80 with 168 passengers and crew had flown from Ankara …
Discussion: 89.3 KPCC
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Tom Richell / The Independent:
Terrified passengers capture the moments after Pegasus Airlines jet skids off Tukish runway
Discussion: Fox News and IJR
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
New alarm among Republicans that Democrats could win big this year … A raft of retirements, difficulty recruiting candidates and President Trump's continuing pattern of throwing his party off message have prompted new alarm among Republicans that they could be facing a Democratic electoral wave in November.
John Hawkins / Townhall.com:
How Conservatives Are Being Destroyed by Facebook, Twitter and Google Without Even Realizing It  —  Today, as you read this, my website Right Wing News is shutting down operations.  It has been around since 2001, but became massive a few years ago because of Facebook.
Jennifer Brooks / Star Tribune:
Minnesotans divided over Trump; majority sees him as temperamentally unfit, dishonest  —  Minnesota Poll: Majority says he lacks presidential temperament, but stark divide remains on performance.  —  One year into President Donald Trump's term, Minnesota voters are sharply divided …
Discussion: Political Wire
USCIS:
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals: Response to January 2018 Preliminary Injunction  —  Update: Due to a federal court order, USCIS has resumed accepting requests to renew a grant of deferred action under DACA.  Until further notice, and unless otherwise provided in this guidance …
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Matt Stevens / New York Times:
DACA Participants Can Again Apply for Renewal, Immigration Agency Says
Discussion: theGrio
 
 
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Palestinian president slams Trump over Jerusalem move
Discussion: Associated Press
David Kamp / New York Times:
Guess Who's Coming to ‘Peanuts’
Kerry Jackson / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?
Discussion: Mother Jones
Los Angeles Times:
Death toll in Montecito mudslide rises to 19, while 101 Freeway will remain closed indefinitely
Discussion: Breitbart
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Trey Gowdy steps down from House Ethics Committee, citing ‘workload’
Discussion: The Daily Caller, IJR and Axios
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
The next GOP panic: Gubernatorial races
New York Times:
In Some Countries, Facebook's Fiddling Has Magnified Fake News
 Earlier Items: 
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Sell the New York Times. Now.
Discussion: Notes
Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You're Not
Virginia Heffernan / Los Angeles Times:
Column A close reading of Glenn Simpson's Trump-Russia testimony
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Ladies, let's be reasonable about #MeToo or nothing will ever be sexy again
Margaret Atwood / Globe and Mail:
Am I a bad feminist?
Discussion: Hit & Run