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Washington Post:
Giuliani was in talks to be paid by Ukraine's top prosecutor as they together sought damaging information on Democrats  —  President Trump's personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, negotiated earlier this year to represent Ukraine's top prosecutor for at least $200,000 during the same months …
Discussion: Political Wire
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New York Times:
Giuliani Pursued Business in Ukraine While Pushing for Inquiries for Trump  —  The president's private lawyer explored agreements with Ukrainian officials for hundreds of thousands of dollars.  —  As Rudolph W. Giuliani waged a public campaign this year to unearth damaging information …
Niraj Warikoo / Detroit Free Press:
ICE arrests 90 more students at fake university in Michigan  —  (Photo: Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press)  —  About 90 additional foreign students of a fake university in metro Detroit created by the Department of Homeland Security have been arrested in recent months.
Heather Vogell / ProPublica:
Trump Tax Records Reveal New Inconsistencies — This Time for Trump Tower  —  Documents show the president's company reported different numbers — higher ones to lenders, lower ones to tax officials — for Trump's signature building.  Last month, ProPublica revealed a similar pattern in two other Trump buildings.
New York Times:
Trump Knew of Whistle-Blower Complaint When He Released Aid to Ukraine  —  White House lawyers briefed President Trump in late August about the complaint, people familiar with the matter said.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump had already been briefed on a whistle-blower's complaint …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Will Trump participate now?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WE HAVE SOME INTEL TO REPORT about the next phase of the impeachment inquiry, but we are going to do so with this caveat: Nailing down this White House is like trying to tack Jell-O to a wall.
Josh Hammer / New York Post:   Why Trump's Ukraine demands weren't remotely illegal
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Dems see one last chance to boost public support for impeachment  —  House Democrats have one final shot to drive up public support for impeachment, with a slate of hearings in the House Judiciary Committee beginning next week.  —  But even Democratic lawmakers acknowledge public sentiment might …
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Biden leads nationally as Buttigieg rises  —  Panelist: Biden does best when he isn't in public  —  (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to lead the newly expanded field of contenders for the Democratic nomination for president, with Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts …
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Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:
The Indispensable Tucker Carlson  —  Michael Blake, the vice-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, just paid Tucker Carlson a high compliment.  He's trying to defame, delegitimize, deplatform, and, ultimately, cancel him.  That's because the Fox News host is the most articulate spokesman …
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Why Trump (Probably) Won't Ditch Rudy  —  Over the past week, I asked multiple GOP officials when, if ever, they thought President Donald Trump would publicly distance himself from his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who is at the center of the House impeachment inquiry.
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
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Washington Post:
Opponents of Elizabeth Warren spread a doctored photo on Twitter.  Her campaign couldn't stop its spread.  —  The reaction to the tweet, viewed hundreds of times, offers a hard lesson: Homespun disinformation campaigns on social media represent a rising threat
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Judge delays Flynn sentencing to wait for Russia IG report  —  The former Trump national security adviser gets another reprieve on his punishment.  —  Michael Flynn, former National Security Adviser to President Donald Trump.  Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images
Discussion: Political Wire
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BBC:
Apple changes Crimea map to meet Russian demands  —  Apple has complied with Russian demands to show Crimea as part of Russian territory on its apps.  —  Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, in a move that was condemned by most of the global community.
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
'There's something terribly wrong': Americans are dying young at alarming rates  —  Death rates from suicide, drug overdoses, liver disease and dozens of other causes have been rising over the past decade for young and middle-aged adults, driving down overall life expectancy in the United States …
Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
An alien comet from another star is soaring through our solar system  —  SEWANEE, Tenn. — Something strange is sailing toward us.  Something small and cold and extraordinarily fast.  No one knows where it came from, or where it is going.  But it's not from around here.
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Buttigieg returns donations from lawyers who represented Brett Kavanaugh  —  Following Guardian queries, 2020 hopeful says Kavanaugh should never have been placed on supreme court  —  Pete Buttigieg's 2020 campaign is returning thousands of dollars in donations from two top Washington lawyers …
Page Six:
Hunter Biden suspected of smoking crack in DC strip club's VIP room  —  Hunter Biden was suspected of smoking crack inside a strip club where he dropped “thousands of dollars” during multiple visits — at the same time he held a seat on the board of a controversial Ukrainian natural-gas company, The Post has learned.
Sacramento Bee:
Cows don't have fingers and can't insult Devin Nunes on Twitter, court filing says  —  A Democratic strategist is refusing to disclose communications that could reveal the identity of anonymous Twitter users who criticize Rep. Devin Nunes, arguing in a new court filing that the accounts …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Sean Hannity:
BERNIECARE: Sanders Vows to Cap Total Prescription Drug Costs at $200 Per Year for All Americans  —  Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders doubled-down on his calls for universal healthcare across the United States this week; vowing to cap all prescription drug costs at $200 per year.
Sean Gallagher / Navy Times:
Op-ed: Navy corruption and the Gallagher case  —  By: Sean Gallagher   14 hours ago  —  In this partisan environment, people were quick to judge President Donald J. Trump's reinstatement of anchors to my brother, Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Danielle Wallace / Fox News:
Trump vows not to change the name of Thanksgiving despite cries from the ‘radical left’  —  President Trump told supporters at a rally held in Sunrise, Fla., Tuesday that he wouldn't allow the “radical left” to change the name of Thanksgiving.  —  The president, who recently switched …
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
‘Anonymous’ vows to unveil identity as 2020 heats up  —  “Trump will hear from me, in my own name,” said the mysterious author of the famous op-ed and new book in a Reddit AMA.  —  Copies of “A Warning” by Anonymous.  Scott Olson/Getty Images  —  The anonymous Trump administration official …
Discussion: Breitbart
NBC News:
Trump admin projected it would separate 26,000 migrant kids at border, DHS watchdog says  —  A new DHS inspector general report also says the Trump administration knew it lacked the technology to track and reunite children with their parents.  —  WASHINGTON — The internal watchdog …
Politico:
Buttigieg has a serious Latino problem, too  —  It's not just African American voters he's failing to connect with.  —  Pete Buttigieg has lunch with a few supporters at Panaderia on Tuesday in Denison, Iowa.  Scott Olson/Getty Images  —  LAS VEGAS — As Iowa and New Hampshire voters …
Discussion: The Hill, The Independent and CNN
Fox News:
Man strips in Senate office building, arrested for indecent exposure  —  A man stripped and exposed himself in the Russell Senate Office Building on Tuesday, Fox News has learned — an incident that occurred on a bizarre day in Washington that began with a security scare over a suspected airspace violation.
Discussion: The Hill
Bob Fredericks / New York Post:
Trump tweets out doctored photo of his head on Rocky Balboa's body  —  Looks like someone's fixin' for a fight.  —  President Trump on Wednesday tweeted out a doctored image of his head superimposed over the body of a chiseled Rocky Balboa, the hard-luck Philly tomato can-turned-champion immortalized on film by Sylvester Stallone.
Michael Kruse / Politico:
The Town Hall That Impeachment Blew Up  —  Moderate Democrat Mikie Sherrill returned to her district — and a wave of anger.  —  WHIPPANY, N.J.—One of Representative Mikie Sherrill's district directors began the town hall in a filled community center Monday night with her customary call for civility.
Laura K. Field / The Bulwark:
Dear Republicans: Welcome to the New Establishment  —  How the former alt-right fringe became the mainstream of the GOP.  —  Donald Trump Jr.'s book tour for Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us began on November 7 in Birmingham, Alabama.
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Liberals Do Not Want to Destroy the Family  —  Or society, for that matter.  How did this preposterous idea leap to the forefront of conservative thinking?  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
He was a baby when his dad died in Afghanistan. He's 18 now, and the war still isn't over.
Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:
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Washington Post:
As Trump cases arrive, Supreme Court's desire to be seen as neutral arbiter will be tested
Discussion: The Week and Outside the Beltway
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