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9:45 AM ET, December 30, 2017

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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Our Reporter Mike Schmidt on His Golf Club Interview With President Trump  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Shortly after 1 p.m. on Thursday, President Trump came off the 18th hole of his golf course here and walked into the club house's Grill Room.  Waiters scurried to bring menus and drinks …
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Interview Is a Portrait of a Man in Cognitive Decline  —  I don't care whether Michael Schmidt was tough enough.  We've got bigger problems.  —  On Thursday, El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago  —  sat down with Michael Schmidt of The New York Times  —  for what apparently was an open-ended, one-on-one interview.
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Washington Post:
Time at Mar-a-Lago is a respite for Trump — and a headache for his staff … PALM BEACH, Fla. — When President Trump sat down with a reporter for a wide-ranging, 30-minute interview at his private golf club here Thursday, not a single aide or adviser was present at the table …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump's media neediness  —  In President Trump's interview with the New York Times, he declared: … On one level, the comment is ludicrous.  Despite the frenzied paranoia of the Fox News crowd, the Times doesn't determine election winners.  If it did, he wouldn't be president.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump, in an impromptu interview on Thursday with The New York Times, rattled off at least 10 false or misleading claims about the Russia investigation, wars abroad, health care, immigration and trade.  Here's an assessment.
John Harwood / CNBC:
Trump displays delusions in his New York Times interview  — What made the president's year-end New York Times interview notable was repetition of a particular brand of untruth.  — Even as his administration struggles with historic unpopularity, Trump ascribes to himself qualities …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
State Department releases Huma Abedin emails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop  —  The State Department on Friday released a batch of work-related emails from the account of top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin that were discovered by the FBI on a laptop belonging to Abedin's estranged husband …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Week 32: Trump Binges on Collusion Talk to Ring Out Year  —  In what otherwise would have to be counted as a sleepy week in the annals of the Trump Tower scandal, President Donald Trump gave the press a much-needed news peg by granting New York Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt a 30-minute interview …
Discussion: ABC News and Booman Tribune
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Military to begin accepting transgender recruits after Trump delays appeal  —  The Pentagon will begin accepting transgender military recruits on Monday, Jan. 1, after the Trump administration decided not to appeal a court order blocking the president's ban.
Discussion: RedState
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
The Trump Administration Has Stopped Fighting The Jan. 1 Deadline For Accepting Trans Military Recruits
Discussion: PinkNews and Axios
Jon Meacham / New York Times:
Donald Trump and the Limits of the Reality TV Presidency  —  As with most politicians, Franklin D. Roosevelt loved attention and approval in equal measure.  Once, after watching himself in a newsreel, he remarked, “That was the Garbo in me.”  On meeting Orson Welles, the president said …
Nichole Manna / Wichita Eagle:
Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in deadly Wichita police shooting  —  Online gamers have said in multiple Twitter posts that the shooting of a man Thursday night by Wichita police was the result of a “swatting” prank involving two gamers.  —  Swatting is an internet prank …
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New York Times:
After Saving Many From Fire, Soldier Died Trying to Rescue One More  —  Emmanuel Mensah was a handsome, strongly built young man in his late 20s who immigrated to the Bronx from Ghana about five years ago.  He joined the Army but returned to his apartment on Prospect Avenue in December after undergoing training.
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Donald Trump Is a Consequential President.  Just Not in the Ways You Think.  —  What mattered and what didn't in Trump's first year.  —  On January 20, 2017, as President Donald Trump began his inaugural address, a cold rain began to fall.  —  A few hours later, Trump claimed the rain had not begun to fall.
Elana Schor / Politico:
Dem senators fight to out-liberal one another ahead of 2020  —  A half-dozen Trump foes race to embrace the liberal zeitgeist, occupying space Bernie Sanders once had to himself.  —  It used to be that Bernie Sanders was an ideological lone ranger in the Senate.
New York Times:
Three Months After Maria, Roughly Half of Puerto Ricans Still Without Power  —  For the first time in the 100 days since Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico, the government finally knows how many people still don't have power: about half.  —  The figure released Friday by the island's governor …
Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Scattered Protests Erupt in Iran Over Economic Woes  —  Protests over the Iranian government's handling of the economy spread to several cities on Friday, including Tehran, in what appeared to be a sign of unrest.  —  President Hassan Rouhani began his second term in August after winning re-election …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Axios
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Jason Samenow / Washington Post:
Eastern U.S. to endure most numbing New Year's Eve cold in memory  —  New Year's Eve partygoers best bundle up.  —  As 2017 turns to 2018, the most frigid New Year's weather in decades will infiltrate the eastern two-thirds of the nation.  —  The latest and most potent in a series …
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Sean Rossman / USA Today:
Florida ‘hot cop’ resigns amid probe into anti-Semitic Facebook posts
Discussion: Raw Story and CBS13
Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
Of All the Blogs in the World, He Walks Into Mine
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
How Climate Change Deniers Rise to the Top in Google Searches
Josh Delk / The Hill:
Judge denies Rick Gates request to leave house arrest for New Year's Eve party
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Splinter
USA Today:
Defense Secretary Mattis breaks tradition, doesn't visit U.S. troops in war zone this December
Discussion: Axios
Sewell Chan / New York Times:
Recy Taylor, Who Fought for Justice After a 1944 Rape, Dies at 97
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Washington Post:
Is the polar vortex back? Be afraid, frigid friends.
 Earlier Items: 
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Senators scrap Russia trip after Kremlin snubs Shaheen
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
Breitbart's Astonishing Confession
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
Exclusive: Russian tankers fueled North Korea via transfers at sea
Discussion: Vox and New York Times
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
'Don't screw with me on this': Mattis defends U.S. efforts to prevent civilian casualties in Yemen
Discussion: IJR
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Trump to repeal Obama fracking rule
Discussion: Splinter and Viking Pundit
Eugene Volokh / Reason:
California Prosecuting Man for Insulting Posts on Islamic Center's Facebook Page
Sam Amick / USA Today:
Warriors coach Steve Kerr: There's an ‘assault on our institutions and on our core values’
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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