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3:45 PM ET, December 27, 2019

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Dave Philipps / New York Times:
Anguish and Anger From the Navy SEALs Who Turned In Edward Gallagher  —  Video interviews and group texts obtained by The Times show men describing their platoon leader in grim terms.  —  [Watch a special Times documentary featuring combat video and confidential interviews with the Navy SEALs …
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Emily Crane / Daily Mail:
‘The guy is freaking evil’: Eddie Gallagher's fellow Navy SEALS describe him as ‘toxic’ and trigger-happy in previously unseen interviews with investigators  — The Navy SEALS were interviewed by naval criminal investigators before Edward Gallagher was charged with war crimes in September 2018
Melissa Lemieux / Newsweek:
Ex-WH Ethics Lawyer Slams McConnell, Says Senator Thinks He's ‘A Judge Impaneling An All-White Jury for a Klansman Trial’  —  During a panel discussion on CNN, Richard Painter, the former chief White House ethics lawyer who worked under George W. Bush, got into a bit of a verbal dust …
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Issues & Insights:
Stopping Lisa Murkowski From Playing Lady Macbeth  —  The Trump Administration and the Republican Party got a troubling sign Christmas week that all of their number might not be willing to stand together come an impeachment trial.  —  Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Tuesday told KTUU-TV …
Margaret Carlson / The Daily Beast:
Mitch McConnell's Big Mistake Defending Donald Trump? Listening to Him.
Conrad Black / American Greatness:   Democrats Must Live with Consequences of Their Foolish Impeachment Farce
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
AOC for president?  The buzz has begun  —  LOS ANGELES — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was campaigning for Bernie Sanders at a jampacked beach-side rally last week when she took a moment to look beyond 2020.  —  “I know, and we all know, that this isn't just about Bernie Sanders,” she said.
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Democrats brace for ‘bloody’ primary season
Discussion: Politico
Joan E Greve / The Guardian:
Bernie Sanders' resurgence has Democrats asking: could he actually win?
Derick Waller / abc7NY:
Women attacked, man threatens shooting in rash of anti-Semitic incidents in NYC  —  GRAVESEND, Brooklyn (WABC) — There have been a rash of anti-Semitic incidents in New York City this week, most in parts of Brooklyn.  —  A man wearing a hoodie apparently walked into Lubavitch World Headquarters …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and TheBlaze
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Derick Waller / abc7NY:   Mother walking with child beaten in 5th anti-Semitic attack in NYC
CNBC:
Elizabeth Warren's campaign sounds the alarm as fundraising pace slows about 30% in fourth quarter  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren's campaign told supporters in an email on Friday that, so far, it has raised just over $17 million in the fourth quarter, a significant drop from her fundraising haul during the third quarter.
Discussion: Vanity Fair, Breitbart, Axios and TheBlaze
Wall Street Journal:
Rank-and-File Workers Get Bigger Raises  —  Short supply of labor, minimum-wage rises and increased poaching have helped lift wages for lower-income workers  —  Rank-and-file workers are getting bigger raises this year—at least in percentage terms—than bosses.
Discussion: Axios and The Daily Caller
Vladimir Isachenkov / Associated Press:
Russia commissions intercontinental hypersonic weapon  —  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's defense minister reported to President Vladimir Putin that a new hypersonic weapon of intercontinental range became operational Friday following years of tests.  —  Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu informed Putin …
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Michael Moore Predicts 2020 Trump Victory: Trump's Level Of Support “Has Not Gone Down One Inch”  —  In an interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, Michael Moore said if the election were held today that President Trump would win a second term.  However, Moore predicted the Democratic candidate …
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Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
Why Trump's Second Term Will Be Worse  —  When I spent a month on a research trip to India in December 2014, half a year after Narendra Modi swept to power, the writers, academics, and intellectuals I met were engrossed in a debate that may now feel oddly familiar to Americans.
Discussion: Raw Story
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Exclusive: FBI investigates Briton, others for Epstein links - sources  —  (Reuters) - The FBI is investigating British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and several other people linked to U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges …
Associated Press:
Disney characters say tourists inappropriately touched them  —  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Walt Disney World employees who portray Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and Donald Duck each filed police reports this month claiming they were inappropriately touched by tourists.
Discussion: TMZ.com and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Ousted cardinal McCarrick gave more than $600,000 to fellow clerics, including two popes, records show  —  Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick gave hundreds of thousands of dollars in church money to powerful Catholic clerics over nearly two decades, according to financial records obtained …
Discussion: New York Post, Slate, The Hill and TheBlaze
George P. Slefo / Ad Age:
Spotify to suspend political ads in 2020  —  Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and the RNC are among Spotify advertisers  —  Spotify is suspending the sale of political advertising on its platform, the company told Ad Age Friday.  —  Spotify said in a statement that it will pause political advertising …
Kristy Eldredge / New York Times:
Men Are Dismissing ‘Little Women.’ What a Surprise.  —  The rejection of the latest screen adaptation of the beloved novel echoes a long-held sentiment toward women-centered narratives.  —  Ms. Eldredge is a writer.  —  “'Little Women' Has a Little Man Problem.”
Bloomberg:
Bizarre Fortunes Flourish as World's Richest Gain $1.2 Trillion  — The wealth of the 500 richest people surged 25% in 2019  — Wrecked cars, catchy tunes are among the sources of new riches  —  The leveraging of a giant social-media presence, a catchy tune about a family of sharks …
Discussion: Alternet.org
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
Hunting black men to start a ‘race war’ … The man stumbled into the police precinct in Hell's Kitchen late one night, staggering toward a tall reception desk painted black and blue.  Before the desk officer could ask the man his business, he collapsed on a bench, dripping blood.
Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
In the U.S., an Angioplasty Costs $32,000.  Elsewhere?  Maybe $6,400.  —  A study of international prices finds American patients pay much more across a wide array of common services.  —  Why does health care cost so much more in the United States than in other countries?
Discussion: Mother Jones
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Pushes Out Tweet Naming Alleged Whistleblower  —  Several people close to the president, such as Ivanka Trump and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, had privately cautioned him against it.  —  On Thursday evening, Donald Trump pushed out on Twitter the name of the alleged whistleblower …
Nicole Narea / Vox:
One surprisingly simple reason evangelicals love Trump  —  Thousands of students, supporters, and invited guests sing songs of Christian praise before then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took the stage in January 2016 at Liberty University, whose founder Jerry Falwell was a prominent evangelical leader.
Chris D'Angelo / HuffPost:
Interior Department Cut ‘Sexual Orientation’ From Anti-Discrimination Guideline  —  Its explanation shows that the administration is talking out of both sides of its mouth when it comes to LGBTQ rights.  —  President Donald Trump's Interior Department removed “sexual orientation” …
Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Iowa swung fiercely to Trump.  Will it swing back in 2020?  —  In 2008, its voters propelled Barack Obama to the White House, as an overwhelmingly white state validated the candidacy of the first black president.  A year later, Iowa's Supreme Court sanctioned same-sex marriage …
USA Today:
Beating Donald Trump in the 2020 election isn't everything; it's the only thing  —  Debating wine cellar fundraisers, free tuition and ‘Medicare for All’ won't rid America of an unfit president: Our view  —  To the casual observer of the Democratic debates, it seems like candidates are spending …
 
 
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Eva Bartlett / RT:
Guardian, Atlantic contributor acts as a Syrian terrorist mouthpiece on Twitter, and if you …
Ashley Zavala / KRON4:
California public schools can't suspend students for disobeying teachers, new law says
CNN:
Schumer said in 1999 Senate wasn't like a jury box and was ‘susceptible to the whims of politics’
Dan Bloom / Mirror.co.uk:
Inside Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds' £20,000-a-week Caribbean holiday villa
Discussion: The Sun
Debbie White / The Sun:
EXECUTION HORROR ISIS ‘beheads 11 Christian hostages’ on Christmas Day in shocking new execution video in Nigeria
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
The world's Muslims are facing unprecedented repression
Chris Taylor / Mashable:
2010s = 1984: The decade we finally understood Orwell
Discussion: Instapundit
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Harry Enten / CNN:
A historic gender gap is possible in 2020
Jason Foster / Washington Examiner:
The lies and distortions by the hatchet men at Fusion GPS
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Ghana lures Americans, some to stay
Gundi Rhoades / Sydney Morning Herald:
Cattle have stopped breeding, koalas die of thirst: A vet's hellish diary of climate change
Discussion: Quartz and Eschaton
Napp Nazworth / The Bulwark:
There's Only One Real Question in Trump's Impeachment
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Intel probe puts CIA's Haspel in a bind
Discussion: Raw Story
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
One Thing About the 2020 Election Is Already Clear
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