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2:00 PM ET, January 8, 2018

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Libby Hill / Los Angeles Times:
Oprah at the Golden Globes: Is she running for president?  She should!  —  Oprah Winfrey for president was something of a running theme throughout the Golden Globes on Sunday, beginning with Seth Meyers' opening monologue.  He jokingly forbade Winfrey from considering the presidency.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Sources: Oprah Winfrey ‘actively thinking’ about running for president  —  Oprah Winfrey in 96 seconds  —  Oprah Winfrey is “actively thinking” about running for president, two of her close friends told CNN Monday.  —  The two friends, who requested anonymity in order to speak freely …
Kevin Fallon / The Daily Beast:
Oprah for President?  Why Oprah Winfrey's Golden Globes Stump Speech Just Changed Everything … Oprah Winfrey, as she is wont to do, just gave the most galvanizing, inspiring, and possibly life-saving speech in awards show history.  (And, as she has been wont to do lately …
Steven Zeitchik / Washington Post:
Meryl Streep just endorsed an Oprah Winfrey presidential run  —  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — A year ago at the Golden Globes, Meryl Streep gave a lifetime achievement speech and took aim at an incoming U.S. president.  —  At the 2018 ceremony, Oprah Winfrey gave a lifetime achievement speech …
Anousha Sakoui / Bloomberg:
Oprah Denies Presidential Ambition After Golden Globes Speech  —  Minutes after giving a rousing speech at the Golden Globes Awards that promised “a new day” for women, minorities and the downtrodden, Oprah Winfrey said she has no ambitions to run for president.
McKenna Aiello / E! Online:
Connie Britton Wears “Poverty Is Sexist” Shirt to 2018 Golden Globes: What It Means
Brian Flood / Fox News:
NBC slammed for ‘stunningly unprofessional’ tweet declaring Oprah Winfrey ‘our’ next president
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Washington Post:
200,000 Salvadorans will be forced to leave the U.S. or face deportation as Trump administration ends immigration protection  —  The Department of Homeland Security will not renew the Temporary Protected Status designation that has allowed the Salvadorans to remain in the United States since at least 2001 …
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
200,000 Salvadorans may be forced to leave the U.S. as Trump ends immigration protection  —  The Trump administration has canceled the provisional residency permits of about 200,000 Salvadorans who have lived in the country since at least 2001, leaving them vulnerable to deportation …
Dara Lind / Vox:
Trump is revoking 260,000 Salvadoran immigrants' permission to live in the United States
Discussion: The Hill
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Trump to end protected status for Salvadorans
Discussion: ABC News and Associated Press
NBC News:
Initial talks underway about Trump interview in Mueller Russia probe  —  WASHINGTON — Anticipating that Special Counsel Robert Mueller will ask to interview President Donald Trump, the president's legal team is discussing a range of potential options for the format, including written responses …
Linette Lopez / Business Insider:
Stephen Miller had to be escorted off CNN's set after his interview with Jake Tapper went off the rails  — Stephen Miller needed to be escorted off a CNN set on Sunday.  — His appearance on “State of the Union” ended abruptly after host Jake Tapper pressed him on damaging claims about President Donald Trump.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump's secret, shrinking schedule  —  President Trump is starting his official day much later than he did in the early days of his presidency, often around 11am, and holding far fewer meetings, according to copies of his private schedule shown to Axios.
Bloomberg:
Bannon's Olive Branch Too Late for Angry Trump  —  Fallout continues from book portraying White House dysfunction  —  Trump gives aides a choice: you're with Bannon, or with me  —  Stephen Bannon's attempt to make amends for his comments trashing Donald Trump's family did little to tamp …
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
We're still better off with Trump than Clinton  —  Now that Steve Bannon has carried his political jihad to its logical conclusion, martyrdom never looked so meaningless.  A bright and talented man has sacrificed himself over nothing more significant than anger and vanity.
Sebastian Gorka / The Hill:   Don't believe Michael Wolff's book about Trump if you want the truth
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Tom Steyer will plow $30 million into midterms, but won't run for office in 2018  —  Democratic donor Tom Steyer, who has spent more than $100 million since 2016 on political campaigns, will forgo any run for office this year and focus instead on ending Republican control of the House of Representatives.
Discussion: Axios, TheBlaze, AOL and CNBC
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Billionaire donor Steyer says he won't run for office in 2018
Discussion: Washington Times
Associated Press:
Scene quiet before frenzy of big game, planned protests  —  ATLANTA (AP) — The scene was relatively quiet Monday morning around the stadium in downtown Atlanta where the College Football Playoff title game was set to be held.  A light drizzle fell on some fans milling about, but there were no anti-Trump demonstrators in sight.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
NAACP to protest Trump in Atlanta: report
Discussion: IJR
David Benoit / Wall Street Journal:
iPhones and Children Are a Toxic Pair, Say Two Big Apple Investors  —  Two activist shareholders want Apple to develop tools and research effects on young people of smartphone overuse and addiction  —  The iPhone has made Apple Inc. AAPL 1.14% and Wall Street hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Shaun King / The Intercept:
ACLU Says New Jersey Prisons' Banning of “The New Jim Crow” Is Unconstitutional  —  America's jails and prisons have long since banned and censored books that the institutions determined posed a material danger to the safety of inmates and employees.  There is a logic, at least …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Acclaimed book The New Jim Crow banned in some New Jersey prisons
Discussion: HuffPost, The Root and Splinter
Jane Wester / The Charlotte Observer:
This woman's mugshot got compliments, so she turned it into an ad for her business  —  When Shia Yearwood was arrested and charged with violating a domestic protective order in Mecklenburg County on Wednesday, it seemed like a rough start to the new year.  —  Shia Yearwood, 24 …
Discussion: The Root
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trump tweets about Fox News segment on minority unemployment  —  on Monday tweeted about the African-American and Hispanic unemployment rates about an hour after “Fox & Friends” ran a segment on new unemployment statistics.  —  “African American unemployment is the lowest ever recorded in our country,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
 
 
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Washington Post:
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Corker smooths over relationship with Trump, sources say
Discussion: Political Wire
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: Althouse
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
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New York Times:
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 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump's “The Wall” moment
Discussion: Breitbart
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Greta Gerwig / CBS News:
Fire breaks out at Trump Tower in NYC
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans' Identification as Independents Back Up in 2017
Discussion: Daily Wire
Sarah Stillman / New Yorker:
When Deportation Is a Death Sentence
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
As influx of Puerto Ricans continues, Koch-backed group starts seeking them out in Florida
Discussion: The Week
 

 
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