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Rob Crilly / Washington Examiner:
‘Fireside chat on live television’: Trump says he wants to read Ukraine call transcript to American people  —  A defiant President Trump signaled he will not cooperate with the Democratic Party's impeachment proceedings, insisting his telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was …
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Isn't Ready for the Impeachment Hearings  —  He's always been more comfortable with chaos than teamwork and preparation.  —  After weeks of damaging testimony from current and former White House advisers and career diplomats, the House of Representatives voted on Thursday to publicly endorse …
Meghann Myers / Military Times:
How the Army officer who testified against Trump could end up in a court-martial  —  When Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman appeared before members of Congress on Tuesday to discuss what he knew about President Trump's conversations with Ukraine's president, he was violating an order from his commander …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The GOP defense of Trump is getting more corrupt.  Here's what's next.  —  President Trump, who possesses supreme confidence in his mesmerizing charisma and powers of persuasion, is considering a plan to recite the text of his corrupt call with the Ukrainian president on live national television.
Washington Post:
As Trump moves to bully witnesses and derail impeachment, Democrats see obstruction  —  President Trump has sought to intimidate witnesses in the impeachment inquiry, attacking them as “Never Trumpers” and badgering an anonymous whistleblower.  He has directed the White House to withhold documents …
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. withholding $105 million in security aid for Lebanon - sources  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is withholding $105 million in security aid for Lebanon, two U.S. officials said on Thursday, two days after the resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri.
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Billy House / Bloomberg:
Pelosi Expects Public Impeachment Hearings to Begin This Month
Discussion: The Hill
Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:
Vindman's Identical Twin May Be Called to Testify in Impeachment Inquiry
Fox News:
Warren's $52T ‘Medicare-for-all’ plan revealed: Campaign still claims no middle-class tax hikes needed  —  EXCLUSIVE: Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren's long-awaited “Medicare-for-all” funding plan projects the government-run health care system would cost a staggering sum of …
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New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Proposes $20.5 Trillion Health Care Plan  —  Ms. Warren would impose huge tax increases on businesses and billionaires to pay for “Medicare for all,” but she said she would not raise taxes on the middle class.  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren on Friday proposed $20.5 trillion …
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
The issue that Obama alums think could doom Elizabeth Warren  —  An Elizabeth Warren event is like the candidate herself: well-organized, precise, unpretentious.  The candidate, almost always clad in her campaign uniform of black sneakers, black pants and a black camisole covered …
Discussion: YouTube
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Elizabeth Warren may as well have said Mexico is going to pay for ‘Medicare for all’  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday came out with her long-awaited plan to “pay for” the “Medicare for all” proposal she supports.  But it is not actually a serious proposal to solve problems that have vexed health economists for decades.
Discussion: Vox and Washington Free Beacon
CNN:
Elizabeth Warren releases plan to fund Medicare for All, pledges no middle class tax hike
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:   Elizabeth Warren proposes new taxes to fund Medicare-for-all but says middle class would be spared
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Elizabeth Warren says she would not raise middle class taxes for $52 trillion health care plan
Discussion: Redstate and Townhall
Ady Barkan / The Intercept:
Elizabeth Warren's Plan Is a Massive Win for the Medicare for All Movement
Discussion: New York Times
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Warren Leads Tight Iowa Race as Biden Fades, Poll Finds  —  Ms. Warren garnered 22 percent in a New York Times/Siena College poll, to 19 percent for Bernie Sanders.  Pete Buttigieg has surged, while Mr. Biden's travails have put the race in flux.  —  Which of these Democrats would be your first choice in the Iowa caucuses?
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Impeach Trump.  Then Move On.  —  Stop distracting from the core issue, elite negligence and national decline.  —  Is it possible that more than 20 Republican senators will vote to convict Donald Trump of articles of impeachment?  When you hang around Washington you get the sense that it could happen.
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Americans divided 49% to 47% on impeachment, with criticism for both sides: POLL  —  Americans are split essentially even on impeaching Donald Trump and removing him from office, with criticism on both sides of the issue — toward Trump, for his response to the inquiry, and toward congressional Democrats …
Discussion: Progress Pond, The Hill and Bloomberg
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Will This Time Be Different?
Discussion: USA Today and Hot Air
Washington Post:
Americans sharply divided over whether to impeach and remove Trump from office, Post-ABC poll finds
Discussion: CNN, Mediaite, The Hill and Associated Press
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
How Deadspin Imploded  —  The last meeting for many of Deadspin's journalists took place on Wednesday in a conference room adorned with fake black cobwebs, a large spider and bloody handprints beside the words: “HELP US.”  —  The plea, it seemed, went unanswered.
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Bryan Curtis / The Ringer:
The Mavening of Sportswriting  —  Deadspin staffers resigned this week after a dispute with management.  Like so many other publications, the future will bring an undead version of the site.  —  You've been waiting for it, haven't you?  Wondering whether it'll turn up next to an old Drew Magary Funbag.
CNN:
Videos show indicted Giuliani associate standing behind Trump at 2018 rally  —  (CNN)News footage from an October 20, 2018, midterm election rally in Nevada shows indicted Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas standing behind President Donald Trump.  —  Parnas and his business partner …
Ben Makuch / VICE:
Ghislaine Maxwell Was a Guest at Jeff Bezos's Secret Book Retreat  —  Motherboard has learned Jeffrey Epstein's alleged fixer attended the Amazon CEO's exclusive book retreat ‘Campfire’ last year.  —  Every fall, the elite of the literary world and Hollywood convene at a highly secretive …
Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
Texas voters evenly split on impeachment of Donald Trump, UT/TT Poll finds  —  Texas voters are divided on whether the president should be removed from office, but nearly half think impeachment investigations should proceed, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump, Lifelong New Yorker, Declares Himself a Resident of Florida  —  The president filed a “declaration of domicile” last month saying that his property in Palm Beach will be his permanent residence.  —  He came of age in Queens, built Trump Tower, starred in “The Apprentice,” …
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok - sources  —  NEW YORK/BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has launched a national security review of TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co's $1 billion acquisition of U.S. social media app Musical.ly …
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Police officer retires after far-right group ties revealed  —  A Connecticut police officer has retired after a civil rights organization raised concerns about his membership in a far-right group known for engaging in violent clashes at political rallies, a town official said Friday.
Center for Public Integrity:
Halloween's over.  The FEC?  Still a zombie.  —  These are dark times at the Federal Election Commission, which has now gone two months without enough commissioners to enforce federal campaign finance laws.  —  That's because U.S. senators and President Donald Trump have failed to strike …
Charles Sykes / USA Today:
The Republican Party must choose between Donald Trump and the party's fundamental values  —  Trump aims to discredit and delegitimize the impeachment process by turning it into a circus.  But circuses need clowns.  Is the GOP up for that?  —  This is the stark political reality …
Discussion: R Street and Washington Post
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
GOP Lawmaker Head-Butts Camera Rather Than Answer A Question About Trump  —  Rep. Don Young really didn't want to answer this one.  —  Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) came up with a novel way to avoid a question about President Donald Trump on Thursday.  —  Instead of ignoring the activists …
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump abandons proposing ideas to curb gun violence after saying he would following mass shootings  —  President Trump has abandoned the idea of releasing proposals to combat gun violence that his White House debated for months following mass shootings in August, according to White House officials …
Elizabeth Cohen / CNN:
She was called the n-word and given instructions to slit her wrists.  What did Facebook do?  —  (CNN)You can call someone the n-word and give her graphic instructions on how to kill herself, and you won't get kicked off Facebook.  —  Or you can tell a mother you hope her son gets raped …
Discussion: Raw Story
Javier C. Hernández / New York Times:
Professors, Beware.  A ‘Student Information Officer’ Might Be Watching.  —  CHENGDU, China — With a neon-red backpack and white Adidas shoes, he looks like any other undergraduate on the campus of Sichuan University in southwestern China.  —  But Peng Wei, a 21-year-old chemistry major …
Mehdi Hasan / The Intercept:
Bernie Sanders Says Denying Aid Because of Hamas Is “Part of an Effort to Dehumanize Palestinians”  —  On Monday, the only Jewish candidate in the Democratic presidential race stood in front of an audience of Jews in Washington, D.C., and suggested cutting U.S. aid to Israel.  —  And they applauded him.
Owen Daugherty / The Hill:
Keystone pipeline spills more than 350,000 gallons of oil in North Dakota  —  The Keystone pipeline has spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into North Dakota this week, The New York Times reports.  —  The pipeline has leaked roughly 383,000 gallons of crude oil …
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Democrats Can Still Seize the Center … President Trump is unpopular, but that doesn't mean defeating him is going to be easy.  Democrats will have to tackle issues that may alienate — and even give offense to — progressives, women, Latinos and African-Americans.
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Did Turkey Know Where Baghdadi Was Hiding?  —  Some U.S. intelligence analysts have their suspicions.  —  As U.S. intelligence analysts comb through electronic and paper documents seized last weekend from the lair of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, one question is foremost on their minds …
 
 
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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Adam Schiff once wanted to be a screenwriter. Can he give the Trump presidency a Hollywood ending?
Mike Valerio / WUSA:
We now know that Russia specifically targeted Virginia elections in 2016
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Treasury moves to roll back Obama rules on offshore tax deals
Caitlin Moscatello / Glamour:
The Women Changing Presidential Campaigns from the Inside
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
The Trump brothers' claims that they no longer profit from foreign deals
Discussion: HuffPost and Mediaite
A3P: The Article III Project:
ABA Violated Several of Its Own Policies in Rating Lawrence VanDyke, Nominee, United States Court …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Pete Buttigieg Isn't Going Anywhere
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
A tragedy for the nation - and democracy
Discussion: Power Line
Suzanne Gamboa / NBC News:
Julián Castro's campaign exceeds $800K goal: 'We're not going anywhere'
Discussion: Politico, Fox News, ABC News, The Hill and Axios
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
GOP Voters Are More Split On The Substance Of The Ukraine Scandal Than On Penalizing Trump For It
Thomas Pepinsky / Politico:
Why the Impeachment Fight Is Even Scarier Than You Think
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The GOP's defense of Trump has me sinking into cynicism
The Guardian:
Johnson accused of withholding key report on Russia from voters
 

 
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