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2:25 PM ET, December 26, 2018

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Steve Eder / New York Times:
Did a Queens Podiatrist Help Donald Trump Avoid Vietnam?  —  In the fall of 1968, Donald J. Trump received a timely diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels that led to his medical exemption from the military during Vietnam.  —  For 50 years, the details of how the exemption came about …
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New York Times:
Donald Trump's Selective Service Records  —  For many years, Donald J. Trump asserted that it was “ultimately” a high draft lottery number that kept him out of the Vietnam War, rather than a medical condition.  But his Selective Service records, obtained from the National Archives, suggest otherwise.
Mark Maremont / Wall Street Journal:
Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker Incorrectly Claims Academic All-American Honors  —  Claim from Whitaker's University of Iowa football days listed on résumé and government documents  —  Matthew Whitaker, the acting U.S. Attorney General, has incorrectly claimed …
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
The Path to the Presidency Could Be Harder for White Democrats in 2020  —  Before Barack Obama's election in 2008, the relationship between white racial views and partisanship wasn't as clear-cut as one might think.  Yes, Republicans won the large majority of white voters who believed black disadvantage …
CNN:
Trump's frustration with Mnuchin rising after failed attempt to calm markets, source says  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's frustration with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is ratcheting up further after markets suffered their worst Christmas Eve drop ever following Mnuchin's attempts …
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David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
Economic growth is slowing all around the world
Discussion: Bloomberg
Washington Post:
Trump vows not to reopen federal government until wall funding is secured
Discussion: Mother Jones, POLITICUSUSA and The Week
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Federal workforce starts to feel pinch of prolonged shutdown  —  The partial government shutdown entered its fifth day Wednesday with no signs of a breakthrough and hundreds of thousands of federal workers about to feel the pinch of a protracted standoff.  —  President Donald Trump …
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Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
Huckabee Defends Trump: It's Not Like He's 'Boiling The Little Girl's Rabbit'  —  After President Trump was roasted for appearing to mock a 7-year-old girl for still believing in Santa Claus earlier this week, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) raised eyebrows when he took it upon himself to defend Trump …
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Daily Mail:
Ivanka Trump wears a summer dress and a bizarre full straw visor hat  —  Ivanka Trump rang in the holiday on Tuesday by heading out for a stroll near her family's Palm Beach, Florida estate on Christmas Day with husband Jared Kushner.
Washington Post:
More than 4 million children endured lockdowns last school year, a groundbreaking Washington Post analysis found.  The experience left many traumatized.  —  Locked behind their green classroom door, MaKenzie Woody and 25 other first-graders huddled in the darkness.
Discussion: Splinter and The Week
Department of Homeland Security:
CBP Shares Additional Information about Recent Passing of Guatemalan Child  —  An eight year-old Guatemalan national, previously apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, died shortly before midnight on December 24 at Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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Associated Press:
US says 2nd Guatemalan child dies in immigration custody
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Brown seeks Obama meeting as he considers presidential run  —  Sen. Sherrod Brown hasn't decided whether he's running for president — but he's checking off a lot of the boxes that come along the way.  —  The Ohio Democrat is reaching out to fellow senators and party officials in early primary and caucus states.
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:   Black Voters, a Force in Democratic Politics, Are Ready to Make Themselves Heard
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Shutdown standoff continues
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg released from hospital after cancer surgery  —  Washington (CNN)Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday and is recuperating at home after undergoing surgery, according to a court spokesperson.
Christian Whiton / Fox News:
After Mattis, Trump needs a very different kind of defense secretary  —  President Trump's decision to replace Defense Secretary James Mattis on Jan. 1 - rather than allowing him to stay on the job until Feb. 28, as the retired Marine general requested when he resigned Thursday - was the right move.
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Sarah Lindemann-Komarova / The Nation:
Maria Butina and the Criminalization of Citizen Diplomacy  —  Prosecuting Butina endangers NGO activists in both Russia and the US.  —  30-year-old, flame-haired Maria “Red Sparrow” Butina plead guilty this month to one act count of conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent.
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
I thought fraud in reporting was done for.  I was wrong.  —  Nearly 30 years ago, the Cold War's end opened Germany's border to the formerly Soviet-dominated east.  Asylum seekers from poor and war-torn nations poured across it.  A violent backlash from ultra-right-wing Germans ensued.
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
President Trump's Retreat on the Environment Is Affecting Communities Across America  —  In California, where over a third of the nation's vegetables and two-thirds of its fruits and nuts are grown, farm workers are being sickened by a pesticide that the Obama administration tried to ban.
Audrey McNamara / The Daily Beast:
Russia Warns United States: Don't Interfere in Saudi Royal Succession  —  Russia has warned the U.S. against any attempts to influence Saudi Arabia's royal succession, and offered its official support to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.  The prince is under international pressure …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Ilya Arkhipov / Bloomberg:
Russia Considers Constitution Changes as Putin Faces Term Limits  — Speaker of parliament suggests discussing amendments  — Analysts see Kremlin effort to allow Putin to extend rule  —  The speaker of Russia's parliament raised the possibility of changing the constitution …
Amy Russo / HuffPost:
Trump Ditches Tradition, Passing Up Christmas Visits To Troops  —  The commander in chief opted for digital holiday greetings, video conferencing with military members around the globe from the Oval Office.  —  Though every president since 2002 has made a habit of visiting the troops on Christmas …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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The Guardian:
Arab League set to readmit Syria eight years after expulsion
New York Post:
Vagrants not charged for wild subway melee with cop
Discussion: Gothamist
Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Holiday Retail Sales Are Strongest in Years, Early Data Show
Discussion: CNBC and Daily Wire
Erika Esquivel / KDBC:
Day three of mass migrant releases on Christmas Day
Discussion: Daily Wire and Breitbart
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
He Survived Two Mass Shootings. Now He Is About to Deploy to Afghanistan.
Discussion: The Week
Sun-Sentinel:
The failed leadership of Broward Sheriff Scott Israel | Editorial
Wall Street Journal:
Behind the Market Swoon: The Herdlike Behavior of Computerized Trading
Tamara Keith / NPR:
In A White House With Unprecedented Turnover, Survivors Have ‘Endurance’
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America Needs a Privacy Law
Dave Philipps / New York Times:
No More Bread and Water: U.S. Navy Scraps an Age-Old Penalty
Chico Harlan / Washington Post:
With support from Steve Bannon, a medieval monastery could become a populist training ground
Discussion: Althouse
New York Times:
A Gutted I.R.S. Makes the Rich Richer
Gabby Orr / Politico:
The campaign to confirm a diplomatic novice to America's top U.N. post
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Selling Real Estate in Russia? Are You Crazy?
 

 
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Politico:
Joe Biden proposes two debates with Trump, ditching the bipartisan commission that has conducted presidential debates since the late 1980s; Trump accepts

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix strikes a three-year deal with the NFL to stream two new Christmas Day games this season, and “at least one game” in 2025 and in 2026

Casey Newton / Platformer:
The arrival of AI search bodes ill for everyone who relies on web search to have their business discovered, their blog post read, or their journalism funded
 
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