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4:55 PM ET, November 30, 2015

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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 …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Trump would ‘err on side of security’ in NSA debate
Discussion: whorunsGov
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Hispanic Republican leaders shun Donald Trump
Discussion: Liberaland, Raw Story and whorunsGov
Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune:
1 in custody in threat at University of Chicago linked to Laquan McDonald shooting  —  University of Chicago security officers patrol the Hyde Park campus quad on Nov. 30, 2015. … An online threat to kill 16 white male students or staff in retaliation for the shooting of Laquan McDonald forced …
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Chicago Sun Times:
UIC student's online threat linked to Laquan McDonald shooting
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Obama, at Conference, Says U.S. Is Partly to Blame for Climate Change  —  PARIS — President Obama told world leaders who gathered northeast of Paris on Monday for a climate conference that the United States is at least partly to blame for the life-threatening damage that environmental change has wrought …
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Vanessa Friedman / New York Times:
The 2016 Pirelli Calendar May Signal a Cultural Shift  —  When Agnes Gund, the 77-year-old philanthropist and president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, got the call, she thought: “That's odd.  What's that got to do with someone like me?”  —  When Fran Lebowitz, the 65-year-old author …
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Daily Mail:
Pirelli Calendar 2016 sees Serena Williams, Patti Smith and Amy Schumer pose
Discussion: Independent Journal
Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
Black Pastors Rail Against Closed-Door Meeting With Trump, Citing Racist Language And Incitement  —  Dozens of African American pastors gathered behind closed doors with GOP frontrunner Donald Trump at his office in New York City on Monday.  The Trump campaign originally told press the pastors …
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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 …
Walker Bragman / Salon:
More like Reagan than FDR: I'm a millennial and I'll never vote for Hillary Clinton  —  I never thought I'd be encouraging people to not vote for the Democratic nominee for president.  But I am  —  I am a 27-year-old, politically active, progressive millennial voter.
Discussion: Independent Journal
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 …
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
GOP chairwoman defends abortion probe after Planned Parenthood shootings  —  The leader of the GOP-controlled House committee charged with investigating abortion providers is defending its mission in the wake of a deadly rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado.
Discussion: Politico and PoliticusUSA
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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: Friendly Atheist and Eschaton
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
Chris Ariens / Advertising & Branding:
How Roger Ailes Built Fox News Into a Media Powerhouse  —  Roger Ailes' first moon shot came when he was 29 years old.  He was in the Oval Office setting up the first interplanetary split screen.  “Eagle” had just landed on the moon.  —  “I had video from the Earth and I realized I could set …
New York Times:
Sheldon Silver, Ex-New York Assembly Speaker, Is Found Guilty on All Counts  —  Sheldon Silver, an assemblyman who rose from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to become one of New York State's most powerful politicians, was found guilty on Monday in a federal corruption trial …
Discussion: The Week and Election Law Blog
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP to meet, discuss ObamaCare repeal  —  Senate Republicans will meet Monday evening to discuss plans to pass an ObamaCare repeal package later this week.  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is convening the meeting to walk through the special budgetary process known …
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
Kate Taylor / New York Times:
Algebra Scores Prompt Second Look at Revamped Regents Exams  —  Here is the thorny math problem facing New York State education officials: If the percentage of students passing the Algebra I exam falls to 63 percent from 72 percent, and the passing grade is scheduled to increase by 14 points in coming years …
 
 
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Brian M. Rosenthal / Houston Chronicle:
Texas to refugee groups: If you let in a Syrian, we might sue you
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Target website goes down on Cyber Monday
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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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
Discussion: Mashable, Engadget and The Verge
Blake Seitz / Washington Free Beacon:
Conference Organizers Hit the Buzzer as Obama's Climate Speech Goes 11 Minutes Over Schedule
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Orrin G. Hatch / Washington Times:
The wall separating faith and public life must be torn down
Discussion: Friendly Atheist and Raw Story
Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Trump gets OK to use Twisted Sister song
Discussion: BizPac Review
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Appoints Ex-Congressman Who Blamed Defeat on Jewsto ‘Leadership Team’
Dan Majors / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Muslim taxi driver shot on Thanksgiving in Hazelwood calls attack a hate crime
Tony Schwartz / New York Times:
Addicted to Distraction  —  ONE evening early this summer …
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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