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11:10 AM ET, December 24, 2018

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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'
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Patrick Shanahan, Trump's pick for acting defense secretary, steps into spotlight after Mattis's ouster
Susan E. Rice / New York Times:
The Threat in the White House
Discussion: Breitbart
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
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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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  —  Chief Justice John Roberts stayed a subpoena and contempt order in a case that likely arose from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation in a Sunday night order.  —  Sunday's order could mark the first time that the Supreme Court …
Kevin Bohn / CNN:
Chief Justice pauses contempt order for mystery company in Mueller investigation  —  (CNN)Chief Justice John Roberts on Sunday issued a temporary pause on an order holding an unnamed, foreign government-owned company in contempt over a mystery court case related to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
Supreme Court of the United States:
Proceedings and Orders  —  Application (18A669) for a stay …
Discussion: BuzzFeed News and SCOTUSblog
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
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
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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.
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 …
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Huawei Had a Deal to Give Washington Redskins Fans Free Wi-Fi, Until the Government Stepped In  —  A security adviser who read about Huawei's Wi-Fi for ads deal at FedEx Field raised an unofficial red flag  —  Two years after a congressional report labeled Huawei Technologies Co. a national-security threat …
Michael R. Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
Trump Rings in the New Year in the Worst Possible Way  —  One week sums up a failing presidency.  —  There are many reasons to be optimistic about 2019.  The increasingly isolated man in the Oval Office is not one of them.  —  With the first two years of Donald Trump's presidency drawing to a close …
Discussion: AOL
John McWhorter / The Atlantic:
The Virtue Signalers Won't Change the World  —  Feminist history is typically described in three waves: The struggle to secure voting rights, then workplace rights, and third—roughly—to upend stereotypes.  The battle against racism and its effects is often described in a similar three-part timeline …
 
 
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Gregory Hellman / Politico:
Democrats vow new scrub of post-9/11 war powers
Discussion: Raw Story
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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
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 and The Hill
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