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1:35 PM ET, January 31, 2018

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Bloomberg:
FBI's Wray Opposes GOP Memo Release, Citing Inaccuracies  —  Trump overheard saying memo ‘100 percent’ should be released  —  Republicans say memo raises doubts about Russia probe  —  FBI Director Christopher Wray has informed the White House of his opposition to releasing a controversial …
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
DOJ gives special counsel internal docs on thwarted Sessions resignation, source says  —  In the weeks before special counsel Robert Mueller's team interviewed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Justice Department turned over a cache of internal correspondence, including documents related …
Okerr / Lawfare:
The Dubious Legal Claim Behind #ReleaseTheMemo  —  It seems likely that the House Intelligence Committee will soon #ReleaseTheMemo.  According to press reports, the memo claims that the FISA application to monitor Trump campaign advisor Carter Page included information sourced …
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
F.B.I. Director Condemns Republicans' Move to Release Secret Memo
Discussion: CNBC
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
FBI challenges accuracy of GOP's surveillance memo
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
The Real Aim of the Secret Memo Is the Mueller Investigation
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Washington Post:
Justice Dept. officials appealed to White House to halt release of memo alleging FBI abuses related …
Washington Post:
Internal Justice Department probe eyes McCabe's role in final weeks of 2016 election
CNN:
Trump's lawyers argue Mueller has not met threshold for presidential interview
Discussion: The Week
Reuters:
White House chief of staff: Republican memo to come out soon
Discussion: Axios
The Daily Beast:
Devin Nunes Won't Say If He Worked With White House on Anti-FBI Memo
Reuters:
Controversial Republican memo to be released quickly: White House official
Discussion: The Guardian
CBS News:
Viewers approve of Trump's first State of the Union address - CBS News poll  —  Views of the speech  —  Three in four Americans who tuned in to President Trump's State of the Union address tonight approved of the speech he gave.  Just a quarter disapproved.  —  How did the speech make you feel?
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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 …
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump arrived at State of the Union separately from the President
Washington Post:
A divisive and misleading State of the Union
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Trump campaign: Send us $1 and we'll scroll your name during State of the Union live stream
Discussion: CNBC
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resigns amid tobacco stock furor  — Fitzgerald's departure comes less than a day after Politico revealed she bought stock in a tobacco company within a month of taking her job.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, AOL and Joe.My.God.
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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 …
Sarah Karlin-Smith / Politico:
CDC director who traded tobacco stock resigns
Discussion: Daily Kos, Political Wire and Breitbart
Debra Goldschmidt / CNN:
CDC Director Fitzgerald resigns
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Ryan Hutchins / Politico:
Justice Department seeks dismissal of Menendez case  —  The Justice Department will not pursue its case against Sen. Bob Menendez and has filed a motion seeking the dismissal of the indictment against the New Jersey Democrat.  —  The decision, revealed in a court filing Wednesday …
Discussion: Axios
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Ted Sherman / New Jersey Online:
In shocking move, feds drop all charges against Sen. Bob Menendez  —  Menendez speaks after jury deadlocked, mistrial declared  —  In a shocking turnaround, the U.S. Justice Department has dropped its case against Sen. Robert Menendez.  —  In a court in Newark today …
Herb Jackson / NorthJersey.com:
Justice Department asks to drop Menendez indictment, ending case launched in 2015
Discussion: Vox and RedState
6abc.com:
Attorney: Rep. Bob Brady not running for re-election  —  Action News has learned that Democratic Congressman Bob Brady will not run for re-election.  —  The word comes from Bob Brady's attorney.  —  The congressman is expected to hold a press availability at 1:30 p.m. today.
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Philly.com:
Bob Brady is not running for reelection  —  Bob Brady, the larger-than-life leader of Philadelphia's Democratic Party, announced on Wednesday that he is not running for reelection to the U.S. House.  —  He revealed the news in a way that seemed all too perfect for the decades-long party boss …
CNN:
Train carrying members of Congress — including House Speaker Paul Ryan — hits a truck  —  (CNN)A train carrying members of Congress — including House Speaker Paul Ryan — to their legislative retreat in West Virginia hit a truck Wednesday, multiple sources told CNN.
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Washington Post:
Amtrak train carrying GOP members to retreat collides with truck
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 …
Monmouth University:
Trump Rating Ticks Up; Support for Tax Plan Increases  —  GOP gains on Dems in generic House ballot  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Donald Trump's job approval rating has bounced back from the record low registered in last month's Monmouth University Poll , as more Americans now see the president …
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
CBS News:
CIA director Mike Pompeo met with Russian counterpart in U.S.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration let a top Russian spy official visit the United States last week for meetings with U.S. intelligence officials even though there are sanctions against him that typically prohibit such visits, sources confirmed to CBS News.
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Shane Harris / Washington Post:
Russian spy chiefs met in Washington with CIA director to discuss counterterrorism
Yascha Mounk / Slate:
Donald Trump Just Asked Congress to End the Rule of Law  —  Donald Trump's first State of the Union was a deeply dangerous speech.  —  It was deeply dangerous because he finally followed in the footsteps of European leaders like Hungarian President Viktor Orban who have long ago learned …
Discussion: The Federalist
ABC:
The Cabinet Files reveal national security breaches, NBN negotiations, welfare reform plans  —  Hundreds of top-secret and highly classified cabinet documents have been obtained by the ABC following an extraordinary breach of national security.  —  This was not a leak — here's what it took to unlock national secrets
Discussion: NBC News, NPR, The Guardian and Splinter
New York Times:
Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries Into Fake Accounts  —  Federal and state authorities are investigating the sellers of artificial followers and other fraudulent social media engagement.  —  More than a million followers have disappeared from the accounts of dozens of prominent Twitter users …
WSLS-TV:
Virginia Tech freshman had assault rifle, attempted to buy 5,000 rounds of ammo, police say  —  Man, 19, had been Tech student for six months  —  BLACKSBURG, Va. - Police have arrested a Virginia Tech student they say illegally had an assault rifle.  —  Virginia Tech police arrested 19 …
Discussion: CNN, The Daily Caller, NBC News and AOL
New York Times:
A Paper Tears Apart in a City That Never Quite Came Together  —  LOS ANGELES — When an ambitious Civil War colonel from Ohio seized control of a fledgling daily newspaper here in the late 19th century, Los Angeles was a rough-hewed frontier town with no paved streets and a population of a few thousand people.
 
 
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Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:
Kellyanne Conway Botched Trump Damage Control Meeting With African Ambassadors
Discussion: Rewire
Public Citizen:
Public Citizen Files Complaint Against Speaker Ryan for Allowing Floor Broadcasts to Be Used …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
‘Using his position for private gain’: HUD lawyers warned Ben Carson risked running afoul …
Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
Kathleen Hartnett White, Trump's Environment Pick: Fossil Fuels Ended Slavery, CO2 Is Good for You
Discussion: InsideClimate News
Economist:
Democracy continues its disturbing retreat
Discussion: Axios
Peter Sblendorio / New York Daily News:
DJ in Taylor Swift groping scandal gets a new radio job, uses on-air name of Confederate general
Discussion: NBC News, Raw Story and The Guardian
 Earlier Items: 
Ryan Browne / CNN:
Exclusive: Mattis seeking to ban cell phones from Pentagon
Discussion: The Daily Caller
John Koblin / New York Times:
‘House of Cards’ Resumes Production, With Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear
Lindsay Wise / thenewstribune:
Hawley trails McCaskill in Missouri Senate fundraising
Discussion: Political Wire
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
In Joe Kennedy's speech, Democrats rediscovered Barack Obama's compelling vision
Salena Zito / New York Post:
Donald Trump is still the man to these blue-collar voters
Discussion: alicublog
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Donald Trump is teaching Republicans how to fight
Allison Graves / PolitiFact:
Fact-checking Donald Trump's 2018 State of the Union speech
Discussion: Business Insider
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Seeks Interview With Ex-Spokesman for Trump's Legal Team
Discussion: Washington Post and Axios
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

 
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