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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Conservative Revolt Endangers Deal to Avoid a Shutdown  —  WASHINGTON — A deal to avert a Christmastime government shutdown teetered on Thursday amid growing anger from President Trump and a conservative revolt in the House that could block a bill to keep funds flowing past midnight Friday.
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Washington Post:
Trump ‘at this moment’ opposes deal to avert shutdown, wants more border funding  —  President Trump will not commit to signing legislation that would avoid a partial government shutdown on Saturday, his press secretary said, further roiling a chaotic debate that is splintering the Republican Party.
Thomas Franck / CNBC:
Dow falls 400 points as stocks continue to get hit after Fed rate hike, Nasdaq enters bear market  —  U.S. stocks swooned for a second day Thursday after the Federal Reserve raised benchmark interest rates and said that it would continue to let its massive balance sheet shrink at the current pace.
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Trump rushes into shutdown threat over wall  —  President Donald Trump will not sign the stopgap funding bill approved by the Senate, Speaker Paul Ryan warned Thursday afternoon, a move that dramatically increases the risk of a partial government shutdown.  —  It would be the third shutdown …
John Parkinson / ABC News:
Trump says he won't sign stopgap funding bill amid border wall showdown: Ryan
Discussion: Politico, CNN, Mother Jones and Axios
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump tells House GOP he won't sign Senate bill
Politico:   Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts to consider retirement over holidays
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump tells GOP leaders he won't sign short-term spending bill
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Exclusive: Whitaker told he does not need to recuse himself from overseeing Mueller investigation  —  (CNN)Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker has consulted with ethics officials at the Justice Department and they have advised him he does not need to recuse himself from overseeing special …
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Washington Post:
Ethics officials said Whitaker should recuse from the Mueller probe, but his advisers told him not to, officials say  —  A senior Justice Department ethics official concluded acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker should recuse from overseeing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's probe …
Discussion: RedState and Raw Story
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 …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump's Attorney General Nominee Criticized Russia Investigation
Discussion: CNN, Axios and Law & Crime
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:   Whitaker doesn't need to recuse from Russia probe: Source
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Vladimir Putin Welcomes U.S. Withdrawal From Syria  —  MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday welcomed President Trump's announcement of a withdrawal of American troops from Syria, calling it “the right decision.”  —  Mr. Trump said on Wednesday that he was ordering …
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New York Times:
Kurdish Fighters Discuss Releasing Almost 3,200 ISIS Prisoners  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon — America's Kurdish allies in Syria are discussing the release of 3,200 Islamic State prisoners, a prominent monitoring group and a Western official of the anti-Islamic State coalition said on Thursday …
Victoria Nuland / Washington Post:
In a single tweet, Trump destroys U.S. policy in the Middle East  —  Victoria Nuland is the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security and a former assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs.  —  With his decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Syria …
Anton Troianovski / Washington Post:
Putin backs Trump's move to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, says Islamic State dealt ‘serious blows’
Al-Monitor:   Intel: How Russia's responding to US pullout from Syria
BuzzFeed News:
Russian Agents Sought Secret US Treasury Records On Clinton Backers During 2016 Campaign  —  US Treasury Department officials used a Gmail back channel with the Russian government as the Kremlin sought sensitive financial information on its enemies in America and across the globe, according to documents reviewed by BuzzFeed News.
New York Times:
Planned Parenthood Is Accused of Mistreating Pregnant Employees  —  Employers that champion women face accusations of discriminating against their pregnant workers, showing how widespread the problem is in American workplaces.  —  As a medical assistant at Planned Parenthood …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Associated Press:
Democrats to Start Presidential Primary Debates in June 2019  —  (AP) — Democrats will hold at least a dozen presidential primary debates starting in June 2019 and running through April 2020, with party Chairman Tom Perez promising rules that will give everyone in a potentially large field a fair shot at voters' attention.
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Democrats announce a dozen 2020 presidential debates starting in June
Discussion: Townhall and Political Wire
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Republican Leadership Is Slowly Backing Away From Trump  —  Trump's popularity with voters is only one part of the picture.  Leaders within the GOP are clearly hedging their bets as 2020 approaches.  —  “The Wall” began as just a slogan.  By the end of the 2016 presidential campaign …
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Charles J. Sykes / Washington Post:   Remember when Paul Ryan was the future of the Republican Party?
Kim Tong-Hyung / Associated Press:
N. Korea says it won't denuclearize unless US removes threat  —  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Thursday it will never unilaterally give up its nuclear weapons unless the United States removes its nuclear threat first, a statement that raises further doubts on whether leader Kim Jong Un …
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
‘Oh, no’: The day Trump learned to tweet  —  The content of the tweet @RealDonaldTrump posted on the night of Feb. 5, 2013, was bland: a simple thank you to the actress Sherri Shepherd for flattering comments she'd made about Trump on television.  —  But its implications were historic.
Discussion: Splinter, Raw Story and Instapundit
Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Bikini  —  On a sunny summer day in Montauk, Ipek Irgit was in the familiar situation of not knowing what she was doing with her life.  It was 2012, and she was 34 years old.  Earlier in the year, after having her heart broken …
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
So Long Paul Ryan, You Won't Be Missed  —  He was unusually dishonest, a fraud as a wonk and a terrible match for the job.  Good riddance.  —  Paul Ryan gave a farewell speech to the House of Representatives on Wednesday.  He won't be missed.  Ryan was badly cast as speaker of the House from the start …
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HuffPost:   And What Can You Say About Paul Ryan?
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Tucker Carlson's show has been hit by an advertiser boycott, and it's having an effect  —  Cuomo, Lemon slam Fox News' hateful speech  —  New York (CNN Business)The advertiser boycott spearheaded by liberal organizations of Fox News host Tucker Carlson is starting to have a visible effect.
Chicago Tribune:
How bad does the ‘Illinois Exodus’ have to get?  —  The estimated net reduction in Illinois' population this year is 45,116 residents.  Every other state in the Midwest is growing.  (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune)  —  Editorials reflect the opinion of the Editorial Board …
Melissa Healy / Los Angeles Times:
More than 15% of childhood deaths in America are due to guns, study says  —  More than 3,000 children and adolescents died of a gunshot wound in the United States in 2016, a new tally of childhood deaths finds.  These episodes accounted for 15.4% of all Americans between the ages of 1 and 19 …
Joshua Sharpe / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Former Ga. candidate for governor indicted  —  State Sen. Michael Williams, who waged an unsuccessful and at times incendiary campaign for governor this year, was indicted this week in Hall County, apparently stemming from allegedly false report he made saying computer servers were stolen from his campaign office.
 
 
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Discussion: Associated Press and Axios
David Sirota / The Guardian:
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