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6:45 AM ET, December 28, 2017

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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Bannon adviser: Ryan challenger Paul Nehlen is ‘dead to us’ after inflammatory tweets  —  What you need to know about Steve Bannon  —  Breitbart executive chairman Steve Bannon has cut ties with Paul Nehlen, the far-right activist who is challenging Paul Ryan for his congressional seat …
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Fake Tapper: ‘Very Fake News’ Anchor Leads Re-Ignition of CNN Scandal
Discussion: Raw Story
The Guardian:
Steve Bannon cuts ties with far-right candidate trying to unseat Paul Ryan
Discussion: IJR and Mediaite
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Bannon cuts ties with Ryan challenger after inflammatory tweets
Discussion: RedState
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump legal team readies attack on Flynn's credibility  —  President Trump's legal team plans to cast former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn as a liar seeking to protect himself if he accuses the president or his senior aides of any wrongdoing, according to three people familiar with the strategy.
Kevin G. Hall / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Jailed Russian says he hacked DNC on Kremlin's orders and can prove it  —  WASHINGTON  —  A jailed Russian who says he hacked into the Democratic National Committee computers on the Kremlin's orders to steal emails released during the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign now claims …
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo! Finance:
Mueller probe outgrows its ‘witch hunt’ phase  —  Steve Bannon's eyes lit up.  Several months before he left his job as a senior White House adviser last August, Bannon was talking to President Trump about the brewing political storm over the Justice Department investigation into his campaign's alleged ties to the Kremlin.
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Carla Herreria / HuffPost:
Vanity Fair Gets Called Out For Suggesting Hillary Clinton Take Up Knitting
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Mueller hauls in RNC staffers in Russia probe while Trump fumes over investigation
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:   Mueller is reportedly zeroing in on the Trump campaign's data operation — and the RNC
Max Boot / Foreign Policy:
2017 Was the Year I Learned About My White Privilege  —  I used to be a smart-alecky conservative who scoffed at “political correctness.”  The Trump era has opened my eyes.  —  In college — this was in the late 1980s and early 1990s at the University of California, Berkeley …
Internal Revenue Service:
IRS Advisory: Prepaid Real Property Taxes May Be Deductible in 2017 if Assessed and Paid in 2017  —  WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service advised tax professionals and taxpayers today that pre-paying 2018 state and local real property taxes in 2017 may be tax deductible under certain circumstances.
Discussion: New York Times, WNYC News and WCDC-TV
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Washington Post:   IRS says many who prepaid property taxes may still face cap on deductions
Washington Post:   IRS says taxpayers trying to use deduction that will be scaled back can prepay 2018 property taxes …
Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
BuzzFeed has fired its White House correspondent after allegations of inappropriate comments to a colleague  — BuzzFeed News' White House correspondent Adrian Carrasquillo has been let go following an investigation into inappropriate comments to a colleague.
Life & Style:
Melania Trump's Darkest Secrets Will Be Revealed in Omarosa Manigault's Tell All … From the moment President Donald Trump gave Omarosa Manigault Newman a job in his administration last January, she treated 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue like her own playground.  The polarizing reality TV personality brought …
Rex Tillerson / New York Times:
I Am Proud of Our Diplomacy  —  WASHINGTON — Over the past year, the United States has faced immense challenges in its dealings with North Korea, China and Russia, and in its efforts to defeat international terrorism.  But Americans should be encouraged by the progress the State Department …
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Colin Kahl / Foreign Policy:   The United States Should Resolve to Avoid War With North Korea in 2018
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
McCain associate subpoenaed in Trump dossier probe … House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes has issued a subpoena to David Kramer, a former State Department official who, in late November 2016, traveled to London to receive a briefing and a copy of the Trump dossier from its author, former British spy Christopher Steele.
Ashley Southall / New York Times:
Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since the 1950s  —  It would have seemed unbelievable in 1990, when there were 2,245 killings in New York City, but as of Wednesday there have been just 286 in the city this year — the lowest since reliable records have been kept.
Discussion: thecut
Associated Press:
In the heart of Trump Country, his base's faith is unshaken  —  SANDY HOOK, Ky. — The regulars amble in before dawn and claim their usual table, the one next to an old box television playing the news on mute.  —  Steven Whitt fires up the coffee pot and flips on the fluorescent sign …
Discussion: The Week, Hullabaloo and NewsBusters
Yair Rosenberg / New York Times:
Confessions of a Digital Nazi Hunter  —  Like many Jewish journalists who reported on Donald Trump's presidential campaign, I spent the 2016 election being harassed by a motley crew of internet racists who coalesced around the future president.  They sent me threats, photoshopped …
WZTV:
PHOTOS: Nathan Bedford Forrest statue along I-65 in Nashville vandalized  —  The Nathan Bedford Forrest statue along Interstate 65 in Nashville has been vandalized.  —  FOX 17 News crews took photos Wednesday of the statue, which appeared to be covered in pink paint.
Discussion: WKRN-TV, Raw Story and Splinter
Associated Press:
Roy Moore files lawsuit to block Alabama Senate result  —  MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Republican Roy Moore filed a lawsuit to try to stop Alabama from certifying Democrat Doug Jones as the winner of the U.S. Senate race.  —  The court filing occurred about 14 hours ahead of Thursday's meeting …
Discussion: CNN and The Week
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
‘Here comes an orange meltdown’: Internet cheers as Obama beats Trump for ‘Most Admired Man in America’ title  —  Gallup on Wednesday released the results of its annual poll to determine the most admired man and woman in America — and former President Barack Obama won the title for the tenth straight year.
Discussion: The Guardian
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton Retain Most Admired Titles
 
 
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Trump Had A Good Year Getting Judges Confirmed, But He's Still A Long Way From Reshaping The Courts
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Hannah Ellis-Petersen / The Guardian:
Chess champion to miss Saudi Arabia tournament over women's rights
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Memo: Five Republicans who could primary Trump in 2020
The Daily Beast:
Trump, Incorrectly: I've Signed the Most Legislation Ever
Discussion: Raw Story
Fox News:
DOJ scolds Obama administration over reported groping, harassment, office sex
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
GOP intraparty clash poised to shape U.S. Senate contest in Mississippi
Discussion: Raw Story
Daily Mail:
We got it wrong on Brexit gloom, economists admit: Buoyant British economy is set to power past France by 2020
Hope Hodge Seck / Military.com:
Marines Take Out Taliban Kingpin Responsible for Killing, Maiming Troops
 Earlier Items: 
Brandon Morse / RedState:
Americans Fled Blue States in the Hundreds of Thousands Due to High Taxes, Leaving Fewer to Pay the Democrats' Tab
Discussion: bizpacreview.com
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Federal prosecutors in N.Y. requested Kushner Cos. records on Deutsche Bank loan
Discussion: Daily Kos
George Neumayr / The American Spectator:
It wants checks on power except its own.
Discussion: Instapundit
David French / National Review:
Breitbart's Disgrace  —  When news cycles are crowded with outrage …
Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Terror of the skies since 1995
Washington Post:
Putin may be in more trouble than we know  —  VLADIMIR PUTIN boasts …