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Mark Galli / Christianity Today:
Trump Should Be Removed from Office  —  It's time to say what we said 20 years ago when a president's character was revealed for what it was.  —  In our founding documents, Billy Graham explains that Christianity Today will help evangelical Christians interpret the news in a manner that reflects their faith.
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Elizabeth Dias / New York Times:
Evangelical Magazine Christianity Today Calls for Trump's Removal  —  The magazine said the president had abused his power and violated the Constitution.  —  Christianity Today, a prominent evangelical magazine, called for President Trump to be removed from office in a blistering editorial on Thursday …
Franklin Graham:
My Response to Christianity Today:  —  Christianity Today released …
Discussion: Breitbart
Elana Schor / Associated Press:
Evangelical magazine Christianity Today: Trump must go
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Trump Isn't Impeached Until the House Tells the Senate  —  According to the Constitution, impeachment is a process, not a vote.  —  Now that the House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump, what is the constitutional status of the two articles of impeachment?
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Politico:
'I'm never afraid and I'm rarely surprised': Pelosi emboldened  —  The speaker reflects on Trump and a tumultuous year back in the majority in an interview with POLITICO.  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi is heading into the holidays emboldened …
Nancy Cook / Politico:
White House braces for Mulvaney's post-impeachment exit  —  The acting White House chief of staff could never win President Donald Trump's full support.  Mulvaney has been sidelined so much in recent months that he's now expected to depart soon.  —  Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.
Discussion: National Review and The Hill
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Crazy Won't Beat Trump  —  Impeachment looks like a victory for Democrats, but their lurch left will prove far more consequential.  —  The Democrats think they've just had a big triumph.  The president's been impeached.  But Republicans see themselves as gaining the upper hand.
Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
'I'm Never Afraid And I'm Rarely Surprised': Pelosi Brushes Off McConnell Snide  —  Just one day after leading the charge to impeach President Trump in the House of Representatives, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) sat for an interview with Politico, brushing off Republican attempts to paint …
Discussion: Politico
Anita Kumar / Politico:
‘Family feud’: Trump still grumbling about witness-free impeachment trial
Discussion: The Federalist and Raw Story
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:   Pelosi: Power of gavel means Trump is ‘impeached forever’
Bloomberg:
Trump Lawyers Ask If Pelosi Delay Means He Isn't Impeached Yet
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Schumer Joins Pelosi in Backing Plan to Sit on Impeachment Articles
Discussion: Breitbart and NBC News
CNN:
Chinese government cuts US Democratic debate feed during Xinjiang discussion  —  Hong Kong (CNN)The live feed of the sixth Democratic presidential debate was cut without warning in China Thursday night during a discussion on allegations of human rights abuses in the country's western region of Xinjiang.
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John F. Harris / Politico:
Democrats Decide Not to Debate Dull
Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart and NBC News
ABC News:   5 takeaways from the last Democratic primary debate of 2019
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: All you need to know about the debate
Discussion: CNBC and Vox
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Fact check: Did Warren's campaign benefit from big-ticket fundraisers?
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
An issue-by-issue recap of the Democratic debate
Discussion: Associated Press
Washington Post:
Former White House officials say they feared Putin influenced the president's views on Ukraine and 2016 campaign  —  Almost from the moment he took office, President Trump seized on a theory that troubled his senior aides: Ukraine, he told them on many occasions, had tried to stop him from winning the White House.
The Seattle Times:
Washington Rep. Matt Shea engaged in domestic terrorism against U.S., says state House inquiry  —  OLYMPIA — State Rep. Matt Shea planned and participated in domestic terrorism against the United States, before and during the armed takeover at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge …
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Courier-Journal:
Matt Bevin defends pardon of convicted child rapist in radio interview  —  Former Gov. Matt Bevin on Thursday defended his controversial last-minute pardon of a man convicted of raping a 9-year-old, saying there was no physical evidence of her abuse.  —  Bevin's comments came during …
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Antonia Farzan / Washington Post:
Kentucky's ex-governor pardoned a child rapist because the 9-year-old victim's hymen was intact  —  When the Louisville Courier-Journal revealed earlier this month that former Kentucky governor Matt Bevin (R) had pardoned a slew of violent criminals during his final weeks in office, he cited his belief in second chances.
New York Times:
Durham Is Scrutinizing Ex-C.I.A. Director's Role in Russian Interference Findings  —  The federal prosecutor investigating the origins of the Russia inquiry is examining testimony by the former C.I.A. director John Brennan and seeking his communications records.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Tyranny of the 63 Million  —  Impeachment didn't undermine democracy.  It vindicated it.  —  When George W. Bush lost the popular vote to Al Gore in 2000 but became president anyway, he did so with almost 50.5 million votes.  I didn't know that number until I looked it up …
Grace Sparks / CNN:
CNN Poll: US economy receives its best ranking in nearly 20 years  —  Here's where democratic candidates stand against Trump  —  (CNN)As 2019 comes to a close, the US economy earns its highest ratings in almost two decades, potentially boosting President Donald Trump in matchups …
Twitter:
New disclosures to our archive of state-backed information operations  —  Transparency is at the heart of everything we do at Twitter.  That's why we routinely disclose datasets of information operations we can reliably link to state actors.  —  These datasets live in our public archive …
New York Times:
How to Track President Trump  —  IF YOU OWN A MOBILE PHONE, its every move is logged and tracked by dozens of companies.  No one is beyond the reach of this constant digital surveillance.  Not even the president of the United States.  —  The Times Privacy Project obtained a dataset …
Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg:
The Decade Tech Turned Dystopian  —  This was the decade we gave our privacy away.  —  We took silly personality quizzes on Facebook Inc. that made Cambridge Analytica possible.  We bought phones that tracked our locations everywhere we went.  We plugged in smart speakers that sent recordings …
Michael Sheetz / CNBC:
Boeing Starliner fails mission, can't reach space station after flying into wrong orbit  — Boeing's spacecraft Starliner did not achieve the correct orbit after launching on Friday, preventing it from reaching its goal of docking with the International Space Station
Jonathan M. Katz / The Long Version:
Here's what Tucker Carlson believes  —  Welcome back to The Long Version, a newsletter by Jonathan M. Katz.  —  Subscribe now  —  On Sunday, exactly halfway between the resounding Conservative Party victory in the soon-to-be-less-United Kingdom and the impeachment of Donald J. Trump …
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Trump Pulled Plug on Pompeo's November Ukraine Trip Over Impeachment Heat  —  The secretary of state will visit Kyiv in January.  But he was supposed to make a trip there in November—until the plans were abruptly canceled.  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was scheduled to visit Ukraine …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Wall Street Journal
 
 
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The Times of Israel:
Suspect in 2017 Paris killing of Jewish woman won't stand trial
Discussion: National Review
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Afghanistan wasn't destined to fail. Here's how we could have fought it better.
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Matt Welch / Reason:
McCain Conservatives Are Rallying Behind Justin Amash
Bloomberg:
Wall Street's Machine of Silence Stopped a #MeToo Revolution
Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
Four Tests for Impeachment
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Clinton email saga drags on in court
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Discussion: Power Line
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Matthew Phelan / New York Magazine:
Navy Pilot Who Filmed the ‘Tic Tac’ UFO Speaks: 'It Wasn't Behaving by the Normal Laws of Physics'
Discussion: Gizmodo
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
The White House's defense of Trump's Dingell comments shows there's no bottom
Discussion: Washington Post and NBC News
Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
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