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7:50 AM ET, December 27, 2017

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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Mike Huckabee Says Trump Is Like Churchill.  Historians Disagree.  —  Former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas drew a swift and intense response with a provocative claim on Tuesday: President Trump, he wrote, is similar to Winston Churchill, one of history's most iconic leaders.
Discussion: Raw Story, RedState, Mediaite and IJR
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Robert Mueller May Indict Paul Manafort Again … From its inception, two things about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation were clear: first, the White House's biggest concern was that Mueller would follow the money; and second, Mueller is following the money.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
A swastika was mowed into a field.  Was it part of a chain of events that led to murder?  —  Neighbors said the display of hate in a Lorton, Va., community was as large as it was shocking: a swastika roughly 40 feet across mowed into the grass of a community field.
Discussion: The Root and The Stranger …
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Tied Virginia Race That Was Headed for Name-Drawing Gets Another Twist  —  RICHMOND — A race that would tip control of Virginia's House of Delegates, whose constant and nearly comic pendulums between candidates has attracted national attention, took one more twist on Tuesday when a drawing to break a tie was unexpectedly postponed.
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Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Democrat in tied Va. House race says she will challenge disputed ballot in court
Discussion: NBC News, Raw Story and Daily Kos
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:   Va. House Dems asking court to reconsider decision declaring race a tie
Annie Karni / Politico:
Pro-Trump singer files assault claim against Lewandowski over butt-slap incident  —  The woman accusing President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, of unwanted touching at a Trump International Hotel party last month has filed a sexual assault report …
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Singer files sex assault complaint against former Trump aide
Discussion: CNBC and The Daily Caller
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Pro-Trump singer files sexual assault report against Lewandowski
Discussion: RedState
Associated Press:
13 Days in July: The Trump White House's crucible  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — They were the 13 days that transformed the White House.  —  Even for an administration that spent most of 2017 throwing off headlines at a dizzying pace, events in the second half of July unfolded at breakneck speed.
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Associated Press:
Timeline for 13 days that transformed Trump White House
Discussion: Politico
Reuters:
U.S. lawmakers question businessman at 2016 Trump Tower meeting: sources  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Georgian-American businessman who met then-Miss Universe pageant owner Donald Trump in 2013, has been questioned by congressional investigators about whether he helped organize …
BuzzFeed:
The Man Who Gave White Nationalism A New Life  —  Fifty years ago, France lost a war while trying keep millions of Muslims French citizens.  One French writer launched a movement to rethink “identity” in its aftermath, and helped reinvent nationalism for the 21st century.  —  Reporting From
Discussion: Raw Story
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Inspector general says mishandling of sexual harassment complaints at Justice Department is a ‘systemic’ problem  —  The Justice Department has “systemic” problems in how it handles sexual harassment complaints, with those found to have acted improperly often not receiving appropriate punishment …
Winnie Hu / New York Times:
Your Uber Car Creates Congestion.  Should You Pay a Fee to Ride?  —  The sputtering traffic in Manhattan has long been blamed on cars and delivery trucks pouring onto the streets from the rest of the city and beyond.  —  Since at least the 1970s, New York City officials have proposed various toll systems …
Joe Tacopino / New York Post:
Michael Flynn's brother to Trump: It's ‘about time you pardoned’ him  —  Mike Flynn's younger brother told President Trump it's “about time” he pardoned “General Flynn” — in a tweet he sent to the president and deleted minutes later.  —  Joseph Flynn, the brother of Trump's ex-national security adviser …
Nicholas Burns / USA Today:
America is on the brink of a historic break with Europe, thanks to Trump  —  Foreign service officers like me saw ourselves as guardians of this vital alliance.  But Trump isn't interested in leading it or writing its next chapter.  —  The Trump administration's newly unveiled national …
Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
FBI says Russia dossier's collusion charges unsubstantiated  —  The FBI is declining to repudiate the Russia dossier on which it partially relied to start an investigation into the Trump campaign, but it concedes the document's major core charges of election collusion remain unsubstantiated.
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Russia is going to attack our next election.  The Trump administration may not even try to stop it.  —  The Russians are coming for our elections — to disrupt them, to discredit them, and even to affect their outcome.  They'll be coming in 2018, and in 2020.
Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
Barred From Running and Boycotting: Navalny's Quandary in Russia  —  MOSCOW — Aleksei A. Navalny, a Russian anticorruption activist, would have no real chance of defeating President Vladimir V. Putin in an election.  The authorities have cast him as an utterly irrelevant showboat.
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Years of Attack Leave Obamacare a More Government-Focused Health Law  —  WASHINGTON — The Affordable Care Act was conceived as a mix of publicly funded health care and privately purchased insurance, but Republican attacks, culminating this month in the death of a mandate that most Americans have insurance …
Andrés Miguel Rondón / Washington Post:
To beat President Trump, you have to learn to think like his supporters  —  Scandals will never defeat a populist.  —  Almost a year later, Donald Trump is still president.  Powerful men in entertainment, media and even politics have seen their public lives implode under scandal almost instantly for months now, but Trump holds on.
Lauren Linder / WCDC-TV:
Troy PD investigating quadruple homicide  —  TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) - Four people were found dead in the basement of a Troy apartment building Tuesday afternoon.  —  Troy Police Capt. Dan DeWolf said police were called to 158 2nd Ave. around 12:50 p.m. after the property manager reported finding …
Discussion: KTLA and ABC News
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Cities Sue Over Pentagon's Failure to Report Crimes to Gun Database  —  Three major cities have filed a lawsuit against the Defense Department for its failure to report many criminal convictions in the military justice system to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and its national gun background-check database.
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Associated Press:
Cities sue Defense Dept. over gun-check system failures
Discussion: Politico and Axios
 
 
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Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
Trump's Strong Start on Policy
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CNN:
Trump has scored some successes in foreign policy
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Dante Chinni / Wall Street Journal:
College-Educated Women Are Moving Away From GOP
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Josh Delk / The Hill:
Melania Trump's favorite TV show is ‘How to Get Away With Murder’
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
USA Today:
U.S. retail holiday sales jump 4.9%, biggest increase since 2011
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Julia Craven / HuffPost:
Why Black People Own Guns
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Sharyl Attkisson / The Hill:
10 times the intel community violated the trust of US citizens, lawmakers and allies
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Bloomberg:
Analysts Cut iPhone X Shipment Forecasts, Citing Lukewarm Demand
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Scientific American:
Men Resist Green Behavior as Un-Manly
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
The inside story of Doug Jones's win in Alabama
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Reuters:
China halts oil product exports to North Korea in November as sanctions bite
Discussion: Axios
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Impeachment debate divides Democrats as 2018 wave builds
Discussion: Business Insider, RedState and IJR
Josh Boak / Associated Press:
US home prices surge 6.2 percent, outpacing wage growth
Discussion: The Week and The Daily Caller
Annie Karni / Politico:
What happens when Trump targets you on Twitter
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