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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.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Political Wire
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.
William Saletan / Slate:
Trump's “No Quid Pro Quo” Statements Are Clear Evidence of His Ukraine Motives
Discussion: CNN and Joe.My.God.
Josh Hammer / New York Post:   Why Trump's Ukraine demands weren't remotely illegal
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.
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Trump Denies Sending Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine for Biden Probe  — President discusses Giuliani in interview with Bill O'Reilly  — Giuliani has said he conducted Ukraine investigation for Trump  —  Donald Trump denied directing Rudy Giuliani to go to Ukraine to look for dirt on his political rivals …
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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
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The unmitigated ludicrousness of Trump trying to distance himself from Giuliani's work on Ukraine
Discussion: The Resurgent and HotAir
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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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren loses her mojo in Iowa  —  Elizabeth Warren's star is starting to dim in Iowa.  —  In a state where fortunes can change on a dime, Pete Buttigieg has seized the momentum in recent weeks as Warren has slipped.  Top Iowa Democrats attribute the shift to the scrutiny Warren …
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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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Impeachment inquiry live updates: White House faces Sunday deadline on participating in Judiciary Committee hearing
Discussion: The Week
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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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
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.
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 …
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 …
New York Times:
They Voted Democratic.  Now They Support Trump.  —  Two-thirds of battleground state voters who chose Trump in 2016 but selected Democrats in the midterms say they will return to the president next year.  —  Midterm victories in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin gave Democrats hope …
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
Michael Harriot / The Root:
Pete Buttigieg Called Me.  Here's What Happened  —  The first thing you should know about me is that I absolutely hate talking on the phone.  —  My friends, family and co-workers all know this about me.  It's not the talking that bothers me, it's the anticipation angst from waiting for a phone call.
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.
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
Bill O'Reilly / No Spin News:
President Trump to Designate Mexican Drug Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations  —  Bill O'Reilly sat down to interview President Trump this week in a wide-ranging radio interview airing for Premium Members tonight at 5pm ET.  —  In the interview, President Trump reveals his plan …
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Reuters:
Trump says U.S. will designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorists
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.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The War-Crimes President  —  Donald Trump is a war-crimes enthusiast.  —  This is not an exaggeration, a mischaracterization, or a misrepresentation.  As a candidate, the president regaled his audiences with vivid tales of brutality, some apocryphal, and vowed to imitate them.
Alexandra Jaffe / Associated Press:
Impeachment fight leaves voters cold in contested Wisconsin  —  1 of 10  —  RACINE, Wis. (AP) — There's not a lot that Republicans and Democrats in this political battlefield agree on, but the impeachment probe into President Donald Trump may have surfaced one: The public hearings aren't moving the needle.
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
At Florida ‘Homecoming’ Rally, Trump Rails Against Familiar Targets  —  The president took on the impeachment inquiry, Democrats and the news media in his first return to the state as a formal resident.  —  SUNRISE, Fla. — President Trump on Tuesday raged against the Democrats' impeachment inquiry …
Discussion: Associated Press and NB Blog
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 …
Ashleigh Furlong / Politico:
Labour: Dossier indicates NHS ‘up for sale’ in US trade deal  —  The U.K.'s Labour Party has obtained unredacted documents detailing talks between the U.S. and U.K. that indicate the National Health Service is on the table in trade talks with Washington, party leader Jeremy Corbyn said Wednesday.
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
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
Julián Castro, in Plan to End Hunger, Warns Against Neglecting the Poor  —  “In our politics today, we've forgotten to talk about the poor as intently as we've fought for the middle class,” Mr. Castro said, proposing free breakfast and lunch for all public school students.
Washington Post:
As Trump cases arrive, Supreme Court's desire to be seen as neutral arbiter will be tested  —  The legal cases concerning President Trump, his finances and his separation-of-powers disputes with Congress are moving like a brush fire to the Supreme Court, and together provide both potential …
Discussion: The Week and Outside the Beltway
 
 
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Susannah Luthi / Politico:
Judge halts Trump's insurance mandate for immigrants
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Buttigieg, in His Push for Iowa, Sounds Echoes of Obama
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
Americans like Green New Deal's goals, but they reject paying trillions to reach them
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
Biden, Burisma and the Obama Administration
Washington Post:
Don't want to discuss Trump or impeachment at Thanksgiving? Try this instead.
Dan Sewell / Associated Press:
On the Thanksgiving menu: Turkey, with a side of impeachment
Discussion: Redstate and Louder With Crowder
David Samuels / Washington Post:
Would Republican senators ever vote to convict Trump?  Here's what we can learn from the rest of the world.
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
More than 70 million watched TV coverage of Trump impeachment inquiry
 Earlier Items: 
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
AOC raised most money among House Dems for reelection campaign
Discussion: National Review and Common Dreams
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Here's why Bloomberg insists he's not crazy
Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:
Taxpayers Have Now Paid for Trump to Visit Mar-a-Lago 100 Times
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Ashley Feinberg / Slate:
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Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Net support for impeachment grew steadily during U.S. congressional hearings, poll shows
Discussion: The Week