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4:45 PM ET, December 22, 2019

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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Key Democratic senator remains undecided on whether Trump should be removed from office  —  Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.), who won a stunning special election victory in 2017 and faces a difficult reelection campaign next year, said Sunday that he remains undecided on whether President Trump should be removed from office.
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Keith E. Whittington / Reason:
When Is an Officer Impeached?  IV  —  Now that President Donald Trump has gotten wind of the fact that he might not yet have been impeached, we should make some things abundantly clear.  —  At a Turning Point USA event in Florida, the president noted, “In fact, there's no impeachment.
Adia Robinson / ABC News:
Pelosi's decision to withhold articles of impeachment ‘bizarre’: Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.  —  In response, Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., said Pelosi's delay was not unfair.  —  Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to withhold the articles of impeachment was …
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Pence chief of staff not worried about Pelosi impeachment tactics: ‘She will yield’
Discussion: Associated Press
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
As Pelosi plays games with impeachment, what next for GOP?
Discussion: Twitchy
Colby Itkowitz / SFGATE:
Trump is remaking the federal judiciary  —  WASHINGTON - After three years in office, President Donald Trump has remade the federal judiciary, ensuring a conservative tilt for decades and cementing his legacy no matter the outcome of November's election.  —  Trump nominees make up 1 in 4 U.S. circuit court judges.
Discussion: Axios and The Hill
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Susannah Luthi / Politico:
How Trump is filling the liberal 9th Circuit with conservatives  —  A bastion of liberalism in the federal judiciary is slowly turning rightward, threatening Democratic court challenges on everything from abortion to who gets a green card.  —  The Senate confirmation of Lawrence VanDyke …
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Schwirtz / New York Times:
How a Poisoning in Bulgaria Exposed Russian Assassins in Europe  —  For years, members of a secret team, Unit 29155, operated without Western security officials having any idea about their activities.  But an attack on an arms dealer in Sofia helped blow their cover.
New York Times:
It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App.  It's Secretly a Spy Tool.  —  ToTok, an Emirati messaging app that has been downloaded to millions of phones, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race.  —  WASHINGTON — It is billed as an easy and secure way to chat by video or text message …
IMPORTANTVILLE:
Scoop: Mayor Pete's South Bend polling  —  The mayor leads the Democratic field in his hometown.  —  In one of his last acts as both mayor and presidential candidate, Pete Buttigieg commissioned a poll of his own South Bend constituents showing he leads the Democratic field and President Trump …
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USA Today:
How America went from Barack Obama to Donald Trump in one head-spinning political decade  —  Obama's America and Trump's America feel like separate nations, but they are bound by Newton's law: For every action, an equal and opposite reaction.  —  How did we get from Barack Obama to Donald Trump?
Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
Christianity Today editor: Trump's ‘public morality’ makes him ‘unfit’ for office  —  Christianity Today Editor-in-Chief Mark Galli said on Sunday that President Trump has crossed a line where his actions benefiting the evangelical community no longer excuse his misconduct in other areas.
Discussion: Fox News, CNBC and DemCast
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
‘Evangelicals are not monolithic’: Following scathing editorial, top Trump aide defends president
Justin Caruso / The Daily Caller:
Poll: 43% Of Evangelicals Approve Of Trump's Removal From Office
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Us vs. them: Trump aiming to use impeachment to rev up base  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Using stark “us vs. them” language, President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign have begun framing his impeachment not as a judgment on his conduct but as a referendum on how Democrats regard him and his supporters.
Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:
Universal Notifies Theaters ‘Cats’ Is Being Updated With “Improved Visual Effects”  —  The move is unheard of for a finished film already in release.  —  How many lives does Cats have?  —  On Friday — the movie's opening day — Universal notified thousands of theaters they will be receiving …
Associated Press:
Inside impeachment: How an ‘urgent’ tip became ‘high crimes’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The night before the whistleblower complaint that launched President Donald Trump's impeachment was made public, Democrats and Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee crammed into the same room to get a first look at the document.
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Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's distorted letter to Dems and history
Discussion: Fox News
Associated Press:
GOP governors grapple with whether to accept refugees or not  —  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An executive order by President Donald Trump giving states the right to refuse to take refugees is putting Republican governors in an uncomfortable position.  —  They're caught between immigration hardliners …
Wall Street Journal:
An $809 Car Payment, a $660 Income: How Dealers Make the Math Work  —  Some dealerships are dressing up borrowers' car-loan applications with fake, inflated incomes  —  When Mirna López bought a used 2018 Nissan Pathfinder in May, she got a car loan with a monthly payment of $809.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
FISA Judge Orders FBI To Identify All Cases Involving Lawyer Who Allegedly Altered Carter Page Email  — The top judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ordered the FBI to review cases involving a bureau attorney who allegedly altered an email regarding Carter Page.
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New York Post:   If FBI was routinely cutting corners on FISA warrants, Comey will look even worse
 
 
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Donald Trump's 'they're after you' tweet says it all
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Sen. Roy Blunt: Impeachment trial is “not a trial in any classic sense”
Discussion: The Hill
HuffPost:
Trump's Mar-A-Lago Winter Vacation Pushes Taxpayer Golf Tab Above $118 million
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
How Trump Made a Writer of Thrillers Stick to Facts
Wall Street Journal:
Klobuchar Works to Boost Momentum in Iowa
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Largely Ignores Impeachment as He Rallies Young Conservatives
Discussion: PJ Media Home
Marcia Dunn / Associated Press:
Boeing capsule returns to Earth after aborted space mission
 Earlier Items: 
Wall Street Journal:
Pakistani Professor Sentenced to Death for Blasphemy on Social Media
Vanessa Thorpe / The Guardian:
BBC could restrict journalists' use of Twitter
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Officials Discussed Hold on Ukraine Aid After Trump Spoke With Country's Leader
Los Angeles Times:
California population growth slowest since 1900 as residents leave, immigration decelerates
Discussion: PJ Media Home
Sara Fischer / Axios:
A year of media upheaval
Ruth R. Wisse / Commentary:
Save Me from My Defenders! … Being silenced or harassed …
 

 
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership

 
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