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Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News:
Dow drops 653 points in worst Christmas Eve trading day ever — The plummet followed a tumultuous few days in Washington, amid reports that Trump was discussing how to remove Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. — Both major stock indexes nosedived on Monday in the worst …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘I am all alone’: An isolated Trump unleashes a storm of Yuletide gloom — The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights — The Christmas Eve grievances billowing from the White House on Monday formed a heavy cloud of Yuletide gloom.
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Dow dives 600 points to below 22,000, S&P 500 enters bear market - worst Christmas Eve ever — Trump resumed his attack on the Fed on Monday, tweeting that the central bank is “the only problem” with the U.S. economy. — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin held calls on Sunday with the heads …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump hands out lumps of coal to enemies on Christmas Eve — President Trump unveiled his naughty list on Christmas Eve, the latest outburst of frustration from a president who is under siege on multiple fronts. — In a string of Monday morning tweets, Trump railed against Democrats …
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Markets stage one of worst Christmas Eves ever, closing down more than 600 points as Trump blames Fed for stock losses in a tweet — The Dow Jones industrial average followed its worst week in a decade with a 650- point drop Monday, and President Trump once again took to Twitter to interject himself into financial markets.
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Annie Lowrey / The Atlantic:
What Was Steve Mnuchin Thinking? Three Possibilities — Imagine having a runny nose, itchy eyes, congestion, and a sore throat, and your doctor telling you that you shouldn't worry about cancer—she consulted her colleagues and they're certain it is not cancer, and if it were, they could fight it.
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
This is what we were afraid of — When the new year begins next week …
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Trump tweets he's alone at White House waiting for Dems deal
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Heather Long / Washington Post:
Trump's White House tried to calm markets. It backfired.
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CNN:
Dow's wild ride continues after Steven Mnuchin fails to calm markets
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Niv Elis / The Hill:
Dow has worst Christmas Eve on record, S&P enters bear market
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Ryan Parker / Hollywood Reporter:
Kevin Spacey Charged With Felony Sexual Assault — The actor — who posted a bizarre 'House of Cards'-style video address on Monday — will be arraigned in Massachusetts on Jan. 7. — The Cape and Islands, Massachusetts, district attorney announced Monday that Kevin Spacey will face …
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Matt Rocheleau / BostonGlobe.com:
Actor Kevin Spacey faces criminal complaint in alleged sexual assault at Nantucket bar — Actor Kevin Spacey faces a felony charge for allegedly sexually assaulting the teenage son of former Boston WCVB-TV news anchor Heather Unruh at a Nantucket bar in July 2016, authorities said Monday.
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Andy Campbell / HuffPost:
Kevin Spacey Releases Bizarre Video Monologue Amid Sexual Assault Charge
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Time for G.O.P. to Threaten to Fire Trump — Republican leaders need to mount an intervention. — Up to now I have not favored removing President Trump from office. I felt strongly that it would be best for the country that he leave the way he came in, through the ballot box.
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Manu Raju / CNN:
McCaskill warns Dems about ‘cheap’ rhetoric; says GOP senators privately believe Trump is ‘nuts’ — (CNN)Sen. Claire McCaskill has some advice for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the incoming freshman who has rapidly risen from obscurity to one of the most well-known figures in the Democratic Party: Talk is cheap.
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Benjamin Fearnow / Newsweek:
Lebron James Posts ‘Jewish Money’ Selfie With 21 Savage Rap Lyrics, Angering Conservative Critics — Los Angeles Lakers superstar Lebron James landed himself in a second racially-charged controversy this weekend after posting rap lyrics about “Jewish money.”
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Dave McMenamin / ESPN:
LeBron James apologizes for ‘Jewish money’ Instagram post
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Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters:
Scarborough: ‘Terminal’ Trump Presidency Threatens a Global ‘Pandemic’ — The End is Nigh, take umpteen. . . As we've noted before, the challenge for Morning Joe is to outdo itself in doom-laden declarations about President Trump. By that standard, the show did well this morning.
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘No bottom for Trump’: Disgusted conservative launches epic rant over ouster of Mattis on MSNBC — Conservative commentator Charlie Sykes battered Donald Trump on MSNBC's “Morning Joe,” calling him the “chaos candidate” and stating that there is “no bottom” to his lack of “decency.”
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘Hunker down like a jackass’: Shutdown could drag on for weeks — A large swath of the federal government is shut down — and so are negotiations to reopen it. — President Donald Trump's standoff with Democratic leaders over the border wall dragged into a third day on Monday …
Ed Rogers / Washington Post:
The vice president should be preparing for the worst — One good thing about holding a senior position in government is you get a lot of free advice — which brings me to the choice Vice President Mike Pence is about to make when he chooses a new chief of staff.
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
TSA moving toward floppy-ear airport dog force because pointy-ear dogs ‘scare children’ — The Transportation Security Administration is in the process of swapping out pointy-ear dogs for floppy-ear ones in an effort to put more of the public at ease when interacting with its canines.
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