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3:45 PM ET, December 30, 2018

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Molly O'Toole / Los Angeles Times:
Outgoing White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly defends his rocky tenure … In August 2017, shortly after John F. Kelly became White House chief of staff, he convened crucial meetings on Afghanistan at President Trump's golf club in Bedminster, N.J.  —  Top officials from the Pentagon and the CIA …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Kelly, on His Way Out, Says Administration Long Ago Abandoned Idea of Concrete Wall  —  The concrete border wall that President Trump has repeatedly called for as a signature campaign promise is not actually a wall and has not been since “early on in the administration,” …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and Mediaite
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
John Kelly: judge me on what Trump didn't do while I was chief of staff
Holly Rosenkrantz / CBS News:
Kelly says Sessions “surprised” White House with child separation policy
Discussion: CNN, Politico and POLITICUSUSA
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
John Kelly paints yet another dim portrait of Trump
Discussion: Mediaite
Roey Hadar / ABC News:
Retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal: President Donald Trump immoral, doesn't tell the truth  —  The former top commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan, retired four-star Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, criticized President Donald Trump's behavior and handling of the presidency …
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Former U.S. commander calls Trump dishonest and immoral  —  Retired Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, sharply criticized President Trump on Sunday, calling him immoral and untruthful and taking aim at his foreign policy decisions.
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Sen. Graham Floats Temporary DACA Permits Deal For Wall Funding  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) floated the idea of a compromise deal to end the government shutdown on Sunday, proposing an extension of work permits for “Dreamers” who entered the country illegally as children in exchange …
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David Cohen / Politico:
Graham sees potential for deal to end shutdown  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday on CNN that a compromise on border security that “might save the day in the Senate” is possible in the Senate.  —  “At the end of the day, there's a deal to be had,” he said to “State of the Union” …
Discussion: Washington Post and Breitbart
David Cohen / Politico:
McAuliffe says Democrats shouldn't ‘give an inch’
Discussion: Breitbart
Los Angeles Times:
Here's how Paradise ignored warnings and became a deathtrap … The fate of Paradise was cast long before a windstorm last month fueled the deadliest fire in California history.  —  The ridge settlement was doomed by its proximity to a crack in the mighty wall of the Sierra Nevada, a deep canyon that bellowed gale-force winds.
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CNN:
California's largest utility provider could face murder charges for wildfires, AG says
Discussion: KTLA
Associated Press:
Computer virus hits Tribune Publishing, Los Angeles Times  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A computer virus hit newspaper printing plants in Los Angeles and at Tribune Publishing newspapers across the country.  —  Tribune Publishing said a computer virus disrupted production of the Chicago Tribune …
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Los Angeles Times:
Foreign cyberattack hits newspapers: Here is what we know
Discussion: Deadline
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Stephen Miller steps into spotlight amid chaos in ‘zombie’ White House press shop  —  WASHINGTON — In recent weeks, the White House has been shaken by an ongoing government shutdown, tumbling markets and the abrupt departure of Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.  With
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Bart Jansen / USA Today:
Trump's tweets: Judges in government secrecy cases say they are ‘speculation’ and not ‘pure fact’  —  “Speculation.”  “Unofficial information.”  “Political statements rather than assertions of pure fact.”  —  Those are words federal judges have used to describe President Donald Trump's tweets …
Kevin D. Williamson / New York Post:
These two Democratic senators are waging a bigoted campaign against Catholics … Funny who is an “extremist” these days.  —  Senators Kamala Harris and Mazie Hirono (Democrats of California and Hawaii, respectively) are challenging the nomination of Brian Buescher to the US District Court …
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Jeffries: Trump's border wall request ‘a ransom note’  —  President Donald Trump's demand for billions of dollars to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border amounts to a “ransom note” for taxpayers being held “hostage” by the partial government shutdown, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Sunday.
Discussion: Breitbart
Nylah Burton / New York Magazine:
Alice Walker's Terrible Anti-Semitic Poem Felt Personal — to Her and to Me  —  When I first read Alice Walker's The Color Purple, I leaned into every word, inhaling Celie's tragic and triumphant story.  In Celie, I felt the presence and pain of my female family members brought up in rural Alabama.
Mary Jo Pitzl / Arizona Republic:
Videos: Migrant children dragged, pushed at Southwest Key shelter  —  Videos from a Southwest Key shelter for migrant children show staffers dragging and pushing children, incidents that occurred shortly before the federal government suspended the shelter's operations early this fall.
Discussion: Splinter
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Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill:   Video shows migrant children dragged, pushed at since-shuttered shelter
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
A year of unprecedented deception: Trump averaged 15 false claims a day in 2018  —  President Trump's year of lies, false statements and misleading claims started with a series of morning tweets.  —  Over a couple of hours Jan. 2, Trump made false claims about three of his favorite targets …
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
The Real Reason Why Some Bernie Sanders Fans Have It In For Beto O'Rourke  —  They worry that defections from Sanders' 2016 team will “whitewash” O'Rourke's policy record.  —  The progressive commentariat has been buzzing in recent weeks about the barrage of unflattering reporting …
Joe Marusak / The Charlotte Observer:
Facebook apologizes for banning evangelist Franklin Graham for 24 hours  —  Facebook is apologizing to evangelist Franklin Graham for banning him from posting on the site for 24 hours last week, a Facebook spokesperson told The Charlotte Observer on Saturday.
George Packer / The Atlantic:
No Peace for Them and No Honor for Us  —  Nothing in the presidency of Donald Trump combines tragedy and farce so perfectly as his decision to withdraw the 2,000 American troops in Syria.  —  “We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency,” he tweeted on the morning of December 19.
S.M. / The Economist:
The Supreme Court's term is likely to heat up in 2019  —  The justices are about to consider a number of Donald Trump's most controversial policies  —  IT HAS been a fairly quiet few months at the Supreme Court.  Since early October, the justices have heard 32 oral arguments in mostly tame cases …
Discussion: Axios
 
 
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The Times of Israel:
French hero who saved hundreds of Jewish children dies aged 108
Associated Press:
Journalist group counts 94 slayings of media staff in 2018
Discussion: Axios
Washington Post:
A once-proud franchise, the Redskins are showing signs of foundational cracks
Associated Press:
Trump blames Democrats for deaths of 2 children at border
Discussion: CNN, KTLA and WSVN-TV
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
The U.S. put a Yemeni warlord on a terrorist list. One of its close allies is still arming him.
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Susannah Cullinane / CNN:
California limits pet store sales of cats, dogs and rabbits to rescue or shelter animals only
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Vladimir Soldatkin / Reuters:
Putin tells Trump that Moscow is open for dialogue
Shannon Vavra / Axios:
Lindsey Graham to tell Trump to reconsider Syria decision
Discussion: Politico
 Earlier Items: 
David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
A Day, a Life: When a Medic Was Killed in Gaza, Was It an Accident?
Marlene Lenthang / Daily Mail:
‘F**k your president!’ …
Discussion: RedState and Daily Wire
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump's tweets on children dying in U.S. custody are a new low
Discussion: HuffPost, Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Ben Geman / Axios:
Climate change gets a network's spotlight
Kamala D. Harris / New York Times:
Everyone Gets Sick. And We Deserve Better.
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Fears of Republican Power Grab in Michigan Fade as Governor Vetoes Bill
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Trump Lies Again About 19,000 ‘Deleted’ FBI Text Messages
Discussion: Townhall, emptywheel and swampdrain.com
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Taxpayers Dish Out $54,000 For Mar-a-Lago Party Tents For New Year's Eve
Discussion: ThinkProgress