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10:10 AM ET, January 18, 2017

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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.
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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!”
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: The Week
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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: Political Wire
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
Tom McKay / Mic:
Trump Ed pick Betsy DeVos cites danger of “grizzlies” as reason to allow guns in schools  —  D her confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Betsy DeVos, Republican President-elect Donald Trump's pick to serve as secretary of education in his forthcoming administration, cited grizzly bears as a reason …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Raw Story and Mother Jones
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Rich Lowry / New York Post:   War on Betsy DeVos shows the left hates giving educational hope to poor kids
Casey Quinlan / ThinkProgress:
Betsy DeVos says guns in schools may be necessary to protect students from grizzly bears
Discussion: Raw Story, alan.com, Hullabaloo and The Slot
Benjamin Wermund / Politico:
DeVos dodges toughest questions about public school plans
Discussion: Vox, ABC News and New York Magazine
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: ABC News and RedState
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: I don't like tweeting
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
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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Karma Allen / ABC News:
Former President George HW Bush Hospitalized for Shortness of Breath
Discussion: Politico
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  —  Update: On “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Tuesday, the Fox News host exposed the group behind the ads as a fraud.  The man claiming to be the director of operations …
Discussion: The Slot and BizPac Review
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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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
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
Doina Chiacu / Reuters:
One habit Trump says he will keep as president: tweeting  —  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump plans to select the media representatives who are given access to the presidential press briefing room, but will not move the room out of the White House, he said in interview with Fox News broadcast on Wednesday.
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
Eric Wolff / Politico:
Pruitt on the issues  —  President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, has a long history of fighting federal pollution rules.  —  If confirmed, he's expected to sharply alter the agency …
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Associated Press:   Trump Pick to Lead EPA Has Spotty State Environmental Record
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
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
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Journalism That Stands Apart
Bre Payton / The Federalist:
Stop Pretending The Obama Administration Was ‘Scandal Free.’ It Wasn't
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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'
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Republican Men Say It's a Better Time to Be a Woman Than a Man
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Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls
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CNN:
Trump wrote inauguration speech himself
Discussion: Political 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
Mark Murray / NBC News:
As GOP Pushes Repeal, Obamacare Has Never Been More Popular: NBC News/WSJ poll