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Washington Post:
After Trump pressure, Indiana lawmakers shift to convene on redistricting  —  State House Republicans say they will gavel in on Dec. 1, while the Republican-led state Senate will gather on Dec. 8.  The state Senate leader had previously said that wouldn't happen.  —  Just now
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NBC News:
Trump says he would ‘rather not’ extend Obamacare tax credits ‘at all’  —  The president said he prefers to let the Affordable Care Act subsidies expire on schedule at the end of December, saying that if anything, he wants the money to go to “the people directly.”
Politico:
Trump opens the door to Obamacare subsidy extension
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Indiana Lawmakers Are Poised to Vote on Redistricting After All
Discussion: Wisconsin Examiner
MS NOW:
Trump weighing the ouster of Kash Patel, according to sources  —  Patel has come under scrutiny for his stewardship of bureau resources, including his girlfriend's security detail and use of a government jet.  —  President Trump is considering removing Kash Patel as FBI director in the coming months …
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Greg Jaffe / New York Times:
Democrats Say F.B.I. Is Investigating Them Over Illegal Orders Video
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Senator Mark Kelly Is in the Wrong Job
Politico:
Democrats say they are subjects of FBI probe after filming anti-Trump video
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Why is Trump accusing a former astronaut of treason?
Discussion: CBS News, FIRST DRAFT and The Hill
Flavia Krause-Jackson / Bloomberg:
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump  —  US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
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Flavia Krause-Jackson / Bloomberg:
Witkoff Discusses Ukraine Plans With Key Putin Aide: Transcript  —  The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's special envoy for peace missions, and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin's most senior foreign-policy adviser.
Politico:
What Steve Witkoff really thinks
Discussion: The Hill
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Trump admin hikes national parks prices by $170 for international tourists  —  The Trump administration is raising national parks' prices and adding fees for international tourists from next year in an “America-first” initiative that'll see U.S. residents “continue to enjoy affordable pricing,” the Interior Department announced Tuesday.
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U.S. Department of the Interior:
Department of the Interior Announces Modernized, More Affordable National Park Access  —  New digital passes, new annual pass artwork, America-first pricing and expanded motorcycle access launch under President Trump's leadership  —  WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced …
New York Times:
Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office  —  President Trump has always used his stamina and energy as a political strength.  But that image is getting harder for him to sustain.  —  The day before Halloween, President Trump landed at Joint Base Andrews …
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Marina Dias / Washington Post:
Bolsonaro out of appeals, will start 27-year sentence for coup attempt  —  The former Brazilian president will begin his sentence in a specially prepared cell at federal police headquarters in Brasília.  —  BRASÍLIA — Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has exhausted his appeals …
Politico:
Kristi Noem made call to hand over deported men to El Salvador, DOJ says … Noem's call ensured that the deportees — rounded up and expelled with virtual no due process after President Donald Trump invoked war powers to designate them as members of a transnational gang …
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NBC News:   Kristi Noem made final call on deportation flights after judge ordered planes to turn back, DOJ says
NBC News:
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's relative detained by ICE  —  The mother of Leavitt's nephew is subject to deportation, sources said.  —  The mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew has been detained by officials amid the Trump administration's ramped …
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Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Karoline Leavitt's Family Member Captured by ICE Goons
Discussion: WBUR, Metro.co.uk and Mediaite
Zachary Basu / Axios:
“America First” scars loom over Trump's Venezuela campaign  —  President Trump is flirting with one of the most toxic ideas in American politics — a new foreign military intervention — at one of the most precarious moments of his second term. … - The tensions mark the most public fracturing …
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Politico:
What's Trump's window to strike Venezuela?
Discussion: Raw Story and Metro.co.uk
Washington Post:
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom.  His architect disagrees.  —  The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project's size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.  —  President Donald Trump has argued with the architect he handpicked to design …
Discussion: Raw Story
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.'s Second in Command  —  During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham promoted discredited treatments like ivermectin and, as Louisiana's surgeon general, halted the state's mass vaccination campaign.
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Politico:
Waiting on Medicare drug prices  —  Programming note: We'll be off on Thursday but back on our regular schedule next week.  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE END OF THE MONTH IS NEAR — President Donald Trump has touted a series of drug pricing deals his administration has struck …
Discussion: STAT, Axios, New York Times and NewsMax.com
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Supreme Court poised to reshape next 3 election cycles … It wouldn't be the last. … - Justice Samuel A. Alito temporarily reinstated Texas' GOP-favored congressional map last week, after a district court tossed it. … - “The big question here is whether Donald Trump's gambit …
Josephine Walker / Axios:
Trump hijacks turkey pardon with Biden, Pritzker jabs … - Trump claimed the use of an autopen made those pardons null and void, and that they were going to be sent to death before he stepped in.  — “I am officially pardoning them, and they will not be served for Thanksgiving dinner.
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Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Trump pardons Gobble and Waddle, jokes that Biden's turkey pardons are invalid because of autopen
The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak:
NEWSFLASH: Witkoff was secretly giving Russians advice  —  A secret transcript reveals that the Trump envoy was helping a Putin advisor formulate a plan.  —  ∙ Paid … A private call between Trump-appointed envoy Steve Witkoff and Putin advisor Yuri Ushakov was just leaked …
Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
How an innocent woman's name was tied to the Jan. 6 pipe bombs  —  A federal security officer linked to a thwarted Jan. 6 pipe bomb attack cleared her name by providing an alibi: video of her playing with her puppies at the time the devices were placed, sources told CBS News.
Discussion: DNYUZ
New York Times:
Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump's Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago  —  The Trump administration has claimed the police were slow to protect federal agents on Oct. 4, but videos and audio show that their rationale conflates hours of events involving a shooting …
New York Times:
A Year Later, Donors to Trump's Transition Come to Light  —  A 46-person list includes billionaires and people he went on to appoint to positions of power.  —  A full year after making a public pledge to do so, President Trump has disclosed a list of donors who helped pay for his transition to power.
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
‘Nobody will ever believe it’: James Comer airs doubts about his own Epstein investigation … “I fear the report will be like the Warren Report,” he said.  “Nobody will ever believe it.”  —  Comer's reference to the 1964 report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led …
Discussion: Alternet.org and DNYUZ
 
 
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Violet Jira / NOTUS:
D.C. Leaders Say Trump's Crime Crackdown Created More Community Fear Around Police
Discussion: Raw Story
Tina Nguyen / The Verge:
David Sacks tried to kill state AI laws — and it blew up in his face
Discussion: Paul Krugman and Los Angeles Times
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Trump's Retribution Push Has Expanded Even as It Hits Legal Barriers
Discussion: CNN
William J. Broad / New York Times:
U.S. Nuclear Arms Chief Warns Against Leaks of Secret Information
New York Times:
SNAP Recipients Plan Thanksgiving, Down to Their Last Cent
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
US justice department memo about boat strikes diverges from Trump narrative
Discussion: Foreign Affairs and Raw Story
NBC News:
Trump administration to review status of all refugees admitted under Biden
 Earlier Items: 
The Daily Beast:
Keystone Kash's Girlfriend's Closest Held Secret Revealed
Jason Leopold / Bloomberg:
Inside the FBI's Review and Redaction of Epstein Files
Discussion: Raw Story
Dell Cameron / Wired:
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Washington Post:
D.C. Mayor Bowser will not run for fourth term
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World's Strongest Woman winner stripped of title after organizers discovered she was born a man
 

 
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Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
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