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9:15 AM ET, January 18, 2017

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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday largely commuted the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army intelligence analyst convicted of an enormous 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic activities across the world …
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Neil Eggleston / Blog Daily Listings RSS:
President Obama Has Now Granted More Commutations than Any President in this Nation's History  —  Today, 273 individuals learned that the President has given them a second chance.  With today's 209 grants of commutation, the President has now commuted the sentences of 1,385 individuals …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama commutes Chelsea Manning's sentence
Rich Lowry / New York Post:
War on Betsy DeVos shows the left hates giving educational hope to poor kids  —  MORE FROM:  —  The controversy over the nomination of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education has been, if nothing else, clarifying.  We now know that working to give poor kids more educational opportunities …
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Casey Quinlan / ThinkProgress:
Betsy DeVos says guns in schools may be necessary to protect students from grizzly bears  —  Trump's Education nominee tells Newtown's former representative that bears justify the presence of guns in schools.  —  On Tuesday, Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's Education Secretary nominee …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Slot
Benjamin Wermund / Politico:
DeVos dodges toughest questions about public school plans
Discussion: Vox, ABC News and New York Magazine
CNN:
Senate Democrats to grill Trump education pick Betsy DeVos
Discussion: Politicus USA and Mediaite
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!”
Discussion: CNBC and The Week
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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.
Discussion: The Week
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump set to take office without most of his Cabinet  —  When Bill Clinton was sworn into office 24 years ago, every single member of his Cabinet but one was confirmed by the Senate within two days.  When Donald Trump is sworn in on Friday, he'll be lucky to have half that many installed.
Discussion: ABC News
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CNN:
Chuck Schumer: Tom Price may have broken the law in stock transaction
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.
Discussion: ABC News and Bloomberg
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: 'I don't like tweeting'  —  declared in an interview released late Tuesday that he dislikes tweeting and uses Twitter as a defense against media.  —  “Look, I don't like tweeting,” Trump insisted during a Fox News interview scheduled to air Wednesday.  “I have other things I could be doing.”
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and RedState
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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 …
Discussion: RedState, The Week, NBC News and twitchy.com
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Karma Allen / ABC News:
Former President George HW Bush Hospitalized for Shortness of Breath
Discussion: Politico
CNN:
Trump wrote inauguration speech himself  —  Washington (CNN)President-elect Trump has written his inauguration address draft himself, two senior Trump transition officials told CNN Tuesday.  —  Last month, Trump told guests at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, as well as presidential historian …
Discussion: Political Wire
Chris Massie / CNN:
Rep. Steve King: John Lewis trades on status as civil rights icon, hasn't contributed since  —  Rep. John Lewis returns to the Edmund Pettus Bridge  — Iowa Rep. Steve King said Tuesday that Georgia Rep. John Lewis trades on his status as a civil rights icon.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and AOL
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Kayleigh McEnany / The Hill:
John Lewis, Democrats are boycotting America, not inauguration
Discussion: Politico and Occupy Democrats
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
Potentially nasty fight looms over Trump U.S. Supreme Court pick  —  Senate Democrats are gearing up for a potentially ugly fight over Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court pick, with some liberal activists urging them to do everything possible to block any nominee from the Republican president-elect.
Discussion: Political Wire
Roger Simon / Politico:
Ill-informed.  Impetuous.  Reckless: The Trump years.  —  Donald Trump's goal is not to damage America or our allies.  But that may well be the result of his ill-informed, impetuous, reckless actions over the next four years.  —  What can we do about this?  Our fight is not to flee to Canada or South America.
The Daily Beast:
New Trump Adviser Being Sued for Hiring Whites to Attack Blacks  —  President-elect Donald Trump's newest White House adviser runs a real-estate company currently being sued by blacks who accuse it of racial discrimination and hiring white men to physically attack and eject them.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Associated Press:
Trump Pick to Lead EPA Has Spotty State Environmental Record  —  When President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency first took office as Oklahoma's attorney general, he disbanded the unit responsible for protecting the state's natural resources.
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
As GOP Pushes Repeal, Obamacare Has Never Been More Popular: NBC News/WSJ poll  —  As Republicans get closer to repealing it, President Barack Obama's federal health-care law — or Obamacare — has never been more popular, according to results from a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal.
Doug Palmer / Politico:
Wilbur Ross faces the Commerce Committee: 5 issues to watch  —  Billionaire businessman Wilbur Ross is expected to have more influence over trade policy than many of his predecessors if confirmed as Donald Trump's pick for Commerce secretary — and that's likely to be issue No. 1 for several members …
Discussion: ABC News
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Associated Press:   Trump's Commerce Nominee Has Business Ties Around Globe
 
 
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New York Times:
Republicans Look to Reince Priebus, Trump's Chief of Staff, to Bring Stability
Chris Mooney / Washington Post:
Days before Trump's inauguration, State Dept. sends $500 million to United Nations climate fund
Discussion: AOL, ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Journalism That Stands Apart
Bre Payton / The Federalist:
Stop Pretending The Obama Administration Was ‘Scandal Free.’ It Wasn't
Discussion: Instapundit
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
The Trump lobbying purge that wasn't
Discussion: Political Wire
Jonathan Alter / New York Times:
Joe Biden: 'I Wish to Hell I'd Just Kept Saying the Exact Same Thing'
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Republican Men Say It's a Better Time to Be a Woman Than a Man
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Sam Byford / The Verge:
Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls
Discussion: Gizmodo and Mashable
 Earlier Items: 
Dave Urbanski / TheBlaze:
National police leader on Obama's history of not backing cops: ‘No one is sorry to see this guy go’
Discussion: Daily Wire
Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
Philly mayor: 'I'd take George W. back in a minute'
Discussion: Political Wire
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Claims To Have Met Putin In Newly Resurfaced Interview From 2015 (AUDIO)
Discussion: Yahoo
Jeremy Stahl / Slate:
The New Trump Defamation Lawsuit Is Daring Trump to Incriminate Himself in Court
Discussion: The Atlantic and New York Times
 

 
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