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9:00 PM ET, December 28, 2018

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CaringBridge:
Bre's Story  —  Around 8:30 this morning, December 27th, Bre's friend went into her room and found her unresponsive and barely breathing.  She immediately called 911 and Bre was taken to the hospital where she was admitted to the ICU, sedated & intubated, and doctors began working up a diagnosis.
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The Federalist:
Bre Payton, Beloved Staff Writer At The Federalist, Has Passed Away  —  Bre Payton, our beloved staff writer for The Federalist, passed away on Friday in San Diego, California following a sudden illness.  —  Bre was born in California on June 8, 1992, to George and Cindy Payton.
Jon Levine / The Wrap:
Bre Payton, Staff Writer for The Federalist, Dies at 26  —  “It is with a heavy heart that I type this.  Unfortunately Bre has passed.  Please send prayers to her family,” reports friend Morgan Murtaugh  —  Bre Payton, a staff writer at the right-wing website The Federalist, died on Friday at age 26 after a brief and sudden illness.
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
May the wonderful Bre Payton rest in peace  —  It's simply devastating to learn that Bre Payton has died at the young age of 26 after the shocking and sudden onset of swine flu that hit her after Christmas.  —  Many of you may have known Bre as a feisty, funny, and sarcastic Federalist author …
Discussion: The Federalist
The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Gleeful That Shutdown Will Hijack Pelosi's Big Moment  —  The president's aides see a debate being waged on his issues, not hers, and they couldn't be happier.  —  Days into a partial government shutdown that has left tens of thousands of federal workers furloughed …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
'We're in this for the long haul': Both sides brace for a lengthy shutdown  —  The question on Capitol Hill right now isn't whether the partial government shutdown will last into the new year — it's how long into the new year it's likely to last.  —  WASHINGTON — When the new Congress …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why the Bernie Movement Must Crush Beto O'Rourke  —  The first skirmish of the 2020 Democratic primary, a wave of attacks on Beto O'Rourke by supporters of Bernie Sanders, took almost everybody by surprise.  On the outside, it looks like one of those inscrutable, personality-driven online spats that characterize the Twitter era.
Discussion: Towleroad Gay News
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Alan Blinder / New York Times:
North Carolina Elections Board Dissolves, Adding New Chaos in House Race  —  The North Carolina state elections board dissolved on Friday under a court order, two weeks before its much-anticipated hearing to consider evidence of possible absentee ballot fraud in the disputed November election for the Ninth District's seat in Congress.
Discussion: Axios, Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
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Washington Post:
Hoyer says House will not seat a North Carolina Republican amid questions about integrity of election  —  Incoming House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said Friday that Democrats next week will not seat a North Carolina Republican amid allegations of election fraud in the state's 9th Congressional District.
The Charlotte Observer:
9th District chaos: Cooper plans interim elections board, Harris asks to be named winner
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
The Trump team just gave weird, insulting advice to furloughed federal workers who can't make rent  —  The Trump Administration just offered up bizarre and insulting advice for furloughed federal workers, proposing that they beg their landlords to exchange manual labor instead of rent …
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Sarah Ruiz-Grossman / HuffPost:
Shutdown Leaves Government Contractors Without Work And Likely No Back Pay
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Daily Kos and Splinter
Jenna Amatulli / HuffPost:
Rep. Louie Gohmert: Let Shutdown Run ‘Until Hell Freezes Over’ If Wall Isn't Funded  —  The GOP congressman suggested to “Fox & Friends” that building a border wall would be an act of “compassion” toward Mexico.  —  Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) told “Fox & Friends” on Friday that he thinks …
Discussion: Mediaite, Power Line and Raw Story
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Jeremy Herb / CNN:
House Republicans wrap their investigation into FBI's handling of Clinton and Russia probes  —  (CNN)The Republican leaders of two House committees say their investigation into the FBI's handling of Hillary Clinton's email server and its probe of alleged coordination between the Trump campaign …
Juliet Linderman / Associated Press:
Shutdown could block federal aid to farmers hit by trade war  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The end of 2018 seemed to signal good things to come for America's farmers.  Fresh off the passage of the farm bill, which reauthorized agriculture, conservation and safety net programs …
Pelosi / Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Names Douglas N. Letter New General Counsel of the House  —  San Francisco — Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi announced today that she will appoint Douglas N. Letter to be the new General Counsel of the House of Representatives.  —  Until February 2018, Letter served as the Director …
Terrence McCoy / Washington Post:
Trump used her slain daughter to rail against illegal immigration.  She chose a different path.  —  BROOKLYN, Iowa — The letters began immediately.  Dozens at first, then hundreds, each day bringing more: from a Texas man telling her this was why we needed to build the wall.
Discussion: Breitbart, Hit & Run and IJR
John R. Schindler / Observer:
What Do Mueller and the Kremlin Know About Michael Cohen's Alleged Prague Trip?  —  No aspect of the scandal surrounding President Donald J. Trump's hidden relations with Russia has been more controversial than the reputed summer 2016 trip to the Czech Republic by Michael Cohen, Trump's longtime consigliere.
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Greg Norman / Fox News:
California illegal immigrant ‘cop-killer’ taken into custody, officials say  —  The illegal immigrant fugitive wanted in the murder of a California police officer is in custody Friday after being on the run for more than two days, Fox News confirms.  —  Police arrested the man near Bakersfield …
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
Margot Kidder Played Every Character, No Matter How Small, With a Vivid Inner Life … Her fierce portrayals were informed — if not powered — by personal upheaval.  —  B. 1948  —  MARGOT KIDDER'S ONLY child, Maggie McGuane, wasn't sure she wanted to talk with me.
Bloomberg:
Trump Hasn't Ordered Afghan Troop Withdrawal, White House Says  — Official last week said 7,000 U.S. troops were coming home  — Latest Pentagon report describes conflict as at ‘an impasse’  —  Donald Trump hasn't ordered the Pentagon to withdraw troops from Afghanistan …
Discussion: Breitbart and Axios
Barack Obama:
As 2018 draws to a close, I'm continuing a favorite tradition of mine and sharing my year-end lists.  It gives me a moment to pause and reflect on the year through the books, movies, and music that I found most thought-provoking, inspiring, or just plain loved.
The Daily Beast:
Tucker Carlson's Show Sheds Advertisers After Immigration Comments: Report  —  Tucker Carlson's nightly show on Fox News has been hemorrhaging advertisers since the conservative host said that immigration makes the United States “poorer and dirtier and more divided” on Dec. 13, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and Contemptor
Katherine Timpf / National Review:
Being Bigger Than the Person You're Asking Out Deemed Title IX Violation  —  Editor's Note: This article and its headline originally stated that a male student at the University of Missouri was found in violation of Title IX because he asked a female student on a date and “was perceived as having power over her.”
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen?  Child Soldiers from Darfur  —  KHARTOUM, Sudan — The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope.  Raiders had stolen his family's cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute.
Discussion: israpundit.org
Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
Angela Merkel: Nation States Must “Give Up Sovereignty” To New World Order  —  “Nation states must today be prepared to give up their sovereignty”, according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who told an audience in Berlin that sovereign nation states must not listen to the will of their citizens …
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
New E.P.A. Plan Could Free Coal Plants to Release More Mercury Into the Air  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration proposed on Friday major changes to the way the federal government calculates the benefits, in human health and safety, of restricting mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants.
 
 
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UNPREPARED AND OVERWHELMED  —  Failures by the Broward County …
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New York Times:
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David French / National Review:
The Frustrating Necessity of Staying in Syria and Afghanistan, Explained
Joyce White Vance / Slate:
The Justice Department's Integrity Is at Stake
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Just Security:
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Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Pompeo heading to Brazil for inauguration of far-right president
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Keith Humphreys / Washington Post:
Beto's towering advantage in the 2020 Democratic primary
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Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Court filing in Russian troll farm case references nude selfie
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Washington Post:
Scott Pruitt: After the high life, a job hunt
Discussion: Grist
Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
Living paycheck to paycheck is disturbingly common: “I see no way out.”
Wall Street Journal:
Former McKinsey Executive Imprisoned by Saudis