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8:35 AM ET, December 26, 2018

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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Shutdown standoff continues  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN ... DAY 5.  WE ANTICIPATE that talks to end the government shutdown will pick up a smidge.  The White House may chat with the congressional leadership and some offers may be swapped beginning today.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Hannah Alani / Post and Courier:
Do a ‘marginal’ number of 7-year-olds believe in Santa?  That's what Trump told a SC girl.  —  Collman Lloyd, 7, talks to President Donald Trump on Christmas Eve inside her Lexington kitchen.  Trump asked Lloyd if she still believed in Santa.  “Yes, sir,” she replied.  Erica Lloyd/Provided
CNN:
Trump's frustration with Mnuchin rising after failed attempt to calm markets, source says  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's frustration with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is ratcheting up further after markets suffered their worst Christmas Eve drop ever following Mnuchin's attempts …
Discussion: Washington Post, The Week and Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
As Market Rout Continues, Trump Stands Firm on Fed, Border Wall  —  President criticizes central bank's rate increases, extends stalemate over border-wall funding; aides consider meeting with Powell  —  President Trump criticized Federal Reserve interest-rate increases and said on Tuesday …
Discussion: Reuters
Deirdre Shesgreen / USA Today:
President Trump tells 7-year-old child it's ‘marginal’ to still believe in Santa Claus
Discussion: RedState, NPR, New York Times and alicublog
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 …
Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
CBP orders medical checks after second child's death  —  HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection ordered medical checks on every child in its custody Tuesday after an 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died, marking the second death of an immigrant child in the agency's care this month.
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Associated Press:
US says 2nd Guatemalan child dies in immigration custody
Discussion: Mediaite
Lenny Bernstein / Washington Post:
An 8-year-old migrant has died in U.S. custody on Christmas Day
Discussion: CBS News and RedState
Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN:
8-year-old Guatemalan boy dies in US custody on Christmas
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Daniella Silva / NBC News:   Guatemalan boy, 8, dies in immigration custody after being diagnosed with a cold
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Black Voters, a Force in Democratic Politics, Are Ready to Make Themselves Heard  —  BALTIMORE — The first “Amen!” rang out after a couple of minutes, as Senator Elizabeth Warren, speaking to an almost all-black audience at Morgan State University's winter commencement, described how America has …
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Brown seeks Obama meeting as he considers presidential run  —  Sen. Sherrod Brown hasn't decided whether he's running for president — but he's checking off a lot of the boxes that come along the way.  —  The Ohio Democrat is reaching out to fellow senators and party officials in early primary and caucus states.
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
I thought fraud in reporting was done for.  I was wrong.  —  Nearly 30 years ago, the Cold War's end opened Germany's border to the formerly Soviet-dominated east.  Asylum seekers from poor and war-torn nations poured across it.  A violent backlash from ultra-right-wing Germans ensued.
Elyse Perlmutter-Gumbiner / NBC News:
Trump becomes first president since 2002 not to visit troops at Christmastime  —  Though he called military personnel on Tuesday, Trump did not visit a hospital or a military base.  —  On Christmas Day, President Donald Trump took part in a long-running practice of presidents …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Mirror.co.uk:
Queen's speech in front of lavish gold piano blasted for being ‘out of touch’  —  Queen Elizabeth referred to Brexit in her Christmas day message as she sat beside a golden piano  —  The Queen's Christmas Day speech has been slammed on social media for being “out of touch” and disrespectful to families “struggling to make ends meet”.
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Mattis works from Pentagon on Christmas, tells troops: ‘You hold the line’  —  Defense Secretary James Mattis wished U.S. troops a merry Christmas and worked Christmas Day after President Trump pushed the secretary out two months earlier than he planned to resign.
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The Seattle Times:   Richland native Jim Mattis has ‘no anger’ after Trump forces him out early, brother says
Ilya Arkhipov / Bloomberg:
Russia Considers Constitution Changes as Putin Faces Term Limits  — Speaker of parliament suggests discussing amendments  — Analysts see Kremlin effort to allow Putin to extend rule  —  The speaker of Russia's parliament raised the possibility of changing the constitution …
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Selling Real Estate in Russia?  Are You Crazy?  —  MOSCOW — Elena Y. Kotova's one-room apartment on the outskirts of Moscow had started to feel cramped.  Her son was almost 4 years old.  She and her husband had solid jobs, she as an economist and he as a manager of a construction company.
 
 
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New York Times:
Arms Sales to Saudis Leave American Fingerprints on Yemen's Carnage
Discussion: Jewish Policy Center
Newsweek:
Hezbollah leaders targeted, reportedly hit in Israeli airstrike, U.S. official says
 Earlier Items: 
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Trump is incompetent, impulsive and amoral. Heaven help us all.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Why the Trump presidency will end poorly
Discussion: Mediaite and Joe.My.God.
Julián Aguilar / The Texas Tribune:
ICE dumps hundreds of migrants with nowhere to go at a bus station on eve of Christmas without warning shelters