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The Daily Beast:
Trump Told Mar-a-Lago Pals to Expect ‘Big’ Iran Action ‘Soon’ — Attendees of a closed-door Senate briefing didn't get much more clarity than the club guests did. Instead, officials spun Soleimani's slaying as a way to “de-escalate” tensions. — In the five days prior to launching …
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Washington Post:
How Trump decided to kill a top Iranian general — On Sunday, President Trump's most senior national security advisers joined him at his Mar-a- — Lago resort in Florida, where Trump was beginning the second week of his holiday vacation. The officials told reporters that U.S. F-15 Strike Eagles …
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
How Trump decided to kill Iran's Soleimani — Hours before the U.S. military sent a Reaper drone to kill one of the most wanted men on the planet, President Donald Trump was relaxing at his palatial Florida properties. In the morning, he played 18 holes at Trump International, his West Palm Beach golf club.
Washington Post:
Trump plunges toward the kind of Middle Eastern conflict he pledged to avoid — With a single momentous decision to authorize a drone strike killing a top Iranian commander in Baghdad, President Trump immediately thrust himself into the center of a volatile and unpredictable region …
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Balloon Juice and DNyuz
David S. Cloud / Los Angeles Times:
How Trump made the decision to kill Suleimani — When President Trump's national security team came to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday, they weren't expecting him to approve an operation to kill Gen. Qassem Suleimani. — Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo …
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Trump Orders Defense Department To Publicly Confirm Assassination Of Iranian General — In a break from long-standing intelligence practices, President Donald Trump ordered the Defense Department to confirm that the United States was behind the missile strike that killed Qassem Soleimani …
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Fox News and New York Post
John Daniszewski / Associated Press:
Was the drone attack on Iranian general an assassination? — FILE- In this Sept. 18, 2016 photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, center, attends a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Revolutionary Guard commanders in Tehran, Iran.
Mother Jones:
With a War Against Iran Brewing, Don't Listen to the Hawks Who Lied Us Into Iraq — Here we go again. — Shortly after the news broke that a US airstrike in Baghdad ordered by President Donald Trump had killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran's Quds Force …
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The Daily Caller, BizPac Review, Daily Kos and New York Times
Ross Ibbetson / Daily Mail:
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with family members of the killed general — And he vowed to take whatever action necessary to combat terrorism. — 'The United States has the best military by far anywhere in the world. We have the best intelligence in the world.
Curtis Houck / NB Blog:
Embarrassing: ‘NBC Nightly News’ Turns Itself into Infomercial for Iranian Regime
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TASS
NBC News:
Planned attacks against U.S. targets in Syria, Lebanon were reason for Soleimani strike, say officials
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CBS News, Associated Press, Letters from an American, The Economic Collapse and Common Dreams
Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
Killing Soleimani Was The Right Move, And Shows Precisely Why It's Time To Leave Iraq
New York Times:
A Shocked Iraq Reconsiders Its Relationship With the U.S.
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Los Angeles Times, americamagazine.org and The Week
Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:
Will There Be a Draft? Young People Worry After Military Strike
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CNN, Mashable, Michigan Advance and DNyuz
Washington Post:
Trump endorses tweet comparing top Senate Democrat to Iranians
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The National Interest, Raw Story, Vanity Fair and Breitbart
Washington Post:
Yes, Soleimani was an enemy. That doesn't mean Trump made the right call.
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New York Times, New York Post, Raw Story, Informed Comment, Reuters, Mother Jones, The Atlantic and Althouse
Max Fisher / New York Times:
Is There a Risk of Wider War With Iran?
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Townhall, DNyuz and DCReport.org
Newsweek:
Iraqi militia leader may be among six killed in another U.S. drone strike in Baghdad
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DNyuz
Wesley Clark / Washington Post:
Killing a top Iranian military leader was a whack-for-tat move
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New Yorker, New York Times, Quartz, Washington Free Beacon and The Week
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
For Trump, a Risky Gamble to Deter Iran
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The National Interest, DNyuz, Townhall, ABC News, Associated Press, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Blue Delaware, Vanity Fair, Quartz, Gizmodo, Breitbart, Axios and Vox
Jason Rezaian / Washington Post:
All Iranians can agree on one thing: No one wants a war
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The Times of Israel, MarketWatch and Common Dreams
Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
In 1996 Interview, Biden Called Iranian Bombing ‘Act of War,’ Called for Tough Response
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Townhall, WND, Grabien News and Vox
New York Times:
White House Withholds 20 Emails Between Two Trump Aides on Ukraine Aid — It contends the release of the documents sought by The Times, would “inhibit the frank and candid exchange of views” in government decision-making. — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration disclosed on Friday …
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CNN, The Hill, Raw Story and Center for Public Integrity
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Democrats battle White House over executive power and congressional oversight — WASHINGTON — Attorneys for House Democrats on Friday challenged the Trump administration on its claims of executive powers, in two court hearings that, while not directly related to the
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Tess Bonn / The Hill:
Bloomberg rises to third place alongside Warren in national poll — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg saw a 6-point bump in the latest Hill.TV survey of the Democratic presidential primary. — The nationwide poll, which was released Friday, shows Bloomberg up from 5 percent …
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Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Trump children are 2 of the top 4 choices for Republicans in 2024 — Ready to skip 2020 and go straight to 2024? In a new SurveyMonkey poll, Republican voters chose children of President Trump — Don Jr. and Ivanka — as two of the top four picks for president in five years.
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Raw Story
New York Daily News:
McConnell and Pelosi dig in their heels on standoff over Trump impeachment trial — The standoff over President Trump's expected impeachment trial showed no signs of letting up Friday, as Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi accused each other of playing political football with the somber process.
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Melissa Etehad / Los Angeles Times:
Pence falsely links Iranian general to 9/11 attacks — On Friday afternoon, Vice President Mike Pence took to Twitter to justify the targeted U.S. attack that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Suleimani. — But scholars say his tweets contain several inaccuracies, including an allegation …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
When will Bernie Sanders get the scrutiny that top-tier candidates deserve? — Former vice president Joe Biden claims that the nearly year-long assault on his record has been entirely unsuccessful, showing that he can take a pummeling and keep fighting. Former South Bend, Ind. …
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Washington Times and IJR
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Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:
U.S. Official Central to Hawkish Iran Policies Departs NSC — Richard Goldberg pushed for tougher U.S. stance on Iran — John Bolton brought Goldberg to the National Security Council — Richard Goldberg, the U.S. National Security Council official who clashed with other members …
Matt Welch / Reason:
Reminder: American Officials Lie About War — “Don't trust liars—especially about matters of war and peace,” writes Vox's Matthew Yglesias. “Today's a day,” The Atlantic's David Frum posits, “when the most untruthful administration in US history will wish its statements could be believed.”
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New York Times, Raw Story, Media Matters for America and Washington Post
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Trump Rule Would Exclude Climate Change in Infrastructure Planning — WASHINGTON — Federal agencies would no longer have to take climate change into account when they assess the environmental impacts of highways, pipelines and other major infrastructure projects, according to a Trump administration plan …
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Gizmodo, Mother Jones and Axios
Thomas J. Wood / Politico:
No, We're Not Living in a Post-Fact World — Since President Donald Trump's election, if not before, a conventional wisdom has emerged that Americans are living in a “post-truth” age. Whether they're talking about Trump's dealings with Ukraine or debates about climate change, many journalists …
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