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7:50 PM ET, January 12, 2020

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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The stakes have never been higher.  Here's who I plan to vote for in April's Dem primary  —  I believe in my political independence, but I also believe in fate.  In 2016, declaring the stakes were just too damn high, I ended nearly three decades as a registered independent to become a Democrat …
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Local New Hampshire Union Backs Bernie Sanders, Bucking National Affiliate
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
NBC News:
Warren ‘disappointed’ that Sanders reportedly ‘sending his volunteers out to trash me’
Discussion: Politico, Axios and CNN
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Warren, in rare Sanders rebuke, hits fellow 2020 Dem over his leaked campaign messaging
ABC News:
Pelosi does not rule out possibility of subpoenaing testimony if Senate skips witnesses  —  “Let's just see what the Senate does,” she said on ABC's “This Week.”  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday did not rule out the possibility of a House subpoena for testimony from former national …
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William Cummings / USA Today:
Pelosi warns McConnell, Senate Republicans they will ‘pay a price’ if they engage in ‘cover-up’  —  As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prepares to consult with fellow Democrats about sending the two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate, she warned Majority Leader Mitch McConnell …
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
McCarthy says Pelosi holding articles of impeachment to hurt Sanders' Iowa chances
Discussion: Axios and Politico
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:   Pelosi says Trump ‘impeached for life’ despite McConnell's ‘gamesmanship,’ ‘coverup’
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
Esper Says He Didn't See Specific Evidence Iran Planned to Attack 4 Embassies  —  President Trump had claimed that a planned attack on four American embassies was a justification for the strike on an Iranian general.  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said on Sunday …
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Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
Two States.  Eight Textbooks.  Two American Stories.  —  TWO STATES.  EIGHT TEXTBOOKS.  TWO AMERICAN STORIES.  —  American history textbooks can differ across the country, in ways that are shaded by partisan politics. … We analyzed some of the most popular social studies textbooks used in California and Texas.
Jeremy Berke / Business Insider:
Jeff Bezos announces Amazon is donating $690,000 to help the country recover from the devastating brushfires  —  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced that the tech company will donate $1 million Australian dollars to help Australia recover from the fires.
Discussion: Mediaite
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton: The most exonerated politician ever  —  Hillary Clinton has a unique distinction: She has been exonerated twice after extensive federal investigations, the latest entirely unjustified and the result of a politicized Justice Department.  President Trump of course was NOT exonerated …
Jason Lange / Reuters:
'I'm spending all my money to get rid of Trump': Michael Bloomberg  —  SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg told Reuters he is ready to spend much of his vast fortune to oust Republican President Donald Trump from the White House in 2020 …
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Trump attacks former DOJ official appointed to review the FBI's proposed wiretap reforms  —  Taking a cue from a GOP ally, President Trump on Sunday attacked a former senior Justice Department official appointed by a federal judge to review the FBI's proposed wiretap application reforms …
Washington Post:
Killing of Soleimani reflects an aggressive national security team not inclined to curb Trump  —  President Trump has from his earliest days in office raised the possibility of killing Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the powerful Iranian military commander who died this month in a U.S. military drone strike.
Axios:
Exclusive: Trump tells Kim Jong-un he wants to resume talks  —  White House national security adviser Robert O'Brien tells Axios that the Trump administration has “reached out to the North Koreans” to ask them to resume diplomacy that has been all but dead since October.
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and New York Times
Rob Picheta / CNN:
This playboy tortoise had so much sex he saved his entire species.  Now he's going home  —  (CNN)A womanizing tortoise whose rampant sex life may have single-handedly saved his entire species from extinction has retired from his playboy lifestyle, returning to the wild with his mission accomplished.
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Majority of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of Iran, feel less safe after strike: POLL  —  The results come from a new ABC News/Ipsos poll.  —  In a week dominated by increased tension with Iran and speculation over when impeachment articles would be delivered to the U.S. Senate …
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Axios:
Trump may reduce troops in Afghanistan without Taliban deal  —  White House national security adviser Robert O'Brien told Axios in an exclusive interview that “it is possible” Trump will cut a deal with the Taliban this year but that even if a deal can't be struck, the president is still poised to reduce troops in Afghanistan.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
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Vasco Cotovio / CNN:
Iran's sole female Olympic medalist says she's defected  —  (CNN)Iran's sole female Olympic medalist, Kimia Alizadeh, has announced that she's permanently left her country for Europe.  —  “Let me start with a greeting, a farewell or condolences,” the 21-year-old wrote in an Instagram post explaining why she was defecting.
Discussion: UPI
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
If Trump Wins in 2020, Get Ready for President Don Jr.  —  In an excerpt from his new book, “Running Against the Devil,” Daily Beast columnist Rick Wilson conjures what a Trump dynasty would look like.  —  Eight years of Trump sucks, right?  It's terrible, isn't it?  I mean, it can't get worse, right?
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
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Discussion: Bloomberg
Jon Emont / Wall Street Journal:
An Airline Required a Woman to Take a Pregnancy Test to Fly to This U.S. Island
David Gambacorta / Politico:
Satan, the FBI, the Mob—and the Forgotten Plot to Kill Ted Kennedy
Associated Press:
Drone flies over pedophile cardinal's Australian prison
Karim Sadjadpour / Wall Street Journal:
The Sinister Genius of Qassem Soleimani
Chloe Atkins / NBC News:
For transgender men, pain of menstruation is more than just physical
Discussion: Althouse
John Leicester / Associated Press:
France's #MeToo: Book on child-sex writer prompts outcry
Tarpley Hitt / The Daily Beast:
Inside the ‘Secret Service of Hollywood’ That Guards Stars Like Post Malone and Jennifer Lopez