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The Guardian:
Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy  —  Exclusive: Trump ally met WikiLeaks founder months before emails hacked by Russia were published  —  Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London …
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Anna Schecter / NBC News:
Mueller has emails from Stone pal Corsi about WikiLeaks Dem email dump  —  “Word is (Julian Assange) plans 2 more dumps...Impact planned to be very damaging,” Jerome Corsi said in email to Stone, say draft court documents.  —  Two months before WikiLeaks released emails stolen from the Clinton campaign …
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
Robert Mueller's Endgame May Be in Sight  —  HISTORY MAY SHOW that Monday ranks among the most consequential days yet of Robert Mueller's 18-month special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.  —  As George Papadopoulos, one of the most enigmatic characters …
Paul Manafort / ‘Manafort held secret talks …:
Version 0 Version 1 Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy, sources say 2018-11-27 14:50:22 UTC 2018-11-27 16:05:16 UTC (about 1 hour later)  —  Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Law & Crime
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Jerome Corsi Says He Has Defense Agreement With Trump, Received Limited Immunity From Mueller  — Jerome Corsi makes several stunning disclosures in a new book about his interactions with the special counsel's office  — The right-wing author also writes that he received 'limited use immunity …
CNN:
Stone's efforts to seek WikiLeaks documents detailed in draft Mueller document  —  Washington (CNN)Draft court filings obtained by CNN outline significant insights into what special counsel Robert Mueller may know about Roger Stone's efforts to seek documents from WikiLeaks in 2016.
CNN:
Mueller investigating 2017 meeting between Manafort and Ecuador's President  —  Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has been investigating a meeting between former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno in Quito in 2017 and has specifically asked …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:   EXCLUSIVE: Jerome Corsi Testified That Roger Stone Sought WikiLeaks' Help To Rebut ‘Access Hollywood’ Tape
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:   Manafort Denies Ever Meeting Julian Assange
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:   Federal judge delays decision on unsealing ‘interesting’ Julian Assange case
Jack Crowe / National Review:
Paul Manafort Denies Meeting with Assange
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
White House prevents Gina Haspel from briefing Senate on Khashoggi murder  —  Mike Pompeo and James Mattis are due to give a briefing on US relations with Saudi Arabia to Senate on Wednesday  —  The White House is preventing the CIA director, Gina Haspel, or any other intelligence official …
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
‘Fox & Friends’ Fed Interview Script to Trump's EPA Chief, Emails Show  —  The president's favorite cable-news show shared its interview scripts and its oh-so-hard-hitting questions in advance with an embattled Trump official.  —  Former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt …
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
The NRA Just Reported Losing $55 Million in Income  —  The gun-rights group has its biggest champion in the White House.  But its financial situation has worsened in the age of Trump  —  The nation's leading gun-rights organization saw its income drop by $55 million last year …
Discussion: OpenSecrets.org, Axios and Splinter
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The Khashoggi killing had roots in a cutthroat Saudi family feud  —  Behind the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi lies a power struggle within the Saudi royal family that helped feed the paranoia and recklessness of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.  Eventually, this rage in the royal court led …
Rich Lowry / New York Post:
Trump's critics were dead wrong about the caravan after all  —  It's been about three weeks since CNN reporter Jim Acosta repeatedly told President Trump at a news conference that the migrant caravan is “hundreds and hundreds of miles away” and “not an invasion.”
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wgbh.org:
‘I Always Respect Subpoenas’: Comey Says His Legal Team Is Looking At His Options  —  Former FBI Director James Comey said he won't ignore the House Judiciary Committee's subpoena compelling him to testify behind closed doors about his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails …
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Jesus Rodriguez / Politico:
Comey on acting AG Whitaker: ‘Not the sharpest knife’
Discussion: Washington Post
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's rage-tweets and spin over General Motors layoffs ring hollow  —  When White House counselor Kellyanne Conway tried Tuesday to respond to the news that General Motors will eliminate thousands of jobs, her usual talent for effortlessly shameless spinning seemed to have deserted her.
Discussion: CNBC, Wall Street Journal and Politico
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Dan Primack / Axios:
Larry Kudlow says Trump feels betrayed by General Motors
Adam Behsudi / Politico:
What the U.S. and China want from trade talks  —  President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will arrive at their meeting later this week with lists of demands and possibly concessions to calm trade tensions between the U.S. and China.  —  But an outcome is less than assured.
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Who's the Mystery Man Behind the Latest Pelosi Putsch?  It's Mark Penn.  —  A small group of billionaire-backed Democrats, part of the so-called Problem Solvers Caucus in Congress, has launched a last-ditch effort that threatens to derail Rep. Nancy Pelosi's election as House speaker.
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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
The Trial Over Trump's Census Citizenship Question Did Not Go Well for the Administration  —  The longer the trial went on, the more it undercut the administration's stated rationale for adding the question.  —  The deeper the Trump administration got into a three-week trial challenging …
CBS Baltimore:
Active Shooter Reported At Walter Reed Military Medical Center  —  BETHESDA, Md. (WJZ) — Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger said that there is an active shooter reported at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.  —  “I am currently at Walter Reed Medical in Bethesda where we've been told there is an active shooter.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Maybe They're Just Bad People  —  Not all Trump support is ideological.  —  Seven years ago, a former aide to Ralph Reed — who also worked, briefly, for Paul Manafort — published a tawdry, shallow memoir that is also one of the more revealing political books I've ever read.
Discussion: HuffPost, Raw Story and Hullabaloo
Associated Press:
The Latest: US nixed FBI checks for teen migrant camp staff  —  TORNILLO, Texas (AP) — The Latest on a desert detention camp for migrant children (all times local):  —  A new government watchdog memo says the Trump administration waived rigorous background checks for all staff working …
Discussion: Axios and Daily Kos
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Trump brags, ‘I blow Ronald Reagan away’  —  President Trump believes that his long list of achievements in office make him “far greater than Ronald Reagan.”  —  In a new book out Tuesday about his “enemies,” the president said that while he feels “I blow Ronald Reagan away,” the “fake news” …
Lindsey Bever / Washington Post:
Christine Blasey Ford says some good came out of her ‘terrifying’ testimony against Kavanaugh  —  Months after publicly accusing Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her three decades ago, Christine Blasey Ford said that speaking out was “terrifying,” but she knew it was her “civic duty.”
Discussion: Marie Claire, Townhall and Mashable
Nicole Gaudiano / USA Today:
Russia probe: House Democrats aim to unmask Trump Jr.'s blocked call  —  WASHINGTON - A blocked number in Donald Trump Jr.'s phone records may be among the first targets for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee in January as they investigate possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Bloomberg:
Meet New York City's highest-earning official.  He's a debt collector for predatory lenders.  —  In the 1960s, New York's loan sharks would send thugs with nicknames like “Jimmy Dimps” to beat up borrowers who fell behind on their payments.  —  Now predatory lenders have a quieter way of collecting debts …
David Brooks / New York Times:
Liberal Parents, Radical Children  —  The generation gap returns.  —  When I meet someone who runs an organization in a blue state, I often ask: Do you have a generation gap where you work?  The answer — whether the person leads a college, a nonprofit, a tech company …
Eric Spitznagel / Observer:
You Can Sleep With the Latest Sex Robots at This Brothel—But Only if They Say ‘Yes’  —  Here's something you rarely hear in the discussion of robots designed for the sole purpose of having sexual relations with humans: Is the sex consensual?  —  That's because it's one of the last question anyone thinks about.
Mark Niesse / politics.myajc:
Federal lawsuit challenges fairness of Georgia's elections  —  A federal lawsuit backed by former Democratic candidate for governor Stacey Abrams will attempt to overhaul the state's elections, alleging “gross mismanagement” after Georgians suffered long lines, uncounted ballots and purged registrations during this month's vote.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jordan, Meadows vying to defend Trump on key committees  —  An intense behind-the-scenes power struggle over who will become Donald Trump's top congressional defender is coming to a head as two Freedom Caucus leaders and their allies pressure senior Republicans to give them two top committee posts.
Discussion: Political Wire
David Z. Hambrick / Scientific American:
Your Dog May Not Be a Genius, After All  —  New study finds that canines are not exceptional in the animal world  —  If you are convinced your dog is a genius, you may be disappointed in the conclusions of a study just published in the journal Learning and Behavior.The study finds that dogs …
Associated Press:
Driver tried to hit men leaving LA synagogue: cops … LOS ANGELES — Authorities arrested a motorist suspected of trying to run down two men leaving a Los Angeles synagogue, and detectives are investigating the case as a hate crime, police officials said Monday.
Discussion: twitchy.com, PJ Media Home and The Hill
Los Angeles Times:
California's privileged are hiring private fire crews to save their homes.  Regular firefighters aren't happy about it  —  When the Woolsey fire swept into the exclusive neighborhood of Bell Canyon, resident Yen Hsieh grabbed her late music teacher's 200-year-old cello …
Discussion: KTLA
Brian Faler / Politico:
House Republicans unveil giant tax package  —  House Republicans on Monday evening unexpectedly released a 297-page tax bill they hope to move during the lame-duck session of Congress.  —  The legislation would revive a number of expired tax provisions known as “extenders,” …
Discussion: TheBlaze
Christopher Hooks / The Texas Observer:
Dear Beto and Julián, Please Don't Run for President  —  Are you planning to run for president on the Democratic ticket in 2020?  If not, why not?  Everyone else is.  Seventeen Republicans ran in 2016, and the nominating process winnowed them down to the least qualified and most deranged.
 
 
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Helen Briggs / BBC:
‘Siberian unicorn’ walked Earth with humans
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Andrew Freedman / Axios:
White House criticizes its climate report as “not based on facts”
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Melissa Yeager / Arizona Republic:
Gateway airport foots $13K bill for lighting at Trump's Mesa rally
Discussion: IJR and Raw Story
Reason:
This ‘Three Strikes’ Law Sends People to Die in Federal Prison For Drug Crimes
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Democrats Near California Sweep as T.J. Cox Overtakes David Valadao
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Jonathan Allen / Reuters:
Ex-Pennsylvania top prosecutor convicted of perjury may begin sentence soon
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