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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Trump, Angry Over Mattis's Rebuke, Considers Removing Him 2 Months Early — WASHINGTON — President Trump, angry over days of news coverage characterizing the resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis as a rebuke of the president, has told administration officials that he is considering removing …
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Susan E. Rice / New York Times:
The Threat in the White House — With the impetuous decisions that drove Jim Mattis into retirement, President Trump does more to undermine American national security than any foreign adversary. — Ms. Rice is a former national security adviser and a contributing opinion writer.
David Axe / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Incoming Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan Pushed Military to Buy Weapons It Didn't Want — Patrick Shanahan's corporate allies have thrived under Trump. Now he's going to be Secretary of Defense. — By DAVID AXE12.23.18 6:37 PM ET — By tapping former Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan …
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David Brown / Politico:
Meet Trump's acting Pentagon chief — When Defense Secretary Jim Mattis wanted him to be his top deputy, Patrick Shanahan was instructed to focus “down and in,” as he describes the approach to managing the government's largest bureaucracy. — But the former Boeing executive who came to be known as …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump forces Mattis out two months early, names Shanahan acting defense secretary
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
After criticism, Trump pushes out Mattis sooner than planned
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Nancy A. Youssef / Wall Street Journal:
Departing Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to Leave Jan. 1
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David Cohen / Politico:
Senators begged Mattis to stay, Durbin says
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Mattis to leave two months early, as Trump announces Patrick Shanahan will replace him
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Washington Post:
Treasury secretary startles Wall Street with unusual pre-Christmas calls to top bank CEOs — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin startled financial analysts, bankers and economists on Sunday by issuing an unusual s declaring that the nation's six largest banks had ample credit to extend to American businesses and households.
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Donna Borak / CNN:
Mnuchin speaks with US bank executives to reassure investors after Wall Street whiplash — When stock market swings should raise alarms — Washington (CNN)Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spent Sunday speaking with chief executives of large US banks in a bid to reassure investors that it's business as usual on Monday.
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Jason Lange / Reuters:
Top Trump official calls bankers, will convene ‘Plunge Protection Team’ — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's Treasury secretary called top U.S. bankers on Sunday amid an ongoing rout on Wall Street and made plans to convene a group of officials known as the “Plunge Protection Team.”
Kevin Daley / The Daily Caller:
Supreme Court Intervenes In Apparent Mystery Mueller Case — Chief Justice John Roberts stayed a subpoena and contempt order in a case that likely arose from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation in a Sunday night order. — Sunday's order could mark the first time that the Supreme Court …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Roberts, Leader of Supreme Court's Conservative Majority, Fights Perception That It Is Partisan — “We don't work as Democrats or Republicans,” he has said, a theme he has returned to while trying to strike a delicate balance as the chief justice. — WASHINGTON — In his first 13 years …
Kevin Bohn / CNN:
Chief Justice pauses contempt order for mystery company in Mueller investigation — (CNN)Chief Justice John Roberts on Sunday issued a temporary pause on an order holding an unnamed, foreign government-owned company in contempt over a mystery court case related to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
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Axios:
Trump says he had a “long” call with Turkish president Erdogan — Days after announcing the U.S. would exit Syria, President Trump tweeted: … Why it matters: Turkey is also the country that was most active in sharing information about the Saudi killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
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Kris Schneider / ABC News:
Mick Mulvaney says DHS can't ‘spend money from Mexico’ for wall: ‘We have to get it from the treasury’ — The president's incoming chief of staff said Sunday that any money for the border wall would have to come from the Treasury Department, saying “the Department of Homeland Security can't actually spend money from Mexico.”
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USA Today:
Government shutdown, day 2: White House makes ‘counter-offer,’ asks for less than $5B for border wall funding
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Washington Post:
‘Very possible’ shutdown could last into new year, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney says
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David Cohen / Politico:
Merkley: Border wall ‘a fourth-century strategy’
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Farah Stockman / New York Times:
Women's March Roiled by Accusations of Anti-Semitism — Within days of Donald J. Trump's election, a diverse group of women united by their concern about the incoming administration gathered at a restaurant in New York to plan a protest march in Washington.
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Michael R. Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
Trump Rings in the New Year in the Worst Possible Way — One week sums up a failing presidency. — There are many reasons to be optimistic about 2019. The increasingly isolated man in the Oval Office is not one of them. — With the first two years of Donald Trump's presidency drawing to a close …
Associated Press:
Court says Justice Ginsburg up and working after surgery — WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is up and working as she recuperates from cancer surgery. — A spokeswoman for the court, Kathy Arberg, also says that Ginsburg remained in New York at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Sunday.
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NBC News:
Inside Bernie-world's war on Beto O'Rourke — As the Texas congressman's star rises, Sanders supporters turn up the heat: 'Reading Karl Marx is cool. Doing a livestream while you're doing your laundry is a gimmick.' — WASHINGTON — Forces loyal to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders are waging …
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New York Times:
Far-Right Proud Boys Reeling After Arrests and Scrutiny — After his appearance in Manhattan led to a brawl, the founder of a far-right group, the Proud Boys, said it was little more than a “fun, silly, men's club” that had defended itself against an attack by leftist protesters.
Washington Post:
Syria's once-teeming prison cells being emptied by mass murder — Assad's government is doubling down on the killing of political prisoners as the civil war heads toward its conclusion. — BEIRUT — As Syria's government consolidates control after years of civil war …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schiff: Democrats will subpoena Mueller report if Trump tries to hide it — Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, says Democrats will subpoena special counsel Robert Mueller's report if President Trump tries to invoke executive privilege to keep it secret.
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Schiff: ‘Prepared’ to force Mueller report release if White House blocks
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