memeorandum: Cost Still a Barrier Between Americans and Medical Care (Rebecca Riffkin/Gallup)

Adam McDonald / KMOV-TV:

Pregnant woman loses eye after police shoot bean bag at her — FERGUSON, Mo. (KMOV.com) — This St. Louis woman's picture and story has spread through social media, she's now ready to talk about what happened to her shortly after the grand jury announcement was made in the death of Michael Brown.

Discussion: Hinterland Gazette, Liberaland, CBS St. Louis, Mediaite, Addicting Info and Raw Story

Jason Molinet / NY Daily News:

‘I will have justice for what they did to me’: Pregnant St. Louis woman loses eye after police fire non-lethal round at car during Ferguson protest (VIDEO) — Dornnella Conner lost her left eye when a police officer fired a non-lethal bean bag round at the car her boyfriend was driving on the outskirts of Ferguson, Mo. early Tuesday.

Discussion: Mashable

Daily Mail:

The controversial rules for white people who were told ‘not to take up space’ at Michael Brown vigil in Toronto — White people were encouraged not to take up space or talk to the media at vigil for Michael Brown in Toronto, Canada, on Tuesday — Comes after shooting …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Kathryn Schroeder / OpposingViews.com:
Black Ferguson Residents Protect White-Owned Business Amid Riots

Discussion: FOX News Radio

Maya Rhodan / TIME:
Darren Wilson's Lawyers Say He Has No Plans to Apologize to Michael Brown's Family

Discussion: FOX News Radio, Washington Post and Mediaite

Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:

Walmart Is Seeing Its Biggest Black Friday Protests Ever Today — If Walmart paid a living wage, “I could buy clothes for my kids to wear.” — Black Friday is best known as the day when big-box retailers rake in money, but it has also become a time for some of their employees to demand a share of the proceeds.

Discussion: Firedoglake, Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, The Huffington Post and Mashable

Paige Winfield Cunningham / Politico:

The coming wave of anti-abortion laws — New GOP state legislatures will make access to abortion harder than ever. — The big Republican gains in the November elections strengthened and enlarged the anti-abortion forces in the House and the Senate. But it's the GOP victories in the statehouses …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog

Wall Street Journal:

Democratic Rifts Surface in Wake of Midterm Election Defeat — Leaders Dispute Wisdom of Health-Care Overhaul, Delaying Move on Immigration — Long-muted tensions within the Democratic Party over policy and strategy are beginning to surface publicly, a sign of leaders looking beyond …

Discussion: Fox News

Discussion: Hot Air and Booman Tribune

Jeffburkett / CBS Dallas:

Austin Police: Shooter Targets Buildings Downtown — AUSTIN, Texas (CBSDFW/AP) - A gunman attempted to set the Mexican Consulate ablaze and fired more than 100 rounds at downtown buildings early Friday before he died, Austin authorities said. — Investigators were trying to determine …

Discussion: Associated Press, No More Mister Nice Blog and FOX News Radio

Danny Vinik / The New Republic:

The Reason Republicans Can't Pass Anything on Immigration — Why didn't Republicans preempt President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration with their own legislation? At the very least, that would have worsened the politics of Obama's move. At best, it would have forced Obama to rethink taking unilateral action at all.

Discussion: FOX News Radio

Joan Walsh / Salon:

Learning from my 2014 mistakes: A year of reckoning for Democrats — But Ebola was a phony GOP-made crisis and Dems shouldn't have cowered — Thanksgiving is a great time for writers to reckon with whatever we got wrong over the year - and to be grateful that in this day and age we get to write every day …

Discussion: RedState

S.R. / Free exchange:

China's $6.8-trillion hole? — HAS CHINA really blown $6.8 trillion on worthless investments over the past five years? This is the startling claim made by two Chinese government researchers that has, understandably, caused quite a stir. If true, it would mean that fully 37% …

Discussion: Reuters and New York Times

Noelle McGee / News-Gazette:

Racist tweet puts school on high alert — FITHIAN — Oakwood school officials beefed up security at the high school on Tuesday in response to online threats that were made to a student who posted a series of racist remarks on Twitter. — The student tweeted “I don't feel sorry for black people.

Discussion: Raw Story and Addicting Info

Emily Bazelon / New York Times:

Do Online Death Threats Count as Free Speech? — Exhibit 12 in the government's case against Anthony Elonis is a screenshot of a Facebook post he wrote in October 2010, five months after his wife, Tara, left him. His name appears in the site's familiar blue, followed by words that made Tara fear …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

Rebecca Riffkin / Gallup:

Cost Still a Barrier Between Americans and Medical Care — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — One in three Americans say they have put off getting medical treatment that they or their family members need because of cost. Although this percentage is in line with the roughly 30% figures seen …

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Firedoglake

Martin Matishak / The Hill:

Anti-ISIS coalition to meet next week — Foreign dignitaries from around 60 countries that make up the international coalition against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will meet for the first time next week, the State Department announced Wednesday.

Discussion: Business Insider