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Reuters:
Exclusive: Foxconn reconsidering plans to make LCD panels at Wisconsin plant — (Reuters) - Foxconn Technology Group is reconsidering plans to make advanced liquid crystal display panels at a $10 billion Wisconsin campus, and said it intends to hire mostly engineers and researchers rather …
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Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
Foxconn's plan for a giant Wisconsin factory now looks uncertain
Foxconn's plan for a giant Wisconsin factory now looks uncertain
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The Verge
The Daily Beast:
Mueller Witness' Team Gamed Out Russian Meddling ... in 2015 — One former analyst at the Wikistrat consulting firm called it “disturbing.” — Days after Donald Trump rode down an escalator at Trump Tower and announced he'd run for president, a little-known consulting firm with links …
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Talking Points Memo and The New Civil Rights Movement
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Medicare-for-All trap — Most issues will strongly favor the Democrats in 2020. Taking away people's health insurance is an exception. — A couple of weeks ago, one of the country's most respected health care pollsters — Kaiser Family Foundation — conducted a survey on “Medicare for All.”
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CNN:
Kamala Harris is open to compromise on private insurers' role during ‘Medicare for all’ push — Kamala Harris backs ‘Medicare-for-all’ plan — (CNN)By stating she would eliminate private insurers as a necessary part of implementing “Medicare-for-all,” California Sen. Kamala Harris during …
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Is There Room in 2020 for a Centrist Democrat? Maybe One or Two.
Is There Room in 2020 for a Centrist Democrat? Maybe One or Two.
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CNN, Outside the Beltway, Washington Post, Vox and Daily Wire
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The media feel safest in the middle lane. Just ask Jeff Flake, John Kasich and Howard Schultz. — One of supposed golden rules of journalism goes like this: “If everybody's mad at your coverage, you must be doing a good job.” — That's ridiculous, of course, though it seems comforting.
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Axios:
Livid liberals try to bully Schultz out of 2020
Livid liberals try to bully Schultz out of 2020
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Splinter, The Daily Beast, Business Insider, RedState, Raw Story and Mediaite
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Morning Joe Asks Howard Schultz How Much a Box of Cheerios Costs. He Does Not Know.
Morning Joe Asks Howard Schultz How Much a Box of Cheerios Costs. He Does Not Know.
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Hot Air and The Daily Beast
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Howard Schultz's presidential ambitions spurred a months-long effort to disrupt the 2020 race
Howard Schultz's presidential ambitions spurred a months-long effort to disrupt the 2020 race
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Breitbart and The Daily Beast
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
No GOP appetite for a second shutdown — Senate Republicans are signaling they will do just about anything to prevent a second shutdown after the White House was widely seen as badly losing the political fight over the closure that ended with President Trump's retreat on Friday.
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Raw Story, Daily Kos and Political Wire
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Big border deal fades before talks even begin
Big border deal fades before talks even begin
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and Political Wire
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Voters oppose another shutdown, emergency declaration — Voters have little appetite for another government shutdown if Congress does not approve money to build President Donald Trump's proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's latest rage tweets give Democrats an opening. Here's how they'll respond.
Trump's latest rage tweets give Democrats an opening. Here's how they'll respond.
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Raw Story, Breitbart, Chicks On The Right and Washington Examiner
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump digs in on border-wall funds as congressional negotiators prepare to convene
Trump digs in on border-wall funds as congressional negotiators prepare to convene
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Politico, Bloomberg, NPR and thenationalsentinel.com
Peter Baker / New York Times:
A Growing Chorus of Republican Critics for Trump's Foreign Policy — WASHINGTON — They think pulling out of Syria and Afghanistan would be a debacle. They think North Korea cannot be trusted. They think the Islamic State is still a threat to America. They think Russia is bad and NATO is good.
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Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller and The Week
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Roger Stone faces a gag order. He has a plan to resist it. — Roger Stone has long feared he would be slapped with a gag order if he got indicted — and he's readied a plan to make sure he won't have to stay silent. — The federal judge in Stone's case, Amy Berman Jackson …
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Barbara McQuade / The Daily Beast:
Why Is Mueller Hiding Who Ultimately ‘Directed’ Roger Stone to Contact WikiLeaks?
Why Is Mueller Hiding Who Ultimately ‘Directed’ Roger Stone to Contact WikiLeaks?
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The Daily Caller, Hullabaloo and Just Security
Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Roger Stone raid shows that CNN is no longer covering Robert Mueller. They're working with him
Roger Stone raid shows that CNN is no longer covering Robert Mueller. They're working with him
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Power Line
Kayla Tausche / CNBC:
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is charging a whopping $200,000 per speaking gig — Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is currently quoting $200,000 and the use of a private jet for domestic speaking engagements, according to five people with knowledge of the arrangement.
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Political Wire
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Cliff Sims Is Proud to Have Served Trump — In August, 2016, Cliff Sims, the C.E.O. of an Alabama-based conservative news site, joined the Trump campaign. He then followed Trump to the White House, where he worked as the special assistant to the President and as the director …
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Why Trump's superfans dig Ocasio-Cortez — They detest what she stands for. They think her policies would destroy the country. And they wish she would just go away. — All the same, many of President Donald Trump's most media-conscious supporters can't help but admit it: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has got serious political game.
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Talking Points Memo and Jezebel
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Billy House / Bloomberg:
GOP Lawmaker Tells Ocasio-Cortez Congress Isn't Just ‘Eating Bonbons’
GOP Lawmaker Tells Ocasio-Cortez Congress Isn't Just ‘Eating Bonbons’
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Raw Story
Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Beto O'Rourke Weighs Presidential Campaign From an Unusual Position: Front Runner — Beto O'Rourke has run for office in the past by painting incumbents as out of touch with constituents. That message may have to change if he gets into the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential primary.
Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
Chris Christie rips Kushner's dad: ‘One of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted’ — Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie took several shots at White House senior adviser Jared Kushner in his new book “Let Me Finish,” alleging that in an act of spite …
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CNN, New York Times, Politico, The Week, Towleroad Gay News, Joe.My.God., Raw Story and Mediaite
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Republican Favorability Down; Views of Democrats Steady — WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the longest government shutdown in U.S. history came to an end, Gallup polling suggests that the Republican Party's image has suffered more than the Democratic Party's. The GOP's favorability rating fell to 37% from 45% in September.
Reuters:
Special Report: Inside the UAE's secret hacking team of U.S. mercenaries — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two weeks after leaving her position as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. National Security Agency in 2014, Lori Stroud was in the Middle East working as a hacker for an Arab monarchy.
Ryan Crocker / Washington Post:
I was ambassador to Afghanistan. This deal is a surrender. — Ryan Crocker is diplomat in residence at Princeton University and a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait and Lebanon. — January 2002. I arrive in Kabul to reopen the U.S. Embassy. Destruction is everywhere.
Arizona Republic:
Phoenix restaurant says this is a photo of coal miners. But I see offensive blackface — Opinion: Who determines what's offensive? A photo in a downtown Phoenix restaurant raises this key question. — CONNECT — A few weeks ago, I attended a holiday party at a downtown Phoenix restaurant.
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Chicks On The Right, No More Mister Nice Blog, Instapundit, Front Page Magazine and The Resurgent
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Tulsi Gabbard campaign in disarray — Tulsi Gabbard's presidential campaign hasn't officially launched yet but it's already melting down. — Two-and-a-half weeks after the Hawaii Democrat told CNN she had decided to run for the White House—an announcement that even her own staff didn't know was coming …
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NBC News, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, The Week, Joe.My.God. and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ashley / Chicks On The Right:
Chuck Schumer Wants A LITERAL LOSER To Deliver The Democratic SOTU Response — ShareTweetSubscribe to the Chicks! — Email address: — Leave this field empty if you're human: — WATCH: Chuck Schumer Wants A LITERAL LOSER To Deliver The Democratic SOTU Response — I'm sorry, but...what?
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Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Abrams to deliver Dems' State of the Union response
Abrams to deliver Dems' State of the Union response
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Senate Democratic Leadership, Washington Post and The Gateway Pundit
Max Willens / Digiday:
Dented by layoffs, BuzzFeed charts a path to a sustainable business — The next version of BuzzFeed is being whittled into focus. — Over the past week, the venture-backed publisher has been gripped by a very public multi-day round of layoffs. The staff cuts, which hit almost every corner …
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Observer, Politico and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
White suburbia the source of Trump's Texas troubles — From the outside, Texas appears troubling for President Trump in 2020 because of demographic changes that have featured a steady climb in the population of Hispanic voters. — But actually, the leftward drift, first evident in 2016 …
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JONATHAN TURLEY and thenationalsentinel.com
Pew Research Center:
An early look at the 2020 electorate — The 2020 U.S. presidential election is rapidly coming into view - and so is the electorate that will determine its outcome. — While demographic changes unfold slowly, it's already clear that the 2020 electorate will be unique in several ways.
Financial Times:
Trump sat down with Putin at G20 without US note-taker — Donald Trump sat down with Vladimir Putin for several minutes of conversation at the end of an evening event at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires in November, with no translator or note-taker from the US side to record the dialogue between the leaders …
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Lindsay Lowe / TODAY.com:
Nike Air Max shoe logo called ‘offensive’ to Muslims for Allah-like design — Nike has responded to claims that the logo is offensive to the Islamic faith. — Is this logo offensive? — Nike has come under fire for the design of its Air Max shoe, with some calling it insulting to the Islamic faith.
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Breitbart, The Hill, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, Conservative News Today and Sports Gossip
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
The unique harm we cause when we dissect a powerful woman's love life — As of this week, women are running for president — multiple women — and lo, the country has been awarded the chance for a do-over. This time, we swear, we won't order them to smile more if they really want our votes.
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Althouse, Outside the Beltway and The Root
Patrick Ryan / USA Today:
Steve Bannon says in revealing doc that he did 'the Lord's work' in Trump White House — Steve Bannon is back. Announcing the launch of his pro-Trump documentary and political group. Veuer's Nick Cardona has that story. — CONNECT — PARK CITY, Utah - Remember Steve Bannon?
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Mediaite, Joe.My.God., Hollywood Reporter and Raw Story