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Matt Taibbi | We Know How Trump's War Game Ends 

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "So we're withdrawing troops from the Middle East. GOOD!"
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Paul Ryan. (photo: Gary Cameron/Reuters)

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Peck writes: "In 2018, Republican lawmakers gave the American people a government shutdown for Christmas, sending roughly 800,000 federal employees home for the holidays without a paycheck. And one year ago today, workers unwrapped a tax bill that gifted the country's millionaires and billionaires even more money."
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Dahlia Lithwick, Slate
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Scott Pruitt. (photo: WP)

Scott Pruitt Never Gave Up EPA Plans to Debate Climate Science, Records Show
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More Than 200 Dead, Hundreds More Injured After Tsunami Hits Indonesia
Nicole Hernandez and Michael Sullivan, NPR
Excerpt: "At least 222 people are dead and hundreds more are missing or injured, the AP reports, after a tsunami struck Indonesia late Saturday night local time. The death toll is expected to rise."
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Seismic airgun blasting has been proposed within the same main range of imperiled North Atlantic whales. (photo: NOAA)

9 States Sue 'Flat-Out Wrong' Trump Administration Over Seismic Blasting in Atlantic
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch
Chow writes: "A coalition of attorneys general from nine states added their clout to a South Carolina-based lawsuit against the Trump administration to block seismic airgun blasting off the Atlantic coast."
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