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Geoff Brumfiel / NPR:
Satellite Photos Reveal Extent Of Damage From Iranian Strike On Air Base In Iraq  —  Satellite photos taken Wednesday show that an Iranian missile strike has caused extensive damage at the Ain al-Assad air base in Iraq, which hosts U.S. and coalition troops.
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USA Today:
President Donald Trump addresses nation after Iran's attack - latest updates  —  David Jackson John Fritze Courtney SubramanianUSA TODAY  —  WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is addressing the nation from the Grand Foyer at White House just hours after Iran rained more than a dozen rockets …
Discussion: The Week
CNN:
Some administration officials believe Iran intentionally missed areas with Americans  —  Washington (CNN)There is a growing belief among some Trump administration officials that Iran's missiles intentionally missed areas populated by Americans when they targeted two Iraqi bases housing US …
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Trump We Did Not Want to See  —  When are we going to stop trying to rationalize the irrational?  —  Much of the work of H.P. Lovecraft, an American horror and science fiction writer who worked during the first decades of the 20th century, is defined by individual encounters with the incomprehensible …
Matthew Dresch / Mirror.co.uk:   Satellite image shows US airbase hit by Iranian missiles in revenge attack
Brad Reed / Raw Story:   ‘Their undoing will inevitably come’: Rev. William Barber explains why Trump-loving evangelicals are doomed
Washington Post:
U.S. officials knew Iranian missiles were coming hours in advance
Discussion: Common Dreams
Washington Post:
Proclaiming Trump victorious in Iran is shortsighted and premature
Discussion: Raw Story
Reverend William Barber / The Guardian:   Evangelicals using religion for political gain is nothing new. It is a US tradition
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Senate Democrats break with Pelosi over impeachment trial  —  Democrats are finally acknowledging that their efforts to extract concessions from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on President Donald Trump's impeachment trial are coming to an end.  —  Though Speaker Nancy Pelosi …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell's win on impeachment trial procedure was months in the making
Bloomberg:   McConnell Moves to Bolster GOP Odds in 2020 Kansas Senate Race
Kansas City Star:
Kansas Democrat Bollier raises more than $1 million; Senate race heats up without Pompeo
Discussion: Inside Elections
Associated Press:
Ukrainian airplane crashes near Iran's capital, killing 176  —  SHAHEDSHAHR, Iran (AP) — A Ukrainian passenger jet carrying 176 people crashed on Wednesday, just minutes after taking off from the Iranian capital's main airport, turning farmland on the outskirts of Tehran into fields of flaming debris and killing all on board.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump is a war president now
David Martosko / Daily Mail:   Was the Ukrainian jet brought down by an Iranian missile …
Associated Press:
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle ‘to step back’ as senior members of royal family … In a stunning declaration, Britain's Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, said they are planning “to step back” as senior members of the royal family and “work to become financially independent.”
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Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
Did Donald Trump and Iran Use Twitter to Prevent a War?  —  Tweets from US president Donald Trump and Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif Tuesday offered a fascinating glimpse at how world leaders can communicate more quickly and directly than ever in times of crisis.
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:   Republican hawks won't push Trump to escalate Iran conflict
Jacqueline Feldscher / Politico:
'It's terrible': Fears grow that Trump is kneecapping the Pentagon
Discussion: Raw Story
Damien Cave / New York Times:
How Rupert Murdoch Is Influencing Australia's Bushfire Debate  —  Critics see a concerted effort to shift blame, protect conservative leaders and divert attention from climate change.  —  WOMBEYAN CAVES, Australia — Deep in the burning forests south of Sydney this week …
Joanna Piacenza / Morning Consult:
Can You Locate Iran?  Few Voters Can.  —  A 47% plurality support the airstrike that killed Soleimani  —  Morning Consult Illustration by Vladimir Gorshkov  —  As tensions between the United States and Iran rise in the aftermath of the American drone strike that killed the country's …
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Geraldine Brooks / New York Times:
Iranian Blood Is on Our Hands, Too
Discussion: Reason and The Week
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Twitter will put options to limit replies directly on the compose screen  —  Several features inspired by Twitter's beta app are coming  —  Speaking today at a CES event in Las Vegas, Twitter's director of product management, Suzanne Xie, unveiled some new changes that are coming to the platform this year …
Public Policy Polling:
Democratic Unity Will Determine Trump's Fate  —  Over the last couple weeks PPP did polls testing the leading Democratic contenders for President against Donald Trump in both Arizona and Iowa.  —  On the surface the numbers are decent but not amazing for Democrats.  Donald Trump won Arizona by 4 points in 2016.
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Ben Kesslen / NBC News:
Kentucky judge accused of courthouse threesome is suspended  —  Judge Dawn Gentry, who is facing nine counts of misconduct, denies engaging in sexual activity at the courthouse with two employees.  —  A Kentucky family court judge was suspended temporarily without pay after she was accused of misconduct …
Discussion: Above the Law
Craig Karmin / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Organization Sets Jan. 23 Deadline for Bids on Washington Hotel  —  Private equity, wealthy families, hotel operators expected to make offers  —  President Trump's real-estate business is telling potential bidders for its marquee Washington hotel that they have until Jan. 23 to make an offer …
Discussion: Alternet.org and The Hill
CNN:
Glacier National Park is replacing signs that predicted its glaciers would be gone by 2020  —  (CNN)The signs at Glacier National Park warning that its signature glaciers would be gone by 2020 are being changed.  —  The signs in the Montana park were added more than a decade ago …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
The Church of Scientology Says Danny Masterson Stalking Suit Must Go to “Religious Arbitration”  —  New court papers argue that four suing women consented to “ecclesiastical rule” and forever relinquished their right to sue.  —  Can the Church of Scientology escape the U.S. civil justice system?
CNN:
How Ruth Bader Ginsburg is trying to check the conservative majority  —  Washington (CNN)Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is in the liberal minority on the Supreme Court but has a way of steering the debate on a case.  —  Ginsburg spoke to CNN in a rare interview in her chambers this week.
Discussion: Axios
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Trump's ‘crappy’ Iran speech torn to shreds after he spent much of it attacking Obama  —  President Donald Trump's big speech about the situation in Iran is not getting strong early reviews, in no small part because he spent much of it blaming former President Barack Obama for the current tensions with Tehran.
Discussion: Alternet.org
Dalmeet Singh Chawla / Science:
Russian journals retract more than 800 papers after ‘bombshell’ investigation  —  Academic journals in Russia are retracting more than 800 papers following a probe into unethical publication practices by a commission appointed by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
James Beal / The Sun US:
PRESIDENT AND THE ‘PIMP’ Bill Clinton poses with Epstein's ‘pimp’ Ghislaine Maxwell and a sex slave on board private jet the ‘Lolita Express’  —  BILL Clinton poses side-by-side with suspected pimp Ghislaine Maxwell - as the pair board pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's notorious private jet.
 
 
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Claudia Vargas / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Republicans ‘got greedy’ in drawing Pennsylvania congressional maps, new documents say
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
How Elizabeth Warren Is Being Squeezed by the Left and Center
Discussion: The Atlantic
Ronnie Koenig / TODAY.com:
Kristen Welker named new co-anchor of Weekend TODAY
BuzzFeed News:
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Zach Dorfman / Foreign Policy:
Iran's Revenge Plans Are Bigger Than Missile Strikes
Discussion: Lawfare and Brookings
Joshua Jamerson / Wall Street Journal:
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Bloomberg to join Abrams' voting rights summit on Friday in Atlanta
Discussion: The Hill and Axios
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A popular theory for Trump's popularity among Republicans appears to be wrong
Discussion: Gallup and National Review
Jonah Goldberg / The Dispatch:
The Right's Bullsh*t Problem
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The media should spotlight a different kind of war expert: Those who voted ‘no’ on Iraq
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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