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9:20 AM ET, January 10, 2020

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Alex Thompson / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren's surprising closing argument  —  Elizabeth Warren is often portrayed in media as a figure of the left-wing, locked in a battle with Bernie Sanders for the progressive base of the party.  In fact, polling frequently shows she's the second choice not just of Sanders voters …
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden and Sanders vie for lead in Nevada, Biden tops Trump  —  Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders remain the top picks for the Democratic nomination among Nevada caucusgoers, while Elizabeth Warren fades and Tom Steyer gains momentum.  In the general election contest …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
How Serious Is Tom Steyer's Polling Surge?
Discussion: Fox News, The Hill and Polls
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Biden and Bernie duke it out on war and peace
Dana Blanton / Fox News:   Fox News Poll: Races tighten between Trump and Democrats in Wisconsin
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Surging Steyer qualifies for Democratic debate
Sarah Dadouch / Washington Post:
Iraq asks United States to set up mechanism for troop withdrawal  —  BEIRUT — In a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi asked the United States send a delegation to Iraq to set up a mechanism for U.S. troop withdrawal from the country …
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Associated Press:
Iraqi PM tells US to decide mechanism for troop withdrawal  —  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi has told the U.S. secretary of state to send a delegation to Iraq tasked with formulating the mechanism for the withdrawal of U.S troops from Iraq, according to a statement released Friday.
John Kerry / New York Times:   Diplomacy Was Working Until Trump Abandoned It
Washington Post:
Justice Dept. winds down Clinton-related inquiry once championed by Trump.  It found nothing of consequence.  —  A Justice Department inquiry launched more than two years ago to mollify conservatives clamoring for more investigations of Hillary Clinton has effectively ended with no tangible results …
Associated Press:
An Iranian general dies in U.S. attack, and innocents suffer  —  TORONTO (AP) — The worst had passed, it seemed, and the United States and Iran no longer appeared poised at the edge of war.  —  “All is well!”  President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday night, days after a U.S. drone strike killed Iran's …
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Tim Hepher / Reuters:   U.S. to join probe of jet disaster, no missile link: Iran official
Natalie Kitroeff / New York Times:
Boeing Employees Mocked F.A.A. and ‘Clowns’ Who Designed 737 Max  —  The company expressed regret at the embarrassing communications it sent to investigators on Thursday, which included a comment that “this airplane is designed by clowns, who are in turn supervised by monkeys.”
Discussion: National Review, Slate, The Verge, NPR and UPI
Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek:
Democrat Amy McGrath enters 2020 with $9 million war chest in Senate race against Mitch McConnell  —  Democrat Amy McGrath, who is running to unseat Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, finished 2019 with a $6 million fundraising haul to add to her impressive war chest heading into 2020.
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Billy House / Yahoo News:   Impeachment Standoff May Be Near End With Pelosi Allies Stumped
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell backs measure to change Senate rules, dismiss impeachment without articles
Afua Hirsch / New York Times:
Black Britons Know Why Meghan Markle Wants Out  —  It's the racism.  —  Ms. Hirsch is the author of “Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging.”  —  The British press has succeeded in its apparent project of hounding Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, out of Britain.
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Will Steakin / ABC News:
Trump hits campaign trial in Ohio amid dampening Iran crisis
Discussion: The Atlantic, Breitbart, The Hill and IJR
Just Security:   Why the 2002 AUMF Does Not Apply to Iran
David Brooks / New York Times:
Trump Has Made Us All Stupid  —  The decline of discourse in the anti-Trump echo chamber.  —  Donald Trump is impulse-driven, ignorant, narcissistic and intellectually dishonest.  So you'd think that those of us in the anti-Trump camp would go out of our way to show we're not like him …
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
College Professor Out After Joke Suggesting Iran List U.S. Cultural Targets  —  Asheen Phansey is no longer employed by Babson College after joking that Iran should target Minnesota's Mall of America and a home of the Kardashian family.  —  An adjunct professor is no longer on staff …
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New York Times:
Kushner's Global Role Shrinks as He Tackles Another: The 2020 Election  —  Ivanka Trump's husband will now supervise her father's re-election campaign, but he continues to weigh in with advice to the president on a range of other matters.  —  WASHINGTON — When senior administration officials gathered …
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
Bloomberg to fund sizable campaign effort through November even if he loses Democratic nomination  —  Exclusive: The former New York City mayor plans to continue paying hundreds of staffers and funding his digital operation to defeat Trump even if he's not the nominee.
Discussion: Political Wire
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Army general denies request by officer pardoned by Trump to have his Special Forces tab reinstated  —  An Army general has denied a request by an officer pardoned in an open murder case by President Trump to have his Special Forces tab reinstated, setting up a potential showdown between senior defense officials and the White House.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's New National Security Team Made Fast Work of Iran Strike  —  White House advisers were cohesive and less inclined than their predecessors to push back against the president's wishes  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump and his senior national-security advisers waited anxiously …
Discussion: Reuters
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Job market ends 2019 with disappointing 145,000 growth in payrolls  —  By Jeff Cox@JEFF.COX.7528@JEFFCOXCNBCCOM  — December's payroll and wage growth missed expectations, according to the Labor Department.  — Nonfarm payrolls increased by just 145,000 while the unemployment rate held steady at 3.5%.
New York Times:
Video Shows Ukrainian Plane Being Hit Over Iran  —  The New York Times has obtained video that shows the moment a Ukrainian airliner was hit minutes after takeoff from Tehran.  —  Video verified by The New York Times appears to show an Iranian missile hitting a plane above Parand …
Tom Winter / NBC News:
Surveillance video from Jeffrey Epstein's first apparent suicide attempt ‘no longer exists’  —  Officials at the federal jail housing Epstein preserved video from the wrong floor due to a clerical error.  —  The surveillance footage taken from outside Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell …
Discussion: The Week, NPR, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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Associated Press:
Video in apparent Epstein suicide attempt is lost, US says
Discussion: Big League Politics
Eric Blaisdell / Times Argus:
Bill would ban cellphone use for those under 21  —  MONTPELIER — A bill has been introduced in the state Senate that would make it illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to use or possess a cellphone.  —  The bill, S.212, would make such possession or use a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum of a year behind bars and a $1,000 fine.
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Trump does not have a foreign policy.  He has a series of impulses.  —  Three months ago, President Trump suddenly withdrew U.S. forces from northern Syria that were, in part, thwarting Iran's efforts to dominate the country, declaring, “Going into the Middle East is one of the worst decisions ever made in the history of our country.
Discussion: Slate
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Jihye Lee / Bloomberg:
Trump Sent Kim Jong Un a Birthday Greeting, South Korea Says
Discussion: The Hill and The Sun US
Susan Jones / CNSNews:
Record 158,803,000 Americans Employed; 1.85M Year-to-Year Increase  —  (CNSNews.com) - “As we begin this new year, our economy is booming,” President Trump told a rally in Toledo, Ohio Thursday night.  “Wages are soaring, workers are thriving, and America's future has never looked brighter.”
Blair Miller / TheDenverChannel.com:
Colorado to deploy more teams to investigate mystery drones after close call with medical helicopter  —  The Viaero Wireless cameras in eastern Colorado captured the mysterious drones earlier this week.  —  DENVER - The Colorado Department of Public Safety will start using more ground-based teams …
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Focus group: Pennsylvania swing voters stand with Trump on Iran  —  WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Swing voters here are standing behind President Trump's decision to launch an airstrike that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, but if it leads to all-out war they'd question the president's wisdom and handling of national security.
Holly Robertson / Yahoo News:
Strong winds create Australian ‘megablaze’  —  The catastrophic bushfires in Australia have killed at least 26 people and destroyed more than 2,000 homes  —  Gale-force winds in Australia merged two enormous fires into a megablaze spanning an area four times the size of Greater London on Friday …
Reuters:
Majority of Americans favor wealth tax on very rich: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The idea of imposing a wealth tax on the richest Americans has elicited sharply divergent views across a spectrum of politicians, with President Donald Trump branding it socialist …
 
 
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Giacomo Bologna / The Clarion Ledger:
A company repossessed and returned a vet's prosthetic legs. He still can't use them
Christopher Knaus / The Guardian:
News Corp employee lashes climate ‘misinformation’ in bushfire coverage with blistering email
Discussion: Mashable
Debra Heine / American Greatness:
New Lawsuit Claims Rod Rosenstein Led Task Force that Spied on Sharyl Attkisson's Computers
Discussion: Sharyl Attkisson and Twitchy
The Boston Globe:
At Harvard Law, reluctance to apply for clerkships with Trump-appointed judges
Discussion: Politico and YouTube
Madeline Peltz / Media Matters for America:
Tucker Carlson's anti-war posture has been racist since the Bush era
New York Times:
‘Chaos Is the Point’: Russian Hackers and Trolls Grow Stealthier in 2020
 Earlier Items: 
United States Courts:
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Tensions with Trump over Iran expose concerns about the role of Congress in making war
Discussion: The Mahablog and Alternet.org
David Weigel / Washington Post:
The Trailer: Their candidates lost. Here's what they say about the race now.
Philip Van Cleave / Politifact.com Truth-O …:
Did Biden laud a Paul Ryan proposal to cut Social Security as Bernie Sanders' campaign said?
Discussion: Bern Notice
CREW:
CREW Sues DOJ for Failing to Release Whitaker's Financial Disclosures
Robert Mackey / The Intercept:
Republicans Attack Democrats for Saying Qassim Suleimani Was Assassinated, and Reporters Play Along