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Associated Press:
Official: Base shooter watched shooting videos before attack  —  This photo taken from video provided by WEAR-TV shows emergency responders near the Naval Air Base Station in Pensacola, Fla., Friday, Dec. 6, 2019.  The US Navy is confirming that an active shooter and one other person are dead …
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Brendan Farrington / Associated Press:
Saudi aviation student was recording during Pensacola naval base shooting and other students remain unaccounted for: AP source  —  The Saudi student who fatally shot three people at a U.S. naval base in Florida hosted a dinner party earlier in the week where he and three others watched videos …
Craig Pittman / Tampa Bay Times:
St. Petersburg track star among the victims of Pensacola shooting  —  Mohammed Haitham just finished boot camp and had been reassigned to Pensacola.  —  ST. PETERSBURG — At Lakewood High School, everyone called him “Mo.” Mohammed Haitham was a track and field star at Lakewood …
Keith Griffith / Daily Mail:
Alshamrani was a second lieutenant attending the aviation school at the base. …
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Impeaching Donald Trump Is Already a Win for Democrats  —  There appears to be an emerging consensus that the impeachment of Donald Trump won't matter very much in November, 2020.  “Impeachment will eclipse all for the next seven weeks.  And then it will recede, and other events will supersede …
Discussion: Althouse
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New York Times:
Behind the Scenes of Impeachment: Crammed Offices, Late Nights, Cold Pizza  —  An army of Democratic lawyers and aides are preparing to formally present the case for impeachment to lawmakers — and the country.  —  WASHINGTON — Far from any television camera and a half world away from Ukraine …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Will impeachment be forgotten by November 2020?  Don't be so sure.  —  Perhaps all the conjecture is correct, that impeachment will be long forgotten by the time of the 2020 elections.  Such assumptions do little to minimize the stakes for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) …
Discussion: Breitbart
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
House Dems refresh Nixon-era impeachment report for Trump
Discussion: Breitbart
NBC News:   Why moderates are keeping their powder dry on impeachment
Steve Bousquet / Sun-Sentinel:
Mike Huckabee's outrageous campaign to silence a Florida critic … Mike Huckabee ran for president not once but twice and got his butt kicked both times.  But he must have developed a thick skin along the way, right?  Wrong.  —  The former Republican governor of Arkansas skillfully packaged …
Katie Hill / New York Times:
It's Not Over After All  —  I overcame the desperation I felt after stepping down from Congress, and I'm still in the fight.  —  Ms. Hill is a former United States representative.  —  On Nov. 6, 2018, I was elected to Congress; at 31, I was one of the youngest women ever elected to the House of Representatives.
Los Angeles Times:
We've seen enough.  Trump should be impeached  —  The House of Representatives' inquiry into President Trump's actions on Ukraine is not yet complete, but the evidence produced over the last two months is more than sufficient to persuade us that he should be impeached.
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Trump: Giuliani will report to Justice Department, Congress on his investigations in Ukraine
Discussion: Associated Press and Raw Story
Jeff Seldin / Voice of America:
Pentagon Concerned Russia Cultivating Sympathy Among US Troops  —  WASHINGTON - Russian efforts to weaken the West through a relentless campaign of information warfare may be starting to pay off, cracking a key bastion of the U.S. line of defense: the military.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Sen. Joni Ernst Busted In Illegal Dark Money Scheme  —  Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) illegally coordinated with a dark money group, and the scandal is making headlines all across Iowa.  —  The AP reported: … Video: … The AP report is all over the front pages of Iowa's newspapers:
Associated Press:
Iran frees Chinese-American scholar for US-held scientist  —  This photo provided by U.S. Embassy Switzerland, Edward McMullen greets Xiyue Wang in Zurich, Switzerland on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019.  In a trade conducted in Zurich, Iranian officials handed over Chinese-American graduate student Xiyue Wang …
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Jason Rezaian / Washington Post:   Iran frees one American hostage, but others cannot be forgotten
Anna Nemtsova / The Daily Beast:
Rudy Giuliani's Ukraine ‘Investigation’ Stars Some of Kyiv's Most Dubious Characters  —  The president's lawyer went to Ukraine to discredit impeachment with a parallel narrative, but corruption fighters know his “witnesses” have little or no credibility.  —  KYIV, Ukraine—The witnesses stand …
Discussion: Law & Crime
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Bermet Talant / KyivPost:
Trump's attorney Giuliani collects more dirt on visit to Kyiv
Discussion: TheBL.com
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Can't Resist Campaigning for Governors.  But They Can Resist Him.  —  The president appears to love nothing more than injecting himself into governor's races, though once in office, the governors don't seem to feel they owe him much.  —  His grip on Republican senators has held in the lead-up to a historic impeachment trial.
Discussion: Raw Story
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Alan Keyes Is Helping Sell a Toxic Bleach ‘Cure’ to the Vulnerable and Desperate  —  The politician fronts a conservative web-based TV channel and appears in broadcasts with bottles of “Miracle Mineral Solution” on his desk.  —  They promote bleach as a miracle cure and distribute it to children in developing countries.
Discussion: Raw Story
Laurence H. Tribe / USA Today:
Why care about the Trump impeachment?  Your right to vote in free elections is at stake.  —  The Trump impeachment is about protecting our freedom and right to vote from lawless foreign election manipulation invited by a dangerous president.  —  Of particular interest to me in last week's …
Discussion: Althouse
HuffPost:
Pete Buttigieg Struggles To Explain His Lack Of Transparency On Fundraising  —  He once released his campaign bundlers, but he no longer does.  And he won't allow reporters into his high-dollar fundraisers.  —  WATERLOO, Iowa ― Pete Buttigieg struggled to explain why he does not open …
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Elon Musk found not liable in ‘pedo guy’ defamation trial  — A British cave explorer, Vernon Unsworth, brought the suit against Musk in September 2018, after the Tesla and SpaceX CEO had called him “sus” (suspicious) and a “pedo guy” on Twitter.  — Musk and his defense team …
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Dana Hull / Yahoo Finance:   Teflon Musk Wins Again With Escape From ‘Pedo Guy’ Firestorm
Arelis Hernández / Washington Post:
Texans on southern border vow to fight Trump's efforts to take their homes for border wall  —  BROWNSVILLE, Tex. — Salvador Castillo was yearning for tranquility when he became enchanted by a one-acre homestead close — but not too close — to the city, a place where cows graze beneath whispering mesquite trees on the property's edge.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Jeremy B. White / Politico:
Duncan Hunter will resign seat after guilty plea
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Defining a Theory of ‘Bribery’ for Impeachment
Katelyn Burns / Vox:
Trump orders review of EPA water rules because “people are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times”
Discussion: New York Times, Axios and Slate
Ryan Morgan / American Military News:
VA sheriff says he'd ‘deputize thousands’ of citizens to exclude them from state gun bans
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Trump Has Now Shifted $1.7 Million From Campaign Donors To His Private Business
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Boris's Blundering Brilliance Brexit has given the U.K's self-seeking Prime Minister the opportunity …
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