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Emily Wax-Thibodeaux / Washington Post:
FBI, New Jersey investigators gathered evidence of undocumented immigrants who say they worked at Trump golf course, lawyer says  —  Federal and state investigators are scrutinizing the employment documents of immigrants without legal status who say they worked at President Trump's golf club in New Jersey, according to their attorney.
Discussion: Raw Story
Los Angeles Times:
Cyberattack from outside the U.S. hits newspapers across the country, preventing distribution, source says  —  A cyberattack that appears to have originated from outside the United States caused major printing and delivery disruptions at several newspapers across the country on Saturday including …
Discussion: Deadline
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Jeff Light / sandiegouniontribune.com:
Delivery of Union-Tribune and other newspapers affected by computer virus
Simon Shuster / TIME:
Exclusive: Russian Ex-Spy Pressured Manafort Over Debts to an Oligarch  —  When the U.S. government put out its latest sanctions list on Dec. 19, the man named at the top did not seem especially important.  Described in the document as a former Russian intelligence officer …
CNN:
Trump issues executive order freezing federal workers' pay in 2019  —  Federal workers brace for long shutdown  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday freezing federal workers' pay for 2019, following through on a proposal he announced earlier in the year.
Discussion: Mother Jones, Mediaite, The Week and WREG-TV
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Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
Letter suggesting furloughed workers do chores to cover rent was posted by accident, OPM says  —  The agency that oversees the government's civilian workforce is facing scrutiny after suggesting federal employees affected by the partial government shutdown barter with their landlords …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Zachary Basu / Axios:   Trump signs order freezing federal worker pay hike
Eric Yoder / Washington Post:
Trump orders pay freeze for federal workers
Discussion: Splinter and Daily Kos
Dave Jamieson / HuffPost:   The Government Shutdown Is The Latest Chapter In Trump's Fight With Federal Workers
Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
A Federalist Remembrance Of Bre Payton, Our Colleague And Friend  —  Bre Payton lived life as if she was always ready to leave it.  And she did, too early for all of the rest of us, at the age of 26.  —  I hired Bre Payton right out of college.  She was green.  She was unknown.  She had never done TV.
Discussion: Power Line and gofundme.com
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Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
The Beauty of Bre Payton
Discussion: The Federalist
Washington Post:
Trump's focus on pleasing his most ardent supporters raises questions about reelection strategy  —  President Trump's headstrong refusal to reopen the federal government without new border wall funding has set him on a risky and defiant path for 2019, relying on brazen brinkmanship to shore …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Leon Panetta / Washington Post:
Five lessons that never seem to be learned from shutting down the government
Discussion: Mother Jones and Politico
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Did Trump blow the shutdown?
New York Times:
Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Other Democrats Shift Into High Gear for 2020  —  Senator Kamala Harris of California is eyeing Baltimore or Atlanta as a possible base of operations for her likely 2020 presidential bid and is close to bringing on a top aide to run her campaign.
Discussion: Washington Post, Althouse, Vox and Axios
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Potential 2020 candidates confront the need for campaign cash, and fewer sources of it  —  A sprawling field of potential Democratic presidential candidates is simultaneously confronting the need to raise staggering sums of money — and to do so under demands from party activists to curb …
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
New Life for Old Classics, as Their Copyrights Run Out  —  Nearly a century ago, the publisher Alfred A. Knopf released a slim book of spiritual fables by an obscure Lebanese-American poet and painter named Kahlil Gibran.  —  Knopf had modest expectations, and printed around 1,500 copies.
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Trump personally intervened to pay Coast Guard in shutdown  —  Concerned about U.S. Coast Guard forces losing a paycheck in the partial government shutdown, President Trump personally urged his team to find a solution that would allow the administration to make this week's $75 million payroll, according to officials.
Discussion: All Hands and Task & Purpose
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
‘This is a crisis’: Pay for Coast Guardsmen uncertain amid government shutdown
Discussion: Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
Is the Michael Cohen ‘Prague’ Story True?  —  The reporters behind it are either the new Woodward and Bernstein—or the new Judith Miller.  —  Three weeks after 9/11, Vice President Dick Cheney was already trying to tie the horror to Iraq.  He floated a bogus story that earlier in 2001 …
Marissa Papanek / KRCR-TV:
California organizers cancel Women's March due to ‘overwhelmingly white’ participants  —  A crowd fills Independence Avenue looking towards the U.S. Capitol and the stage, lower right, during the Women's March on Washington, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 in Washington.  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  —  AA
Beth Baumann / Townhall:
Congresswoman-Elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Top 7 Political Gaffes of 2018  —  Congresswoman-Elect and Socialist darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the gift that keeps on giving.  No, seriously.  She says some of the most ridiculous things imaginable.  —  These are her top seven craziest political gaffes of 2018:
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Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:   It's Not That Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Knows Nothing . . .
Associated Press:
2-year-old Yemeni boy whose mom sued US to see him has died  —  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The 2-year-old son of a Yemeni woman who sued the Trump administration to let her into the country to be with the ailing boy has died, the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced.
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Washington Post:
As long as Matthew Whitaker is in place, the Russia investigation is in danger  —  FOR MORE than a month, Americans did not know whether acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker had received the advice of Justice Department ethics experts on whether he should recuse himself from the Russia investigation.
Associated Press:
Trump tries to deflect blame for migrant children's deaths  —  President Donald Trump sought to deflect blame for the deaths of two Guatemalan children in U.S. custody by claiming they were “very sick” when they arrived, even though immigration authorities have said both children passed initial health checks.
Discussion: The Guardian and The Daily Beast
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Katie Lobosco / CNN:
Trump pulled out of a massive trade deal.  Now 11 countries are going ahead without the US  —  New York (CNN)A major 11-country agreement goes into effect Sunday, reshaping trade rules among economic powerhouses like Japan, Canada, Mexico and Australia — but the United States won't be a part of it.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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SBS News:   US farmers ‘helpless’ as TPP boosts Aust
Bob Davis / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. and China Fleshing Out Trade Deal  —  Trump administration wants to increase U.S. exports and ease Chinese regulations; president claims ‘big progress’ in talks  —  WASHINGTON—Chinese and U.S. negotiators are starting to flesh out a deal that could defuse trade tensions by boosting U.S. exports …
Discussion: Bloomberg, CNBC and The Daily Caller
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Doctor exposed to Ebola brought to United States  —  A U.S. physician who was exposed to Ebola while treating patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo arrived in the United States today and was taken to a secure area at the Nebraska Medical Center.  —  The 39-year-old physician …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Washington Post:
McConnell at center of shutdown impasse but uncharacteristically disengaged  —  The federal government has been partially shut down for a week, and hundreds of thousands of workers are furloughed, but there's no sign of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the veteran dealmaker who's brokered …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Clare Foran / CNN:   Departing senators warn: There's a problem with the current state of politics
 
 
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
‘You Control Nothing’: House Republicans Brace for Life in the Minority
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The Nation:
New Studies Show Pundits Are Wrong About Russian Social-Media Involvement in US Politics