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11:55 PM ET, January 17, 2020

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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Coordinated Posts Defend Connecticut Man Who Exchanged Ukraine Texts  —  Some of the pages describe themselves as representing groups of supporters of President Trump from different states  —  WASHINGTON—A network of several dozen Facebook pages is coordinating posts defending Robert F. Hyde …
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Washington Post:
Nunes aide communicated with Parnas about Ukraine campaign, messages show  —  House Democrats released new documents Friday evening showing extensive contact between an associate of President Trump's personal attorney and an aide to the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee regarding …
CNN:
Barr dropped into Giuliani meeting at Justice Department in previously undisclosed encounter  —  Lev Parnas describes multiple quid pro quos with Ukraine  —  (CNN)Attorney General William Barr briefly attended a meeting at the Justice Department last fall between top criminal prosecutors …
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Why was Lev Parnas wearing a ‘Presidential Service Badge’ awarded to troops who serve in the White House?  —  Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman posted a fascinating update about a photo of impeachment figure Lev Parnas.  —  The photo shows Igor Fruman — who …
Politico:
House releases new impeachment evidence linking Nunes aide to Parnas  —  House impeachment investigators sought Friday to pull Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, deeper into the Ukraine scandal at the center of President Donald Trump's upcoming impeachment trial.
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Beast
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The Grisham Watch: What's the White House press secretary up to?  —  First in a regular series on the activities of White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham.  —  Everyone knows what White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham isn't doing.  Since assuming her post last summer …
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
NBC News:
Texts suggest Robert Hyde passed along details about Yovanovitch movements  —  They include screenshots of messages about the U.S. ambassador's movements that appear to have been sent to Hyde, who forwarded thems to Lev Parnas.  —  New text messages released by House Democrats …
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Pompeo breaks silence on alleged threats to envoy in Ukraine
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
House Democrats release second batch of Parnas materials
Discussion: HuffPost and Bloomberg
Orion Rummler / Axios:   New Lev Parnas records detail Ukraine surveillance efforts, contact with Devin Nunes aide
Joe Heim / Washington Post:
National Archives exhibit blurs images critical of President Trump  —  The large color photograph that greets visitors to a National Archives exhibit celebrating the centennial of women's suffrage shows a massive crowd filling Pennsylvania Avenue NW for the Women's March on Jan. 21, 2017, the day after President Trump's inauguration.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Laura Reiley / Washington Post:
USDA proposes changing school menus to allow more fries and fewer vegetables, reversing a Michelle Obama effort  —  The U.S. Department of Agriculture has taken another whack at former first lady Michelle Obama's signature achievement: Establishing stricter nutritional standards for school breakfasts and lunches.
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Elizabeth Vaughn / Redstate:   Pro Level Trolling: Trump Admin Rolls Back Michelle Obama Lunch Rules On Her Birthday
Lola Fadulu / New York Times:
Trump Targets Michelle Obama's School Nutrition Guidelines on Her Birthday
Discussion: USDA and UPI
Axios:
Trump tells HHS secretary he regrets wading into “that f***ing vaping thing”  —  President Trump told his health secretary yesterday that he regrets getting involved in the administration's policy on vaping, according to two sources familiar with the conversation.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:   In Oval Office Meeting, Trump Expresses Regret on Vaping Policy
Washington Post:   Trump lashes out at HHS secretary after briefing shows Democrats leading on health care
Politico:   Trump berates Azar over bad health care polling
Pete Williams / NBC News:
‘Faithless elector’: Supreme Court will hear case that could change how presidents are chosen  —  A ruling could come in the spring — just as the 2020 presidential race is heating up.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up an issue that could change a key element …
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Joe Otterson / Variety:   Hillary Clinton Urges Dems to ‘Vote for the Person Most Likely to Win’ in 2020
Noah Berlatsky / NBC News:
Trump voters motivated by racism may be violating the Constitution. Can they be stopped?
Discussion: Twitchy and CNN
Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Chris Collins, First U.S. Lawmaker To Endorse Trump, Gets 26-Month Prison Sentence  —  The ex-House member from western New York pleaded guilty to illegal insider trading in September.  —  A judge on Friday sentenced former Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), an early and staunch ally of President Donald Trump …
Discussion: CNBC
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Tom Winter / NBC News:
Former N.Y. Rep. Christopher Collins sentenced to federal prison for insider trading
Discussion: Associated Press and Fox News
Soo Rin Kim / ABC News:   Trump associates who have been sent to prison or faced criminal charges
Jerry Zremski / The Buffalo News:
An anguished Chris Collins faces 26 months in prison
Discussion: Balloon Juice and UPI
Wall Street Journal:
Men Discussed Opening Fire at Pro-Gun Rally in Richmond, Officials Say  —  Other suspected members of white-supremacist group the Base arrested in Georgia  —  Three suspected white supremacists arrested in Maryland and Delaware this week had discussed opening fire from different positions …
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New York Times:
Joe Biden: Former vice president of the United States  —  The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.  —  This interview was conducted by the editorial board of The New York Times …
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Makena Kelly / The Verge:   Joe Biden wants to revoke Section 230
NBC News:
Meet Trump's legal team for the impeachment trial  —  Trump's legal team has some high-profile members, including Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr.  —  WASHINGTON — The legal team for President Donald Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate includes some high-profile names …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Breitbart
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Yaron Steinbuch / New York Post:
ISIS leader dubbed ‘Jabba the Jihadi’ captured in Iraq  —  He put the fat in fatwa.  —  A morbidly obese ISIS fanatic dubbed “Jabba the Jihadi” has been captured by Iraqi forces — who loaded him onto a flatbed truck because he couldn't fit in a police car.
Washington Post:
'You're a bunch of dopes and babies': Inside Trump's stunning tirade against generals  —  There is no more sacred room for military officers than 2E924 of the Pentagon, a windowless and secure vault where the Joint Chiefs of Staff meet regularly to wrestle with classified matters.
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
The Sanders Campaign Researched Whether Warren Could Be Both Vice President and Treasury Secretary at Once  —  The presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders has researched the question of whether the same person can serve as both vice president and treasury secretary, according to three sources on the campaign.
Kansas City Star:
Trump tried to call Kris Kobach during his meeting with Roger Marshall, sources say  —  President Donald Trump initially tried to call Kansas Republican Kris Kobach while he was meeting in the Oval Office with Kobach's GOP rival Rep. Roger Marshall, according to two sources familiar with the meeting.
Martin Indyk / Wall Street Journal:
The Middle East Isn't Worth It Anymore  —  With few vital American interests still at stake there, the U.S. should finally set aside its grandiose ambitions for the chaotic region  —  Last week, despite Donald Trump's repeated pledge to end American involvement in the Middle East's conflicts …
Steve Vockrodt / Kansas City Star:
Kansas City radio station agrees to broadcast Russian-owned ‘propaganda’ program  —  A Kansas City area radio station can broadcast Russian state-owned media programming, the type that U.S. intelligence called a “propaganda machine,” for six hours a day through a lease agreement struck by a local radio operator.
Discussion: The Hill
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Mike Bloomberg is assembling a team of fundraising experts to recruit wealthy donors - but not to take their money  — Presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg is creating a team of fundraising experts to recruit wealthy donors.  But he doesn't want their money.  He wants them to act as surrogates for his campaign.
KUSA-TV:
We caught up with Sen. Gardner at the airport to ask if he supports new witnesses in impeachment trial  —  Some Senate Republicans may break ranks to add witness testimony in President Trump's impeachment trial.  —  DENVER — Colorado's U.S. Senators, Democrat Michael Bennet and Republican Cory Gardner …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
House managers' plans for next week's Senate impeachment trial
 
 
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‘Trump Effect’ Takes Over Iran As Regime Starts Covering Country With American And Israeli Flags
New York Times:
Indian General Talks of ‘Deradicalization Camps’ for Kashmiris
Eleni Courea / Politico:
UK to celebrate Brexit with flags and ‘light display’
Nick Arama / Redstate:
Sounds Like Biden Thinks Beto Is Latino
Discussion: Townhall and Twitchy
Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian:
Man found guilty of aggravated assault against Owen Jones
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Cambridge Analytica email chain with Facebook sheds new light on data misuse scandal
Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed News:
Mueller Memos Part 4: FBI Documents That Congress Had To Fight To Get
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
DNC outlines qualifying criteria for ABC News debate, adds new delegate threshold
Discussion: Axios
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Thomas Chatterton Williams / Harper's:
An Incoherent Truth  —  Last fall, Tobi Haslett, a young writer …
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
White House Considers Changes to Law Banning Overseas Bribes
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