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6:55 AM ET, January 15, 2018

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Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Is Offended People Think Donald Trump Is Racist  —  “I would certainly say undoubtedly the president will use continue to use strong language when it comes to this issue.”  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Sunday bristled at the notion that her boss, President Donald Trump, is racist.
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
GOP senator: Trump did not make ‘s—hole’ comment
Discussion: Power Line and The Week
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Hawaii missile alert: How one employee ‘pushed the wrong button’ and caused a wave of panic  —  Shortly after 8 a.m. local time Saturday morning, an employee at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency settled in at the start of his shift.  Among his duties that day was to initiate an internal test …
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Alia Wong / The Atlantic:
Pandemonium and Rage in Hawaii
CBS News:
Nation Tracker: Americans weigh in on Trump immigration remarks, first year in office  —  Trump's first year  —  One year into Donald Trump's presidency, Americans feel more positive about the economy but not as good about the state of the country overall — and the latter is closely tied to views of the president.
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
'I'm Not a Racist,' Trump Says in Denying Vulgar Comment  —  PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump declared on Sunday night that he was “not a racist” and insisted that the derogatory comment attributed to him during an Oval Office meeting on immigration last week did not occur.  —  “I'm not a racist.
Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: US set to cut UN money for Palestinian refugees  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is preparing to withhold tens of millions of dollars from the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, cutting the year's first contribution by more than half or perhaps entirely …
Discussion: IJR, Splinter and Axios
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Axios:   Palestinian president slams Trump over Jerusalem move
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Flake compares Trump's treatment of press to Stalin's  —  Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that President Donald Trump's declaration that media is “the enemy of the people” is a throwback to Josef Stalin that should have no place in political discourse.
Discussion: Breitbart
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Haley Britzky / Axios:   Flake to invoke Stalin in speech on Trump's anti-media attacks
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.
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.
Jack Khoury / Haaretz:
Abbas Declares Oslo Accords Dead: 'Trump's Peace Plan Is a Slap, We'll Slap Back'  —  Abbas: ‘Israel killed Oslo Accords.  Future negotiations to take place within context of international community’ Deputy chief of Fatah: ‘freezing recognition of Israel is an option’
Kerry Jackson / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?  —  Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the country?  Not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia, but California, where nearly one out of five residents is poor.  That's according to the Census Bureau's …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump softens on NAFTA  —  The White House will never admit this publicly, but the president is developing a softer attitude towards the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).  Five sources who've spoken privately with Trump about NAFTA say he's taking more seriously the risks …
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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Chelsea Manning for U.S. Senate
Discussion: Mashable, Refinery29 and 89.3 KPCC
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
 
 
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Lewandowski says he will testify this week in House Russia probe
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
NBC News:
Meet the Press - January 14, 2018
Discussion: National Review
Dean Balsamini / New York Post:
Vegas shooter's girlfriend may have known something was up
Discussion: NPR, IJR and Daily Wire
Jennifer Brooks / Star Tribune:
Minnesotans divided over Trump; majority sees him as temperamentally unfit, dishonest
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’
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
The next GOP panic: Governors races
 Earlier Items: 
John Hawkins / Townhall.com:
How Conservatives Are Being Destroyed by Facebook, Twitter and Google Without Even Realizing It
Discussion: American Greatness
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
Washington Post:
Vulgarity used by president projected onto Trump hotel in D.C.
Discussion: IJR and Mashable
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's nightmare
Discussion: Breitbart and The Hill