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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Sessions Is Interviewed in Mueller's Russia Investigation  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions was questioned for several hours last week by the special counsel's office as part of the investigation into Russia's meddling in the election and whether the president obstructed justice …
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Washington Post:
Mueller seeks to question Trump about Flynn and Comey departures … Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is seeking to question President Trump in the coming weeks about his decisions to oust national security adviser Michael Flynn and FBI Director James B. Comey, according to two people familiar with his plans.
Discussion: Political Wire
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: FBI director threatened to resign amid Trump, Sessions pressure  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions — at the public urging of President Donald Trump — has been pressuring FBI Director Christopher Wray to fire Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, but Wray threatened to resign if McCabe was removed …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Republicans launch extraordinary new tactics to protect Trump on Russia
Discussion: RedState and Mother Jones
Washington Post:
Tensions swell between Sessions and FBI over senior personnel from Comey era
NBC News:
Poll: Democrats, Trump to blame for government shutdown  —  Americans blame President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats about equally for the three-day government shutdown that ended Monday with another stopgap spending measure, according to a new NBC News|  SurveyMonkey poll.
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Tal Kopan / CNN:
Conservatives push Ryan for vote on hardline immigration bill  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)As Senate moderates pushed their leader to make a commitment to have a bipartisan immigration vote, House conservatives on Tuesday were pushing their leadership to tack to the right on the issue.
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:   Democrats just got rolled. They can blame Barack Obama.
Jim Newell / Slate:
Why Democrats Caved  —  Shortly after voting to end …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Mother Jones
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Schumer withdraws offer on Trump's wall  —  Chuck Schumer is taking his big spending boost for Donald Trump's border wall off the table.  —  The Senate minority leader, through an aide, informed the White House on Monday that he was retracting the offer he made last week to give Trump …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Tony Perkins: Trump Gets ‘a Mulligan’ on Life, Stormy Daniels  —  Donald Trump is still the answer to many conservative evangelical leaders' prayers.  Or at least to their continuing grievances.  —  They embrace Trump the policymaker, despite being uneasy about Trump as a man, says Tony Perkins …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Did a watchdog group just find Trump's Stormy Daniels hush money?  Er, probably not.  —  There are few things more zealous than an amateur sleuth in search of a smoking gun to take down President Trump.  Social media is replete with suddenly popular users pitching dubiously assembled theories …
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:   The Trump evangelicals have lost their gag reflex
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CBS News:
Kentucky school shooting: At least 5 shot at Marshall County High School - live updates
Lexington Herald-Leader:
Updates: 2 15-year-olds dead, dozen more wounded in Kentucky high school shooting
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Drudge: Trump loves his job, can't wait to run for reelection in 2020  —  Drudge Report's Matt Drudge said in a rare tweet Tuesday that President Trump  —  loves his job and is “already talking about his 2020 re-election run.”  —  Drudge's tweet linked to a story on The Hill detailing comments …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Michael Wolff: Trump does not want to be president  —  Author Michael Wolff said in a new interview that he believes President Trump  —  does not want to be the president.  —  “There is nothing to indicate that ... Trump is going to find his footing as the president of the United States …
Jonathan Carlson / WGCL-TV:
Feds: Man threatened to kill CNN employees  —  A Michigan man was arrested after an FBI investigation, accused of threatening to travel to Atlanta to commit mass murder at CNN headquarters.  —  According to federal court documents, the man, from a Detroit suburb, made 22 calls to CNN about a week ago.
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Hadas Gold / CNNMoney:
Howard Kurtz's new book on Trump White House offers scathing critique of the media  —  The media's negative coverage of President Trump is actually helping the White House, Fox News anchor Howard Kurtz argues in his new book, “Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War over the Truth.”
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Howard Kurtz / Hollywood Reporter:
How “Trump Trauma” Is Crippling the News Media (Guest Column)
Discussion: Regnery Publishing
Ruth Eglash / Washington Post:
Female journalists covering Pence in Israel forced to stand behind male colleagues  —  JERUSALEM — If there's one thing female journalists covering the trip of Vice President Pence to Israel will remember it is the “special treatment” they received, first by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin …
Leo Shane III / Army Times:
AMVETS says NFL censored its ad against flag protests  —  WASHINGTON — AMVETS officials are decrying “corporate censorship” from the National Football League for their decision not to run an ad in their Super Bowl program which responds to league players' decision to kneel for the national anthem in protest of national equality issues.
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Hawaii governor didn't correct false missile alert sooner because he didn't know his Twitter password  —  Minutes after the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency mistakenly sent a missile alert at 8:07 a.m. on Jan. 13 — terrifying residents and visitors across the state — some officials …
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump will no longer join the President in Davos  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)First lady Melania Trump, in a change of plans, will not be joining President Donald Trump on his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, later this week.
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Camerota Roasts Schlapp: 'Conservatives Don't Care Anymore About Extramarital Affairs?'
Discussion: The Week and Joe.My.God.
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Florida Takes Big Step Toward Expanding Voting Rights To Over 1.5 Million People  —  The state has some of the country's harshest laws disenfranchising felons.  That could change in November.  —  Floridians will get to decide in November whether they want to amend the state constitution …
Discussion: Axios, Feeds and naked capitalism
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Pew Research Center:
Republicans and Democrats Grow Even Further Apart in Views of Israel, Palestinians  —  Netanyahu remains a deeply polarizing figure in the U.S.  —  The partisan divide in Middle East sympathies, for Israel or the Palestinians, is now wider than at any point since 1978.
Neil Diamond:
NEIL DIAMOND ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT FROM CONCERT TOURING AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND TOUR DATES CANCELLED  —  NEIL DIAMOND ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT FROM CONCERT TOURING  —  AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND TOUR DATES CANCELLED  —  Legendary singer, songwriter and performer Neil Diamond today announced …
Harriet Agerholm / Yahoo:
Republican senator caught on mic calling teenage staff ‘beautiful girls’  —  Republican Senator Roger Wicker has been roundly criticised after he was caught in footage calling underage teenagers “beautiful girls”.  —  The 66-year-old made the comments during Monday's Senate vote on a temporary funding bill …
Discussion: C-SPAN.org, Splinter and Political Wire
Fox News:
FBI Director Chris Wray replaces James Rybicki, Comey-era chief of staff  —  FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that his chief of staff, James Rybicki, was leaving the bureau, a development that follows President Trump taking aim at other senior FBI officials who worked under the former director, James Comey.
Discussion: RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Times:
Shock poll: Americans want massive cuts to legal immigration  —  Cutting chain migration even more popular than legalizing Dreamers  —  A government shutdown is in the rearview mirror, but the outlines of a looming immigration deal remain murky with the sides still far apart …
 
 
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Ruth Michaelson / The Guardian:
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump allies seek to tie Kerry's State Department to the Steele dossier
Casper Star-Tribune:
Second woman accuses Murray of sexual misconduct; Secretary of state won't seek reelection or higher office
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Bill Estep / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Rand Paul's attacker should get 21 months in prison, prosecutors recommend
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Rebecca Traister: Media Ignores Women's Marches At Their Own Risk
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Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal:
The Internet Is Filling Up Because Indians Are Sending Millions of ‘Good Morning!’ Texts
Trisha Powell Crain / al.com:
Hoover High School teacher placed on leave for using racial slur in classroom
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
A Billionaire Keeps Pushing to Impeach Trump. Democrats Are Rattled.
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