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8:50 AM ET, January 11, 2018

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KMOV-TV:
Blackmail alleged as Governor Greitens admits to extramarital affair  —  ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) — Governor Eric Greitens on Wednesday night confirmed to News 4 he had an extramarital affair, an admission a months-long News 4 investigation prompted.  —  In a recording obtained by News 4 …
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Greitens admits affair but denies related blackmail allegation
Discussion: Political Wire
Jason Hancock / Kansas City Star:
Gov. Greitens admits to extramarital affair, denies threatening to blackmail the woman
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Moira Donegan / thecut:
I Started the Media Men List My name is Moira Donegan.  —  In October, I created a Google spreadsheet called “Shitty Media Men” that collected a range of rumors and allegations of sexual misconduct, much of it violent, by men in magazines and publishing.  The anonymous, crowdsourced document …
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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 …
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
GOP may skip budget, kneecapping 2018 ambitions  —  Republican leaders are considering skipping passage of a GOP budget this year — a blow to the party's weakened fiscal hawks that would squash all 2018 efforts to revamp entitlements or repeal Obamacare.  —  White House and Hill GOP leaders discussed …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Democratic leaders face internal mutiny over Dreamers deal  —  Democratic leaders are facing a potential revolt within their ranks as they edge toward a deal with Republicans that would protect Dreamers from deportation but also include concessions to conservatives that many Democratic lawmakers say are unacceptable.
Politico:
Rash of retirements dim GOP hopes of keeping the House
Discussion: New York Magazine
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Retirements of veteran Republicans fuel GOP fears of losing House majority
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Splinter
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Democrats to invite sex misconduct victims to Trump's State of the Union  —  WASHINGTON — Some Democratic House members are planning to invite victims of sexual assault to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address later this month to highlight the issue, according to an aide …
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Associated Press:
Some legislatures lack sexual misconduct policies, training
Discussion: Axios
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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Bradley P. Moss / Politico:
This Is How Trump's Lawyers Are Probably Prepping Him for the Mueller Showdown  —  As reports emerge that special counsel Robert Mueller is looking to put President Donald Trump in the interview chair, you're probably wondering how the president's legal team can and should prepare him for that meeting if it happens.
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Wolff Eats Its Own  —  Guess what?  Donald Trump is a raving idiot.  Every sentient person knows this, and if Michael Wolff is to be believed, so does most everyone in the White House.  So why are we talking about Wolff's book “Fire and Fury” as if it's the news sensation of the decade?
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David Byler / Weekly Standard:
The Republican Civil War Heads to Arizona  —  New poll shows Arpaio and McSally in a tight race.  —  On Tuesday, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, jumped into the race for Arizona's now-open Senate seat.  Arpaio is, to put it mildly, controversial.
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Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Republicans Have 4 Convicted Criminals Running For Congress In 2018
Discussion: twitchy.com
Washington Post:
Trump's Netherlands ambassador was asked to name a person ‘burned’ because of Islam.  He couldn't.  —  Peter Hoekstra, the newly minted U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, held his first conference with the Dutch media at his new residence in the Hague Wednesday.  —  It did not go well.
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.
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Trump administration opens door to let states impose Medicaid work requirements  —  The Trump administration issued guidance to states early Thursday that will allow them to compel people to work or prepare for jobs in order to receive Medicaid for the first time in the half-century history …
John Sexton / Hot Air:
Steven Pinker: Here's How Political Correctness Winds Up Creating Its Own Antagonists  —  This is a week old so forgive me if you've seen it already but I just came across it today.  In this clip, Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker makes the case that political correctness actually winds …
David Harsanyi / New York Post:
The Trump dossier's credibility is collapsing  —  No sooner did Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, unilaterally release the testimony of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson than liberals and their advocates in the media were claiming victory.
Discussion: Power Line and Business Insider
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Los Angeles Times:
Five women accuse actor James Franco of inappropriate or sexually exploitative behavior  —  It should have been a pure moment of triumph for James Franco.  He collected one of Hollywood's top prizes at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, validating an untraditional career in which he's …
Discussion: AOL and thecut, more at Mediagazer »
National Review:
The GOP Must Win a Better Deal on DACA  —  At a partially televised bipartisan meeting about immigration on Tuesday, President Trump demonstrated that he's not, despite the fevered fantasies of the Left, senile; unfortunately, he also demonstrated that he's not necessarily reliable on immigration policy.
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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.
Discussion: Axios
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Seeks to Change Rules on Bank Lending to the Poor  —  Regulators plan to revamp rules governing banks under the Community Reinvestment Act  —  The Trump administration plans to unveil a major revision to decades-old banking rules that mandate lending to poor borrowers.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Christopher Buskirk / Washington Post:
Michael Wolff did Trump a big favor  —  Christopher Buskirk is editor and publisher of the website American Greatness and co-author, with Seth Leibsohn, of “American Greatness: How Conservatism, Inc. Missed the 2016 Election & What the D.C. Establishment Needs to Learn.”
Andy Koval / FOX59:
New layoffs at Carrier factory year after Trump deal … INDIANAPOLIS — A new round of layoffs is taking effect at the Carrier Corp. factory in Indianapolis a little more than a year after President Donald Trump touted a deal that save some of the plant's jobs.
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Google's New ‘Fact-Checker’ Is Partisan Garbage  —  In the midst of the “fake news” hysteria last year, Google launched a project to help curate reliable information for its readers by identifying articles and sites that need fact-checking.  And this may come as a surprise to some of you …
PRRI:
Diversity, Division, Discrimination: The State of Young America |  MTV/PRRI Report  —  I. Perceptions of Discrimination, Personal Experience with Bias, and Concerns about Safety  —  Experiences with bias and discrimination are relatively common among young people age 15-24.
Discussion: Washington Post
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.
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Sessions tries to impress Trump with moves at Justice.  It hasn't worked.  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions is trying to find his way back into President Trump's good graces.  —  For months, Sessions has asked senior White House aides to make sure the president knows what he is doing …
Discussion: Political Wire
Heather Wilhelm / National Review:
Goodbye, Boring Candidates — Hello, Boring Hysteria  —  On the rise of celebrity candidates and of the over-the-top public reaction they provoke  —  t was a ceremony fit for the gods.  " That was the Washington Post's Dana Milbank, way back in August of 2008, describing Barack Obama's …
Harriet Sinclair / Newsweek:
DONALD TRUMP'S SPIRITUAL ADVISER PAULA WHITE SUGGESTS PEOPLE SEND HER THEIR JANUARY SALARY OR FACE CONSEQUENCES FROM GOD  —  Donald Trump's spiritual adviser has suggested that people send her money in order to transform their lives, or face divine consequences.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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 …
Joseph Cox / The Daily Beast:
Top U.S. Government Computers Linked to Revenge-Porn Site … Revenge porn, where people share intimate images of others in order to intimidate, harass, or embarrass, is rampant.  Now, data obtained by a security analyst and shared with The Daily Beast reveals the behind-the-scenes …
 
 
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New York Times:
Wielding Data, Women Force a Reckoning Over Bias in the Economics Field
BBC:
Washington renames Russian embassy street after slain opposition MP
Discussion: The Hill
Liz Mair / The Daily Beast:
No, Mr. President, Earmarks Were Horrible, Keep Them Dead and Buried
The Hill:
Trump refuses to commit to Mueller interview
Rachel Stoltzfoos / The Federalist:
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Discussion: RedState
Wesley Morgan / Politico:
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Discussion: Business Insider
 Earlier Items: 
WREG-TV:
Navy veteran's mother denied visa to attend his funeral
Discussion: Raw Story
Adam K. Raymond / New York Magazine:
Jared Kushner Is Turning His Focus to Prison Reform
Discussion: Breitbart, Raw Story and Axios
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Trump's secret plan to scrap Obamacare
My Site:
You can count on me  —  I am unequivocally running for re-election …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Morgan Cook / sandiegouniontribune.com:
Grand jury subpoena issued in Rep. Duncan Hunter criminal investigation
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Devin Leonard / Bloomberg:
The Most Awful Transit Center in America Could Get Unimaginably Worse
Discussion: Axios
TMZ.com:
Harvey Weinstein — Attacked at Scottsdale Restaurant