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11:45 PM ET, January 14, 2018

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Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Is Offended People Think Donald Trump Is Racist  —  “I would certainly say undoubtedly the president will use continue to use strong language when it comes to this issue.”  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Sunday bristled at the notion that her boss, President Donald Trump, is racist.
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump declares 'I'm not a racist'  —  The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):  —  President Donald Trump says in the wake of his recent comments about Haiti and African countries that “I'm not a racist.”  —  Trump has been accused of using a vulgar word …
Discussion: ABC News, Axios, Politico and Breitbart
New York Times:
Hopes Dim for DACA Deal as Lawmakers Battle Over Trump's Immigration Remarks  —  WASHINGTON — The uproar over President Trump's vulgar remark on immigration took a bitter turn on Sunday as lawmakers attacked one another in unusually personal terms and hopes dimmed for any quick deal …
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
GOP senator: Trump did not make ‘s—hole’ comment
Discussion: Power Line and The Week
Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post:
Meet the 24-year-old Trump campaign worker appointed to help lead the government's drug policy office  —  In May 2016, Taylor Weyeneth was an undergraduate at St. John's University in New York, a legal studies student and fraternity member who organized a golf tournament and other events to raise money for veterans and their families.
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Hawaii missile alert: How one employee ‘pushed the wrong button’ and caused a wave of panic  —  Shortly after 8 a.m. local time Saturday morning, an employee at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency settled in at the start of his shift.  Among his duties that day was to initiate an internal test …
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Alia Wong / The Atlantic:
Pandemonium and Rage in Hawaii  —  Why would my 22-year-old brother be calling so early on a Saturday morning?  I'd ignored the first call.  But the second time the phone rang, I picked it up.  He was panicking, his voice trembling uncharacteristically: He'd just received the emergency alert warning …
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
'I'm Not a Racist,' Trump Says in Denying Vulgar Comment  —  PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump declared on Sunday night that he was “not a racist” and insisted that the derogatory comment attributed to him during an Oval Office meeting on immigration last week did not occur.  —  “I'm not a racist.
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Katie Way / babe:
I went on a date with Aziz Ansari.  It turned into the worst night of my life  —  She approached him because she recognized his camera flash — Aziz Ansari was taking pictures at the 2017 Emmy Awards after-party with a film camera, not a digital one.  “I stood up, and I'm like tipsy at this point and feeling really confident.
Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: US set to cut UN money for Palestinian refugees  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is preparing to withhold tens of millions of dollars from the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, cutting the year's first contribution by more than half or perhaps entirely …
Discussion: Splinter, IJR and Axios
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Axios:   Palestinian president slams Trump over Jerusalem move
NBC News:
Flake to denounce Trump media attacks as Stalinist in Senate speech  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Flake is planning to slam President Donald Trump's attacks on the press on the Senate floor this week in a speech that will compare the president's use of the term “enemy of the people” to describe the media to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
Discussion: Politico, Mediaite, ABC News and RedState
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Haley Britzky / Axios:   Flake to invoke Stalin in speech on Trump's anti-media attacks
CBS News:
Nation Tracker: Americans weigh in on Trump immigration remarks, first year in office  —  Trump's first year  —  One year into Donald Trump's presidency, Americans feel more positive about the economy but not as good about the state of the country overall — and the latter is closely tied to views of the president.
Tom Sykes / The Daily Beast:
British Political Leader's Girlfriend Sent Vile Racist Abuse of Meghan Markle … The girlfriend of the leader of the radical pro-Brexit British political party UKIP made a series of racist remarks about Meghan Markle, sending texts to a friend in which she said Prince Harry's “black American” …
Discussion: Daily Mail, theGrio and The Guardian
Kerry Jackson / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America?  —  Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the country?  Not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia, but California, where nearly one out of five residents is poor.  That's according to the Census Bureau's …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump softens on NAFTA  —  The White House will never admit this publicly, but the president is developing a softer attitude towards the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).  Five sources who've spoken privately with Trump about NAFTA say he's taking more seriously the risks …
YouTube:
Chelsea Manning for U.S. Senate  —  We live in trying times.  —  Times of Fear—  of suppression—  of hate.  —  We don't need more—or better leaders.  —  We need someone willing to fight.  —  We need to stop asking them to give us our rights.  —  They won't support us.
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Joseph Weber / Fox News:
Chelsea Manning confirms Senate bid, says 'Yup, we're running'
BBC:
Turkey plane: Panic as jet skids off runway at Trabzon  —  Panic broke out on a passenger jet when it skidded off the runway at a Turkish airport and plunged down the side of a cliff overlooking the sea.  —  The Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-80 with 168 passengers and crew had flown from Ankara …
Discussion: 89.3 KPCC
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Tom Richell / The Independent:
Terrified passengers capture the moments after Pegasus Airlines jet skids off Tukish runway
Discussion: Fox News and IJR
NBC News:
Meet the Press - January 14, 2018  —  “01.14.18.”  —  CHUCK TODD:  —  This Sunday, race and the president.  At issue, President Trump's comments disparaging immigrants from Haiti and Africa.  Democrats were quick to condemn.  —  SEN. DICK DURBIN  —  That's when he used those vile …
Discussion: National Review
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's nightmare  —  Trump's day of reckoning ... The one thing that could dramatically diminish President Trump's chances of avoiding impeachment and chalking up legislative wins is Democrats winning the House.  — And, thanks to series of recent developments, Trump knows this no longer just seems plausible, but probable.
Discussion: Breitbart and The Hill
 
 
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Lewandowski says he will testify this week in House Russia probe
David Kamp / New York Times:
Guess Who's Coming to ‘Peanuts’
Jennifer Brooks / Star Tribune:
Minnesotans divided over Trump; majority sees him as temperamentally unfit, dishonest
Los Angeles Times:
Death toll in Montecito mudslide rises to 19, while 101 Freeway will remain closed indefinitely
Discussion: Breitbart
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Trey Gowdy steps down from House Ethics Committee, citing ‘workload’
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
The next GOP panic: Governors races
New York Times:
In Some Countries, Facebook's Fiddling Has Magnified Fake News
 Earlier Items: 
John Hawkins / Townhall.com:
How Conservatives Are Being Destroyed by Facebook, Twitter and Google Without Even Realizing It
Discussion: American Greatness
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Sell the New York Times. Now.
Discussion: Notes
Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You're Not
Virginia Heffernan / Los Angeles Times:
Column A close reading of Glenn Simpson's Trump-Russia testimony
Washington Post:
Vulgarity used by president projected onto Trump hotel in D.C.
Discussion: IJR, Mashable and Associated Press
Margaret Atwood / Globe and Mail:
Am I a bad feminist?
Discussion: Hit & Run
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
New alarm among Republicans that Democrats could win big this year