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5:10 PM ET, January 6, 2019

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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 …
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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 …
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump says he's ‘in no hurry’ to replace acting Cabinet members  —  President Trump on Sunday said he's in no rush to name permanent members of his Cabinet after a series of departures, claiming that members of his administration serving in an acting capacity give him “more flexibility.”
Discussion: Political Wire
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: Hot Air and Breitbart
USA Today:
The government shutdown is tied for third longest on record - with no end in sight
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Mulvaney: Trump would build “steel fence” as concession to Democrats
Discussion: The Guardian and Breitbart
Mike Allen / Axios:
Axios AM
Discussion: Philly.com, CNBC and emptywheel
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 …
Discussion: IJR, Talking Points Memo and Contemptor
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Victoria Guida / Politico:
Sarah Sanders: Trump looking at ‘every option available’ to build wall
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Breitbart
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: Vox, New York Times, NPR, Mediaite and The Week
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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 …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Mother Jones
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 Pull Out of Syria in Way That Defeats ISIS, Bolton Says
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
Neil Dwyer / Washington Examiner:
We need more GOP women, but not in the mold of Rep. Elise Stefanik  —  The Republican Party heads into 2019 having lost its House majority.  Much like in the aftermath of Mitt Romney's loss in the 2012 presidential election, some are calling for an autopsy of what went wrong.
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Park Service takes ‘extraordinary step’ of dipping into entrance fees to bolster operations at popular sites  —  Critics say the unprecedented move, which comes as trash and other problems mount, could be illegal.  —  The National Park Service will take the unprecedented step of tapping entrance fees …
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
Tucker Carlson's Monologue Insults His Viewers  —  Conservatives are abuzz about a long monologue delivered on Fox News by the host Tucker Carlson, who intimated solidarity with “normal Americans” while accusing U.S. elites of callously betraying their countrymen.
Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
TV special glosses over the truth behind JFK Jr.'s doomed flight  —  This year marks the 20th anniversary of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s fatal flight.  Three days in and already the hagiographic retellings have begun.  —  “The Last Days of JFK Jr.,” a two-hour special promising new details …
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 …
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 has negotiated …
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Ryan Heath / Politico:
UK Labour support to crash if it supports Brexit: poll
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 …
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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.
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Washington Post:   After years of Trump's dire warnings, a ‘crisis’ has hit the border but generates little urgency
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Biden: Rush Limbaugh and the ‘conservative blonde woman’ to blame for shutdown
Discussion: Mediaite, Townhall and twitchy.com
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Collins: Senate should vote on funding bills passed in House  —  Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Sunday that she would support holding a Senate vote on bills passed in the House to reopen parts of the government unrelated to negotiations over funding for President Trump's wall along the southern border.
Washington Times:
NAACP blames ‘white supremacy’ for Portland earthquake signs  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — A new city policy requiring public signs on brick buildings warning they might collapse in an earthquake is part of a long history of white supremacy aimed at forcing black people to move out of neighborhoods, the NAACP of Portland, Oregon, says.
 
 
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Jacob Magid / The Times of Israel:
Detained Jewish teenagers suspected of murdering Palestinian woman — Shin Bet
Discussion: MelaniePhillips.com
Bloomberg Law:
Panels to End Gerrymandering Could Reach SCOTUS
Jess Bidgood / BostonGlobe.com:
Iowa women meet Warren and wonder anew about the glass ceiling
Mitch Albom / Detroit Free Press:
Rashida Tlaib's profanity starts year on a low note
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
Shehab Khan / The Independent:
Jair Bolsonaro: Brazil's new far right president fires hundreds of ‘left wing’ civil servants
 Earlier Items: 
Jack Bohrer / NBC News:
‘It is a pleasure to blog with you’: Elizabeth Warren's early years online
Discussion: The Atlantic
Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
Vulnerable Republicans seek distance from Trump in new Congress
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Democrats keep proving how detached they are from reality
Bruce Ackerman / New York Times:
No, Trump Cannot Declare an ‘Emergency’ to Build His Wall
ABC:
Saudi woman seeking asylum in Australia ‘detained in Bangkok airport’
Discussion: BBC and Breitbart
Jerusalem Post:
U.S. ambassador to Israel: Trump's peace plan delayed ‘for several months’
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:
Trump Has Promised to Bring Jobs Back. His Tariffs Threaten to Send Them Away.
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
Iran plans naval drills with Russia in Caspian Sea
 

 
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Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT and more via Reddit's Data API, bring new AI tools to Reddit, and make OpenAI a Reddit ad partner

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Memo: Gannett is adding AI-generated summaries to the top of some stories, with a disclaimer at the bottom; some USA Today stories already show the summaries

Steven Waldman / @stevenwaldman:
The California Senate Appropriations Committee approves a bill imposing fees on Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon to pay for local news through employment tax credits

 
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