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3:35 PM ET, January 26, 2019

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New York Times:
Trump and His Associates Had More Than 100 Contacts With Russians Before the Inauguration  —  Among these contacts are more than 100 in-person meetings, phone calls, text messages, emails and private messages on Twitter.  Mr. Trump and his campaign repeatedly denied having such contacts with Russians during the 2016 election.
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Pelosi / Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on Special Counsel Indictment and Arrest of Trump Campaign Advisor Roger Stone  —  Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after Special Counsel Mueller released a seven-count indictment of top Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone, for lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstruction:
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's self-inflicted slump  —  Yesterday was a devastating day for President Trump as he heads into his reelection campaign and an era of divided government.  —  As Axios' Jonathan Swan puts it: He blinks; he disappoints the people who still love him; he gets no credit for reopening the government …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Stone Indictment Underscores That There Was No Trump-Russia Conspiracy  —  Will the Justice Department ever correct the record?  —  Roger Stone is the shiny object.  The obstruction charges in his long-anticipated indictment, made public on Friday, are not the matter of consequence for the United States.
CNN:   CNN NEWSROOM
Julian Sanchez / New York Times:
Mueller's Real Target in the Roger Stone Indictment
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
‘I Will Piss on Your Grave’: Emails Reveal Roger Stone's Abuse of Frenemy Randy Credico
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
Zachary Basu / Axios:
House Intelligence to hand over transcripts to Mueller investigation
New York Times:
Trump Meets With Hard-Right Group Led by Ginni Thomas  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump met last week with a delegation of hard-right activists led by Ginni Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, listening quietly as members of the group denounced transgender people and women serving …
CNN:
Inside the White House, aides and advisers are despondent over a wasted month  —  Washington (CNN)As President Donald Trump announced in the Rose Garden on Friday that his quixotic bid to secure more than $5 billion for a border wall would end with no money, he was met with applause from his Cabinet secretaries and senior aides.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What we've learned post-shutdown
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
‘Complete, total surrender’: Why Trump waved the white flag
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump warns border security compromise ‘will not be easy’
Discussion: Washington Post, CNN, Deadline and Breitbart
Willie Brown / San Francisco Chronicle:
Sure, I dated Kamala Harris.  So what?  —  I've been peppered with calls from the national media about my “relationship” with Kamala Harris, particularly since it became obvious that she was going to run for president.  Most of them, I have not returned.  —  Yes, we dated.  It was more than 20 years ago.
Discussion: Political Wire
Telegraph:
Melania Trump - An Apology  —  Following last Saturday's (Jan 19) Telegraph magazine cover story “The mystery of Melania”, we have been asked to make clear that the article contained a number of false statements which we accept should not have been published.
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Kelly Gilblom / Bloomberg:   Telegraph to Pay Melania Trump ‘Substantial’ Damages for Article
Kate Bennett / CNN:   Melania Trump gets ‘substantial damages’ and an apology for story in British magazine
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Ex-Starbucks CEO Could Get Trump Re-elected  —  Before there was Jill Stein, there was Ralph Nader.  Before there was Nader, there was Ross Perot.  —  None won.  All argued that the Republican Party and the Democratic Party were basically the same, and the only way to make real change was to ditch them both.
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CBS News:
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says Donald Trump is not qualified to be president
Discussion: IJR
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Yes, Venezuela Is a Socialist Catastrophe  —  In the age of A.O.C., the lesson must be learned again.  —  Conspicuous by its relative absence in much of the mainstream news coverage of Venezuela's political crisis is the word “socialism.”  Yes, every sensible observer agrees …
David Roth / The Concourse:
You Can't Get There From Here  —  “It's not going to change a damn thing,” the President of the United States told an assemblage of news anchors at an off-the-record White House meeting some weeks ago.  “But I'm still doing it.”  To a certain extent, that groaning is just standard Trump shit …
Discussion: Eschaton
Pamela Constable / Washington Post:
U.S.-Taliban talks appear closer to pact after marathon talks in Qatar  —  KABUL — After six days of intensive negotiations, Taliban insurgents and U.S. officials meeting in Qatar appear closer Saturday to an agreement that could result in the withdrawal of American troops after 17 years of war.
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Ayaz Gul / Voice of America:   U.S.-Taliban Agree on Troop Withdrawal Plan, Sources Tell VOA
Washington Post:
Donald Trump's demand for a border wall shut down the government.  At the same time, his company was firing undocumented workers.  —  OSSINING, N.Y — They had spent years on the staff of Donald Trump's golf club, winning employee-of-the-month awards and receiving glowing letters of recommendation.
Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / Oregonian:
Saudi students who vanish before trial span states, decades  —  A university student from Saudi Arabia facing criminal charges in Ohio vanished in 1988, new evidence that the Saudi government intervened decades before it took similar action in several cases The Oregonian/OregonLive recently uncovered in Oregon.
Erin Griffith / New York Times:
Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?  —  I saw the greatest minds of my generation log 18-hour days — and then boast about #hustle on Instagram.  When did performative workaholism become a lifestyle?  —  Never once at the start of my workweek — not in my morning coffee shop line …
Discussion: The Resurgent
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Huge Trove of Leaked Russian Documents Is Published by Transparency Advocates  —  A group of transparency advocates on Friday posted a mammoth collection of hacked and leaked documents from inside Russia, a release widely viewed as a sort of symbolic counterstrike against Russia's dissemination …
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The Hill:   Transparency advocate group releases trove of hacked Russian documents
John Bresnahan / Politico:
'She's not one to bluff': How Pelosi won the shutdown battle  —  Two months ago, Nancy Pelosi was battling an internal Democratic rebellion trying to bar her from the speakership.  —  Pelosi faced doubts over whether she was the right person to lead the new Democratic majority …
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Adam Green / Roll Call:
Democrats were ripe for division. Then the shutdown came along
Discussion: Raw Story and Hullabaloo
 
 
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Another shutdown in 3 weeks? Only if Trump truly owns Republicans.
David Rogers / Politico:
Trump White House stonewalls as Puerto Rico aid runs dry
Discussion: Raw Story
Los Angeles Times:
California's big, but South Carolina may be key in Kamala Harris' presidential run
Michael Cavna / Washington Post:
Another cartoonist loses his job. This does not bode well for the future of newspaper cartooning.
Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
Texas officials flag tens of thousands of voters for citizenship checks
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Gee, I Guess Now I'm Going To Have To Be Happy With Only 90% Of The Stuff I Wanted Trump To Do
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