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10:55 AM ET, January 3, 2020

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New York Times:
U.S. Strike in Iraq Kills Qassim Suleimani, Commander of Iranian Forces  —  Suleimani was planning attacks on Americans across the region, leading to an airstrike in Baghdad, the Pentagon statement said.  Iran's supreme leader called for vengeance.  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. …
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Mohammad Ali Shabani / The Guardian:
Donald Trump's assassination of Qassem Suleimani will come back to haunt him  —  The Quds force leader had the status of national hero even among secular Iranians.  His death could act as a rallying cry  —  The US has assassinated Qassem Suleimani, the famed leader of Iran's Quds force …
Discussion: DNyuz
Washington Post:
Airstrike at Baghdad airport kills Iran's most revered military leader, Qassem Soleimani, Iraqi state television reports  —  BREAKING: It was not clear who carried out the strike, but the death of Soleimani, the Iranian Quds Force commander, seems certain to send tensions soaring between the United States and Iran.
Axios:
The U.S. takes a war footing against Iran after Soleimani strike  —  President Trump, after warning three days ago that Iran would pay “a very BIG PRICE,” authorized a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport that killed Iran's top general and second most powerful official, Qasem Soleimani.
Mehdi Hasan / The Intercept:
Four Years Ago, Trump Had No Clue Who Iran's Suleimani Was.  Now He May Have Kicked Off WWIII.  —  President Donald Trump makes a video call to the troops stationed worldwide at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 24, 2019.  —  Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images
Discussion: The Guardian, DNyuz, CNN and fox13now.com
Andrew Exum / The Atlantic:
Iran Loses Its Indispensable Man  —  The United States has killed Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps's Quds Force.  The United States is now in a hot war with Iran after having waged war via proxies for the past several decades.
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
Michael Doran / New York Times:
Trump's Ground Game Against Iran  —  The assassination of Qassim Suleimani is a seismic event in the Middle East.  —  Mr. Doran is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and served in the departments of State and Defense, and on the National Security Council.
Qassim Abdul-zahra / Associated Press:
Iran's Gen. Soleimani killed in airstrike at Baghdad airport  —  Baghdad (AP) — Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, was killed in an airstrike at Baghdad's international airport Friday, Iraqi television and three Iraqi officials said.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Statement by the Department of Defense  —  At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
Ray Takeyh / Politico:
Iran Loses Its Imperial Strategist  —  After years of striding across the Middle East seemingly in command of the region, General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Quds Brigade, was finally killed by American airstrikes early Friday morning.  History will not mourn one of the great mass murderers …
Stanley McChrystal / Foreign Policy:
Iran's Deadly Puppet Master  —  Gen. Stanley McChrystal explains exactly why Qassem Suleimani is so dangerous.  —  The decision not to act is often the hardest one to make—and it isn't always right.  In 2007, I watched a string of vehicles pass from Iran into northern Iraq.
Discussion: New York Times
HuffPost:
Top Senate Democrat Received No Advance Notice Of U.S. Strike On Iran General  —  Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) was not aware of the Trump administration's plan to escalate tensions with Iran by killing Qassem Sulaimani, an aide said.  —  The Trump administration did not inform Sen. Chuck Schumer …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Trump Calls the Ayatollah's Bluff
Discussion: BizPac Review and Instapundit
Jake Novak / CNBC:
Op-Ed: America just took out a man many consider the world's No. 1 bad guy
Discussion: Vox, Defense One and Commentary
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Republicans celebrate death of Qasem Soleimani
Discussion: The Daily Beast, The Hill and Breitbart
Washington Examiner:
Iranian malevolence justified Trump's order to kill Qassim Soleimani
New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren's Fourth-Quarter Total Is $21.2 Million, Her Campaign Says  —  Ms. Warren's fund-raising haul for the last three months of the year represented a slight dip and placed her behind three top rivals.  —  Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts raised $21.2 million …
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Ryan C. Brooks / BuzzFeed News:   Trump's Strike Has Drawn A Sharp Line Between The Democrats Running For President
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Amy Klobuchar Raised $11.4 Million in Fourth Quarter, Her Campaign Says
Discussion: CNBC and HuffPost
Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed News:
Robert Mueller's Secret Memos, Part 3: The Documents The Justice Department Didn't Want Congress To See  —  BuzzFeed News sued the US government for the right to see all the work that Robert Mueller's team kept secret.  Today we are publishing the third installment of the FBI's summaries of interviews with key witnesses.
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:   Manafort Said Hannity Served as His Trump Backchannel: Docs
FiveThirtyEight:
Our Poll Finds A Majority Of Americans Think The Evidence Supports Trump's Removal  —  After the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump on Dec. 18, the president's fate is in the Senate's hands.  The process for the trial still isn't clear, but there are signs that it will likely …
Discussion: Raw Story
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John Wagner / Washington Post:   Americans roughly divided on whether voters should decide Trump's fate rather than the Senate
Richard Flanagan / New York Times:
Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide  —  As record fires rage, the country's leaders seem intent on sending it to its doom.  —  Mr. Flanagan is an Australian novelist.  —  BRUNY ISLAND, Tasmania — Australia today is ground zero for the climate catastrophe.
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Ridiculously Optimistic History of the Next Decade  —  A fantasy of what could come true.  —  Looking back at the 2020s from our vantage point in 2030, the first great event was the complete destruction of Donald Trump's Republican Party.  As the former Republican consultant Mike Murphy had noticed …
Peter Allen / Daily Mail:
‘Terrorist’ knifeman wearing a fake explosive vest is shot dead in Paris after stabbing four people, killing one and leaving two more ‘critical’  —  An alleged terrorist stabbed one person to death in Paris this afternoon and wounded four others with knives before he was shot dead by police.
Discussion: Townhall
Wall Street Journal:
Police Tracked a Terror Suspect—Until His Phone Went Dark After a Facebook Warning  —  Faced with strong encryption, law-enforcement agencies in Western Europe turned to Israeli company NSO Group to pursue data on WhatsApp messaging tool  —  A team of European law-enforcement officials …
Discussion: Instapundit
Andrew Bradford / Deep Left Field:
Congressman Accuses Trump Of Stock Market Fraud And Opens Investigation  —  The House of Representatives may soon be able to add a new high crime and misdemeanor to the growing list of articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.  —  Specifically, Trump is suspected of manipulating futures …
 
 
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