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3:00 PM ET, January 10, 2018

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Julia Marsh / Page Six:
Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner call off divorce  —  Say it ain't so, Huma.  —  Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her jailed sext-a-holic hubby Anthony Weiner have withdrawn their pending divorce case, The Post has learned.  —  Abedin was scheduled to appear in Manhattan Supreme Court Wednesday afternoon …
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Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News:
Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin opt to settle divorce out of court to spare young son embarrassment  —  Huma Abedin and convicted perv Anthony Weiner agreed Wednesday to finalize their divorce out of court, seeking to protect their 6-year-old son from an embarrassing public separation.
Discussion: Political Wire
TMZ.com:
Harvey Weinstein — Attacked at Scottsdale Restaurant  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Harvey Weinstein was attacked Tuesday night at a restaurant ... TMZ has learned.  —  Weinstein was at Elements restaurant at the Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort in Scottsdale, eating dinner with his sober coach when 2 men sat at a table next to them.
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TMZ.com:
Harvey Weinstein Video Shows Attack in Restaurant  —  Harvey Weinstein was on the receiving end of 2 backhanded slaps to the face ... that's what the newly-obtained video shows.  —  TMZ broke the story ... Weinstein was dining Tuesday night at Elements restaurant in Scottsdale …
Discussion: IndieWire and Raw Story
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Issa retiring from Congress  —  (R-Calif.) will not seek reelection this year, he announced on Wednesday, increasing Democrats' chances of flipping his swing district in their favor.  —  Issa barely won reelection in 2016 by just over half a percentage point in a San Diego-area district …
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Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Rep. Darrell Issa To Retire, Adding To Record GOP Exodus From Congress
Discussion: Shareblue Media, TheBlaze and Eschaton
John Bresnahan / Politico:
California Republican Darrell Issa to retire
Discussion: The Week
Rasmussen Reports:
Oprah vs. The Donald, and The Winner Is...  TV personality Oprah Winfrey is the likely winner over President Trump if the 2020 election were held today, but there are a lot of undecideds.  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters …
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Megan Jula / Mother Jones:
How Oprah Helped Spread Anti-Vaccine Pseudoscience
Discussion: The Hill, STAT and Washington Post
KNXV:
POLL: Joe Arpaio in dead heat with Martha McSally in GOP race for U.S. Senate seat in Arizona  —  abc15.com staff, wire reports  —  PHOENIX - A Tuesday poll from ABC15/OHPI shows Joe Arpaio skyrocketing to the top of the Republican Primary for U.S. Senate in Arizona.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Poll: Arpaio statistically tied with McSally in GOP primary for Arizona Senate
Elliot Spagat / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: 7-Eleven probe opens new front on immigration  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. immigration agents descended on dozens of 7-Eleven stores before dawn Wednesday to open employment audits and interview workers in what officials described as the largest operation against an employer under Donald Trump's presidency.
Discussion: Splinter, The Daily Caller and The Week
Reuters:
South Korea's Moon says Trump deserves ‘big’ credit for North Korea talks  —  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in credited U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday for helping to spark the first inter-Korean talks in more than two years, and warned that Pyongyang would face stronger sanctions if provocations continued.
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Trump's nuclear-button tweet was a stroke of ‘stable genius’
Discussion: NPR, Gizmodo and Politico
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Tuesday's DACA negotiation stunt showed how dangerously we've lowered the bar for Trump  —  He remembers names (that are written on placards) — congratulations, America!  —  Donald Trump's entire political career has been a bizarre exercise in large-scale lowering of the bar …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
DACA Immigration Protections Must Continue for Now, Judge Says  —  WASHINGTON — In the middle of an intense political fight about the program that shields from deportation young immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children, a federal judge in California issued …
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CNN:
Judge blocks Trump administration plan to roll back DACA
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge blocks Trump wind-down of Dreamers program
Andrea Mandell / USA Today:
Exclusive: Wahlberg got $1.5M for ‘All the Money’ reshoot, Williams paid less than $1,000  —  Mark Wahlberg was paid $1.5 million for reshooting his scenes in All the Money in the World, three people familiar with the situation but not authorized to speak publicly about it tell USA TODAY …
Anthony Brooks / WBUR:
WBUR Poll: Baker's Popularity Continues To Soar, While Trump's Continues To Slump 04:58  —  Play  —  Gov. Charlie Baker continues to enjoy the kind of approval ratings that most politicians can only dream of.  —  That's according to a new WBUR poll (topline results, crosstabs) …
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
Tonya Harding Would Like Her Apology Now  —  In the movie, “I, Tonya,” the disgraced figure skater looks back on the 1994 Nancy Kerrigan scandal and her struggles to tell her side of the story.  —  BATTLE GROUND, Wash. — Tonya Harding's name isn't Tonya Harding anymore.
Discussion: The Week and Althouse
Ben Smith / New York Times:
I'm Proud We Published the Trump-Russia Dossier  —  Exactly one year ago BuzzFeed published what's now known simply as “the dossier”: a set of reports put together by a former British intelligence officer named Christopher Steele during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Michael Douglas Gets Out Front Of Potential Harassment Story To Preemptively Deny Sordid Accusation  —  Groundbreaking journalism that exposed decades old accusations of sexual harassment and sexual assault beginning with Harvey Weinstein has ended the careers of a growing list of powerful Hollywood men.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Are Democrats' Senate Chances In 2018 Overrated?  —  After Democrat Doug Jones won a stunning victory in Alabama's special election for the U.S. Senate last month, lots of smart people whose work I read and follow, such as The New York Times's Nate Cohn, declared that the battle for Senate control in 2018 was a “toss-up.”
United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations:
U.S. Senator Ben Cardin Releases Report Detailing Two Decades of Putin's Attacks on Democracy, Calling for Policy Changes to Counter Kremlin Threat Ahead of 2018, 2020 Elections  —  U.S. Remains Vulnerable to Russian Interference without Unequivocal Presidential Leadership, Learning Lessons from European Democracies
Rob Haskell / Vogue:
Serena Williams on Motherhood, Marriage, and Making Her Comeback  —  On a moist South Florida morning at the end of a relentless hurricane season, their wedding only a week away, Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian are seated side by side at their long kitchen table discussing the Marshmallow Test.
New Yorker:
Michael Wolff Says That Washington Will Bury Trump  —  While I was eating breakfast at the Four Seasons in Georgetown on Tuesday morning, a veteran Washington journalist stopped by my table to say hello.  “Nice to see you,” Michael Duffy, a former editor at Time, deadpanned, with a grin on his face …
David Sirota / International Business Times:
Trump Administration Waives Punishment For Convicted Banks, Including Deutsche — Which Trump Owes Millions  —  The Trump administration has waived part of the punishment for five megabanks whose affiliates were convicted and fined for manipulating global interest rates.
Devin Leonard / Bloomberg:
The Most Awful Transit Center in America Could Get Unimaginably Worse  —  Think Penn Station is bad?  Let's go into the crumbling, disaster-prone tunnels that lie beneath.  —  To get to New York's Penn Station, every northbound Amtrak passenger makes the last leg of their journey …
Discussion: Axios
Page Six:
Socialite in alleged Jew-bashing meltdown says she's the victim  —  Jacqueline Kent Cooke — the socialite daughter of former Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke who was arrested after allegedly making an anti-Semitic slur at a Manhattan restaurant resulting in a sidewalk scuffle — insists she was misheard and is the victim.
Discussion: Washington Post
Natalie Brand / KING-TV:
Gov. Inslee unveils carbon tax plan  —  The proposed tax of $20 per metric ton of carbon emissions would begin in 2019.  —  Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee has unveiled details of his latest effort to get legislative approval on a new tax on carbon emissions from fossil fuels.
Anne Blythe / Raleigh News & Observer:
NC congressional districts struck down as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders  —  RALEIGH  —  A panel of federal judges struck down North Carolina's election districts for U.S. Congress on Tuesday as unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders and gave lawmakers until Jan. 29 to bring them new maps to correct the problem.
Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed:
J.D. Vance Is Now Seriously Considering Running For Senate In Ohio  —  J.D. Vance is now seriously considering a US Senate campaign in Ohio and discussing the prospect with Republicans in Washington, following overtures from party donors and leaders who believe he would be their best candidate.
Valeriya Safronova / New York Times:
Catherine Deneuve and Others Denounce the #MeToo Movement  —  Just one day after Hollywood offered a show of support for the #MeToo movement on the Golden Globes red carpet and stage, a famous actress on the other side of the Atlantic lent her name to a public letter denouncing the movement …
Melanie Schmitz / ThinkProgress:
Oops!  White House admits it has zero evidence of voter fraud in 2016 election  —  In a court filing on Tuesday, the White House announced that it had not uncovered any preliminary findings of voter fraud in the 2016 election and that it would be destroying confidential voter data initially collected …
 
 
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The White House:
Remarks by President Trump in Cabinet Meeting
Dan Boyd / Albuquerque Journal:
Gov. wants to grant immunity to police
Discussion: Splinter
Amy S. Rosenberg / Philly.com:
Shore doctor James Kauffman charged in 2012 murder of his wife April Kauffman
David Ljunggren / Reuters:
Exclusive: Canada convinced Trump will soon pull plug on NAFTA - sources
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
NYC Sues, Divests From Oil Firms Over Climate Change
Discussion: Common Dreams
Leonard L. Glass / Politico:
We're Psychiatrists. It's Perfectly OK to Question the President's Mental State.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump says he'll take a ‘strong look’ at libel laws in response to book
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Yes, Congress has seen Trump-Russia secret court surveillance documents. Now what?
Discussion: RedState
 Earlier Items: 
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Washington To Get Boris Nemtsov Plaza In Front Of Russian Embassy
Kansas City Star:
Kansas City lawyer explores independent bid for U.S. Senate
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
‘A Lot of Butthurt to Go Around’ as Breitbart Battle Splits Billionaires
Discussion: The Atlantic
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Republicans Love Dumb Presidents
Discussion: New York Times
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Jared's policy push on prison reform
Washington Post:
President Trump has made more than 2,000 false or misleading claims over 355 days
Discussion: NPR, Washington Monthly and Mediaite