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1:45 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 …
Discussion: IJR and The Week
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. …
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.
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.
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.
Steve Goldstein / MarketWatch:
Why oil could hit $80 even without a ‘full-blown’ U.S.-Iran war  —  It's always useful to have a sense of Middle Eastern history, as financial markets swirled following the news of the U.S. airstrike that killed a prominent Iranian general in Baghdad.  —  So let's go way back to...September …
Discussion: TheBlaze, Spectator USA and Commentary
William Watts / MarketWatch:
Strait of Hormuz, the world's biggest oil chokepoint, in focus as U.S.-Iran tensions flare  —  The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway in the Middle East that marks the most sensitive transportation choke point for global oil supplies, was back in focus Friday after a U.S. airstrike killed …
Discussion: UPI
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, Defense One and DNyuz
Emily Singer / The American Independent:
Trump: Only a ‘weak’ and ‘ineffective’ president would start a war with Iran
Discussion: HuffPost
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Statement by the Department of Defense
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump just made his most consequential decision as president
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
The United States Is Now at War With Iran
Discussion: Vox, Jacobin, The Atlantic and The Hill
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
What Qassim Soleimani's killing means
Discussion: Townhall
Washington Post:
Airstrike at Baghdad airport kills Iran's most revered military leader, Qassem Soleimani, Iraqi state television reports
HuffPost:
Top Senate Democrat Received No Advance Notice Of U.S. Strike On Iran General
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Qassim Abdul-zahra / Associated Press:
Iran's Gen. Soleimani killed in airstrike at Baghdad airport
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
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Graham Says That He Was Briefed On Soleimani Strike During Golf Trip With Trump
Discussion: The Root, DNyuz and HuffPost
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
America's enemies are calling Trump's bluffs
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: The Hill, Talking Points Memo and IJR
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Why Democrats say they might not vote to convict Trump  —  Senate Democrats are expected to almost unanimously declare President Donald Trump guilty at the end of his impeachment trial.  But senators across the party's spectrum insist they haven't made up their mind.
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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
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Senate impeachment trial in flux amid Mideast crisis
Discussion: The Hill and The Week
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
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 …
Discussion: National Review, The Hill and Meduza.io
 
 
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