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9:50 PM ET, January 9, 2020

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Washington Post:
Justice Dept. winds down Clinton-related inquiry once championed by Trump.  It found nothing of consequence.  —  A Justice Department inquiry launched more than two years ago to mollify conservatives clamoring for more investigations of Hillary Clinton has effectively ended with no tangible results …
Discussion: The Hill, Law & Crime and Raw Story
New York Times:
Video Shows Ukrainian Plane Being Hit Over Iran  —  The New York Times has obtained video that shows the moment a Ukrainian airliner was hit minutes after takeoff from Tehran.  —  Video verified by The New York Times appears to show an Iranian missile hitting a plane above Parand …
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Newsweek:
Iranian missile system shot down Ukraine flight, probably by mistake, sources say  —  The Ukrainian flight that crashed just outside the Iranian capital of Tehran was struck by an anti-aircraft missile system, a Pentagon official, a senior U.S. intelligence official and an Iraqi intelligence official told Newsweek.
New York Times:
Iranian Missile Accidentally Brought Down Ukrainian Jet, Officials Say, Citing Early Evidence  —  An Iranian surface-to-air missile brought down the jetliner, killing everyone aboard, Canada's prime minister said, citing intelligence reports and echoing U.S. officials' conclusions.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Who Will Win The 2020 Democratic Nomination?  —  Our latest forecast for how many pledged delegates each candidate will win after all states have voted  —  FiveThirtyEight's model simulates the primary season thousands of times to find the most likely outcome for each candidate.
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden and Sanders vie for lead in Nevada, Biden tops Trump  —  Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders remain the top picks for the Democratic nomination among Nevada caucusgoers, while Elizabeth Warren fades and Tom Steyer gains momentum.  In the general election contest …
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Four-Way Fight in Dem Primary  —  Granite State voters divided on whether all Dems have equal voice in nomination  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Support for former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has grown while backing for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Races tighten between Trump and Democrats in Wisconsin
Discussion: The Hill
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden ahead by 21 points among South Carolina Democrats
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
CNN:   Democrats slept on Bernie Sanders. Now he's surging as Iowa approaches
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
GOP senator who erupted over Iran briefing shares awful new details  —  If President Trump made the decision to assassinate the supreme leader of Iran, would he need to come to Congress to get authorization for it?  —  The Trump administration won't say.  —  That remarkable claim …
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Josh Israel / The American Independent:
House votes to rein in Trump's war powers over Iran strike
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Just Security:   Why the 2002 AUMF Does Not Apply to Iran
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Army general denies request by officer pardoned by Trump to have his Special Forces tab reinstated  —  An Army general has denied a request by an officer pardoned in an open murder case by President Trump to have his Special Forces tab reinstated, setting up a potential showdown between senior defense officials and the White House.
Afua Hirsch / New York Times:
Black Britons Know Why Meghan Markle Wants Out  —  It's the racism.  —  Ms. Hirsch is the author of “Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging.”  —  The British press has succeeded in its apparent project of hounding Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, out of Britain.
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Rebecca English / Daily Mail:
Harry and Meghan to step back as senior royals
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Going Rogue: Prince Harry and Meghan Caught the Palace Off Guard
Discussion: Bloomberg, Vanity Fair and ITV
Molly Ball / TIME:
'We've Upped the Ante.' Why Nancy Pelosi Is Going All in Against Trump  —  Nancy Pelosi isn't wild about the question.  The impeachment of President Donald Trump is under way, and I've asked the Speaker of the House if she thinks it's the most important thing she'll ever do.
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Rep. Stefanik tweets altered photo of Pelosi in GOP fundraising appeal
Will Steakin / ABC News:
Trump hits campaign trial in Ohio amid dampening Iran crisis
Discussion: The Hill and IJR
Tom Winter / NBC News:
Surveillance video from Jeffrey Epstein's first apparent suicide attempt ‘no longer exists’  —  Officials at the federal jail housing Epstein preserved video from the wrong floor due to a clerical error.  —  The surveillance footage taken from outside Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News:
Surveillance video of Jeffrey Epstein's cell during suicide attempt was destroyed: prosecutors  —  Surveillance footage from outside Jeffrey Epstein's cell during his suicide attempt was destroyed, prosecutors revealed Thursday.  —  The revelation in a letter filed by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Maurene Comey …
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
College Professor Out After Joke Suggesting Iran List U.S. Cultural Targets  —  Asheen Phansey is no longer employed by Babson College after joking that Iran should target Minnesota's Mall of America and a home of the Kardashian family.  —  An adjunct professor is no longer on staff …
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Adam Steinbaugh / FIRE:
Babson College abandons freedom of expression, fires professor over Facebook post criticizing Trump threat to bomb Iran cultural sites  —  At Babson College, the climate of freedom of expression feels like 2003 all over again.  Today, the college announced its completion of a “thorough investigation” …
Discussion: Fox News, New York Post and Breitbart
Devan Cole / CNN:
‘I left parts of my body in Iraq’: Duckworth rips into GOP rep who said Democrats ‘love’ terrorists  —  Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who lost both of her legs serving in the Iraq War, on Thursday ripped into the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee …
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Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Trump remarks ignite conflicting claims about plot against US embassy
CNN:
How Pompeo convinced Trump to kill Soleimani and fulfilled a decade-long goal
Discussion: KTLA
David Brooks / New York Times:
Trump Has Made Us All Stupid  —  The decline of discourse in the anti-Trump echo chamber.  —  Donald Trump is impulse-driven, ignorant, narcissistic and intellectually dishonest.  So you'd think that those of us in the anti-Trump camp would go out of our way to show we're not like him …
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Exclusive: Americans say Soleimani's killing made US less safe, Trump ‘reckless’ on Iran
Roger Kimball / Spectator USA:   Eliminating Qasem Soleimani was Donald Trump's Middle East farewell letter
Natalie Kitroeff / New York Times:
Boeing Employees Mocked F.A.A. in Internal Messages  —  “We regret the content of these communications, and apologize to the F.A.A., Congress, our airline customers, and to the flying public for them,” the company said.  —  Boeing sent Congress more than a hundred pages of documents on Thursday …
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell backs measure to change Senate rules, dismiss impeachment without articles  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is backing a resolution to change the Senate's rules to allow for lawmakers to dismiss articles of impeachment against President Trump before the House sends them over.
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Rudy Giuliani / The Daily Caller:
The Supreme Court Should Step In To Rule This Impeachment Unconstitutional  —  Democrats' obsession from day one to impeach President Donald J. Trump, without regard to substance or process, led them to change the grounds for impeachment every couple of months.
Discussion: Washington Post, Fox News and Raw Story
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Maybe Nominating Bloomberg for President Isn't a Crazy Idea  —  Not long ago, my teenaged kids and one of their friends asked me what I thought about Michael Bloomberg's presidential campaign.  The question momentarily took me aback, since even though I spend hours a day following campaign coverage …
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Around the Country in 17 Hours With Michael Bloomberg
Discussion: Axios
Priscilla DeGregory / New York Post:
Judge denies Trump's bid to have E. Jean Carroll's defamation suit tossed  —  New York journalist E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit against President Trump will go forward after a judge denied the president's bid to toss her case.  —  Last week, Trump asked a judge to dismiss the Elle magazine …
Discussion: New York Times
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Jennifer Peltz / Associated Press:   Judge denies Trump effort to stop columnist defamation suit
CREW:
CREW Sues DOJ for Failing to Release Whitaker's Financial Disclosures  —  Who is Matthew Whitaker?  —  Whitaker joined the Trump administration in October 2017 and served as Acting Attorney General from November 2018 to March 2019.  —  Prior to his tenure in the Trump administration …
Robert Mackey / The Intercept:
Republicans Attack Democrats for Saying Qassim Suleimani Was Assassinated, and Reporters Play Along  —  The extent to which Republican talking points shape the political debate on American television was on full display on Tuesday's edition of “The View,” when Meghan McCain falsely accused …
Spectrum News NY State of Politics:
A Visual Representation of New York in 2020, as Designed by Cuomo  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 10th State of the State address had a lot of concepts — both big and small.  The speech is thousands of words, and, the over-arching agenda fits into a small book of 318 pages.  So, how can that be visually represented?
Discussion: New York Post and Twitchy
 
 
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Philip Van Cleave / Politifact.com Truth-O …:
Did Biden laud a Paul Ryan proposal to cut Social Security as Bernie Sanders' campaign said?
Discussion: Bern Notice
Sarah Posner / New Republic:
The Evangelicals Who Pray for War With Iran
Discussion: SantaFeToday.com and CBS News
Alex Thomas / IJR:
New GOP Senator Will Sit on Committee Overseeing Agency That Regulates Her Husband's Business
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
New York Times:
Who Killed the Knapp Family?
Charlotte Edwards / New York Post:
New research finds Jupiter is flinging asteroids at Earth
Discussion: The Sun
Kathy Mccormack / Associated Press:
Dixville Notch finds enough people to retain claim to fame
Elizabeth Vaughn / Redstate:
‘Beloved Hero’: Chris Matthews Compares Soleimani to Princess Diana and Elvis
Discussion: Twitchy
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Eric Garcetti endorses Joe Biden for president
Discussion: Axios
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Millions of Americans devastated to learn they were ardent fans of Soleimani this whole time
Discussion: CNN
U.S. Department of Justice:
Queens Woman Sentenced to 15 Years' Imprisonment for Teaching and Distributing Information …
Discussion: Fox News and The Hill
Jonathan Bernstein / Yahoo News:
Why Utah's Mike Lee Might Actually Vote to Remove Trump
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
ABC News:
Bloomberg won't release women who sued him from secrecy agreements
Discussion: The Hill
Ali Zerdin / Associated Press:
Statue mocking Donald Trump torched in Slovenia
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
Was This Ex-Fox News Anchor Benched for Accusing Trump?
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk:
Rumble announces a $775M investment from Tether and plans to use $525M to fund a tender offer for ~70M shares of its common stock; RUM jumped 50%+ after hours
 
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