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4:55 PM ET, November 30, 2018

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Philip Ewing / NPR:
Cohen's Account Of Russia Talks Raises Questions About Trump Jr. 2017 Testimony  —  Updated at 4 p.m. ET … This week's guilty plea by Donald Trump's ex-attorney Michael Cohen has raised questions about Donald Trump Jr.'s testimony to Congress regarding his family's real estate negotiations with powerful Russians.
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Ben Wolfgang / Washington Times:
Sen. Richard Burr on Cohen plea: 'If you lie to us, we're going to go after you'  —  Senate Intel chairman says committee has made multiple referrals for criminal prosecutions to Mueller  —  AUSTIN, Texas — A day after President Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty …
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Michael Cohen's plea deal shows that Russia did have something on Trump  —  Putin's spokesperson knew Cohen lied to Congress — and helped him cover it up.  —  Michael Cohen's plea deal for making false statements to Congress doesn't just indicate that he lied about the Trump Organization's attempt …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and New York Times
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:   NPR Blatantly Lies About Donald Trump Jr.'s 2017 Senate Testimony
Bloomberg:
Acting AG Appears to Have Misled FTC Over Actions at Miami Firm  — FTC emails show Whitaker denied communicating with customers  — Officials also expressed surprise at AG's hiring of Whitaker  —  New documents released by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission suggest …
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Washington Post:
Trump's acting attorney general once referred to the president's behavior as ‘a little dangerous’ and ‘a little outlandish’  —  A review of hundreds of public comments by acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker shows that, while he has primarily functioned as a defender of President Trump …
Washington Post:
Whitaker fielded early fraud complaints from customers at patent company yet promoted it for years, records show  —  Months after joining the advisory board of a Miami-based patent company in 2014, Matthew G. Whitaker began fielding angry complaints from customers that they were being defrauded …
Wall Street Journal:   Matthew Whitaker Knew of Fraud Allegations at Company He Advised
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Conservatives, Prepare Yourself Now for What Mueller May Find  —  How we react in the aftermath of the special counsel's findings will determine the future of the Republican Party and, possibly, the country.  —  Matt Lewis  —  Things are speeding up in Robert Mueller's universe.
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Garrett M. Graff / Axios:
The new clues we have about where the Mueller investigation is going
Michael Sykes / Axios:
In photos: Trump, Putin and MBS collide at the G20  —  Many of the world's most prominent leaders gathered at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires on Friday, including President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) — whose interactions have remained firmly in the headlines over recent weeks.
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Michael Hirsh / Foreign Policy:
Why the G-20 Leaders Are Gloating Behind Trump's Back
Discussion: Breitbart, Observer, NPR and ThinkProgress
Washington Post:
Trump breezes past Putin at start of G-20 summit, exchanges ‘pleasantries’ with Saudi prince
Discussion: Politico
Karen Elliott House / Wall Street Journal:   Rethinking Saudi Arabia
Dylan Scott / Vox:
There's something very weird going on with this House election in North Carolina  —  State officials refuse to certify the results of a US House race in North Carolina.  It's a wild story.  —  North Carolina election officials have declined to certify the winner of the state's Ninth …
Discussion: Roll Call, Eschaton and Balloon Juice
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Brian Murphy / The Charlotte Observer:
NC board again declines to certify Mark Harris victory as mail-in ballots questioned
Washington Post:
N.C. election officials plan hearing over fraud concerns in U.S. House race, raising possibility of new election
Discussion: Splinter and WSOC-TV
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Government watchdog finds six Trump staffers violated Hatch Act  —  The U.S. Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) on Friday found that six members of the Trump administration violated the Hatch Act.  —  The OSC cited six staffers with violating the federal law in response to a complaint filed …
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Six White House officials reprimanded for violating the Hatch Act
Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
Six Officials Reprimanded for Hatch Act Violations Following CREW Complaints
Discussion: NPR and Splinter
New York Times:
Louisiana School Made Headlines for Sending Black Kids to Elite Colleges.  Here's the Reality.  —  T.M. Landry, a school in small-town Louisiana, has garnered national attention for vaulting its underprivileged black students to elite colleges.  But the school cut corners and doctored college applications.
Raul M. Grijalva / Associated Press:
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke must resign.  His multiple scandals show he's unfit to serve.  —  Ryan Zinke needs to resign immediately as Secretary of the Interior.  —  I take no pleasure in calling for this step, and I have resisted it even as questions have grown about Mr. Zinke's ethical and managerial failings.
Anchorage Daily News:
Large earthquake, aftershocks, strike Southcentral Alaska, damage reported around region  —  A large earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 struck Alaska near Anchorage early Friday morning, damaging roads and buildings, knocking out power and sending people fleeing from buildings and to safety beneath door jambs.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Mueller could hit Manafort with retrial, new charges  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller's office is considering retrying former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on a slew of federal charges that resulted in a hung jury over the summer.  —  At a hearing in federal court Friday morning …
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New York Times:   Robert Mueller and His Prosecutors: Who They Are and What They've Done
Peter Granitz / NPR:
McCaskill Blames Senate Defeat On Democratic ‘Failure’ With Rural America  —  Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., is about to head home after losing her bid for re-election, and in defeat she's blaming her own Democratic Party for abandoning moderates.  —  McCaskill has represented Missouri in the Senate since 2007.
Discussion: Washington Times, Splinter and Jezebel
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Griffin Connolly / Roll Call:
Democrat Claire McCaskill Angry with Her Party as She Departs Senate
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House Democrats to unveil political reform legislation as ‘H.R. 1’  —  House Democratic leaders are set to publicly unveil on Friday the outline of a broad political overhaul bill that will include provisions for public financing of elections, voting rights reforms and new ethics strictures for federal officials.
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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
House Democrats' 1st bill targets big donors, voting access
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Homeland chief Nielsen issues unusual call for border cops  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has requested the deployment of civilian law enforcement officers from several other Cabinet departments to the U.S.-Mexico border as early as next week, according to an internal memo obtained by POLITICO.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Media Matters for America:
Bret Stephens' 2018 midterm analysis is quietly getting worse  —  In the aftermath of election night 2018, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote a column arguing that the Democrats had kind of blown it.  Under the headline “The Midterm Results Are a Warning to the Democrats,” …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Raids Home Of Whistleblower On Clinton Foundation, Lawyer Says  — The FBI raided the home of a whistleblower who was in possession of documents regarding the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One, according to the whistleblower's lawyer, Michael Socarras.
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump Is Losing His Influence  —  The president can no longer count on his party's support.  That suggests dangerous times ahead.  —  I've been warning that this would be a dangerous period for President Donald Trump.  With the midterms over, and no reason to think that Trump still …
Discussion: Shareblue Media, @thebudgetguy and Vox
Max Read / New York Magazine:
Why Is Tucker Carlson Mad About Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?  A Guide to the Content Cycle.  —  On Thursday night, Tucker Carlson, his brow furrowed in a perfect imitation of a human facial expression, devoted a segment to the beloved children's Christmas special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer …
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
On the Trump-Mood Beat — But Why?  —  “Let's start with the state of Donald Trump,” Fox News's Chris Wallace said at the outset of the president's latest on-camera interview, on Nov. 17, in the manner of a support-group facilitator pausing for a little check-in before an unpacking of recent events.
Associated Press:
DC clerk stalls marriage over ‘foreign’ New Mexico ID card  —  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A District of Columbia clerk and a supervisor refused to accept a New Mexico man's state driver's license as he sought a marriage license because she and her supervisor believed New Mexico was a foreign country.
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Espy files to run for Senate in 2020, setting up possible rematch with Hyde-Smith  —  Democrat Mike Espy appears to be gunning for a rematch in his bid for Senate in Mississippi.  —  The former agriculture secretary and congressman filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Seth A. Richardson / Plain Dealer:
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Lauren Hepler / New York Times:
Menial Tasks, Slurs and Swastikas: Many Black Workers at Tesla Say They Faced Racism
Discussion: The Verge and The Daily Caller
Summer Concepcion / Talking Points Memo:
Franken Wades Into A Comeback In The #MeToo Era
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
The China hawk who captured Trump's ‘very, very large brain’
Washington Post:
Trump scores political win with signing of new North American trade pact at G-20, but deal still faces …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP governors call out Trump after midterm drubbing
New York Times:
Sheryl Sandberg Is Said to Have Asked Facebook Staff to Research George Soros
 

 
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