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George T. Conway III / Washington Post:
Trump is right.  We might have to impeach him again.  —  George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York and an adviser to the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super PAC.  —  “So we'll probably have to do it again.”  —  So said the already-once-impeached President Trump on Thursday in the East Room …
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Bigger than Vindman: Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from NSC  —  President Trump is making good on his promises to “drain the swamp” and cut Obama-era holdovers from his staffs, especially the critical and recently controversial National Security Council.  —  Officials confirmed that Trump …
Jenni Fink / Newsweek:
Tulsi Gabbard Defends Donald Trump Firing Alexander Vindman: ‘Whether People Like It or Not, There Are Consequences to Elections’  —  In breaking with some of her opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination, Representative Tulsi Gabbard defended President Donald Trump's decision to fire Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Kellyanne Conway says more officials may be ousted after Trump's Senate acquittal  —  White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Monday hinted that additional officials could be forced out of their roles following the ousters last week of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and Ambassador Gordon Sondland …
Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
Trump retaliation: After purge, House Democrats need to unleash a tsunami of oversight
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Schumer asks inspectors general to investigate whistleblower retaliation after Vindman firing
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Sondland and Vindman were planning exits but Trump didn't want them to go quietly
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
QU Poll:
Release Detail  —  February 10, 2020 - Sanders Takes Top Spot In Dem Primary As Biden Falls, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Bloomberg Rises In Primary, Runs Strong Against Trump  —  In the wake of the Iowa caucuses and heading into the New Hampshire primary …
CNN:
Bernie Sanders leads in final CNN New Hampshire tracking poll  —  (CNN)Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders holds on to his lead on the eve of New Hampshire's Democratic primary, the final CNN tracking poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center shows.
Discussion: Joe.My.God., KTLA and The Week
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CBS Boston:
Exclusive NH Primary Tracking Poll: Sanders First, Buttigieg Second, Surging Klobuchar Third  —  BOSTON (CBS) - This New Hampshire primary has been a rollercoaster ride, with one last hairpin turn in the final night of the exclusive WBZ/Boston Globe/Suffolk University tracking poll.
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The 2020 Democrats All Have the Same Problem
Discussion: Washington Post and NBC News
Ezra Klein / Vox:   Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and America's politics of epiphany
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Did a debate actually make a difference for once?
Discussion: The Hill and Joe.My.God.
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Sanders in lead, Buttigieg slipping, Klobuchar surging in New Hampshire poll on primary eve
Discussion: Breitbart
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Trump vowed to not cut Social Security and Medicare — hours before proposing just that  —  President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a White House session with the state governors on February 10, 2020.  Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images  —  The president is either brazenly lying about his 2021 budget or doesn't know what's in it.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump just saddled himself with a major campaign liability  —  President Trump is cruelly working overtime to gut health care for millions of Americans — while simultaneously demanding that we spend billions on the wasteful, useless, hateful border wall that he vowed to make Mexico pay for.
Donald Trump / NBC News:
Trump's election year budget proposal slashes Medicaid, other social safety nets
Discussion: Associated Press and The Week
Reuters:
Exclusive: More than 100 U.S. troops diagnosed with brain injuries from Iran attack - officials  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is preparing to report a more than 50% jump in cases of traumatic brain injury stemming from Iran's missile attack on a base in Iraq last month, U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Wall Street Journal:
Four Members of China's Military Indicted for Massive Equifax Breach  —  Disclosed in 2017, hack into the credit-reporting company compromised data on roughly 145 million Americans  —  WASHINGTON—Four members of China's military have been indicted by the U.S. government on charges of hacking …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Associated Press:
US charges 4 Chinese military members in Equifax breach
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and The Week
Michael Hobbes / HuffPost:
1 A Slow-Motion Looting  —  OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, nearly every institution of American life has taken on the unmistakable stench of moral rot.  Corporate behemoths like Boeing and Wells Fargo have traded blue-chip credibility for white-collar callousness.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Lindsey Graham Implicates William Barr in Massive Scandal, on Live Television  —  Yesterday, Senator Lindsey Graham appeared on Face the Nation and blurted out an apparent confession of what, if true, would be a scandal of Nixonian proportions.  Graham reported he had spoken with Attorney General William Barr that morning.
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
New York sues Trump administration over Global Entry ban: It's ‘political retribution’  —  “No one should ever use our nation's security as a political weapon, let alone the commander-in-chief,” said New York Attorney General Letitia James.  —  The Trump administration's decision to bar …
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Erin Durkin / Politico:
New York suit says Trump travel restrictions are unconstitutional
Discussion: The Hill
David Brooks / The Atlantic:
The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake  —  The scene is one many of us have somewhere in our family history: Dozens of people celebrating Thanksgiving or some other holiday around a makeshift stretch of family tables—siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, great-aunts.  The grandparents are telling the old family stories for the 37th time.
CNN:
This man says he's stockpiling billions of our photos  —  If Hoan Ton-That is feeling the pressure, he isn't showing it.  —  Over the last month, fears about facial recognition technology and police surveillance have intensified, all thanks to Ton-That's startup, Clearview AI.
Associated Press:
Amazon wants to depose Trump over loss of military contract  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Amazon wants to depose President Donald Trump over the tech company's losing bid for a $10 billion military contract.  —  The Pentagon awarded the cloud computing project to Microsoft in October.
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Amazon wants to depose Trump in challenge over $10B Pentagon contract
CBS News:
“You wouldn't think you'd go to jail over medical bills”: County in rural Kansas is jailing people over unpaid medical debt  —  There is at least one issue a divided electorate can come together on this election year: A recent poll finds 90% of those surveyed agreed on the importance of making health care more affordable.
KCCI-TV:
Former Gov. Vilsack claims $150,000 Powerball prize  —  He never thought he would win, but it didn't stop him from playing.  —  Iowa Lottery officials said Monday that former Gov. Tom Vilsack has claimed a $150,000 Powerball prize Monday at Iowa Lottery headquarters in Clive.
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
The Weirdest Subway Restaurant in America  —  The franchise is based inside an FBI training center called Hogan's Alley where the bank gets robbed at least twice a week  —  HOGAN'S ALLEY, Va.—America's worst neighborhood is a magnet for killers, thieves and drug smugglers.
 
 
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W.J. Hennigan / TIME:
Exclusive: Strange Russian Spacecraft Shadowing U.S. Spy Satellite, General Says
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ABC News:
Californa Gov. Gavin Newsom on The View: ‘We are the most un-Trump state in America’
Discussion: The Hill and IJR
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 Earlier Items: 
Robert VerBruggen / National Review:
Stop Pretending the President's Budget Matters
Discussion: Mother Jones
David Harsanyi / National Review:
Being Fired by Trump Does Not Make You a Holocaust Victim
Discussion: Twitchy and Redstate
Rachel Lerman / Associated Press:
Video of Pelosi brings renewed attention to ‘cheapfakes’
Discussion: Breitbart
Kyle Smith / New York Post:
Political correctness at 2020 Oscars exposes Hollywood's hypocrisy
Discussion: PJ Media Home and Page Six
Gabriel Schoenfeld / USA Today:
Sanders has a bizarre radical past that Trump and Republicans would use to destroy him
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Behind the scenes of Michael Bloomberg's “be boring” campaign
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

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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