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3:00 PM ET, January 18, 2017

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Mike Allen / Axios:
Reality bites: Trump's wake-up call  —  NEW YORK — On Twitter and in public, Donald Trump remains an uncompromising mix of bluster and bombast.  Behind the scenes, he's confronting, and in some cases succumbing (slightly) to, the hard truths of governing and leading a world that hangs on his every word.
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Tara Fowler / ABC News:
Trump on Intel Briefings: 'I'll Solve the Problems'  —  President-elect Donald Trump admitted that receiving intel briefings has shown him that the U.S. faces some formidable “enemies” but said he will “solve the problems.”  —  “I've had a lot of briefings that are very …
Discussion: Axios and Talking Points Memo
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
How Donald Trump came up with ‘Make America Great Again’ … “Make America Great Again.”  —  The four words that would help propel Donald Trump to the White House were an inspiration born years before, when hardly anyone but Trump himself could imagine him taking the oath of office as the 45th president of the United States.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's new 2020 campaign slogan is very, well, Donald Trump  —  Donald Trump, who wasted no time after the 2012 presidential election to pick his slogan for 2016, isn't waiting much longer when it comes to his reelection slogan.  —  It's “Keep America Great!”
Joe Uchill / The Hill:
Assange lawyer: Manning commutation doesn't meet extradition offer's conditions  —  The attorney for Julian Assange said President Obama's commutation of Chelsea Manning's sentence does not meet the conditions of the WikiLeaks head's offer to be extradited to the United States if Manning were pardoned.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Earnest: GOP intellectually dishonest on Manning pardon
Discussion: RedState
Houston Chronicle:
George H.W. Bush hospitalized in Houston  —  Former President George H.W. Bush was recently admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital after falling ill.  —  “He's there.  He's fine and he's doing really well,” Bush's chief of staff, Jean Becker, said.  —  She said the doctors have a couple …
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Tegna / KHOU-TV:
President Bush moved to ICU; Mrs. Bush also hospitalized  —  Former President George H.W. Bush has been at Houston Methodist Hospital for treatment of pneumonia.  Mrs. Bush has also been admitted to the hospital due to “fatigue and coughing”. … HOUSTON - Former President George H.W. Bush …
New York Times:
Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year  —  Marking another milestone for a changing planet, scientists reported on Wednesday that the Earth reached its highest temperature on record in 2016 — trouncing a record set only a year earlier, which beat one set in 2014.
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Chris Mooney / Washington Post:
U.S. scientists officially declare 2016 the hottest year on record. That makes three in a row.
Robin Pogrebin / New York Times:
Museum Trustee, a Trump Donor, Supports Groups That Deny Climate Change
Discussion: Instapundit
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Trump's D.C. hotel bans press during inauguration week  —  The Trump International Hotel in Washington is banning the media from its premises during inauguration week.  —  “Media is not allowed in this week in respect of the privacy of our guests,” Patricia Tang, the hotel's director of sales and marketing wrote in an email.
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Washington Post:
Man apparently sets himself on fire outside Trump Hotel in D.C.
Discussion: RedState and New York Magazine
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Betsy DeVos Fight Demonstrates Donald Trump's Serious About Changing Washington  —  It's hard to grill something in just five minutes.  But that didn't stop Democrats from trying.  —  Sen. Lamar Alexander's (R-TN) decision as chairman of the Senate education committee to limit senators …
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Eliza Shapiro / Politico:
De Blasio: Don't ‘overstate the threat’ DeVos poses to city
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
Price: 'Nobody's Interested in Pulling the Rug Out' on Health Coverage  —  Right Now: President Obama is addressing the press corps for the last time from the White House.  Follow our live coverage and analysis.  —  Representative Tom Price of Georgia, the nominee for health and human services secretary …
Discussion: Political Wire, CNBC, NBC News and The Week
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Haley: No Muslim registry under Trump administration
Discussion: Raw Story
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Nikki Haley breaks with Trump on Russia
Discussion: ABC News
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
‘Tell Me What Your Real Name Is’: Tucker Carlson Confronts Guest Over Hoax in Bonkers Interview  —  The video above contains quite possibly one of the most bizarre interviews you will ever watch.  —  Here's how Tucker Carlson began the interview: … Okay, let's back up a second.
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Leah Barkoukis / Townhall.com:
Ads in Dozens of Cities Offer to Pay Protesters Up to $2,500 to Disrupt Trump Inauguration; UPDATE: It Was a Hoax
Discussion: The Slot
Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
An open letter to Trump from the US press corps  —  Dear Mr. President Elect:  —  In these final days before your inauguration, we thought it might be helpful to clarify how we see the relationship between your administration and the American press corps.  —  It will come as no surprise …
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New York Times:
Obama to Hold His Last News Conference as President
John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
Democratic Rep. Gabbard Makes Secret Trip to Syria  —  The Hawaii lawmaker, who has bucked both parties on the issue of Syria, met with government officials on a “fact finding” trip.  —  Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii has just departed war-torn Damascus following a trip her aides described as a …
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Trump Budget Nominee Did Not Pay Taxes for Employee  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump's choice for White House budget director failed to pay more than $15,000 in payroll taxes for a household employee, he admitted in a statement to the Senate Budget Committee …
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump National Security Team Gets a Slow Start  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has written 275 briefing papers for the incoming Trump administration: nearly 1,000 pages of classified material on North Korea's nuclear program, the military campaign against the Islamic State …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Politico
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Michael Crowley / Politico:
Is Trump ready for a national security crisis?
NBC News:
Democrats: Left in the Lurch  —  The curious decline and uncertain future of the Democratic Party  —  When President-elect Donald Trump replaces Barack Obama on January 20, the Democratic Party will find itself more removed from power than at almost any point since the party's creation.
Jenny Deam / Houston Chronicle:
Woodlands crowd grills Brady over ACA repeal  —  U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands, faced a skeptical and at times testy crowd Tuesday as dozens of people arrived at an afternoon meeting to make sure he knew they would not let the Affordable Care Act end without a fight.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
 
 
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Bloomberg:
IEA Sees Significant Gains in U.S. Shale Oil as Prices Rise
Discussion: Forbes
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Public Sees Wealthy People, Corporations Gaining Influence in Trump Era
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump inauguration's ‘Cabinet dinner’ offers access for cash
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
ACLU Official Mocks Elderly White People, Tells Them They Have ‘Five Years Left’
Discussion: TheBlaze and IJR
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
10 years ago today Obama made a huge promise. He didn't keep it.
Chelsey Dulaney / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Comments Send Dollar Reeling
 Earlier Items: 
Kevin O'Leary / CNBC:
Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary to run for Conservative leadership in Canada
Discussion: alan.com
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
President-Elect Trump, Back in Washington, Resembles Candidate Trump
Christopher Mele / New York Times:
Obama Commutes Sentence of F.A.L.N. Member Oscar Lopez Rivera
Roger Simon / Politico:
Ill-informed. Impetuous. Reckless: The Trump years.
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
Potentially nasty fight looms over Trump U.S. Supreme Court pick
Discussion: Political Wire
The Daily Beast:
New Trump Adviser Being Sued for Hiring Whites to Attack Blacks
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Magazine
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: 'I don't like tweeting'