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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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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 …


Trump's One Foreign-Policy Idea Is to Make America More Like Its Enemies — President Trump's risky escalation of the conflict with Iran has confused many people who took him, if not for a dove exactly, then for a skeptic of wars, especially in the Middle East.
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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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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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Attacking Iran's Cultural Sites Would Violate the Hague Cultural Property Convention — On Sunday, President Trump — as he is wont to do when criticized — doubled down on his threat to bomb Iranian cultural sites if Iran attacks the United States in response to the killing of Qassim Suleimani.


Trump's order to kill Soleimani is already starting to backfire
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New York Times, The Week and Progress Pond

Scoop: Trump officials tried to stop Iraqi expulsion vote
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Secret Iranian Spy Cables Show How Qassim Suleimani Wielded His Enormous Power in Iraq
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American Greatness, CNN, Townhall, Bloomberg, Mother Jones and Wall Street Journal, more at Mediagazer »

POLITICO Playbook: Washington returns to a world in crisis
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The Hill and New York Times

Iran Challenges Trump, Announcing End of Nuclear Restrictions
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UPI, Outside the Beltway, The Week, Politico and Slate, more at Mediagazer »


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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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.


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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Golden Globes 2020: Ricky Gervais hits Hollywood stars exactly where it hurts — How Hollywood sees itself: dedicated craftsmen, important artists, world thought leaders. How Ricky Gervais (and everyone else) sees them: criminals, perverts and dopes — a gang of pretentious jerkwads …
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The Federalist and Page Six


Ricky Gervais' Golden Globes Monologue Mocks Hollywood's Jeffrey Epstein Ties
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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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Why Judge Judy Is Endorsing Mike Bloomberg for President Against Donald Trump
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CNN, New York Post and Florida Politics


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 …


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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US Citizens From Iran Were Stopped And Questioned At The US Border While Returning From Canada
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Border stops for people of Iranian descent spark outrage
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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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Pelosi announces war powers resolution as tensions with Iran escalate
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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.


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 …


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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Raw Story


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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Prospect of gun control in Virginia draws threats, promise of armed protest — RICHMOND — Gun rights advocates and militia members from around the country are urging thousands of armed protesters to descend on Virginia's capital later this month to stop newly empowered Democrats from passing gun-control bills.


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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