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5:20 PM ET, February 7, 2018

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The Intercept:
Former Wives of Top White House Aide Rob Porter Both Told FBI He Abused Them  —  As the FBI conducted a background check on an incoming senior White House official last year, the bureau learned of the man's history of domestic abuse.  Rob Porter, a top aide to President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Vox, The Week and Mediaite
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: ANOTHER ex-wife of Trump aide Rob Porter - who is dating Hope Hicks - tells DailyMail.com he choked, punched and belittled her about her weight her during their five-year marriage  — Colbie Holderness, 37, a senior analyst for the U.S. government and the first wife of Rob Porter …
Daily Mail:
Hope Hicks, 29, was spotted stepping out of her D.C. apartment with White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter ten days ago  —  ‘I want to be very clear when I say this,’ Willoughby said.  'I don't want to be married to him.  I would not recommend anyone to date him or marry him.
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Beyond Disbelief”: John Kelly's Defense of Rob Porter Roils the West Wing  —  Staff Secretary Rob Porter, who has been accused of abusing his former wives, is Kelly's right hand—and dating Hope Hicks, one of Trump's closest confidantes.  But Kelly's declaration that Porter is a man of …
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
White House staff secretary Rob Porter resigns amid abuse allegations  —  White House staff secretary Rob Porter resigned today after his two ex-wives came forward with abuse allegations.  —  What we're hearing: Nobody pressured him to resign, per multiple officials.
Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite, twitchy.com and thecut
CNN:
Former White House aide's ex-wives detail abuse allegations  —  White House responds to Rob Porter resignation  —  (CNN)Rob Porter, a top White House aide with regular access to President Donald Trump abruptly resigned on Wednesday amid abuse allegations from two ex-wives …
CNN:
White House aide denies abuse allegations but resigns  —  (CNN)White House staff secretary Rob Porter, a top aide to President Donald Trump, has resigned, the White House confirmed Wednesday, following allegations of abuse from his two ex-wives.  —  Porter denied the allegations in a statement issued in the wake of his resignation.
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
White House aide Rob Porter resigns after allegations from ex-wives  —  White House staff secretary Rob Porter, a mostly unknown but deeply influential aide who spends almost every day by President Donald Trump's side, said Wednesday he plans to resign following abuse allegations from his ex-wives.
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Senior White House official to resign following allegations of abuse
New York Times:   Rob Porter, White House Aide, Resigns After Accusations of Abuse
Del Quentin Wilber / Wall Street Journal:
Texts From 2016 Show FBI Employees Preparing Obama Briefing on Russia  —  Exchange doesn't relate to Clinton email probe, as a Republican senator suggests  —  Text messages from 2016 show preparation to brief Barack Obama about Russia's interference in that year's election …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Jake Gibson / Fox News:
FBI lovers' latest text messages: Obama ‘wants to know everything’  —  Newly revealed text messages between FBI paramours Peter Strzok and Lisa Page include an exchange about preparing talking points for then-FBI Director James Comey to give to President Obama, who wanted “to know everything we're doing.”
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Fox News' latest ‘bombshell’ on Obama and the FBI is a total fraud  —  Early Wednesday, Fox News published an explosive new story alleging President Obama sought detailed briefings about the Clinton email investigation.  The report is based on texts between FBI agents Peter Strzok …
hsgac.senate.gov:
Chairman Johnson Releases Interim Report Including Strzok-Page FBI Text Messages
Discussion: The Last Refuge and NewsBusters
David Marchese / Vulture:
In Conversation: Quincy Jones  —  In both music and manner, Quincy Jones has always registered — from afar, anyway — as smooth, sophisticated, and impeccably well-connected.  (That's what earning 28 Grammy awards and co-producing Michael Jackson's biggest-selling albums will do.)
Washington Post:
Sweeping budget deal would add $400 billion in federal spending, end months of partisan wrangling … Congressional leaders on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping budget deal that would add about $400 billion in federal spending over the next two years, delivering the military funding boost demanded …
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Left seethes as Senate clinches budget deal
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump's Hair Illusion Came Undone and We All Missed It  —  Last Friday, at the end of one of those frenetic weeks of news that now happen every week, President Trump boarded Air Force One.  The wind whipped across the tarmac with unusual force.  Trump, who normally has a MAGA hat for such occasions, was unusually unprepared.
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ABC News:   Trump's call for big military parade gets mixed reaction on Capitol Hill
Washington Post:
‘Tanks, but no tanks’: D.C. officials pan Trump's proposed grand military parade
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
No, Trump has not been ‘contained.’ He's still as big a threat as ever.  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  Here's where we are today: President Trump's allies fear that refusing an interview with the special counsel, as his lawyers want, could trigger a destructive showdown that could go all the way to the Supreme Court.
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CNN:
Former CIA analysts: We can't trust Devin Nunes
Discussion: Reason, New Republic and New York Times
NBC News:
Russians penetrated U.S. voter systems, says top U.S. official  —  The U.S. official in charge of protecting American elections from hacking says the Russians successfully penetrated the voter registration rolls of several U.S. states prior to the 2016 presidential election.
Terri Peters / TODAY.com:
Meet the first Gerber baby with Down syndrome; his name is Lucas!  —  The 2018 Gerber baby is Lucas Warren, a 1-year-old from Dalton, Georgia who is the first child with Down syndrome to be named a Gerber baby since the contest's start in 2010.  —  “He's very outgoing and never meets a stranger …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Democrats flipped a Missouri state legislature seat that Trump won by 28 points  —  Special elections are painting a bleak outlook for the GOP.  —  Democrats had another good Tuesday night of special elections, this time in Missouri, where Mike Revis won a 3-point victory in House District 97 …
Discussion: Politico
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Jack Suntrup / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Democrats snag Missouri House seat, Republicans hang onto 3 others in special election
Christine Brennan / USA Today:
Openly gay figure skater Adam Rippon declined chance to speak with Vice President Pence  —  PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - Vice President Pence is set to arrive here soon to lead the official U.S. delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympic opening ceremony, a delegation that is making a strong political statement …
Maya Dukmasova / Chicago Reader:
Ten women sign letter accusing Northwestern journalism professor Alec Klein of sexual harassment and assault  —  Ten former students of Northwestern University professor Alec Klein have issued a public letter accusing the award-winning journalist and Medill Justice Project director …
Elizabeth Bruenig / Washington Post:
Trump's paid family leave plan would punish those who choose to have kids  —  Early in the fifth century, the theologian Saint Augustine of Hippo noted something about families and society that, in his era, was simply conventional wisdom: “After the city, or political community, comes the world …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Salon
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Alexandra DeSanctis / National Review:
No, the Ivanka-Rubio Paid-Leave Plan Wouldn't Punish Families
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Russian Trolls Ran Wild On Tumblr And The Company Refuses To Say Anything About It  —  Tumblrs run by Russian trolls generated hundreds of thousands of interactions with anti-Hillary Clinton, pro-Bernie Sanders content.  —  Russian trolls posed as black activists on Tumblr and generated hundreds …
Gabriel Bell / Salon:
Here's what the critics are saying about “Black Panther” — it's a “masterpiece”  —  The first reviews of the Marvel film are streaming in, and they're even better than expected  —  “Black Panther,” the new Marvel film starring Chadwick Boseman, was always going to make history …
The Daily Beast:
Cash for Coalition Against Trump Going Into Consultants' Pockets Instead … Omar Siddiqui couldn't make it to an August fundraiser in Beverly Hills for the Democratic Coalition Against Trump.  But he ponied up the $2,000 ticket price after the group's senior adviser, Scott Dworkin, sent him a personal invitation.
Discussion: Splinter and Eschaton
 
 
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Matthew Pennington / Associated Press:
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Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Trump on MS-13 gang and stock market
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Brian Doherty / Hit & Run:
Larry Sharpe, Libertarian Candidate for Governor of New York, Quits the Party's National Committee
Sasha Weiss / New York Times:
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
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