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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
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Thinks Attacking Iran Will Get Him Reelected. He's Wrong.
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Emily Singer / The American Independent:
Trump: Only a ‘weak’ and ‘ineffective’ president would start a war with Iran
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Ray Takeyh / Politico:
Why the Death of an Iranian Commander Won't Mean World War III
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Andrew Exum / The Atlantic:
Iran Loses Its Indispensable Man
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's Iran strike demands a serious response from Democrats
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Associated Press:
Trump says Iranian should have been ‘taken out’ years ago
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New York Times:
Iranian General Traveled With Impunity, Until U.S. Drones Found Him
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John Leicester / Associated Press:
‘A more dangerous world’: Iran killing triggers global alarm
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump just made his most consequential decision as president
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
The United States Is Now at War With Iran
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HuffPost:
Top Senate Democrats Received No Advance Notice Of U.S. Strike On Iran General
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
America's enemies are calling Trump's bluffs
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Trump Calls the Ayatollah's Bluff
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Washington Post:
Airstrike at Baghdad airport kills Iran's most revered military leader, Qassem Soleimani, Iraqi state television reports
New York Times:
Qassim Suleimani, Master of Iran's Intrigue, Built a Shiite Axis of Power in Mideast
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Qassim Abdul-zahra / Associated Press:
Iran's Gen. Soleimani killed in airstrike at Baghdad airport
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Steve Hayes / The Dispatch:
The Morning Dispatch: Qassem Suleimani Is Dead
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
What Trump said about Obama and war with Iran, and what it means now
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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 …
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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:
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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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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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