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1:50 AM ET, January 31, 2018

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Washington Post:
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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Washington Post:
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 …
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
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?
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.”
Discussion: Consortiumnews.com
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A call for unity against a backdrop of controversy and division
Discussion: ABC News
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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NPR:
FACT CHECK: Trump's State Of The Union Address  —  In his first State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Trump is expected to take a bipartisan tone.  He is expected to focus on jobs and the economy, infrastructure, immigration, trade and national security.
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 …
Ryan Struyk / CNN:
CNN Instant poll: Trump gets least positive reaction in at least 20 years  —  Washington (CNN)Almost half of Americans who watched President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address — 48% — say they had a “very positive” impression of the speech, down from 57% of speech-watchers …
Discussion: KTLA
Erica Pandey / Axios:
Kennedy responds for the Democrats
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
CNN's Van Jones Goes Off on Trump for ‘Smearing’ DREAMers in State of the Union
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
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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Washington Post:
Disagreement on North Korea policy derails White House choice for ambassador to South Korea
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
White House abandons planned pick for South Korea ambassador
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
The incredible story of the North Korean escapee at the State of the Union
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 …
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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Eric Columbus / Washington Post:   Mueller won't indict Trump. But here's what he can do.
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
Discussion: The Guardian
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 …
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ABC News:
Updates: Trump to deliver first State of the Union amid Washington discord
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump to declare ‘New American Moment’ — but Hillary Clinton declared one first
Discussion: Breitbart, Raw Story, Mashable and AOL
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 …
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Dueling Trumps deliver a State of the Union speech likely to widen a deep partisan divide  —  For over an hour Tuesday night, Presidential Trump vied with pugnacious Trump.  —  The White House had promised a conciliatory and uplifting State of the Union address, which stood to reason.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:   Here are prewritten State of the Union analyses for you to tweet and share
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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Washington Post:
Hawaii's false missile alert sent by troubled worker who thought an attack was imminent, officials say
Discussion: RedState
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 …
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.”
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.
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 …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
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.
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 …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Eric Eyre / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Drug firms shipped 20.8M pain pills to WV town with 2,900 people  —  Over the past decade, out-of-state drug companies shipped 20.8 million prescription painkillers to two pharmacies four blocks apart in a Southern West Virginia town with 2,900 people, according to a congressional committee investigating the opioid crisis.
 
 
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Zeeshan Aleem / Vox:
Trump's State of the Union had basically nothing to match his promises on trade
ABC News:
President Trump's ‘four pillars’ of new immigration plan
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
Scott Powers / Florida Politics:
Bill Nelson, Marco Rubio, Darren Soto, Florida congressional delegation demand more hurricane relief
Discussion: RedState
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Jimmy Kimmel Strikes Out
Discussion: twitchy.com
Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Trump on ‘war on energy’
Discussion: Axios
 Earlier Items: 
David Uberti / Splinter:
Howard Kurtz's New Trump Book Is Part of a Long Right-Wing Con
Michael Calderone / Politico:
Trump needles ‘monster’ Chuck Todd at off-the-record anchors' lunch
Discussion: ABC News and Axios
Joanna Walters / The Guardian:
Greg Gianforte, politician who assaulted Guardian reporter, to lead GOP workshop
CNN:
Senior adviser who worked for disgraced Trump appointee at federal volunteer agency was banned …
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with Telegraph Director of Technology Dylan Jacques on the goal of launching 12 significant uses of AI in the newsroom over 12 months

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Apple removes RFE/RL's Svoboda app from the Russian App Store at the demand of Roskomnadzor; Apple also removed recent podcasts by Ekho Moskvy and others

Mia Sato / The Verge:
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