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11:20 PM ET, December 5, 2018

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John F. Harris / Politico:
Bush's Funeral Wasn't About Trump.  But Of Course It Was.  —  The memorial service for George H.W. Bush was a perfectly civil and eminently civilized event, and if one was listening in a literal-minded way it all sounded like a grand exception to life in modern Washington …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Bush funeral: Trump sits with fellow presidents but still stands alone  —  From the moment he crossed the transept of the soaring Washington National Cathedral, tore off his overcoat and took his seat in the front pew, President Trump was an outsider.  —  When the others sang an opening hymn, his mouth did not move.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:   George H. W. Bush's Funeral Was the Corny, Feel-Good Moment That Washington Craves
Terri Gerstein / Slate:   Trump Is Even Worse at Enforcing White-Collar Crimes Than George W. Bush Was
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Godspeed, George H.W. Bush. Your book is closed — but your story still unfolds.
Discussion: Politico, Daily Wire and Political Wire
Dave Lawler / Axios:
The world George H.W. Bush left behind
Discussion: Washington Post, ABC News and Breitbart
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
We finally found election fraud  —  President Trump and his kangaroo court — the Advisory Commission on Voter Integrity — never found evidence of widespread voter fraud, the sort of fraud by impersonation that the Republican Party's voter-ID laws are supposed to combat.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
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Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Over a thousand absentee ballots possibly destroyed in controversial North Carolina House race: report
Discussion: Political Wire
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The man at the center of fraud probe in North Carolina may have been doing this for eight years
Discussion: ABC News
The Charlotte Observer:
‘A troubled history’: Bladen County has faced five elections investigations since 2010
Discussion: Daily Kos
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump on Coming Debt Crisis: 'I Won't Be Here' When It Blows Up  —  The president thinks the balancing of the nation's books is going to, ultimately, be a future president's problem.  —  Since the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump's aides and advisers have tried to convince him of the importance of tackling the national debt.
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Azeen Ghorayshi / BuzzFeed News:
This Is How The Accusations Against Neil deGrasse Tyson Finally Came To Light  —  No one believed Tchiya Amet when she said Tyson had raped her in the 1980s.  Now, three other women tell BuzzFeed News that he harassed them, including one who's sharing her story publicly for the first time.
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Washington Post:
Saudi-funded lobbyist paid for 500 rooms at Trump's hotel after 2016 election  —  Lobbyists representing the Saudi government reserved blocks of rooms at President Trump's D.C. hotel within a month of Trump's election in 2016 — paying for an estimated 500 nights at the luxury hotel in just three months …
Bruce Vielmetti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
The Wisconsin Senate approved 82 Scott Walker appointees in the lame duck: Here's the full list  —  There's been lots of talk about the Wisconsin Senate approving dozens of Gov. Scott Walker's appointments to state boards during its marathon lame-duck session Tuesday.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“They're Beginning to Think About Whether Mike Pence Should Be Running Again": As the Mueller Fire Nears, Trump Ponders Jettisoning His Loyal V.P.  —  New polling, and the Nick Ayers-John Kelly subplot, are feeding doubts about Pence and 2020.  —  After Michael Cohen's surprise plea agreement …
Globe and Mail:
Canada has arrested Huawei's global chief financial officer in Vancouver  —  Canada has arrested the chief financial officer of China's Huawei Technologies who is facing extradition to the United States on suspicion she violated U.S. trade sanctions against Iran.
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Alexei Koseff / Sacramento Bee:
Kamala Harris aide resigns after harassment, retaliation settlement surfaces  —  A longtime top staff member of U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris resigned Wednesday after The Sacramento Bee inquired about a $400,000 harassment and retaliation settlement resulting from his time working for Harris at the California Department of Justice.
Discussion: Daily Wire
Associated Press:
Prosecutors ramp up foreign lobbying probe in New York  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Spinning off from the special counsel's Russia probe, prosecutors are ramping up their investigation into foreign lobbying by two major Washington firms that did work for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort …
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Don't condemn white nationalists, Veterans Affairs' diversity chief was told after Charlottesville, emails show  —  A top White House appointee at the Department of Veterans Affairs sought to silence the agency's chief diversity officer, who — in the aftermath of last year's racially charged violence …
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Judge Napolitano: I Expect Donald Trump Jr. to Be Indicted  —  Fox News' Judge Andrew Napolitano thinks things aren't looking that great for Donald Trump Jr.  —  Napolitano joined Mediaite founder and ABC News chief legal analyst Dan Abrams on his SiriusXM show today to discuss the big news …
Matt Fuller / HuffPost:
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi Considers Term Limits On Committee Chairs  —  Pelosi reportedly held a meeting with a holdout and offered to support the limits in exchange for his vote for her as speaker.  —  WASHINGTON House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) …
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
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David Bossie / Fox News:
House Democrats plan a witch hunt against Trump
Discussion: Instapundit
John Solomon / The Hill:
FBI email chain may provide most damning evidence of FISA abuses yet  —  Just before Thanksgiving, House Republicans amended the list of documents they'd like President Trump to declassify in the Russia investigation.  With little fanfare or explanation, the lawmakers led …
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
Here's How Facebook's Local News Algorithm Change Led To The Worst Riots Paris Has Seen In 50 Years  —  The Yellow Jackets movement is what happens when you point Facebook's traffic hose at France's small towns.  The question now is: How do you turn it off?
Lena Dunham / Hollywood Reporter:
My Apology to Aurora  —  “I did something inexcusable,” Dunham writes in her guest editor letter for The Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment issue of defending ‘Girls’ writer Murray Miller after he'd been accused of sexually assaulting an actress.  —  This year has been incredible for women in Hollywood.
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Andrea Park / CBS News:
Lena Dunham apologizes for defending friend accused of sexual assault
Discussion: Daily Wire
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Milo Yiannopoulos lasted a single day on Patreon before getting banned  —  Former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos attempted to fund a “magnificent 2019 comeback” on the crowdfunding platform Patreon, only to be banned after one day.  Yiannopoulos' Patreon campaign, whose banner image is seen above …
Discussion: Splinter, The Week and Vox
New York Times:
As Flynn Case Winds Down, Investigation of Turkish Lobbying Persists  —  WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors in Virginia are investigating a secret Turkish lobbying effort that once involved Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, even as Mr. Flynn's role in the special counsel's …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Sessions hints he's done with politics  —  The deposed attorney general says he's not missing the Senate, amid speculation that he might mount a bid for his old job.  —  Jeff Sessions doesn't sound eager to run for his old Senate seat in 2020.  —  The former attorney general and Alabama senator …
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
The president has been shockingly presidential for the last six minutes  —  Could this be the start of a new era?  —  President Trump has been notably subdued over the past eight hours.  He has refrained from the harsh, personal invective that so characterized the preceding months of his presidency.
Manu Raju / CNN:
Senate Judiciary Committee scraps votes on judges because of Flake  —  (CNN)Sen. Jeff Flake's vow to block judicial nominees is significantly disrupting the Senate Judiciary Committee's plans to advance more of President Donald Trump's picks for the lower courts.
Soo Youn / ABC News:
24 Amazon workers sent to hospital after robot accidentally unleashes bear spray  —  Twenty-four Amazon workers in New Jersey have been hospitalized after a robot accidentally tore a can of bear repellent spray in a warehouse, officials said.  —  The two dozen workers were treated at five local hospitals …
Zachary Cohen / CNN:
New satellite images reveal activity at unidentified North Korean missile base  —  Washington (CNN)New satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN reveal North Korea has significantly expanded a key long-range missile base located in the mountainous interior of the country …
S.E. Cupp / New York Daily News:
What Joe Biden doesn't understand  —  We all know that Donald Trump is the Braggart in Chief.  But a close second may be Joe Biden, whose humble brags often know little humility.  —  Just last year after a slew of Democratic victories in special elections, he bragged in an email that “nearly every candidate I endorsed won.”
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
House Democrats plan to send Trump aides' transcripts to Mueller  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats taking control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January plan to send Special Counsel Robert Mueller the transcripts of testimony by some of President Donald Trump's closest associates …
 
 
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Elizabeth McLaughlin / ABC News:
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Wall Street Journal:
USA Gymnastics Files for Bankruptcy
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MSNBC:
Sen. Klobuchar is ‘considering’ a run for President
Daily Mail:
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