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Bill Ruthhart / Chicago Tribune:
Four new Laquan McDonald shooting videos raise more questions — Activists take to the streets in reaction to the release of a Chicago police dash-cam video showing the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald, 17, by an officer in October 2014. — Newly released videos from four additional police vehicles …
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President Obama / Facebook:
Like many Americans, I was deeply disturbed by the footage of the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. This Thanksgiving, I ask everybody to keep those who've suffered tragic loss in our thoughts and prayers, and to be thankful for the overwhelming majority of men and women in uniform who protect our communities with honor.
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Chicago Protests Aren't Just About Laquan McDonald — Marchers took to the streets of Chicago Tuesday night, protesting the death of Laquan McDonald. McDonald, a 17-year-old black man, was shot by Officer Jason Van Dyke in October 2014, but video of his death was only released Tuesday …
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Obama ‘deeply disturbed’ by McDonald shooting video
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Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Trump blasted by New York Times after mocking reporter with disability — Businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump is under fire for mocking a New York Times reporter with a congenital joint condition during a campaign rally in South Carolina this week, drawing a scornful rebuke …
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
New York Times slams Trump's mocking of reporter as ‘outrageous’
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Matt Latimer / Politico:
How to BE the Crazy Uncle This Thanksgiving — Every year at the holidays, millions of Americans partake in a whole parallel tradition: avoiding the “crazy uncle,” that one exhausting relative who treats every event as a chance to assault you with their fringe political ideas …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
America's higher education brought low — Give thanks this day for some indirect blessings of liberty, including the behavior-beyond-satire of what are generously called institutions of higher education. People who are imprecisely called educators have taught, by their negative examples, what intelligence is not.
Susan Berfield / Bloomberg.com:
How Walmart Keeps an Eye on Its Massive Workforce … People take part in a protest for better wages outside a Walmart in Los Angeles on Nov. 7, 2013. — Photographer: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
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Scott W. Johnson / Weekly Standard:
The Threat from ‘Minnesota Men’ — Where ISIS goes for American recruits. — If you get your news from the headlines, you can be excused for thinking that “Minnesota men” pose a special risk of taking up the terrorist jihad at home and abroad. As the Wall Street Journal reported this past April …
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Michael Sasso / Bloomberg Business:
United Offers Pilots 13% Raise in Bid to Find Labor Peace — Initial boost said to be followed by two more annual increases — Accord awaits union leadership approval, rank-and-file vote — United Continental Holdings Inc., seeking labor peace five years after the airline's creation in a merger …
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Lindsey Bever / Washington Post:
Why a Georgia sheriff posted this ‘politically incorrect’ welcome sign … Drive through western Georgia on State Route 116 and you might notice an unusual declaration on a welcome sign: Harris County is not politically correct. — The sign, which went up earlier this week …
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Plan A for GOP donors: Wait for Trump to fall. (There is no Plan B.) — When Donald Trump landed in Ohio this week, he got a taste of the meager Republican super PAC efforts aimed at him: a 47-second web video clipping together some of his most provocative comments and a small airplane trailing …
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Daily Mail:
Thugs hurling stones, cars set on fire and refugee children aged five escorted to school by POLICE: Inside the once tranquil Swedish village at war with migrants housed in emergency centre — ‘We have highest tax rate in the county because we are paying for so many immigrants,’ says local councillor
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Michael W. McConnell / Politico:
Yes, we should consider refugees' religion — It's not only fair, it's written into the law.
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David Ferguson / Raw Story:
Texas gun nuts who terrorized mosque publish names and addresses of Muslim families — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — The Bureau of American-Islamic Relations (BAIR) — an anti-Muslim group that used assault rifles and other weapons to intimidate and threaten members of an Irving …
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Rubio: 'God's Rules' Win Over Supreme Court Decisions (VIDEO) — Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said in a video posted Tuesday that he believes people of faith should ignore laws that violate their religion. — Rubio told the Christian Broadcasting Network that no law is …
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