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TOP NEWS
Dozens of mourners were killed in stampedes at the funeral for Iranian Maj. Gen. Suleimani. His burial has been postponed in response.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei says retaliation must come directly from Iran and not through proxies, as they’ve often utilized.
A memo from U.S. forces was misunderstood to be a total withdrawal of American troops in Iraq.
An early morning earthquake in Puerto Rico triggers blackout and at least one death.
As his trial begins in New York, Harvey Weinstein was newly charged with multiple sex crimes in Los Angeles.
THE ELECTION
Yang, Steyer and Booker are unlikely make it into next week’s Iowa debate
THE COMMENT
“This administration doesn’t have a policy on Iraq,” said a former senior Iraqi official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid worsening a volatile situation. Iraq, he said, has been a subsidiary of policies toward Israel and Iran, seen as “baggage from the last administration.”“Up to the point where ISIS was territorially defeated” last year, a current Iraqi official said, “Iraq was on the radar screen because defeating the Islamic State was an electoral priority of the president. Once they were defeated, we were downgraded.”
THE STRANGEST
THE AV ROOM