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Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
Chris Christie rips Kushner's dad: ‘One of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted’  —  Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie took several shots at White House senior adviser Jared Kushner in his new book “Let Me Finish,” alleging that in an act of spite …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
No GOP appetite for a second shutdown  —  Senate Republicans are signaling they will do just about anything to prevent a second shutdown after the White House was widely seen as badly losing the political fight over the closure that ended with President Trump's retreat on Friday.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Political Wire
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Big border deal fades before talks even begin  —  Congressional negotiators haven't even held their first meeting to avert another shutdown, but the prospect of a big deal on border security and immigration is essentially dead.  —  When President Donald Trump caved in on the 35-day shutdown fight last week …
Hot Air:   Jared Trying To Broker A Major Immigration Compromise For Some Reason
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Talks to avoid a shutdown begin ... What to watch
Axios:
Kushner driving effort to replicate criminal justice success with immigration reform
Discussion: Breitbart
Reuters:
Exclusive: Foxconn reconsidering plans to make LCD panels at Wisconsin plant  —  (Reuters) - Foxconn Technology Group is reconsidering plans to make advanced liquid crystal display panels at a $10 billion Wisconsin campus, and said it intends to hire mostly engineers and researchers rather …
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Cliff Sims Is Proud to Have Served Trump  —  In August, 2016, Cliff Sims, the C.E.O. of an Alabama-based conservative news site, joined the Trump campaign.  He then followed Trump to the White House, where he worked as the special assistant to the President and as the director …
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Patrick Ryan / USA Today:
Steve Bannon says in revealing doc that he did 'the Lord's work' in Trump White House  —  Steve Bannon is back.  Announcing the launch of his pro-Trump documentary and political group.  Veuer's Nick Cardona has that story.  —  CONNECT  —  PARK CITY, Utah - Remember Steve Bannon?
The Daily Beast:
Mueller Witness' Team Gamed Out Russian Meddling ... in 2015  —  One former analyst at the Wikistrat consulting firm called it “disturbing.”  —  Days after Donald Trump rode down an escalator at Trump Tower and announced he'd run for president, a little-known consulting firm with links …
CNN:
Kamala Harris is open to compromise on private insurers' role during ‘Medicare for all’ push  —  Kamala Harris backs ‘Medicare-for-all’ plan  —  (CNN)By stating she would eliminate private insurers as a necessary part of implementing “Medicare-for-all,” California Sen. Kamala Harris during …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Medicare-for-All trap  —  Most issues will strongly favor the Democrats in 2020.  Taking away people's health insurance is an exception.  —  A couple of weeks ago, one of the country's most respected health care pollsters — Kaiser Family Foundation — conducted a survey on “Medicare for All.”
Discussion: ThinkProgress, HuffPost and Breitbart
CNN:
Democrats distance themselves from Harris' call to eliminate private health plans
Discussion: twitchy.com and Daily Wire
Peter Baker / New York Times:
A Growing Chorus of Republican Critics for Trump's Foreign Policy  —  WASHINGTON — They think pulling out of Syria and Afghanistan would be a debacle.  They think North Korea cannot be trusted.  They think the Islamic State is still a threat to America.  They think Russia is bad and NATO is good.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump digs in on border-wall funds as congressional negotiators prepare to convene  —  President Trump warned Wednesday that congressional negotiators would be “wasting their time” if they do not discuss his demand for a U.S.-Mexico border wall that led to a 35-day partial government shutdown that ended last week with a temporary truce.
Discussion: Politico, Bloomberg, Breitbart and Roll Call
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Axios:
Livid liberals try to bully Schultz out of 2020  —  Furious Democrats hope to pound Starbucks chairman emeritus Howard Schultz into an early departure from his exploration of an independent 2020 bid.  —  The state of play: These Democrats want to prevent the coffee king from siphoning anti-Trump votes …
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Alex Thompson / Politico:
Tulsi Gabbard campaign in disarray  —  Tulsi Gabbard's presidential campaign hasn't officially launched yet but it's already melting down.  —  Two-and-a-half weeks after the Hawaii Democrat told CNN she had decided to run for the White House—an announcement that even her own staff didn't know was coming …
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Why Trump's superfans dig Ocasio-Cortez  —  They detest what she stands for.  They think her policies would destroy the country.  And they wish she would just go away.  —  All the same, many of President Donald Trump's most media-conscious supporters can't help but admit it: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has got serious political game.
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Billy House / Bloomberg:
GOP Lawmaker Tells Ocasio-Cortez Congress Isn't Just ‘Eating Bonbons’
Discussion: Raw Story
Ashley / Chicks On The Right:
Chuck Schumer Wants A LITERAL LOSER To Deliver The Democratic SOTU Response  —  ShareTweetSubscribe to the Chicks!  —  Email address:  —  Leave this field empty if you're human:  —  WATCH: Chuck Schumer Wants A LITERAL LOSER To Deliver The Democratic SOTU Response  —  I'm sorry, but...what?
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Ryan Crocker / Washington Post:
I was ambassador to Afghanistan.  This deal is a surrender.  —  Ryan Crocker is diplomat in residence at Princeton University and a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait and Lebanon.  —  January 2002.  I arrive in Kabul to reopen the U.S. Embassy.  Destruction is everywhere.
Discussion: Politico
Arizona Republic:
Phoenix restaurant says this is a photo of coal miners.  But I see offensive blackface  —  Opinion: Who determines what's offensive?  A photo in a downtown Phoenix restaurant raises this key question.  —  CONNECT  —  A few weeks ago, I attended a holiday party at a downtown Phoenix restaurant.
Kayla Tausche / CNBC:
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is charging a whopping $200,000 per speaking gig  — Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is currently quoting $200,000 and the use of a private jet for domestic speaking engagements, according to five people with knowledge of the arrangement.
Reuters:
Special Report: Inside the UAE's secret hacking team of U.S. mercenaries  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two weeks after leaving her position as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. National Security Agency in 2014, Lori Stroud was in the Middle East working as a hacker for an Arab monarchy.
Michael Harriot / The Root:
Exclusive: Clemson's Black Players Refused to Accept Donald Trump's Invitation to the McCookout  —  When Filet-O-Fish aficionado Donald Trump invited the Clemson Tigers to enjoy the White House's first Presidential Value Meal, most of Clemson's national championship football team members jumped …
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The Guardian:   Majority of Clemson's black players declined Trump's fast food reception, report says
Financial Times:
Trump sat down with Putin at G20 without US note-taker  —  Donald Trump sat down with Vladimir Putin for several minutes of conversation at the end of an evening event at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires in November, with no translator or note-taker from the US side to record the dialogue between the leaders …
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Alex Ward / Vox:
Trump met Putin without staff or note takers present — again
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Lisa Murkowski Revives Bill Targeting Missing And Murdered Native Women  —  Indigenous women are disappearing and being killed.  Savanna's Act would help to bring them some justice.  —  WASHINGTON Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) reintroduced legislation on Monday to help law enforcement respond …
Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Roger Stone raid shows that CNN is no longer covering Robert Mueller.  They're working with him  —  LongtimeTrump adviser Roger Stone was arrested on Friday by federal agents and charged with seven felonies, none of which had anything to do with Russian collusion or election meddling.
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Barbara McQuade / The Daily Beast:
Why Is Mueller Hiding Who Ultimately ‘Directed’ Roger Stone to Contact WikiLeaks?
Chris Willman / Variety:
Peter Jackson Signs On to Make New Beatles Film Out of Unseen ‘Let It Be’ Footage  —  Sir Peter, meet Sir Paul, and Mother Mary.  “Lord of the Rings” filmmaker Peter Jackson has come aboard a project that Paul McCartney had previously hinted was in the works: a new Beatles documentary using …
Discussion: East Bay Times
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Democrats are calling on the same donors, but few are ready to spend  —  The Democrats plotting presidential campaigns have relied on a lot of the same people to fund their political careers.  So far, those whales aren't ready to pick a 2020 favorite.  —  According to a McClatchy analysis …
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
White suburbia the source of Trump's Texas troubles  —  From the outside, Texas appears troubling for President Trump in 2020 because of demographic changes that have featured a steady climb in the population of Hispanic voters.  —  But actually, the leftward drift, first evident in 2016 …
Wall Street Journal:
A Bad Judges Deal  —  The White House may make concessions to Feinstein and Harris.
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Venezuela is how ‘illiberal democracy’ ends  —  For absolute proof that the ideological language of the 20th century is insufficient to describe the political realities of the 21st century, look no further than the international alliances that have formed around Venezuela.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them  —  Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user's phone and web activity, similar to Facebook's Onavo Protect app …
 
 
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Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
U.S. Midwest Freezes, Australia Burns: This Is the Age of Weather Extremes
Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic:
How a Ballot Initiative to Expand Medicaid in Utah May Be Denied
Discussion: fox13now.com
Stephanie Sugars / Committee to Protect Journalists:
From fake news to enemy of the people: An anatomy of Trump's tweets
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Elon Musk's highflying 2018: What 150,000 miles in a private jet reveal about his ‘excruciating’ year
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
The latest forecast as brutally cold temperatures hit major cities
Discussion: The Week
 Earlier Items: 
Melissa Korn / Wall Street Journal:
Oberlin, University of Chicago and Other Elite Colleges Extend Application Deadlines
Dave Shaw / Politico:
The case for Democrats winning the industrial Midwest
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“We're Trying to Grab People by the Collar Every Day”: Axios, the Fast-Twitch Media Darling …
Sophie Lewis / CBS News:
Illinois police “arrest” Elsa for bringing polar vortex
Washington Post:
Trump's company plans to expand check of employees' legal status following report that it hired …
Discussion: New York Times and Axios
Jon Schlosberg / ABC News:
Deep space radio waves baffle astronomers; aliens not ruled out
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Why Trump is still beefing with ‘Da Nang Dick’
Discussion: Raw Story and Vox
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will not run for president
Discussion: Raw Story and ABC News
 

 
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