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4:25 PM ET, December 31, 2019

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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Iraqi supporters of Iran-backed militia attack US Embassy  —  BAGHDAD (AP) — Dozens of angry Iraqi Shiite militia supporters broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday after smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area, prompting tear gas and sounds of gunfire.
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Fox News:
Crowd storms US Embassy compound in Baghdad, gunshots heard, report says  —  Crowds of angry Iraqis protesting America's recent airstrikes against an Iran-backed militia laid siege to the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad Tuesday, chanting “Down, Down USA!” as they stormed through a main gate …
New York Times:
Protesters Attack U.S. Embassy in Iraq, Chanting ‘Death to America’  —  President Trump blamed Iran after demonstrators breached the compound's outer wall.  Tensions are high after American airstrikes killed members of an Iran-backed militia.  —  BAGHDAD — Protesters broke …
Washington Post:
Protesters chanting ‘Death to America’ break into U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD — Hundreds of angry supporters of an Iranian-backed militia shouting “Death to America” attempted to storm the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, trapping diplomats inside in response to U.S. airstrikes …
Blake Hounshell / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What the embassy attack in Iraq means
Discussion: The Hill, New York Times and Redstate
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Baghdad, Australia on fire after U.S. sleepwalks through the 2010s. Wake up! It's the 2020s
Discussion: Mediaite and Vox
Tom Sykes / The Daily Beast:
Ghislaine Maxwell Scoffing at Law Thanks to ‘Serious Dirt’ on Powerful People, Former Friend Says  —  A former friend says the Epstein confidante was relieved at her former boyfriend's death—because it meant he could not turn on her.  —  Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend …
Discussion: The Sun
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Warren confronts ghost of Howard Dean  —  Liberals swooned.  The Democratic establishment was on its heels.  Powered by small donors and grassroots energy, in late 2003 Iowa seemed Howard Dean's for the taking.  —  But then came the attacks — from both the center and the left.  The surge became a stall.
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Andrew Cain / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Biden is only Democrat currently outpolling Trump in Virginia
Discussion: The Week
Matt Dixon / Politico:
Poll: Biden has edge over Trump in Florida
Discussion: Axios, Tangle and Contemptor
Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
GOP Sen. Susan Collins criticizes McConnell, Democrats for pre-Trump trial comments  —  The Maine Republican is the second member of the Senate GOP to attack the Senate majority leader for saying he is coordinating with the White House.  —  Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine …
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Ursula Perano / Axios:
Collins says it's “inappropriate” for McConnell, Warren to “prejudge” impeachment trial
Discussion: ABC News and Maine Public
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Corey Lewandowski Forgoes NH Senate Run, Claims ‘I Would Have Won’  —  WOMP WOMP  —  Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski took to Twitter on Tuesday to announced that he will not run for Senate in New Hampshire.  At the same time, he made the Trumpian boast that he “would have won” if he had tossed his hat into the race.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Lewandowski decides against Senate bid
Discussion: Washington Post and ABC News
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is openly calling for his trial to be as corrupt as possible  —  One of the thorniest challenges of this moment is the difficulty of finding language adequate to capturing President Trump's actual, openly stated positions.  They are often so profoundly ridiculous or nakedly corrupt …
Washington Post:
Trump Organization fires more undocumented workers — a year after its use of illegal labor was revealed  —  CHARLOTTESVILLE — Nearly a year after the Trump Organization pledged to root out undocumented workers at its properties, supervisors at the Trump Winery on Monday summoned …
Discussion: Axios
CNN:
Texas shooting isn't as simple as it seems  —  James C. Moore is a communications consultant, political analyst, and author.  He has been writing and reporting on Texas politics for the past 40 years.  The views expressed here are the author's.  Read more opinion on CNN.
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Voter purges: are Republicans trying to rig the 2020 election?  —  Controversies in Wisconsin and Georgia show how the mass removal of voters from the rolls has become a key part of the fight to win  —  The final weeks of December may have been dominated by news of Donald Trump's impeachment …
ProPublica:
IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete With TurboTax  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Finding free online tax filing should be easier this year for millions of Americans.
Agence France-Presse:
New book smashes taboo over French author's sex with teens  —  Paris (AFP) - A prominent French author who has never made any secret of his preference for sex with adolescent girls and boys is at the centre of a firestorm as a former partner publishes a book describing the lasting trauma of underage intercourse over three decades ago.
Ernie Suggs / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
John Lewis gives AJC a look at coming cancer fight  —  AJC Exclusive  —  U.S. Rep. John Lewis famously tells the story of reaching the apex of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on March 7, 1965 — Bloody Sunday.  —  He and Hosea Williams were leading a group of civil rights marchers …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Kevin Spacey Settles Sexual Assault Lawsuit After Accuser's Death  —  The actor and the accuser's son file court papers to end the case.  —  The mysterious sexual assault lawsuit brought by an anonymous massage therapist against Kevin Spacey is ending, according to papers filed in federal court Monday.
Discussion: Page Six
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Indicted Giuliani associate wants to give documents to House  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A Rudy Giuliani associate who was indicted on campaign finance charges is asking a judge to allow him to turn over documents to Congress as part of the impeachment proceeding against President Donald Trump.
Michael Rezendes / Associated Press:
Lawsuit: Famed Jesuit abused boy 1,000 times around world  —  CHICAGO (AP) — One day in May of 1970, an 11-year-old boy and his disabled sister were sitting on the curb outside a Chicago tavern, waiting for their mother to come out.  When a priest with crinkly eyes and a ready smile happened …
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
EPA's scientific advisers warn its regulatory rollbacks clash with established science  —  The Environmental Protection Agency is pressing ahead with sweeping changes to roll back environmental regulations despite sharp criticism from a panel of scientific advisers, most of whom were appointed by President Trump.
Tiffany Littler / KSNT-TV:
Chief: Local officer resigns after making up coffee cup incident  —  JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (KSNT) - In a joint press conference with McDonald's Monday night, the Herington Police Chief said the coffee cup incident was a hoax.  —  Chief Brian Hornaday said McDonald's didn't have anything …
Michael Snyder / The Economic Collapse:
50 Numbers From 2019 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe  —  One of the best ways to determine where things are heading is to look back at how much has changed over the past 12 months.  2019 has been one of the most memorable years in our history, and it has certainly set the stage for the critical events of the decade to come.
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Alex Jones and Infowars Ordered to Pay $100K in Court Costs for Sandy Hook Case  —  A Texas judge ordered Alex Jones and the InfoWars website to pay more than $100,000 in a single day.  —  A Texas judge has ordered Alex Jones and his InfoWars hoax website to pay more than $100,000 in court costs …
David Brooks / The Atlantic:
The Historian of Moral Revolution  —  Economists measure economic change and journalists describe political change, but who captures moral change?  Who captures the shifts in manners, values, and mores, how each era defines what is admirable and what is disgraceful?
Discussion: National Review and Commentary
BBC:
Picasso painting attacked at Tate Modern  —  A man has been charged with criminal damage after a £20m Picasso painting was attacked at the Tate Modern art gallery in London on Saturday.  —  The venue has taken the artist's 1944 painting Bust of a Woman off display while the damage is assessed.
Discussion: New York Post
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Here's why Congress wants to look inside the bank that fronted Donald Trump $2 billion  —  Just try phoning Trump's private banker Rosemary T. Vrablic at Deutsche Bank's U.S. headquarters in Manhattan.  Back in 2017, before too many bankers involved with Deutsche Bank started turning up dead …
Dominique Mosbergen / HuffPost:
Michael Bloomberg Says He Has ‘No Idea’ What His Stance Is Regarding Central Park 5  —  “I've been away from it for so long, I just really can't respond because I just don't remember,” the former New York City mayor said.  —  Democratic presidential contender Michael Bloomberg said this week that he has …
Discussion: CBS News and NB Blog
Joshua-Caleb Barton / Campus Reform:
UK academics set to launch ‘virus’ software for online ‘hate speech’ in time for 2020 election  — Researchers at the University of Cambridge have proposed a software program that treats online “hate speech” like a computer virus.  — Users would be presented with a warning and a …
Eli Steinberg / New York Daily News:
How this anti-Semitism came to be: The virulent hatred snowballed over the years  —  Orthodox Jews around the country — and specifically in the tri-state area — were still reeling from the shooting at a kosher deli earlier this month when we gathered with our families to celebrate the holiday of Chanukah.
David Matthews / New York Daily News:
Mysterious drones in Colorado continue to baffle investigators  —  Multiple sightings of drones flying at night in Colorado have left investigators and residents with far more questions than answers since it started happening earlier this month.  —  Sheriff Tom Nestor of Lincoln County told ABC News …
Discussion: ABC News
 
 
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U.S. Census / The United States Census Bureau:
Net Migration between the U.S. and Abroad Added 595,000 to National Population Between 2018 and 2019
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
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Yahoo News:
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
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Discussion: UPI and Faithwire
Nancy L. Cohen / New York Times:
Republican Women Are in Crisis
Discussion: Raw Story
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Discussion: The Big Picture and Alternet.org