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Mike Allen / Axios:
Axios AM  —  Subscribe  —  Happy Monday!  — Situational awareness: A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world's first genetically edited babies was sentenced to three years in prison because of his research.  (AP)
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Explosive new revelations just weakened Trump's impeachment defenses  —  If Mitch McConnell is going to pull off his scheme to turn President Trump's impeachment trial into a quick and painless sham with no witnesses, the Senate majority leader needs the story to be covered …
Discussion: Alternet.org, Raw Story and Mediaite
Ryan Ledendecker / Daily Sounder:
This Firearms Instructor Is Reportedly The Hero Who Killed Texas Church Gunman With Single Head Shot  —  On Sunday, during what would otherwise likely be a quiet worship service at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas, an armed gunman entered the church and after talking …
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CBS Dallas / Fort Worth:
3 Dead After Shooting At West Freeway Church Of Christ In White Settlement
Paul Cobler / Dallas Morning News:
Republicans praise gun laws they say thwarted church shooter; Democrats again call for gun control
Discussion: Breitbart, Fox News, Mediaite and NPR
Dallas Morning News:
2 dead, 1 in critical condition after shooting at White Settlement church, officials say
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama, Trump Tie as Most Admired Man in 2019  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Barack Obama and Donald Trump are tied this year as the most admired man.  It is Obama's 12th time in the top spot versus the first for Trump.  Michelle Obama is the most admired woman for the second year in a row.
Discussion: Washington Times, The Hill and Mediaite
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Axios:
Gallup: Trump and Obama tie as America's most admired man  —  President Trump and former President Obama shared the honors as America's most admired man in 2019 in Gallup's annual poll.  —  The big picture: With both receiving the support of 18% of Americans, it's Obama's 12th time in the top slot — and Trump's first.
Shayna Jacobs / Greenwich Time:
Acts of anti-Semitism are on the rise in New York and elsewhere, rattling Jews and communities  —  NEW YORK - Hours after a knife-wielding man barged into a Hannukah party in a New York suburb, stabbing five people, top officials condemned the crime as part of a disturbing trend.
Discussion: HuffPost
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Are Anti-Semitic Attacks Driven By Politics?
Jeff Dunetz / The Lid:   A Democrat Blames His Democratic Party For Upsurge In Antisemitism-He's Right (Videos)
Pat Rynard / Iowa Starting Line:
Pete Buttigieg Shows No Signs Of Slowing Down In Iowa  —  Pete Buttigieg is barreling toward an Iowa Caucus victory, and there's not a damn thing anyone's tweets can do about it.  —  The month of December has given the South Bend Mayor his biggest challenges yet, including intense media questions …
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Congressman John Lewis:
Rep. John Lewis Undergoing Cancer Treatment  —  He released this statement today regarding his prognosis and his plans to continue to serve the people of the 5th Congressional District of Georgia:  —  “I have been in some kind of fight - for freedom, equality, basic human rights - for nearly my entire life.
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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
John Lewis, Congressman and Civil Rights Icon, Has Pancreatic Cancer
Discussion: The Root and Politico
Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
Bloomberg campaign moves offices into Times Square as staff tops 300  —  Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg's campaign is set to move to a new location in Times Square as the campaign swells to more than 300 staffers.  —  The former New York City mayor's campaign headquarters …
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:   Bloomberg campaign moves headquarters to Times Square
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Republican Telemarketer Stiffed the Feds Out of $411K.  The Trump White House Gave Him a Job.  —  Shannon Burns spent years dodging creditors and fighting off lawsuits.  He found an angel at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  In the final two months of 2016 …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
How Big Companies Won New Tax Breaks From the Trump Administration  —  As the Treasury Department prepared to enact the 2017 Republican tax overhaul, corporate lobbyists swarmed — and won big.  —  The overhaul of the federal tax law in 2017 was the signature legislative achievement of Donald J. Trump's presidency.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Raw Story
Zack Stanton / Politico:
The Worst Political Predictions of 2019  —  If you took the sum of political knowledge available at the end of 2018, and projected the course of 2019, the resulting spaghetti models could go in millions of directions.  —  Perhaps Robert Mueller's findings would devastate President Donald Trump.
Discussion: Althouse
New York Post:
Woman accused of assaulting 3 Jewish women arrested again day after release  —  A Brooklyn miscreant accused of slapping three Orthodox Jewish women last week struck again on Sunday and was busted for assaulting another woman.  —  A day after she was released without bail on charges stemming …
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
When John Solomon was Rudy Giuliani's toughest critic  —  Long before they entered a symbiotic relationship to pick apart the Bidens' alleged ties to Ukrainian corruption, John Solomon and Rudy Giuliani had a completely different dynamic: an investigative reporter focused …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Presidential Nominating Process Is Absurd  —  We have an unnecessarily weak presidential field, especially the incumbent.  —  Andrew Yang began his closing statement at the last Democratic debate with a charming bit of self-deprecation: “I know what you're thinking, America.
Discussion: Althouse
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Trump's ‘Failures’  —  It is popular on the NeverTrump Right and everyone on the Left to claim that President Trump has “failed” as we head into an election year.  But his supposed failures are instructive.  —  Take the wall.  True, Trump certainly in the last three years has not come close …
Zhou Xin / South China Morning Post:
China's top negotiator Liu He to visit Washington for phase one trade war deal signing this week, source says  —  Vice-Premier Liu He has accepted an invitation to lead a delegation to the US from this Saturday, a source briefed on the matter told the Post US trade representative Robert Lighthizer previously …
Discussion: New York Post
Sarah Scoles / Slate:
The Year UFOs Became a Little More Legit  —  We didn't find ETs in 2019, but the U.S. government did become a little more chatty about flying saucers.  —  Not long ago, the world received what seemed like an otherworldly revelation: The Pentagon had been secretly running a UFO research project …
John Kruzel / The Hill:
Trump impeachment trial drags Roberts into spotlight  —  Chief Justice John Roberts has tried to prevent the Supreme Court from being seen as just another political body, but when he presides over President Trump's likely impeachment trial in the Senate, the partisan glare will be hard for him to avoid.
Washington Post:
Trump's pardon of Gallagher just got even more appalling  —  “FREAKING EVIL.”  That is how Special Operator First Class Craig Miller described Eddie Gallagher, the chief of his Navy SEAL platoon.  Then, he wept.  —  The New York Times last week revealed investigative video recordings …
Discussion: Raw Story, Politico and Redstate
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Decade We Changed Our Minds  —  America in the 2010s saw significant cultural and political shifts that pushed us forward.  —  America is always in a state of flux.  The country is an eternal experiment, aiming at evolution, betting on its own betterment.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 
 
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Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal:
Activist Chinese Pastor Gets Nine-Year Prison Sentence
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Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
Matt Ford / New Republic:
A Decade of Legal Warfare Has Warped America's Future
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Stephen Collins / The Irish Times:
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