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2:00 PM 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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Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
How Kamala Harris Could Win The 2020 Democratic Primary
Discussion: Splinter and AOL
Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Sen. Kamala Harris announces she will run for president in 2020
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Kamala Harris enters 2020 presidential race
Discussion: Breitbart, Politico, The Week and Daily Kos
Politico:
‘Heart of the Democratic Party’: Black voters in S.C. see first candidate push
HuffPost:
Kamala Harris Is Running For President In 2020
Julie Irwin Zimmerman / The Atlantic:
I Failed the Covington Catholic Test  —  Like many people who spend too much time on Twitter, I watched with indignation Saturday morning as stories began appearing about a confrontation near the Lincoln Memorial between students from Covington Catholic High School and American Indians from the Indigenous Peoples March.
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New York Times:
Fuller Picture Emerges of Viral Video Between Native American Man and Catholic Students
CNN:
Statement of Nick Sandmann, Covington Catholic High School junior, regarding incident at the Lincoln Memorial
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
A tribal elder and a high school junior stood face to face, and the world reacted
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and The Week
Hunter Hooligan / The Cut:   Staring Down the Smug Face of American Violence
Alex Johnson / NBC News:
Young man in D.C. march video denounces ‘outright lies’ about him
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
President Trump Posts Altered Photos to Facebook and Instagram That Make Him Look Thinner  —  President Donald Trump's social media accounts are filled with vile racism, idiotic xenophobia, and inaccurate statistics.  And now we can add another category to the list: fake photos.
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
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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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump marks MLK day with two-minute memorial visit  —  President Donald Trump made a brief appearance Monday at Washington's Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, honoring the civil rights icon with a wreath on the federal holiday bearing his name.  —  The president, accompanied …
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CNN:   Pence's shocking use of Martin Luther King's words
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 and Mediaite
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Trump voters now blame him for the government shutdown  —  MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. — Two years ago, Jeff Daudert was fed up with politics.  He wanted to shake up the status quo.  He didn't mind sending a message to the establishment — and, frankly, he liked the idea of a disruptive president.
Erin Allday / San Francisco Chronicle:
Chico's mass overdose highlights severe new phase of opioid epidemic  —  The first victim was outside the house, sprawled on a patio beside the garage.  His friends were already performing CPR when Chico police got to the scene.  —  The others are inside, they told police.
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Crusher of Sacred Cows  —  With its silly swipes at AOC, the American political establishment is once again revealing its blindness to its own unpopularity  —  One of the first things you learn covering American politicians is that they're not terribly bright.
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.
Discussion: Althouse
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 …
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 …
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
France fines Google nearly $57 million for first major violation of new European privacy regime  —  Google has been fined nearly $57 million by French regulators for violating Europe's tough new data-privacy rules, marking the first major penalty brought against a U.S. technology giant since …
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Laura Kayali / Politico:
France hits Google with €50 million fine for GDPR violation
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 …
Discussion: Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
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.
Eli Watkins / CNN:
10% of TSA employees called out Sunday as shutdown continues  —  Washington (CNN)The Transportation Security Administration said one in 10 of its employees scheduled to work Sunday took the day off, with many employees citing “financial limitations” preventing them from working.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Splinter
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Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:   U.S. Airport Screener Absences Triple as Shutdown Continues
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 …
 
 
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Charlie Cooper / Politico:
Theresa May drops post-Brexit £65 fee for EU citizens
Discussion: Associated Press
BBC:
Egypt TV host Mohamed al-Ghiety jailed for interviewing gay man
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Washington fears new threat from ‘deepfake’ videos
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Debate builds over making Mueller report public
Mike Florio / ProFootballTalk:
Commissioner has authority to take action over Rams-Saints outcome, in theory
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.
 Earlier Items: 
National Review:
Why Democrats Said No to Trump's Border Compromise
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
Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
Fox News' Restraint on Buzzfeed Paid Off, and Should Be a Lesson to Other Outlets
Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal:
China's Annual Economic Growth Rate Is Slowest Since 1990
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Larry Elliott / The Guardian:
World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam
Discussion: Oxfam America and Common Dreams
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

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

 
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