Alec Baldwin Blasts Trump's SNL Tweet as "Threat to My Safety and That of My Family"

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RSN: Marc Ash | Espionage Is Not Out of the Question 

Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
Ash writes: "The subtext of the most recent filings by prosecutors with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office and the Southern District of New York (SDNY) indicates that they strongly suspect collusion between Donald Trump and Russian players acting under the direction of Vladimir Putin, at a bare minimum."
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) walk out of the West Wing after a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House December 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. (photo: Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press)

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After Trump's Meltdown Over His Wall, Democrats Cannot Give Any Ground
Greg Sargent, The Washington Post
Sargent writes: "President Trump, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer clashed Tuesday over funding for the border wall, an explosive Oval Office encounter that ended with Trump declaring he'd be proud to shut down the government to get what he wants."
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White nationalist James Alex Fields Jr. (image: Daily Beast)

James Fields Gets Life in Prison, Plus 419 Years, for Murdering Heather Heyer in Charlottesville
Pilar Melendez, The Daily Beast
Melendez writes: "White nationalist James Alex Fields Jr. on Tuesday was sentenced to life in prison, plus 419 years, after being convicted of murdering anti-racism protester Heather Heyer during the 2017 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville."
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More Americans would prefer that President Trump compromise on funding for his border wall rather than risk a government shutdown, a new poll finds. (photo: Rebecca Blackwell/AP)

Trump Administration Spent More Than $13 Million to Hire 2 Border Agents
Rebekah Entralgo, ThinkProgress
Entralgo writes: "According to a scathing report released by the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, the federal government doesn't have much to show for its costly effort to increase border security staffing at the U.S.-Mexico border."
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'It pays to be rich and white in McLennan County when you're charged with a crime.' (photo: McClennan County Jail)

Ex-Baylor Frat President Accused of Rape Won't Serve Any Prison Time
Prachi Gupta, Jezebel
Gupta writes: "Jacob Anderson, the former president of Baylor University's Phi Delta Theta fraternity accused of raping a woman at an off-campus party in 2015, will not serve any prison time."
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Relatives participate in a ceremony to commemorate the 37th anniversary of El Mozote massacre in Meanguera, El Salvador. (photo: Jose Cabezas/Reuters)

El Salvador: Waiting for Justice Nearly 40 Years After the El Mozote Massacre
Anna-Cat Brigida, Al Jazeera
Brigida writes: "Nearly 1,000 people - mostly women and children - were killed in El Mozote and the surrounding towns from December 11 to 13, 1981 in what has been deemed one of the worst massacres in modern Latin American history."
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Protesters call for political and economic reforms to combat climate change during the United Nations Summit on Climate Change (COP24) in Katowice, Poland, on Dec. 8, 2018. (photo: Martyn Aim/Getty Images)

At Climate Summit, Trump Team Again at Odds With Own Scientists
James Rainey, NBC News 

EXCERPT:

Over the weekend, the U.S. joined Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait as the only countries that declined to “welcome” an international report on the destructive fallout that will occur if temperature increases can't be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-Industrial levels. All four nations export oil, and the report called for fossil fuels to be phased out by 2050.

America further divorced itself from most other nations on Monday, when it held a panel at the climate talks promoting the long-term burning of coal and natural gas. U.S. officials argued that the carbon fuels are necessary because renewable sources will not provide enough electric power in the short run.

Rainey writes: "The Trump administration continued its rejection of mainstream climate science - and embraced Earth-warming fossil fuels - in the second week of the United Nations climate conference in Poland."
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