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Jim Sciutto / CNN:
Senior US officials say there is widespread opposition within the Trump administration to targeting cultural sites in Iran — Washington (CNN)Two senior US officials on Sunday described widespread opposition within the administration to targeting cultural sites in Iran should the United …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Threatens Iranian Cultural Sites, and Warns of Sanctions on Iraq — The president threatened Iran over potential retaliation for the death of a top general, and Iraq over the potential expulsion of United States troops. — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday evening doubled …
Washington Post:
Killing of Soleimani follows long push from Pompeo for aggressive action against Iran, but airstrike brings serious risks — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo woke on Tuesday to a 4 a.m. call alerting him to a large protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
For Trump, the Burden May Be Proving This Is Not the Moment His Critics Predicted — The president and his allies dismiss the criticism about Iran as partisan blowback from political adversaries too timid to take strong action against foreign enemies. — WASHINGTON — For three years …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump officials tried to stop Iraqi expulsion vote — The Trump administration tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade top Iraqi officials to kill a parliamentary effort to force the U.S. military out of Iraq, according to two U.S. officials and an Iraqi government official familiar with the situation.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's One Foreign-Policy Idea Is to Make America More Like Its Enemies
Trump's One Foreign-Policy Idea Is to Make America More Like Its Enemies
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Murtaza Hussain / The Intercept:
Secret Iranian Spy Cables Show How Qassim Suleimani Wielded His Enormous Power in Iraq
Secret Iranian Spy Cables Show How Qassim Suleimani Wielded His Enormous Power in Iraq
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Associated Press:
Weeping, Iran supreme leader prays over general slain by US
Weeping, Iran supreme leader prays over general slain by US
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New York Times:
Iran Shifts on a Landmark Nuclear Deal: Live Updates
Iran Shifts on a Landmark Nuclear Deal: Live Updates
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New York Times:
Iran Challenges Trump, Announcing End of Nuclear Restrictions
Iran Challenges Trump, Announcing End of Nuclear Restrictions
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Outside the Beltway and Politico
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Trump's order to kill Soleimani is already starting to backfire
Trump's order to kill Soleimani is already starting to backfire
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Progress Pond, The Guardian and New York Times
Lara Jakes / New York Times:
Defenders of History Take Aim at Trump's Threat to Strike Iran's Cultural Sites
Defenders of History Take Aim at Trump's Threat to Strike Iran's Cultural Sites
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Sam Adams / Slate:
Ricky Gervais' Golden Globes Jokes, Ranked In Order of Dickishness — Going into the Golden Globes, the biggest question was not who will win the night's biggest awards but how much of a jerk Ricky Gervais would be. Over the course of his four previous hosting gigs, Gervais has cultivated …
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Katie Kilkenny / Hollywood Reporter:
Ricky Gervais Tells Hollywood to “F*** Off” in Expletive-Filled Golden Globes Monologue — During his monologue, the ‘Office’ creator also took shots at Felicity Huffman and Jeffrey Epstein. — Ricky Gervais, once again, did not shy away from hot-button topics in his Golden Globes monologue …
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Lorraine Ali / Los Angeles Times:
Review: Politics reigned at the Golden Globes. Too bad Ricky Gervais didn't notice — Forget the escapist magic of Hollywood. Nihilism was the name of the game when host Ricky Gervais opened the Golden Globes on Sunday night with a gloom-and-doom monologue so cynical it made the effervescent Tom Hanks scowl.
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Ricky Gervais' Golden Globes Monologue Mocks Hollywood's Jeffrey Epstein Ties
Ricky Gervais' Golden Globes Monologue Mocks Hollywood's Jeffrey Epstein Ties
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Kyle Smith / New York Post:
Golden Globes 2020: Ricky Gervais hits Hollywood stars exactly where it hurts
Golden Globes 2020: Ricky Gervais hits Hollywood stars exactly where it hurts
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BuzzFeed News:
US Citizens From Iran Were Stopped And Questioned At The US Border While Returning From Canada — The questioning was the basis of viral social media claims that the US was detaining Iranians at border crossings. Customs and Border Protection said it was operating with …
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New York Times:
U.S. Stops Dozens of Iranian-Americans Returning From Canada — More than 60 people were held for additional questioning in Washington State, according to advocacy groups and accounts from travelers. — WASHINGTON — Dozens of Iranians and Iranian-Americans were held for hours …
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The Intercept
Andy Blatchford / Politico:
Border stops for people of Iranian descent spark outrage
Border stops for people of Iranian descent spark outrage
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Townhall, PR Newswire, HuffPost, Quartz, ImmigrationProf Blog, UPI and The Gateway Pundit
Politico:
Trump's German envoy blasts Europe over Iran — BERLIN — U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell took aim at European governments for failing to condemn Tehran over attacks it orchestrated over the past few months, as he justified America's assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Pelosi announces war powers resolution as tensions with Iran escalate
Pelosi announces war powers resolution as tensions with Iran escalate
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JONATHAN TURLEY and Associated Press
David Siders / Politico:
The very real scenario of a protracted, ‘bizarro world’ Democratic primary — Democrats are now beginning to confront a very real scenario where the nomination — and the winnowing — will not be decided in states where campaigns have been plowing ground for more than a year …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
A Democrat Who Can Beat Trump — Why Amy Klobuchar still has a chance. — If you're like a lot of Democrats, you worry that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are too liberal — or at least that other voters think so. You're also not buying the Pete Buttigieg hype.
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
One Year in Washington Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reshaped her party's agenda, resuscitated Bernie Sanders's campaign, and hardly has a friend in town. — The corridors of Capitol Hill are a marbled monotony, with Oxford heels clacking around corners indistinguishable from one another …
Ted Nesi / WPRI-TV:
Chafee files to run for president again — PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Former Gov. Lincoln Chafee is taking steps to make a second run for president, this time under a different party banner. — Chafee filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission on Sunday creating a Lincoln Chafee …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A Typical Trump Vacation, With a Momentous Result — For three years, President Trump's winter visits to Mar-a-Lago, his private club, have allowed him time to combine his personal and presidential business. But the juxtaposition this year was something quite different.
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CBS News:
60 Minutes investigates the death of Jeffrey Epstein — Jeffrey Epstein was a convicted sex offender and a wealthy financier with powerful friends. 60 Minutes examines the circumstances surrounding his death in a Manhattan federal jail cell. Warning: This report contains graphic images.
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Law & Crime, CBS New York and Mediaite
CNN:
Democratic leaders urge Trump to release Iran intelligence in new letter — Washington (CNN)Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Bob Menendez on Sunday sent President Donald Trump a letter urging him to declassify …
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Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
Deceased GOP Strategist's Daughter Makes Files Public That Republicans Wanted Sealed — More than a year after his death, a cache of computer files saved on the hard drives of Thomas Hofeller, a prominent Republican redistricting strategist, is becoming public.
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