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New York
Tessa Majors Killing: 14-Year-Old Is Released Without Charges
He is believed to have wielded the knife that killed her, the police said.Find another headline for a dramatic case that is developing properly.
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Opinion
My Jewish Sons Have a Christmas Tree, and I Need to Deal
I have always associated my identity with not having Yule decorations. Divorce has a way of changing everything.Religions are slippery.
I will happily celebrate Saturnalia.
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U.S.
Anguish and Anger From the Navy SEALs Who Turned In Edward Gallagher
Video interviews and group texts obtained by The Times show men describing their platoon leader in grim terms.Trump is abusing the SEALS.
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U.S.
Why Bernie Sanders Is Tough to Beat
His supporters are loyal, and in Iowa they don’t really have eyes for anyone else.Their simple faith is hard to question.
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Opinion
The Forgotten Story of Christmas 1918
We remember the 1914 Christmas Truce as a moment of humanity amid war. Four years later, a darker tale unfolded.All the horrors of the past must be known and understood.
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Opinion
The Meaning and Melodrama of an Italian-American Christmas
Seven fishes, baby Jesus and the comfort of the familiar.Tradition matters to all of humanity.
Even the stolen traditions matter.
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Opinion
Was the Virgin Mary a Virgin? Does It Matter?
Philip Yancey, an evangelical Christian writer, responds to my questions, and my doubts.Charity is private and personal. It does not stretch to all
The replacement used for required charity is entitlement.
Stinting or means testing entitlements is institutional cruelty.
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U.S.
In Indian Country, a Crisis of Missing Women. And a New One When They’re Found.
The federal government is trying to catch up with a crisis of missing Native American women. But no one is addressing the problems that arise when they’re found.Social engineering is called for.
It must not be evangelical.
The children must learn about the world and the universe
to deal with it as it visits.
Alcohol and other drugs must be understood without more direct exposure than the unavoidable.
The tribal police are real police. There are no priveleged persons.
Start there.
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World
Pentagon Eyes Africa Drawdown as First Step in Global Troop Shift
The deliberations stem from a push to reduce missions battling distant terrorist groups, and to instead refocus on confronting so-called Great Powers like Russia and China.Send the military where it is wanted.
Confronting great powers is a way to confrontations.
Money is cheaper.
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U.S.
Pentagon Warns Military Personnel Against At-Home DNA Tests
The tests, from companies such as 23andMe and Ancestry, have become popular holiday gifts, butthe military is warning service members of risks to their careers.
Do the homework.
One can be surprised.
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Christianity As A Religious Ideology
Ian Welsh at Ian Welsh - 2 hours ago
Religions are ideologies. They are little different from something like
capitalism, or Marxism, or the divine right of kings, or humanism. That is
to say ideologies are sets of statements about how the world and people
are, and how they should be. Christianity takes humans as fallen. We are
innately bad, and we must be […]
Ian Welsh is a thoughtful person. I will need to think more.
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Anguish and Anger From the Navy SEALs Who Turned In Edward Gallagher
Dave Philipps at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 11 hours ago
Video interviews and group texts obtained by The Times show men describing
their platoon leader in grim terms.
Trump is abusing the SEALS.
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Sept. 11 Trial Judge Faults Secrecy in Guantánamo Prison Commander’s Testimony
Carol Rosenberg at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 20 hours ago
At issue is testimony by a former Army lieutenant colonel at the war court
who challenged a key finding in the Senate’s Torture Report.
The treatment of these prisoners should get them unconditionally released.
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In a Year of Notable Deaths, a World of Women Who Shattered Ceilings
William McDonald at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 20 hours ago
Their breakthroughs were in law, science, music and business, and, like the
more famous who died this year, they left indelible legacies.
The ceilings remain shattered.
The world is changed.
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With U.S. Help No Longer Assured, Saudis Try a New Strategy: Talks
Declan Walsh and Ben Hubbard at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 22 hours ago
Worried that they can no longer count on American defense, the Saudis have
begun talking to their enemies to cool conflicts in the region.
Saudi knows the double game in diplomacy.
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Why Bernie Sanders Is Tough to Beat
Sydney Ember at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 22 hours ago
His supporters are loyal, and in Iowa they don’t really have eyes for
anyone else.
Puritans are trouble.
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Peter Navarro, Trump’s Trade Warrior, Has Not Made His Peace With China
Alan Rappeport and Ana Swanson at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago
Mr. Navarro is still looking for ways to punish China even as President
Trump has embraced a deal that his top trade adviser lobbied against.
Trump is consistently wrong on trade.
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A Barrier to Trump’s Border Wall: Landowners in Texas
Zolan Kanno-Youngs at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago
Construction of President Trump’s border wall has been slow going, in part
because the Texans who own the land have to be coaxed or coerced to sell
it, whether they want to or not.
Waterfront is treasured in south Texas.
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The ‘But I Would Vote for Joe Biden’ Republicans
Katie Glueck at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago
For some Democrats, a key part of the former vice president’s pitch is that
their moderate friends and relatives like him, too.
Surrender is popular with the aggressors.
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For Trump Organization, Office Skyscrapers Make Up for Lagging Hotels
Eric Lipton and Steve Eder at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago
Office towers in New York and San Francisco — centers of political
resistance — are offsetting revenue downturns in the president’s glitzier
Trump-branded hotels.
This is not a blind trust.
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G.O.P. Senator ‘Disturbed’ by McConnell’s ‘Total Coordination’ with White House
Zach Montague at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 days ago
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska revealed the first public qualms with
Mitch McConnell’s vow to coordinate with the White House on a quick
impeachment trial for President Trump.
Jury tampering is another High Crime.
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Christian Post Editor Resigns Over Editorial Defending Trump
Karen Zraick and Elisha Brown at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 days ago
The evangelical site criticized a pro-impeachment editorial in Christianity
Today.
An act of apostacy.
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Merry Christmas
Ian Welsh at Ian Welsh - 2 days ago
I hope everyone has a good day. Feel free to comment below, and try to keep
it kind.
The season of new promise is a joy to all.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
Merry Christmas.
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Bloomberg Drops Vendor Connected to Prison Labor
Matt Stevens at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 days ago
Michael R. Bloomberg said that he had not been aware of the practice until
he was contacted by a reporter, but that his campaign ended its
relationship with the company immediately.
Looking cheap does not help.
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How Bernie Sanders Learned to Love Campaigning in California
Reid J. Epstein at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 days ago
California is the linchpin of Mr. Sanders’s 2020 strategy, a state he hopes
will turbocharge his campaign on Super Tuesday — or revive his candidacy if
he underperforms in the early states.
Campaigning early and often helps.
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Trump Complains About Impeachment After Christmas Eve Message to Troops
Michael D. Shear at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 days ago
The president lashed out at Democrats for treating him unfairly and said
the Republicans who control the Senate would conduct an impeachment trial
however they saw fit.
Whining did not help.
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Democrats Who Flipped Seats in 2018 Have a 2020 Playbook: Focus on Drug Costs
Jennifer Steinhauer at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 days ago
House Democrats in key swing districts hope the debate over rising costs
will give them a decisive advantage next year, especially in suburbs where
President Trump remains unpopular.
An apolitical cause.
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Pentagon Eyes Africa Drawdown as First Step in Global Troop Shift
Helene Cooper, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 days ago
The deliberations stem from a push to reduce missions battling distant
terrorist groups, and to instead refocus on confronting so-called Great
Powers like Russia and China.
Political purity is not a profitable business.
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Rudy Giuliani Says He’s ‘More of a Jew’ Than George Soros
Daniel Victor at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 days ago
Mr. Soros, a liberal billionaire, is a Holocaust survivor from Hungary.
No.
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G.O.P. Lawmaker Had Visions of a Christian Alternative Government
Mike Baker at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 days ago
A Washington State legislator was accused of participating in the
occupation of a federal wildlife refuge. Behind the scenes, he and
right-wing activists were preparing for civil strife.Unconstitutional.
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