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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: John Bolton hits Trump for bluffing on North Korea nukes  —  In his sharpest criticism yet of his old workplace, John Bolton suggested the Trump administration is bluffing about stopping North Korea's nuclear ambitions — and soon might need to admit publicly that its policy failed badly.
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Simon Denyer / Washington Post:
How Trump's North Korea nuclear talks gambit came undone  —  SEOUL — When President Trump walked out of his first summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore in June 2018, his confidence was sky high.  Trump claimed he knew “for a fact” that Kim would go home to start a process that …
Timothy Dalrymple / Christianity Today:
The Flag in the Whirlwind: An Update from CT's President  —  Why our editor in chief spoke out against Trump, and why the conversation must continue.  —  Reader responses to Mark Galli's recent editorial have spanned the spectrum.  We have received countless notes of encouragement from readers who were profoundly moved.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
How ‘Centrist Bias’ Hurts Sanders and Warren  —  The media has a bigger problem than liberal bias.  —  John F. Harris is about as mainstream as the mainstream media gets.  He spent 21 years at The Washington Post, including as its political editor.  Then he became the founding editor of Politico, where he is now a columnist.
Discussion: Althouse
Associated Press:
Saudi sentences 5 to death for Jamal Khashoggi's killing  —  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death on Monday for the killing of Washington Post columnist and royal family critic Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last year by a team of Saudi agents.
Keith E. Whittington / Reason:
When Is an Officer Impeached?  IV  —  Now that President Donald Trump has gotten wind of the fact that he might not yet have been impeached, we should make some things abundantly clear.  —  At a Turning Point USA event in Florida, the president noted, “In fact, there's no impeachment.
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Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
If Trump's Impeached, Then Why Can't a Senate Trial Start Now?
Robert Costa / Washington Post:   Key Democratic senator remains undecided on whether Trump should be removed from office
Jon Lockett / The Sun:
ROID RAGE ISIS is rebuilding ‘like Al-Qaeda on steroids’ as expert warns sleeper cells will unleash ‘decade of terror’ in Europe  —  ISIS is rapidly rebuilding in Iraq after being transformed into “Al-Qaeda on steroids”, warn regional terror experts.  —  The worrying news comes amid fears thousands …
Discussion: BBC
Ben White / Politico:
How the economy could make or break Trump in 2020  —  Most of the economic gifts President Donald Trump is going to get for 2020 are already unwrapped and out from under the tree.  —  The Federal Reserve slashed rates and went dark.  The phase one China deal is pretty much done.  So is the new NAFTA.
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Beth Baumann / Townhall:   Leave It to CNN to Flat Out Lie About the Booming Economy
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Inside Giuliani's new push to flip the script on Trump's impeachment  —  President Donald Trump's personal attorney continues to move ahead with new allegations against Democrats on Ukraine but his evidence is vague at best.  —  WASHINGTON — Even as President Donald Trump awaits a trial in the Senate …
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Judge changes mind in important First Amendment case  —  Last week, I wrote about a case in which the Fifth Circuit, in a unanimous decision, ruled that a suit could proceed against a Black Lives Matter activist for violence he didn't commit or encourage.  The police officer who brought …
Discussion: Washington Times
JC Reindl / Detroit Free Press:
Why President Trump's steel tariff didn't save US Steel workers from layoffs  —  President Donald Trump told an audience of Pennsylvania union workers last August that his 25% tariff on steel imports was reinvigorating the country's steel industry, and leading companies such as U.S. Steel to expand.
Cissy Zhou / South China Morning Post:
Chinese researcher accused of trying to smuggle vials of ‘biological material’ out of US hidden in a sock  —  An affidavit from an FBI agent says Zheng Zaosong was detained at Boston Airport after vials containing a ‘brown liquid’ were found in his checked baggage The doctoral student …
Wall Street Journal:
The Bipartisan Spending Party  —  Congress ends its year with a blowout for everyone but taxpayers.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Congress has left town for the year but alas not before another bipartisan spending party that has typified the Trump Presidency.
Axios:
Scoop: Buttigieg fundraiser dangles influence for cash  —  In a recent email exchange with a wealthy prospective donor, a top fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg made an offer that was unusually blunt — even by modern pay-to-play standards.
Discussion: Raw Story and HuffPost
Reuters:
Special Report: Iran's leader ordered crackdown on unrest - ‘Do whatever it takes to end it’  —  (Reuters) - After days of protests across Iran last month, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared impatient.  Gathering his top security and government officials together, he issued an order: Do whatever it takes to stop them.
New York Times:
Stranded on Border, This Migrant Became the Camp Doctor  —  A Cuban doctor waiting for asylum in the United States has become the only full-time physician at a makeshift encampment for 2,500 migrants in Mexico.  —  MATAMOROS, Mexico — Under a canopy on the edge of a squalid encampment …
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
‘What new level would you contemplate?’:  Democrats fret over post-impeachment Trump  —  Democrats have spent the last three months trying to rein in what they see as President Donald Trump's flagrant and latest abuse of power.  —  But they concede it's not likely to work.
Erich Schwartzel / Wall Street Journal:
‘Star Wars’ Leads Box Office With Disappointing $175.5 Million  —  Final installment of Skywalker trilogy opens down 20% from ‘Last Jedi’ debut  —  LOS ANGELES—Not even the Force can withstand withering reviews.  —  After mixed fan reaction and thumbs-down from most critics, “Star Wars …
Discussion: New York Post
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Trump campaign plagued by groups raising tens of millions in his name  —  As President Donald Trump raises money for his reelection campaign, he's competing for cash with a growing mass of pro-Trump PACs, dark money groups and off-brand Facebook advertisers neither affiliated with nor endorsed …
Discussion: Stop robocalls …
 
 
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Wayne Allyn Root / Townhall:
Biden Just Lost the Election
Discussion: Instapundit
Susan Page / USA Today:
Exclusive: With 218 foreign policy endorsements, Buttigieg targets a big Biden asset
Discussion: Axios
Lauren Gambino / The Guardian:
Nancy Pelosi: the woman who stood up to Trump
DemCast:
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Ashe Schow / The Daily Wire:
She Claimed Her Doctor Touched Her Breast During A Consultation. …
Flavia Krause-Jackson / Yahoo News:
The Year Socialism Became a Dirty Word—Again
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Help! I'm Being Held Prisoner...
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Max Rivlin-Nadler / The Intercept:
How ICE Uses Social Media to Surveil and Arrest Immigrants
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Kim Norvell / Des Moines Register:
Elizabeth Warren shakes up Iowa campaign style, with more candid events, but she still shies away from candidate attacks
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Associated Press:
Inside impeachment: How an ‘urgent’ tip became ‘high crimes’
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Donald Trump's 'they're after you' tweet says it all
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