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12:40 AM ET, January 17, 2021

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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Acting defense secretary orders NSA director to immediately install former GOP operative as the agency's top lawyer  —  Acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller ordered the director of the National Security Agency to install on Saturday a former GOP political operative as the NSA's top lawyer …
Discussion: CNN and Political Wire
Ben Sasse / The Atlantic:
QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within … Eugene goodman is an American hero.  At a pivotal moment on January 6, the veteran United States Capitol Police officer single-handedly prevented untold bloodshed.  Staring down an angry, advancing mob, he retreated up a marble staircase …
Discussion: Axios, The Hill and Raw Story
ABC News:
Giuliani says he's working on Trump's impeachment defense, would argue voter fraud claims  —  “If you can prove that it's true... they are no longer fighting words,” he said.  —  US Capitol riots: Tracking the insurrection  —  On Jan. 6, rioters coming from a pro-Trump rally broke into the U.S. Capitol …
Discussion: Business Insider and Raw Story
New York Times:
Biden Seeks Quick Start With Executive Actions and Aggressive Legislation  —  In an effort to mark a clean break from the Trump era, the president-elect plans to roll out dozens of executive orders in his first 10 days on top of a big stimulus plan and an expansive immigration bill.
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Tyler Pager / Politico:
Biden plans dozens of executive orders for early days of presidency  —  WILMINGTON, Del. — Joe Biden is planning to sign dozens of executive orders in his first days in office, as he aims to roll back some of President Donald Trump's signature policies on immigration and climate change …
Melissa Repko / CNBC:   So long, Peloton: Joe Biden may need new exercise equipment when he moves to White House
Dan Merica / CNN:
Biden to sign executive orders rejoining Paris climate accord and rescinding travel ban on first day
Discussion: NEWS 1130 and Hamodia
Los Angeles Times:
Biden plans early legislation to offer legal status to 11 million immigrants without it
Washington Post:
Virginia man arrested at inauguration security checkpoint in possession of gun, 500 rounds ammo and non-government issued credential, police say  —  A Virginia man has been arrested after law enforcement found at least one firearm and more than 500 rounds of ammunition in his truck as he tried …
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New York Times:
A man with a gun arrested by Capitol Police at a security checkpoint calls it an ‘honest mistake.’  —  The U.S. Capitol Police arrested a man at a security checkpoint in Washington on Friday after he flashed what an officer described as an “unauthorized” inauguration credential and a search …
Politico:
Guardsmen stationed at U.S. Capitol building to get cots
Discussion: Raw Story
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
After White House Meeting with Trump, Mike Lindell Calls for Military Coup on Facebook  —  NOTHING TO SEE HERE.  JUST A PILLOW SALESMAN BEING INVITED TO THE WHITE HOUSE TO ARGUE FOR THE IMPOSITION OF MARTIAL LAW AND THE OVERTURNING OF A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.  WE COOL.  (DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES)
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Scoop: Comms director for gun-toting congresswoman quits  —  The communications director for Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, a firebrand Republican freshman who boasts about carrying a gun to work, has quit after less than two weeks on the job.  —  Why it matters: Ben Goldey's resignation cited …
Washington Post:
Trump to flee Washington and seek rehabilitation in a MAGA oasis: Florida  —  President Trump will leave Washington this week politically wounded, silenced on social media and essentially unwelcome in his lifelong hometown of New York.  —  By migrating instead to Palm Beach, Fla. …
Discussion: The Hill
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Eli Stokols / Los Angeles Times:
Trump retreats from his job, and Pence fills the void as ‘acting’ president
Washington Post:
Misinformation dropped dramatically the week after Twitter banned Trump  —  Zignal Labs charts 73 percent decline on Twitter and beyond following historic action against the president  —  Online misinformation about election fraud plunged 73 percent after several social media sites suspended President Trump …
Washington Post:
41 minutes of fear: A video timeline from inside the Capitol siege  —  At 2:12 p.m. on Jan. 6, supporters of President Trump began climbing through a window they had smashed on the northwest side of the U.S. Capitol.  “Go!  Go!  Go!” someone shouted as the rioters, some in military gear, streamed in.
Katie Bo Williams / Defense One:
Troops at Inauguration Pre-Screened for Extremism, Says DC Guard Commander  —  “We will use the minimum force required to protect ourselves,” said Maj. Gen. William Walker, in an exclusive interview.  —  The roughly 25,000 National Guardsmen deployed to the U.S. capital to ensure President-elect Joe Biden …
Discussion: TheGrio, Forbes and Fox News
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
What Madison Cawthorn Saw at the Insurrection The youngest member of Congress is invigorated by the mob he helped incite.  —  Madison Cawthorn has a vision of a January 6 that did not happen.  One in which he does the noble thing for career and country.  He uses his MAGA celebrity for good.
Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Selfies, social media posts making it easier for FBI to track down Capitol riot suspects  —  They posted that they were storming the Capitol to Facebook.  They livestreamed it on YouTube and made Instagram stories of their fellow rioters as they broke in.  —  As the FBI continues to round …
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Washington Post:   Before he stormed the Capitol, ex-W.Va. lawmaker harassed women at an abortion clinic
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
The House and Senate GOP are operating in different political universes  —  It is normal for a party's House and Senate caucuses to have different temperaments.  —  But in recent weeks, congressional Republicans have seemed to be operating in different political universes.
Discussion: The Hill, The Daily Caller and WHYY
Julia Musto / Fox News:
Manchin says 14th Amendment ouster should be ‘consideration’ for Sens. Hawley, Cruz  —  The senator says Hawley and Cruz's election objections after the siege of the Capitol were ‘totally outside the realm of our responsibilities’  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for January 16<br>
Discussion: RedState, Townhall and Mediaite
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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Major NRA donor to challenge gun group's bankruptcy over alleged fraud  —  Complaint could stop top NRA executives from discharging a substantial portion of the organisation's debts  —  A major donor to the National Rifle Association is poised to challenge key aspects of the gun group's bankruptcy filing …
Discussion: Gothamist and New York Times
Washington Post:
‘Trump said to do so’: Accounts of rioters who say the president spurred them to rush the Capitol could be pivotal testimony  —  A man from Kentucky told the FBI that he and his cousin began marching toward the U.S. Capitol building last week because “President Trump said to do so.”
Discussion: CNN, Vox and New York Times
Alex Wigglesworth / Los Angeles Times:
More contagious coronavirus strain detected in L.A. County as total cases top 1 million  —  Los Angeles County on Saturday surpassed 1 million coronavirus cases since reporting its first infection nearly a year before and also recorded its first instance of a new, more contagious variant …
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
The Trial of Donald Trump Must Tell the Full Story of the Capitol Insurrection  —  One of the most quoted lines in American nonfiction is Joan Didion's “we tell ourselves stories in order to live.”  It's the first sentence of “The White Album,” an essay in which Didion recounts some facts …
Discussion: Fox News and The Hill
Amanda Lee Myers / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Selena Gomez: Big Tech ‘cashing in from evil’  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hours after an angry mob of Trump supporters took control of the U.S. Capitol in a violent insurrection, Selena Gomez laid much of the blame at the feet of Big Tech.  —  “Today is the result of allowing people …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
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David French / TIME:   The Right's Message to Silicon Valley: “Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee”
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
FBI probing if foreign governments, groups funded extremists who helped execute Capitol attack  —  WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating whether foreign governments, organizations or individuals provided financial support to extremists who helped plan and execute the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
ABC News:
Harris to be sworn in by Justice Sonia Sotomayor at inauguration  —  Justice Sonia Sotomayor is another historic female first.  —  Kamala Harris calls teen artist who struggled with bullying  —  The story behind the artist who earned a phone call from Vice President-elect Kamala Harris after he painted a portrait of her.
San Francisco Chronicle:
California has nearly 2 million unused doses of vaccine even as demand soars.  Here's why  —  Across California, a vast number of coronavirus vaccine doses are locked up in cold storage.  But last week, when Santa Clara County asked for 100,000 doses to ramp up vaccine distribution …
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
When Biden Becomes ... Rooseveltian!  —  Using a crisis to reduce child poverty and make America more truly a land of opportunity.  —  Soon after Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated in 1933, a visitor assessed the stakes of his New Deal proposal.  —  “Mr. President, if your program succeeds …
New York Times:
A First for an American President, and a First for Donald Trump  —  In the final moments of his presidency, Mr. Trump is confronting an unfamiliar fate: He is being held to account as never before for things he has said.  —  When President Trump faced (and overcame) the gravest crisis of his first campaign …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Raw Story
Axios:
Episode 1: A premeditated lie lit the fire  —  Beginning on election night 2020 and continuing through his final days in office, Donald Trump unraveled and dragged America with him, to the point that his followers sacked the U.S. Capitol with two weeks left in his term.
 
 
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Helaine Olen / Washington Post:
Katie Porter is off the House Financial Services Committee. We're all worse off for it.
John Irish / Reuters:
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Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone:
American Unity Is a Fantasy
Aaron Davis / Washington Post:
Timeline: How law enforcement and government officials failed to head off the U.S. Capitol attack
Emily Birnbaum / Protocol:
Trump officials and conservatives are quietly meeting in Las Vegas to discuss ‘woke tech’
Bloomberg:
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 Earlier Items: 
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Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
White Army vet charged in shooting Black girl at Trump rally
Discussion: The Root and New York Post
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Donor backlash fuels GOP alarm about Senate fundraising