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5:55 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 …
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 and The Nation
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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
CNN:
Senate Democrats to grill Trump education pick Betsy DeVos
Discussion: Politicus USA and Mediaite
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: AOL and Raw Story
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Kayleigh McEnany / The Hill:
John Lewis, Democrats are boycotting America, not inauguration
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
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.
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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Jeremy Stahl / Slate:
The New Trump Defamation Lawsuit Is Daring Trump to Incriminate Himself in Court  —  LOS ANGELES—One of the women who accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct last year has filed a defamation lawsuit against the president-elect.  Summer Zervos, a former Apprentice contestant who alleged …
Discussion: The Atlantic and New York Times
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Former ‘Apprentice’ contestant sues Trump for defamation for denying alleged groping
Discussion: Politico and Vox
Brent Lang / Variety:
Michael Moore on Why Donald Trump Will Build a Wall and Ban Muslims  —  Michael Moore saw this coming.  Last summer, when Hillary Clinton was enjoying a seemingly insurmountable lead over Donald Trump, the documentary filmmaker correctly predicted that the billionaire businessman would capture the White House.
Associated Press:
Trump's Commerce Nominee Has Business Ties Around Globe  —  Unlike his soon-to-be boss, the choice for commerce secretary has agreed to divorce himself from a vast financial empire.  —  Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross can expect questions about his business dealings at his Senate confirmation hearing.
Discussion: Politico
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.
Discussion: Politico
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Claims To Have Met Putin In Newly Resurfaced Interview From 2015 (AUDIO)  —  In a newly resurfaced 2015 radio interview, Donald Trump claimed that he met Russian President Vladimir Putin and that they “got along great,” contradicting his later campaign trail claims that he never met or spoke with Putin.
Discussion: Yahoo
CBO's Publications:
How Repealing Portions of the Affordable Care Act Would Affect Health Insurance Coverage and Premiums  —  CBO reports on the estimated changes in health insurance coverage and premiums that would result from leaving the Affordable Care Act's insurance market reforms in place while repealing the law's mandate penalties and subsidies.
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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 …
Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
Philly mayor: 'I'd take George W. back in a minute'  —  With just days to go before Donald Trump takes office, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney says he and his fellow mayors have no idea what to expect from the incoming administration.  —  “I'd take George W. back in a minute,” …
Discussion: Political Wire
Matthew Hennessey / New York Daily News:
FALN mastermind Oscar López Rivera does not deserve President Obama's pardon  —  Rumor has it that President Obama might pardon FALN mastermind Oscar López Rivera.  He shouldn't.  —  Now 74-years old, López Rivera has served 35 years of a 55-year sentence for seditious conspiracy and weapons-related charges.
Sam Byford / The Verge:
Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls  —  The Japan Sanitary Equipment Industry Association, a consortium of companies producing plumbing products including Toto, Panasonic, and Toshiba, has agreed to unify the iconography used on the often baffling control panels for Japanese toilets.
Discussion: Gizmodo
 
 
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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
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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
Molly Redden / The Guardian:
Healthcare without Planned Parenthood: Wisconsin and Texas point to dark future
Discussion: Daily Kos
Associated Press:
Dakota Access company seeks to block pipeline study
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Eric Wolff / Politico:
Obama administration cuts second $500M check to Green Climate Fund
Discussion: Common Dreams and twitchy.com
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Donald Trump waits in his tower — accessible yet isolated
Discussion: The Slot
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
‘Shattered’ to tell story of Clinton's failed presidential bid
Discussion: RedState
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Malcolm / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Disregard all those farewells: Obama isn't really leaving
Discussion: Hot Air
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
New York Times Study Calls for Rapid Change in Newsroom
Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
“Statistical Evidence Not Required”
Discussion: Daily Wire
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
The Alt-Right Comes to Washington
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Boom: Trump eyes 10% spending cuts, 20% slash of federal workers
Discussion: The Daily Signal
 

 
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