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9:30 AM ET, November 25, 2015

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Jeremy Gorner / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke charged in shooting death of Laquan McDonald  —  Photos: Follow developments in the 2014 fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald, 17, by Officer Jason Van Dyke, above.  —  A veteran Chicago police officer has been charged with first-degree murder …
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Mary Wisniewski / Reuters:
Chicago officer charged with murder; city to release video of shooting
Discussion: The Last Refuge and Hit & Run
New York Times:
Chicago Protests Mostly Peaceful After Video of Police Shooting Is Released
The Local:
Missing Vienna girl ‘beaten to death’ by Isis  —  A teenage girl from Vienna who ran away to join Isis fighters in Syria was reportedly beaten to death after trying to escape from the violent Islamic State group in Raqqa.  —  17-year-old Samra and her friend, 15-year-old Sabina …
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Chris Perez / New York Post:
Austrian jihadi bride beaten to death after trying to escape ISIS: friend  —  One of the two teens who fled Austria last year to become a “poster girl” for ISIS has been beaten to death after trying to escape the group's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa, reports say.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
A Definitive Debunking of Donald Trump's 9/11 Claims  —  How alarmed were New Jersey officials by reports of Muslims dancing in the streets of Jersey City and Paterson on Sept. 11, 2001, to celebrate the destruction of the World Trade Center?  —  They feared riots would break out and were ready …
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo Politics:
Clinton promises never to say ‘illegal immigrants’ again
Susan Jones / CNSNews:
US Planes Left ISIS Fuel Tankers Unharmed Because ‘They Ran Out of Ammunition’ … (CNSNews.com) - The U.S. military conducted a second wave of attacks on (parked) ISIS oil tankers in Syria on Sunday, Nov. 22, but the attack fell short of its goal:  —  “The goal was to destroy every truck there.
Discussion: Erick on the Radio
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The White House:
Remarks by President Obama and President Hollande of France in Joint Press Conference  —  PRESIDENT OBAMA: President Hollande, it has been an honor to welcome you to the White House before, in happier times than this.  But as Americans, we stand by our friends — in good times and in bad — no matter what.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Obama 2013: Assad must go. Obama today: Hopefully Assad won't run for president again.
Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
Covering Up a Painful Mural  —  Responding to concerns of black students, U of Kentucky will shroud a fresco on the state's history.  —  By  —  In 1934, Ann Rice O'Hanlon painted a fresco — then the largest one ever painted by a woman — in the University of Kentucky's Memorial Hall.
Andrea Cavallier / New York's PIX11:
Newborn boy left at nativity scene in Queens church, umbilical cord still attached  —  RICHMOND HILL, Queens — A newborn boy was left in the manger of an indoor nativity scene at the Holy Child Jesus Church in Queens Monday afternoon, police say.  —  The baby boy was found around 1:30 p.m. inside the Richmond Hill church.
Discussion: KTLA and WGN-TV
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Star Tribune:
Police arrest suspect in shooting at 4th Precinct Black Lives Matter protest
Gordon J. Davis / New York Times:
What Woodrow Wilson Cost My Grandfather  —  OVER the last week, a growing number of students at Princeton have demanded that the university confront the racist legacy of Woodrow Wilson, who served as its president before becoming New Jersey's governor and the 28th president of the United States.
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Rubio budget win is dealing heavy blow to ObamaCare  —  Sen. Marco Rubio may have dealt the biggest blow in the GOP's five-year war against ObamaCare.  —  A 2014 budget measure inspired by the Florida senator and presidential hopeful is pushing some insurers to drop out of the ObamaCare exchanges, experts say.
Western Today:
From President Shepard: Western is Suspending All Classes Tuesday  —  [ Update: The suspension of classes applies to ALL of Western's campuses. ]  —  A message from President Bruce Shepard:  —  Yesterday, we observed social media being used for hate speech targeted at Western students of color.
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Thanksgivingmanship: Your Guide to Surviving The Progressive Imbeciles Who Have Spent a Week Cramming on How to Survive You  —  Oxford Don Stephen Potter introduced the world to the principles of Gamesmanship, the way to win at games by resort to cheap ploys which were very close to cheating without being technically cheating.
James Delingpole / Breitbart:
German Professor: NASA Has Fiddled Climate Data On ‘Unbelievable’ Scale  —  A German professor has confirmed what skeptics from Britain to the US have long suspected: that NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies has largely invented “global warming” by tampering with the raw temperature data records.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Adam Beam / Associated Press:
Outgoing Kentucky governor restores voting rights for thousands of felons  —  Change doesn't apply to those convicted of violent crimes, sex offenses, bribery or treason.  —  GOP-controlled state Senate blocked prior attempts to take action with legislation  —  Kentucky was 1 of only four states to bar felon voting
Michael Allen / Opposing Views:
Christians Outraged By Google Evolution Doodle Celebrating Scientific Discovery  —  On Nov. 24, Google celebrated the 41st anniversary of the archeological discovery of “Lucy,” a fossil from 3.2 million years ago.  The web giant posted an evolutionary doodle of the March of Progress …
Discussion: Liberaland and Friendly Atheist
Julie Shaw / Philly.com:
Judge rules on alleged gay-basher's tweets  —  REMEMBER THOSE alleged anti-gay tweets posted by Kathryn Knott, one of the three Bucks County defendants charged in last year's assault on a gay couple in Center City?  —  Well, they can be introduced at Knott's assault trial next month, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
 
 
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Mayor de Blasio Will Seek to Reduce, Not Eliminate, Central Park Carriage Horses
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
A brief theory of Trump's outrageousness
Dennis Overbye / New York Times:
A Century Ago, Einstein's Theory of Relativity Changed Everything
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Jonathan Haidt / HeterodoxAcademy.org:
The Yale Problem Begins in High School
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Electric cars and the coal that runs them
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Amazon To Pull ‘High Castle’ Ads Suggesting Nazis From NYC Subways (EXCLUSIVE)
New York Times:
Iranian Hackers Attack State Dept. via Social Media Accounts
Discussion: Algemeiner.com, The Verge and Infowars
 Earlier Items: 
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds ask Supreme Court to hear immigration case this term
Discussion: Bloomberg Business and Infowars
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Ben Carson tells anti-choice group: Abortion is like slavery, not 'an issue of women's rights'
Discussion: Liberaland and Mock Paper Scissors
Justin Huggler / Telegraph:
Guards at Berlin refugee office ‘used Nazi language and called for asylum-seekers to be sent to concentration camps’
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Princeton Students Fight Back
Gerry Everding / Newsroom:
Obituary: Douglass C. North, Nobel Prize-winning economist, 95
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

 
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