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Washington Post:
Inside the tense, profane White House meeting on immigration … When President Trump spoke by phone with Sen. Richard J. Durbin around 10:15 a.m. last Thursday, he expressed pleasure with Durbin's outline of a bipartisan immigration pact and praised the high-ranking Illinois Democrat's efforts …
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New York Times:
As Shutdown Talk Rises, Trump's Immigration Words Pose Risks for Both Parties  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's incendiary words about immigration have dampened the prospects that a broad spending and immigration deal can be reached by the end of the week, raising the possibility …
Mike Allen / Axios:
The recidivism presidency  —  After a triumphant end to 2017, White House sources tell Axios that they see a dangerous pattern forming for this year: a backslide into bad habits of the chaotic early days of the Trump presidency.  —  Be smart: The White House should be making the best use …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
CNN:
Hope Hicks expected to talk to Hill committee  —  Who is Hope Hicks?  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)White House Communications Director Hope Hicks is expected to meet with the House Intelligence Committee as soon as this week, making her one of President Donald Trump's closest confidantes …
Discussion: Weekly Standard, Fox News, Raw Story and AOL
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Shutdown looms as Republicans seek short-term spending deal for government
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Warned Jared Kushner About Wendi Deng Murdoch  —  Officials said the businesswoman could be trying to further Beijing's interests, people familiar with the matter say  —  WASHINGTON—U.S. counterintelligence officials in early 2017 warned Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:   THREE DAYS until a shutdown, and we break down the stakes …
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
US officials warned Kushner about friendship with Wendi Deng Murdoch: report
Discussion: RedState
Bari Weiss / New York Times:
Aziz Ansari Is Guilty.  Of Not Being a Mind Reader.  —  I'm apparently the victim of sexual assault.  And if you're a sexually active woman in the 21st century, chances are that you are, too.  —  That is what I learned from the “exposé” of Aziz Ansari published this weekend …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The President and the Porn Star  —  In 1998, the professional moral scold William Bennett published a book titled “The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals.”  In it, Bennett described blasé attitudes toward presidential adultery as corrosive.
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
13 Siblings, Some Shackled to Beds, Were Held Captive by Parents, Police Say  —  A 17-year old girl who said she was being held captive by her parents in her home in Perris, Calif., escaped on Sunday and alerted the authorities, who then rescued her 12 siblings — several of whom were found shackled …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Kelly Whitney / NBC Southern California:
13 Children Hospitalized, Parents Jailed on Torture Charges  —  At the home, deputies found children shackled to beds in “dark and foul-smelling surroundings”  —  13 Children Found Tortured, Starved and Shackled  —  A Perris, California, mother and father are behind bars Monday …
abc7.com:
13 victims, ages 2 to 29, kept shackled in foul Perris home by parents, officials say … <iframe width="476" height="267" src="http://abc7.com/video/embed/?pid= 2948829" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>  —  Thirteen victims, ranging in age from 2 to 29 years old …
Discussion: IJR
Annie Karni / Politico:
The Democrat Trumpworld fears most  —  In early December, as President Donald Trump's approval rating reached a new low of 32 percent, the commander-in-chief was rating the 2020 Democratic field from behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.  —  Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders …
Jose Lambiet / miamiherald:
Trump's Mar-a Lago cited by state inspectors for poor maintenance  —  A year after the discovery of foods that could sicken people at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, his Winter White House was just cited by inspectors for poor maintenance.
Niraj Warikoo / Detroit Free Press:
After 30 years in U.S., metro Detroit immigrant deported to Mexico  —  After 30 years of living in the U.S, a 39-year-old Lincoln Park man was deported this morning from Detroit Metro Airport to Mexico as family and friends wiped away tears.  —  Jorge Garcia was brought to the U.S …
Brian Fung / Washington Post:
The Senate's push to overrule the FCC on net neutrality now has 50 votes, Democrats say  —  Fifty senators have endorsed a legislative measure to override the Federal Communications Commission's recent decision to deregulate the broadband industry, top Democrats said Monday.
Discussion: Engadget and TheBlaze
Washington Post:
Kevin McCarthy relishes role as Trump's fixer, friend and candy man … President Trump and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) were alone in the presidential suite on Air Force One, flying east toward Washington in early October, when the president reached for a handful of Starbursts …
Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Ivanka and Jared ‘love it in Washington’  —  Ivanka Trump just finished decorating her apartment on the Upper East Side, but she doesn't do much entertaining there.  —  “Whenever she invites people, they all want to come see her in Washington,” a friend said after seeing Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
The Cranberries / BBC:
Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan dies suddenly aged 46  —  The Cranberries lead singer Dolores O'Riordan has died suddenly at the age of 46, her publicist has confirmed.  —  The Irish musician, originally from Limerick, led the band to international success in the 90s with singles including Linger and Zombie.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Trump's first-year report card: Voters say he's no genius  —  Donald Trump's quarterly report card is in — and if he were back in school, he'd find himself on academic probation.  —  More voters give Trump a failing grade for his first year as president than think he deserves an “A” or …
Discussion: Political Wire
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Perez: GOP Must Answer for ‘Appalling Silence’ on Trump  —  The DNC chairman is trying to yoke every GOP official to their voluble party leader.  —  Tom Perez says Democrats can't go into the midterms campaigning just as anti-Donald Trump, but he wants to tie Trump like an ankle weight …
Discussion: Washington Times
Kurt Erickson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Amid scandal, Greitens puts off public appearances, pledges to move ahead with tax overhaul  —  • A statewide tour to promote a Trump-style overhaul of Missouri's tax system has fallen victim to the scandal enveloping Gov. Eric Greitens.  —  But Greitens' spokesman Parker Briden told …
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
Jamie Lovegrove / Post and Courier:
Graham: 'My memory hasn't evolved' on meeting where others say Trump referred to ‘shithole countries’  —  COLUMBIA — After taking the weekend to reflect on a combative White House meeting in which President Donald Trump reportedly referred to African countries as “shithole countries,” …
New York Times:
Trump Comments, Infuriating Africans, May Set Back U.S. Interests  —  CAPE TOWN — South Africa and Nigeria have joined a chorus of nations condemning President Trump's inflammatory remarks on immigration, as Africa experts warned that the controversy threatened to set back American interests across …
Discussion: PressTV
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Twitter Says No, Hundreds Of Twitter Employees Are Not Reading Your DMs  —  On Monday, conservative activist and filmmaker James O'Keefe published undercover footage of Twitter engineers alleging the social network has hundreds of employees reading “everything you post online” — including direct messages.
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
President Nobama  —  Trump is commonsensically undoing, piece by piece, the main components of Obama's legacy.  —  Donald Trump continues to baffle.  Never Trump Republicans still struggle to square the circle of quietly agreeing so far with most of his policies, as they loudly insist …
 
 
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Darren Sands / BuzzFeed:
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