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6:05 PM ET, January 25, 2018

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Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
The Trumps asked to borrow a Van Gogh for the White House.  The Guggenheim offered an 18K gold toilet instead.  —  The emailed response from the Guggenheim's chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: the museum could not accommodate a request to “borrow” a painting by Vincent Van Gogh …
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump supports path to citizenship for up to 1.8 million ‘dreamers’ in new White House proposal  —  President Trump's immigration proposal to Congress will include a path to citizenship for an estimated 1.8 million young undocumented immigrants, White House officials said Thursday …
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Cruz Blasts Citizenship Path for Dreamers Suggested by Trump  —  Senator Ted Cruz blasted the idea of giving young undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship, a day after President Donald Trump said he was open to the idea as part of immigration legislation being negotiated in Congress.
Lorraine Woellert / Politico:
White House jumps back into Dreamer battle with citizenship offer
New York Times:
Trump Immigration Plan Demands Tough Concessions From Democrats
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
I've Watched Trump Testify Under Oath.  It Isn't Pretty.  —  In a 2007 deposition in my libel case (which he lost), he was underprepared and overconfident.  —  “There's been no collusion whatsoever.  There's been no obstruction whatsoever.”  —Donald Trump, Jan. 24, 2018
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Attorney Says No Decision to Talk to Mueller  —  John Dowd, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, told The Daily Beast on Wednesday he will be the one to decide whether or not Trump sits down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller.  Dowd also said he hasn't made any decision …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
CNN:
READ: President Trump's full exchange with reporters
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
‘Secret Society’ FBI Text Actually Began With A ‘Beefcake’ Putin Calendar  —  The backstory to the message that's been blowing up conservative media is pretty funny.  —  WASHINGTON It was hours after Donald Trump became the president-elect, and two FBI officials, like many of their fellow citizens, were flabbergasted.
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Fox News:
DOJ recovers missing text messages between anti-Trump FBI agents Strzok and Page  —  The Department of Justice has recovered missing text messages between anti-Trump FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the DOJ's inspector general said Thursday.  —  In a letter sent to congressional committees …
Mike Levine / ABC News:
Exclusive: The full ‘secret society’ text between FBI agents: Was it meant in jest?
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Grassley Says ‘Spooked’ Kushner Won't Agree to Russia Interview  —  Committee to release other transcripts on Trump Tower meeting  —  ‘That section of our investigation is done,’ senator says  —  A “spooked” Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser …
Discussion: Shareblue Media
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Senate panel to release interviews with Trump Jr., others involved in meeting with Russian lawyer
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Casey Affleck Withdraws From Oscars: Won't Present Best Actress Award  —  EXCLUSIVE: Casey Affleck has withdrawn from presenting the Best Actress Award at the upcoming Oscars, Deadline hears.  He has notified the Academy he will not be attending the event, sources said.
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Gregg Kilday / Hollywood Reporter:
Oscars: Casey Affleck Won't Present Best Actress Award
David Edwards / Raw Story:
GOP Senate candidate flips out over 'women's rights': ‘I want to come home to a cooked dinner every night’  —  Republican U.S. Senate candidate for Missouri Courtland Sykes blasted “women's rights” this week.  —  In a statement posted to Facebook on Tuesday, Sykes said that he had been asked if he “supports women's rights.”
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump and the great GOP abdication  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  Something remarkable is happening in our politics right now.  On multiple fronts, it has fallen to Democratic elected officials to step up and defend the integrity and basic functionings of our government …
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Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Kris Kobach's Office Leaks Last 4 Social Security Digits of Nearly Every Kansas Lawmaker and Thousands of State Employees, Including Kris Kobach  —  This is starting to just get sad.  —  Prior to receiving notice from Gizmodo this morning, Kris Kobach's office was leaking sensitive information belonging …
Discussion: Mother Jones and New York Magazine
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
The Photo That Never Saw The Light of Day: Obama With Farrakhan In 2005  —  A journalist announced last week that he will publish a photograph of then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (D) and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan that he took in 2005 at a Congressional Black Caucus meeting …
Johnny Manziel / ESPN:
Vince McMahon: XFL to return in 2020 without gimmicks  —  WWE founder and chairman Vince McMahon announced Thursday he is giving a professional football league another go.  —  It will be called the XFL, the same name of the league McMahon and NBC tried for one season in 2001 …
Angus Deaton / New York Times:
The U.S. Can No Longer Hide From Its Deep Poverty Problem  —  You might think that the kind of extreme poverty that would concern a global organization like the United Nations has long vanished in this country.  Yet the special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston …
Discussion: Splinter
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New York Times:
As U.S. Trumpets ‘America First,’ Rest of the World Is Moving On
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Ian Kerner / CNN:
Cuckolding can be positive for some couples, study says  —  (CNN)In our current political climate, the term “cuck” — short for “cuckservative” — has become an insult of the so-called alt-right, aimed at men they view as spineless and emasculated.  The slur has its roots in the concept of cuckolding, or having an adulterous partner.
Christian Britschgi / Hit & Run:
California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws  —  Ian Calderon wants restaurateurs to think long and hard before giving you a straw.  —  Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants …
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump skips Davos, visits museum and heads to Florida  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)First lady Melania Trump's plane arrived in West Palm Beach, Florida, Thursday, the same week she cancelled her planned trip with her husband to Davos, Switzerland, at the last minute.
Discussion: Palmer Report, AOL and The Daily Caller
Bloomberg:
Putin Family Split Offers Peek at Secret Dealings of Russia Inc.  —  During his courtship and marriage, Kirill Shamalov catapulted into the ranks of the super-rich with a little help from some of the closest allies of his father-in-law: Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Discussion: 444 and The Week
John Nolte / Breitbart:
CNN's Climate of Hate Comes Home to Roost  —  For nearly five years, going all the way back to the Trayvon Martin uproar, Breitbart News has aggressively documented CNN's devolution into a 24/7 hate network.  This week, CNN's climate of hate finally came home to roost when a Michigan man …
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Trump says dollar will get ‘stronger and stronger,’ Mnuchin was misinterpreted  — “The dollar is going to get stronger and stronger and ultimately I want to see a strong dollar,” Trump told CNBC in an exclusive interview.  — On Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he welcomed …
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Their school deleted an article on a teacher's firing.  So these teens published it themselves.  —  The teenagers' newspaper story started with a simple question: Why had a well-liked history teacher at their high school been missing from campus?  Was there a medical issue, or something else?
Discussion: Salt Lake Tribune
Jonathan Tamari / Philly.com:
Rep. Pat Meehan will have to step aside, Republican insiders say  —  Pennsylvania Republicans increasingly believe Rep. Pat Meehan, the latest elected official to be tarnished by a sexual harassment claim, will not be able to run for reelection this fall — and it's now a question of whether …
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Be Smart: Mike Allen Wrote The Rules Of Washington And Now Donald Trump's Destroying Them  —  Every morning, Washington wakes up to Axios AM — Mike Allen's top 10 stories of the day, filled with short bits of breaking news, feuding White House insiders, and, some days, sober, moral pronouncements on how weird the Trump era is.
Paula LavigneESPN / ESPN:
Michigan State sought to end federal oversight, delayed sending Nassar files  —  Michigan State University, under U.S. Department of Education oversight since 2014 because of its mishandling of sexual assault and gender discrimination cases, asked federal officials last fall to end their monitoring …
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Bernie Sanders summons team to discuss 2020  —  Bernie Sanders convened his top political advisers in Washington on Saturday for a planning meeting that included a discussion of the feasibility and shape of a possible 2020 presidential campaign, half a dozen senior Democrats familiar with the gathering confirmed to POLITICO.
Seth A. Richardson / Plain Dealer:
Poll shows Richard Cordray narrowly leading wide-open Democratic race, DeWine up big  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio - A new statewide poll of the gubernatorial race shows former federal consumer watchdog Richard Cordray narrowly leads the wide-open Democratic side of the race, while Attorney General Mike DeWine …
Discussion: Political Wire
Bloomberg:
Mueller Almost Done With Obstruction Part of Trump Probe, Sources Say  —  Other portions of investigation could last months: officials  —  Intelligence officials, Trump aides interviewed in past weeks  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller is moving at a far faster pace than previously known …
 
 
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CNN:
First they were burned and whipped, then their families were sent the videos
Discussion: theGrio
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump threatens to take away more U.S. aid from Palestinians if they don't negotiate with Israel
Discussion: ABC News, Politico, Axios and Breitbart
Doyle Rice / USA Today:
The Doomsday Clock just ticked closer to midnight
Katia Porzecanski / Bloomberg:
George Soros Says Trump Administration Is ‘Danger to the World’
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge seems open to emoluments suit against Trump
Discussion: Washington Post
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Why Democrats Won't Get Their Way on Immigration
 Earlier Items: 
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Rubio rejects bipartisan immigration gang
Discussion: New York Magazine and Breitbart
Reuters:
Tech firms let Russia probe software widely used by U.S. government
Discussion: Axios, more at Techmeme »
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Ex-Justice Dept. lawyer offered to sell secret U.S. whistleblower lawsuits to targets of the complaints
Bloomberg:
How Hedge Funds (Secretly) Get Their Way in Washington
Discussion: Splinter