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7:20 AM ET, January 28, 2018

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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump sought release of classified Russia memo, putting him at odds with Justice Department … On Wednesday, as Republicans were clamoring to make public a secret document that they think will undercut the investigation into Russian meddling, President Trump made clear his desire: release the memo.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Justice Department withholds majority of FBI texts  —  The Justice Department has given Congress less than 15 percent of the texts between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page - and that is all Congress is likely to get, at least until department experts finish an effort to recover …
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Who is the White House counsel who reportedly threatened to resign?
Discussion: Lawfare and Reuters
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Necessity of Stephen Miller  —  After 12 years of failed attempts at immigration reform, the current round of negotiations are turning on a strangely personalized question: When a deal is being made, should Stephen Miller be at the table?  —  Miller is the White House's point man for immigration policy …
Discussion: Notes
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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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:   Local Democrats warn DNC: Cash crunch threatens November gains
Washington Post:
Steve Wynn resigns as RNC finance chair, GOP official says. …
Discussion: Political Wire and RedState
Jordan Bhatt / International Business Times:
Donald Trump tells Theresa May he won't visit the UK unless she bans protests  —  Trump sets no-protest condition for visit to UK.  —  Donald Trump is refusing to visit the UK unless Theresa May can ensure that he is not met with protests.  —  Bloomberg revealed that Trump complained …
Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney:
Russian bots retweeted Trump nearly 500,000 times in final weeks of 2016 campaign  —  Russian-linked automated Twitter accounts, or bots, retweeted Donald Trump almost half a million times in the final weeks before the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, Twitter told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Twitter: Russian bots retweeted Trump nearly 500,000 times in last months of election  —  Russian bots on Twitter retweeted President Trump  —  hundreds of thousands of times during the last months of his presidential campaign, Twitter told Congress.  —  The company revealed to lawmakers …
Discussion: RedState
Associated Press:
Sean Hannity's Twitter page compromised, vanishes for hours
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite
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.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Trump Hits Alps, but Melania Is Frosty in Florida  —  WASHINGTON — Melania has learned a few things from the master.  —  The first lady will never be as brilliant at trolling as her husband.  He is an idiot-savant who plays in the roiling ocean of Twitter as naturally as a blubbery-necked sea lion.
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton Let Him Stay.  Women Say His Harassment Continued.  —  Hillary Clinton at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.  —  Justin Sullivan / Getty Images  —  In 2007, while working for the candidate who hoped to be the first female president, a young woman filed a complaint …
Associated Press:
Trump: I would be ‘tougher’ in Brexit talks than UK's May  —  U.S. President Donald Trump is claiming he would take a “tougher” attitude toward Brexit negotiations with the European Union than the approach now being used by British Prime Minister Theresa May.
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Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:   Every One of the World's Big Economies Is Now Growing
Krystie Lee Yandoli / BuzzFeed:
Exclusive: Three More Women Are Accusing Jeremy Piven Of Sexual Misconduct  —  Three more women shared their stories about the Entourage actor with BuzzFeed News, bringing the total number of public accusations of sexual misconduct against him to eight.  Piven has denied all the allegations …
Discussion: AOL and IndieWire
Henry C. Jackson / Politico:
Rubio fires chief of staff for improper relations with subordinates  —  Sen. Marco Rubio has fired his chief of staff after determining he violated office policies regarding proper relations between a supervisor and subordinates.  —  Rubio said in a statement that an investigation concluded …
Discussion: ABC News and RedState
Fox News:
Florida Democrat removed from office, faces corruption charges following FBI sting  —  FBI sting operation busts Hallandale Beach mayor.  —  A Florida mayor was removed from office Friday after she was arrested and charged with three felony corruption charges.
Discussion: Sun-Sentinel and IJR
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Susannah Bryan / Sun-Sentinel:
Mayor sought illegal funds for political allies, records allege
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge rejects secrecy in suit over Kushner-owned apartments  —  A federal judge has rejected a bid by companies connected to President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner to keep secret details in a pending lawsuit claiming that Maryland apartment complexes owned …
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Ashley Strickland / CNN:
Three decades after the Challenger disaster, Christa McAuliffe's lessons will finally be taught
Discussion: Mashable and IJR
Chuck Grassley:
Grassley, Graham Send Batch of Letters Related to Potential Political Influence on FBI
Discussion: Power Line and The Gateway Pundit
Associated Press:
Justice Ginsburg signals her intent to work for years more
Discussion: RedState
Kansas City Star:
Mike Sanders and former aide plead guilty to wire fraud charge
Discussion: Fox News and Breitbart
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Koch network to spend about another $20 million promoting GOP tax law
New York Times:
As Gridlock Deepens in Congress, Only Gloom Is Bipartisan
Emily Goodin / ABC News:
President Trump will offer bipartisanship, unifying tone in State of the Union Address
Discussion: Axios
 Earlier Items: 
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Rep. Devin Nunes' hometown paper nails him for being “Trump's stooge”
Arizona Capitol Times:
Legislative staffers say pro-Trump supporters called them ‘illegal’ for being dark-skinned
Discussion: Raw Story
Courier-Journal:
Reporter rushes to Kentucky school shooting - and learns the alleged gunman is her son
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding and AOL
New York Post:
Michael Wolff's ugly, sexist smear of UN Ambassador Nikki Haley
Discussion: Power Line
Rudi Keller / Columbia Daily Tribune:
McCaskill hammers Greitens over sex scandal
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘Scumbag and liar’: Ex-White House ethics chief hammers Trump apologist Jack Kingston …
 

 
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
WGA East members working for PBS member stations reach a deal, averting a strike; the union says the deal expands protections to animation writers

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the Agora Center for Research, a Ugandan newsroom sitting between activism and investigative reporting, posting its work on various social media sites

 
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