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8:30 PM ET, December 27, 2019

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Hollywood Reporter:
Don Imus, Legendary ‘Imus in the Morning’ Host, Dies at 79  —  The controversial radio personality passed away on Friday morning at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in College Station, Texas.  —  Radio personality Don Imus, whose insult humor and savage comedy catapulted him to a long-lasting …
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Associated Press:
DJ Don Imus dead at 79  —  Imus' unsparing on-air persona was tempered by his off-air philanthropy.  —  Don Imus.  Larry Busacca/Getty Images  —  Disc jockey Don Imus, whose career was made and then undone by his acid tongue during a decades-long rise to radio stardom and an abrupt public plunge …
Discussion: The Hill
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Don Imus, Radio Host Who Pushed Boundaries, Dies at 79  —  On the air, he was an irascible, confrontational growler who led pranks and parodies that could be tasteless, obscene and sometimes racist, sexist or homophobic.  —  Don Imus, who tested the limits of shock radio with his irreverent attacks …
Discussion: Raw Story, The Wrap and Althouse
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 …
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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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 …
Discussion: WND
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Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Zephyr Teachout, Anti-Corruption Crusader, Endorses Bernie Sanders
Discussion: The Hill
NBC News:
Mile high ugh: What you should know before you eat airplane food  —  Airline food caterers face limited oversight with infrequent inspections, numerous violations and few consequences.  —  Jason Alderman was hungry.  It was the beginning of his regular Sunday night commute from San Francisco to Boston …
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.
Nick Coltrain / Des Moines Register:
Biden says he would not comply with a Senate subpoena in the impeachment trial of President Trump  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden confirmed Friday he would not comply with a subpoena to testify in a Senate trial of President Donald Trump.  —  The Democrat-controlled U.S. House …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
CNN:
Schumer said in 1999 Senate wasn't like a jury box and was ‘susceptible to the whims of politics’  —  (CNN)Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has blasted his Republican counterpart Mitch McConnell in recent days after he described himself as “not an impartial juror” ahead …
Discussion: Townhall and The Daily Caller
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:   No, the Senate is not a jury, and other misconceptions about impeachment
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
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 …
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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 …
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, WND and The Daily Caller
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
Igor Derysh / Salon:
Pelosi “has the right” to submit Trump to an “involuntary evaluation”: Yale psychiatrist Bandy Lee  —  “I am beginning to believe that a mental health hold . . . will become inevitable,” Lee tells Salon in an interview  —  A Yale psychiatrist who has repeatedly sounded the alarm …
Discussion: Breitbart, WND and IJR
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
Globe and Mail:
Activist who raised awareness about transphobia murdered in Toronto  —  When Julie Berman came up to the open mic at the trans day of remembrance event on Nov. 20, 2017, she delivered a speech about transphobia in Toronto.  She talked about a trans friend of hers that was murdered.
Discussion: The Hill and The Post Millennial
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, Fox News and The Daily Caller
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 …
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 …
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.”
Tom Elliott / Grabien News:
Grabien's 25 Funniest News Clips of 2019  —  Let's revisit the moments that made us laugh over the last 12 months  —  It's that time of year: The season of news editors telling their readers what the most important stories from the past 12 months were.  —  At Grabien, we're taking a less presumptuous route.
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump's New Legal Adviser Is an Anti-LGBT, Fox News-Ready Bomb Thrower  —  She's quickly earned accolades from Trump's core group of political advocates, despite her past jeremiads against ‘the homosexual lifestyle’ and the ‘LGBT agenda.’  —  If you don't know who Jenna Ellis is, you are hardly alone.
Travis Fain / WRAL-TV:
Federal court to block NC's voter ID requirement before 2020 elections  —  A federal court said late Thursday that it will, at least temporarily, block North Carolina from requiring photo ID at the polls next year.  —  An order explaining the decision and its full breadth will come next week …
Discussion: Breitbart
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Ivanka Trump Confirmed as CES 2020 Keynote Speaker  —  It's official: Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser, will be on the CES 2020 keynote stage next month in Las Vegas.  —  Ivanka Trump will join a keynote discussion on jobs and the future of work with Gary Shapiro …
 
 
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Rob Shikina / Honolulu Star-Advertiser:
Wreckage of Kauai tour helicopter carrying 7 has been found
Discussion: HuffPost
Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Deval Patrick fails to qualify for Michigan's primary ballot
Discussion: The Hill
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
Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Iowa swung fiercely to Trump. Will it swing back in 2020?
Chris D'Angelo / HuffPost:
Interior Department Cut ‘Sexual Orientation’ From Anti-Discrimination Guideline
 Earlier Items: 
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
Harry Enten / CNN:
A historic gender gap is possible in 2020
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Jason Foster / Washington Examiner:
The lies and distortions by the hatchet men at Fusion GPS
Nicole Narea / Vox:
One surprisingly simple reason evangelicals love Trump
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
Hunting black men to start a ‘race war’
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Intel probe puts CIA's Haspel in a bind
Discussion: Daily Kos and Raw Story
USA Today:
Beating Donald Trump in the 2020 election isn't everything; it's the only thing
 

 
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
A US judge finds NSO Group liable for exploiting a bug in WhatsApp to spy on 1,400 users and that WhatsApp is entitled to sanctions against NSO

Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI's GPT-5, codenamed Orion, is behind schedule and faces technical hurdles, including high computing costs and limited high-quality training data
 
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