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Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney's op-ed crystallizes all the reasons the old GOP establishment has been pushed aside — Henry Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and author of “The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism.”
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John F. Harris / Politico:
Why Guys Like Mitt Romney Don't Scare Donald Trump — He has tried to be reasonable, tried to be patient. But Mitt Romney, with an earnest sigh, says he's arrived reluctantly at a moment of unavoidable judgment: Donald Trump has bad character. — Disrespectful. Divisive. Erratic. Yuck.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Romney asserts his independence — and Trump's GOP critics see an opening
Romney asserts his independence — and Trump's GOP critics see an opening
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Romney's attack prompts call to protect Trump from 2020 primary challenger
Romney's attack prompts call to protect Trump from 2020 primary challenger
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Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Mitt Romney Is the Most Dangerous Man in Trump's City of Lackeys
Mitt Romney Is the Most Dangerous Man in Trump's City of Lackeys
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Romney broadside stokes Trump camp's suspicions about 2020
Romney broadside stokes Trump camp's suspicions about 2020
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Sophie Tatum / CNN:
Romney on op-ed: I wanted to make it ‘very clear where I stand’
Romney on op-ed: I wanted to make it ‘very clear where I stand’
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CNN:
Source: Trump tells Schumer he can't accept Dems' offer because he'd ‘look foolish’ — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump told a group of lawmakers he can't accept Democrats' offer to re-open the government as the two sides negotiate border wall funding because he “would look foolish if I did that …
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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed News:
Trump's Allies Want Him To Keep The Government Shut Down
Trump's Allies Want Him To Keep The Government Shut Down
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New York Times:
Trump and Democrats Dig In After Talks to Reopen Government Go Nowhere
Trump and Democrats Dig In After Talks to Reopen Government Go Nowhere
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump doesn't understand his leverage is gone
Trump doesn't understand his leverage is gone
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
GOP congressman will support Democratic rules, says he may face ‘consequences’ for it — A Republican lawmaker said Wednesday he will vote for a set of House rule changes drafted by the incoming Democratic leadership — a rare move for what is typically a strict party-line vote and one …
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Susan Davis / NPR:
Democrats Unveil Changes To House Rules On Debt Ceiling, Ethics
Democrats Unveil Changes To House Rules On Debt Ceiling, Ethics
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Liberal revolt threatens to derail House Democrats on their first day in charge
Liberal revolt threatens to derail House Democrats on their first day in charge
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's bizarre history lesson on the Soviet Union, Russia and Afghanistan … President Trump said a lot of strange, untrue things after Wednesday's Cabinet meeting. But the most bizarre snippet might have been his “history” lesson on the Soviet Union. — Trump, who has assured us …
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Jennifer Yachnin / E&E News:
Old Post Office Tower at Trump hotel to open during shutdown — Want access to the top energy and environment news? — Sign up for a free trial! — Enter your email to register or log in. — By signing up, you agree to receive E&E News email updates and offers.
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Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Old Post Office Tower on Trump property to reopen during shutdown with federal funding — The Old Post Office Tower, which shares facilities with the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., will reopen by the end of the week after being closed due to the partial government shutdown.
New York Times:
For Bernie Sanders, Claims of Sexism in 2016 Campaign Hang Over 2020 Bid — In February 2016, Giulianna Di Lauro, a Latino outreach strategist for Senator Bernie Sanders's presidential operation, complained to her supervisor that she had been harassed by a campaign surrogate whom she drove …
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Business Wire:
Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors — CUPERTINO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Apple® today issued the following public letter to investors: — To Apple investors: — Today we are revising our guidance for Apple's fiscal 2019 first quarter, which ended on December 29. We now expect the following:
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Devorah Blachor / McSweeney's:
I Don't Hate Women Candidates — I Just Hated Hillary and Coincidentally I'm Starting to Hate Elizabeth Warren — “How does Warren avoid a Clinton redux — written off as too unlikable before her campaign gets off the ground?” — Politico, 12/31/18 — I have no problem with women.
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Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Harry Reid Has a Few Words for Washington — The former Senate majority leader on President Trump and Senator Chuck Schumer, and on why he doesn't regret ending the filibuster for judicial appointments. — Early on the afternoon of Dec. 11, about an hour after an Oval Office meeting between President Trump …
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Mauricio Savarese / CTVNews:
Brazil's Bolsonaro targets LGBT people, Indigenous groups on 1st day in office — SAO PAULO — Newly installed President Jair Bolsonaro targeted Brazil's indigenous groups, descendants of slaves and the LGBT community with executive orders in the first hours of his administration …
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Pelosi has a message for Trump: ‘Nothing for the wall’ — “We can go through the back and forth,” the incoming House speaker told NBC News in an exclusive interview. “No. How many more times can we say no?” — Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi told NBC's “Today” show in an interview set …
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Lauren Fox / CNN:
Democrats to ask for 10 years of presidential tax returns in new bill — Fact Check: Trump's false tax return claims — (CNN)Democrats are making presidential tax returns a focal point in one of their first pieces of legislation, an effort to build the case to the American people …
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Alan J. Steinberg / New Jersey Online:
Ex-Bush and Whitman adviser: Trump won't be impeached, but he will leave the presidency in 2019 — The major issue for political pundits regarding 2019 is whether Donald Trump's presidency will survive the year leading into the 2020 elections. Their focus is on the likelihood as to whether Trump …
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
He lures alleged child predators and shames them on Facebook. Now one of his targets is dead. — Shane Erdmann started the online vigilante operation POPSquad, one of many similar groups tapping into a hunger for vengeance. — On a cool evening in October, Alain Malcolm, 20 …
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
EXCLUSIVE: PHOTOS of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or “Sandy” as She Was Known at Her Elite High School in Yorktown — NOT in the Bronx — Congresswoman elect Democrat-Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grew up and attended school in affluent Westchester, New York but likes to pretend like she grew up in the Bronx.
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Blackburn, Ernst become first GOP women to serve on Senate Judiciary — Freshman Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa will become the first Republican women to serve on the Judiciary Committee when the new Congress is seated this week, according to a roster obtained …
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Benny Johnson / The Daily Caller:
CNN Asks Brother Of Detained American About His Anti-CNN Posts On Social Media — A CNN anchor asked the brother of a detained American about his anti-CNN social media posts in an interview Wednesday morning. — Forty-eight-year-old Michigan businessman and ex-Marine, Paul Whelan …
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John Solomon / The Hill:
Exculpatory Russia evidence about Mike Flynn that US intel kept secret — Sometimes public silence can be deafening or, for that matter, misleading. — For nearly two years now, the intelligence community has kept secret evidence in the Russia collusion case that directly undercuts …
Marcia Dunn / Associated Press:
NASA: Icy object past Pluto looks like reddish snowman — LAUREL, Md. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman.
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Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
Former NY Times editor rips Trump coverage as biased — President Trump appears content to ride out partial government shutdown stalemate over border security funding — A former executive editor of the New York Times says the paper's news pages, the home of its straight-news coverage, have become “unmistakably anti-Trump.”
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
GOP congressional candidate says he will ask N.C. court to certify his victory as election officials delay fraud hearing — The still-unresolved race in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District was thrown into further turmoil Wednesday as state election officials delayed a hearing …
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