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6:00 PM ET, January 10, 2018

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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Mueller adds veteran cyber prosecutor to special-counsel team  —  Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has added a veteran cyber prosecutor to his team, filling what has long been a gap in expertise and potentially signaling a recent focus on computer crimes.
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump declines to say whether he would sit for interview with Mueller's team
Discussion: ABC News, Political Wire and The Week
Associated Press:
Trump calls Norway a ‘great customer’ in welcoming the PM
Discussion: Axios and Politico
Eric Geller / Politico:
Mueller adds DOJ cybercrime prosecutor to his team
Discussion: ABC News
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  —  Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her jailed sext-a-holic hubby Anthony Weiner have withdrawn their pending divorce case, The Post has learned.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 …
Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
GOP negotiators say Trump aide Stephen Miller is standing in the way of an immigration deal  —  WASHINGTON  —  Here's one thing even Republicans negotiating an immigration deal agree on: Trump aide Stephen Miller is hurting their chances of getting anything done.
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.
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Immigration agents target 7-Eleven stores in nationwide sweep
Discussion: Fox News, Axios, Breitbart and IJR
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
The Crime Is Worse Than The Coverup  —  On multiple occasions in 2016, and perhaps stretching back into the previous year, Donald Trump's presidential campaign fielded solicitations from Russian spies and cutouts offering up stolen Democratic Party emails and other assistance in the election.
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Trump-Russia: transcript reveals ex-spy and FBI's cloak-and-dagger dance
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Top Fox News D.C. Reporter James Rosen Left Network After Harassment Claims  —  On the Friday before Christmas, Fox News confirmed that its chief Washington correspondent, James Rosen, had left the network.  He had worked there for 18 years and had become something of a legend.
Tamar Lapin / New York Post:
Confused readers are buying the wrong ‘Fire and Fury’  —  SEE ALSO  —  It's “Fire and Fury” fever.  —  Confused readers are buying a military book in droves all because it has a title similar to Michael Wolff's bombshell “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” according to a new report.
Discussion: IJR, TheBlaze and Political Wire
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Decade-old book called ‘Fire and Fury’ hits best-seller list
Discussion: RedState
Ashifa Kassam / The Guardian:
The other Fire and Fury: decade-old book becomes unexpected bestseller
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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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Post reporter Joel Achenbach suspended for 90 days for ‘inappropriate workplace conduct’  —  The Washington Post suspended reporter Joel Achenbach on Wednesday for what it called “inappropriate workplace conduct” involving current and former female colleagues.
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 …
Nick Penzenstadler / USA Today:
Trump sold $35M in real estate in 2017, mostly to secretive buyers  —  President Trump's companies sold more than $35 million in real estate in 2017, mostly to secretive shell companies that obscure buyers' identities, continuing a dramatic shift in his customers' behavior that began during the election, a USA TODAY review found.
Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
A Feminist Twitter Campaign Targets Harper's Magazine and Katie Roiphe  —  It started with a tweet on Tuesday afternoon.  By the next morning, five writers were said to have pulled stories planned for future issues of Harper's Magazine — an effort to pressure the magazine not to reveal …
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 …
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.
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
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.
The official website of the City of New York:
Climate Action: Mayor, Comptroller, Trustees Announce First-In-The-Nation Goal to Divest From Fossil Fuels  —  City also filing suit against five largest fossil fuel companies, seeking damages to help protect city from climate change  —  NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio …
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New York Times:
NYC Sues, Divests From Oil Firms Over Climate Change
Discussion: Common Dreams
Wilson Ring / Associated Press:
Vermont poised to enact legal pot through Legislature  —  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The state Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a bill that would allow the recreational use of marijuana, putting Vermont on course to become the first state in the country to legalize pot by an act …
Discussion: Axios
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 …
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: Weekly Standard, The Week and Althouse
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) …
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Kevin McCoy / USA Today:
IRS private debt-collection program hurts low-income Americans  —  The Internal Revenue Service's handling of its private debt-collection program is harming lower-income Americans who can least afford to repay tax debts, a federal watchdog warned Wednesday.  —  The program also may be a waste …
Discussion: KFOR-TV and New York Times
Sharon Begley / STAT:
Trump administration halts ‘evidence-based’ program that evaluates behavioral health therapies  —  The Trump administration has abruptly halted work on a highly regarded program to help physicians, families, and others separate effective “evidence-based” treatments for substance abuse …
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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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court seems skeptical of blocking Ohio law that removes voters from rolls
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
A high-ranking Obama Commerce Dept. official commuted by taxi — and billed the government
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
White House memo: Kelly orders West Wing staff no personal phones, no smart watches
Discussion: Political Wire
Brian Rogers / Houston Chronicle:
Lindy Lou Layman, accused of destroying Tony Buzbee's Andy Warhol art, challenges charges
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
Ronan Farrow, the Hollywood Prince Who Torched the Castle
Josh Blackman / National Review:
A Ludicrous Ruling That Trump Can't End DACA
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Dan Boyd / Albuquerque Journal:
Gov. wants to grant immunity to police
Discussion: Splinter
David Ljunggren / Reuters:
Exclusive: Canada convinced Trump will soon pull plug on NAFTA - sources
Discussion: Axios, The Week and Political Wire
Page Six:
Socialite in alleged Jew-bashing meltdown says she's the victim
Discussion: Washington Post
Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed:
J.D. Vance Is Now Seriously Considering Running For Senate In Ohio