Top Items:
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon Will Tell All to Robert Mueller, Source Says — Trump's one-time chief strategist and current frenemy may have been tight lipped with Congress. He won't be that way with the Special Counsel. — BETSY WOODRUFF1.16.18 9:33 PM ET — Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon broke …
Discussion:
The Week, Raw Story, Axios and CANNONFIRE
RELATED:
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
How Michael Wolff Got Into the White House for His Tell-All Book — Some of president's staff thought they were authorized to talk — Wolff's working title suggested sympathetic view of Trump — Author Michael Wolff's pitch to the White House to win cooperation for his book included …
NBC News:
FBI agents visited Steve Bannon's home last week to discuss subpoena in Russia probe — FBI agents showed up at Steve Bannon's Washington home last week intent on serving him with a subpoena to appear before a grand jury investigating possible ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia …
Discussion:
Axios, Raw Story, Political Wire and New York Magazine
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Are Republicans right about the Russia probe? — “Does this concern you at all?” asks a tart email message from a Trump supporter who wonders why the mainstream media doesn't take a closer look at allegations that the Justice Department's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election has been tainted by bias.
Discussion:
New York Times and Althouse
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
A window inside Trump's morning ‘executive time’ — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump rises around 5:30 a.m. and begins making his first calls to aides and lawmakers as early as 6. He's dressed in his signature dark suit by 8 a.m. at the latest …
CNN:
WH directs Bannon to avoid answering Hill queries in Russia probe — NYT: Mueller subpoenas Bannon to testify — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon faced angry lawmakers from both parties during a contentious interview that stretched …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
WHERE WE ARE: Gov't shutdown edition ... RYAN and MCCARTHY make their play, as MEADOWS remains skeptical — The BIG BET: Schumer allows Dems to walk — TRUMP'S WISCONSIN turns deep blue — DRIVING THE DAY — Good Wednesday morning. WHERE WE ARE ... GOV'T SHUTDOWN EDITION: LATE LAST NIGHT …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Lawmakers vow to force answers from Bannon in Russia probe after he defies subpoena
Discussion:
Weekly Standard, IJR, Business Insider, The Week, Axios and The Hill
NBC News:
Bannon subpoenaed by House committee after refusing to answer questions
Discussion:
Washington Post, Washington Press, The Atlantic, CNBC, The Gateway Pundit, The Week and Raw Story
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Bad news for GOP: Mueller probe could collide with midterms
Discussion:
Political Wire
Congresswoman Mia Love:
Rep. Mia Love Statement on White House Meeting
Discussion:
Salt Lake Tribune and Roll Call
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Bannon Is Subpoenaed in Mueller's Russia Investigation
Discussion:
Washington Post, Towleroad, Associated Press, New York Magazine, Washington Monthly, Washington Press, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, CNBC, Shareblue Media, Politico, Reuters, Power Line, Vanity Fair, Weekly Standard, RedState, Outside the Beltway, Breitbart, France 24, Above the Law, CNN, The Week, The A.V. Club, Townhall.com, Vox, WGN-TV, HuffPost, The Root, 105.9 FM and AM 630, The Mahablog, Little Green Footballs, Hullabaloo, TheBlaze, Business Insider, Mediaite, New Republic, Talking Points Memo, BuzzFeed, Washington Times and Washington Free Beacon
Ben Jacobs / The Guardian:
Steve Bannon refuses lawmakers' questions under ‘White House instructions’
Discussion:
The Week
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Democrats grab key Wisconsin Senate seat in Tuesday's special elections — MADISON - Democrats snagged a GOP-leaning state Senate seat in western Wisconsin on Tuesday, buoying progressive hopes that they could ride a wave of victory this fall. — Patty Schachtner, the chief medical examiner …
Discussion:
Politico, Washington Post, Axios, twitchy.com, Washington Free Beacon and New York Magazine
RELATED:
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Democrats flip state Senate seat in Wisconsin
Discussion:
Progressives Everywhere and HuffPost
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Fox News shelved story on Trump and porn actress Stormy Daniels before election — Fox News had a story at the height of the presidential election that detailed an alleged sexual relationship between porn actress Stephanie Clifford — whose stage name is “Stormy Daniels” — and Donald Trump …
Discussion:
thecut, Shareblue Media, Raw Story, ThinkProgress, RedState, Axios, The Week, Washington Press, Mediaite, Mother Jones and The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »
RELATED:
Jacob Weisberg / Slate:
Stormy's Story — Not long after the 2016 Republican National …
Discussion:
TODAY.com, Raw Story, The Root, Washington Press, Washington Post, The Guardian, AOL and thecut
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Nearly all members of National Park Service advisory panel resign in frustration — Three-quarters of the members of a federally chartered board advising the National Park Service abruptly quit Monday night out of frustration that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had refused to meet with them or convene a single meeting last year.
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Ex-C.I.A. Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informants Is Arrested — WASHINGTON — A former C.I.A. officer suspected of helping China identify the agency's informants in that country has been arrested, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. Many of the informants were killed …
Discussion:
NPR, The Diplomat, RedState, Business Insider, The Week, AOL, Balloon Juice and Axios
RELATED:
Dan Gartland / SI.com:
Athletes Who Are the Same Size as Donald Trump — Trump is 6'3" and 239 pounds, according to his annual physical. You can't teach size, the old adage goes. — “I was always the best athlete, people don't know that,” Donald Trump told the Wall Street Journal last week ahead of his much-anticipated annual physical.
Discussion:
CANNONFIRE, The Gateway Pundit, The Week and ThinkProgress
RELATED:
John McCain / Washington Post:
Mr. President, stop attacking the press — John McCain, a Republican, represents Arizona in the U.S. Senate. — After leaving office, President Ronald Reagan created the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award to recognize individuals who have fought to spread liberty worldwide.
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, Politico, Mother Jones, Raw Story, The Week and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Gil Hoffman / Jerusalem Post:
Abbas cancels peace negotiations due to Saudi leaked Jerusalem plan — According to reports, the Trump plan would create a Palestinian entity that is less than a state, and would not be based on the pre-1967 lines. — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas decided to deliver Sunday's speech …
Discussion:
Jihad Watch
RELATED:
Michael Wilner / Jerusalem Post:
Trump cuts UNRWA funding amid Abbas assault
Discussion:
The Times of Israel, Breitbart, Haaretz, Al Jazeera English and ThinkProgress
Emily Swanson / Associated Press:
Trump ends 1st year with lowest average approval rating — WASHINGTON (AP) — This is a record not to be coveted: Donald Trump is wrapping up a year in office with the lowest average approval rating of any elected president in his first year. — That's according to polling by Gallup …
Discussion:
Shareblue Media and Politicus USA
CBS13 | CBS Sacramento:
New California Declares Independence From Rest Of State — SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — With the reading of their own version of a Declaration of Independence, founders of the state of New California took the first steps to what they hope will eventually lead to statehood.
Discussion:
USA Today, Conservative Tribune, The Daily Caller, RedState, CBS Los Angeles and WFLA-TV
New York Times:
Debate Continues Over What Trump Said. But Does the Exact Word Matter? — Over a three-day weekend at his private club in Palm Beach, Fla., President Trump showed little or no concern about the angry reaction set off by his use of obscenities to describe the third world countries …
RELATED:
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Sens. Cotton and Perdue are outed for lying on Trump's behalf
Discussion:
Salon, Business Insider, Politico, Vox, Axios, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Atlantic, Roll Call, Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly, Raw Story and RedState
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Fine, Trump Doesn't Have Dementia. He's Just a Moron. — A recent Washington Post story chronicled the rise of Kevin McCarthy, the House majority leader, who has gained special influence with President Trump. McCarthy's methods include obsequiousness, attention to detail …
Discussion:
Salon, First Draft, IJR, Eater, AOL and New Republic
Greg Ip / Wall Street Journal:
The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, Google and Amazon — A few technology giants dominate their worlds just as Standard Oil and AT&T once did. Should they be broken up? — Standard Oil Co. and American Telephone and Telegraph Co. were the technological titans of their day, commanding more than 80% of their markets.
Discussion:
Instapundit
Ralph Vartabedian / Los Angeles Times:
California bullet train cost surges by $2.8 billion: ‘Worst-case scenario has happened’ — The estimated cost of building 119 miles of bullet train track in the Central Valley has jumped to $10.6 billion, an increase of $2.8 billion from the current budget and up from about $6 billion originally.
Discussion:
twitchy.com, Front Page Magazine, KTLA and Mother Jones
Hamed Aleaziz / San Francisco Chronicle:
Feds planning massive Northern California immigration sweep to strike against sanctuary laws — U.S. immigration officials have begun preparing for a major sweep in San Francisco and other Northern California cities in which federal officers would look to arrest more than 1,500 undocumented people …
Discussion:
The Week, The Gateway Pundit, Axios and Washington Times
NBC News:
Facebook is a ‘living, breathing crime scene,’ says one former tech insider — SAN FRANCISCO — With more than 2 billion users, Facebook's reach now rivals that of Christianity and exceeds that of Islam. However, the network's laser focus on profits and user growth has come at the expense of its users …
Discussion:
Breitbart
Commissioning Editor - Practical Law — 
Energy Markets Reporter, London — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Editor, MA — 
Team Editor - Breaking News, ON — 
Senior Reporter & Event Host, NY/CA — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
News Reporter, MA — 
Multimedia Journalist, PA — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
Senior Media Editor — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Staff Reporter, CA — 
Data Editor, NY — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
