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1:40 PM ET, December 29, 2019

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Batya Ungar-Sargon / The Forward:
Why No One Can Talk About The Attacks Against Orthodox Jews  —  There's a poem Jews sing every evening after lighting Hanukkah candles.  It's called “Maoz Tzur” — Rock of the Ages — and was written during the Crusades, one of the many times when Jewish blood ran through the streets …
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New York Times:
Monsey Hanukkah Stabbing: 5 Wounded at Rabbi's Home in N.Y. Suburb  —  The governor called the violence an “act of domestic terrorism” after a suspect was arrested in Harlem.  —  MONSEY, N.Y. — An intruder with a large knife burst into the home of a Hasidic rabbi in a New York suburb on Saturday night …
New York Post:
Suspects released without bail after shocking attacks on Jews  —  Suspects arrested in last week's spree of eight anti-Semitic attacks are being quickly released right back into the neighborhoods they terrorized thanks to “bail reform” legislation — which doesn't even take effect until Jan. 1.
CBS New York:
At Least 5 People Stabbed By Machete-Wielding Suspect At Monsey Synagogue, Suspect Arrested In NYC  —  MONSEY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) - At least five people have been stabbed in an attack on a Rabbi's home in New York's Rockland County.  That attacker is now reportedly in custody after fleeing the scene.
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
How liberals are allowing anti-Semitism to flourish  —  Anti-Semitic attacks continue to shake our city and state.  Last week, eight attacks — including four in just in 48 hours — sent a familiar shockwave rippling through the Jewish community.  Then Saturday came the horrific stabbing in Monsey, New York.
Discussion: Slate and New York Times
Ariel Zilber / Daily Mail:
Police released this image taken from surveillance cameras showing a man investigators believe is connected to the attack  —  Tiffany Harris, 30, was arrested on a hate-crime harassment charge.  —  Also on Friday morning, an unidentified man wearing a hoodie walked into the headquarters …
Discussion: Vos Iz Neias and WND
Yonah Jeremy Bob / Jerusalem Post:
Will American Jews finally get hint about dangers they face? - analysis  —  Will this attack wake up American Jewry to the dangers they face so that all communities, even smaller and lower-profile ones, will finally get serious about security?  —  The multiple-victim stabbing attack overnight Saturday …
Associated Press:
5 stabbed at Hanukkah celebration in rabbi's New York home  —  MONSEY, N.Y. (AP) — As people gathered at a rabbi's home north of New York City to celebrate the seventh night of Hanukkah, police said a man stabbed and wounded five before fleeing in a vehicle.
WPIX:
There were alleged attacks on Jewish New Yorkers almost every day last week
Discussion: KTLA
Dennis Romero / NBC News:
Guardian Angels to patrol Jewish neighborhoods in New York City after recent attacks
Discussion: Fox News
NBC New York:
5 People Stabbed at Rabbi's Home in Rockland County, NY: Police
Discussion: DNyuz
The Daily Beast:
Graham: Rudy Should Scrub Evidence for Russian Propaganda  —  In the weeks leading up to their impeachment trial, senators on Capitol Hill are actively avoiding meeting with President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani—partly because they fear he might try to pass off Russian conspiracy theories …
Adia Robinson / ABC News:
‘No exoneration’ if impeachment trial ‘rigged’ by McConnell, senator says  —  Pelosi and McConnell have been at an impasse over the Senate impeachment trial.  —  Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski put her finger on a key issue of an impeachment trial when she expressed concern …
Discussion: The Hill and Breitbart
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden still leads Democratic race as Warren drops
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Associated Press
Michael Moran / Dailystar.co.uk:
Huge triangular UFO captured on video gliding through sky above New York  —  The strange object hung immobile above the clouds for several minutes, at one point ejecting a red ‘orb’  —  2019 has been a remarkable year for UFO sightings.  —  Partly because drones are so commonplace now …
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Left presses 2020 Democrats to retake the courts from Trump  —  Democratic presidential contenders are facing increasing pressure to detail their plans for filling federal court vacancies amid angst over President Trump's success in packing the benches with conservative judges.
Discussion: Politico
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Phillip Nieto / The Daily Caller:
'If He'd Take It, Yes': Biden Open To Nominating Obama For Supreme Court
Helen Whitehouse / Mirror.co.uk:
Transgender man gives birth to non-binary partner's baby with female sperm donor  —  EXCLUSIVE: Proud dad Reuben Sharpe has revealed how he gave birth to miracle baby Jamie with partner Jay in Britain's most modern family - and even the couple's doctor was transgender
Discussion: The Sun and Twitchy
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Trump downplays concerns of North Korea's ‘Christmas gift’: Maybe it's ‘a beautiful vase’  —  Officials are on alert this week for a potential long-range missile test.  —  After months of stalled nuclear negotiations and ratcheting up rhetoric, North Korea has promised to deliver a …
Discussion: Bloomberg, The Hill, Politico and The Week
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Adia Robinson / ABC News:
After ‘high-level’ diplomacy, North Korea may have reconsidered ‘Christmas gift’: National …
Discussion: The Week, Contemptor and The Hill
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Statement From Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Jonathan Hoffman  —  In response to repeated Kata'ib Hizbollah (KH) attacks on Iraqi bases that host Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) coalition forces, U.S. forces have conducted precision defensive strikes against five KH facilities in Iraq …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
U.S. companies are forcing workers to train their own foreign replacements  —  Opponents of job outsourcing are making a holiday-season appeal to President Trump: Stop U.S. companies from forcing American workers to train the very same cheaper foreign laborers who will soon replace them.
Discussion: SDxCentral, Alternet.org and Raw Story
Linda Carroll / NBC News:
'It's not going away': Vets still seeing cases of dog heart problems linked to grain-free food  —  Exotic ingredients and boutique brands may also be linked to the health issues.  —  Debbie Turner remembers the shock when a veterinary specialist said her beloved dog, Kanga Lu, had severe heart damage.
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 …
Kashmira Gander / Newsweek:
Record hit for most ice to melt in Antarctica in one day, data suggests: “We are in a climate emergency”  —  The record in recent decades for the highest level of ice to melt in Antarctica in one day was reached on Christmas Eve, data suggests.  —  Around 15 percent of the continent's surface melted …
Discussion: Althouse and Gizmodo
Zachary Siegel / NBC News:
Opioids, pot and criminal justice reform helped undermine this decade's War on Drugs  —  With an extraordinary number of Americans suffering, the door has opened to understanding and treating the pain of drug use rather than apply brute force.  —  This much we know: Americans like to do drugs.
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Searching for truth in an era of ‘alternative facts’: Disinformation in the age of Trump  —  On a special edition of “Meet the Press,” top journalists discuss the challenges of finding the facts amid growing disinformation.  —  WASHINGTON — In an era of politics and journalism that includes …
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Wall Street Journal:
White House Counsel Drives Aggressive Trump Impeachment Defense
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Inside the Biggest 2020 Advertising War Against Trump
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
GOP senator says he doesn't think Trump “as a person” is a role model for kids
Discussion: Breitbart
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
How a Chase Bank Chairman Helped the Deposed Shah of Iran Enter the U.S.
Associated Press:
Taliban council agrees to cease-fire in Afghanistan
New York Post:
Ex-Rikers inmates use city-funded debit cards to buy booze, juul pods
Armando Garcia / ABC News:
Andrew Yang pressed on health care plan: 'I support the spirit of 'Medicare for All"
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CNN:
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Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Elizabeth Warren releases new anti-corruption campaign ad in Iowa
Discussion: NBC News and Associated Press
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CNBC:
Comcast confirms plans to spin off its NBCUniversal cable TV networks, including MSNBC and CNBC, with Mark Lazarus as CEO; the separation may take about a year

James Warrington / Telegraph:
Almost 93% of 600 Guardian and Observer staff organized by the NUJ vote in favor of strike action over the proposed sale of The Observer to Tortoise

Kanis Leung / Associated Press:
Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai testifies for the first time in his years-long national security trial; he is already serving a jail term for a fraud conviction
 
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