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Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
What happened to Michael Cohen?  Mystery ex-Trump fixer arrives at home with apparent black eye and arm in sling hours after bombshell report that president ordered him to LIE to Congress  — Longtime Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen arrived at his Manhattan apartment with was treated at a New York hospital with his left arm covered
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BuzzFeed News:
President Trump Directed His Attorney Michael Cohen To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project  —  President Donald Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to two federal law enforcement officials involved …
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Reporter with checkered past comes back with Trump Tower Moscow bombshells for BuzzFeed  —  New York (CNN Business)Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier, two reporters for BuzzFeed News, may have just scored the scoop that, if it is ultimately confirmed, irrevocably changes the course of the Trump presidency.
emptywheel:
Compromise: Before Trump Won His First Primary, Putin Collected His First Receipt  —  In this post, I noted that, while important, the Buzzfeed story on Trump's role in Michael Cohen's lies to Congress did not advance our understanding of how the Trump Tower deal fits into the larger Trump conspiracy with Russia.
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Why Democrats Have Suddenly Started Talking About Impeachment  —  Late Thursday night, BuzzFeed News published a report that, if true, could prove historic: President Donald Trump allegedly directed his then-personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about a real-estate deal he was pursuing in Moscow during the 2016 election.
CNN:
What court filings tell us about BuzzFeed's Trump-Cohen allegations  —  Buzzfeed: Sources say Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress  —  Washington (CNN)There are a handful of distinct areas where reporting from BuzzFeed's bombshell lines up with court records, including the charging documents …
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
If Trump Told Cohen to Lie, Impeachment Is Coming
Discussion: BuzzFeed News, CNN and Bloomberg
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Buzzfeed News Bombshell Reporter: No We Have Not Seen the Evidence Supporting Our Report
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Congress Can't Wait for Mueller. It's Time to Start the Impeachment Process.
Discussion: CNN, Washington Post and Vox
Burgess Everett / Politico:
White House pushes long odds strategy for wall  —  The White House has a new, long-shot idea for getting President Donald Trump's border wall: persuading the Senate to take up the president's wall request to force a deal with the Democrats, then reopen the government.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump White House reportedly sought to put Pelosi ‘in her place’  —  One of the most striking aspects of Donald Trump's petty decision to cancel House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Afghanistan is the degree to which it was lacking in any sense of proportionality.
Lesley Clark / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
McConnell's unwavering stand on the wall boosts his 2020 election prospects  —  An electronic billboard, sponsored by the Democratic Coalition, shown Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019 in Nicholasville, Ky. McConnell, who is up for re-election in 2020 in a state where Trump tends to be more popular than he is …
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Waiting for a Shutdown to End in Disaster
Discussion: Althouse
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Mnuchin Flew to L.A. on Private Jet of Billionaire Michael Milken  —  WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin flew from Washington to Los Angeles this month on the private aircraft of Michael R. Milken, the billionaire “junk bond” king who pleaded guilty to securities fraud in 1990 and served two years in prison.
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Team Split on Border-Wall Strategy  —  Some advisers want a deal; others see border wall as critical to 2020 re-election bid  —  President Trump is being pulled in opposite directions over his way out of the partial government shutdown as White House aides push to make a deal …
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Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department's Reversal on Online Gambling Tracked Memo From Adelson Lobbyists  —  Analysis sent to Justice Department argued that 2011 opinion that helped online gambling was wrong  —  The legal reasoning behind the Justice Department's unusual reversal this week of an opinion …
Debbie Wasserman Schultz / USA Today:
Why I refuse to walk with the Washington Women's March  —  It should not be this difficult to condemn hate speech.  Until national leaders get it right, local marches will carry the mission forward.  —  CONNECT  —  I walked away from the Women's March on Washington two years ago absolutely electrified …
Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
Religious Right Leaders Defend Steve King's Honor, Demand Apology from House GOP Leader McCarthy  —  Religious Right leaders and right-wing activists are rallying in support of embattled Rep. Steve King, who has been under fire since a New York Times story quoted him wondering when terms like …
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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Republican Congressman: Trump's Border Crisis Is a ‘Myth’  —  A conversation with Texas Rep. Will Hurd, who knows the border better than most of his colleagues  —  WASHINGTON — Congressman Will Hurd of Texas is an increasingly lonely voice in the “build the wall” Republican Party of Donald Trump.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen  —  Half or a quarter of the way through this interesting experiment with an incessantly splenetic presidency, much of the nation has become accustomed to daily mortifications.  Or has lost its capacity for embarrassment, which is even worse.
Discussion: USA Today and Home Page Rotator
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: What the shutdown tea leaves tell us  —  NEW ... ACTING OMB DIRECTOR RUSS VOUGHT has issued official guidance about congressional travel during the shutdown.  The guidance  —  READING THE SHUTDOWN TEA LEAVES ... VP MIKE PENCE and White House aide JARED KUSHNER met …
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Federal Courts, Running Out of Money, Brace for Shutdown's Pain
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and CNN
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC poll shows a deeply divided Georgia and tough numbers for Kemp  —  Editor's note: For a detailed explanation about how this poll was conducted, see the end of this story.  —  After an intensely partisan race for Georgia governor, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll released Friday shows …
Bloomberg:
Even College Graduates Can't Afford a Home on the West Coast  — College graduates priced out of some of the biggest job hubs  — But, grads can find affordable housing in many thriving cities  —  College graduates earn a lot of money in San Jose but are still $100,000 short to afford …
Pew Research Center:
Trump Begins Third Year With Low Job Approval and Doubts About His Honesty  —  Views of economy remain positive, divided by partisanship  —  At the second anniversary of his inauguration, public views of Donald Trump's job performance, as well as his honesty and administration's ethics, are decidedly negative.
Discussion: CNN and KTLA
David Byler / Washington Post:
The really scandalous part of Michael Cohen's poll-fixing efforts  —  On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, tried to rig online “polls” in favor of Trump.  The story isn't the latest nefarious revelation to emerge from Cohen's downfall.
Discussion: WORLD, The Week and Raw Story
Al Weaver / Washington Examiner:
Bush calls on Trump, Democrats to ‘put politics aside’ and end the shutdown  —  Former President George W. Bush on Friday called on President Trump and congressional leaders to “put politics aside” and end the partial government shutdown, which is about to enter its fifth week.
Ben Adler / NPR:
Defying Trump Administration, Calif. Offers Federal Workers Unemployment Benefits  —  California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the Trump administration has told states they can't offer unemployment benefits to federal employees who are required to report to work without pay during the government shutdown.
Discussion: IJR, Politico and The Democrats
Baltimore Sun:
Kamala Harris picks Baltimore as site for headquarters for potential presidential campaign  —  In this photo taken on Sept. 28, 2018, U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, a Democrat from California and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, speaks with survivors of sexual assault in Washington.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Erin Heffernan / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
St. Louis newscaster apologizes for inserting slur into Martin Luther King Jr.'s name on air  —  ST. LOUIS  • A St. Louis newscaster apologized on air Thursday morning, saying that his mispronunciation of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s name that included a racial slur was “not intentional in any way.”
Discussion: theGrio and The Root
Brett McGurk / Washington Post:
Trump said he beat ISIS.  Instead, he's giving it new life.  —  The president decided to withdraw U.S. forces without consulting allies or understanding the facts on the ground.  —  On Dec. 17, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked for an important call with me and a few …
Discussion: KAJ-TV, WGNO and Task & Purpose
Reuters:
$11 toothpaste: Immigrants pay big for basics at private ICE lock-ups  —  NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Detained in a California lockup with hundreds of other immigrants seeking asylum, Duglas Cruz faced a choice.  —  He could content himself with a jailhouse diet that he said left him perpetually hungry.
Discussion: Splinter and The Week
Washington Post:
Trump and Pence give surprise addresses at anti-abortion March for Life  —  President Trump and Vice President Pence surprised thousands of protesters demonstrating against abortion on the National Mall by making unannounced speeches at Friday's March for Life.
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court puts off Commerce Department census case for now  —  The Supreme Court on Friday said it was delaying arguments over whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and others can be compelled to explain their actions in a case challenging the Trump administration's addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
Rupert Neate / The Guardian:
Showboat: billionaire NFL team owner installs Imax cinema on superyacht  —  Dan Snyder made a ‘special and unusual’ request when ordering Lady S from Dutch boatbuilder  —  Dan Snyder, the American billionaire owner of the Washington National Football League (NFL) team …
Discussion: USA Today and TMZ.com
 
 
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Michelle Kosinski / CNN:
Susan Pompeo's travels during shutdown anger some diplomats, sources say
Discussion: Hullabaloo and KAJ-TV
The Daily Beast:
John Dowd, President Trump's Old Lawyer, Is Still Whispering in His Ear
Discussion: Political Wire
Jen Kirby / Vox:
9 experts on Theresa May's “Plan B” and what's next for Brexit
Stephanie Maida / Guest of a Guest:
Upper East Side Restaurant Nello Bans Single Women From Eating At The Bar
Discussion: Eater NY and Page Six
Stars & Stripes:
Green Beret, Navy linguist, SEAL-turned-DIA civilian among Americans killed in ISIS-claimed bombing in Syria
Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times:
Why can't Trump make deals? No one trusts him anymore
Justin Wm. Moyer / Washington Post:
D.C. restaurant fined $7,000 after asking transgender woman for ID before letting her use bathroom
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
What Bruce Ohr Told the FBI
Discussion: RedState
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Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
Doug Jones Risks His Alabama Senate Seat Over the Shutdown and the Wall
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
U.S. regulators have met to discuss imposing a record-setting fine against Facebook for some of its privacy violations
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
R. Kelly Dropped by RCA Records After Documentary Furor
Discussion: NPR
Jon Ward / Yahoo News:
Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren have a history. If he runs, it may come back to haunt him.
Nicole Weisensee Egan / The Daily Beast:
Is a Serial-Killer Gang Murdering Young Men Across the U.S.?
CBC News:
Twins get some ‘mystifying’ results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“Are We Really Where We Are?”: Trump, Putin, and Washington's Unbelievable New Normal
Discussion: Daily Kos and Spectator USA
Jason Rezaian / Washington Post:
‘Their job is to scare me’: Jason Rezaian describes first terrifying hours inside Iranian prison
 

 
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