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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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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump blasts Christian magazine that called for his removal  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is blasting a prominent Christian magazine that published an editorial arguing that he should be removed from office.  —  Trump tweeted Friday morning that the magazine, Christianity Today …
Discussion: Townhall, DNyuz and Raw Story
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 …
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.
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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 …
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?
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.
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
Ella Nilsen / Vox:
The Warren-Buttigieg wine cave controversy, explained  —  Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg during the Democratic presidential primary debate on December 19, 2019.  Chris Carlson/AP  —  The wine cave controversy …
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ABC News:   5 takeaways from the last Democratic primary debate of 2019
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: All you need to know about the debate
Discussion: NBC News and Vox
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Fact check: Did Warren's campaign benefit from big-ticket fundraisers?
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.
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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 …
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.
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
Natasha Clark / The Sun:
BREXIT BEGINS!  Britain on way to Brexit as MPs FINALLY back Boris Johnson's deal just days before Christmas  —  BRITAIN is officially on its way to leaving the EU on January 31 today after MPs finally backed Boris Johnson's Brexit deal by a huge majority of 124.
CNBC:
US third-quarter economic growth unrevised at 2.1%  — U.S. economic growth nudged up in the third quarter, the government confirmed on Friday.  — There are signs the economy more or less maintained the moderate pace of expansion as the year ended, supported by a strong labor market.
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
Discussion: Engadget
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 …
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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David Dayen / American Prospect:
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David Crary / Associated Press:
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The Times of Israel:
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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
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Bloomberg:
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Matthew Phelan / New York Magazine:
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Tim Marchman / Wired:
Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe is providing users with downloadable HTML files of paywalled articles from outlets including NYT, Forbes, and The Atlantic

Michael Schneider / Variety:
Nielsen: the Biden-Trump debate drew an average audience of 51.3M viewers across 17 networks in the US, down from 2020's first debate, with nearly 73.1M

Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Spain's El País launched a digital edition to cover the US in Spanish in May with 11 bilingual correspondents; as of April, the outlet had ~366K subscribers

 
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