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12:20 PM ET, January 26, 2019

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New York Times:
Trump and His Associates Had More Than 100 Contacts With Russians Before the Inauguration  —  Among these contacts are more than 100 in-person meetings, phone calls, text messages, emails and private messages on Twitter.  Mr. Trump and his campaign repeatedly denied having such contacts with Russians during the 2016 election.
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Pelosi / Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on Special Counsel Indictment and Arrest of Trump Campaign Advisor Roger Stone  —  Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after Special Counsel Mueller released a seven-count indictment of top Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone, for lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstruction:
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Stone Indictment Underscores That There Was No Trump-Russia Conspiracy  —  Will the Justice Department ever correct the record?  —  Roger Stone is the shiny object.  The obstruction charges in his long-anticipated indictment, made public on Friday, are not the matter of consequence for the United States.
Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
“We Can See Collusion”: With the Stone Indictment, Mueller Begins Making His Case  —  The special counsel's office didn't charge Roger Stone with conspiracy.  Between the lines of the indictment, however, legal experts see a giant red arrow pointing to the president.
Discussion: TheBlaze, The Guardian and Mediaite
CNN:
CNN NEWSROOM  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  [14:30:00] DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We do not have the necessary space or resources to detain, house, vet, screen and safely process this tremendous influx of people.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
House Intelligence to hand over transcripts to Mueller investigation
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
‘I Will Piss on Your Grave’: Emails Reveal Roger Stone's Abuse of Frenemy Randy Credico
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
John Podesta / Washington Post:
It might now be Roger Stone's time in the barrel
Power Line:
Roger Stone's Arrest: What's Scandalous, and What Isn't
Todd S. Purdum / The Atlantic:
Trumpworld Follows a Godfather Script—Literally
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Peter Baker / New York Times:
For a President Consumed With Winning, a Stinging Defeat  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump famously declared that in his administration the nation would become tired of all the winning.  So on Friday he tried a little losing.  —  After the longest government shutdown in history …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What we've learned post-shutdown  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE SHUTDOWN IS OVER.  One can believe that this is what PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP needed to do — reset the negotiations — but you cannot make a coherent argument that it's not a cave to accept an agreement …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Gabby Orr / Politico:
‘All for nothing’: Trump's wall retreat bewilders allies  —  Before President Donald Trump finished speaking from the Rose Garden, putting a temporary end to the five-week government shutdown, a running group text between several of his former aides lit up with complaints.
Washington Post:
‘Prisoner of his own impulse’: Inside Trump's cave to end shutdown without wall
John Bresnahan / Politico:
'She's not one to bluff': How Pelosi won the shutdown battle
Ezra Klein / Vox:   The vindication of Nancy Pelosi
New York Times:
A Bruised Trump Faces Uncertain 2020 Prospects.  His Team Fears a Primary Fight.  — With his approval rating sinking, and foes within the party wooing potential Republican challengers, aides to the president are working to shore up his support.  — Mr. Trump, close associates acknowledge …
Telegraph:
Melania Trump - An Apology  —  Following last Saturday's (Jan 19) Telegraph magazine cover story “The mystery of Melania”, we have been asked to make clear that the article contained a number of false statements which we accept should not have been published.
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Kelly Gilblom / Bloomberg:
Telegraph to Pay Melania Trump ‘Substantial’ Damages for Article  —  The Telegraph agreed to pay U.S. First Lady Melania Trump “substantial” damages after running an article in its magazine a week ago that it said included “a number of false statements” and shouldn't have been published.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Ex-Starbucks CEO Could Get Trump Re-elected  —  Before there was Jill Stein, there was Ralph Nader.  Before there was Nader, there was Ross Perot.  —  None won.  All argued that the Republican Party and the Democratic Party were basically the same, and the only way to make real change was to ditch them both.
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Yes, Venezuela Is a Socialist Catastrophe  —  In the age of A.O.C., the lesson must be learned again.  —  Conspicuous by its relative absence in much of the mainstream news coverage of Venezuela's political crisis is the word “socialism.”  Yes, every sensible observer agrees …
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Huge Trove of Leaked Russian Documents Is Published by Transparency Advocates  —  A group of transparency advocates on Friday posted a mammoth collection of hacked and leaked documents from inside Russia, a release widely viewed as a sort of symbolic counterstrike against Russia's dissemination …
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The Hill:   Transparency advocate group releases trove of hacked Russian documents
Michael Cavna / Washington Post:
Another cartoonist loses his job.  This does not bode well for the future of newspaper cartooning.  —  Another Pulitzer-winning cartoonist has been shown the door.  —  Steve Benson was laid off Wednesday by his longtime employer, the Arizona Republic, as part of larger cuts by the Gannett company.
New York Times:
Trump's Shutdown Was a Cruel Joke  —  But it revealed the folly of the president's approach to politics.  —  The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher.  It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.  —  What a debacle President Trump's …
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Media Matters for America:
Lou Dobbs slams Trump's shutdown cave: “Illegal immigrants are surely pleased”
Discussion: twitchy.com
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Bernie Sanders set to announce 2020 presidential run  —  WASHINGTON—Three years after fighting a surprisingly competitive Democratic primary race against Hillary Clinton, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is making another run for the White House.  —  Two sources with direct knowledge …
Washington Post:
The shutdown was proof of Trump's stark incapacity for leadership  —  PRESIDENT TRUMP'S temper tantrum over Congress's refusal to fund a border wall paralyzed much of the government for five weeks, sapped the morale and wallets of hundreds of thousands of federal workers and low-wage contractors …
Hans von der Burchard / Politico:
EU ramps up pressure on Venezuela  —  The European Union on Saturday urged Venezuela to call elections in the coming days, warning that it would otherwise “take further actions” including the potential recognition of the country's parliamentary chief, Juan Guaidó, as interim president.
 
 
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's self-inflicted slump
David Rogers / Politico:
Trump White House stonewalls as Puerto Rico aid runs dry
Los Angeles Times:
California's big, but South Carolina may be key in Kamala Harris' presidential run
Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
Texas officials flag tens of thousands of voters for citizenship checks
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Gee, I Guess Now I'm Going To Have To Be Happy With Only 90% Of The Stuff I Wanted Trump To Do
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Richard Ojeda Drops Out of Presidential Race
Adam Green / Roll Call:
Democrats were ripe for division. Then the shutdown came along
Discussion: Raw Story and Hullabaloo
Dictionary by Merriam-Webster:
Trending: ‘cave’  —  Why are people looking up cave?
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Raphael Satter / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Undercover agents target cybersecurity watchdog
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Arson Suspected at Comet Ping Pong, the D.C. Restaurant Made Famous by Pizzagate
Discussion: Splinter, Washington Post and Eschaton
 

 
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How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

 
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