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Trump Withdraws U.S. Forces From Syria, Declaring ‘We Have Won Against ISIS’ — WASHINGTON — President Trump has ordered the withdrawal of 2,000 American troops from Syria, bringing a sudden end to a military campaign that largely vanquished the Islamic State but ceding a strategically vital country to Russia and Iran.
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Washington Post:
Mattis, once one of ‘my generals,’ loses his influence with Trump — President Trump's decision to abruptly withdraw troops from Syria is a clear rebuke to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, the last remaining member of a retinue of military men Trump once fondly called “my generals.”
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump undermines his entire national security team on Syria
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria startles aides and allies
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Trump Courts Catastrophe in Syria
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Officials Try to Slow Trump's ‘Everybody Out’ of Syria Order
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Attorney General Pick Criticized an Aspect of Mueller Probe in Memo to Justice Department — William Barr said obstruction of justice inquiry by special counsel is ‘fatally misconceived’ — WASHINGTON—William Barr, President Trump's choice for attorney general …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
BREAKING: John McCain Associate Gave Dossier To BuzzFeed — A longtime associate of late Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain provided a copy of the infamous Steele dossier to BuzzFeed News, according to an explosive court filing released Wednesday. — David Kramer, a former State Department official …
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
BuzzFeed News Has Won A Lawsuit Over Its Decision To Publish The Trump Dossier
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Haley Britzky / Axios:
Judge sides with BuzzFeed in defamation lawsuit over Steele Dossier
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emptywheel:
In Defense of Emmet Sullivan: Van Grack Suggested Mueller Did Review Whether Flynn's Behavior Amounted to Treason — I'd like to defend Judge Emmet Sullivan's intemperate mentions of unregistered foreign agents and treason in the Mike Flynn sentencing hearing yesterday.
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Michael Ledeen / Wall Street Journal:
The Real Story of the Flynn Hearing — 'I've never presided over a treasonous offense and couldn't tell you what the elements are anyway.' — The dramatic Tuesday hearing for former national security adviser Mike Flynn didn't produce a sentence. Instead, Judge Emmet Sullivan gave Mr. Flynn a delay to reconsider his options.
New York Times:
Secret Experiment in Alabama Senate Race Imitated Russian Tactics — As Russia's online election machinations came to light last year, a group of Democratic tech experts decided to try out similarly deceptive tactics in the fiercely contested Alabama Senate race, according to people familiar with the effort and a report on its results.
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Daily Wire
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Testimony From Decades Ago Indicates Knowledge of Campaign-Finance Laws — Legal experts say that could be critical if investigators pursue a case over hush-money payments to women in the 2016 campaign — Sworn statements by President Trump dating back several decades indicate …
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Washington Post:
Mueller seeks Roger Stone's testimony to House intelligence panel, suggesting special counsel is near end of probe of Trump adviser — Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III asked the House Intelligence Committee on Friday for an official transcript of Trump adviser Roger Stone's testimony …
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Anna Massoglia / OpenSecrets.org:
Trump 2020 campaign used a shell company to pay ad buyers at the center of alleged illegal coordination scheme with NRA — The Trump campaign funneled money to ad buyers alleged to have facilitated illegal coordination between the campaign and the NRA by routing funds through a secretive LLC …
Michele Anderson:
Der Spiegel journalist messed with the wrong small town — In February 2017, my husband and I attended a concert at our local theater, and were sipping some wine in the lobby before the show started. Several people came up to us at separate times excitedly, and asked, “did you meet the German guy yet?!”
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Spiegel Online:
Answers to the Most Important Questions — In recent years, DER SPIEGEL published just under 60 articles by reporter and editor Claas Relotius. He has now admitted that, in several instances, he either invented stories or distorted facts. — What happened?
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Page Six:
Rudy Giuliani spotted chuckling about Mueller investigation — Turns out Rudy Giuliani isn't any more discreet about his biggest client's case at his local cigar club than he is on cable news. — Giuliani — who, for an active attorney, is surprisingly open about the Mueller investigation on TV …
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Derek Hunter / The Daily Caller:
Coulter Unloads: ‘A Joke Presidency’ That ‘Scammed The American People’ With Promises Of A Wall — On today's podcast we cover a lot of ground. Bestselling author Ann Coulter talks about the apparent walk-back of President Donald Trump's demand for $5 billion to build the border wall …
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
GoFundMe campaign for border wall aims for a billion (at least)
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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump sensitive to criticism about so-far failed border wall promise
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Joe Simonson / The Daily Caller:
The New York Times Had Special Access To Facebook Data Without Users' Knowledge — The New York Times was one of the companies that had access to private user data from Facebook, a key point brushed over in a report released by the paper. — While the Tuesday bombshell focused …
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Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
How to Delete Facebook — Lost faith in Facebook after data leakages …
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Washington Post:
D.C. attorney general sues Facebook over alleged privacy violations from Cambridge Analytica scandal
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NBC News:
United States added to list of most dangerous countries for journalists for first time — At least 63 professional journalists were killed doing their jobs in 2018, a 15 percent increase over last year, Reporters Without Borders said. — PARIS — The murder of the Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi …
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
‘It got a little heated’: GOP infighting almost killed criminal justice reform — Just hours before the Senate passed major reforms to the criminal justice system, Mike Lee and Tom Cotton were still bickering. — At a private party lunch, the two young Republican senators argued one last time …
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Carrie Levine / Center for Public Integrity:
Wilbur Ross said he divested a stock holding — but he didn't — Failure to dump BankUnited shares is the latest inaccurate statement by Trump's Commerce secretary. — U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross twice submitted sworn statements to ethics officials saying he had divested stock …
Zach Baron / GQ:
The Fresno Bee and the War on Local News — Local newspapers like The Fresno Bee have long been an endangered institution in America, and that was before California Rep. Devin Nunes began waging a public campaign against his hometown paper. Zach Baron spent time with the reporters fighting …
Albert Burneko / The Concourse:
Visionary Brain Genius Elon Musk Has Invented The World's Worst And Most Expensive Subway — If you are anything like me, many times you have been riding the subway and have had the thought, “What is wrong with this dang subway is that it is not exponentially more expensive and slower than this.”
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Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed News:
A 5-Month-Old Girl Has Been Hospitalized With Pneumonia After Being Detained By Border Patrol — A five-month-old girl who traveled with the migrant caravan has been hospitalized with pneumonia after spending five days inside freezing cells operated by border authorities in California, her mother said.
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Helena Andrews-Dyer / Washington Post:
Barack Obama dons a Santa hat and hands out gifts in surprise visit to D.C. children's hospital — Watch out, Santa: Former president Barack Obama is coming for your sleigh. — With a fluffy red cap and a bulging bag slung over his shoulder, Obama delivered presents (and more than a few gasps) …
Eliza Dushku / BostonGlobe.com:
I worked at CBS. I didn't want to be sexually harassed. I was fired — The narrative propagated by CBS, actor Michael Weatherly, and writer-producer Glenn Gordon Caron is deceptive and in no way fits with how they treated me on the set of the television show “Bull” and retaliated …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
New secret filing in case of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen placed in NY federal court vault — A document that is sealed from public view was placed in a New York federal court vault in a criminal case against President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen.
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
The Imagined Threat of a Woman Who Governs Like a Man — On Tuesday, Politico posted a provocative, anonymously sourced piece claiming that New York congresswoman elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might be planning, in concert with Justice Democrats, to recruit a Democratic primary challenger …
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
South Carolina GOP could scrap 2020 primary to protect Trump — The South Carolina Republican Party could cancel its marquee presidential nominating contest in 2020 in a move to protect President Trump from any primary challengers. — Drew McKissick, chairman of the South Carolina GOP …
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Tonya Garcia / MarketWatch:
As Chick-fil-A surges, McDonald's and Wendy's are under threat — Kalinowski Equity Research expects Chick-fil-A to become the third-largest restaurant chain in the U.S. — Privately held Chick-fil-A is not just growing fast, it's becoming a growing threat to a number of large publicly held chains …
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Mick Mulvaney as chief of staff: Let Trump be Trump — Outgoing White House chief of staff John Kelly tried and failed to bring a military discipline to the West Wing. Mick Mulvaney doesn't plan to try. — Mulvaney will approach the job far differently than Kelly, according to six sources close …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Why not indict the Trump Organization? — Legal scholars debate whether a sitting president can be indicted or only impeached. If the latter, it's not clear given the statutes of limitation on most crimes whether he could ever be prosecuted for certain crimes.
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Stop the Stupid Tucker Carlson Boycott — By now you've heard that the boycott brigade has come for Tucker Carlson, demanding that the advertisers of his nightly Fox News Channel show dump him from their budgets for saying immigrants make the United States “poorer and dirtier.”
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