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11:50 AM ET, January 21, 2019

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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Joins Democratic Presidential Field  —  Senator Kamala Harris, the California Democrat and barrier-breaking prosecutor who became the second black woman to serve in the United States Senate, declared her candidacy for president on Monday, joining an increasingly crowded …
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Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:   Kamala Harris to visit Iowa one day after launching her bid for president in her home state
Molly Hensley-Clancy / BuzzFeed News:
Kamala Harris Is Running For President
Discussion: RT, The Daily Caller and Axios
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Inside Kamala Harris' 2020 campaign plan
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Kamala Harris enters 2020 presidential race
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
How Kamala Harris Could Win The 2020 Democratic Primary
Discussion: Splinter and AOL
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Kamala Harris launches campaign for president
New York Times:
Fuller Picture Emerges of Viral Video Between Native American Man and Catholic Students  —  A fuller and more complicated picture emerged on Sunday of the videotaped encounter between a Native American man and a throng of high school boys wearing “Make America Great Again” gear outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
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Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
The Media Wildly Mischaracterized That Video of Covington Catholic Students Confronting a Native American Veteran  —  Partial video footage of students from a Catholic high school allegedly harassing a Native American veteran after the anti-abortion March for Life rally in Washington, D.C. …
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
A tribal elder and a high school junior stood face to face, and the world reacted
Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
When the Press Sees Red
Discussion: Mother Jones
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Fox & Friends Apologizes for Accidental Graphic Saying Ruth Bader Ginsburg is Dead  —  Fox & Friends apologized on Monday after briefly airing a graphic suggesting that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead.  —  As the show came back from commercials, they briefly showed a graphic of Ginsburg with the caption 1933-2019.
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Avery Anapol / The Hill:
‘Fox & Friends’ accidentally shows graphic saying Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead
Discussion: Breitbart and Joe.My.God.
Caleb Howe / Mediaite:   Fox News' Restraint on Buzzfeed Paid Off, and Should Be a Lesson to Other Outlets
Wall Street Journal:
Cohen Threatened CNBC That Trump Would Sue After 2014 Poll Disappointment  —  Future president also complained to network over ‘business leader’ ranking after fixer tried to rig online survey  —  Donald Trump and his then-attorney Michael Cohen pressured CNBC in 2014 to place …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Book by Former Staff Member Describes a White House ‘Out of Control’  —  John F. Kelly, as White House chief of staff, presented himself as the man leading a charge of “country first, president second.”  The attorney general suggested administering lie-detector tests to the small group …
Discussion: AOL, Mediaite and Axios
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Robert Mendick / Telegraph:
Kremlin accused of laying false trail linking Sergei Skripal to ex-MI6 officer behind Trump dossier  —  Russian intelligence created a false trail linking the double agent Sergei Skripal to the former MI6 officer behind the Trump dossier before carrying out the Salisbury nerve agent attack, the Telegraph has been told.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive excerpt: Chris Christie says Trump hired “riffraff”  —  Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, writes in his forthcoming memoir — “Let Me Finish,” out Jan. 29 — that President Trump filled his administration with “riffraff” instead of canny players who could help …
Washington Post:
Senate Republicans all but surrender to Trump on wall despite shutdown's toll  —  One month into a historic government shutdown, Republican senators are standing staunchly behind President Trump's demand for money to build a border wall, even as the GOP bears the brunt of the blame …
NBC News:
Report finds another undisclosed North Korea missile site, says there are 19 more  —  The Kim regime has never admitted the existence of the Sino-ri Missile Operating Base.  A new report says it's one of many undisclosed sites.  —  WASHINGTON — With a second U.S.- North Korea nuclear summit looming …
Discussion: TheBlaze, Hullabaloo and Deadline
Bari Weiss / New York Times:
Ilhan Omar and the Myth of Jewish Hypnosis  —  A conspiracy theory with ancient roots and a bloody history.  —  Ms. Weiss is a writer and editor in the Opinion section.  —  In 2012, during one of Israel's periodic wars with Hamas in Gaza, Ilhan Omar, at the time a 32-year-old nutrition coordinator …
New York Times:
In Business and Governing, Trump Seeks Victory in Chaos  —  Three decades ago, Donald J. Trump waged a public battle with the talk show host Merv Griffin to take control of what would become Mr. Trump's third Atlantic City casino.  Executives at Mr. Trump's company warned that the casino would siphon revenue from the others.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Top D.C. lawyers couldn't understand what Rudy was trying to achieve with today's TV interview  —  In a remarkable interview with CNN's Jake Tapper today, the president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani suggested it was possible — and would be “perfectly normal” — that Trump talked to Michael Cohen before he testified about him to Congress.
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Debate builds over making Mueller report public  —  Anticipation is building for special counsel Robert Mueller's report, bringing to boil a debate over whether it will also be made public.  —  The report took center stage at Attorney General nominee Bill Barr's confirmation hearing last week …
Mike Florio / ProFootballTalk:
Commissioner has authority to take action over Rams-Saints outcome, in theory  —  So what can the NFL do about the outcome of the Rams-Saints game?  Probably nothing.  Bad calls happen.  Sometimes, bad calls have bigger consequences than others.  —  Still, there's language in the rulebook that could …
Robert A. Caro / New Yorker:
The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson's Archives  —  On a Presidential paper trail.  —  I. Mr. Hathway  —  In 1959, when I went to work for Newsday, on Long Island, the paper had a managing editor named Alan Hathway, who was an old-time newspaperman from the nineteen-twenties.
Larry Elliott / The Guardian:
World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam  —  Charity calls for 1% wealth tax, saying it would raise enough to educate every child not in school  —  The growing concentration of the world's wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own …
Discussion: Oxfam America and Common Dreams
 
 
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Washington fears new threat from ‘deepfake’ videos
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
U.S. Airport Screener Absences Triple as Shutdown Continues
NetBlocks:
Social media outage and disruptions in Venezuela amid incident in Caracas
Discussion: Bloomberg
Fabiola Sanchez / Associated Press:
Venezuela puts down mutiny by national guard unit
Beto O'Rourke / Beto O'Rourke:
Drove through Johnson City west out of Kansas and into Colorado.
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Booker and Bernie plunge into South Carolina
Discussion: ABC News
National Review:
Why Democrats Said No to Trump's Border Compromise
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Gold / New York Times:
New York Finally Passed a Ban on ‘Conversion Therapy’ After Years-Long Efforts
Washington Post:
President Trump made 8,158 false or misleading claims in his first two years
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Shutdown Shows the Weakness of the Resistance
Discussion: WREG-TV
CNN:
Pence's shocking use of Martin Luther King's words
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Five reasons Trump may be a one-termer
Discussion: Raw Story
Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal:
China's Annual Economic Growth Rate Is Slowest Since 1990
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Trump two years in: The dealmaker who can't seem to make a deal
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Raw Story and Politico
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads

Jamie Heller / Business Insider:
Business Insider hires Rick Brooks as Standards Editor; Brooks most recently served as a standards editor at The Wall Street Journal

 
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