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Senate Republicans eye rules change to speed Trump nominees https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/425957-senate-republicans-eye-rules-change-to-speed-trump-nominees

Mnuchin refuses to testify at hearing on shutdown impacts https://thehill.com/policy/finance/425958-mnuchin-refuses-to-testify-at-hearing-on-shutdown-impacts

Wall Street Law Firm Skadden Arps Admits to Lying to DOJ About Work for Manafort and Kremlin-Aligned Ukrainian President https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/skadden-arps-settlement-mueller-doj-justice-manafort-kremlin-ukraine-yanukovych.html

Washington Memo: Washington as Unruly Sandbox: Squabbles, Antics and Tantrums https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/us/politics/shutdown-sandbox-squabble.html?partner=rss&emc=rss #Shutdowns(Institutional) #PoliticsandGovernment #Pence,Karen(1957-) #ClemsonUniversity #Trump,DonaldJ #Pelosi,Nancy

Skadden Arps Agrees to $4.6 Million Settlement in Ukraine Lobbying Case https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/us/politics/skadden-arps-ukraine-lobbying-settlement.html?partner=rss&emc=rss #RussianInterferencein2016USElectionsandTiestoTrumpAssociates #Skadden,Arps,Slate,Meagher&FlomLLP #LobbyingandLobbyists #MercuryPublicAffairs #Mueller,RobertSIII #Yanukovych,ViktorF #JusticeDepartment #Tymoshenko,YuliaV #PodestaGroupInc #Craig,GregoryB #Manafort,PaulJ #Podesta,Tony #UnitedStates #Ukraine #Russia

It Might Be Aliens. But We Have No Idea What to Do About It. https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/oumuamua-aliens-search-abraham-loeb.html

The Bonkers Twist Ending of Glass, Explained https://slate.com/culture/2019/01/glass-twist-ending-explained-m-night-shyamalan-movie.html

Model who claimed to have recordings revealing Trump-Russia ties detained in Moscow: report https://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/425953-model-who-claimed-to-have-recordings-revealing-trump-russia-ties

Attorney accuses Trump of trying to intimidate Cohen ahead of congressional testimony https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/425951-cohens-attorney-accuses-trump-of-trying-to-intimidate-him-on

Congressman who yelled ‘go back to Puerto Rico’ apologizes to Latino colleague https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-fix/congressman-who-yelled-go-back-to-puerto-rico-apologizes-to-latino-colleague/2019/01/17/adb60ad8-f13f-48e2-a060-af01dc088b54_story.html

McCarthy’s challenge to Steve King after years of GOP inaction stands as first test for minority leader https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/mccarthys-challenge-to-steve-king-after-years-of-gop-inaction-stands-as-first-test-for-minority-leader/2019/01/17/fb21e32a-1a7a-11e9-9ebf-c5fed1b7a081_story.html

Senate GOP mulling rules change to speed up confirmations of Trump nominees https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-gop-mulling-rules-change-to-speed-up-confirmations-of-trump-nominees/2019/01/17/8dd2b0a8-1ab4-11e9-a804-c35766b9f234_story.html

The Fake Washington Post Wasn’t Fake News https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/fake-washington-post-not-fake-news-yes-men-parody.html

Know Your Memes, or Be Fooled by Them https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/author-an-xiao-mina-on-the-history-and-dangers-of-memes.html

Politics Stay Off The Soccer Field As Qatar Plays Saudi Arabia https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/686372006/politics-stay-off-the-soccer-field-as-qatar-plays-saudi-arabia?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news

Next step in criminal justice reform could target jobs for ex-convicts, marijuana law https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/next-step-in-criminal-justice-reform-could-target-jobs-for-ex-convicts-marijuana-law/2019/01/17/c105d8be-1a74-11e9-88fe-f9f77a3bcb6c_story.html

Tulsi Gabbard, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Apologizes for Anti-Gay Past https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/us/politics/tulsi-gabbard-gay-lgbtq.html?partner=rss&emc=rss #Same-SexMarriage,CivilUnionsandDomesticPartnerships #HomosexualityandBisexuality #PresidentialElectionof2020 #PoliticsandGovernment #Gabbard,Tulsi(1981-) #Apologies

Vox Sentences: LA’s teachers are still striking https://www.vox.com/vox-sentences/2019/1/17/18187473/vox-sentences-las-teachers-are-still-striking

On Politics With Lisa Lerer: Nancy Pelosi’s Political Flex https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/us/politics/on-politics-pelosi-trump.html?partner=rss&emc=rss #UnitedStatesPoliticsandGovernment #StateoftheUnionMessage(US) #Shutdowns(Institutional) #Trump,DonaldJ #Pelosi,Nancy

Times Insider: In Syrian Town Where U.S. Senators Wore No Body Armor, a Fragile Stability Shatters https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/reader-center/manbij-syria-restaurant-bombing-.html?partner=rss&emc=rss #UnitedStatesDefenseandMilitaryForces #UnitedStatesPoliticsandGovernment #IslamicStateinIraqandSyria(ISIS) #Graham,Lindsey #Manbij(Syria) #Kurds