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5:45 PM ET, January 18, 2018

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Elise Young / Bloomberg:
Mortal Again: Christie Blocked at VIP Entrance to Newark Airport  —  Police officer sends him to Terminal B with rest of nobodies  —  Three days out of office and Port Authority ends prized perk  —  Meet Chris Christie, former New Jersey governor and current nobody at Newark Liberty International Airport.
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:   On Stage Was Springsteen, in the Audience, Chris Christie
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McConnell plans for shutdown  —  Mitch McConnell is making contingency plans for the growing possibility of a government shutdown.  —  The Senate majority leader intends to keep the chamber in session through the weekend and stage a series of votes designed to put Democrats from conservative states …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Shutdown looms as Republicans struggle for votes
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Trump Upsets Republican Strategy to Avoid Shutdown
Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
Shutdown Threat Looms: Senate Dems Stiffen Spines, House In Chaos
Discussion: Roll Call, Politico and Political Wire
Hayes Brown / BuzzFeed:
Hungarian Police Have A Warrant Out For Former Trump Adviser Sebastian Gorka  —  Gorka's warrant on gun charges was in effect the entire time he was in the White House.  —  Former Trump White House staffer Sebastian Gorka has an active warrant out for his arrest in Hungary, according to the Hungarian police's website.
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump  —  WASHINGTON  —  The FBI is investigating whether a top Russian banker with ties to the Kremlin illegally funneled money to the National Rifle Association to help Donald Trump win the presidency, two sources familiar with the matter have told McClatchy.
Murray Waas / Foreign Policy:
Trump Ordered Bannon to Limit Testimony  —  The president relied on a key legal advisor, but his advice could have a downside  —  President Donald Trump personally made the decision to curtail the testimony of former chief White House political strategist Steve Bannon before the House …
Max Brantley / Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times:
Activists say Tom Cotton has issued do-not-call-or-write notice to some constituents.  UPDATE.  Such letters sent in ‘extreme circumstances’ says Cotton's office.  —  Ozark Indivisible, the activist group that has been pressing members of Congress from Arkansas on health care …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Accusations of ‘Frat House’ Behavior Trail ‘LA Times’ Publisher's Career  —  The Los Angeles Times has given prominent coverage to recent revelations of sexual harassment of women by prominent men, particularly in entertainment and media.  Yet a review by NPR finds that the newspaper's own CEO and publisher …
Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
Stormy Daniels Once Claimed She Spanked Donald Trump With a Forbes Magazine  —  Last week, the Wall Street Journal triggered a new scandal for President Donald Trump when it reported that his lawyer, Michael Cohen, had paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about a decade-old sexual relationship …
Maya Rajamani / Newsweek:
Hillary Clinton could still become president if Russia probe finds conspiracy evidence  —  Nearly a year after President Donald Trump's inauguration, a Harvard University professor says 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton could still become commander in chief.
Politico:
House panel releases transcript of interview with Fusion GPS co-founder  —  A House panel on Thursday released the transcript of congressional investigators' November interview with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, whose firm was behind a dossier that alleged a secret Kremlin effort to influence President Donald Trump.
Discussion: ABC News, NPR and Power Line
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The Daily Beast Latest Articles:   Fusion GPS: Kremlin ‘Purged’ Suspected Spies After Trump Dossier Release
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Trump pushes back on chief of staff claims that border wall pledges ‘uninformed’  —  White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly told Democratic lawmakers Wednesday that some of the hard-line immigration policies President Trump advocated during the campaign were “uninformed,” …
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Wall Street Journal:
Talking to Trump: A How-To Guide  —  Insights from more than 50 people the president met with in his first year in office  —  President Donald Trump has received huge public exposure in his first year through blanket TV coverage, speeches and tweets.  But what is he like in person?
Discussion: Raw Story
Office of Civil Rights / Latest News Releases:
HHS Announces New Conscience and Religious Freedom Division  —  Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pleased to announce the formation of a new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division in the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR).  The announcement will take place …
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Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
One year after Trump's inauguration, no one will say how they spent the extra money  —  WASHINGTON — Nearly a year after President Trump's inauguration, the committee that raised a record $106.7 million for the event has not disclosed how much surplus money it still has or provided a final accounting of its finances.
Discussion: Political Wire
Adam Ciralsky / Vanity Fair:
“Harvey's Concern Was Who Did Him In”: Inside Harvey Weinstein's Frantic Final Days  —  Before the story of his alleged abuses broke in October, Harvey Weinstein hunkered down in his Tribeca bunker—even as the producer refused to believe the end was near.  —  HOLLYWOOD 2018
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
The GOV'T shuts down Fri.: What we see happening …
Discussion: Washington Post
Amazon.com:
Amazon Announces Candidates for HQ2  —  Amazon expects to create 50,000 high-paying jobs and invest over $5 billion in the city where it opens HQ2, a full equal to its Seattle HQ  —  Amazon reviewed 238 proposals from across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to host HQ2, the company's second headquarters in North America.
Patrick Sisson / Curbed:
Apple announces second campus, promises to bring 20,000 jobs  —  Part of $350 billion U.S. investment, it may set off Amazon #HQ2-like scramble among cities  —  On the heels of the frenzied competition between cities for Amazon's HQ2, Apple announced earlier today that it will also be building …
The Guardian:
The boss, the boyfriend and the FBI: the Italian woman in the eye of the Trump-Russia inquiry  —  No wonder Robert Mueller's investigation came knocking  —  imona Mangiante never expected that a flirtation that began on LinkedIn would lead to a subpoena to appear before federal agents working …
CBS News:
Dylan Farrow details her sexual assault allegations against Woody Allen  —  Only on “CBS This Morning,” Dylan Farrow is speaking candidly for the first time on television about her sexual assault allegations against her adoptive father, actor and director Woody Allen.
Bloomberg:
The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought  —  Silicon Valley CEOs are supposed to be sacrosanct.  So how did it all go wrong at Uber?  —  A year ago, before the investor lawsuits and the federal investigations, before the mass resignations …
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
NYPD officers raid Newsweek headquarters  —  About two dozen NYPD offficers and investigators from the Manhattan district attorney's office raided the offices of Newsweek and its parent company, IBT Media, on Thursday.  —  IBT Media was co-founded by Jonathan Davis and Etienne Uzac.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
NBC News:
The Mueller effect: FARA filings soar in shadow of Manafort, Flynn probes  —  WASHINGTON — The data firm whose work for Donald Trump's campaign attracted the interest of Robert Mueller's investigators recently filed paperwork showing it had helped spread negative information about Qatar …
Discussion: Washington Times and Raw Story
Kim Kozlowski / Detroit News:
What MSU knew: 14 warned of Nassar abuse  —  8 WOMEN REPORTED ABUSE CLAIMS, AT LEAST ONE OF WHICH REACHED PRESIDENT  —  Reports of sexual misconduct by Dr. Larry Nassar reached at least 14 Michigan State University representatives in the two decades before his arrest, with no fewer …
Linda Borg / providencejournal.com:
Hendricken principal retires over racially charged video clip  —  WARWICK, R.I. — The principal of Bishop Hendricken High School has retired after school officials became aware of a brief video that shows him using racist and anti-Semitic language.  —  In an email that went out to Hendricken parents …
Discussion: WPRI-TV, Raw Story, theGrio and The Root
Hayley Peterson / Business Insider:
‘Entire aisles are empty’: Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages  — Whole Foods employees say stores are suffering from food shortages because of a newly implemented inventory-management system called order-to-shelf, or OTS.
Discussion: IJR, Eater, grubstreet and The Comeback
Emily Heil / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi is going to be a guest judge on 'RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars'  —  She might be more familiar with democracy, but top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi is soon going to show her expertise on a certain kind of monarchy: The California congresswoman is slated to appear as a guest judge …
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Mulvaney requests no funding for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau  —  Every quarter, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau formally requests its operating funds from the Federal Reserve.  Last quarter, former director Richard Cordray asked for $217.1 million.
 
 
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
The Map Has Changed, but the Math Remains the Same
Reason Foundation:
Katherine Mangu-Ward Named Editor in Chief of Reason's Print, Digital and Video Journalism
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Pew Research Center:
Public Sees Better Year Ahead; Democrats Sharpen Focus on Midterm Elections
New Yorker:
The End of the Awl and the Vanishing of Freedom and Fun from the Internet
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Illegal immigrant accused of stabbing stranger in neck at California market had been deported seven times
Robert Draper / New York Times:
36 Hours in Washington, D.C.
Discussion: CityLab
 Earlier Items: 
Katia Dmitrieva / Bloomberg:
U.S. Jobless Claims Plunge to Lowest Weekly Tally Since 1973
Chris Mooney / Washington Post:
The planet just had its hottest 4 years in recorded history.  Trump is dismantling efforts to fight climate change.
Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
When States Add Paperwork, Even Eligible People Lose Medicaid
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Majority Of Americans See Trump's First Year As A Failure
Reuters:
Exclusive: Exercise? I get more than people think, Trump says
Julie Ray / Gallup:
World's Approval of U.S. Leadership Drops to New Low
 

 
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New York Times:
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