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12:10 PM ET, December 24, 2018

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Washington Post:
Treasury secretary startles Wall Street with unusual pre-Christmas calls to top bank CEOs  —  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin startled financial analysts, bankers and economists on Sunday by issuing an unusual s declaring that the nation's six largest banks had ample credit to extend to American businesses and households.
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CNN:
Dow's wild ride continues after Steven Mnuchin fails to calm markets  —  New York (CNN Business)Markets took a wild ride on Monday, and the Dow briefly fell below 22,000, after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's attempts to calm investors backfired.  —  The Dow, which crossed 22,000 …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Shutdown day 3, and Mnuchin talks with bank CEOs about liquidity  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  BULLETIN ... NETANYAHU CALLS EARLY ELECTIONS ... AP'S ARON HELLER in Jerusalem: “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government agreed Wednesday to hold early elections …
Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Stock Market Rout Has Trump Fixated on Fed Chair Powell
Jason Lange / Reuters:   Top Trump official calls bankers, will convene ‘Plunge Protection Team’
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Roberts, Leader of Supreme Court's Conservative Majority, Fights Perception That It Is Partisan  —  “We don't work as Democrats or Republicans,” he has said, a theme he has returned to while trying to strike a delicate balance as the chief justice.  —  WASHINGTON — In his first 13 years …
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
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Kevin Daley / The Daily Caller:   Supreme Court Intervenes In Apparent Mystery Mueller Case
Kevin Bohn / CNN:   Chief Justice pauses contempt order for mystery company in Mueller investigation
Supreme Court of the United States:
Proceedings and Orders  —  Application (18A669) for a stay …
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
How Banks Unwittingly Finance Mass Shootings  —  The New York Times reviewed hundreds of documents including police reports, bank records and investigator notes from a decade of mass shootings.  Many of the killers built their stockpiles of high-powered weapons with the convenience of credit.
Discussion: Axios and twitchy.com
Dave McMenamin / ESPN:
LeBron James apologizes for ‘Jewish money’ Instagram post  —  LOS ANGELES — LeBron James apologized Sunday for lyrics he shared on his Instagram account over the weekend that included the line, “getting that Jewish money.”  —  “Apologies, for sure, if I offended anyone,” …
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Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
Wake up.  America's military isn't invincible.  —  The most uncovered story in Washington these days is the loss of U.S. military power — a lesson particularly important in light of recent events: the resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis; President Trump's rash decision to withdraw U.S. troops …
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Patrick Shanahan, Trump's pick for acting defense secretary, steps into spotlight after Mattis's ouster
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
After criticism, Trump pushes out Mattis sooner than planned
Discussion: Splinter
David Brown / Politico:
Meet Trump's acting Pentagon chief
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“They Are Suspicious of Beto”: Why Are Democrats Trying to Annihilate an O'Rourke Campaign Before It Has Even Started?  —  The howls about O'Rourke from the Chapo wing of the Internet say as much about Bernie Sanders's diminished stature as they do about the golden boy from Texas.
Discussion: Politico
John A. Nagl / New York Times:
Jim Mattis and I Fought Together.  No One Called Him Mad Dog.  —  Jim Mattis was a scholar of war, blunt, courageous and loyal to his troops.  Our enemies will cheer his departure.  —  Mr. Nagl is a former Army officer.  —  I met Jim Mattis in Anbar Province, Iraq, in 2004.
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NBC News:   Full Durbin: 'Depth of dysfunction I've never seen in Washington'
Susan E. Rice / New York Times:
The Threat in the White House
Discussion: Breitbart
Bloomberg:
U.S. Stocks Hit 19-Month Low as D.C. Tumult Weighs: Markets Wrap  — Trump team attempts to assure markets over Powell, liquidity  — Many exchanges are shut or will close early on Christmas Eve  —  U.S. stocks tumbled to the lowest since May 2017 as the turmoil in Washington kept investors …
Associated Press:
Court says Justice Ginsburg up and working after surgery  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is up and working as she recuperates from cancer surgery.  —  A spokeswoman for the court, Kathy Arberg, also says that Ginsburg remained in New York at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Sunday.
Gregory Hellman / Politico:
Democrats vow new scrub of post-9/11 war powers  —  Key House Democrats plan to use their newfound power to force a debate about the war-making authority that Congress approved after 9/11 — after years of being stifled by the chamber's Republican leaders.  —  Democrats will still face …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Walter Russell Mead / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Populist Schism Over Syria  —  His troop-withdrawal plan is politically risky.  The Republican base is more hawkish than isolationist.  —  The most surprising thing about President Trump's decision to overrule his top advisers and withdraw U.S. forces from Syria and Afghanistan isn't that it was improvised and disruptive.
Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump closes 2018 with fewer personal woes, but a difficult public perception  —  (CNN)As the second year of Melania Trump's tenure as first lady comes to a close, and she turns the corner to the latter half of her husband's term, one thing is certain, Trump has come into her own.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Bob Brady, Philadelphia congressman and Capitol Hill's “mayor,” retires after two decades
Wall Street Journal:
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John McWhorter / The Atlantic:
The Virtue Signalers Won't Change the World
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Bottleneck at Printers Has Derailed Some Holiday Book Sales
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
What Trump's Syria decision means on the front lines of the fight against the Islamic State
Michael R. Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
Trump Rings in the New Year in the Worst Possible Way
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David Reaboi / Security Studies Group:
Khashoggi: Qatari Asset in Life; Qatari Asset in Death
Discussion: Al Arabiya
Jake Sherman / Politico:
The ‘all-I-want-for-Christmas-is-$5- billion-for-the-wall’ shutdown
Discussion: The Daily Beast
New York Times:
Far-Right Proud Boys Reeling After Arrests and Scrutiny
Washington Post:
Syria's once-teeming prison cells being emptied by mass murder