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2:45 PM ET, January 3, 2019

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Jennifer Haberkorn / Los Angeles Times:
California's Rep. Brad Sherman to introduce impeachment measure … Rep. Brad Sherman plans to introduce articles of impeachment against President Trump on Thursday, the first day of Democratic control of the House.  —  Sherman (D-Northridge) is reintroducing a measure that he first rolled out in 2017.
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
House Democrats plan to hold hearings on Medicare for All  —  The new Democratic majority in the House will hold the first hearings on Medicare-for-All legislation, a longtime goal of the party's left, after Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi lent her support for the process.
Bob Bauer / Just Security:
Coming to Terms with the Impeachment Process: The Case for Starting a Formal Inquiry  —  The day after Donald Trump's inauguration, Peter Wehner wrote with some restraint that the new president “is unlikely to be contained by norms”— that is, by those practices or customs that politicians …
Rachael Bade / Politico:
The survivor: Nancy Pelosi makes history — again  —  The past seven speakers of the House have lost their majority, been forced out by their own colleagues, or stepped down amid personal scandal.  One of them — Nancy Pelosi — now has a second chance to rewrite her legacy.
Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
Nancy Pelosi says she won't rule out indictment, impeachment for Trump  —  As she prepares to resume her role as House speaker, Nancy Pelosi told TODAY she isn't ruling out the idea that Trump could be indicted or impeached while in office.  —  Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Beast
Mike Allen / Axios:
Pelosi breaks with Justice: Trump can be indicted
Discussion: Politico and Taylor Marsh
USA Today:
Exclusive: Nancy Pelosi vows ‘different world’ for Trump with new Congress, no more ‘rubber stamp’
Discussion: Hollywood Life, NBC News and FOX40
John Parkinson / ABC News:   Pelosi repeats history, recaptures the speaker's gavel
Michael Warren / Politico:
How to Talk So Trump Will Listen: A GOP Guide for Pelosi
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Martin O'Malley / Des Moines Register:
Here's who I'd like to see run for president.  (Hint: It's not me)  —  Voters want Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders to run in the 2020 Presidential election, a new poll suggests.  Veuer's Sam Berman has the full story.  —  Former Democratic candidate makes his pick for 2020
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Dianne Feinstein's 2020 pick: Joe Biden  —  Dianne Feinstein's California colleague Kamala Harris may run for president.  But Feinstein already has her preferred candidate in mind: Joe Biden.  —  The Democratic senator, fresh off reelection to a fifth term, told a pair of reporters …
Washington Post:
Justice Dept. investigating whether Zinke lied to inspector general  —  The Justice Department's public integrity section is examining whether newly departed Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke lied to his agency's inspector general investigators, according to three people familiar with the matter …
Washington Post:
Russia has formally charged Paul Whelan, an American citizen, with espionage, Interfax news agency reports  —  Russian investigative agencies on Thursday indicted Whelan, a 48-year-old former U.S. Marine, on charges of spying, Interfax cited an informed source as saying.
Discussion: Task & Purpose
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Paul Whelan, American Accused of Spying, Is Said to Be Charged in Russia  —  MOSCOW — The Russian authorities have brought espionage charges against an American citizen, Paul N. Whelan, who faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted, the news agency Interfax reported on Thursday.
Kristen Jordan Shamus / USA Today:
Mysterious tale of Paul Whelan, American man accused of spying in Russia, steeped in contradictions
Amie Ferris-Rotman / Washington Post:
American Paul Whelan charged with espionage in Russia, news agency reports
Discussion: Shakesville
New York Times:
Full Shutdown of L Train to Be Halted by Cuomo  —  [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]  —  Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo plans to announce Thursday that the L train subway tunnel will not fully shut down in April as planned in what would have been one of the …
Discussion: Second Ave. Sagas
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Gothamist:
Total L Train Shutdown Unnecessary, Cuomo Announces
Discussion: The Verge
Azi Paybarah / New York Times:
N.Y. Today: Yes, the Weather Has Been Crazy Rainy
Discussion: Gothamist
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Even the Trump-hostile GOP establishment questions Romney's presidential tongue-lashing  —  A Republican establishment impatient with President Trump but uninterested in fomenting an intraparty crackup ahead of 2020 is questioning Mitt Romney's motivation for issuing a scathing takedown of the president.
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Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
The very odd game theory of the 2020 GOP presidential primary
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Unprecedented: Shutdown bleeds into new Congress
Discussion: Axios, Wall Street Journal and RedState
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Why Is Trump Spouting Russian Propaganda?  —  It was only one moment in a 90-minute stream of madness.  —  President Trump convened a Cabinet meeting, at which he invited all its members to praise him for his stance on the border wall and the government shutdown.
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Josh Magness / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
New Muslim congresswoman to be sworn in with Thomas Jefferson's centuries-old Quran  —  When incoming U.S. congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is sworn into office Thursday, she will use Thomas Jefferson's centuries-old Quran.  —  Some might be shocked that Jefferson owned an English-translated Quran that dates back to 1734.
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CNN:
Welcome to the new Congress. We've never seen anything like it
Discussion: ABC News and Vox
Terry McAuliffe / Washington Post:
To beat Trump, Democrats must counter his lies with realistic solutions  —  Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, is former governor of Virginia.  —  As I traveled around the country campaigning for Democrats this past year, one of my takeaways was that there is an overwhelming desire among voters for a return to reality.
Bloomberg:
The Bad Stuff That the Stock Market Worried About Is Starting to Happen  — From Apple's sales warnings to an ISM miss, it's piling up  — ‘Fundamentals are strong’ has been rallying cry against rout  —  All of a sudden, the fundamentals aren't looking as strong.
Discussion: Raw Story
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Undocumented Worker Says Trump Resort Shielded Her From Secret Service  —  A former employee of the Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey said that her name was removed from a list of workers to be vetted by the Secret Service after she reminded management that she was unlawfully in the United States …
Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:
White House Predicts ‘Heck of a Lot’ of Companies Sharing Apple Pain  — Apple cut sales forecast for first time in nearly two decades  — China under pressure to make deal with Trump, Hassett says  —  President Donald Trump's trade war with China will force many U.S. companies …
Discussion: Vox, The Week and Recode
Amberin Zaman / Al-Monitor:
Lawsuit over Washington violence looms over US-Turkey relations  —  Protester Murat Yasa testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats Subcommittee about the attack on demonstrators by members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security detail on Capitol Hill …
Claudia Lauer / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: A reckoning is underway in US Catholic Church  —  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Over the past four months, Roman Catholic dioceses across the U.S. have released the names of more than 1,000 priests and others accused of sexually abusing children in an unprecedented public reckoning spurred …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
‘What Will I Not Miss?’  In California, a Long Farewell From Jerry Brown  —  WILLIAMS, Calif. — It's time to add another name to the farewell tour circuit in this year of Elton John, Joan Baez, Paul Simon and Ozzy Osbourne: Edmund G. Brown Jr., the governor of California.
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
A Trump County Confronts the Administration Amid a Rash of Child Cancers  —  JOHNSON COUNTY, Ind. — The children fell ill, one by one, with cancers that few families in this suburban community had ever heard of.  An avid swimmer struck down by glioblastoma, which grew a tumor in her brain.
Discussion: Raw Story
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The 10 new Democratic House committee chairs who are about to make Trump's life hell  —  2019 will be a year of investigations.  —  The Trump administration's free ride from Congress is over.  —  New Democratic House committee chairs are set to launch subpoena-powered investigations …
Reuters:
Google shifted $23 billion to tax haven Bermuda in 2017: filing  —  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Google moved 19.9 billion euros ($22.7 billion) through a Dutch shell company to Bermuda in 2017, as part of an arrangement that allows it to reduce its foreign tax bill, according to documents filed at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce.
Travis Mitchell / Pew Research Center:
Faith on the Hill  —  The religious composition of the 116th Congress  —  The new, 116th Congress includes the first two Muslim women ever to serve in the House of Representatives, and is, overall, slightly more religiously diverse than the prior Congress.1
Discussion: Vox
Kimberly Leonard / Washington Examiner:
House Democrats slip abortion language into bill to end partial shutdown  —  House Democrats have inserted language to expand abortion access into a bill to end the partial government shutdown set for a vote Thursday.  —  The spending bill would repeal a provision instituted by President Trump …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Breitbart
 
 
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Has Officially Made ‘Conservative Ethics’ an Oxymoron
Harvard Magazine:
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Elizabeth Warren is closing her joint fundraising committee as she urges Democrats to shun big money …
Discussion: IJR
James Kirchick / The Atlantic:
Germany's Leading Magazine Published Falsehoods About American Life
The White House:
Remarks by President Trump in Cabinet Meeting
OpenSecrets.org:
Joe Lieberman formally registers as lobbyist for Chinese telecom giant ZTE
Discussion: Bloomberg
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The Charlotte Observer:
Mark Harris says he'll go to court as officials delay hearing on election fraud
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Point of Order
New York Times:
‘New Chapter’ in Space Exploration as China Reaches Far Side of the Moon
Discussion: The Atlantic and Raw Story
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump reclaims spotlight with long, rambling Cabinet meeting