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From Judy Woodruff: Longtime PBS NewsHour Anchor and Co-Founder Jim Lehrer Has Passed Away — Washington, DC (January 23, 2020) — It is with great sadness that I share the news that co-founder and longtime anchor of the PBS NewsHour Jim Lehrer died today, Thursday, January 23, 2020, peacefully in his sleep at home.
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PBS NewsHour:
Remembering Jim Lehrer — PBS NewsHour co-founder Jim Lehrer, a giant in journalism known for his tenacity and dedication to simply delivering the news, died Thursday at the age of 85. — For Jim, being a journalist was never a self-centered endeavor. He always told those who worked with him: “It's not about us.”
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Jim Lehrer, Longtime PBS News Anchor, Is Dead at 85 — For 36 years, mostly teaming with Robert MacNeil, he offered an alternative to network evening news programs with in-depth reporting, interviews and news analysis. — Jim Lehrer, the retired PBS anchorman who for 36 years gave public television viewers …
Greg Sargent / Associated Press:
Schiff asked GOP senators a tough question. The answer is awful. — As Rep. Adam Schiff continued building his case against President Trump late into Wednesday evening, Trump fired off one angry Twitter missive after another, until he finally crossed the 140 mark, perhaps his most prolific day of tweeting and retweeting ever.
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Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Fox & Friends Airs Brutal Bloomberg Ad Highlighting Trump's ‘Erratic and Out of Control’ Attacks on the Military — Fox News' Fox & Friends, often reported to be one of President Donald Trump's favorite shows, aired an attack ad on the president from 2020 Democratic presidential candidate …
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Axios:
Mike Bloomberg copies Trump to beat Trump — To beat President Trump, Mike Bloomberg wants to be candidate Trump. — The state of play: Axios visited Bloomberg's new campaign HQ in Times Square yesterday, and we were struck by how much his 1,000+-person team is learning from …
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Raw Story
Zachary Petrizzo / Mediaite:
Trump Goes Off on ‘Mini Mike Bloomberg’ After Fox & Friends Airs Attack Ad
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Sam Meredith / CNBC:
Mnuchin says Thunberg can tell us what to do ‘after she goes and studies economics in college’ — Speaking at a press briefing at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mnuchin was asked whether the world's largest economy needed to completely and immediately divest from fossil fuels.
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Maria Cramer / New York Times:
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Takes Jab at Greta Thunberg at Davos — At a Swiss economic forum, Mr. Mnuchin dismissed criticisms by Ms. Thunberg, the teenage environmental activist. — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin dismissed criticisms by the climate activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday …
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Executive privilege can't stop John Bolton from testifying, House manager says — Rep. Zoe Lofgren, one of the House managers presenting arguments in the impeachment trial, said Thursday that the president would not be able to block former national security adviser Bolton from testifying before the Senate.
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Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:
Detroit man settles race discrimination lawsuit, then bank won't cash his check — Sauntore Thomas is reeling from a one-two punch. — First, the Detroiter sued his employer alleging racial discrimination in a lawsuit that settled confidentially. Then he went to the bank this week to cash …
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Trump Removes Pollution Controls on Streams and Wetlands — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday will finalize a rule to strip away environmental protections for streams, wetlands and other water bodies, handing a victory to farmers, fossil fuel producers and real estate developers …
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Emma Loop / BuzzFeed News:
The US's Top Intelligence Official Missed A Deadline To Turn Over A Report On Jamal Khashoggi's Killing, In Violation Of The Law — WASHINGTON — The country's top intelligence official has failed to turn over to Congress a report on the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi …
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Dan Primack / Axios:
MBS' alleged Bezos phone hack touches the highest levels of American power
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Anthony Brooks / WBUR:
Sanders Widens Lead In N.H. In New WBUR Poll — With the New Hampshire presidential primary less than three weeks away, a new WBUR poll suggests Bernie Sanders might be peaking at just the right time. The survey of more than 426 likely Democratic primary voters finds Sanders in the lead …
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NBC News:
Trump impeachment defense lawyers Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz share disturbing problem — While the president still stands accused of sexual misconduct by more than 20 women, two of his lawyers are embroiled in their own sexual misconduct and assault scandals.
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The Atlantic
HuffPost:
Trump's Doral Resort Spikes Its Room Rates Ahead Of His RNC Visit — The near doubling of rates may have increased taxpayer costs for housing Secret Service and other staff who traveled there ahead of the president's trip. — DORAL, Fla. ― The president's Miami golf resort that puts money …
Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco Mayor London Breed endorses Mike Bloomberg for president — San Francisco Mayor London Breed endorsed Mike Bloomberg for the Democratic presidential nomination, boosting the billionaire's chances in a delegate-rich state where he got off to a late start but is now spending millions to try to win.
Axios:
Israel leaders invited to White House next week on Mideast peace plan — Israel's embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Benny Gantz have been invited to the White House next week for discussions on President Trump's long-promised Mideast peace plan before it is unveiled, Israeli sources tell me.
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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump Moves to Block Visas for Pregnant Women on ‘Birth Tourism’ — The Trump administration grants visa officers more power to block pregnant women from visiting the United States if applicants are believed to be traveling to give birth. — WASHINGTON — The State Department on Thursday moved …
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Michelle Hackman / Wall Street Journal:
State Department to Issue Rules Restricting U.S. Travel for Pregnant Foreigners
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National Review and US Department of State
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Republicans: The case for impeachment is terrible — and the portions are so small — Consider Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), assistant leader of the Republican caucus in the Senate. — On Sunday, he appeared on CBS News's “Face the Nation” to provide his thoughts on the then-imminent launch of President Trump's impeachment trial.
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Peter Nicholas / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump Has One Problem — Donald Trump faces the diciest moment of his presidency, a Senate impeachment trial, with a pair of distinct handicaps: shattered credibility and a West Wing that is broken into fiefdoms and often clueless about his intentions. Both were years in the making; neither seems easily fixed.
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Trumpworld has converted the nation's regional talk radio hosts into a loyal army — RICHMOND — With breakfast from McDonald's in his left hand and his softsided briefcase rolling behind him, John Fredericks strolled into his radio studio, housed in a small, isolated building on the south side of this city.
Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
Bernie Sanders Once Compared Vermont Workers to Black ‘Slaves’ — As the leading member of a self-described “radical political party” in the 1970s, Bernie Sanders repeatedly compared Vermont workers to enslaved black people. — In recent weeks, Sen. Bernie Sanders has criticized his rivals …
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Louise Boyle / Daily Mail:
Ghislaine Maxwell's personal emails were HACKED sparking fears that damaging information about high-profile individuals linked to Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking case, including Prince Andrew, could be leaked — Lawyers for the British socialite revealed the hack while discussing …
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Redstate, The Daily Caller, Fox News and Big League Politics
Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
Evangelicals Love Donald Trump for Many Reasons, But One of Them Is Especially Terrifying — The enemies of Israel have unleashed a massive air attack on the Promised Land. Hundreds of fighter jets streak across the sky. But before Israel can be destroyed, fire rains from the heavens …
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Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Why Biden's rivals can't break his lock on black voters — GREENVILLE, S.C. — Julius Stephens is 74, black, and calls himself a liberal. — Standing outside Big Rod's Barber Shop in North Augusta after watching Joe Biden surrogates rally on behalf of the vice president last week …
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Vanessa Gera / Associated Press:
Islamic leaders make ‘groundbreaking’ visit to Auschwitz — WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Muslim religious leaders joined members of a U.S. Jewish group at Auschwitz on Thursday for what organizers described as “the most senior Islamic leadership delegation” to visit the site of a Nazi German death camp.
CNN:
Snakes could be the source of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak — (CNN)Snakes — the Chinese krait and the Chinese cobra — may be the original source of the newly discovered coronavirus that has triggered an outbreak of a deadly infectious respiratory illness in China this winter.
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Tobias Hoonhout / National Review:
Stacey Abrams Urges Fellow Dems to ‘Stop Re-Litigating Past Elections’ — Stacey Abrams said it was time “to stop re-litigating past elections” during a speech at the University of New England in Portland, Maine on Wednesday, despite failing to officially concede her 2018 loss to Georgia governor Brian Kemp.
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George Packer / The Atlantic:
The Enemies of Writing — Editor's Note: The Hitchens Prize is awarded annually by the Dennis & Victoria Ross Foundation to an author or a journalist whose work, in the spirit of the late Christopher Hitchens, “reflects a commitment to free expression and inquiry, a range and depth of intellect …
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Fox News devised a way to cover the impeachment trial without covering it at all — The News Corp. building on Sixth Avenue in New York City, home to Fox News, pictured in 2019. Kevin Hagen/Getty Images — Viewers were shown video without the audio, allowing hosts to spin the proceedings in real time.
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Jim Hanson / The Investigative Journal:
The Failure of Iran's Shia Crescent — Iran is facing major challenges to its position as a regional power. Economic problems brought about by mismanagement and corruption and increased by U.S. sanctions have made funding its network of proxy forces difficult.
Harriet Sherwood / The Guardian:
Sex is for married heterosexual couples only, says Church of England — Pastoral guidance also calls for Christians in gay or straight civil unions to be abstinent — The Church of England has stated that sex belongs only within heterosexual marriage, and that Christians in gay …
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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
University of Minnesota student jailed in China over tweets — A University of Minnesota student has been arrested in China and sentenced to six months in prison for tweets he posted while in the United States, according to a Chinese court document viewed by Axios.
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