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President Donald Trump will host a bipartisan group of congressional leadership Wednesday for what the White House is billing as a border security briefing in the White House Situation Room — their first meeting since a partial government shutdown began nearly two weeks ago. Source: CNN

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California’s Joshua Tree National Park on Wednesday will become the latest casualty of the federal government’s partial shutdown, closing campgrounds amid health and safety concerns over near-capacity pit toilets. Source: CNN

CNN’s Lauren Fox breaks down five Democratic lawmakers who are likely to battle President Trump in 2019. Source: CNN

For a president who professes to revere the US military more than any of his predecessors, Donald Trump gets entangled in a lot of scrapes that raise doubts about the sincerity of his admiration. Source: CNN

In one of his first tweets of the new year, President Donald Trump attacked retired four-star Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal after he criticized the President on Sunday. Source: CNN

Retired four-star Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal on Sunday criticized President Donald Trump for his approach to the presidency in a wide-ranging interview that saw the former top commander of the US and international forces in Afghanistan label Trump as dishonest and immoral. Source: CNN

Few American presidents ever have experienced as much legal turmoil in one year as Donald Trump did in 2018. The past year brought a drumbeat of blockbuster revelations from special counsel Robert Mueller, but 2018 could end up as just a brisk warmup for what’s to come in 2019. Buckle up. Source: CNN

President Donald Trump will face an intensified level of scrutiny in the new year, with Democratic House committee chairmen poised to comb through every corner of his administration, subpoena his Cabinet and investigate his personal finances, associates and business interests. Source: CNN

On the heels of Jim Mattis leaving the White House, retired four-star Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal criticized President Donald Trump for his approach to the presidency in a wide-ranging interview that saw the former top commander of the US and international forces in Afghanistan label Trump as dishonest and immoral. Source: CNN