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Internal Justice Department probe eyes McCabe's role in final weeks of 2016 election … The Justice Department's inspector general has been focused for months on why Andrew McCabe, as the No. 2 official at the FBI, appeared not to act for about three weeks on a request to examine a batch …
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Justice Dept. officials appealed to White House to halt release of memo alleging FBI abuses related to author of Trump dossier … Top Justice Department officials made a last-ditch plea Monday to White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly about the dangers of publicly releasing a memo alleging abuses …
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Howard Fineman / NBC News:
The ‘state’ of Donald Trump? He thinks it couldn't be better. — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is telling friends and aides in private that things are going great — for him. — Some reasons: He's decided that a key witness in the Russia probe, Paul Manafort, isn't going to “flip” and sell him out, friends and aides say.
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The Daily Beast:
Devin Nunes Won't Say if He Worked With White House on Anti-FBI Memo — The House intel committee GOP leader refused to answer behind closed doors if he coordinated with the president's team on his report blasting Rosenstein, Comey, and McCabe. — BETSY WOODRUFF, SPENCER ACKERMAN1.30.18 6:17 PM ET
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Nunes Conspiracy — First, a few words on the State of the Union address. There will be a lot of meaningless commentary about President Trump's speech tonight. His critics will criticize him, his supporters will praise him and pundits will throw around the word “reset.”
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Amanda Carpenter / Politico:
I'm a Republican. Why Is My Party Gaslighting America? — Riddle me this: If Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have smoking gun evidence of a deep-state conspiracy that threatens American democracy itself, wouldn't they be doing more than playing silly hashtag games, such as #ReleasetheMemo?
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John Yoo / New York Times:
Fix the F.B.I. Don't Politicize It.
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Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
FBI officials review surveillance memo, could not cite ‘any factual inaccuracies’: source
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump arrived at State of the Union separately from the President — Washington (CNN)In a break with longstanding tradition, Melania Trump opted to ride with the guests she invited to share her first lady's box during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.
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CNN:
Trump's lawyers argue Mueller has not met threshold for presidential interview — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's attorneys are arguing that special counsel Robert Mueller's team has not met the high threshold they believe is needed to interview a president in person …
The White House:
Special Guests for the State of the Union Address — President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump announced that the following individuals will be seated with the First Lady during President Trump's first State of the Union address: — Corey Adams, a skilled welder …
NPR:
FACT CHECK: Trump's State Of The Union Address
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Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Kennedy responds to Trump: ‘We all feel the fault lines of a fractured country’
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Erica Pandey / Axios:
Kennedy responds for the Democrats
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump to declare ‘New American Moment’ — but Hillary Clinton declared one first
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Here are prewritten State of the Union analyses for you to tweet and share
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Hillary Clinton:
The most important work of my life has been to support and empower women. I've tried to do so here at home, around the world, and in the organizations I've run. I started in my twenties, and four decades later I'm nowhere near being done. I'm proud that it's the work I'm most associated with …
Victor Cha / Washington Post:
Giving North Korea a ‘bloody nose’ carries a huge risk to Americans — Victor Cha is a professor at Georgetown University and senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. — North Korea, if not stopped, will build an arsenal with multiple nuclear missiles meant …
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Disagreement on North Korea policy derails White House choice for ambassador to South Korea … The White House's original choice for U.S. ambassador to South Korea is no longer expected to be nominated after he privately expressed disagreement in late December with the Trump administration's …
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Jim Acosta / CNN:
Source: Trump to give ‘eye-opening’ remarks on North Korea
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John Hudson / BuzzFeed:
Trump Administration Admits It Cribbed Forbes Magazine To Create “Oligarch List” — The revelation is likely to invite criticism that a congressionally-mandated list designed to punish Russia for interfering in the US election is not being aggressively implemented. — Reporting From Washington, DC
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Anders Åslund / Atlantic Council:
Payback: President Trump Gets Revenge for Russian Sanctions
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The White House:
President Donald J. Trump's State of the Union Address — TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: — Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, the First Lady of the United States, and my fellow Americans: — Less than 1 year has passed since I first stood at this podium …
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The Guardian:
Second Trump-Russia dossier being assessed by FBI — Exclusive: memo written by former journalist Cody Shearer independently sets out some of the allegations made by ex-spy Christopher Steele … The FBI inquiry into alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 US presidential election has been given …
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Brianna Ehley / Politico:
Trump's top health official traded tobacco stock while leading anti-smoking efforts — The Trump administration's top public health official bought shares in a tobacco company one month into her leadership of the agency charged with reducing tobacco use — the leading cause of preventable disease …
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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
Here's what went wrong with that Hawaii missile alert, the FCC says … The emergency worker who sent a false public safety alert on Jan. 13 warning of an imminent ballistic missile attack against Hawaii believed that a ballistic missile was truly bound for the state after mishearing …
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Pelosi tells Democrats not to disrupt ‘slobbering’ Trump during SOTU — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is encouraging her caucus to behave during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address tonight, saying the focus should be on “his slobbering self.”
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TMZ.com:
‘Glee’ Star Mark Salling Dead of Apparent Suicide — Mark Salling is dead of an apparent suicide, according to law enforcement ... TMZ has learned. — We're told his body was found near a riverbed in Sunland ... the area where he lived. We do not yet know the manner of death.
Emily Wagster Pettus / Associated Press:
Ex-Mississippi Gov. Barbour arrested with gun at airport — JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said he will pay a fine after being arrested with a loaded handgun in his briefcase as he went through an airport security checkpoint in early January.
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Scientific American Blog Network:
Bill Nye Does Not Speak for Us and He Does Not Speak for Science — By attending the State of the Union with NASA administrator nominee Jim Bridenstine, the Science Guy tacitly endorses climate denial, intolerance and attacks on science — Tonight, Bill Nye “The Science Guy” …
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Sbrown / CGD Blogs:
How the Trump Administration's Plan Would Shape the Composition of Immigration: First Numerical Estimates — As the US Administration presses for the most extensive revision to immigration law since 1965, with the largest cuts to legal immigration since 1924 in the proposed …
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Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair:
Mike Cernovich Is Bidding $500,000 to Buy Gawker.com — A leaked pitch deck shows how Cernovich would turn Gawker into a platform for his media ambitions—and, perhaps, a cudgel to get back at a site that once called him a “D-list right-winger.” — PayPal co-founder and Gawker nemesis Peter Thiel …
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