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2:40 PM ET, December 28, 2019

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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Pelosi gets under Trump's skin on impeachment  —  President Trump has made attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) a theme of his holiday break at his Mar-a-Lago resort.  —  Trump's comments suggest he is lingering on impeachment and that Pelosi's central role in it is very much on his mind going into 2020.
Discussion: Breitbart
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Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
Facing blowback, Biden clarifies stance on impeachment trial testimony  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden on Saturday said there would be “no legal basis” for Republicans to subpoena his testimony in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, clarifying remarks from Friday that drew criticism.
Nick Coltrain / Des Moines Register:
Biden says he would not comply with a Senate subpoena in the impeachment trial of President Trump  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden confirmed Friday he would not comply with a subpoena to testify in a Senate trial of President Donald Trump.  —  The Democratically controlled U.S. House …
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
‘Nothing Less Than a Civil War’: These White Voters on the Far Right See Doom Without Trump  —  Deeply conservative, they organize online and outside the Republican Party apparatus, engaging in more explicit versions of the chest-beating seen at the president's rallies.
Discussion: Raw Story
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Secrets of Jewish Genius  —  It's not about having higher I.Q.s.  —  An eminent Lithuanian rabbi is annoyed that his yeshiva students devote their lunch breaks to playing soccer instead of discussing Torah.  The students, intent on convincing their rav of the game's beauty, invite him to watch a professional match.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Althouse
Greg Robb / MarketWatch:
Fed study finds Trump tariffs backfired  —  President Donald Trump's strategy to use import tariffs to protect and boost U.S. manufacturers backfired and led to job losses and higher prices, according to a Federal Reserve study released this week.  —  “We find that the 2018 tariffs …
Discussion: The Hill, Hullabaloo and HuffPost
Paul Joseph Watson / Summit News:
UN Moves Towards Handing Dictatorships Power to Control the Internet  —  The United Nations wants to hand power to dictatorial regimes like China to control the Internet, prompting fears of a massive new free speech purge.  —  The General Assembly has approved a resolution sponsored by China …
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Agence France-Presse:
UN approves Russian-sponsored, China-backed bid on new cybercrime convention  —  The resolution was approved on Friday by the general assembly by a vote of 79-60, with 33 abstentions The US, European powers and rights groups fear that the resolution would legitimise crackdowns on expression …
Yahoo News:   UN backs Russia on internet convention, alarming rights advocates
David Frum / The Atlantic:
A Gangster in the White House  —  Amid a two-day binge of post-Christmas rage-tweeting, President Trump retweeted the name of the CIA employee widely presumed to be the whistleblower in the Ukraine scandal.  On Thursday night, December 26, Trump retweeted his campaign account …
Discussion: The Guardian
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
Right-Wing Publishers Have Found A Way To Post The Supposed Trump Whistleblower's Name To Facebook
Discussion: The Week
Heather Long / Washington Post:
Trump's stock market rally is very good, but still lags Obama and Clinton  —  U.S. stocks are closing out a terrific year and President Trump loves it.  He's bragged about the stock market hitting record highs six times this week alone on Twitter.  —  On Friday, be boasted …
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Trump's quest to shatter GOP economics reached its culmination in 2019
Discussion: Mother Jones
James Arkin / Politico:
Impeachment trial will supercharge battle for Senate  —  The battle for the Senate majority in 2020 was always going to be heated.  And now here comes impeachment.  —  The Senate's impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is still stuck in limbo, but the looming verdict represents …
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Bruce Schreiner / Associated Press:
McGrath files to challenge McConnell in Senate race
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Hill
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The Public Option Is Politically Superior to M4A — But Only As a Sound Bite  —  The vast majority of Americans believe that every U.S. citizen has a right to quality, affordable health care, and that it is the federal government's job to uphold that right.  —  But roughly 70 percent …
Douglas MacKinnon / The Hill:
Baltimore needs a Lamar Jackson-like figure to save it  —  Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson has electrified the city and its citizens — along with the rest of the nation — by showing unrivaled skills and making historic records as a National Football League player and leader.
CBS New York:
NYPD Investigating 9th Anti-Semitic Attack Reported This Week  —  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — New information was released Saturday morning about another anti-Semitic incident in Brooklyn.  —  It follows a series of anti-Semitic attacks this week and an increase in overall hate crimes around the city.
Discussion: Conservative Review
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David K. Li / NBC News:
NYPD to step up patrols in Jewish neighborhoods in wake of recent anti-Semitic attacks
Discussion: NPR, Sara A. Carter and HuffPost
Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
SHOCK VIDEO: Man scales 30-foot border wall — in 23 seconds!  —  A real-life Spiderman lives in Mexico.  —  A migrant scaled a new 30-foot section of the border wall with relative ease recently.  —  Watch: … The photo spoke Spanish throughout the video, which shows the man scaling …
Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
Maddow Meltdown: In Defense To OAN Lawsuit, Host Argues Her Words Are Not Facts  —  Back in September, we reported that TV network OAN had filed a lawsuit against Rachel Maddow for the time the host said that OAN “really, literally is paid Russian propaganda.”
Lisa Marie Pane / Associated Press:
US mass killings hit new high in 2019, most were shootings  —  The first one occurred 19 days into the new year when a man used an ax to kill four family members including his infant daughter.  Five months later, 12 people were killed in a workplace shooting in Virginia.
Discussion: Slate, The Hill and New York Post
New York Times:
Russia Deploys Hypersonic Weapon, Potentially Renewing Arms Race  —  The new Russian weapon system flies at superfast speeds and can evade traditional missile defense systems.  The United States is trying to catch up.  —  WASHINGTON — The Russian military on Friday said it had deployed …
Evan Kruegel / FOX31 Denver:
Mysterious drones spotted in 4 Colorado counties  —  WASHINGTON COUNTY, Colo. —Law enforcement officials in at least 4 Colorado counties are looking for the source of some mysterious drone sightings.  —  Sheriffs in Phillips, Lincoln, Yuma, and Washington Counties all confirm unusual sightings over the past week.
Washington Post:
How Ralph Northam came back from the political dead  —  THE HISTORY of U.S. politics is full of second chances — of scandal-scarred, disgraced and irredeemable public figures staging improbable comebacks — but few back-from-the-dead narratives have been as swift and sure-footed as the one Virginia …
Deborah Pearlstein / The Atlantic:
How the Military Lost Its Proper Place in the Constitutional Order  —  In his efforts to mask the seriousness of his actions around Russia and Ukraine, President Donald Trump has taken aim at one essential democratic institution after another—questioning the legitimacy of the press …
Janie Har / Associated Press:
Even amid affluence of tech capital, local news struggles  —  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The cities and suburbs on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay are home to 2.7 million people, a world-class University of California campus and bedroom communities for Silicon Valley that produce median …
Josh Barro / KCRW:
Where is the Center?  —  Listen 50 min MORE  —  Who is the center?  Are there swing voters anymore, and what do they want?  How did Donald Trump succeed at appealing at enough of the center to win the 2016 election, and what kind of candidate do Democrats need to pick to win the center back over?
Laurent Banguet / Yahoo News:
Mars 2020 rover to seek ancient life, prepare human missions  —  The Mars 2020 rover's driving equipment was given its first test inside a large, sterile room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, near Los Angeles  —  Pasadena (United States) (AFP) - The Mars 2020 rover …
 
 
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CBS News:
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Bob Fredericks / Page Six:
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