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Caitlin Andrews / Bangor Daily News:
Jared Golden will vote with Democrats on one Trump impeachment article, not the other  —  AUGUSTA, Maine — U.S. Rep. Jared Golden of Maine's 2nd District said Tuesday he will vote to impeach President Donald Trump for abusing the power of his office, but not on a second impeachment that charges …
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Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Trump presents his own impeachment defense  —  On the eve of his likely impeachment, President Donald Trump has opted to act as his own defense lawyer.  —  In a six-page, stream-of-consciousness diatribe sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and released by the White House on Tuesday afternoon …
CNN:
Fact check: Trump's wild letter to Pelosi is filled with false and misleading claims  —  Washington (CNN)It was on White House letterhead.  It read like a string of President Donald Trump's tweets.  —  And it was just as dishonest.  —  On Tuesday afternoon, Trump released a six-page letter …
Anna Palmer / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Impeachment Day.  Here's how it will go down.  —  TWENTY YEARS, 11 MONTHS and 29 DAYS after NEWT GINGRICH'S House impeached BILL CLINTON, NANCY PELOSI'S House will vote to impeach DONALD TRUMP, tattooing an asterisk on the 45th president's legacy and giving new definition to Republicans and Democrats alike.
Discussion: New York Times and The Daily Beast
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Schiff says Pence's office may have purposefully misled panel about contents of his Zelensky call
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump impeachment: What time is the vote?
Discussion: Townhall, Joe.My.God. and Breitbart
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Trump on the brink of impeachment
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and CBS News
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Impeachment live updates: House set to begin historic day of debate expected to end with Trump's impeachment
Discussion: Fox News
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump appears resilient as he faces the ‘very ugly word’ of impeachment
Discussion: Hullabaloo
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Top Democrat excoriates Pompeo for ‘unceremoniously recalling’ top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine
Los Angeles Times:
Trump's most expansive defense against impeachment is just as lame and dishonest as his tweets
Discussion: The Hill and POLITICUSUSA
New York Times:
Read Trump's Letter to Pelosi Protesting Impeachment  —  President Trump sent a letter on Tuesday to Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressing his “most powerful protest” against the impeachment process.  The House is expected to vote on two articles of impeachment against Mr. Trump on Wednesday.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Writes Insane Letter to Pelosi Showing Why He's Unfit For Office  —  If you worked in print media, you became accustomed to receiving long, unhinged letters from agitated members of the general public.  Often these letters tied together facts, pseudo-facts, paranoid insinuations …
New York Times:
Trump Wanted to Get Something Off His Chest, and in His Letter to Pelosi He Did  —  The letter was a diatribe that played loose with facts and sometimes disregarded them outright.  A former Clinton aide called it a reflection of the president's “id.”  —  WASHINGTON — The letter read …
Discussion: Washington Post, The Hill and Raw Story
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
It is hard to capture how bizarre and frightening Trump's letter to Pelosi is  —  On the eve of his impeachment, a stain that obviously torments him more than his enablers have let on, President Trump issued a rambling, unhinged and lie-filled letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Buttigieg omitted high-powered bundlers from disclosure  —  Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign omitted more than 20 high-level fundraisers from a list of top bundlers it disclosed last week.  —  The public list of bundlers, featuring more than 100 people who have raised at least $25,000 for Buttigieg …
Discussion: Fox News
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
How Harvard Made Pete Buttigieg the Moderate That Progressives Love to Hate
Discussion: New York Times
Giancarlo Sopo / TheBlaze:
Pete Buttigieg kicks off his Latino outreach campaign with a slogan popularized by communists
Discussion: Townhall, Instapundit and Vox
Julian Sanchez / New York Times:
How Out of Control Is Our Surveillance State?  —  Americans deserve a stronger assurance than “hope” that their Fourth Amendment rights are being respected.  —  Mr. Sanchez is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.  —  The F.B.I.'s investigation of the former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page …
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Secret FISA Court issues highly unusual public rebuke of FBI for mistakes
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Trump's economic approval hits highest level in a year as Americans remain split on impeachment  — Forty-five percent of Americans disapprove of Congress impeaching President Trump and 44% approve, according to the CNBC All-America Economic Survey.  — The survey shows 49% …
Discussion: The Hill
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:   Trump's campaign manager once again accidentally publishes poll showing Democrats are on track to keep the House
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump campaign poll: Impeachment unpopular in swing districts
Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Letter from President Donald J. Trump to the Speaker of the House of Representatives  —  Speaker of the House of Representatives  —  Dear Madam Speaker:  —  I write to express my strongest and most powerful protest against the partisan impeachment crusade being pursued by the Democrats in the House of Representatives.
Discussion: PolitiFact and BizPac Review
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Trump Approval Inches Up, While Support for Impeachment Dips  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's job approval rating has inched up again and is now at 45%.  The president's ratings have increased six percentage points since the House of Representatives opened an impeachment inquiry against him in the fall.
Reuters:
Associate of Rudy Giuliani received $1 million payment from Ukrainian oligarch -prosecutor  —  U.S. prosecutors said in court on Tuesday that Lev Parnas, an associate of U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, received a $1 million payment from Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash.
Discussion: IJR
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Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Jeff Van Drew Was ‘Almost Obsessively Anti-Trump’ Before He Considered Joining His Party  —  Democrats heard the New Jersey freshman call President Trump crazy and unfit to be commander-in-chief.  —  For months, Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a freshman Democrat from New Jersey …
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Adam Driver Walks Out of NPR ‘Fresh Air’ Interview Over ‘Marriage Story’ Clip  —  The star actor allegedly left after expressing displeasure with listening to a clip of his own acting—a fear Driver has repeatedly voiced in the past.  —  In the midst of promoting three of his latest starring turns …
Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Rallies Spread on Eve of House Impeachment Votes  —  A coalition of liberal groups that included MoveOn.org and Indivisible organized hundreds of protests across the country.  —  From Boston Common to the French Quarter in New Orleans, a series of protests reverberated across the country …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
David Sharp / Associated Press:
GOP Sen. Collins of Maine launches reelection bid  —  FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2019, file photo, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is surrounded by reporters as she heads to vote at the Capitol in Washington.  U.S. Sen. Collins officially launched her bid for a reelection Wednesday, Dec. 18 …
Wil S. Hylton / The Atlantic:
History's Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin  —  Unless you are given to chronic anxiety or suffer from nihilistic despair, you probably haven't spent much time contemplating the bottom of the ocean.  Many people imagine the seabed to be a vast expanse of sand, but it's a jagged …
Leo Shane III / Military Times:
Half of active-duty service members are unhappy with Trump, new Military Times poll shows … President Donald Trump received a loud ovation when he participated in the coin toss ahead of Saturday's Army-Navy football rivalry game in Philadelphia.  But troops' actual feelings about the commander …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Independent
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump Fatigue?  Spare Me  —  Yep, he's exhausting.  And the nation's pundits owe us more than a plea for sympathy.  —  Mark Wilson/Getty Images  —  You can barely taste the opinion pages anymore without being drowned in the carping and moaning from the commentariat about how President …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Melissa Malamut / New York Post:
Men are showing up to The Wing and women are pissed  —  Ladies, leave your man at home.  —  The Wing was supposed to be the ultimate sanctuary for women: decidedly feminine in design, with walls and furniture in shades of millennial pink and a thermometer set at a women's-clothing-friendly 72 degrees.
New York Times:
Among the World's Most Dire Places: This California Homeless Camp  —  We spent three months documenting the conditions of one homeless camp in the wealthiest state.  Then we traveled to a slum in Mexico City for comparison.
Discussion: SFist
New York Times:
A Surveillance Net Blankets China's Cities, Giving Police Vast Powers  —  The authorities can scan your phones, track your face and find out when you leave your home.  One of the world's biggest spying networks is aimed at regular people, and nobody can stop it.
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
McConnell selling Pompeo on Senate as perfect platform for 2024 White House run  —  When Mitch McConnell pitches Mike Pompeo on running for the Senate in 2020, a periodic occurrence, the majority leader does not fail to mention that the chamber is a great steppingstone should the secretary of state harbor higher aspirations.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
 
 
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
‘60 Minutes’ Producer Sues CBS for Alleged Retaliation Over Her Complaint About Boss' Lewd Pic
FiveThirtyEight:
Most Americans Think There's Enough Evidence To Impeach Trump
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Washington Post
Antonio Fins / Palm Beach Post:
EXCLUSIVE: President Trump to speak at Turning Point USA event in West Palm Beach on Saturday
Discussion: Florida Politics
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Ocasio-Cortez: Republicans Call Election Losses Illegitimate
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Ian Lovett / Wall Street Journal:
Rise in Anti-Semitic Incidents Goes Beyond Recent Violent Attacks
The Boston Globe:
In Boston and Cambridge, crowds call for Trump's impeachment
 Earlier Items: 
Doha Madani / NBC News:
Possible mass grave from 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre found by researchers
Discussion: Daily Kos, KSLTV.com and FOX2now.com
Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
Trump slashed Puerto Rico's Medicaid money as part of budget deal
Discussion: The Hill and Axios
Joseph Cox / VICE:
We Tested Ring's Security. It's Awful
Discussion: Vox, more at Techmeme »
Kriston Capps / CityLab:
Trump's Plan to Criminalize Homelessness Is Taking Shape
Discussion: Chicago Sun-Times
ABC News:
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort hospitalized for cardiac event: Sources
 

 
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Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on the publisher's archived content and to let ChatGPT reply with short summaries of FT articles

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount is planning for what happens if no big deal happens, mulling cutting $2B in costs, selling BET and TV stations, starting a streaming JV, more

The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount CEO Bob Bakish steps down; Brian Robbins, Chris McCarthy, and George Cheeks will run Paramount on an interim basis as an “Office of the CEO”

 
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