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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
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Thinks Attacking Iran Will Get Him Reelected.  He's Wrong.  —  Beginning in 2011, and continuing through the next year, Donald Trump began obsessively predicting that President Obama would start a war with Iran in order to be reelected.  Trump stated it publicly, on at least a half-dozen occasions …
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 …
Discussion: IJR and The Week
Robin Wright / New Yorker:
The Killing of Qassem Suleimani Is Tantamount to an Act of War  —  On orders from President Trump, the United States killed Major General Qassem Suleimani, the leader of Iran's élite Quds Force and the mastermind of its military operations across the Middle East, in an overnight air strike at Baghdad's International Airport.
U.S. Embassy / U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Iraq:
Security Alert - U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, January 3, 2020  —  Home الصفح ة الرئي سية |  Security Alert - U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, January 3, 2020  —  Event: Due to heightened tensions in Iraq and the region …
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Soleimani posted memes antagonizing Trump on social media  —  Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq early Friday, wasn't just an infamous terrorist organizer and one of the regime's most powerful officials — he was also one of President Trump's social media antagonists.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Daily Kos
New York Times:
Iranian General Traveled With Impunity, Until U.S. Drones Found Him  —  President Trump's decision to kill General Suleimani was one that his predecessors had rejected, fearing it would lead to war.  —  WASHINGTON — One night in January 2007, American Special Operations commandos tracked …
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.
CBS News:
“There will be dead Americans” as a result of Iran general being killed, ex-CIA deputy director says  —  The targeted killing of Qassem Soleimani, one of Iran's top military leaders, has escalated tensions between the U.S. and Iran, with Iran vowing revenge.
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
The United States Is Now at War With Iran  —  There's no other way to look at the killing of Qassem Soleimani.  —  The United States is now at war with Iran.  —  This is the inescapable result of President Donald Trump's order to assassinate Major General Qassem Soleimani …
New York Times:
U.S. Strike in Iraq Kills Qassim Suleimani, Commander of Iranian Forces
Axios:
The U.S. takes a war footing against Iran after Soleimani strike
Wesley Clark / Washington Post:
Killing a top Iranian military leader was a whack-for-tat move
Marc Champion / Bloomberg:
Iran Options Appear Narrow as It Seeks to Avenge Slain General
Discussion: DNyuz
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Statement by the Department of Defense
William Watts / MarketWatch:
Strait of Hormuz, the world's biggest oil chokepoint, in focus as U.S.-Iran tensions flare
Discussion: UPI
Suzanne Maloney / Washington Post:   Iran knows how to bide its time. Don't expect immediate retaliation for Soleimani.
Tobias Hoonhout / National Review:
U.S. To Deploy Thousands of Troops to Middle East Following Soleimani Strike
Emily Singer / The American Independent:
Trump: Only a ‘weak’ and ‘ineffective’ president would start a war with Iran
Discussion: Axios, The Post Millennial and DNyuz
Sean Illing / Vox:
An expert on why the Suleimani assassination was almost certainly illegal
Discussion: The Federalist, The Hill and Raw Story
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump just made his most consequential decision as president
Discussion: Politico, Breitbart and The Guardian
Steve Goldstein / MarketWatch:
Why oil could hit $80 even without a ‘full-blown’ U.S.-Iran war
Discussion: The Atlantic, spiked and Algemeiner.com
Associated Press:
Warren, Klobuchar end 2019 lagging top rivals in fundraising
Discussion: The Hill, Politico, Vanity Fair and NBC News
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
What Qassim Soleimani's killing means
Discussion: Townhall
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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Nancy Dillon / New York Daily News:
Ex-Fox News reporter Courtney Friel claims Donald Trump invited her to Trump Tower to ‘kiss’  —  Former Fox News reporter Courtney Friel says Donald Trump called her with a creepy come-on before he became president — while they were both married.  —  Friel, who sometimes worked as a fill …
Discussion: Mediaite, The Week and HuffPost
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Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
Fox News reporter says Trump invited her to his office ‘so we can kiss’
Discussion: Mediaite
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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Washington Post:
Trump to court Latinos in Miami as part of launch of evangelical group  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump's reelection campaign on Friday will launch a new coalition to court evangelicals at a Latino megachurch in Miami, part of an effort to shore up support among Latino evangelicals whose backing …
Discussion: Alternet.org
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Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump works to avoid evangelical defections in 2020
Discussion: Miami Herald and Axios
CBS Boston:
Elizabeth Warren Says Killing Of Iran General Part Of ‘Escalating’ Attacks From Trump  —  BOSTON (CBS) - Former public school teacher turned big-time law professor Elizabeth Warren is an academic at heart.  So when the Massachusetts senator/Democratic presidential candidate sat …
Julie Zauzmer / Washington Post:
United Methodist Church is expected to split over gay marriage, fracturing the nation's third-largest denomination  —  Church leaders said Friday they had agreed to spin off a “traditionalist Methodist” denomination, and allow the remainder of the denomination to permit same-sex marriage …
 
 
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