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4:15 PM ET, November 29, 2015

Top Items:

Robert Dear, Suspect in Colorado Killings, ‘Preferred to Be Left Alone’ — HARTSEL, Colo. — Robert L. Dear Jr. was a man who lived off the grid. — On this lonely, snow-covered patch of land in a hamlet ringed by the Rocky Mountains, his home was a white trailer, with a forest-green four-wheeler …

Katie Valentine / ThinkProgress:

Republican Candidates Finally Comment On Shooting, Continue False Attacks On Planned Parenthood — Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina, and Mike Huckabeee responded to the deadly shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood Sunday by reiterating false claims that the organization sells babies' body parts.

Discussion: The Hill, The Huffington Post, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Towleroad, PoliticusUSA, MSNBC, NewsHounds blog and CBS News

Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:

‘No more baby parts,’ suspect in attack at Colo. Planned Parenthood clinic told official … COLORADO SPRINGS — The gunman suspected of storming a Planned Parenthood clinic and killing a police officer and two others used the phrase “no more baby parts” to explain his act …

Discussion: YouCaring, National Review, Shakesville, Outside the Beltway, whorunsGov, Slate, New York Times, Associated Press, The Week, TalkLeft, Yahoo Politics, CNN, Boston Herald and MSNBC

ABC News:

‘This Week’ Transcript: Ben Carson and Gov. John Kasich — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR “THIS WEEK” ON NOVEMBER 29, 2015 and it will be updated. — MARTHA RADDATZ, ABC HOST: Joining us now, the mayor of Colorado Springs, John Suthers. Mr. Mayor, what more can you tell us — tell us about the motivation in this killing?

Discussion: Politico, PoliticusUSA, Bloomberg.com news, Associated Press, Mediaite, CNN and The Hill

David Edwards / Raw Story: Mike Huckabee: Anti-abortion shooter is ‘abominable’ like Planned Parenthood killing ‘millions of babies’

Jonathan Swan / The Hill: Planned Parenthood official: ‘Hateful’ speech contributed to shootings

NBC News:
Planned Parenthood Suspect Mentioned Politics, Abortion

Amanda Holpuch / Guardian:
Planned Parenthood on shooting: we will ‘never back away’ from mission

Discussion: Yahoo Politics, Jezebel, Denver Post, Mashable, ABC News, Raw Story and NBC News

Jonathan Swan / The Hill:

GOP donors wrestle with possibility of Trump nomination — When asked who he would vote for if the presidential race comes down to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the former mayor of Los Angeles and a longtime Republican establishment figure, Dick Riordan, says: “I would probably go find a deserted island.”

Discussion: Liberaland

Martin Pengelly / Raw Story:

Jeb Bush: I'd still support Trump over Clinton because ‘anybody is better than Hillary’ — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Jeb Bush would support Donald Trump if the real-estate billionaire were to win the Republican presidential nomination, “because anybody is better than Hillary Clinton”.

Discussion: Guardian and Infowars

Louis Nelson / Politico:
Jeb Bush: Trump not a ‘serious candidate’

Discussion: Political Wire

Bradford Richardson / The Hill:

House Dem threatens to file suit if Cruz wins nomination — Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) says he will file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) presidential bid if Cruz wins his party's nomination. — Grayson said Cruz, who was born in Canada to an American mother …

Discussion: RedState, Independent Journal and The Right Scoop

Kiri Blakeley For / Daily Mail:

University of Missouri assistant professor charged with ‘violently grabbing 14-year-old relative by the hair and dragging her out of school for not wearing hijab’ — Youssif Zaghwani Omar, 53, was arrested after allegedly dragging a 14-year-old female relative out of school

Discussion: RedState and Jihad Watch

Columbia Daily Tribune:
Man arrested on suspicion of abusing Hickman student

Discussion: TheBlaze.com, Vlad Tepes, Pamela Geller, BizPac Review, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Gateway Pundit

Bethan McKernan / The Independent:

The internet has united to photoshop Isis fighters as rubber ducks

Discussion: Telegraph, Infowars and Sputnik International

Washington Post:

For Democrats, it's not just ‘demographics as destiny’ — Democrats who happily think Donald Trump is helping to lead the Republican Party over the cliff could be looking at the state of American politics through too narrow a lens. Whatever problems the GOP could be facing in the coming months and beyond …

Discussion: New York Times

Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:

A Wealthy Governor and His Friends Are Remaking Illinois … The richest man in Illinois does not often give speeches. But on a warm spring day two years ago, Kenneth C. Griffin, the billionaire founder of one of the world's largest hedge funds, rose before a black-tie dinner of the Economic Club …

Jessica Hopper / ABC News:

Ted Cruz Does ‘Princess Bride’ Impression

New York Times:

What the Paris Climate Meeting Must Do — In 1992, more than 150 nations agreed at a meeting in Rio de Janeiro to take steps to stabilize greenhouse gases at a level that would “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system” — United Nations-speak for global warming.