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Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
AP source: Prosecutor to examine Russia probe origins  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was “lawful and appropriate,” …
Discussion: Axios and Daily Wire
New York Times:
White House Reviews Military Plans Against Iran, in Echoes of Iraq War  —  WASHINGTON — At a meeting of President Trump's top national security aides last Thursday, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan presented an updated military plan that envisions sending as many as 120,000 troops …
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Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Is Trump Yet Another U.S. President Provoking a War?
Discussion: VodkaPundit and Politico
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News:
YouTube's Newest Far-Right, Foul-Mouthed, Red-Pilling Star Is A 14-Year-Old Girl  —  “Soph” has nearly a million followers on the giant video platform.  Its executives only have themselves to blame.  —  What does a 14-year-old girl dressed in a chador have to say on YouTube to amass more than 800,000 followers?
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump's China grudge match may be spinning out of control  —  NEW YORK — Donald Trump the Dow Man and Donald Trump the Tariff Man found themselves back on a collision course Monday as U.S. markets tanked and fear of a full-scale trade war between the world's two largest economies reemerged with a vengeance.
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Republicans surrender to Trump's China tariffs  —  The GOP is starting to give up on thwarting President Donald Trump's trade agenda.  —  Senate Republicans acknowledge that the president's latest tariff increase on Chinese imports are harming farm state economies, their own constituents and some of Trump's most reliable voters.
Discussion: Breitbart
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:   GOP's farm belt Senators back Trump as China takes aim at U.S. agriculture
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Trump Seeks New $15 Billion Subsidy To Protect Farmers From His Own Trade War
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Fortune
Washington Post:
Before Trump's purge at DHS, top officials challenged plan for mass family arrests  —  In the weeks before they were ousted last month, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and top immigration enforcement official Ronald Vitiello challenged a secret White House plan to arrest thousands …
David Shortell / CNN:
Rosenstein calls Comey a ‘partisan pundit’ in revealing speech  —  Washington (CNN)Rod Rosenstein took aim at James Comey Monday, calling him a “partisan pundit” in prepared remarks for a speech that included the most public retelling yet of the twists and turns of the Russia investigation by the man who oversaw it.
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Rosenstein criticizes Jim Comey as ‘partisan pundit,’ defends handling of Mueller probe  —  Former deputy attorney general Rod J. Rosenstein on Monday defended his role in the firing of James B. Comey from the FBI and criticized the bureau's former director as a “partisan pundit” …
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Rosenstein unloads on Comey, says he broke ‘bright lines that should never be crossed’
Discussion: Axios, RedState and New York Post
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Rod Rosenstein defends Russia investigation handling, hits back at James Comey
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Breitbart
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump Jr. subpoena could force GOP loyalty test  —  If Donald Trump Jr. doesn't comply with the Senate Intelligence Committee's subpoena, the chamber is preparing for the possibility it could vote on enforcing the order on the Senate floor, according to sources in both parties.
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Washington Post:
Judiciary chairman says Trump Jr. should plead the Fifth to Intelligence panel
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Donald Trump Jr.'s No-Shows Led to Subpoena, Republican Senator Says
Discussion: Raw Story
Dylan Stableford / Yahoo News:
Sen. Lindsey Graham advises Donald Trump Jr. to ignore Senate subpoena
Discussion: Mediaite and twitchy.com
Carliss Chatman / CNN:
What's behind the absurd gamble on women's rights and health  —  Companies halt production in Georgia over abortion law  —  Carliss Chatman is an assistant professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law and writes about corporate personhood, corporate governance, and ethics.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Leah Litman / New York Times:
Is Roe in Danger?  Liberal Justices Seem to Think So  —  Conservative justices took a step in laying the foundation for the reversal of Roe v. Wade.  —  Ms. Litman is an assistant professor of law at the University of California, Irvine.  —  The Supreme Court made clear on Monday …
Irin Carmon / The Cut:   We Have No Idea How Scary Our Abortion Future Will Get
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans Call Tlaib Anti-Semitic for Saying Something Nice About Israel  —  The Republican Party, which has a hair-trigger sensitivity to left-wing anti-Semitism as censorious as any social justice warrior, has whipped itself into its latest frenzy over comments by Representative Rashida Tlaib.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Hoyer defends Tlaib Holocaust remarks after criticism from GOP
Anna Flagg / New York Times:
Is There a Connection Between Undocumented Immigrants and Crime?  —  It's a widely held perception, but a new analysis finds no evidence to support it.  —  A lot of research has shown that there's no causal connection between immigration and crime in the United States.
Andrew Freedman / Axios:
NASA commits to sending the first woman to the moon for 2024 “Artemis” mission  —  The Trump administration will ask Congress to authorize another $1.6 billion for NASA in fiscal year 2020 in order to put the agency on track to return humans to the moon by 2024, President Trump tweeted Monday evening.
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:   Trump targets Pell Grant money for NASA's budget boost
Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times:
WhatsApp voice calls used to inject Israeli spyware on phones  —  A vulnerability in the messaging app WhatsApp has allowed attackers to inject commercial Israeli spyware on to phones, the company and a spyware technology dealer said.  —  WhatsApp, which is used by 1.5bn people worldwide …
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump comes out against Equality Act  —  With a vote on the Equality Act in the U.S. House expected on Friday, a senior administration official indicated exclusively to the Washington Blade that President Trump opposes the bill.  —  “The Trump administration absolutely opposes discrimination …
Discussion: Advocate and Raw Story
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Conservatism has become a racket, and Trump is the grifter in chief  —  “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”  -Eric Hoffer  —  You can debate when the conservative movement became a racket — I nominate 1996 …
New York Daily News:
Mayor de Blasio's NYPD vehicle was driving wrong way when it crashed with truck, sparking cover-up  —  Mayor de Blasio's NYPD SUV was cruising the wrong way with lights and sirens blaring when it got into a car crash, sparking a frantic cover-up by his security detail, a new accident report obtained by the Daily News shows.
Keara Dowd / WTOP:
Power to the people: DC residents could soon issue parking tickets  —  A new pilot program that's part of an overhaul of transportation safety in D.C. would let some residents issue parking tickets on their own.  —  The Citizen Safety Enforcement Pilot Program is part of a larger “Vision Zero” …
Discussion: Daily Wire, Reason and Instapundit
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
Omarosa requests to join lawsuit alleging women were underpaid by the Trump campaign  —  A former campaign staffer who accused President Trump of sexual misconduct and pay discrimination in a lawsuit this year filed a motion Monday asking a judge to formally expand the scope of her suit so that others …
Discussion: Vox, VICE News, The Root, TheBlaze and IJR
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin Republican Party maxed out credit card, racked up $600 in monthly interest as it tried to save Scott Walker  —  MADISON - The state Republican Party fell so far behind financially in recent months that it missed payments to insurers and racked up nearly $600 a month in interest …
Discussion: Splinter and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Senior arms control official resigns from State Department  —  A top U.S. arms control official and prominent Iran hawk has resigned from the State Department after serving just over a year in the position, said U.S. officials and congressional aides familiar with the decision.
Hunter Woodall / Associated Press:
2020 hopeful Biden says he's open to breaking up Facebook  —  HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — Joe Biden said Monday that he would be open to breaking up Facebook, a sign of the deep skepticism among many Democratic presidential contenders about the power of massive technology firms.
Discussion: CNN and Breitbart
 
 
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Hunter Biden's China Deal Partners Include Mobster Whitey Bulger's Nephew, John Kerry's Stepson
Joyce Karam / The National:
US denies visa to senior Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi
Alex Thompson / Politico:
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
'We'll see what happens': An investigation into Donald Trump's favorite phrase
Discussion: Washington Press and Raw Story
Bloomberg:
Ukraine Prosecutor Made Up Biden Claim, Kiev Lawmaker Says
Discussion: Fox News and POLITICUSUSA
Lynh Bui / Washington Post:
Coast Guard officer accused of plotting terrorist attack to remain jailed, judge says
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump praises authoritarian Hungarian prime minister as “highly respected”
Bloomberg:
Pompeo Fails to Sway Allies on Iran in Awkward Surprise Visit
Akane Otani / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Stocks Close Sharply Lower on Renewed Trade Anxiety
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
‘The epitome of privilege’: Booker supporters seethe over Buttigieg mania
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
Los Angeles Fire Season Is Beginning Again.  And It Will Never End.  A bulletin from our climate future.
Discussion: New York Times
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
How Does Donald Trump Keep Getting Away With It?
 

 
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

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Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion
 
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