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4:55 PM ET, January 27, 2018

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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC finance chair Steve Wynn resigns after sexual harassment allegations  —  Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn on Saturday stepped down as Republican National Committee finance chairman, according to three senior Republicans briefed on the decision.  —  The decision followed a Friday report …
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Washington Post:
Steve Wynn resigns as RNC finance chair, GOP official says.  Wynn stepped down a day after a report alleged sexual misconduct.  —  “Today I accepted Steve Wynn's resignation as Republican National Committee Finance Chair,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said in a statement.
Discussion: RedState
Sophie Tatum / CNN:
Scandal-ridden GOP donor spoke at Mar-a-Lago last week  —  Washington (CNN)Reports surfaced Friday that Republican donor and fundraiser Steve Wynn faced several allegations of sexual misconduct, per a story in the Wall Street Journal.  Just a week prior, the Las Vegas mogul spoke at an RNC fundraising event at Mar-a-Lago.
Discussion: Shareblue Media, KTLA, IJR, The Week and WGNO
CNN:
Republican official: Wynn stepping down from RNC
New York Times:
The Follower Factory  —  Everyone wants to be popular online.  —  Some even pay for it.  —  Inside social media's black market.  —  Celebrities, athletes, pundits and politicians are buying millions of fake followers.  —  While the world's social media platforms look the other way.
Courier-Journal:
Reporter rushes to Kentucky school shooting - and learns the alleged gunman is her son … BENTON, Ky. — It was a journalist's worst nightmare.  —  The editor of the Marshall County Daily Online raced to the county's high school Tuesday morning after reports that shots had been fired.
Discussion: The Stranger …
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Joe Sterling / CNN:   Dad saw his son's socks as he raced to school shooting — and knew it was bad
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Counsel Quietly Trying to Corral Trump While Pushing G.O.P.'s Agenda  —  WASHINGTON — When Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, moved into his corner office on the West Wing's second floor last January, he chose not to decorate its walls or fill its glass-paneled shelving with personal items.
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Trump's flirtation with firing Mueller inspires new demands from Democrats to protect the special counsel
Susannah Bryan / Sun-Sentinel:
Mayor sought illegal funds for political allies, records allege  —  Sun Sentinel  —  Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper, who was removed from office Friday after being snared in an FBI sting, solicited illegal campaign contributions not only for herself but for two political allies, court documents say.
Discussion: Washington Post and TheBlaze
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Fox News:
Florida Democrat removed from office, faces corruption charges following FBI sting
Discussion: Sun-Sentinel and IJR
Carolina A. Miranda / L.A. Times Guild:
Tronc execs need to come clean about their plans for the LA Times  —  Dear Colleagues:  —  As journalists, we demand transparency from the people we cover.  As employees of the Los Angeles Times, we demand the same of the executives who run our company.  —  This week, various media reports …
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Rep. Devin Nunes' hometown paper nails him for being “Trump's stooge”  —  The Fresno Bee, a daily newspaper in Fresno, CA, issued a savage takedown of GOP Rep. Devin Nunes on Friday, blasting the congressman for being “Trump's stooge” and “doing the dirty work” of the White House.
Discussion: Washington Press and Raw Story
CNN:
Exclusive: Data shows Trump's DC hotel was pricier and emptier than peers in 2017  —  Washington (CNN)Just a few months before President Donald Trump moved into the White House, his presence was already firmly established in downtown Washington, just a few blocks from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue …
Discussion: Splinter and Shareblue Media
New York Times:
'It's a Massacre': Taliban Bomb in Ambulance Kills 95 in Kabul  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — A bomb placed in an ambulance set off a huge explosion on a busy Kabul street on Saturday, killing at least 95 people and injuring at least 158 others, Afghan officials said.
Discussion: The Atlantic and Common Dreams
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘Scumbag and liar’: Ex-White House ethics chief hammers Trump apologist Jack Kingston for attacking Mueller investigation  —  During a CNN panel discussion on a report that President Donald Trump asked White House lawyer Doug McGahn to fire special counsel Robert Mueller …
Arizona Capitol Times:
Legislative staffers say pro-Trump supporters called them ‘illegal’ for being dark-skinned  —  Navajo legislator also says protesters asked him if he is in the U.S. illegally  —  Editor's Note: This story has been updated to include strong denials from pro-Trump protesters of allegations …
Discussion: Raw Story
Emily Goodin / ABC News:
President Trump will offer bipartisanship, unifying tone in State of the Union Address  —  President Donald Trump will talk about “building a safe, strong and proud America” in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, according to the White House.  That will be the theme of his speech …
Discussion: Axios and Associated Press
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton: #MeToo, meet #SoWhat  —  How do you write a primal scream?  Because my head is about to explode over the story about alleged sexual harassment on Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign and her appallingly mild response, then and now.  —  To recap, while we were still reeling …
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CNN:
Clinton kept adviser on 2008 campaign despite sexual harassment allegation
Amy Sullivan / Politico:
Millions of Americans Believe God Made Trump President  —  If Donald Trump gets a little bored on his flight home from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he can always page through a book handed to him by a delegate not long after he arrived: “God and Donald Trump.”
Discussion: The Week
New York Post:
Michael Wolff's ugly, sexist smear of UN Ambassador Nikki Haley  —  UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, one of the Trump administration's brightest stars, has been forced to deny an ugly, sexist rumor fueled by sleazeball Michael Wolff.  —  On Bill Maher's HBO program, Wolff — author of a best-selling …
Discussion: Power Line
 
 
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Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:
Every One of the World's Big Economies Is Now Growing
Associated Press:
World remembers Holocaust amid signs of rising hatred
Hamed Aleaziz / San Francisco Chronicle:
Fraught debate among Dreamers: Give Trump his wall?
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge rejects secrecy in suit over Kushner-owned apartments
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
She Boarded a Plane to See Her Dying Mother. Then Her Ticket Was Canceled.
Discussion: Boing Boing
Rudi Keller / Columbia Daily Tribune:
McCaskill hammers Greitens over sex scandal
Bob Wojnowski / Detroit News:
Wojo: Michigan State mired in full-blown crisis of trust
 Earlier Items: 
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Source: Strzok Hadn't Seen Evidence Of Collusion After 10 Months On Russia Probe
Discussion: Instapundit
Rhonda Colvin / Washington Post:
Some Americans are afraid to explore their own country, concerns that evoke the Jim Crow-era Green Book
Bloomberg:
Twitter Says Russian Bots Retweeted Trump 470,000 Times
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The G.O.P.'s Bonfire of the Sanities
WPIX 11 New York:
2 dads nabbed by ICE as they drop off kids at NJ school; 3rd takes shelter in church
Discussion: Splinter and Asbury Park Press
CBS Pittsburgh:
Uniontown H.S. School Shooting Thwarted, Student Found With Arsenal Of Weapons
Discussion: myfox8.com
 

 
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