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Jeffrey Schweers / Tallahassee Democrat:
Florida Secretary of State Michael Ertel resigns after Halloween blackface photos emerge  —  Michael Ertel, the newly appointed Secretary of State of Gov. Ron DeSantis, has resigned after photos emerged of him posing as a Hurricane Katrina victim in blackface at a private Halloween party 14 years ago.
Washington Post:
Elizabeth Warren to propose new ‘wealth tax’ on very rich Americans, economist says  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will propose a new “wealth tax” on Americans with more than $50 million in assets, according to an economist advising her on the plan, as Democratic leaders vie …
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CNBC:
Elizabeth Warren to propose ‘wealth tax’ on Americans with more than $50 million in assets, economic advisor says
Discussion: National Review
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi: No Dem counteroffer on border security  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that House Democrats are not working behind the scenes to craft a counteroffer to President Trump's border wall demands as a strategy for ending the history-making partial shutdown.  —  “That's not true.
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Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
Six GOP Senators Buck Trump As Competing Shutdown Measures Fail  —  A pair of competing Senate bills to reopen the government failed to pass on Thursday, the latest non-starter attempts to fall short as the government shutdown stretches into its 34th day.  But a half-dozen Republicans defected …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump just lost a lot of leverage in the shutdown
Discussion: ABC News and CNN
Denver Post:
Sen. Cory Gardner to break with Republicans on Trump's wall — it's the right thing to do
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Trump's Wall of Shame
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Hill
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Senate rejects dueling proposals to end the shutdown
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and TheBlaze
Axios:
Dueling plans to reopen government both fail in Senate
Discussion: Washington Post and Joe.My.God.
CNN:
Michael Cohen subpoenaed by Senate Intelligence committee  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was subpoenaed Thursday to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in mid-February, according to a source close to Cohen.  —  It is not clear how Cohen will respond.
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Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Wilbur Ross doesn't understand why furloughed federal workers need food banks  —  Commerce secretary suggests they should be able to take out bridge loans  —  Chuck Grassley reminds U.S. Olympic Committee about requirements for its tax exemption Senate sets up Thursday test votes on ending shutdown …
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:   Commerce chief asks why furloughed workers using food banks
CNN:
Exclusive: White House preparing draft national emergency order and identified $7 billion for wall  —  Washington (CNN)The White House is preparing a draft proclamation for President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency along the southern border and has identified more than $7 billion …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN's Jim Acosta is writing a book about Trump's war with the media  —  New York (CNN)CNN's chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta is authoring a book about the Trump administration and its battles with the news media.  —  The Harper imprint of HarperCollins Publishers announced the book on Thursday morning.
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Skripal poisoning: Trump admin yet to impose new Russia sanctions required by law  —  The European Union punished 4 Russians this week in connection with the Skripal poisoning, but the U.S. hasn't moved forward with its own penalties.  —  WASHINGTON — Nearly three months after deeming Russia …
GQ:
The Unfinished Business of Bernie Sanders  —  He went from the rumpled bit player of the progressive movement to a legit presidential candidate and liberal kingmaker.  But now that Sanders wields such enormous power in Democratic politics, the question is, what's he going to do with it?
Discussion: Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
Venezuela's Military Backs Maduro  —  Announcement comes a day after Juan Guaidó, head of the national assembly, declared himself president  —  Venezuela's military on Thursday threw its support behind embattled President Nicolás Maduro on Thursday, a day after the head …
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Washington Post:
Witness in special counsel probe, former Stone associate, collected payments from Infowars through job Stone arranged  —  Over the past several months, author and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi has emerged as one of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's most vexing witnesses in his probe of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Voters see shutdown as bigger problem than border situation  —  Most voters consider the partial government shutdown a major problem or, even worse, an emergency, according to a new Fox News Poll.  —  After a 33-day stalemate over the funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall …
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Sen. Michael Bennet slams Ted Cruz for ‘crocodile tears’ over the shutdown  —  Sen. Michael F. Bennet, typically a mild-mannered, congenial guy, on Thursday unleashed all of his furor over the partial government shutdown on Sen. Ted Cruz.  —  In a fiery exchange that played …
Washington Post:
Koch network tells donors it plans to stay out of 2020 race, once again declining to back Trump  —  The conservative Koch political network has told donors that it plans to once again stay out of the presidential race and will not work to help reelect President Trump in 2020 …
BuzzFeed News:
Shoot Someone In A Major US City, And Odds Are You'll Get Away With It  —  A shocking number of shootings go unsolved.  In some police departments, hundreds of cases aren't investigated at all.  A joint investigation by The Trace and BuzzFeed News. … Devon Little was shot …
Discussion: The Trace
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Group launches ‘Draft Ann Coulter’ for president  —  A political action committee that pushes for stricter immigration controls said Thursday it is launching a campaign to draft conservative writer Ann Coulter to challenge President Trump.  —  Americans for Legal Immigration PAC has been among …
BuzzFeed News:
We Followed YouTube's Recommendation Algorithm Down The Rabbit Hole  —  How many clicks through YouTube's “Up Next” recommendations does it take to go from an anodyne PBS clip about the 116th United States Congress to an anti-immigrant video from a designated hate organization?
New York Post:
Nathan Phillips is a liar, not a victim  —  Days after Nathan Phillips' story of his confrontation with a group of students in Washington was thoroughly discredited, many on the left are still rallying behind him, pretending he was somehow a victim.  —  This, even after both the New York Times …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The political scientist Donald Trump should read  —  What Trump would do if he really wanted his wall.  —  It's not often I run across political science that genuinely changes my understanding of how American politics works.  But Frances Lee's research has done exactly that.  Twice.
Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
This Time It's Russia's Emails Getting Leaked  —  The Russian oligarchs and Kremlin apparatchiks spared by Wikileaks in the past will not be so lucky this week, when transparency activists drop a massive archive of leaked docs.  —  Russian oligarchs and Kremlin apparatchiks may find …
Discussion: Defense One
Associated Press:
4 girls allegedly strip searched at middle school  —  BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) — A community firestorm has erupted over an alleged strip search of four 12-year-old girls at a New York middle school.  —  The Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin says about 200 community members packed …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
AOC Thinks Concentrated Wealth Is Incompatible With Democracy.  So Did Our Founders.  —  In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville produced one of the earliest accounts of the American dream.  In his famous study of the Jacksonian U.S., the Frenchman wrote that Americans possessed “the charm of anticipated success” …
Sophia Bollag / Sacramento Bee:
California Republican Party gets even smaller: A GOP lawmaker defects to the Democrats  —  California Republicans suffered yet another loss Thursday when one of their Assembly members defected to the Democrats.  —  Democrats celebrated with a victorious news conference Thursday morning …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Why do people such as Lindsey Graham come to Congress?  —  Back in the day, small rural airports had textile windsocks, simple and empty things that indicated which way the wind was blowing.  The ubiquitous Sen. Lindsey O. Graham has become a political windsock, and as such, he …
Discussion: Raw Story
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
‘Trump will handle this’: Florida man tried to force Iraqi family out of his neighborhood, police say  —  David Allen Boileau kept saying, “the U.S. needs to get rid of all of them,” meaning Middle Easterners, according to police, but for the time being he was focused on getting rid of the neighbors.
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Bryan Singer to Keep ‘Red Sonja’ Directing Gig Even After New Accusers Speak Out  —  The director will get a fee of up to $10 million for the Millennium film.  —  More than 24 hours after The Atlantic published a bombshell exposé about Bryan Singer and underage boys …
Frank Jack Daniel / Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. to begin returning asylum seekers to Mexico on Friday - official  —  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States will return the first group of migrants seeking asylum in the United States to the Mexican border city of Tijuana on Friday, a spokesman for Mexico's president said on Thursday.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
Congress' Nonpartisan Research Arm Says Trump Could Build The Wall Without State of Emergency Or Funding  —  The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a paper internally that suggests President Donald Trump may have the authority to use Department of Defense resources …
Discussion: Instapundit
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Ocasio-Cortez's misfired facts on living wage and minimum wage  —  “I think it's wrong that a vast majority of the country doesn't make a living wage, I think it's wrong that you can work 100 hours and not feed your kids.  I think it's wrong that corporations like Walmart and Amazon can get paid …
New York Post:
A judge's outrageous ‘mercy’ for teen who crippled cop  —  What on earth was Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Ruth Shillingford thinking Wednesday?  A gangbanger with a lengthy record is convicted of dragging an NYPD detective with a stolen car, and she gives him just one and one-third to four years behind bars?
 
 
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Aaron Gordon / Gothamist:
MTA Memo: Cuomo's L Train Plan Will Cause Crowding ‘Greater Than Anything Ever Experienced’
Tracy Jan / Washington Post:
'It's like the real-life Hunger Games in America:' Shutdown threatens HUD's protections for vulnerable
Discussion: Daily Kos and Politico
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Kirsten Gillibrand Defends Filibuster: “If You Don't Have 60 Votes Yet, It Just Means You Haven't Done Enough Advocacy”
Yuka Hayashi / Wall Street Journal:
Scamming Grandma: Financial Abuse of Seniors Hits Record
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mother Jones
John Stowe / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Wearing a Trump hat? That's not exactly pro-life, says Catholic Bishop John Stowe
Ben Guarino / Washington Post:
Older, right-leaning Twitter users spread the most fake news in 2016, study finds
Fox News:
Migrants scale Arizona border wall, more than 100 gang members from El Salvador caught since October: Sources
Discussion: Daily Wire, IJR and KRIV
 Earlier Items: 
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Trapped in a hoax: survivors of conspiracy theories speak out
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Crisis of Citizenship
Discussion: alicublog
NYCOURTS.GOV:
[*1]The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
Discussion: Raw Story
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Is it time for journalists to sign off Twitter?
Craig Nelson / Wall Street Journal:
Taliban Agrees to Oppose al Qaeda and Islamic State in Afghanistan
Discussion: New York Times
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Kamala Harris faces Democrats' Rocky Mountain divide
Max Abelson / Bloomberg:
This Is What Happens When You Try to Sue Your Boss
Washington Post:
Civil penalties for polluters dropped dramatically in Trump's first two years, analysis shows
Discussion: Common Dreams
 

 
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New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
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