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Steve Eder / New York Times:
Did a Queens Podiatrist Help Donald Trump Avoid Vietnam? — In the fall of 1968, Donald J. Trump received a timely diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels that led to his medical exemption from the military during Vietnam. — For 50 years, the details of how the exemption came about …
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Trump Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq to See American Troops — President Trump made his first visit to U.S. troops in a combat zone amid a government shutdown and days after his Pentagon chief resigned. — Iraq is the one theater of war where Mr. Trump has not promised a rapid withdrawal.
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Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
President Donald Trump makes surprise Christmas visit to troops in Iraq in first trip to combat zone — President Donald Trump went to Al Asad Air Base in Iraq on his first visit to U.S. troops in the Middle East as president. — First lady Melania Trump joined him on the unscheduled Wednesday visit.
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Trump in Iraq on first visit to troops in troubled region
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The Daily Beast:
Trump to Troops in Iraq: 'We're No Longer the Suckers, Folks'
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Elyse Perlmutter-Gumbiner / NBC News:
Trump becomes first president since 2002 not to visit troops at Christmastime
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Christian Whiton / Fox News:
After Mattis, Trump needs a very different kind of defense secretary
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Washington Post:
Trump makes unannounced visit to Iraq a week after announcing a victory over the Islamic State
Wesley Morgan / Politico:
Trump makes first trip to Iraq as president
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Mark Maremont / Wall Street Journal:
Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker Incorrectly Claims Academic All-American Honors — Claim from Whitaker's University of Iowa football days listed on résumé and government documents — Matthew Whitaker, the acting U.S. Attorney General, has incorrectly claimed …
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Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
WSJ: Whitaker Fudged Academic Honors On Resume, Gov Documents — Acting Attorney General and former hot tub salesman Matthew Whitaker claimed he earned “All-American” academic honors during his University of Iowa football days on his resume and on government applications …
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Federal workforce starts to feel pinch of prolonged shutdown — The partial government shutdown entered its fifth day Wednesday with no signs of a breakthrough and hundreds of thousands of federal workers about to feel the pinch of a protracted standoff. — President Donald Trump …
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
C-SPAN caller: I support Trump's shutdown because 'it's getting us closer' to the second coming of Jesus
Annie Grayer / CNN:
Mark Meadows says Trump is still ‘very firm’ on the wall as shutdown drags on
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Michael Burke / The Hill:
Trump says he wants to visit border wall before State of the Union
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Mariam Khan / ABC News:
Negotiations to end partial government shutdown at a standstill
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Garrett Ross / Politico:
Trump says he will do ‘whatever it takes’ to secure funding for border wall
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James LaPorta / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Twitter Account Video Reveals Covert U.S. Navy SEAL Deployment During Iraq Visit — President Donald Trump and the White House communications team revealed that a U.S. Navy SEAL team was deployed to Iraq after the president secretly traveled to the region to meet …
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CNBC:
Dow gives back 282-point gain as Wall Street's wild ride continues — Stocks rose sharply in volatile trading on Wednesday as surges in retail and energy shares helped Wall Street regain the steep losses suffered in the previous session. — The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 657 points higher …
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Thomas Heath / Washington Post:
Dow Jones industrial average rises over 2 percent as U.S. stock markets try to recover from worst Christmas Eve in history — The Dow Jones industrial average rolled past a 600-point gain Wednesday afternoon, nearly 3 percent, as markets attempted to recover from the worst Christmas Eve plunge in history.
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Bad headlines for Trump also means ratings slump for Hannity — NEW YORK (AP) — The drumbeat of bad news for President Donald Trump hasn't been good for his most prominent backer in the media. — While Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity will end 2018 as cable news' most popular personality …
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
MSNBC Beats Fox News in Weekly Cable News Ratings for First Time Since 2000
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David Beavers / Politico:
Nielsen deflects blame for boy's death in Border Patrol custody — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen sought to deflect blame Wednesday for the Christmas Eve death of an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy in the custody of U.S. Border Patrol agents, blaming “a system that prevents parents …
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Max Read / New York Magazine:
How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually. — In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered.
Audrey McNamara / The Daily Beast:
Russia Warns United States: Don't Interfere in Saudi Royal Succession — Russia has warned the U.S. against any attempts to influence Saudi Arabia's royal succession, and offered its official support to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The prince is under international pressure …
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
How Trump gave away his secret war zone trip — The tweets stopped and soon the jig was up. — President Donald Trump's trip to Iraq this week, his first to a war zone as president, was supposed to be a surprise. But the White House couldn't keep the sensitive trip a secret for long.
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Daily Mail:
Ivanka Trump wears a summer dress and a bizarre full straw visor hat — Ivanka Trump rang in the holiday on Tuesday by heading out for a stroll near her family's Palm Beach, Florida estate on Christmas Day with husband Jared Kushner.
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Washington Post:
Internet billionaire Reid Hoffman apologizes for funding a group behind disinformation in Alabama race — Internet billionaire Reid Hoffman apologized on Wednesday for funding a group linked to a “highly disturbing” effort that spread disinformation during last year's Alabama special election …
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Adam Skolnick / New York Times:
Colin O'Brady Completes Crossing of Antarctica With Final 32-Hour Push — The final miles of a nearly two-month race across Antarctica — a lonely effort marked by long days, short nights and stunning endurance — ended Wednesday with a sprint to the finish.
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
The Path to the Presidency Could Be Harder for White Democrats in 2020 — Before Barack Obama's election in 2008, the relationship between white racial views and partisanship wasn't as clear-cut as one might think. Yes, Republicans won the large majority of white voters who believed black disadvantage …
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Angie Leventis Lourgos / Chicago Tribune:
As national Women's March leaders face claims of anti-Semitism, Chicago group says it won't host January march, citing costs — Women's March Inc. co-President Tamika Mallory, shown in 2017, has praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on social media.
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