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1:45 PM ET, January 6, 2019

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Boris Sanchez / CNN:
Trump inclined to declare national emergency if talks continue to stall  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump is inclined to declare a national emergency to secure military funding for his long-promised southern border wall if talks between administration officials and top lawmakers from both parties continue …
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Axios:
Inside Trump's fake news recidivism  —  With the departure of White House chief of staff John Kelly, the misinformation emanating from President Trump has only escalated.  —  What's happening: Alumni of this White House see a possible reason.  Although Kelly was thwarted in many of his efforts …
Discussion: Raw Story and Contemptor
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump again surfaces ‘national emergency’ as a way to pay for border wall  —  President Donald Trump on Sunday again threatened to declare a national emergency as a means to construct his proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, saying he would first gauge the results of upcoming negotiations …
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Mulvaney: Trump offering Democrats a steel border fence instead of concrete wall
Discussion: Breitbart and ABC News
Times Argus:   Don't run  —  That is an unfavorable opinion, especially among …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Axios AM
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Mulvaney: Trump would build “steel fence” as concession to Democrats
Discussion: The Guardian
USA Today:
The government shutdown is tied for third longest on record - with no end in sight
Discussion: The Root and Bangor Daily News
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Trump aide: Syria withdrawal waiting on ‘conditions’  —  JERUSALEM (AP) — President Donald Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, said Sunday that the U.S. military withdrawal from northeastern Syria is conditioned on defeating the remnants of the Islamic State group …
Discussion: Mediaite, The Week and NBC News
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Bolton promises no troop withdrawal from Syria until ISIS contained, Kurds' safety guaranteed  —  President Trump's national security adviser sought to reassure allies Sunday that the United States would be methodical about withdrawing troops from Syria, promising that the pullout …
Carol E. Lee / NBC News:
No Syria withdrawal without Turkish pledge not to attack Kurds, Bolton says
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Week
Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:   Bolton Says U.S. Withdrawal From Syria Is Conditional
Margaret Talev / Bloomberg:   U.S. to Protect Kurds From Turks in Syria Exit, Bolton Says
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Fox's Chris Wallace Repeatedly Nails Sarah Sanders on Bogus Border Terror Threat Claims  —  White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders ran into a buzzsaw Sunday morning when Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace challenged the Trump administration's repeated false claims about terrorism …
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Victoria Guida / Politico:
Sarah Sanders: Trump looking at ‘every option available’ to build wall
Discussion: Breitbart
Laura Kayali / Politico:
Theresa May urges MPs to back Brexit deal ahead of perilous vote  —  U.K. prime minister Theresa May used a television and print media blitz Sunday to reject calls for the second referendum on Britain's EU membership.  —  May urged members of parliament to back the Brexit deal she negotiated …
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Ryan Heath / Politico:
UK Labour support to crash if it supports Brexit: poll
Inc.com:
In an Astonishing Letter, Delta and United Airlines Pilots Just Told President Trump To Stop and Think  —  Airline pilots are very worried about the government shutdown.  —  Will he react?  —  By Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek.
Discussion: abc11.com and MarketWatch
Denise Lu / New York Times:
The Border Wall: What Has Trump Built So Far?  —  The federal shutdown hinges on whether the United States should fund a large wall on its border with Mexico.  While Trump has described the wall's progress, not a single mile of an extended wall has been built so far.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Democrats keep proving how detached they are from reality  —  In its common definition, the job of president of the United States is to deliver peace and prosperity.  Donald Trump is doing well on both fronts, so let's impeach the bastard!  —  As insane as it sounds, that and only that is what many Democrats have in mind.
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Donald Trump is less popular than Nancy Pelosi for the first time during his presidency
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Bruce Ackerman / New York Times:
No, Trump Cannot Declare an ‘Emergency’ to Build His Wall  —  If he did, and used soldiers to build it, they would all be committing a federal crime.  —  Mr. Ackerman is a professor of law at Yale and author of “The Decline and Fall of the American Republic.”
Jack Bohrer / NBC News:
‘It is a pleasure to blog with you’: Elizabeth Warren's early years online  —  When a bankruptcy reform bill that contained favorable terms for the credit industry was moving through Congress in early 2005, Warren logged on.  —  Long before Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. …
Discussion: The Atlantic
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:
Trump Has Promised to Bring Jobs Back.  His Tariffs Threaten to Send Them Away.  —  HOLLAND, Mich. — Plants in every direction shut down and moved their operations to Mexico, succumbing to the relentless pressure to cut costs in an age of globalization.  Not EBW Electronics.
Discussion: Raw Story
Grace Wyler / BuzzFeed News:
A Man Has Been Arrested And Charged With The Fatal Shooting Of 7-Year-Old Jazmine Barnes  —  A suspect was arrested and charged Saturday with capital murder over the fatal shooting of seven-year-old Jazmine Barnes, who was killed as she was riding in a car with her family in what police described …
Discussion: Vox, Nixle and The Daily Caller
ABC:
Saudi woman seeking asylum in Australia ‘detained in Bangkok airport’  —  An 18-year-old Saudi woman on her way to seek asylum in Australia is being held in an airport hotel in Bangkok, and says her family will kill her if she is forced back to Saudi Arabia.
Discussion: BBC and Breitbart
James Vincent / The Verge:
Kohler's smart toilet promises a ‘fully-immersive experience’  —  With built-in speakers, ambient lighting, and Amazon Alexa support, why go anywhere else in your house?  —  CES has barely begun, but 146-year-old plumbing company Kohler has already stolen the show with what will undoubtedly …
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Warren regains footing in Iowa blitz  —  DES MOINES, IOWA — Just two months ago, Sen. Elizabeth Warren risked political backlash here by opting to avoid a trip to Iowa during the critical midterm elections — the only major potential 2020 candidate to do so.
Discussion: Associated Press
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Washington Post:
Iowa Democrats fill events to the rafters with 13 months left before the 2020 caucuses
Discussion: Althouse, Politico, Breitbart and ABC News
 
 
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Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Prolonged shutdown could leave millions without food stamps and hit small businesses
Discussion: ThinkProgress
NBC News:
Hard to digest: Inmates eat holiday steak during shutdown while prison workers go unpaid
Chad Garland / Stars & Stripes:
Kurdish forces: Two American ISIS fighters captured
Discussion: Lawfare and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Times:
NAACP blames ‘white supremacy’ for Portland earthquake signs
Shehab Khan / The Independent:
Jair Bolsonaro: Brazil's new far right president fires hundreds of ‘left wing’ civil servants
Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
Vulnerable Republicans seek distance from Trump in new Congress
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Langston Taylor / miamiherald:
Most ex-felons can register to vote Tuesday if all terms of their sentence are met
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Harold Brown, Defense Secretary in Carter Administration, Dies at 91
Jerusalem Post:
U.S. ambassador to Israel: Trump's peace plan delayed ‘for several months’
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Why the world should be paying attention to Putin's plans for Belarus
Discussion: Philly.com
Reuters:
Iran plans naval drills with Russia in Caspian Sea
Michael Wear / Washington Post:
Rashida Tlaib's profanity about Trump is wrong — it harms the Democratic Party's policy and political objectives
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Pentagon chief of staff Kevin Sweeney resigns
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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