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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
‘Nothing Less Than a Civil War’: These White Voters on the Far Right See Doom Without Trump — Deeply conservative, they organize online and outside the Republican Party apparatus, engaging in more explicit versions of the chest-beating seen at the president's rallies.
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Raw Story and Jill Filipovic
David Frum / The Atlantic:
A Gangster in the White House — Amid a two-day binge of post-Christmas rage-tweeting, President Donald Trump retweeted the name of the CIA employee widely presumed to be the whistle-blower in the Ukraine scandal. On Thursday night, December 26, Trump retweeted his campaign account …
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Trump retweets a post naming the alleged whistleblower — President Trump retweeted a post naming the alleged whistleblower who filed the complaint that became the catalyst for the congressional inquiry that resulted in his impeachment by the House of Representatives.
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The Gateway Pundit, Associated Press and DNyuz
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump attacks whistleblower in tweetstorm full of rants and conspiracies — (CNN)President Donald Trump retweeted an attack that included an unsubstantiated name of the intelligence community whistleblower at the heart of the Ukraine scandal as part of a series of rants and conspiratorial posts Friday night.
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Pelosi gets under Trump's skin on impeachment — President Trump has made attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) a theme of his holiday break at his Mar-a-Lago resort. — Trump's comments suggest he is lingering on impeachment and that Pelosi's central role in it is very much on his mind going into 2020.
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Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
Facing blowback, Biden clarifies stance on impeachment trial testimony — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden on Saturday said there would be “no legal basis” for Republicans to subpoena his testimony in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, clarifying remarks from Friday that drew criticism.
Vos Iz Neias:
MONSEY STABBING: Multiple People Stabbed In Synagogue Saturday Night — MONSEY (VINnews) — Multiple people were stabbed Saturday night in a synagogue. — According to reports, a black male entered Rabbi Rottenburg's Shul, located in the Forshay neighborhood in Monsey, and pulled out a machete.
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Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman / Jerusalem Post:
Multiple victims reported in latest New York stabbing attack - breaking — Videos of the stabbing attack began disseminating on social media around 5:30 a.m. Israel time. The Jerusalem Post received confirmation of the validity of these videos by a spokesperson for Chabad.
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CBS New York, Fox News and New York Times
Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
Ivanka Trump suggests she may leave White House job if father re-elected — President's senior adviser says she will put her family's needs first in making decision — Ivanka Trump has cast doubt on continuing in her advisory role in the administration if her father wins re-election next year.
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Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Ivanka Trump might leave White House if father wins 2020
Ivanka Trump might leave White House if father wins 2020
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Emily Tillett / CBS News:
Ivanka Trump says staying in Washington will be up to her kids, cites “unfinished” work
Ivanka Trump says staying in Washington will be up to her kids, cites “unfinished” work
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Talking Points Memo
Greg Robb / MarketWatch:
Fed study finds Trump tariffs backfired — President Donald Trump's strategy to use import tariffs to protect and boost U.S. manufacturers backfired and led to job losses and higher prices, according to a Federal Reserve study released this week. — “We find that the 2018 tariffs …
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The Hill, The Moderate Voice, Slate, Hullabaloo and HuffPost
Paul Joseph Watson / Summit News:
UN Moves Towards Handing Dictatorships Power to Control the Internet — The United Nations wants to hand power to dictatorial regimes like China to control the Internet, prompting fears of a massive new free speech purge. — The General Assembly has approved a resolution sponsored by China …
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Amy Qin / New York Times:
In China's Crackdown on Muslims, Children Have Not Been Spared — In Xinjiang the authorities have separated nearly half a million children from their families, aiming to instill loyalty to China and the Communist Party. — HOTAN, China — The first grader was a good student and beloved by her classmates …
Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
SHOCK VIDEO: Man scales 30-foot border wall — in 23 seconds! — A real-life Spiderman lives in Mexico. — A migrant scaled a new 30-foot section of the border wall with relative ease recently. — Watch: … The photo spoke Spanish throughout the video, which shows the man scaling …
Susannah Bryan / Sun-Sentinel:
Is ‘Dixie Highway’ racist? The debate is growing … A movement to rename Dixie Highway — for some a painful reminder of a tragic, racist past — might be gaining steam in Broward County. — The argument is being made by one of Broward County's youngest elected officials after she heard of a similar effort in Miami-Dade.
Benjamin Weinthal / Jerusalem Post:
US envoy urges EU to ban Hezbollah after Iran militia kills American — US reviews Kataib Hezbollah's role in murder of US contractor — The most high-profile US Ambassador in Europe Richard Grenell urged European countries on Saturday to outlaw Hezbollah's entire organization …
New York Times:
Science Under Attack: How Trump Is Sidelining Researchers and Their Work — WASHINGTON — In just three years, the Trump administration has diminished the role of science in federal policymaking while halting or disrupting research projects nationwide, marking a transformation …
Lisa Marie Pane / Associated Press:
US mass killings hit new high in 2019, most were shootings — The first one occurred 19 days into the new year when a man used an ax to kill four family members including his infant daughter. Five months later, 12 people were killed in a workplace shooting in Virginia.
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Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
Maddow Meltdown: In Defense To OAN Lawsuit, Host Argues Her Words Are Not Facts — Back in September, we reported that TV network OAN had filed a lawsuit against Rachel Maddow for the time the host said that OAN “really, literally is paid Russian propaganda.”
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BizPac Review and The Gateway Pundit
Mary Margaret Olohan / The Daily Caller:
Cory Booker Says Men Should Care About Abortion Access Because ‘Women Are People’ — 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker said Saturday that abortion rights shouldn't matter to men just because of their female relatives and friends, but because “women are people.”
Washington Post:
How Ralph Northam came back from the political dead — THE HISTORY of U.S. politics is full of second chances — of scandal-scarred, disgraced and irredeemable public figures staging improbable comebacks — but few back-from-the-dead narratives have been as swift and sure-footed as the one Virginia …
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The Daily Caller, Townhall, DNyuz, Redstate and The Daily Wire
Douglas MacKinnon / The Hill:
Baltimore needs a Lamar Jackson-like figure to save it — Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson has electrified the city and its citizens — along with the rest of the nation — by showing unrivaled skills and making historic records as a National Football League player and leader.