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11:40 PM ET, November 25, 2018

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Emanuella Grinberg / CNN:
US shuts down major San Diego port of entry as migrants rush border  —  (CNN)US Customs and Border Protection has closed road and pedestrian bridges in both directions at the San Ysidro port of entry, one of the largest land border crossings between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico.
BBC:
Migrant caravan: Mexico to deport group which stormed US border  —  Mexico will deport almost 500 migrants who attempted to storm the US border, according to its interior ministry.  —  The group were rounded up after trying to cross the border “violently” and “illegally” on Sunday, the ministry said in a statement.
sandiegouniontribune.com:   Southbound lanes into Mexico reopened after five-hour closure
New York Times:
Migrants in Tijuana Run to U.S. Border, but Fall Back in Face of Tear Gas
Discussion: Breitbart
Washington Post:   U.S. closes major crossing as caravan migrants mass at border in Mexico
Nikki Schwab / New York Post:
US agents fire tear gas at migrants in start of border clashes with Mexico
Discussion: Associated Press, NPR and TheBlaze
Julia Jacobo / ABC News:   U.S.-Mexico border near Tijuana closed as migrants attempt to breach fence, Border Patrol says
NBC News:   San Diego border crossing shut down after migrants try entering U.S.
Washington Post:
Black Sea standoff intensifies tensions between Russia, Ukraine  —  MOSCOW — Russia and Ukraine accused each other of provoking an incident at sea on Sunday, rapidly escalating tensions between the neighbors and spurring Moscow to close a vital water route the two nations use.
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Alex Johnson / NBC News:
Russia attacks and seizes three Ukrainian naval vessels off the coast of Crimea in Black Sea
Discussion: TASS
BBC:   Russia fires on and seizes Ukraine ships, Ukrainian navy says
David Mercer / Sky News:
Russia fires at Ukrainian ships and captures three vessels off Crimea
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
“It Makes Sense Now”: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski Tie the Knot in a Secret Washington D.C. Ceremony  —  The Morning Joe co-hosts made it official during an intimate Saturday ceremony at the National Archives, in front of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, officiated by Rep. Elijah Cummings.
Roey Hadar / ABC News:
Mueller report will be ‘devastating’ for the president: Frequent Trump defender  —  Alan Dershowitz, a frequent defender of President Donald Trump, said special counsel Robert Mueller's report will be “devastating” for the president.  —  The Harvard Law professor emeritus told ABC News Chief …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Dershowitz: Mueller report will be ‘devastating’ politically for Trump  —  Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said Sunday he expects special counsel Robert Mueller's final report will be politically devastating for President Trump, but said he does not believe it will criminally implicate the president.
Discussion: Townhall and Law & Crime
Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review:
EXCLUSIVE: Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies  —  When Chinese researchers first edited the genes of a human embryo in a lab dish in 2015, it sparked global outcry and pleas from scientists not to make a baby using the technology, at least for the present.  —  Recommended for You
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Marilynn Marchione / Associated Press:   AP Exclusive: First gene-edited babies claimed in China
Scott Pelley / CBS News:
The chaos behind Donald Trump's policy of family separation at the border  —  A 60 Minutes investigation has found the separations that dominated headlines this summer began earlier and were greater in number than the Trump administration admits  —  This past week, a federal judge struck down the president's latest immigration order.
James Arkin / Politico:
'We don't want an Alabama': Hyde-Smith has Republicans holding their breath  —  Republicans think Cindy Hyde-Smith will ultimately pull out a win in Mississippi's special Senate election on Tuesday.  But they say the race has tightened — and after what happened in Alabama last year, they're on edge.
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Buster Olney / Popular Information:
Major League Baseball donates $5000 to Cindy Hyde-Smith
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Monopolization of America  —  In one industry after another, big companies have become more dominant over the past 15 years, new data show.  —  The popular telling of the Boston Tea Party gets something wrong.  The colonists were not responding to a tax increase.
Axios:
Trump to Iraqi PM: How about that oil?  —  President Trump twice raised to the Iraqi prime minister the idea of repaying America for its wars with Iraqi oil, a highly controversial ask that runs afoul of international norms and logic, according to sources with direct knowledge.
Discussion: New Republic and Political Wire
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
New Book Gives Voice to Trump's Claims of a Vast Conspiracy Against Him  —  A new book by two informal advisers to President Trump aims to buttress his claim that he is the victim of a vast conspiracy inside the federal government, and it includes an interview with Mr. Trump in which he repeats …
Los Angeles Times:
California Democratic Party chairman under investigation over allegations of sexual misconduct  —  The California Democratic Party has launched an investigation into unspecified allegations of sexual misconduct against Chairman Eric Bauman involving party staff members.
Washington Post:
Trump demands action to reduce deficit, pushes new deficit spending  —  President Trump is demanding top advisers craft a plan to reduce the country's ballooning budget deficits, but the president has flummoxed his own aides by repeatedly seeking new spending while ruling out measures needed to address the country's unbalanced budget.
Washington Post:
Ex-Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos must report to prison Monday, judge orders  —  A federal judge on Sunday ruled that George Papadopoulos must report to prison as scheduled on Monday, rejecting a bid from the former Trump campaign adviser to delay the start of his prison sentence …
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Reuters:
U.S. judge orders former Trump campaign adviser Papadopoulos to jail
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Nicole Russell / The Federalist:
Twitter Permanently Bans Feminist For Writing That 'Men Aren't Women'  —  Months after Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey said his platform didn't take sides, his platform is not only taking sides but becoming more progressive and Orwellian than ever.  —  Despite its CEO telling Congress the contrary …
Discussion: RedState, twitchy.com and Daily Wire
 
 
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Liberal Jews are still turning a blind eye to anti-Semitism on the left
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When Did NASA Go to Pot?
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Another rebel Dem softens on opposing Pelosi for speaker
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Generators, Coors and canned food. How these ‘mountain boys’ are surviving in Paradise
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Haley Britzky / Axios:
Congressmen who've seen classified intel dispute Trump on Khashoggi killing
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Breitbart and Politico
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
‘Never Trump’ Republicans went Democrat in 2018. Are they gone for good?
Discussion: Hot Air
David Taylor / The Guardian:
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