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Jesse Paul / Denver Post:
“We still have a gunman that is out there,” a police spokeswoman says — At least one police officer has been injured in an ongoing active shooter situation at a Colorado Springs branch of Planned Parenthood Friday afternoon. — Lt. Catherine Buckley, a Colorado Springs police spokeswoman …
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Washington Monthly, myfox8.com and The Week
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
GOP in panic over Trump — The Republican establishment is nearing full-blown panic about Donald Trump. — The demise of Trump's candidacy has been predicted by centrist Republicans and the media alike virtually since the day it began. But there is no empirical evidence at all to suggest it is happening.
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Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly:
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Trump-Mania? — David Frum took up the cause of proposing yet another plan for how “the establishment” can bring down Donald Trump. His suggestion is that the driving force behind Trump-mania is immigration, and so they should call out Trump …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders: Trump's grip on Iowa is tenuous — After months of waiting for Donald Trump's decline, Republican insiders now concede the poll leader could take two of the first four early voting states, though they caution his hold on Iowa is weak. — That's according to the POLITICO Caucus …
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Political Wire
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
“It's Alive. It's Alive ...” — Read the editorial …
“It's Alive. It's Alive ...” — Read the editorial …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, BostonGlobe.com and The Last Refuge
Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Trump denies mocking journalist who has disability, demands an apology
Trump denies mocking journalist who has disability, demands an apology
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New York Daily News:
Black Friday brawls break out across the country, including several ugly incidents at Walmart and food court melee — VIDEO — Call it Black-eye Friday. — Brawls broke out at Walmart retail stores and other shopping centers across the country on Thursday evening, the official start of “Black Friday.”
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Mirror.co.uk:
Black Friday 2015: Brutal fights break out in American malls as shoppers clash over best deals — Slashed prices caused chaos across America as desperate Black Friday shoppers battled to snap up the latest deals … America's notorious Thanksgiving sales descended into violence with many renaming …
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LiberalAmerica.org, Yahoo! News, Infowars and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
WLOX-TV:
Police: Argument over cigarette leads to murder at Biloxi Waffle House — A woman is dead and a man is behind bars charged with murder after an argument over smoking turned deadly at a Waffle House in Biloxi. — It happened around 1am Friday morning at the restaurant on Hwy 90, near the Coast Coliseum.
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Elizabeth Preza / Mediaite:
Dem Rep Declares He Will ‘File That Beautiful Lawsuit’ If Canadian-Born Cruz Wins Presidency — Florida Congressman Alan Grayson told radio host Alan Colmes Wednesday that if Ted Cruz is elected president, he “will file that beautiful lawsuit saying that he's unqualified for the job” according to the Constitution.
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Mick Krever / CNN:
Bloomberg: U.S. climate ‘crazies’ are being forced to accept reality — Bloomberg: U.S. climate ‘crazies’ forced to accept reality — (CNN)The realities of climate change will force American deniers — or “crazies” — to accept reality, Michael Bloomberg told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an interview that will air Friday.
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Washington Post:
He said, 'All right, let's do this.' Then he jumped the White House fence. — A man draped in an American flag was taken into custody Thursday afternoon after he jumped the fence of the White House while the first family was inside celebrating Thanksgiving.
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Randall Kennedy / New York Times:
Black Tape at Harvard Law — Cambridge, Mass. — IN a grand corridor of Harvard Law School, framed professors' photographs hang on a wall. A week ago, someone put slivers of black tape over the faces of most of the African-American professors. I am one of those whose photograph was marked.
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Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
Video Is Never Enough … On October 20, 2014, a white Chicago Police Department officer named Jason Van Dyke fired 16 shots at a black Chicago resident, a 17-year-old named Laquan McDonald. Van Dyke started shooting McDonald while he had his back turned on the officer, and he continued firing after McDonald had fallen to the ground.
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Protesters for Laquan McDonald Plan Chicago March to Disrupt Black Friday
Protesters for Laquan McDonald Plan Chicago March to Disrupt Black Friday
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Daily Mail:
‘I gave birth to a monster’: Russian mother of ISIS poster girl chained her daughter up to try to stop her marrying jihadi... but could not stop the girl reaching Syria where she praises terror atrocities — Mother Shakhla Bochkaryova, 41, even chained Fatima to a radiator to try and stop her from leaving for Syria
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Michael Koziol / Sydney Morning Herald:
Nutella rejects personalised jar for five-year-old girl named Isis — Illawarra mother Heather Taylor is becoming accustomed to the odd looks, gasps and uncomfortable silences that accompany the mention of her daughter's name. Now she has suffered perhaps the ultimate indignity - being denied a personalised jar of Nutella.
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
The 2016 ballot wars begin — Voting doesn't begin for another two months but some presidential candidates have already failed their first big ballot test - actually getting on the ballot in all 50 states. — The business of getting a candidate's name on the ballot is a costly and complex endeavor …
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