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12:40 PM ET, January 3, 2020

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Statement on Airstrike in Iraq Against High-Level Iranian Military Officials  —  Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the Trump Administration conducted a deadly airstrike targeting Iranians and Iraqis at the Baghdad International Airport:
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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
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
Ryan C. Brooks / BuzzFeed News:
Trump's Strike Has Drawn A Sharp Line Between The Democrats Running For President  —  The Democratic presidential candidates have split into an anti-war camp, led by Bernie Sanders, and a set of more nuanced responses to the killing of a key Iranian official, a rare and sharp contrast inside …
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. …
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.
Discussion: The Federalist and Washington Post
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's Iran strike demands a serious response from Democrats  —  President Trump's decision to order the assassination of Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, a major escalation that could unleash all sorts of bloody and terrifying consequences, should prompt Democrats to do two things without delay.
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.
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.
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 and DNyuz
Andrew Exum / The Atlantic:
Iran Loses Its Indispensable Man  —  The United States has killed Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Islamic 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.
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.
Emily Singer / The American Independent:
Trump: Only a ‘weak’ and ‘ineffective’ president would start a war with Iran
Discussion: HuffPost
Qassim Abdul-zahra / Associated Press:
Iran's Gen. Soleimani killed in airstrike at Baghdad airport
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Trump Calls the Ayatollah's Bluff
Discussion: BizPac Review and Instapundit
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:   What Qassim Soleimani's killing means
Robin Wright / New Yorker:
The Killing of Qassem Suleimani Is Tantamount to an Act of War
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
What Trump said about Obama and war with Iran, and what it means now
Discussion: One America News Network and DNyuz
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump just made his most consequential decision as president
Jake Novak / CNBC:
Op-Ed: America just took out a man many consider the world's No. 1 bad guy
Discussion: Defense One and Commentary
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
The United States Is Now at War With Iran
Discussion: The Atlantic, Vox, Jacobin and TheBlaze
Preston Ayres / WCYB:
Roe Retiring: Congressman won't seek another term  —  Tennessee Congressman Phil Roe is not running for re-election.  The six-term Republican announced Friday morning he will not seek a seventh term in 2020.  Roe was first elected to Congress in 2008 by defeating incumbent David Davis in the Republican primary.
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Whitley Alexander / U.S. Representative Phil Roe, M.D.:
Congressman Roe: “Thank you for giving me the opportunity to represent East Tennessee.”  —  f t # e  —  JOHNSON CITY, TENN.- Today, Rep. Phil Roe, M.D. (R-Tenn.) released the following statement after announcing he will retire at the end of the 116th Congress:
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Hill
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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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.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Apocalypse Becomes the New Normal
Discussion: Raw Story
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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