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6:50 PM ET, January 12, 2020

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ABC News:
Pelosi does not rule out possibility of subpoenaing testimony if Senate skips witnesses  —  “Let's just see what the Senate does,” she said on ABC's “This Week.”  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday did not rule out the possibility of a House subpoena for testimony from former national …
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William Cummings / USA Today:
Pelosi warns McConnell, Senate Republicans they will ‘pay a price’ if they engage in ‘cover-up’  —  As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prepares to consult with fellow Democrats about sending the two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate, she warned Majority Leader Mitch McConnell …
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
McCarthy says Pelosi holding articles of impeachment to hurt Sanders' Iowa chances
Discussion: Axios and Politico
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:   Pelosi says Trump ‘impeached for life’ despite McConnell's ‘gamesmanship,’ ‘coverup’
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
Esper Says He Didn't See Specific Evidence Iran Planned to Attack 4 Embassies  —  President Trump had claimed that a planned attack on four American embassies was a justification for the strike on an Iranian general.  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said on Sunday …
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Esper says he “didn't see” specific evidence showing Iranian threat to 4 U.S. embassies  —  Washington — Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said he “didn't see” specific evidence that top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani was planning attacks on four U.S. embassies, but said he believed such attacks would have occurred.
Discussion: Slate, POLITICUSUSA, CNN, UPI and Daily Kos
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Local New Hampshire Union Backs Bernie Sanders, Bucking National Affiliate
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Says Bernie Sanders Sent Volunteers ‘Out to Trash Me’
Discussion: Twitchy
NBC News:
Warren ‘disappointed’ that Sanders reportedly ‘sending his volunteers out to trash me’
Discussion: Politico, The Hill and MSNBC
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Bernie campaign slams Warren as candidate of the elite
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
Two States.  Eight Textbooks.  Two American Stories.  —  TWO STATES.  EIGHT TEXTBOOKS.  TWO AMERICAN STORIES.  —  American history textbooks can differ across the country, in ways that are shaded by partisan politics. … We analyzed some of the most popular social studies textbooks used in California and Texas.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton: The most exonerated politician ever  —  Hillary Clinton has a unique distinction: She has been exonerated twice after extensive federal investigations, the latest entirely unjustified and the result of a politicized Justice Department.  President Trump of course was NOT exonerated …
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Majority of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of Iran, feel less safe after strike: POLL  —  The results come from a new ABC News/Ipsos poll.  —  In a week dominated by increased tension with Iran and speculation over when impeachment articles would be delivered to the U.S. Senate …
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Rob Picheta / CNN:
This playboy tortoise had so much sex he saved his entire species.  Now he's going home  —  (CNN)A womanizing tortoise whose rampant sex life may have single-handedly saved his entire species from extinction has retired from his playboy lifestyle, returning to the wild with his mission accomplished.
Vasco Cotovio / CNN:
Iran's sole female Olympic medalist says she's defected  —  (CNN)Iran's sole female Olympic medalist, Kimia Alizadeh, has announced that she's permanently left her country for Europe.  —  “Let me start with a greeting, a farewell or condolences,” the 21-year-old wrote in an Instagram post explaining why she was defecting.
Discussion: UPI
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The stakes have never been higher.  Here's who I plan to vote for in April's Dem primary  —  I believe in my political independence, but I also believe in fate.  In 2016, declaring the stakes were just too damn high, I ended nearly three decades as a registered independent to become a Democrat …
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
If Trump Wins in 2020, Get Ready for President Don Jr.  —  In an excerpt from his new book, “Running Against the Devil,” Daily Beast columnist Rick Wilson conjures what a Trump dynasty would look like.  —  Eight years of Trump sucks, right?  It's terrible, isn't it?  I mean, it can't get worse, right?
Discussion: Raw Story
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Trump attacks former DOJ official appointed to review the FBI's proposed wiretap reforms  —  Taking a cue from a GOP ally, President Trump on Sunday attacked a former senior Justice Department official appointed by a federal judge to review the FBI's proposed wiretap application reforms …
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Can Amy Klobuchar pull off a surprise in Iowa's presidential caucuses?  —  Amy Klobuchar, campaigning across Iowa in the first days of the New Year, told voters about a text a friend sent her after a surge in polls and fundraising.  —  “It had autocorrected by mistake …
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Barbara Rodriguez / Des Moines Register:   U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack endorses Pete Buttigieg for president
Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Iran Problem  —  The killing of General Qassem Suleimani has undermined the Trump Administration's top goals in the Islamic Republic.  —  On September 19, 1983, during Lebanon's long civil war, the Reagan Administration ordered Marine peacekeepers in Beirut to open fire …
Chloe Atkins / NBC News:
For transgender men, pain of menstruation is more than just physical  —  Safety concerns and a lack of access to menstruation products are among the issues trans and gender-nonconforming people face during “that time of the month.”  —  When transgender model and activist Kenny Ethan Jones experienced …
Discussion: Althouse
 
 
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Zvi Bar'el / Haaretz:
Soleimani Assassination Rattles Hezbollah's Grip in an Already Shaken Lebanon
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
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Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
Women Really Need to See Harvey Weinstein's A** Nailed to the Wall
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Giuliani Crony Lev Parnas Has More Records ‘Essential’ To Impeachment Inquiry: Attorney
Discussion: Raw Story
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Impeachment should be the least of Trump worries as he faces a flood of lawsuits and federal investigations: report
Discussion: Bloomberg
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An Airline Required a Woman to Take a Pregnancy Test to Fly to This U.S. Island
David Gambacorta / Politico:
Satan, the FBI, the Mob—and the Forgotten Plot to Kill Ted Kennedy
Associated Press:
Drone flies over pedophile cardinal's Australian prison
Karim Sadjadpour / Wall Street Journal:
The Sinister Genius of Qassem Soleimani
John Leicester / Associated Press:
France's #MeToo: Book on child-sex writer prompts outcry
CNN:
US troops knew Al-Asad air base would be attacked and sheltered in bunkers, exclusive tour reveals
Discussion: The Week
Tarpley Hitt / The Daily Beast:
Inside the ‘Secret Service of Hollywood’ That Guards Stars Like Post Malone and Jennifer Lopez
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Riot Games says it spent $250M on an unusual deal to finance two seasons of League of Legends show Arcane on Netflix; sources: there was no plan to recoup costs

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

 
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