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5:05 AM ET, November 26, 2018

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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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BBC:
Migrant caravan: Mexico to deport group which stormed US border  —  Mexico will deport almost 500 migrants who attempted to storm the US border, according to its interior ministry.  —  The group were rounded up after trying to cross the border “violently” and “illegally” on Sunday, the ministry said in a statement.
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.
Los Angeles Times:
San Ysidro border crossing closed, U.S. fires tear gas as migrants rush toward border … The Mexican border was closed Sunday at the San Ysidro Port of Entry after a group of migrants in Tijuana stormed the area, prompting the U.S. Border Patrol to fire tear gas at the group.
sandiegouniontribune.com:   Southbound lanes into Mexico reopened after five-hour closure
Washington Post:   U.S. closes major crossing as caravan migrants mass at border in Mexico
New York Times:
Migrants in Tijuana Run to U.S. Border, but Fall Back in Face of Tear Gas
Discussion: Breitbart
Julia Jacobo / ABC News:   U.S.-Mexico border near Tijuana closed as migrants attempt to breach fence, Border Patrol says
NBC News:   San Diego border crossing shut down after migrants try entering U.S.
Washington Post:
Black Sea standoff intensifies tensions between Russia, Ukraine  —  MOSCOW — Russia and Ukraine accused each other of provoking an incident at sea on Sunday, rapidly escalating tensions between the neighbors and spurring Moscow to close a vital water route the two nations use.
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Zoya Sheftalovich / Politico:
Russia reopens Kerch Strait after Ukrainian confrontation: report
Associated Press:   The Latest: EU calls for restraint from Russia, Ukraine
BBC:   Russia fires on and seizes Ukraine ships, Ukrainian navy says
David Mercer / Sky News:
Russia fires at Ukrainian ships and captures three vessels off Crimea
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review:
EXCLUSIVE: Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies  —  When Chinese researchers first edited the genes of a human embryo in a lab dish in 2015, it sparked global outcry and pleas from scientists not to make a baby using the technology, at least for the present.  —  Recommended for You
Discussion: RT and The American Conservative
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Marilynn Marchione / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: First gene-edited babies claimed in China  —  HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world's first genetically edited babies — twin girls born this month whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life.
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
“It Makes Sense Now”: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski Tie the Knot in a Secret Washington D.C. Ceremony  —  The Morning Joe co-hosts made it official during an intimate Saturday ceremony at the National Archives, in front of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, officiated by Rep. Elijah Cummings.
Scott Pelley / CBS News:
The chaos behind Donald Trump's policy of family separation at the border  —  A 60 Minutes investigation has found the separations that dominated headlines this summer began earlier and were greater in number than the Trump administration admits  —  This past week, a federal judge struck down the president's latest immigration order.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Monopolization of America  —  In one industry after another, big companies have become more dominant over the past 15 years, new data show.  —  The popular telling of the Boston Tea Party gets something wrong.  The colonists were not responding to a tax increase.
James Arkin / Politico:
'We don't want an Alabama': Hyde-Smith has Republicans holding their breath  —  Republicans think Cindy Hyde-Smith will ultimately pull out a win in Mississippi's special Senate election on Tuesday.  But they say the race has tightened — and after what happened in Alabama last year, they're on edge.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Dershowitz: Mueller report will be ‘devastating’ politically for Trump  —  Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said Sunday he expects special counsel Robert Mueller's final report will be politically devastating for President Trump, but said he does not believe it will criminally implicate the president.
Discussion: Townhall and Law & Crime
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Reuters:
U.S. judge orders former Trump campaign adviser Papadopoulos to jail
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
New Book Gives Voice to Trump's Claims of a Vast Conspiracy Against Him  —  A new book by two informal advisers to President Trump aims to buttress his claim that he is the victim of a vast conspiracy inside the federal government, and it includes an interview with Mr. Trump in which he repeats …
Axios:
Trump to Iraqi PM: How about that oil?  —  President Trump twice raised to the Iraqi prime minister the idea of repaying America for its wars with Iraqi oil, a highly controversial ask that runs afoul of international norms and logic, according to sources with direct knowledge.
Discussion: New Republic and Political Wire
Los Angeles Times:
California Democratic Party chairman under investigation over allegations of sexual misconduct  —  The California Democratic Party has launched an investigation into unspecified allegations of sexual misconduct against Chairman Eric Bauman involving party staff members.
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Nicole Russell / The Federalist:
Twitter Permanently Bans Feminist For Writing That 'Men Aren't Women'  —  Months after Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey said his platform didn't take sides, his platform is not only taking sides but becoming more progressive and Orwellian than ever.  —  Despite its CEO telling Congress the contrary …
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Liberal Jews are still turning a blind eye to anti-Semitism on the left  —  Jew-hating has become too normal in America, and liberal Jewry often keeps mum about it.  Left-of-center Jews speak out about white nationalists, but where are they on anti-Semitism when it arises from their own side?
 
 
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Maya Rao / Star Tribune:
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
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Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal:
Pay Taxes With Bitcoin? Ohio Says Sure
Joshua Holland / Raw Story:
Ayn Rand raged against government benefits — but grabbed Social Security and Medicare when she needed them
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Another rebel Dem softens on opposing Pelosi for speaker
Discussion: Political Wire
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Elon Musk considers move to Mars despite ‘good chance of death’
Washington Post:
Democrats' Senate losses jeopardize national spotlight for possible 2020 hopeful
Ryan Lillis / Sacramento Bee:
Generators, Coors and canned food. How these ‘mountain boys’ are surviving in Paradise
Discussion: Althouse
Haley Britzky / Axios:
Congressmen who've seen classified intel dispute Trump on Khashoggi killing
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Breitbart and Politico
 

 
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Tom McArthur / BBC:
RSF publishes its World Press Freedom Index and places Norway, Denmark, and Sweden in the top three, the US down 10 spots at 55, and Eritrea in last place

Sara Fischer / Axios:
A look at news publishers' conflicting approaches toward AI companies, and how the lack of a data marketplace makes it hard for buyers and sellers to set rates

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