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Washington Post:
A note to readers  —  I have been uncharacteristically silent these past ten months.  I had thought that silence would soon be coming to an end, but I'm afraid I must tell you now that fate has decided on a different course for me.  —  In August of last year, I underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor in my abdomen.
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Greg Wilson / Fox News:
Fox News star Charles Krauthammer reveals he has weeks to live in heartbreaking letter  —  Charles Krauthammer, the beloved and brilliant Fox News Channel personality who gave up a pioneering career in psychiatry to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning political analyst, on Friday revealed …
Washington Post:
Fridays without Charles  —  FRIDAY HAS always been Charles's day.  Since long ago, before digital news, when space meant just a strip across the top of a printed page, we knew to save space on Friday's page for Charles Krauthammer.  Charles always filled the space, with just the right number of words, and the most acute words, too.
Discussion: Political Wire
Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN's Anthony Bourdain dead at 61  —  New York (CNN)Anthony Bourdain, a gifted storyteller and writer who took CNN viewers around the world, has died.  He was 61.  —  CNN confirmed Bourdain's death on Friday and said the cause of death was suicide.  —  “It is with extraordinary sadness …
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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Anthony Bourdain, Travel Host and Author, Is Dead at 61  —  The travel host Anthony Bourdain, whose memoir “Kitchen Confidential” about the dark corners of New York's restaurants started a career in television, died on Friday at 61.  —  For the past several years, Mr. Bourdain hosted the show …
Abby Ohlheiser / Washington Post:
Anthony Bourdain has died at 61
Anna Silman / The Cut:
Anthony Bourdain Spoke Out Where Other Men Wouldn't
Discussion: New York Times, ThinkProgress, Vox and Eater
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:   What Can We Do To Stop Suicide?
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Seizes Times Reporter's Email and Phone Records in Leak Investigation  —  WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement officials secretly seized years' worth of a New York Times reporter's phone and email records this year in an investigation of classified information leaks.
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Former U.S. Senate Employee Indicted on False Statements Charges  —  Longtime Director of Security for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Accused of Lying to FBI About Repeated Contacts with Reporters  —  WASHINGTON - A former staff employee of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Axios AM
Discussion: Washington Post and Just Security
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Under Trump, “America First” Really Is Turning Out to Be America Alone  —  From trade to the Iran deal to NAFTA, the President has created the highest level of tension between the U.S. and its allies in decades.  —  The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was less than forty-eight hours away …
Discussion: Politico and New York Magazine
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Susan E. Rice / New York Times:
How Trump Helps Putin  —  Traditionally, the outgoing president writes a personal letter to his successor, offering wisdom and best wishes.  President Obama duly left such a letter for President Trump, as President Bush did eight years earlier.  —  Imagine if Vladimir Putin, the Russian president …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Is Fulfilling Russia's Dream of Splitting the Western Alliance
Washington Post:
Trump calls for readmitting Russia to G-7 four years after it was expelled for its role in Crimean crisis
Discussion: Toronto Star, Mediaite and Shakesville
Sam Baker / Axios:
Trump's Justice Department says the ACA is unconstitutional  —  The Justice Department will not defend the Affordable Care Act in court, and says it believes the law's individual mandate — the provision the Supreme Court upheld in 2012 — has become unconstitutional.
Discussion: Splinter and Politico
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Trump administration won't defend ACA in case brought by GOP states
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump will ask athletes who kneel during anthem to recommend people for pardoning  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump says he wants to meet with NFL players and athletes who kneel during the National Anthem so they can recommend people they think should be pardoned because they were treated unfairly by the justice system.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump says he may pardon Muhammad Ali — a move the late boxer's attorney calls unnecessary  —  Continuing to draw on his clemency powers, President Trump said Friday that he may soon pardon Muhammad Ali — a sentiment that a lawyer for the late boxer quickly said was appreciated but unnecessary.
Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:
Trump says he is likely to support ending federal ban on marijuana … President Trump said he likely will support a congressional effort to end the federal ban on marijuana, a major step that would reshape the pot industry and end the threat of a Justice Department crackdown.
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Trump is hurtling toward a Nixonian ending
Discussion: HuffPost, Althouse, Raw Story and TIME
Des Moines Register:
Des Moines DREAMer dies within weeks after being sent back to Mexico's violence  —  Editor's note: This column has been updated from the original online version with a statement from ICE.  —  Manuel Antonio Cano Pacheco should have graduated high school in Des Moines last month.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's bedtime story: “The Book”  —  It's not true President Trump doesn't read.  It's just exceptionally hard to get him to do it.  —  So the workarounds by savvy aides have become legendary in the West Wing.  Many of them revolve around the briefing binder that goes …
New York Times:
With Mueller Closing In, Manafort's Allies Abandon Him  —  WASHINGTON — The special counsel's accusation this week that Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, tried to tamper with potential witnesses originated with two veteran journalists who turned on Mr. Manafort …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
One Koch Brother Forces The Other Out Of The Family Business  —  An arch-conservative political machine will be down one billionaire but have more clout than ever.  —  The retirement of David Koch from Koch Industries will make it easier to see more clearly what has been true from the start …
Discussion: Mother Jones and New Republic
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Romney: Trump will be reelected in 2020  —  DEER VALLEY, UTAH — Republican Senate candidate Mitt Romney bluntly predicted here on Thursday evening that President Donald Trump would win reelection in 2020.  —  Addressing a group of major GOP donors, Romney — who bitterly collided …
NBC News:
U.S. officials prepare to thwart Chinese spying at Singapore summit  —  WASHINGTON — China may not have a seat at the table during President Donald Trump's upcoming nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but U.S. officials say they are preparing to counter the Chinese spies …
Discussion: The Week and Vox
Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: US lifts secrecy on foreign lobbying opinions  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is opening up about the advice it has given to lobbyists who work for foreign governments and political interests.  —  For the first time, the public will be able to read advisory opinions …
Yahoo:
Iran defiant as it holds day of anti-Israel protests  —  Tehran (AFP) - Iran held its annual day of protest against Israel on Friday, determined to show defiance at a time of mounting pressure from the United States and its regional allies.  —  “The US, Saudi Arabia and Israel want to put Iran in a corner …
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The internet was supposed to save democracy.  I asked 4 tech optimists what went wrong.  —  After Cambridge Analytica, social networks look less like a savior than a menace.  —  The internet was supposed to save democracy.  —  The web, and in particular social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter …
Washington Post:
Trump is waging a trade war in the dumbest way possible  —  President Trump says we need to be “smarter” in how we deal with other countries.  And yet his approach to extracting concessions from our trading partners has proved very, very dumb.  —  Notwithstanding Trump's Twitter declarations …
 
 
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Michael Wolff is back with “Fire and Fury” II
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Daily Mail:
Women who refuse to have babies …
Haaretz:
Three Palestinians were killed and 92 were wounded Friday by Israeli military live fire in protests …
Florian Eder / Politico:
POLITICO Brussels Playbook, presented by Banco Santander: Merkel gets blunt — G7 gifts — Old order at NATO
Discussion: EU Press Room
Khaleda Rahman / Reuters:
Austria's right-wing government plans to shut down seven mosques and expel up to 40 foreign …
Maria Lencki / The College Fix:
Public university prohibits ‘harsh text messages’
Discussion: Daily Wire
The Hill:
House passes Trump's plan to claw back $15 billion in spending
Discussion: CNN and The Daily Signal
Washington Post:
A political prisoner in Russia is starving. The world should take notice.
 Earlier Items: 
Justin Caruso / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: NYT Reporters Say ‘F**k The Military,’ Promote Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories, Tweet The N-Word
Michael Kruse / Politico:
The ‘What, Me Worry?’ President
Discussion: New York Times
Politico:
‘Cryin’ Chuck' might just get the last laugh
Bloomberg:
Mueller Team Views Giuliani More as Spokesman Than Lawyer, Sources Say
USA Today:
Cozy land deals meant big money for Trump family and friends
Jeff Tollefson / Nature:
Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought
Discussion: Boing Boing
 

 
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Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View
 
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