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11:10 AM ET, January 6, 2019

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Boris Sanchez / CNN:
Trump inclined to declare national emergency if talks continue to stall  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump is inclined to declare a national emergency to secure military funding for his long-promised southern border wall if talks between administration officials and top lawmakers from both parties continue …
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Axios:
Inside Trump's fake news recidivism  —  With the departure of White House chief of staff John Kelly, the misinformation emanating from President Trump has only escalated.  —  What's happening: Alumni of this White House see a possible reason.  Although Kelly was thwarted in many of his efforts …
Discussion: Contemptor
Mike Allen / Axios:
Axios AM  —  Subscribe  —  Good Sunday morning.  I hope you'll sign up for two newsletters we're launching tomorrow morning, written by new in-house experts: Axios Markets and Axios Sports.  —  1 big thing: Inside Trump's fake news recidivism  —  With the departure of White House chief …
Times Argus:
Don't run  —  That is an unfavorable opinion, especially among most Vermonters and progressives who support the platform that has come to define him.  But at this point, there are more things about another Sanders run at the White House that concern us than excite us.
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Mulvaney: Trump would build “steel fence” as concession to Democrats  —  Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney told Chuck Todd on NBC's “Meet the Press” Sunday that President Trump would be willing to “give up a concrete wall, replace it with a steel fence” at the U.S.-Mexico border …
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump: I'm nearing decision on emergency declaration to build wall  —  President Donald Trump again threatened Sunday to declare a national emergency as a means to construct his proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, saying he would first gauge the results of upcoming negotiations to end …
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Trump aide: Syria withdrawal waiting on ‘conditions’  —  JERUSALEM (AP) — President Donald Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, said Sunday that the U.S. military withdrawal from northeastern Syria is conditioned on defeating the remnants of the Islamic State group …
Discussion: Political Wire, The Week and NBC News
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Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:
Bolton Says U.S. Withdrawal From Syria Is Conditional  —  National security adviser said the withdrawal is pending assurances that Turkey will protect America's Kurdish allies  —  JERUSALEM—The Trump administration won't withdraw U.S. forces from northern Syria unless Turkey offers …
Carol E. Lee / NBC News:
No Syria withdrawal without Turkish pledge not to attack Kurds, Bolton says
Discussion: The Week
Jerusalem Post:   U.S. ambassador to Israel: Trump's peace plan delayed ‘for several months’
Margaret Talev / Bloomberg:   U.S. to Protect Kurds From Turks in Syria Exit, Bolton Says
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Warren regains footing in Iowa blitz  —  DES MOINES, IOWA — Just two months ago, Sen. Elizabeth Warren risked political backlash here by opting to avoid a trip to Iowa during the critical midterm elections — the only major potential 2020 candidate to do so.
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Washington Post:
Iowa Democrats fill events to the rafters with 13 months left before the 2020 caucuses
Discussion: Althouse and ABC News
Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Warren tests anti-corruption theme to cheers in Iowa debut
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Elizabeth Warren talks Trump in Iowa: 'I can't stop him from hurling racial insults'
Discussion: Breitbart
New York Times:
The Border Wall: How a Potent Symbol Is Now Boxing Trump In  —  WASHINGTON — Before it became the chief sticking point in a government shutdown drama that threatens to consume his presidency at a critical moment, President Trump's promise to build a wall on the southwestern border was a memory trick for an undisciplined candidate.
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Denise Lu / New York Times:   The Border Wall: What Has Trump Built So Far?
Laura Kayali / Politico:
Theresa May urges MPs to back Brexit deal ahead of perilous vote  —  U.K. prime minister Theresa May used a television and print media blitz Sunday to reject calls for the second referendum on Britain's EU membership.  —  May urged members of parliament to back the Brexit deal she negotiated …
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Ryan Heath / Politico:
UK Labour support to crash if it supports Brexit: poll
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Democrats keep proving how detached they are from reality  —  In its common definition, the job of president of the United States is to deliver peace and prosperity.  Donald Trump is doing well on both fronts, so let's impeach the bastard!  —  As insane as it sounds, that and only that is what many Democrats have in mind.
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Donald Trump is less popular than Nancy Pelosi for the first time during his presidency
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Reuters:   No breakthrough in U.S. shutdown talks, Pelosi plans new legislation
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Economics of Soaking the Rich  —  What does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know about tax policy?  A lot.  —  I have no idea how well Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will perform as a member of Congress.  But her election is already serving a valuable purpose.  You see, the mere thought of having a young …
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Matt Bruenig / People's Policy Project:
Sweden Has a 70 Percent Tax Rate and It Is Fine
Discussion: Washington Post
Grace Wyler / BuzzFeed News:
A Man Has Been Arrested And Charged With The Fatal Shooting Of 7-Year-Old Jazmine Barnes  —  A suspect was arrested and charged Saturday with capital murder over the fatal shooting of seven-year-old Jazmine Barnes, who was killed as she was riding in a car with her family in what police described …
Discussion: CNN, NPR and WPIX 11 New York
ABC:
Saudi woman seeking asylum in Australia ‘detained in Bangkok airport’  —  An 18-year-old Saudi woman on her way to seek asylum in Australia is being held in an airport hotel in Bangkok, and says her family will kill her if she is forced back to Saudi Arabia.
Discussion: BBC and Breitbart
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:
Trump Has Promised to Bring Jobs Back.  His Tariffs Threaten to Send Them Away.  —  HOLLAND, Mich. — Plants in every direction shut down and moved their operations to Mexico, succumbing to the relentless pressure to cut costs in an age of globalization.  Not EBW Electronics.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jack Bohrer / NBC News:
‘It is a pleasure to blog with you’: Elizabeth Warren's early years online  —  When a bankruptcy reform bill that contained favorable terms for the credit industry was moving through Congress in early 2005, Warren logged on.  —  Long before Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. …
Discussion: The Atlantic
Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
Vulnerable Republicans seek distance from Trump in new Congress  —  A handful of Republicans who face tough re-elections have bucked their party's leadership on the government shutdown.  —  WASHINGTON — While President Donald Trump adjusts to life with a Democratic-led House …
 
 
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Bruce Ackerman / New York Times:
No, Trump Cannot Declare an ‘Emergency’ to Build His Wall
Asher Schechter / promarket.org:
“It's Crucial to Break Up Facebook”
Langston Taylor / miamiherald:
Most ex-felons can register to vote Tuesday if all terms of their sentence are met
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Harold Brown, Defense Secretary in Carter Administration, Dies at 91
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Why the world should be paying attention to Putin's plans for Belarus
Reuters:
Iran plans naval drills with Russia in Caspian Sea
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Biden: Rush Limbaugh and the ‘conservative blonde woman’ to blame for shutdown
Discussion: Townhall and twitchy.com
Michael Wear / Washington Post:
Rashida Tlaib's profanity about Trump is wrong — it harms the Democratic Party's policy and political objectives
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
Our privacy regime is broken. Congress needs to create new norms for a digital age.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Pentagon chief of staff Kevin Sweeney resigns
Discussion: Raw Story
RFE / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Bartholomew Signs ‘Tomos’ Granting Independence To New Orthodox Church In Ukraine
Associated Press:
Shutdown spares federal park rangers at site in Trump hotel
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The People vs. Donald J. Trump
David Badash / Raw Story:
Trump administration did not understand chaos they would create before president shut it down: report
Discussion: Splinter and Vox
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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