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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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Daily Kos, Joe.My.God., Associated Press, The Week, Raw Story, Splinter and Bloomberg
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The Constant Spin Zone — How one publication reported Trump's trip to see troops in Iraq. — By The Editorial Board — President Trump and his wife Melania made a surprise visit to American soldiers in Iraq on Wednesday, and you would think that would be a straightforward event to write up.
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Iraqi lawmakers criticize Trump visit as blow to Iraqi sovereignty — BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi political and militia leaders condemned U.S. President Donald Trump's surprise visit to U.S. troops in Iraq on Wednesday as a violation of Iraq's sovereignty, and lawmakers said a meeting between Trump …
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Washington Post, Hill Reporter and Townhall
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Trump Takes a War-Zone Victory Lap—and Trips
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Conservative News Today, The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com
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MSNBC Beats Fox News in Weekly Cable News Ratings for First Time Since 2000 — MSNBC ended the week of Dec. 21st with the #1 cable news ratings on television, beating Fox News for the first time in 17 years. For the Monday through Friday leading up to the Christmas holiday …
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Politico
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MSNBC IS THE #1 CABLE NEWS NETWORK FOR WEEK OF DEC. 17, BEATING FOX NEWS FOR 1ST TIME IN 17 YEARS — MSNBC Dominates Cable News in Sales Day (M-F 6a-2a) with Total Viewers, Finishing #1 for the Week and Topping FOX News for 1st Time Since 2000; MSNBC Also Tops FOX News in A25-54 for 1st Time Since 2001
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Axios, Associated Press and The Week, more at Mediagazer »
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U.S. Stocks Set to Fall After Wall Street's Record Surge — Stocks in Japan rise sharply, but European equities broadly drift lower — U.S. stocks were poised to drop on Thursday after a record-breaking rally on Wall Street, as anxiety persists about slowing economic growth and uncertain policy out of Washington.
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Dow Industrials Leap More Than 1,000 Points
Dow Industrials Leap More Than 1,000 Points
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CNBC, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Townhall and Mediaite
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Michelle Obama Ends Hillary Clinton's Run as Most Admired — WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time in 17 years, a woman other than Hillary Clinton has been named by Americans as the woman they admire most. Former first lady Michelle Obama, who finished second to Clinton three times …
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USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll: What do Democrats want in 2020? Someone new - and Biden. But definitely not Hillary
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The Week and Joe.My.God.
Chris Smith / Vanity Fair:
“Democrats Don't Like to Be Told Who to Vote For”: Obama Has Flirted with Beto and Other Potential …
“Democrats Don't Like to Be Told Who to Vote For”: Obama Has Flirted with Beto and Other Potential …
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End of Government Shutdown May Depend on the Definition of ‘Wall’ — WASHINGTON — With a partial government shutdown stretching past Day 5, the impasse over funding a wall at the southwestern border has highlighted the debate over effective border security, with a breakthrough possibly hinging on a semantic argument: What is a wall?
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When Democrats embraced the ‘Southern Border Fencing Strategy’ — In 2006 Congress passed the Secure Fence Act, which mandated the construction of multilayer pedestrian fencing along about 600 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. It passed with big, bipartisan majorities: 283 votes in the House and 80 in the Senate.
Michael Burke / The Hill:
Trump says he wants to visit border wall before State of the Union
Trump says he wants to visit border wall before State of the Union
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Trump tries to steer shutdown focus to financial impact for Democrats — President Donald Trump seemingly added a new spin to his usual shutdown rhetoric Thursday, tweeting that its economic impact disproportionately falls on Democrats. — “Have the Democrats finally realized …
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Washington Post, Splinter and ABC News
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How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success — With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump—then a floundering D-lister—as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency. — “Expedition: Robinson,” a Swedish reality-television program …
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Homeland Security Chief Faults Parents, ‘Open Border’ Supporters In Migrant Kids' Deaths — Kirstjen Nielsen ordered an overhaul of medical screening procedures at the Mexican border after Felipe Gómez Alonzo, 8, died on Christmas Eve. — Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen …
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Washington Post, Axios and Los Angeles Times
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CNN Decries U.S. Troops in Iraq Who Had Their MAGA Hats Signed by Trump — During President Trump's surprise visit to Al Asad Airbase in Iraq to celebrate Christmas with the U.S. troops there, he rubbed shoulders with America's finest as he took selfies and signed autographs for them.
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Washington Times and Townhall
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Jobless Claims Fall to 216,000, Showing Tight U.S. Labor Market — U.S. filings for unemployment benefits decreased for the third time in four weeks, hovering near an almost five- decade low that reflects a robust job market. — Jobless claims fell by 1,000 to 216,000 in the week ended Dec. 22 …
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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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ABC News, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
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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.
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‘Deportation bus’ candidate reports to jail following indictment — State senator and former Republican gubernatorial candidate Michael Williams turned himself into Hall County jail Wednesday, days after news broke that he had been indicted on charges that included insurance fraud.
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Raw Story
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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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IJR, Talking Points Memo, Splinter, Daily Kos, POLITICUSUSA, Contemptor, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
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$800 Million in Taxpayer Money Went to Private Prisons Where Migrants Work for Pennies — Detention for migrants is big business—and a Daily Beast investigation reveals new details about just how lucrative it's become. — For $3 a day, Yesica works the graveyard shift in the kitchens …
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Sweet Shutdown, Roll On — It never seems to occur to the Democrats, currently bellyaching about the largely phantom “government shutdown,” that the last people Donald Trump cares about offending are the army of Democrat-voting bureaucrats who will be the only folks inconvenienced by Senator Charles Schumer's latest temper tantrum.
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Legal marijuana industry had banner year in 2018 — The last year was a 12-month champagne toast for the legal marijuana industry as the global market exploded and cannabis pushed its way further into the financial and cultural mainstream. — Liberal California became the largest legal U.S. marketplace …
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Trump Imperils the Planet — Endangered species, climate change — the administration is taking the country, and the world, backward. — The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.