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9:25 PM ET, January 18, 2017

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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
FBI, 5 other agencies probe possible covert Kremlin aid to Trump  —  WASHINGTON  —  The FBI and five other law enforcement and intelligence agencies have collaborated for months in an investigation into Russian attempts to influence the November election, including whether money …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
FBI, other agencies probing possible Russian aid for Trump: report  —  The FBI and five other intelligence and law enforcement agencies are working together on an investigation into whether Russia's government secretly helped President-elect Donald Trump  —  win the election, according to a new report.
Discussion: alan.com
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
Tara Golshan / Vox:
Trump inauguration time, how to watch, and what to expect  —  After more than a year of campaigning, 26 primary and general election debates, and countless press conferences, attack ads, victory speeches, public apologies, and early morning Twitter rants, Donald Trump's inauguration is here.
Discussion: WFXT, Politico and USA Today
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Obama says he'll speak up post-White House if he sees ‘core values’ at risk
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:   For Inauguration Day, Plans for Heavy Security and Big Protests
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Obama tells nation: 'I think we're going to be OK'
Discussion: Washington Post
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The Betsy DeVos Hearing Was an Insult to Democracy  —  Who are the real grizzlies?  —  WASHINGTON, D.C.—It was not a hearing.  It was the mere burlesque of a hearing, rendered meaningless by a preposterously accelerated process that rendered all questioning perfunctory and that left …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Eliza Shapiro / Politico:
De Blasio: Don't ‘overstate the threat’ DeVos poses to city
Discussion: ABC News and RedState
Alastair Jamieson / NBC News:
Betsy DeVos Cites Grizzly Bears During Guns-in-Schools Debate
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
Betsy DeVos apparently ‘confused’ about federal law protecting students with disabilities
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Above the Law
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Trump aide: Dems are trying to humiliate Cabinet nominees  —  's close aide Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday blasted Democrats for “trying to embarrass” the incoming administration's Cabinet nominees.  —  “This idea of humiliating and trying to embarrass qualified men and women who just wish …
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Conway: Dems trying to humiliate Cabinet picks
Discussion: Washington Post and Joe.My.God.
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'
Discussion: Axios and Talking Points Memo
Madison Malone Kircher / New York Magazine:
Is Donald Trump Writing His Inaugural Address from a Mar-a-Lago Receptionist's Desk?  An Investigation … As tends to be the case with the president-elect's social-media statements, there is much to discuss.  First, there's the fact that Trump seems to be drafting his first speech as POTUS with a ... Sharpie.
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 …
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Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Gabbard makes secret trip to Syria
Discussion: RedState
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 …
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
George H.W. Bush to Trump: Doctor says going to inauguration could ‘put me six feet under’
Discussion: ABC News
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Some 30 Jewish institutions across US targeted in second wave of bomb threats  —  WASHINGTON (JTA) — Some 30 Jewish institutions in at least 17 states have received bomb threats, Jewish security officials said, in the second wave of such mass disruption in two weeks.
Discussion: Tennessean.com and Hot Air
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Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
An Empty Trump Administration  —  Jonathan Bernstein: “We're two days away from having a new president.  But we're apparently a lot longer than that from having a Trump administration with even a minimally functional ability to govern.”  —  “Overall, out of 690 positions requiring Senate …
Discussion: Bloomberg, Washington Post and alan.com
Claude Brodesser-Akner / New Jersey Online:
Christie: Mary Pat refused to move to D.C. for Trump White House job  —  TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie on Wednesday disclosed that first lady Mary Pat Christie had refused to move with the governor to Washington D.C. should he take a job in the Trump cabinet, and that this informed …
Paul Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Tom Price Just Contradicted Trump Team's Defense Of His Questionable Stock Trades  —  Trump's pick for HHS secretary admitted he, not an independent financial adviser, chose to buy stock in a biotech firm.  —  Money in Politics Reporter, The Huffington Post
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump pays out $25 million to settle Trump University litigation  —  Days before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take the oath to uphold the Constitution, he has followed through on a more painful obligation: coughing up $25 million to settle litigation over his defunct Trump University real estate seminar program.
Discussion: Washington Post
Scott Shane / New York Times:
From Headline to Photograph, a Fake News Masterpiece  —  ANNAPOLIS, Md. — It was early fall, and Donald J. Trump, behind in the polls, seemed to be preparing a rationale in case a winner like him somehow managed to lose.  “I'm afraid the election is going to be rigged, I have to be honest …
Drew Angerer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Breaking: Donald Trump taps Sonny Perdue as his agriculture chief  —  President-elect Donald Trump picked former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue on Wednesday to be his agriculture secretary, tapping a veterinarian-turned-politician who was the state's first Republican governor in more than a century to lead the sprawling department.
 
 
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Comey ‘enthusiastic’ about Bill Clinton probe in 2001, FBI memo says
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New York Times:
‘Learning Curve’ as Rick Perry Pursues a Job He Initially Misunderstood
The Hill:
Trump Treasury pick to defend foreclosure record
Discussion: Mother Jones and Bloomberg
Laurel Raymond / ThinkProgress:
Trump's HHS pick won't say whether health care is a right
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Trump's Army Secretary Pick Was Once Accused of Punching Auction Worker
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Kiss the ring! GOP Senate candidates told to make nice with Trump
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge orders 4 Homeland Security officials to preserve private-account emails
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