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3:15 PM ET, November 30, 2015

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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Whisper Campaigns And “Zipper Problems”: How Jeb Bush's Allies Tried — And Failed — To Stop Marco Rubio  —  On the night of the 2010 midterm elections, a portly, silver-haired Jeb Bush stood on a stage in the courtyard of Miami's luxe Biltmore Hotel, appearing to choke back tears.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
As Cruz gains, GOP senators rally for Rubio  —  Ted Cruz has built his Senate career and presidential campaign on his willingness to stick it to the Republican establishment.  And now that he's gaining momentum in the primary, his many GOP nemeses in Congress are returning the favor by quietly coalescing behind Marco Rubio.
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
5 takes on 2016 as the campaign kicks into high gear  —  The untamable 2016 campaign has settled into a kind of comprehensible chaos with 60 days until the Iowa caucuses.  —  Donald Trump, a contender who embodies the ultimate cross-pollination of politics and entertainment that began with Ronald Reagan …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook, presented by JPMorgan Chase & Co. …
Alissa Scheller / The Huffington Post:
2 Degrees Will Change The World  —  More Floods, More Drought Inevitable.  How Bad Do We Want It To Get?  —  World leaders are meeting in Paris this month in what amounts to a last-ditch effort to avert the worst ravages of climate change.  Climatologists now say that the best case scenario …
Discussion: Slantpoint
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama casts climate talks as world's last best chance
Discussion: Breitbart and Independent Journal
Spiegel Online:
Ex-US Intelligence Chief on Islamic State's Rise:  —  ‘We Were Too Dumb’  —  Interview Conducted By Matthias Gebauer and Holger Stark  —  Without the Iraq war, Islamic State wouldn't exist today, former US special forces chief Mike Flynn openly admits.  In an interview …
Associated Press:
Clinton opened State Department office to dozens of corporate donors, Dem fundraisers  —  WASHINGTON - As secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton opened her office to dozens of influential Democratic party fundraisers, former Clinton administration and campaign loyalists …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Hispanic Republican leaders shun Donald Trump  —  Prominent Hispanic Republicans are holding out hope that business mogul Donald Trump won't win the party's presidential nomination.  —  They are worried that his incendiary rhetoric on immigration will sour Latinos on the GOP and sink the party's chances of taking back the White House.
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Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Cruz Condemns Colorado Shooting, Rejects Anti-Abortion Link
Jesse Paul / Denver Post:
Accused gunman Robert Dear faces first court appearance on Monday in Planned Parenthood shootings
Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune:
State sues prisoners to pay for their room, board  —  Melvin Moore is a paroled inmate being sued by the Illinois Department of Corrections to recoup the costs of incarceration. … The $31,690 Johnny Melton received to settle a lawsuit over his mother's death was going to help him start life anew after prison.
Discussion: Mediaite and The Week
Jeff Sparrow / Guardian:
We can save atheism from the New Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris  —  There must be another way for nonbelievers than to transform, as Dawkins and Harris have done, into toxic know-it-alls  —  hy are the New Atheists such jerks?  Case in point: Richard Dawkins' continuing pursuit …
Discussion: Eschaton and Friendly Atheist
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Big Endorsement Event Quietly Becomes a Private Meeting  —  Donald J. Trump will meet on Monday with more than 100 black pastors and religious figures at Trump Tower in Manhattan.  But just how many will actually endorse him afterward is unclear.
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Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Trump gets OK to use Twisted Sister song  —  Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider says he gave Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump permission to use the band's hit “We're Not Gonna Take It” on the campaign trail.  —  “He called and he asked, which I appreciated,” Snider told Canadian Business in a recent interview.
Discussion: BizPac Review
Orrin G. Hatch / Washington Times:
The wall separating faith and public life must be torn down  —  Our history tells us that faith and public life are complementary parts of American life.  But invocation of the “wall of separation” between church and state has become shorthand for a particular narrative about the history and status of religion in American life.
Discussion: Raw Story and Friendly Atheist
Kobe Bryant / The Players' Tribune:
Dear Basketball  —  PHOTOGRAPH BY WALTER IOOSS JR./THE PLAYERS' TRIBUNE … I knew one thing was real:  —  I fell in love with you.  —  A love so deep I gave you my all —  From my mind & body  —  To my spirit & soul.  —  As a six-year-old boy  —  Deeply in love with you
Blake Seitz / Washington Free Beacon:
Conference Organizers Hit the Buzzer as Obama's Climate Speech Goes 11 Minutes Over Schedule  —  The French had a message for President Obama during the climate change talks in Paris on Monday: Wrap it up.  —  Event organizers hit the buzzer as Obama's address neared the nine-minute mark …
Dean Schabner / ABC News:
University of Chicago Closes Campus After Online Threat  —  The University of Chicago has canceled all classes and activities at its Hyde Park campus after being warned by the FBI of an online threat of gun violence there.  —  In an alert sent out to the campus community …
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Tony Schwartz / New York Times:
Addicted to Distraction  —  ONE evening early this summer, I opened a book and found myself reading the same paragraph over and over, a half dozen times before concluding that it was hopeless to continue.  I simply couldn't marshal the necessary focus.  —  I was horrified.
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Appoints Ex-Congressman Who Blamed Defeat on Jewsto ‘Leadership Team’  —  Hillary Clinton has appointed to her leadership team a former congressman who blamed his defeat on “Jewish interests” and the “Jewish media,” her campaign announced earlier this month.
 
 
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Target website goes down on Cyber Monday
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Michael Eric Dyson / New Republic:
Yes She Can  —  Why Hillary Clinton will do more for black people than Obama
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Christie wins ‘Plummer primary’
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Vanessa Friedman / New York Times:
The 2016 Pirelli Calendar May Signal a Cultural Shift
Discussion: Slate, The Frisky, Jezebel and WREG-TV
Kiri Blakeley For / Daily Mail:
Father suspected of ‘murdering seven-year-old son and feeding his remains to pigs’
Reuters:
VW knew fuel usage in some cars was too high a year ago: report
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Shane Harris / The Daily Beast:
'They're Being Tortured': U.S. Ally Accused of Abusing ISIS Prisoners
Oliver Holmes / Guardian:
Mobile dating apps spur HIV epidemic among Asia's teenagers, says UN
Discussion: Engadget and RT
Dan Majors / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Muslim taxi driver shot on Thanksgiving in Hazelwood calls attack a hate crime
Sarah Knapton / New Zealand Herald:
Anti-ageing drug could let you live to 120 in good health
Discussion: Liberaland
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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