Headlines

Cracks start to show in Taliban peace deal

After testing a 5G phone for a week, I’m not sold on the 5G revolution

Virus may have spread unedited for 6 weeks inside USA ...

California poll:  Bernie maintains significant edge over Biden

Klobuchar rally in Minnesota canceled amid protests

Coronavirus live updates: New York Auto Show still on for April, Saudi Arabia confirms first case

Jack Welch, former CEO and chairman of GE, dies at 84 ...

SCOTIS to hear case that could scrap Obamacare

Sanders defends attacks on Israel’s Netanyahu

WHO says coronavirus cases outside China 9 times higher than inside

NKorca fires ‘short-range ballistic missiles’ ...

Taliban ends ‘peach deal’ with U.S. after Afghan president balks

Headlines

White House considers appointing coronavirus czar

Coronavirus  live update: Brazil confirms 1st case in Latin America, Italy cases triple over 2 days

Poll: Biden set for big SC win

Donald Trump blames CNN and ‘MSDNC’ for hyping coronavirus fears

Boston Globe endorses Warren a year after urging her not to tun

Coronavirus cuts Trump’s Dow gains since election to 48% from 61%

Trump campaign sues New York Times for libel ...

Greenwald: CIA election  ‘interference’ worse than Russian

2 Florida Democrats sue to keep Sanders off the primary ballot

Zoom has added more users this year than all of 2019 thanks to coronavirus, Bernstein says

In last days of campaign Netanyahu stops shaking hands

Nancy Pelosi: ‘Too late’ for Trump admin to stem coronavirus

Headlines

Steny Hoyer leads trip to Puerto Rico amid aid standoff

Bloomberg reveals plans for Social Security and retirement savings

Madam VP: ‘I never say never because I do believe in serving my country’ ...

6.1 million people off food stamps under Donald Trump

Rockets strike near U.S. Embassy in Baghdad

The White House doesn’t trust China’s coronavirus numbers — here’s why

Betting odds soar for Mike getting the nomination ...

Evangelical women pray over Donald Trump

Israel’s Gantz vows to form government without Netanyahu

Trump administration may stop engines co-manufactured by GE to China, WSJ says

760 million [Chinese] people face restrictions ...

Pew study reveals massive GOP-Dem divide over climate change

Headlines

Trump pushes forward conservative transformation of Medicaid

Trump impeachment trial: Senators ask final questions before critical witness vote

Republicans could move to quick acquittal vote ... claim momentum ...

Graham there are ‘53 Republican votes to call Hunter Biden’

Wilbur Ross says coronavirus could bring jobs back to the U.S. from China

GM resurrecting Hummer as ab all-electric ‘super truck’ with 1,000 horsepower

Mexican economy suffers first contraction in decade ...

Impeachment poll: 47% for removal, 48% against

U.S. economy grew at moderate 2.1% rate in fourth quarter

Economic growth looks even weaker this quarter virus now a wild card

Fed pumps another $82 billion ...

Netanyahu in Moscow to discuss Mideast peace plan

Pins and Needles

Pins and needles — there are a number of important issues pending at the moment:

- Iran’s response to Soleimani’s killing

- Kim Jong Un’s “Christmas present” to Trump

- Results of the Barr/Durham investigation into the origin of the spying on Trump

- Pelosi’s delivery of the Impeachment Articles to the Senate

- The next stock market correction

- The signing of the USMCA and Chinese trade deals

- The building of the Mexican border wall

-  Who the Democrats’ nominee will be

- Fate of Netanyahu and his coalition

- Brexit actuation

- Possible John Bolton testimony in the Senate impeachment trial

Headlines

Iran official says Israeli cities can be revenge targets

Iraqi parliament calls for US troops to be expelled — coalition suspends operations against ISIS

CARR: Trump ordered the strike, and came down to dinner cool, collected ...

Carlson: ‘Washington has wanted war with Iran for decades’

Flush with cash Yang wrestles with where to spend it

Trump threatens to hit 52 Iranian targets if Tehran retaliates over top general’s death

Patriots eliminated ...

Britain backs Trump on Iran, deploys Royal Navy to Persian Gulf

Britain orders navy to protect ships after Soleiman's killing

Graham wants to start Trump impeachment trial in days: ‘We need to take matters into our own hands’

Netanyahu, in apparent stumble, calls Israel ‘nuclear power’ ...

Iranian ex-pats in Canada celebrate [Soleimani’s] death ...

Headlines

Trump fiercely defends killing Soleimani as he plunges U.S. deeper into foreign conflict

“Dangerous escalation”: World reacts to the US killing of Qasem Soleimani

Ex-CIA director: ‘There will be dead Americans’ ...

Nancy Pelosi complains: No notification before attack on Soleimani

Bill Gates calls for higher taxes on the rich

US to deploy 3,500 additional troops to the Middle East after Iranian general killed

Factory gauge unexpectedly falls to lowest since 2009 ...

USMC firearm policy updated to allow concealed carry for self-defense

Israel’s Netanyahu seeks immunity from corruption charges

Sales of priciest Manhattan apartments plunge almost 40% in fourth quarter

Terrorist wearing explosive vest shot dead in Paris after stabbing four people ...

Biden slams Soleimani assassination: Trump ‘tossed a dynamite stick into a tinderbox’

Headlines

Fiona Hill clashes with GOP over ‘fictional’ Ukrainian claims

Janet Yellen says, ‘there is good reason to worry’ about the US economy sliding into recession

Israel PM Netanyahu defiant after his indictment ...

Fiona Hill penned a Washington Post op ed against giving Ukraine weapons in 2015

Haley billed as ‘frontrunner’ in 2024 GOP nomination

SpaceX blows the top off of Starship in pressure testing to the max

Iran [Inter]net outages to effectively isolate entire nation ...

Fiona Hill worked with Christopher Steele, author of the Russian ‘dossier’

Inspector General’s report on FBI-Russian probe due out in December

House Dems, Republicans fail to reach agreement on USMCA trade agreement

White House backs full Senate trial ...

Confidence in Trump economy hits highest level ever

Headlines

Trump pressed Ukraine president to work with Barr for dirt on Biden

Wall Street believes Trump is safe but impeachment inquiry could hinder trade deals

Israel president gives Netanyahu to form gov’t ...

Trump taunts impeachment Democrats. ‘Caught then by surprise’ with transcript release

White House preparing to release whistle blower complaint to Congress

Postal compromise close as US pushes for global postal reform that could impact Amazon, FedEx, UPS

Rasmussen: President approval 51% ...

Hillary Clinton: President Trump has ‘betrayed our country’

U.S., Japan reach a limited deal on agriculture, digital trade

New home sales see unexpected surge, but analyst says ‘entry level’ price is now much higher

Drone killing microwave depleted by Air Force ...

Senate staffer indicates gun control dead amid impeachment focus

Headlines

Trump announces ‘highest sanctions ever’ targeting Iran’s central bank

Thousand more workers furloughed with more coming as GM, suppliers idle plants in UAW strike

Number of unaccompanied alien children entering USA highest in history ...

Blue state blues: Democrats back policy that led to Parkland shooting

Trump trolls de Blasio after mayor’s withdrawal from presidential race

Trump administration faces long odds in fight with California over auto emissions waiver

NY Fed to pump $75 billion into markets daily through Oct, 10 ...

‘Largest polar expedition in history’ to probe Arctic climate

USMCA frustrations grow among House Democrats excluded from Trump talks

Trump says he doesn’t need a trade deal with China before the 2020 elections

Netanyahu clings to power as coalition talks loom ...

Warren hires Planned Parenthood leader to head campaign in Florida

Headlines

‘Feel free to leak this’: Inside the Pelosi-Nadler impeachment schism

Fed loses control of its own interest rate on day of big decision — ‘This just doesn’t look good’

Netanyahu falls short of a majority ... Cancels trip to UN ...

Study: Rate of U.S. abortions falls to lowest level since 1973

New poll shows Harris’ support has plunged 13 points in Iowa

Gun violence costs the US $229 billion annually, report finds

Health fears prompt Swiss 5G revolt ...

Martin Luther King Iii urges boycott of NFL over Colin Kaepernick

Trump blames ‘Dummy Beto’ for endangering deal on gun reform

Cramer: FedEx holds ‘most dispiriting call about the economy I’ve heard in a very long time’

Gov’t collects almost everything about everyone entering USA ...

Report: House Democrats 43 votes short of impeachment

Headlines

Trump confirms death of Osama bin Laden’s son

The US-China trade war has set in motion an unstoppable global economic transformation

Saudi shuts down half of its oil production after drone strikes ... Crude to hit $100?

Democrat senators fear Beto torpedoed gun control with confiscation push

Romney says Trump was right not to cut capital gains tax

Elon Musk is not the problem at Tesla — blame the people around him

Tropical storm Humberto lashes Bahamas, seen becoming hurricane ...

DOJ IG Michael Horowitz finishing report on FISA abuse

Yemen drones hit Saudi oil sites, including key checkpoint

Trump says he discussed a mutual defense treaty with Benjamin Netanyahu

Slow growth has not hurt Trump in key Midwest counties

Trump: Illegal immigration costs Americans $300 billion each year

Headlines

Mueller remarks put Barr back in harsh spotlight

The US slipped to third place in a ranking of most competitive countries

Shock: Man sets himself on fire outside White House ...

Alan Dershowitz: ‘Shame on Mueller,’ he ‘revealed his personal bias’

Israel headed into elections again as Netanyahu fails to form government

Portugal becomes first euro zone country to issue dent on China’s market

Poll: Biden 18-point lead on Dem field ...

Limbaugh calls Mueller remarks an ‘abomination of the justice system’

Pelosi calls Facebook a ‘willing enabler’ of Russian election meddling

Corporations were the biggest buyers of stock during the bull market, but now they’re selling

NOT AGAIN! Bernie backers see DNC-media sabotage ...

Schiff: Mueller’s statements don’t move needle on impeachment

Headlines

Populist tide rises but fails to flood European Union

US takes aim at Chinese surveillance as trade war becomes tech war

Netanyahu struggles to form government amid talk of new election ...

Donald Trump needles ‘Swampman’ Joe Biden

North Korea calls Bolton ‘a defective human product’

Bitcoin nears $9,000 as it breaks through highest level this year

Brennan security clearance NOT revoked ...

Graham: Dems don't care if FISA court was defrauded by FBI, DOJ

Trump awards trophy at marquee sumo event in Tokyo

Japan central bank chief Koruda sounds alarm on global economy ahead of G-20

Boris Johnson poised to lead Britain ...

Pirro: Pelosi hasn’t accepted 2016 election result ...

Yellow Journalism

Blind Trump with Netanyahu seeing-eye dog

New York Times’ blatant antisemitism

Headlines

British poll: Brexit-distracted Torres lose voter trust on core issues

The stock market is poised to overtake its record high set last September

Dems know they need white male voters ...

Democrat Beto O’Rourke calls Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu a ‘racist’

Homeland Security chief Nielsen is out

Michael Avenatti dumps 41-pages of documents alleging Nike bribed basketball players

UK to have toughest internet laws in the world ...

Stacey Abrams: Georgia fetal heartbeat bill is ‘evil’

90% of voters want infrastructure legislation passed

UK faces Brexit reckoning with no-deal deadline just days away

Impossible challenge of tracking visa overstays ...

E.U. launches ‘fact checker’ to combat populism ahead of elections

Headlines

Trump to Jewish Republicans: Democrats pushing ‘extreme, anti-Semitic agenda’

US wants 2 years to ID migrant kids separated from families

Warren says Dems need more than anti-Trump cry ...

Planned Parenthood pushed CA to force churches to offer [pay for] abortions

Female donors organize to back the woman running for president

Booming jobs market is leaving the retail industry behind

Anti-abortion film a surprise box-office success ...

Netanyahu vows to annex West Bank settlements if re-elected

Theresa May warns of a ‘stark choice’ between a deal and no Brexit

Trump says he has not read the Mueller report ‘but has every right to do so’

Administration nearly doubles H-2B guest visa program ...

Poll: Only 48% say Obamacare made things better

Headlines

Trump’s U.N. pick showered key GOP senators with donations

Trump’s tax cuts will boost the U.S. economy for two more years at most, says Nobel Prize winner

Iranian official claims: Netanyahu family phones hacked ...

BBC: Use of term ‘Mainstream Media’ is  an ‘assault on freedom’

Trump surprises his own aides by reversing North Korean sanctions

A trade agreement could come in weeks but it won’t erase ‘contentious’ issues, says former diplomat

Mayday? Pressure to step down to save Brexit ...

Donald Trump golfs with Kid Rock after Mueller Report conclusion

Top SDNY prosecutor in Michael Cohen case departing

Almost 400 people airlifted of stricken cruise ship off Norway

End of flu season has not been this bad in last 2 decades ...

Adam Schiff threatens to subpoena Mueller after Russian probe

20 Questions

1) Will Trump be impeached this year?

2) Will the Norks denuke?

3) How many Dems will be running for president?

4) Will Michelle O.  be one of them?

5) Will Howard Schultz still be running as an Independent?

6) Will Amazon build its HQ2 in New York?

7) Will a China trade deal be inked?

8) Will Trump’s emergency Mexico wall money be allowed?

9) Will Ocasio-Cortez still be relevant?

 10) Will there be a recession in the US?

11) Will Trump have a serious Republican challenger?

12) Will the US be out of Syria this year?

13) Will the US be out of Afghanistan?

14) Will there be a hard Brexit?

15) Will Theresa May still be in office by year end

16) Will Trudeau still be in office by year end?

17) Will Macron still be in office by year end?

18) Will Netanyahu still be in office?

19) Will Maduro be overthrown?

20) Will there be any serious terrorist attacks this year?

Headlines

‘Sometimes you have to walk’: Why Trump bailed on North Korea

Fourth quarter GDP grows at 2.6%, better than expected

D-Day for Netanyahu as he braces for possible indictment

Cummings on Cohen: ‘I believe he told the truth’

Trump’s inner circle sustains collateral damage in Cohen hearing

Pakistani PM says Indian pilot to be released Friday in peace gesture

Trudeau on brink? Scandal rocks ...

Travel ban ends nearly all immigration from terrorist nations

India, Pakistan exchange gunfire

Michael Cohen: ‘I hear’ Trump won’t peacefully give up the White House if he loses in 2020 ...

‘Excited’ Beto says made 2020 decision ...

Lighthizer: There is no ‘soy [bean] solution’ to trade fight