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Des Moines Register:
The Register's editorial: Steve King should resign for the good of Iowa — Some may argue that 4th District voters are getting what they deserve. But the entire state needs a healthy rural economy. Low commodity prices and President Trump's tariffs have hit farmers hard. — CONNECT
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Michael Gors / siouxcityjournal.com:
OUR OPINION: Steve King should resign — It's time for Steve King to go. He should resign his seat in the U.S. House. A new election should be held for voters in Iowa's 4th Congressional District to choose a replacement. — After near-universal condemnation from both sides of the political aisle …
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Axios
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
NBC News Tells Staffers Not To Call Steve King's Racist Remarks Racist (UPDATE: NBC Changes Guidance)
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Republicans Rebuke Steve King but Face Vexing Question: Why Not Sooner?
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Talking Points Memo
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Shutdown's Economic Damage Starts to Pile Up, Threatening an End to Growth — WASHINGTON — The partial government shutdown is inflicting far greater damage on the United States economy than previously estimated, the White House acknowledged on Tuesday, as President Trump's economists doubled projections …
Rebecca Klein / HuffPost:
Karen Pence Is Working At A School That Bans Gay Employees And Kids — The school discriminates against LGBTQ people in its job application and says LGBTQ kids aren't welcome. — Karen Pence, wife of Vice President Mike Pence, started at a job this week teaching art at Immanuel Christian School in Northern Virginia.
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The Daily Beast, Joe.My.God., USA Today, Splinter and Boing Boing
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
The school that hired Karen Pence requires applicants to disavow gay marriage, trans identity — The school where Vice President Pence's wife, Karen Pence, has accepted a part-time job teaching art requires potential employees to affirm certain religious beliefs that seek to exclude homosexual …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump and Putin Have Met Five Times. What Was Said Is a Mystery. — WASHINGTON — The first time they met was in Germany. President Trump took his interpreter's notes afterward and ordered him not to disclose what he heard to anyone. Later that night, at a dinner …
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Washington Post, CNN, Front Page Magazine, The Atlantic and Center for Security Policy
Washington Post:
T-Mobile announced a merger needing Trump administration approval. The next day, 9 executives had reservations at Trump's hotel. — Last April, telecom giant T-Mobile announced a megadeal: a $26 billion merger with rival Sprint, which would more than double T-Mobile's value and give it a huge new chunk of the cellphone market.
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Pelosi gets revenge against one of the Dem rebels — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi exacted revenge against one of her most outspoken detractors Tuesday night, blocking Rep. Kathleen Rice from landing a seat on the high-profile House Judiciary Committee. — Pelosi lobbied for other members …
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Talk show host calls out black commentator for his “white privilege” — “White privilege” is a dubious concept. It's typically invoked in lieu of reasoned rebuttal. Often, it's akin to an ad hominen argument. — The concept first gained currency on college campuses.
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Brian Flood / Fox News:
CNN legal analyst Areva Martin accuses David Webb of ‘white privilege’ before learning he's black
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Pardes Seleh / Mediaite:
CNN Analyst Calls Out Fox News' David Webb On-Air For ‘White Privilege’. Webb Informs Her He's Black.
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RT, Hot Air, Sara A. Carter, IJR, TheBlaze, Daily Wire and Washington Free Beacon
Amber Athey / The Daily Caller:
CNN Analyst Accuses Black Conservative Radio Host Of ‘White Privilege’
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Lili Bayer / Politico:
German minister says UK should be given more time on Brexit — Berlin is signaling that London should be given more time to figure out its position after the crushing rejection of Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal by the House of Commons. — “The first conclusion I can draw …
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Associated Press, One America News Network and The Local
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Elizabeth Dexheimer / Bloomberg:
Ocasio-Cortez Said Poised to Join Panel Overseeing Wall Street — Socialist Democrat recommended for House finance committee — 29-year-old New Yorker has called for breakup of biggest banks — Wall Street, get ready for a lot more scrutiny from U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Republicans Break Ranks Over Move to Lift Sanctions on Russian Oligarch's Firms — WASHINGTON — A group of 11 Republican senators broke ranks with their leadership and the administration on Tuesday to side with Democrats in a showdown over sanctions on Russia, underscoring the political sensitivity …
Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal:
WeWork's CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork — Adam Neumann has bought properties and leased them to his co-working startup, sparking conflict of interest concerns — For more than two months after employees at International Business Machines Corp. moved into a Manhattan building managed …
Louisa Loveluck / Washington Post:
Islamic State claims blast in U.S.-patrolled city in Syria; monitoring group, local media report casualties — BEIRUT — The Islamic State claimed responsibility Wednesday for a suicide blast in Syria's U.S.-patrolled city of Manbij, marking the first such attack since President Trump …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
“He's not a guy who likes a plan”: How Trump takes his strategic cues from Mike Tyson — When a frustrated adviser once tried to convince President Trump to consider a strategic plan, the president launched into a story about his friend Mike Tyson, the former world heavyweight boxing champion.
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Axios:
Exclusive excerpt: Chris Christie torches Jared — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie settles scores in “Let Me Finish,” a memoir out Jan. 29 from Hachette Books, writing that President Trump “trusts people he shouldn't, including some of the people who are closest to him.”
Pew Research Center:
Most Border Wall Opponents, Supporters Say Shutdown Concessions Are Unacceptable — Partisan divide on whether shutdown is ‘very serious’ problem — With the partial shutdown of the federal government in its third week, both opponents and supporters of expanding the U.S.-Mexico border …
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Politico
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Abrams and Gillum target Trump in 2020 — Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum — two of the Democratic Party's breakout candidates of 2018, despite losing their elections for governor of Georgia and Florida — are looking to parlay their near-success into the defeat of Donald Trump in 2020.
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Talking Points Memo
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Senate Republicans stand with McConnell on the sidelines of shutdown fight — The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights — Mitch McConnell paused as he searched for the words to sum up the early days of 2019. — “So, I would say this is a little bit of a …
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Politico, The Hill, The Week, Wall Street Journal and Common Dreams
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘The gang concept almost never works’: Senators struggle to end shutdown
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Talking Points Memo
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Is AOC the Future of Politics? Is Trump? — Do these two represent the future of politics? — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Donald Trump could not be more different as people. Old vs. young; glamorous vs. fat; making ends meet vs. ultra-rich; democratic-socialist vs. populist-conservative.
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NBC News, Politico and Conservative News Today
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
El Chapo Trial: Former Mexican President Peña Nieto Took $100 Million Bribe, Witness Says — Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto took a $100 million bribe from international drug traffickers, according to a witness at the trial of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the infamous crime lord known as El Chapo.
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The Federalist, Townhall, Daily Wire and Althouse
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
My Mother Worked to Make America Great. She Lived to See Trump Make It Worse. — No, she was no president or business titan. She was just a fierce woman of the greatest generation who embodied and lived values that will long outlast Trump. — BEAST INSIDE
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
William Barr tries to clean up his Clinton comments — but stumbles into a new Mueller problem — A newly released email makes clear Barr thought Clinton probes were more warranted than Mueller's collusion probe. — Attorney general nominee William P. Barr's comments about special counsel …
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Raw Story, The Daily Signal and Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Probe Likely to Restrict Michael Cohen's Testimony — Trump's former lawyer may be barred from discussing matters related to talks with the special counsel and Manhattan federal prosecutors — WASHINGTON—The testimony of Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer …
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Talking Points Memo, The Week and Raw Story
Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed News:
Sherrod Brown Is Taking His Possible Presidential Campaign To The Early Primary States — Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio is taking a big step toward running for president, with plans to visit the all-important early voting states: Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina.
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Supreme Court Just Handed a Big, Unanimous Victory to Workers. Wait, What? — On Tuesday, the Supreme Court handed a victory to American workers, ruling unanimously that independent contractors who work in transportation may not be forced into mandatory arbitration.
Fox News Insider:
Tucker Carlson Battled Obama Adviser Over Trump Bashing NATO, Russia — Tucker Carlson debated an Obama foreign policy adviser over whether it is a civic offense to consider withdrawing the United States from NATO or discussing whether the alliance should be altered.
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twitchy.com
Barry Meier / New York Times:
Sacklers Directed Efforts to Mislead Public About OxyContin, New Documents Indicate — A filing in a Massachusetts lawsuit contains dozens of internal Purdue Pharma documents suggesting the family was far more involved than the company has long contended. — Members of the Sackler family …
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The Week
Marcy Gordon / Associated Press:
The IRS is recalling 46,000 workers to handle tax returns — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service is recalling about 46,000 of its employees furloughed by the government shutdown — nearly 60 percent of its workforce — to handle tax returns and pay out refunds. The employees won't be paid.
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Splinter
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Gillibrand's 2020 path: 'Women are pissed off and they're fired up' — Soon after Kathleen Matthews jumped into a crowded Democratic congressional primary in Maryland in 2016, she received an unsolicited check. It was from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's political group, weighing in early on Matthews' behalf.
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Gothamist and One America News Network
Daniel Dale / Toronto Star:
Trump's tales about gagged women are misleading Americans about human trafficking, experts say — WASHINGTON—U. S. President Donald Trump has been painting a wildly inaccurate picture of human trafficking in his effort to sell a border wall that would not make a meaningful difference …
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