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5:30 PM ET, January 10, 2020

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Associated Press:
White House considers expanding travel ban to more countries  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is considering expanding its much-litigated travel ban to additional countries amid a renewed election-year focus on immigration issues by President Donald Trump, according to four people familiar with the deliberations.
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Michael Shepherd / Bangor Daily News:
Susan Collins working with ‘small group’ of GOP senators to allow impeachment witnesses  —  U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine told reporters on Friday that she is working with a “fairly small group” of fellow Republican senators toward a goal of ensuring witnesses can be called …
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Pelosi ends standoff with Senate Republicans over impeachment articles  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday she will send the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate next week, ending a heated standoff with Republicans over the terms of the impeachment trial.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Dear Colleague on Next Steps on Impeachment  —  For weeks now, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has been engaged in tactics of delay in presenting transparency, disregard for the American people's interest for a fair trial and dismissal of the facts.
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
The Trump Administration Has Been Preparing To Expand The Travel Ban, Documents Reveal  —  The Trump administration has been preparing to expand its travel ban — which bars individuals from seven countries from entering the US — to restrict certain immigrants from several more nations around the world …
Discussion: New York Times
Washington Post:
On the day U.S. forces killed Soleimani, they launched another secret operation targeting a senior Iranian official in Yemen  —  On the day the U.S. military killed a top Iranian commander in Baghdad, U.S. forces carried out another top secret mission against a senior Iranian military official in Yemen, according to U.S. officials.
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Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Trump tells Fox News' Laura Ingraham ‘four embassies’ were targeted in imminent threat from Iran  —  Preview clip: Trump tells Laura Ingraham ‘four embassies’ were targeted in imminent threat from Iran  —  President Trump told Fox News' Laura Ingraham in an interview that the imminent threat …
New York Times:   American Military Unsuccessfully Targeted Second Iranian Official
BuzzFeed News:
Donald Trump Is Starting To Fixate On Bernie Sanders  —  President Donald Trump's reelection campaign is beginning to aggressively attack a rising threat to his power: Bernie Sanders.  —  The Trump campaign put out two statements centered on Sanders this week, and the Vermont senator …
Discussion: New York Times
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
The Iowa Poll Everyone Is Waiting For
Discussion: The Banter and NPR
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:   Many Iowa Democrats are paralyzed by fear of choosing the wrong candidate to take on Trump
Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
AOC riles Dems by refusing to pay party dues, bankrolling colleagues' opponents  —  EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already topped the fundraising charts in her short time in Congress, but the liberal darling won't donate a cent of her millions to Democrats' House campaign organization …
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Alex Shephard / New Republic:
Why Tucker Carlson Is Obsessed With Trash
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez defends decision not to pay dues to House Democratic campaign arm
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
marianne2020.com:
With love and gratitude...  I ran for president to help forge another direction for our country.  I wanted to discuss things I felt needed to be discussed that otherwise were not.  I feel that we have done that.  —  I stayed in the race to take advantage of every possible effort to share our message.
Dallas Morning News:
Texas' inn for refugees is full, Gov. Greg Abbott says, declining to admit any more  —  While insisting Texas is one of the ‘most welcoming states for refugees,’ he cites illegal immigration and says state, its nonprofits must focus on the needy who are already here.
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Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
Texas governor to reject new refugees, first under Trump
Discussion: Axios
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
US further restricts air travel to Cuba to increase pressure: State Dept.
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Ryan Fahey / Daily Mail:   ISIS welcomes the death of Iran's Qaseem Soleimani and declare it an act of 'divine intervention …
Sarah Dadouch / Washington Post:
Iraq asks United States to set up mechanism for troop withdrawal
Deirdre Shesgreen / USA Today:
Pompeo rebuffs Iraqi prime minister's demand for US troop withdrawal plan
Discussion: Common Dreams and Daily Kos
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.
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Kathryn Krawczyk / The Week:
A brokered convention is more likely than Elizabeth Warren winning the nomination, FiveThirtyEight forecasts
Discussion: Raw Story, New York Post and VICE
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 …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Let's Hear More About This  —  A telling passage buried deep …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Why did the Pentagon ever give Trump the option of killing Soleimani?
Discussion: The National Interest
Susannah Luthi / Politico:
Trump, red states ask Supreme Court to refuse Obamacare case before election  —  The Trump administration and Republican-led states are urging the Supreme Court to swat away Democrats' request to immediately review a lawsuit threatening Obamacare, which would ensure the politically fraught case …
Bloomberg:
U.S. Probes If Russia Targeting Biden in 2020 Election Meddling  —  U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials are assessing whether Russia is trying to undermine Joe Biden in its ongoing disinformation efforts with the former vice president still the front-runner in the race …
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Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
U.S. Probes If Russia Is Targeting Biden in 2020 Election Meddling
Wall Street Journal:
The Fall of Donald Trump's Fixers  —  The mogul-turned-president has long relied on loyalists to push the limits in defense of his image, but Roy Cohn, David Pecker and Michael Cohen all wound up out in the cold  —  For decades, Donald Trump has depended on loyalists to take care of especially sensitive and difficult tasks.
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's unhinged rally rant underscores case for reining him in  —  At a rally in Ohio on Thursday night, President Trump drew deafening cheers by boasting about his order to assassinate Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, deriding Democrats with petty schoolyard taunts and mocking the very idea …
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
The final, inevitable collapse of the right-wing media's Uranium One conspiracy theory  —  Report that probe will result in no charges shows the danger of trusting Peter Schweizer's reporting  —  U.S. attorney John Huber reportedly intends to close, without bringing charges …
Michael Grothaus / Fast Company:
Firefox attacks: Homeland Security urges all users to update browsers immediately in rare warning  —  If you use Mozilla Firefox's web browser you'll want to drop what you are doing right now and update it.  That urging doesn't just come from Mozilla-it comes from the United State's Department …
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Author Starts VC Fund Backed by Peter Thiel  — Narya Capital to finance “scientifically complicated” startups  — Eric Schmidt, Marc Andreessen are said to invest with Thiel  —  With backing from Peter Thiel, Eric Schmidt, Marc Andreessen and other Silicon Valley kings …
Discussion: TechCrunch
Julie Satow / New York Times:
She Was a Star of New York Real Estate, but Her Life Story Was a Lie  —  Faith Hope Consolo had the entire press fooled, including us.  Then a message came in.  —  Wrapped in furs, dripping with diamonds and with her blond hair perfectly coifed, Faith Hope Consolo cut a glamorous figure in the flashy …
Discussion: Gothamist
Amara Omeokwe / Wall Street Journal:
Women Overtake Men as Majority of U.S. Workforce  —  Data reflect growth in services industries that employ higher numbers of women  —  WASHINGTON—Women held more U.S. jobs than men in December for the first time in nearly a decade, a development that likely reflects the future of the American workforce.
Discussion: New York Post
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Dow falls amid lackluster jobs data after briefly topping 29,000 for the first time  —  Dow closes lower after hitting 29K for first time  —  Stocks fell on Friday, reversing from all-time highs, as investors digested weaker-than-expected jobs data to end a volatile week full of geopolitical concerns.
Discussion: The Week
Associated Press:
Virginia lawmakers ban guns at state Capitol  —  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia lawmakers voted Friday to ban firearms at the state Capitol, the first in what's expected to be many contentious gun votes in coming weeks.  —  Newly empowered Democrats who made up a majority …
Discussion: The Hill
Virginia Heffernan / Los Angeles Times:
Column: Call Trumpism what it is: a cult  —  The comparisons have come hard and fast, at least since 2015.  Trump is like Silvio Berlusconi, like Adolf Hitler, like Boris Johnson.  A 2018 film called “The Trump Prophecy” took the evangelical route, comparing Trump to Cyrus the Great …
Discussion: Raw Story
Keith Phipps / Vulture:
The 50 Greatest War Movies Ever Made A look back at a genre that has inspired a century of cinema.  —  Speaking to Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune in 1973, Francois Truffaut made an observation that's cast a shadow over war movies ever since, even those seemingly opposed to war.
Alex Pareene / New Republic:
The Most Popular Crook in America  —  Maryland Governor Larry Hogan repeatedly steered state transportation development money to projects that would increase the value of his real estate holdings, according to a lengthy investigation by Washington Monthly's Eric Cortelessa.
 
 
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Jim Webb / Washington Post:
When did it become acceptable to kill a top leader of a country we aren't even at war with?
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Reuters
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Buts of the Democratic Party
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump has a rare public moment of self-awareness
Lois Beckett / The Guardian:
Virginia Democrats won an election. Gun owners are talking civil war
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Raw Story
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Reuters:
Majority of Americans favor wealth tax on very rich: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Discussion: Raw Story
The Boston Globe:
At Harvard Law, reluctance to apply for clerkships with Trump-appointed judges
Discussion: Politico and YouTube