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9:10 AM ET, December 1, 2017

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Sarah Rumpf / RedState:
Have We Been Lied to About the Kate Steinle Case?  —  The illegal immigrant who killed Kate Steinle in 2015 was found not guilty of her murder by a San Francisco jury today.  Outrageous, right?  —  Before the killing, Garcia Zarate had been released from a San Francisco jail despite a standing federal deportation order.
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Vivian Ho / San Francisco Chronicle:
Kate Steinle trial: Garcia Zarate acquitted in San Francisco pier killing  —  A homeless man whose undocumented immigration status intensified a national debate over the ethics of sanctuary laws was acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges Thursday in the shooting of Kate Steinle …
Anna Palmer / Politico:
TAX DEBATE scheduled to resume at 11 a.m. …
Discussion: New York Times
New York Times:
Trump Pressed Top Republicans to End Senate Russia Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump over the summer repeatedly urged senior Senate Republicans, including the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to end the panel's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election …
Bloomberg:
Senate GOP Working to Address Deficit Concerns (8:14 a.m.)  —  Senate Republicans made a lot of progress overnight in crafting a new approach to address deficit concerns in their sweeping tax legislation, according to a Senate GOP aide.  —  More work remains in the next few hours …
Discussion: BloombergQuint
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Heather Long / Washington Post:
Contradicted by deficit study, Republican tax plan in disarray  —  Republicans began planning for a day like Thursday the moment they took control of Congress four years ago, almost immediately changing the way tax cuts would be officially scored.  Instead of just calculating how much reducing taxes …
Jim Puzzanghera / Los Angeles Times:
Inspector general launches inquiry into whether Treasury hid Republican tax bill analysis
CNN:
Uncertainty looms over Senate's tax bill
Discussion: Political Wire and KTLA
Saleha Mohsin / Bloomberg:
Treasury Watchdog Probes Mnuchin's Missing Tax Analysis
Discussion: The Hill, The Week and Daily Kos
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump White House Faces Prospect of More Senior Departures  —  Secretary of State Tillerson is most likely to leave as first anniversary approaches, say officials  —  WASHINGTON—The White House is facing the prospect of another round of senior departures in the coming weeks …
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Interrogators Blast Trump's ‘Clueless’ CIA Pick Tom Cotton
Washington Post:
Trump tells confidants that a government shutdown might be good for him … President Trump has told others that a government shutdown could be good for him politically and is focusing on his hard-line immigration stance as a way to win back supporters unhappy with his outreach to Democrats this fall …
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:   Tax bill could trigger historic spending cuts
Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
DACA advocates see efforts gaining steam in the House
CNN:
Erik Prince details Seychelles meeting with Russian banker  —  Erik Prince: ‘Exploring options’ on Senate run  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  — Prince informed the House Intelligence Committee that he met in the Seychelles with Kirill Dmitriev  —  Washington (CNN)Blackwater founder Erik Prince testified …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Erik Prince testifies before House Intelligence Committee
Discussion: ABC News
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Trump's mind-numbing media manipulation machine  —  There is a very specific — and dangerous — formula for manipulating the media and hijacking the Twitter/cable/conventional media industrial complex.  Trump sets this formulaic trap increasingly often.  And news organizations keep falling for it.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump, Proxy of Racism
Discussion: Raw Story and CBS News
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Conservative Megadonor Robert Mercer Funded Project Veritas  —  The Mercers, secretive billionaires who are among President Trump's most powerful donors, also helped to fund Project Veritas, the controversial activist organization, tax filings obtained by BuzzFeed News show.
CNNMoney:
Why Twitter didn't delete anti-Muslim tweets  —  Outrage after Trump retweets anti-Muslim videos  —  President Trump has been heavily criticized for his decision to retweet three graphic anti-Muslim videos.  —  But why did Twitter allow them in the first place?
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Stephen Castle / New York Times:
Trump's Tweets Manage a Rare Feat: Uniting Britain, in Outrage
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Congress secretly paid near $100,000 to settle harassment claims against disgraced congressman  —  The Congressional Office of Compliance secretly paid close to $100,000 in taxpayer funds to settle sexual harassment claims from at least two young male staffers who worked for disgraced former …
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Matt Lauer's lawyers trying to get him $30M payout after firing  —  Lawyers for Matt Lauer are working on landing the shamed anchor a $30 million golden sexual parachute following his NBC firing.  —  Sources close to the disgraced newsman say his team is working on a plan to get him paid through …
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Yohana Desta / Vanity Fair:
Graphic, Disturbing Details of Matt Lauer's Alleged Sexual Misconduct
Ben Riley-Smith / Telegraph:
Donald Trump's ‘working visit’ to UK dropped as tensions with Theresa May grow over president's far-Right retweets  —  US diplomats have dropped plans for Donald Trump to conduct a visit to Britain in January amid a war of words between the two countries' leaders.
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Obama: If I watched Fox News 'I wouldn't vote for me'  —  joked Friday that if he watched Fox News, he wouldn't have voted for himself.  —  Speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi, Obama took shots at the network, which is widely criticized for its negative coverage of Democrats.
Discussion: Raw Story and Business Insider
Bill Chappell / NPR:
Walmart Pulls T-Shirts That Hint At Lynching Journalists  —  Walmart has removed a controversial T-shirt with a simple message — “Rope.  Tree.  Journalist.  SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED” — from its website, after the Radio Television Digital News Association sent the largest retailer in the U.S. a note flagging the shirt's message.
Andrew Ferguson / Weekly Standard:
To Be Sure, Nazis Are Evil  —  The New York Times's needy readers.  —  It's not always easy to sympathize with reporters for the New York Times, because so many of them act like .  .  . how to put it? .    .  . like reporters for the New York Times.
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Maybe Trump knows his base better than we do  —  Watching the Republican tax plan race through Congress, one is reminded of a big apparent difference between President Trump's program and other populist movements in the Western world.  In the United States, Trump is leading something …
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic:
The Neverending Foreclosure  —  GLENDORA, California—In retrospect, refinancing their home was a bad idea.  But the Santillan family never thought that it would lead them to foreclosure, or that they'd spend years bouncing among hotels and living in their car.
Pierre Thomas / ABC News:
Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation tops $5 million  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the Russian government's efforts to interfere with the 2016 election has cost more than $5 million, ABC News has learned.  —  Those expenses include money for a staff …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Federal Contractors Are Offshoring at a Fast Clip Under Trump
Fox News:
White House releases ‘explosive’ tally of green cards issued in ‘chain migration’
Brian Lawson / WHNT-TV:
IRS complaint filed against Roy Moore's non-profit, alleges the foundation illegally promoted his campaign
Sam Baker / Axios:
GOP may have no choice but to try health care again after taxes
John Bresnahan / Politico:
House GOP leaders preparing to bring gun measures to the floor
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Political Wire
Richard Severo / New York Times:
Jim Nabors, 87, TV's Gomer Pyle, Is Dead
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ABC News:
Officials: Trump might declare Jerusalem the Israeli capital
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MediaRoom:
AARP Letter to Senate: Tax Legislation Could Spur Significant Cuts to Medicare
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 Earlier Items: 
John Bowden / The Hill:
Mulvaney: Authority I have at consumer bureau ‘should frighten people’
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Vice fires three employees amid investigations into sexual harassment
Emily Chang / Bloomberg:
Uber Investor Shervin Pishevar Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Multiple Women
Discussion: Axios, more at Techmeme »
Aram Roston / BuzzFeed:
The Trump Administration Is Mulling A Pitch For A Private “Rendition” And Spy Network
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Katie Leslie / Dallas Morning News:
Rep. Joe Barton: I will not seek re-election
 

 
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