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11:00 AM ET, December 31, 2018

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Washington Post:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she will seek the presidency in 2020  —  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren jumped into the 2020 presidential campaign Monday, offering a message of economic populism as she became the best-known Democratic candidate yet to enter what is expected to be a crowded race.
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New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Announces She Is Running for President  —  Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat and a sharp critic of big banks and unregulated capitalism, entered the 2020 race for president on Monday, becoming the first major candidate in what is likely to be a long …
NBC News:
Elizabeth Warren launches 2020 presidential exploratory committee  —  In a video to supporters, Warren focuses on economic fairness as she becomes the first major Democrat to take a formal step toward a presidential bid.  —  WASHINGTON — Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced Monday …
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
American Is Arrested in Moscow on Spying Charges  —  MOSCOW — A United States citizen has been detained in Moscow on espionage charges, Russia's domestic security agency announced in a brief statement on Monday.  —  The statement said that an American identified as Paul Whelan had been taken …
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Olga Tanas / Bloomberg:
Russia Detains U.S. Citizen in Moscow in Espionage Probe
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Politico
Associated Press:   US citizen arrested in Russian on spying charges
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump says he ‘NEVER ABANDONED’ the idea of a concrete wall, disputing Kelly  —  President Trump on Monday disputed an assertion by his outgoing chief of staff, John F. Kelly, that the White House has abandoned plans for a solid concrete border wall, writing on Twitter that the idea was “NEVER ABANDONED.”
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Kelly, on His Way Out, Says Administration Long Ago Abandoned Idea of Concrete Wall
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Trump's promise of a wall may not be fulfilled as advertised
Discussion: Raw Story and Axios
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Bernie alumni seek meeting to address ‘sexual violence’ on '16 campaign  —  More than two dozen women and men who worked on Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign are seeking a meeting with the senator and his top political advisers to “discuss the issue of sexual violence and harassment …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Splinter and Althouse
Lauren Hough / HuffPost:
I Was A Cable Guy.  I Saw The Worst Of America.  —  A glimpse of the suburban grotesque, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney.  —  I can't tell you about a specific day as a cable tech.  I can't tell you my first customer was a cat hoarder.
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Our Exhausted American Mediocracy  —  The unlikely 2016 election of Donald Trump—the first president without either prior political or military office—was a repudiation of the American “aristocracy.”  By “rule of the best” I mean the ancien régime was no longer understood to suggest wealth and birth …
Mujib Mashal / New York Times:
C.I.A.'s Afghan Forces Leave a Trail of Abuse and Anger  —  The fighters hold the line in the war's toughest spots, but officials say their brutal tactics are terrorizing the public and undermining the U.S. mission.  —  NADER SHAH KOT, Afghanistan — Razo Khan woke up suddenly to the sight …
New York Times:
Trump Digs In, Darkening Hopes for a Deal to End the Shutdown  — The president has repeatedly called allies, reassuring them that he will not yield on his wall demands.  — But nine days into a partial government shutdown, Mr. Trump has not reached out to Democrats, whose votes he needs for a deal.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Raw Story
Lexington Herald-Leader:
From Kim Davis defeat to pension debate: See Kentucky.com's most-read stories of 2018.  —  Politics dominated the list of most-read stories on Kentucky.com in 2018.  —  There was very local politics (an election-night result in a nationally-watched county clerk race in Rowan County) …
TMZ.com:
Louis C.K. — Goes After Parkland Victims ... In Leaked Audio of New Stand-Up  —  As if Louis C.K. hadn't already hit bottom, he just went even lower by attacking victims of the Parkland massacre in a stand-up set ... this according to leaked audio of his new material.
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Kellyanne Conway Busted In Florida After She Criticized Pelosi For Hawaii Visit During Shutdown  —  Kellyanne Conway criticized incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi for being in Hawaii during the government shutdown, while Conway was in Florida apparently for Trump's New Year's Eve party.
Discussion: IJR
David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
Trade deal unlikely under May's Brexit deal, US envoy warns UK  —  The U.K. will likely miss out on a HUGE Donald Trump-style trade deal if Prime Minister Theresa May wins parliamentary approval for her Brexit, the U.S. ambassador to Britain warned Monday.  —  Ambassador Woody Johnson …
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Republican candidate kept donations despite requests to return them, filings show  —  Despite calls for refunds, new campaign filings show Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith kept $50,000 in donations from major companies like Walmart and Facebook in the wake of her controversial special election victory in November.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
The Media's Post-Advertising Future Is Also Its Past  —  It's my holiday tradition to bring tidings of discomfort and sorrow to my colleagues in the news business.  One year ago, I described the media apocalypse coming for both digital upstarts and legacy brands.
Sun-Sentinel:
Broward schools need new leader, confidence lost in Superintendent Robert Runcie |  Editorial  —  Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie is not the take-charge, no-excuses leader our school district needs to bust down barriers and make schools safer.  The Broward school board should begin negotiating a way for him to step down.
Mary Jo Pitzl / Arizona Republic:
Sheriff's Office to refer dragging, shoving incidents at migrant child shelter to prosecutors  —  The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office will refer incidents of staffers dragging and shoving migrant children at a shelter to county prosecutors for determination of whether criminal charges are warranted.
New York Times:
Cleaning the Congressional Stables  —  The House Democratic class of '19 is planning a major push on voting, ethics and campaign finance reform.  All that stands in the way is the Senate.  —  The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Jay Cost / National Review:
Shutdown Symbolism  —  $5 billion is a pittance in the budget, but blocking it would keep Trump from fulfilling his main campaign promise — and threaten his reelection.  —  This year, the United States government will have spent more than $4 trillion.  Right now, the government is shut …
Houston Chronicle:
Beto and Bernie debate raises questions about Texas' oil economy [Editorial]  —  It's not even 2019 and the Democrats have already begun sniping at each other about the 2020 presidential election.  —  Bernie Sanders fans and Beto O'Rourke boosters have erupted into a back-and-forth …
 
 
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
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Radio Farda / Radio Free Europe:
Khomeini's Grandson Criticizes The Islamic Republic His Grandfather Founded
The Hill:
Mueller fuels foreign lobbying crackdown
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
Conservative health care experiment leads to thousands losing coverage
NBC News:
Meet the Press - December 30, 2018
Discussion: Daily Wire and Mother Jones
Walter Russell Mead / Wall Street Journal:
2018's Biggest Loser Was the Liberal International Order
Alexandra Topping / The Guardian:
French Resistance hero who saved hundreds of Jewish children dies aged 108
Discussion: The Times of Israel
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Glorified and Vilified, Representative-Elect Ilhan Omar Tells Critics: ‘Just Deal’
Discussion: Power Line
Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
Mattis, U.S. Commander Sought to Temper Saudi-Led War in Yemen
Nelson W. Cunningham / Politico:
A Holiday Mystery: Why Did John Roberts Intervene in the Mueller Probe?
Discussion: Above the Law
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Donald Trump is completely transforming the Democrats
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
A year of unprecedented deception: Trump averaged 15 false claims a day in 2018
Bart Jansen / USA Today:
Trump's tweets: Judges in government secrecy cases say they are ‘speculation’ and not ‘pure fact’
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Sen. Graham Floats Temporary DACA Permits Deal For Wall Funding