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New York Times:
As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants  —  Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people's data than it has disclosed.  —  For years, Facebook gave some of the world's largest technology companies …
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New York Times:
Facebook's Data Sharing: 5 Takeaways From Our Investigation  —  You are the product: That is the deal many Silicon Valley companies offer to consumers.  The users get free search engines, social media accounts and smartphone apps, and the companies use the personal data they collect …
Discussion: Mediaite
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Walt Mossberg, Veteran Technology Journalist, Quits Facebook
Discussion: Breitbart and Walt Mossberg
Kate Sullivan / CNN:
Trump signed letter of intent for Trump Tower Moscow project despite Giuliani insisting he didn't  —  Giuliani changes Trump Tower Moscow timelines  —  (CNN)A newly obtained document shows President Donald Trump signed a letter of intent to move forward with negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Russia …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
CNN: Trump signed letter of intent to build Trump Tower in Moscow  —  On Tuesday night, CNN's Chris Cuomo obtained a letter of intent signed by now-President Trump to move forward with a Trump Tower in Moscow.  —  Why it matters: As Cuomo notes, the signed letter doesn't have direct legal implications or suggest obvious wrongdoing.
Discussion: AOL and Mediaite
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: White House on the sidelines in spending fight  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  HEADS UP ... THE FEDERAL RESERVE will announce whether it will continue to hike rates today at 2:30 p.m.  —  PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has urged the Fed to lay off another hike, but the FT puts it this way …
Ken White / The Atlantic:
Note to Michael Flynn: Federal Court Is Not Twitter  —  Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn on Tuesday got an unpleasant lesson on the difference between politically effective arguments and legally astute ones.  Backed by an array of well-wishers including President Trump …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Michael Flynn's Lawyers Appear to Have Badly Miscalculated  —  Lawyers for retired General Michael Flynn had every reason to celebrate.  They managed to get their client—who lobbied against U.S. interests while serving as a top Donald Trump-campaign surrogate; tried to undermine …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Washington Post:
'I'm not hiding my disgust, my disdain': Veteran judge upends hopes of Trump allies as he spotlights Flynn's misdeeds
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Judge's accusations mar Michael Flynn sentencing hearing
Discussion: Instapundit
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Court orders company to comply with special counsel subpoena in mystery grand jury appeal  —  (CNN)Four days after attorneys secretly argued over a grand jury subpoena suspected to be related to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 election …
Discussion: KXLF-TV
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Politico:
Mueller appears victorious in mystery subpoena dispute  —  The ruling offers the intriguing detail that the entity fighting the Mueller subpoena is a foreign-owned company, not a specific individual, as many had speculated.  —  A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered a mystery corporation owned …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Washington's Mystery Witness Turns Out to Be a Corporation, Not a Person  —  WASHINGTON — A mystery witness fighting a secret fight over a sealed subpoena with a prosecutor who may be Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating the Trump-Russia affair, turns out to be a corporation owned …
Discussion: The Guardian and Lawfare
David Glovin / Bloomberg:   U.S. Prevails in Subpoena Fight Against Mystery Corporation
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
READ: Appeals Court Upholds Grand Jury Subpoena In Secret Mueller-Linked Case
Discussion: Townhall
Washington Post:
Senate overwhelmingly backs overhaul of criminal justice system  —  The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a sweeping overhaul of the criminal justice system, after a remarkable political shift from Republicans who voted in large numbers to save money by reducing prison sentences …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Senate Passes Bipartisan Criminal Justice Bill  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday the most substantial changes in a generation to the tough-on-crime prison and sentencing laws that ballooned the federal prison population and created a criminal justice system …
Discussion: Marijuana Moment
CNN:
The bill that wouldn't die: The unlikely story behind the criminal justice overhaul
Discussion: KXLF-TV and Politico
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Senate easily passes Trump-backed criminal justice reform bill
Discussion: Vox and Raw Story
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senate approves Trump-backed criminal justice overhaul
Discussion: KTLA, FOX6Now.com and The Week
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Ousted NPR news chief, ex-Fox News execs team up on new site  —  One was ousted from NPR amid allegations of sexual harassment.  The other left Fox News shortly after writing a column widely panned as racist and anti-gay.  Now they've been recruited to help launch a digital news startup …
New York Times:
Hacked European Cables Reveal a World of Anxiety About Trump, Russia and Iran  —  WASHINGTON — Hackers infiltrated the European Union's diplomatic communications network for years, downloading thousands of cables that reveal concerns about an unpredictable Trump administration and struggles …
Jenna Amatulli / HuffPost:
Here Are The Advertisers Boycotting Tucker Carlson's Show  —  The Fox News host is facing backlash after suggesting that immigrants make our country “poorer and dirtier and more divided” on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”  —  Fox News' Tucker Carlson is rapidly losing advertisers amid a controversy …
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: 'Cameras can't get in' is only reason Democrats say border patrol facility that held 7-year-old girl is still open  —  Happy Wednesday, Power People.  We're en route from Texas back to Washington to close out the rest of the week.  Comments, ideas, Christmas cookie recipes??
Discussion: Daily Wire
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John Stanton / BuzzFeed News:   Another Migrant Girl Nearly Died After She Was Detained In New Mexico By The Border Patrol
Washington Post:
Judiciary dismisses ‘serious’ misconduct complaints against Brett M. Kavanaugh  —  The judicial council reviewing dozens of misconduct claims against Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh has dismissed the complaints that coincided with his contentious nomination battle.
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
All 83 Of The Ethics Complaints Against Justice Brett Kavanaugh Were Dismissed Because He's On The Supreme Court Now
Discussion: Splinter and Axios
Roger Kimball / Wall Street Journal:
The National Gallery of Identity Politics  —  Forget Monet or Hopper.  The art museum's new director wants to tackle ‘gender equality,’ ‘social justice’ and ‘diversity.’  —  'Every thing is what it is and not another thing," observed the 18th-century British philosopher Joseph Butler.
Discussion: Instapundit
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
In ways subtle and loud, the presidential contest is already underway in Iowa  —  DES MOINES — When New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) came here two months ago, he lingered long after events ended to talk to the curious, posing for selfies with anyone who wanted one.
Shannon Houser / Cleveland 19 News Cleveland, OH:
Cleveland man alleges racial profiling after bank refuses to cash check, calls 911  —  BROOKLYN, OH (WOIO) - A Cleveland man says he was racially profiled at a local branch when they called the cops on him for trying to cash a check.  —  Paul McCowns tells Cleveland 19 he went …
Discussion: Raw Story, Hill Reporter and The Root
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Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:   A black man tried to cash his paycheck. The bank called the cops.
The Economist:
Our pick of the decade's eight best young economists  —  They mostly want to change the world, not just fathom it  —  “The solution in Vietnam”, said William DePuy, an American general in 1966, “is more bombs, more shells, more napalm.”  But where exactly to drop it all?
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
Financial Times:
Fed's Powell under pressure over rate rises  —  Jay Powell will today wrap up the thorniest policy meeting of his chairmanship as the Federal Reserve faces a barrage of calls for easy money as the stock market slides in anticipation of soggy global economic growth.
Discussion: Political Wire
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
The Trump Foundation Gets Put to Sleep  —  New York's attorney general dissolves the president's personal piggy bank, but a lawsuit against the faux charity alleging fraud continues.  —  The Trump Foundation, a tiny New York outfit masquerading as a philanthropy but operating, essentially …
Nathan L. Gonzales / Roll Call:
Poll: Democrat Leads GOP Governor in Kentucky  —  A new poll of next year's gubernatorial race in Kentucky shows Democrats in position to extend their nationwide winning streak beyond the 2018 midterms.  —  Aside from taking back the House majority, Democrats also gained seven governorships around the country.
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“The Staff Is Fed Up He's Acting Like a Nut”: Trump's West Wing Braces for Christmas Madness, More Departures—And Mueller  —  Javanka blocked Bannon ally David Bossie for chief of staff—but bigger problems are looming.  —  Donald Trump plans to head to Mar-a-Lago for a 16 …
Discussion: Raw Story, Hullabaloo and Wonkette
Dennis McLellan / Los Angeles Times:
Penny Marshall, who played feisty Laverne in ‘Laverne & Shirley’ before directing movies, dies at 75  —  Penny Marshall, who costarred as a Milwaukee brewery worker in the top-rated 1970s and '80s sitcom “Laverne & Shirley” before becoming a director of hit movies such as “Big” and “A League of Their Own,” has died.
Josh Bivens / Economic Policy Institute:
The bad economics of PAYGO swamp any strategic gain from adopting it  —  The obscure Congressional budget rule known as PAYGO ("pay as you go") has burst into the news lately.  A PAYGO rule means that any tax cut or spending increase passed into law needs to be offset in the same spending cycle …
Marissa J. Lang / Washington Post:
Rats are everywhere in D.C. Even on the White House lawn.  —  The District for years has been plagued by a growing mischief in its midst.  Rats — the four-legged, bewiskered kind — have been spotted roaming the streets, scurrying across alleys and eating their way through trash cans.
Stephen Rex Brown / New York Daily News:
Second woman claims billionaire perv Jeffrey Epstein ‘directed’ her to have sex with Alan Dershowitz  —  A second alleged trafficking victim of Jeffrey Epstein says the billionaire pedophile “directed” her to have sex with Alan Dershowitz — a claim the prominent attorney adamantly denies.
 
 
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Sarah Parvini / Los Angeles Times:
Yemeni mother of 2-year-old boy on life support in Oakland granted visa
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
F.B.I. Wiretap Recorded Suspect on Eve of Bike Path Terror Attack
Discussion: Breitbart
Arizona Republic:
Democrat Kyrsten Sinema will be Arizona's senior U.S. senator, Gov. Doug Ducey says
John Barrasso / New York Times:
Cut Carbon Through Innovation, Not Regulation
Discussion: Mother Jones
David Weigel / Washington Post:
The Trailer: Putting the 2020 Democrats into tiers
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
FBI Memo Raises New Questions About Timing Of Andrew McCabe's Firing
Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Julie Kelly of American Greatness Attacks a Victim of Sexual Abuse Because Trump
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
 Earlier Items: 
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“I Think You Could Double the Size of This Company, Honestly”: Politico's Robert Allbritton on Trump …
Michael Sykes / Axios:
White House asks federal agencies to contribute to border wall funding
Discussion: Breitbart, ABC News and Washington Post
Emery P. Dalesio / Associated Press:
N. Carolina gov. vetoing bill with congressional race redo
Riley Snyder / The Nevada Independent:
Nevada becomes first state with majority female Legislature
Ken White / Popehat:
Alan Dershowitz Is Lying To You
Discussion: Raw Story and Hot Air
Howard Berkes / NPR:
An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands Of Coal Miners. Regulators Could Have Stopped It
Discussion: The Atlantic
 

 
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