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7:30 AM ET, January 3, 2020

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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.
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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.
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. …
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: Washington Post
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.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Republicans celebrate death of Qasem Soleimani  —  The Pentagon's confirmation Thursday night that Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian military commander and one of the regime's most powerful figures, was killed in airstrike ordered by President Trump set off immediate shock waves throughout Washington.
The Daily Beast:
U.S. Strike Kills Iran's Most Important Military Commander  —  Qassem Soleimani, the leader of the Iranian Qods Force, is dead in Iraq, perhaps turning a proxy war into a direct one.  —  In a drastic escalation of the U.S.' generation-long wars in the Middle East, a U.S. strike on Thursday …
Daniel Byman / Vox:
Killing Iran's Qassem Suleimani changes the game in the Middle East  —  But has Trump really thought out what comes next?  —  On Thursday night, the Pentagon announced that the United States killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, the head of Iran's paramilitary forces, in an airstrike in Iraq “at the direction of the President.”
Jake Novak / CNBC:
Op-Ed: America just took out a man many consider the world's No. 1 bad guy  — The killing of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani doesn't have the emotional power of the takedown of Osama bin Laden, but taking him out means much more in terms of saving current lives, writes opinion columnist Jake Novak.
Discussion: Commentary and Defense One
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.
Discussion: Quartz, The Dispatch, NBC News, NPR and TheStreet
Henry Austin / NBC News:
Esper: U.S. could ‘take pre-emptive action’ if Iran prepares fresh attacks
Discussion: Redstate and MSNBC
Wendy R. Sherman / USA Today:
Attack on US Embassy in Iraq shows Trump is failing. He walked into Iran's trap.
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Breitbart and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump needs to find a diplomatic exit from the Middle East hole he dug for himself
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  —  The former campaign chairman “understood his conversations with Hannity to be a message from Trump” after he came under scrutiny by the feds, according to newly released memos.  —  Paul Manafort said he used Fox News host Sean Hannity …
CNN:
READ: Newly released Mueller investigation FBI memos
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
Trump and the RNC raised almost half a billion dollars last year — and still had nearly $200 million heading into 2020  —  President Trump's political operation headed into 2020 with nearly $200 million on hand, according to party officials, giving him a financial war chest that vastly outstrips …
Discussion: Althouse and Politico
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Ascendant Bernie Sanders turns his focus to Joe Biden as Iowa nears
Washington Post:
Campaign fundraising hauls solidify Democratic leaders as Trump continues to amass financial firepower
Discussion: The Hill and Balloon Juice
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
It's Joe Biden's race to lose—if he can survive Iowa and New Hampshire
Discussion: Fox News and New York Times
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Susan Collins sounds like she's covering for Trump  —  In her never-ending quest to undermine her reputation as a straight-shooting, independent voice, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) continues to give Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) leeway to rig President Trump's impeachment trial.
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Democrats are the ones who stand to suffer by delaying the Senate impeachment trial
CNN:
White House budget official told Pentagon that order to hold Ukraine aid came from Trump, national security site reports
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 …
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 …
Bob Fredericks / New York Post:
Andrew McCabe said he lied to FBI about Wall Street Journal leak  —  Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe apologized for lying to agents who spent weeks investigating the source of a leak to the Wall Street Journal that actually came from him, new documents reveal.
Discussion: Power Line, Breitbart, Fox News and DNyuz
Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
Liz Crokin Predicts That Tom Hanks Will Soon Be Arrested for Involvement in Occult Pedophilia  —  Last year, right-wing “journalist” and Trump-worshiping conspiracy theorist Liz Crokin publicly declared that if the mass arrests long promised by those promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory …
John DiStaso / WMUR:
Democrat Marianne Williamson lays off campaign staff nationally, including NH  —  Financial issues force spiritual author, lecturer to drastically scale back her unorthodox presidential campaign  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. —  Marianne Williamson, who has been campaigning …
Jay Greene / Greenwich Time:
Amazon threatens to fire critics who are outspoken on its environmental policies  —  SEATTLE - Amazon has warned at least two employees who publicly criticized the company's environmental policies that they could be fired for future violations of its communications policy.
Discussion: GeekWire, Vox and NB Blog
Alex Tanzi / Yahoo News:
Florida Poised to Surpass New York in Congressional Seats  —  (Bloomberg) — Florida is expected to control more seats in the U.S. Congress than New York after April's decennial census, according to a study by Election Data Services Inc.  —  New York and California are projected to each lose …
Kaley Johnson / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Judge rules baby at Cook Children's can be taken off life support against family's wishes  —  A judge ruled Thursday that a 11-month-old baby can be taken off life support at Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth against the family's wishes.  —  The family of Tinslee Lewis …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Emma Dumain / The State:
Trey Gowdy won't join Trump's legal team.  'He doesn't need another lawyer'  —  Amid confusion late last year regarding his status on President Donald Trump's legal team, former Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy said Thursday he has no plans to formally assist the White House in its effort to defend …
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Manhattan DA Declines to Prosecute Anti-Semitic Attack as Hate Crime  —  The Manhattan district attorney's office has declined to prosecute a recent anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish subway passenger as a hate crime, according to lawyers representing the victim.
Discussion: The Lid, HotAir and The Right Scoop
 
 
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