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12:50 PM ET, December 28, 2019

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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: Althouse
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 …
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 and HuffPost
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.
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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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Bruce Schreiner / Associated Press:
McGrath files to challenge McConnell in Senate race
Discussion: The Hill
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  —  President Trump shattered Republican orthodoxy on an extraordinary range of economic policies in 2019, setting up a more populist record for him to tout during a 2020 campaign in which Democrats already are accusing him of abandoning working people.
Discussion: Mother Jones
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 …
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Yahoo News:   UN backs Russia on internet convention, alarming rights advocates
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 …
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.
Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:
Don Imus, Racist Radio Show Host, Dead At 79  —  Imus was fired from CBS in 2007 after he referred to members of the Rutgers women's basketball team as “nappy-headed hos.”  —  Veteran radio broadcaster and known racist Don Imus died Friday.  He was 79.  —  Imus died in the morning …
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Associated Press:
DJ Don Imus dead at 79
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 …
David Frum / The Atlantic:
A Gangster in the White House  —  The president tweeted the name of the presumed whistleblower in the Ukraine scandal—demonstrating that he is unrepentant and determined to break the law again.  —  Staff writer at The Atlantic  —  Amid a two-day binge of post-Christmas rage-tweeting …
Discussion: The Guardian
Michael R. Gordon / Wall Street Journal:
Rocket Attack in Iraq Kills U.S. Contractor, Wounds Four U.S. Troops  —  U.S. hasn't assigned blame but is focusing on militia backed by Iran  —  A U.S. contractor was killed and four U.S. troops were wounded when more than 30 rockets were fired Friday at an Iraqi military base, a U.S. defense official said.
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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 …
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: NPR, HuffPost and Conservative Review
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 …
CBS News:
Federal judge to halt latest North Carolina voter ID law  —  Raleigh, North Carolina — Republican attempts to require photo identification to vote in North Carolina are being thwarted again by judges hearing arguments that the mandate is tainted by bias that would deter black and Latino residents.
Discussion: The Root and Axios
Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:
The 2010s Were the End of Normal  —  TWO OF THE MOST WIDELY QUOTED and shared poems in the closing years of this decade were William Butler Yeats's “The Second Coming” ("Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold"), and W.H. Auden's “September 1, 1939” ("Waves of anger and fear / Circulate …
Bob Fredericks / Page Six:
Hunter Biden and pregnant wife spotted in LA amid paternity battle with former stripper  —  Here are the two people Joe Biden doesn't want you to see.  —  A bloated Hunter Biden — who along with his pregnant newlywed wife was left off dad Joe's family Christmas card this year …
Discussion: Fox News
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Host Apologizes for Calling CBC's ‘Home Alone 2’ Edit ‘Censorship’  —  Katie Pavlich, after helping to jump-start this ridiculous controversy, insisted that the years-old edits were “still stupid.”  —  Fox News host Katie Pavlich on Friday walked back her assertion …
 
 
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Pete Buttigieg once boasted he helped McKinsey ‘turn around’ Fortune 500 companies. Not anymore.
Asma Khalid / NPR:
In A Month, Michael Bloomberg Has Spent More Than $100 Million On Campaign Ads
Discussion: Vox
MSNBC:
Bernie Sanders may be hard to beat in 2020
New York Times:
Congress Wants to Force Trump's Hand on Human Rights in China and Beyond
Niha Masih / Washington Post:
India's Muslims and activists face mass arrests, beatings amid unrest over citizenship law
David Lynch / Washington Post:
Even as the U.S. and China agree to trade truce, they are edging toward partial economic divorce
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
CNN falls behind Hallmark Channel in holiday ratings battle
Discussion: Redstate and The Daily Caller
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
On land, Australia's rising heat is ‘apocalyptic.’ In the ocean, it's worse.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
U.S. judge denies bid to restore 98,000 purged Georgia voters
Rob Shikina / Honolulu Star-Advertiser:
Wreckage of Kauai tour helicopter carrying 7 has been found
Discussion: HuffPost
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Ivanka Trump Confirmed as CES 2020 Keynote Speaker
NBC News:
Mile high ugh: What you should know before you eat airplane food
Tom Elliott / Grabien News:
Grabien's 25 Funniest News Clips of 2019
Igor Derysh / Salon:
Pelosi “has the right” to submit Trump to an “involuntary evaluation”: Yale psychiatrist Bandy Lee
Discussion: Breitbart, WND and IJR
Ashley Zavala / KRON4:
California public schools can't suspend students for disobeying teachers, new law says
Bloomberg:
Bizarre Fortunes Flourish as World's Richest Gain $1.2 Trillion