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NBC Southern California:
Suspicious Package Addressed to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Contained Horse Manure: Officials — Multiple law enforcement sources tell NBC investigations that officers unwrapped the box to discover it was filled with manure — A Los Angeles Department bomb squad responded …
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
A package for Steven Mnuchin caused a bomb scare. It turned out to be filled with horse manure. — A suspicious package that appeared Saturday night in the swanky Los Angeles neighborhood of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin prompted lengthy street closures and a sizable response by local …
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CBS Los Angeles and CBS News
Nicole Hensley / New York Daily News:
Gift-wrapped horse poop sends bomb squad to Steven Mnuchin's Bel Air mansion
Gift-wrapped horse poop sends bomb squad to Steven Mnuchin's Bel Air mansion
Cristina Maza / Newsweek:
HOW TRUMP AND THE NAZIS STOLE CHRISTMAS TO PROMOTE WHITE NATIONALISM — President Donald Trump wants Americans to think he re-invented Christmas. — “We can say merry Christmas again,” he has said on numerous occasions both during his campaign for president and his presidency.
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New York Times:
Why Saad Hariri Had That Strange Sojourn in Saudi Arabia — BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon's prime minister, Saad Hariri, was summoned at 8:30 a.m. to the Saudi royal offices — unseemly early, by the Kingdom's standards — on the second day of a visit that was already far from what he had expected.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
American ISIS Suspect Held in Iraq Has Right to Lawyer, Judge Rules
American ISIS Suspect Held in Iraq Has Right to Lawyer, Judge Rules
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Axios, NPR, The Daily Caller and Just Security
New York Times:
Black Turnout in Alabama Complicates Debate on Voting Laws — MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Even before a defiant Roy S. Moore stood at a lectern this month and refused to concede the Alabama Senate race, one political reality was clear: An extraordinary turnout among black voters had helped push Doug Jones …
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
In a pro-Trump town, they never stopped saying ‘Merry Christmas’ — LINDEN, Tenn. — In this rural Trump-supporting town, home to barely 1,000 people and at least 10 Christian churches, the word “holiday” doesn't seem to exist. — Outside the county courthouse there's an evergreen tree covered …
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Guatemala announces plan to move Israel embassy to Jerusalem — The president of Guatemala on Sunday announced that the country plans to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, days after the United Nations overwhelmingly voted against President Trump — 's decision to recognize the contested city as the Israeli capital.
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RedState
New York Times:
Democrats Leave Few Seats Unchallenged in Quest for House Control — WASHINGTON — Representative Pete Sessions, a veteran Republican, was re-elected to his affluent Dallas-area House seat in 2016 with 71 percent of the vote, the remaining 29 percent split between the Libertarian and Green Party candidates.
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
‘Trump fears them’: Former officials defend FBI leaders swept up in the Trump-Russia firestorm — The FBI's top lawyer, James Baker, was abruptly reassigned within the bureau last week. — Though the move was not unexpected, national-security experts and former intelligence officials …
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New York Magazine, Raw Story, The Daily Caller and AOL
The Guardian:
FBI investigates Russian-linked Cyprus bank accused of money laundering — Request for financial information may be connected to inquiries into possible conspiracy between Trump and Kremlin … The FBI has asked officials in Cyprus for financial information about a defunct bank that was used …
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Raw Story
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Sanders: Middle-class tax cuts in GOP bill a ‘very good thing’ that should have been permanent … Sen. Bernie Sanders — (I-Vt.) on Sunday agreed the tax cuts for the middle class in the GOP tax bill are a “very good thing” — but added they should have been made permanent.
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IJR, Mediaite, twitchy.com and The Daily Caller
John Frank / Denver Post:
Colorado's growing political divide leaves rural communities feeling forgotten and voiceless — A political transformation in Colorado is exacerbating the tension in elections and at the Capitol … ILIFF — Under a hard gray sky, Andrew Hernandez guides his combine through the cornfield …
John Sharp / al.com:
The color purple: How millennials and Gen X after electing Doug Jones could change a red state — Beth Clayton believes that she saw her home state's political future in the exit polls from the Dec. 12 Senate election. And it's not an Alabama that anyone has known lately.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Flake on chaos of Trump campaign: ‘Was that campaign even capable of colluding with anybody?’ … Frequent Trump administration critic Sen. Jeff Flake — (R-Ariz.) on Sunday said he's unsure if the Trump campaign was “capable of colluding with anybody.” — “I mean, I look at that last campaign …
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Flake: If Trump fired Mueller, it would be a ‘big problem’
Flake: If Trump fired Mueller, it would be a ‘big problem’
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Axios
Mark Moore / New York Post:
Trump tells Mar-a-Lago guests: ‘You all just got a lot richer’ — President Trump told members of his exclusive Florida resort “You all just got a lot richer,” just hours after signing a sweeping $1.5 trillion tax reform bill that critics said would disproportionately help the wealthiest Americans, a report on Sunday said.
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