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12:45 AM ET, January 18, 2018

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Donald J. Trump / GOP.com:
The Highly-Anticipated 2017 Fake News Awards  —  2017 was a year of unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news.  Studies have shown that over 90% of the media's coverage of President Trump is negative.  —  Below are the winners of the 2017 Fake News Awards.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Trump averages a ‘fake’ insult every day.  Really.  We counted.  —  Donald Trump did not coin ‘fake news’  —  President Trump has used the word “fake” more than 400 times since he was inaugurated.  —  More than once a day, on average, he has publicly assailed “fake news,” “fake polls,” “fake media,” and “fake stories.”
In Touch Weekly:
‘In Touch’ Explosive Interview With Stormy Daniels: Donald Trump Cheated on Melania With Me … Allegations of an affair between President Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels recently resurfaced after a Wall Street Journal article reported that the porn star was paid a reported $130,000 to stay silent.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
A porn star had a racy tale about Trump. Why are we only learning about it now?
Discussion: Mediaite
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside the room: What Steve Bannon told Congress yesterday  —  Steve Bannon made one conspicuous slip up in his closed-door hearing on Tuesday with the House Intelligence Committee, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the confidential proceedings.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House Republicans seethe at tight-lipped Bannon
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
‘Vision, Chutzpah and Some Testosterone’  —  The Times editorial board has been sharply critical of the Trump presidency, on grounds of policy and personal conduct.  Not all readers have been persuaded.  In the spirit of open debate, and in hopes of helping readers who agree with us better understand …
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Lawrence Bonk / Mediaite:
Ashleigh Banfield Fires Back After Getting Insulting Email from Writer of Aziz Ansari Piece … HLN's Ashleigh Banfield has not been shy in her dismissal of Katie Way, the Babe.net writer who reported anonymous allegations against Aziz Ansari, suggesting that she has “chiseled away” …
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump's Physical Revealed Serious Heart Concerns, Outside Experts Say  —  WASHINGTON — Cardiologists not associated with the White House said Wednesday that President Trump's physical exam revealed serious heart concerns, including very high levels of so-called bad cholesterol …
Tae Kim / CNBC:
It looks like Apple is bringing back home nearly all of its $250 billion in foreign cash  — Apple “anticipates repatriation tax payments of approximately $38 billion as required by recent changes to the tax law.  A payment of that size would likely be the largest of its kind ever made,” the company said.
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Kelly calls some of Trump's campaign pledges on immigration, wall ‘uninformed,’ meeting attendees say  —  White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly told Democratic lawmakers Wednesday that the United States will never construct a physical wall along the entire stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border …
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Kelly: Mexico won't pay for border wall ‘directly from their government’
Discussion: ABC News
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Republicans lack votes to prevent a shutdown  —  House Republicans are short of the votes they need to avoid a government shutdown, but Speaker Paul Ryan and GOP leaders remain confident they will pass a stopgap funding measure when it comes to the floor on Thursday.
Discussion: The Week
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
An archconservative revolt is taking the government closer to shutdown
Discussion: Axios, The Atlantic, IJR and Roll Call
Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Shutdown drama grips the Capitol
Discussion: BostonGlobe.com
Hollywood Reporter:
Michael Wolff's ‘Fire and Fury’ to Become TV Series (Exclusive)  —  Endeavor Content has purchased rights to the best-selling exposé of the Trump White House and plans to adapt it for the small screen.  —  Michael Wolff's controversial Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House is coming to television.
BuzzFeed:
Investigators Are Scrutinizing Newly Uncovered Payments By The Russian Embassy  —  US authorities are poring over hundreds of newly uncovered payments from Russian diplomatic accounts.  Among them are transactions by former ambassador Sergey Kislyak 10 days after the 2016 presidential election …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump takes hard line on immigration, rejects ‘horrible’ bipartisan plan  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday aligned himself solidly with conservative Republicans on immigration, criticizing a proposed bipartisan deal as “horrible” on border security and …
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Christopher Buskirk / Washington Post:
Mr. President, don't betray your base
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
With Trump's Visit to Pennsylvania, G.O.P. Scrambles to Save a House Seat  —  WASHINGTON — Republicans are scrambling to save a heavily conservative House seat in western Pennsylvania, dispatching President Trump to the district on Thursday while preparing a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign …
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Sources: Rupert Murdoch Was Hospitalized with Serious Back Injury  —  The accident, which happened on his son Lachlan's yacht, comes at a delicate time for the 86-year-old's empire.  —  Rupert Murdoch suffered a serious back injury while vacationing on his son Lachlan's yacht in the Caribbean earlier …
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump says Russia helping North Korea skirt sanctions; Pyongyang getting close on missile  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday Russia is helping North Korea get supplies in violation of international sanctions and that Pyongyang is getting …
Joshua Rhett Miller / New York Post:
Sorority sister speaks out on racist videos that got her booted from college  —  A student at the University of Alabama has been expelled from the school and kicked out of a sorority after she posted racist videos on social media in which she repeatedly used the n-word.
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
3 more months of the Mueller investigation?  Papadopoulos filing signals it's likely  —  (CNN)Robert Mueller's team of special prosecutors and the lawyers for George Papadopoulos delayed on Wednesday an upcoming check-in for the former Trump campaign staffer's case, an indication …
Politico:
Full text: Jeff Flake on Trump speech transcript  —  Prepared remarks for Sen. Jeff Flake, who delivered a speech to the Senate on Jan. 17, 2018.  —  Mr. President, near the beginning of the document that made us free, our Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote …
Henry Farrell / Foreign Policy:
American Democracy Was Asking for It … The American foreign-policy community has spent the past year arguing about how to counter Russian influence operations.  Newspapers such as the New York Times have written article after article describing how Russian trolls ran campaigns …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Staffers at The Hill press management about the work of John Solomon  —  A group of newsroom staffers at The Hill have complained to management about stories written by John Solomon, the publication's executive vice president of digital video.  The complaints were launched in December …
Doug Bock Clark / Wired:
Meet Antifa's Secret Weapon Against Far-Right Extremists  —  THE EMAIL ARRIVED just as Megan Squire was starting to cook Thanksgiving dinner.  She was flitting between the kitchen, where some chicken soup was simmering, and her living room office, when she saw the subject line flash on her laptop screen: “LOSer Leak.”
Brandon Morse / RedState:
Katie Couric's Return to Broadcasting Proves that Lying Is Okay If You're Lying About the Right Thing  —  Disgraced journalist Katie Couric was figuratively run out of town after she was caught blatantly lying in her anti-gun documentary “Under the Gun,” and was discovered intentionally trying …
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
John Kelly, Deacon of Deportation  —  People correctly direct their ire about Donald Trump's hostile, racist, anti-immigrant policies at Trump himself because, after all, this starts at the top.  —  But there is someone else in the administration, behind the scenes and in the shadows …
Discussion: theGrio
Christine Brennan / USA Today:
Gay Olympian Adam Rippon blasts selection of Mike Pence to lead U.S. delegation  —  Adam Rippon, the 2016 U.S. men's figure skating champion who is believed to be the first openly gay U.S. Winter Olympian, criticized the White House's selection of Vice President Mike Pence to lead …
Lindy West / New York Times:
Aziz, We Tried to Warn You  —  In 1975, 42 years before the comedian Aziz Ansari reportedly brought a date home to his apartment and repeatedly tried to initiate sex with her after she told him “next time” and “I don't want to feel forced,” Susan Brownmiller published “Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape.”
Discussion: Mediaite and ThinkProgress
 
 
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Lovia Gyarkye / New York Times:
Lupita Nyong'o to Publish a Children's Book
Discussion: thecut and The FADER
Washington Post:
A German hacker offers a rare look inside the secretive world of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
'It's malpractice': Republicans give potential 2020 Trump foes a pass
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Raw Story
Nicholas Page / Mediaite:
GOP Rep. Martha McSally: Dems Are ‘D*icking Around’ on Immigration
Al Jazeera English:
El Salvador eyes Qatar jobs for migrants leaving US
Discussion: Splinter
Erin DeJesus / Eater:
Saveur Magazine Gutted in a Round of Layoffs
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Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Murders By U.S. White Supremacists More Than Doubled In 2017, New Report Shows
Discussion: Raw Story
John W. Schoen / CNBC:
Few large US companies say they'll use tax savings to boost wages, CNBC survey finds
Douglas Murray / Coffee House:
Watch: Cathy Newman's catastrophic interview with Jordan Peterson
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Daily Wire
Ben Protess / New York Times:
He Leaked a Photo of Rick Perry Hugging a Coal Executive. Then He Lost His Job.
Discussion: Shareblue Media