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4:35 PM ET, November 25, 2018

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Roey Hadar / ABC News:
Mueller report will be ‘devastating’ for the president: Frequent Trump defender  —  Alan Dershowitz, a frequent defender of President Donald Trump, said special counsel Robert Mueller's report will be “devastating” for the president.  —  The Harvard Law professor emeritus told ABC News Chief …
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David Taylor / The Guardian:
‘He has moved incredibly quickly’: Mueller nears Trump endgame  —  A new urgency surrounds the Russia investigation, with Donald Trump Jr and longtime Trump ally Roger Stone in legal peril  —  Donald Trump only has himself to blame for Robert Mueller's return to public life.
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 11-25-18: Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Gov. John Kasich, Sen. Sherrod Brown  —  A rush transcript of a special edition of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” airing on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018 on ABC News is below.  This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Political Wire
Kris Schneider / ABC News:
Ohioans eyeing 2020? Kasich, Brown ‘very seriously’ consider runs against Trump
Discussion: Breitbart, IJR and Washington Times
Economist:   Donald Trump is attacking the rule of law and may well get away with it
Christopher Sherman / Associated Press:
Migrants march toward US border in show of force  —  TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Several hundred Central American migrants on Sunday pushed past a blockade of Mexican police standing guard near the international border crossing between Tijuana and California to pressure the U.S to hear their asylum claims.
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Emanuella Grinberg / CNN:
US shuts down major San Diego port of entry as migrants rush border  —  (CNN)US Customs and Border Protection has closed road and pedestrian bridges in both directions at the San Ysidro port of entry, one of the largest land border crossings between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico.
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
First caravan-related violence reported in U.S. as rocks thrown at Border Patrol  —  The Border Patrol reported the first major instance of migrant caravan-related violence Saturday, saying a Honduran man threw rocks at agents to try to keep from being arrested Friday in Arizona.
Washington Post:
Ex-Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos must report to prison Monday, judge orders  —  A federal judge on Sunday ruled that George Papadopoulos must report to prison as scheduled on Monday, rejecting a bid from the former Trump campaign adviser to delay the start of his prison sentence …
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Reuters:
U.S. judge orders former Trump campaign adviser Papadopoulos to jail
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:   Judge orders Papadopoulos to report to prison on Monday
Josh Gerstein / Politico:   Papadopoulos ordered to jail Monday
Haley Britzky / Axios:
Congressmen who've seen classified intel dispute Trump on Khashoggi killing  —  Senators Mike Lee (R-Utah), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), and Adam Schiff (D-CA) all disagree with President Trump's assertion that the CIA has not concluded that crown prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
More Republicans challenge Trump on defense of Saudi crown prince  —  Congressional Republicans continued to line up this weekend to criticize President Trump over his defense of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who the CIA believes ordered the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Lawmakers disagree with Trump on Khashoggi assessment
Discussion: CNN and Breitbart
Christal Hayes / USA Today:   Finland, Denmark and Germany stop arm sales to Saudi Arabia after Khashoggi's death
Washington Post:
Trump demands action to reduce deficit, pushes new deficit spending  —  President Trump is demanding top advisers craft a plan to reduce the country's ballooning budget deficits, but the president has flummoxed his own aides by repeatedly seeking new spending while ruling out measures needed to address the country's unbalanced budget.
Discussion: Axios and Mediaite
Ilya Timtchenko / KyivPost:
Russia opens fire on Ukrainian boats in Azov Sea; Poroshenko convenes military cabinet (DEVELOPING)  —  The Ukrainian Navy has reported that Russian coast guard boats opened fire on three Ukrainian boats in the Azov Sea on the evening of Nov. 25.  Ukraine's small armored artillery boats Berdyansk …
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Ukraine Interactive map:
Russian has opened fire on one of Ukrainian boats, at least one sailor wounded  —  Video from FSB helicopter showing Russian ships harassing Ukrainian boats this morning … Photo of vessel that blocked Kerch Strait earlier today  —  Lithuania MFA Linas Linkevicius: Strongly condemn Russia's move …
James Arkin / Politico:
Alabama GOP: Sessions not guaranteed to win back his old seat  —  Republicans are certain they can win back the Alabama Senate seat they lost in spectacular fashion last year.  They just aren't sure whether Jeff Sessions is the one to do it.  —  Sessions' name surfaced as a potential candidate immediately …
Discussion: Raw Story
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CNN:   The race to control the Senate in 2020 has already started
Rod Dreher / The American Conservative:
Andrea Long Chu's Fake Vagina  —  Sit down and read this essay in The New York Times by Andrea Long Chu.  It is, inadvertently, an icon of our radically disordered culture.  Here's how it starts: … Could there possibly be a more succinct statement of our very particular cultural madness?
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Andrea Long Chu / New York Times:   My New Vagina Won't Make Me Happy
Buster Olney / Popular Information:
Major League Baseball donates $5000 to Cindy Hyde-Smith  —  Over the past week, seven major corporations have asked for Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) to refund their contributions.  Earlier this month, Hyde-Smith told a crowd at a campaign event that she would be willing to attend a “public hanging.”
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CNN:
Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith pushed resolution praising Confederate soldier's effort to ‘defend his homeland’
Washington Post:
Democrats' Senate losses jeopardize national spotlight for possible 2020 hopeful  —  Senate Democrats' midterm losses have created a dilemma for the party's leadership over a key committee seat held by Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), a prospective 2020 presidential contender who is at risk …
Ryan Lillis / Sacramento Bee:
Generators, Coors and canned food.  How these ‘mountain boys’ are surviving in Paradise  —  PARADISE  —  Brad Weldon has lived in Paradise his entire life, and wasn't about to leave his home or his blind, 90-year-old mother behind when the Camp Fire hit.  —  And he's not going to leave …
Discussion: Althouse
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
A Little Free Library honored Michelle Obama.  Vandals tagged it 'Trump's'.  —  The Little Free Library went up a week after the inauguration, its wooden walls painted to evoke the White House eight blocks away.  But if the book box coincided with President Trump taking office, its tiny plaque pined for the previous administration.
Discussion: Raw Story
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Cummings: Asylum-seekers should be allowed in U.S.  —  Rep. Elijah Cummings on Sunday called on Congress to stand up against a proposed deal between Mexico and President Donald Trump that will keep those seeking asylum out of the United States.  —  Cummings (D-Md.) in an interview on NBC's …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Ruth Whippman / New York Times:
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Discussion: Althouse
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
‘Never Trump’ Republicans went Democrat in 2018. Are they gone for good?
Discussion: Hot Air
Catherine Bosley / Bloomberg:
Swiss Firmly Reject Plan That Risked Worsening EU Relations
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David Siders / Politico:
New Hampshire political legend falls prey to Trump effect
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
The New Radicalization of the Internet
Juliet Linderman / Associated Press:
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Rob Merrick / The Independent:
Brexit: High Court to rule if referendum vote ‘void’ as early as Christmas after Arron Banks investigation
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
New book by Trump advisers alleges that the president has ‘embedded enemies’
Discussion: Axios, POLITICUSUSA, HuffPost and Raw Story