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10:50 PM ET, January 27, 2018

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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump sought release of classified Russia memo, putting him at odds with Justice Department … On Wednesday, as Republicans were clamoring to make public a secret document that they think will undercut the investigation into Russian meddling, President Trump made clear his desire: release the memo.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Justice Department withholds majority of FBI texts  —  The Justice Department has given Congress less than 15 percent of the texts between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page - and that is all Congress is likely to get, at least until department experts finish an effort to recover …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:   Gridlock Deepens Under Trump. Is Our Democracy at Risk?
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Who is the White House counsel who reportedly threatened to resign?
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC finance chair Steve Wynn resigns after sexual harassment allegations  —  Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn on Saturday stepped down as Republican National Committee finance chairman, according to three senior Republicans briefed on the decision.  —  The decision followed a Friday report …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Local Democrats warn DNC: Cash crunch threatens November gains  —  State and local party officials worry they're too broke to ride the anticipated 2018 wave.  —  LONG BEACH, Calif. — Local Democratic Party leaders are convinced a wave is coming in November.  But they're increasingly worried they won't be able to ride it.
Washington Post:
Steve Wynn resigns as RNC finance chair, GOP official says. …
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
The Follower Factory  —  Everyone wants to be popular online.  —  Some even pay for it.  —  Inside social media's black market.  —  Celebrities, athletes, pundits and politicians are buying millions of fake followers.  —  While the world's social media platforms look the other way.
Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney:
Russian bots retweeted Trump nearly 500,000 times in final weeks of 2016 campaign  —  Russian-linked automated Twitter accounts, or bots, retweeted Donald Trump almost half a million times in the final weeks before the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, Twitter told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Associated Press:
Sean Hannity's Twitter page compromised, vanishes for hours  —  Fox News host Sean Hannity's Twitter account was compromised and was unavailable for a few hours on Saturday, inspiring speculation by his conservative followers that a government cabal they call the “deep state” or a rogue employee could be to blame.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Twitter: Russian bots retweeted Trump nearly 500,000 times in last months of election
Discussion: RedState
Jordan Bhatt / International Business Times:
Donald Trump tells Theresa May he won't visit the UK unless she bans protests  —  Trump sets no-protest condition for visit to UK.  —  Donald Trump is refusing to visit the UK unless Theresa May can ensure that he is not met with protests.  —  Bloomberg revealed that Trump complained …
Discussion: Political Wire
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Necessity of Stephen Miller  —  After 12 years of failed attempts at immigration reform, the current round of negotiations are turning on a strangely personalized question: When a deal is being made, should Stephen Miller be at the table?  —  Miller is the White House's point man for immigration policy …
Krystie Lee Yandoli / BuzzFeed:
Exclusive: Three More Women Are Accusing Jeremy Piven Of Sexual Misconduct  —  Three more women shared their stories about the Entourage actor with BuzzFeed News, bringing the total number of public accusations of sexual misconduct against him to eight.  Piven has denied all the allegations …
Discussion: AOL and IndieWire
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Trump Hits Alps, but Melania Is Frosty in Florida  —  WASHINGTON — Melania has learned a few things from the master.  —  The first lady will never be as brilliant at trolling as her husband.  He is an idiot-savant who plays in the roiling ocean of Twitter as naturally as a blubbery-necked sea lion.
Susannah Bryan / Sun-Sentinel:
Mayor sought illegal funds for political allies, records allege  —  Sun Sentinel  —  Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper, who was removed from office Friday after being snared in an FBI sting, solicited illegal campaign contributions not only for herself but for two political allies, court documents say.
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Fox News:
Florida Democrat removed from office, faces corruption charges following FBI sting
Discussion: Sun-Sentinel and IJR
Courier-Journal:
Reporter rushes to Kentucky school shooting - and learns the alleged gunman is her son … BENTON, Ky. — It was a journalist's worst nightmare.  —  The editor of the Marshall County Daily Online raced to the county's high school Tuesday morning after reports that shots had been fired.
Associated Press:
Court rules Kushner firm can't keep business partners secret  —  NEW YORK — A federal judge ruled Friday that the family company once run by Jared Kushner isn't allowed to keep secret the identity of its business partners in several Maryland properties.  The decision means the company tied …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:   Judge rejects secrecy in suit over Kushner-owned apartments
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Rep. Devin Nunes' hometown paper nails him for being “Trump's stooge”  —  The Fresno Bee, a daily newspaper in Fresno, CA, issued a savage takedown of GOP Rep. Devin Nunes on Friday, blasting the congressman for being “Trump's stooge” and “doing the dirty work” of the White House.
Discussion: Washington Press
Arizona Capitol Times:
Legislative staffers say pro-Trump supporters called them ‘illegal’ for being dark-skinned  —  Navajo legislator also says protesters asked him if he is in the U.S. illegally  —  Editor's Note: This story has been updated to include strong denials from pro-Trump protesters of allegations …
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Press
Associated Press:
Justice Ginsburg signals her intent to work for years more  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — In different circumstances, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg might be on a valedictory tour in her final months on the Supreme Court.  But in the era of Donald Trump, the 84-year-old Ginsburg is packing her schedule …
Discussion: RedState
Kansas City Star:
Mike Sanders and former aide plead guilty to wire fraud charge  —  Mike Sanders, a former Jackson County Executive, prosecutor and once a rising star in Missouri's Democratic Party, is now a convicted felon after pleading guilty Friday afternoon to a federal corruption charge.
Discussion: Fox News and Breitbart
 
 
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Koch network to spend about another $20 million promoting GOP tax law
Discussion: Political Wire
CBC News:
Barry and Honey Sherman deaths a targeted double homicide, police say
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Maxine Waters set to respond to Trump after State of the Union
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:
Every One of the World's Big Economies Is Now Growing
Emily Goodin / ABC News:
President Trump will offer bipartisanship, unifying tone in State of the Union Address
Discussion: Axios
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton: #MeToo, meet #SoWhat
Carolina A. Miranda / L.A. Times Guild:
Tronc execs need to come clean about their plans for the LA Times
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
She Boarded a Plane to See Her Dying Mother. Then Her Ticket Was Canceled.
Discussion: AOL and Boing Boing
 Earlier Items: 
New York Post:
Michael Wolff's ugly, sexist smear of UN Ambassador Nikki Haley
Discussion: Power Line
Rudi Keller / Columbia Daily Tribune:
McCaskill hammers Greitens over sex scandal
Bob Wojnowski / Detroit News:
Wojo: Michigan State mired in full-blown crisis of trust
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘Scumbag and liar’: Ex-White House ethics chief hammers Trump apologist Jack Kingston …
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The G.O.P.'s Bonfire of the Sanities
Amy Sullivan / Politico:
Millions of Americans Believe God Made Trump President
Discussion: The Week
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount is planning for what happens if no big deal happens, mulling cutting $2B in costs, selling BET and TV stations, starting a streaming JV, more

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on the publisher's archived content and to let ChatGPT reply with short summaries of FT articles

Ben Smith / Semafor:
Sources: Nicholas Carlson, who has been the global editor-in-chief of Business Insider since 2017, is expected to leave the publication later this summer

 
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