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6:35 PM ET, December 21, 2019

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Center for Public Integrity:
Live Blog: Digging into the #UkraineDocs  —  The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust.  Sign up to receive our stories.  —  Late on Dec. 20, the Department of Justice sent a batch of documents to the Center for Public Integrity …
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CNN:
Newly released emails offer more details in timeline of pause to Ukraine aid  —  Source: Key impeachment witness told to leave Ukraine post before Pompeo visit  —  Washington (CNN)Shortly after President Donald Trump spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25 …
Center for Public Integrity:
Trump Administration officials worried Ukraine aid halt violated spending law  —  The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates betrayals of public trust.  Sign up to receive our stories.  —  When President Donald Trump ordered a halt to aid to Ukraine last summer …
Anna Kaplan / The Daily Beast:
Trump Administration Withheld Ukraine Military Aid 91 Minutes After Phone Call: Docs  —  NO TIME TO SPARE  —  A White House Office of Management and Budget official emailed the Pentagon asking to “please hold off on” distributing military aid to Ukraine just 91 minutes after the July 25 …
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Singer Etheridge, big Warren donors and souvenir wine bottle  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — On a Saturday evening in June 2018, with temperatures in the 70s and the Red Sox playing at Fenway Park, supporters of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren gathered at the City Winery Boston for a fundraiser.
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New York Times:
Fear and Loyalty: How Donald Trump Took Over the Republican Party  —  The president demands complete fealty, and as the impeachment hearings showed, he has largely attained it.  To cross him is to risk a future in G.O.P. politics.  —  BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — By the summer of 2017, Dave Trott …
Heritage Foundation:
Heritage Foundation Responds to Tucker Carlson's False Accusations on Big Tech  —  WASHINGTON—In a segment that aired Friday, Fox News host Tucker Carlson made several false, outrageous, and unfounded accusations against The Heritage Foundation.  Rob Bluey, vice president of communications at Heritage …
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Rob Bluey / The Daily Signal:
Tucker Carlson's False and Misleading Claims About The Heritage Foundation  —  In a segment that aired Friday night, Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson made several false, outrageous, and unfounded accusations against The Heritage Foundation.  —  For nearly 50 years …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Satellite photos show work on North Korean site linked to long-range missiles  —  The new evidence comes as U.S. military and intelligence officials are increasingly concerned that North Korea is poised to conduct a long-range missile test in the next few days or weeks.
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New York Times:
U.S. Braces for Major North Korean Weapons Test as Trump's Diplomacy Fizzles  —  President Trump's summits with Kim Jong-un have failed to bring concrete results, and the diplomatic vacuum has given North Korea more time to build its nuclear arsenal.  —  WASHINGTON — American military …
Discussion: Mother Jones, Joe.My.God., CNN and GZERO
Jorge Milian / Palm Beach Post:
$1 billion for Briny Breezes?  Real estate broker thinks Trump would buy... and residents are listening  —  A plan being pushed by a Briny Breezes resident would sell the 43-acre town for $1 billion to Donald Trump as a potential site for a presidential library.
CNN:
From an imaginary restraining order to a phantom drop in NATO spending: Trump makes 99 false claims in two weeks  —  Lindsey Graham calls out Trump after attack  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump made 99 false claims over the two weeks that ended last Sunday.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The two big flaws of the media's impeachment coverage — and what went right  —  The most telling moment of how the media covered impeachment may have come, oddly enough, on Fox News.  —  Todd Piro of “Fox & Friends” — President Trump's most reliable cheerleading squad …
Washington Post:
Trump touts Putin speaking out against his impeachment  —  Late Friday night, minutes before deplaning in Florida for the holidays, President Trump retweeted a link to an article in which Russian President Vladi­mir Putin defended him against impeachment.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Susan Collins set to play pivotal role in impeachment drama  —  Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is emerging as the most important vote in the Senate battle over President Trump's impeachment trial, as Democrats regard her support as key to getting the additional witnesses and documents they need to build their case.
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Why Does Starbucks Melt Conservative Brains?  —  Right-wingers keep falling for hoaxes and believing the worst about the ubiquitous coffee purveyor.  —  Rep. Steve King (R-IA) had an important warning to share on Tuesday: A Starbucks manager in North Carolina was firing employees for saying …
Discussion: Althouse and Reason
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
'I'm Kidnapped': A Father's Nightmare on the Border  —  A father was tortured in front of his 3-year-old son until his wife in New Jersey paid $2,000 to his captors.  Hundreds of migrants, turned back by the U.S., are facing new dangers in Mexico.  —  REYNOSA, Mexico — He remembers being on his knees …
Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Sanctions Halt Work on Russia's Gas Pipeline to Europe  —  The pause comes hours after President Trump signed a bill targeting entities working on the project  —  BERLIN—U.S. sanctions have temporarily stopped the construction of a pipeline that is set to increase the flow …
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Linda Givetash / NBC News:
Russia vows to push ahead with natural gas pipeline to Europe despite Trump sanctions
Discussion: Politico and WMGT-DT
New York Times:
These Reporters Lost Their Jobs.  Here Are the Stories They Couldn't Tell.  —  Amid a crisis in local news, eight journalists who left newsrooms in 2019 reflect on the stories left in their notebooks.  Photographers who also lost their jobs captured them on their former beats.
Washington Post:
Biden-Graham friendship, forged in war zones, fractures under the pressures of impeachment and Trump  —  Joe Biden and Lindsey Graham were hurtling over the Hindu Kush mountains, bound for Kabul and a war that both men knew was veering badly off track.  —  Biden was two weeks away …
Eugene Scott / Washington Post:
Anti-Trump evangelicals saw Christianity Today editorial ‘as a breath of fresh air,’ magazine's former editor says  —  A day after the House impeached President Trump, charging that he pressured Ukraine to investigate a political rival, one of the most prominent institutions in evangelical Christianity …
Hayley Fowler / Raleigh News & Observer:
Trump supporter disrupts impeachment rally with a truck and ‘Rambo’ flag, NC cops say  —  A man in a flatbed pickup truck who was waving a flag with President Donald Trump's face superimposed on what looks like Rambo's body interrupted an impeachment rally in western North Carolina.
Bloomberg:
Trump Quest to Expose Whistle-Blower Hard to Pull Off in Senate  — Impeachment trial should hear from person behind ‘hoax’: Trump  — Federal laws promise anonymity for workers who come forward  —  President Donald Trump says his impeachment trial should deliver on a goal he's nurtured for months …
Discussion: Raw Story and BizPac Review
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Mitch McConnell, Master of the Blockade, Plots Impeachment Strategy
Discussion: Twitchy
 
 
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