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Donald Trump, Roy Moore, and the Degradation of the G.O.P. — In less than a year, the President, with help from the Alabama Senate candidate, has so damaged the Party that it may never recover. — When Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House spokeswoman, was explaining last week …
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Shelby: My state of Alabama ‘deserves better’ than Moore — Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby said Sunday that his home state “deserves better” than to be represented by Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the state's Supreme Court who has been accused of sexual misconduct …
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Alabama Sen. Shelby: 'I couldn't vote for Roy Moore' — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)Sen. Richard Shelby says he wants a Republican elected to the Senate on Tuesday to represent Alabama, but that he didn't vote for GOP candidate Roy Moore in the special election.
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New York Times, The Guardian, Daily Kos and The Week


Most Alabama GOP leaders say they are voting for Roy Moore
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New York Magazine

Alabama, Despite History of Unruly Politics, Has ‘Never Seen Anything Like This’
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Washington Post, Politico and Washington Free Beacon

Doug Jones is a Terrible Candidate
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Washington Free Beacon and NBC News

Days before election, Roy Moore disappears from campaign trail
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Raw Story

Trump to cut robocall for Moore
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ABC News, The Daily Beast, No More Mister Nice Blog, ThinkProgress, RedState, KTLA and Axios


A battle for public opinion: Trump goes to war over Mueller and Russia — In recent days, the rightwing media and Trump loyalists have been scrambling to discredit the special counsel and smear his Russia inquiry as a liberal plot … llegitimate and corrupt. Using the FBI as a political weapon and America's secret police.
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ThinkProgress, Sputnik International, TVNewser, Outside the Beltway and Shareblue Media
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Op-Ed The campaign to delegitimize the Russia probe is well under way — Sean Hannity interviews Former White House strategist Steve Bannon on the set of Fox News Channel's Hannity in New York on Oct. 9. (Craig Ruttle / Associated Press) — Some of President Trump's biggest fans …


Robert Mueller and his politically biased team of prosecutors need to go — Special Counsel Robert Mueller has sabotaged his own investigation of Russian meddling into the 2016 election. He has only himself to blame for ruining what could have been a credible probe.


Lindsey Vonn suffers back injury in World Cup race after Trump comments — American skiing star Lindsey Vonn has withdrawn from her Sunday events at the World Cup in Switzerland after suffering a back injury during a super-G race on Saturday. — The injury occurred two days …


Why the #MeToo Moment Should Be Ready for a Backlash — In the final five years of his presidency, Barack Obama's administration undertook a worthy and bold challenge: the elimination of sexual assault on campuses. In fact, Obama's team had a much more ambitious goal in mind.
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Horror as ‘20 masked men attack synagogue with petrol bombs’ — A SYNAGOGUE was attacked by around 20 masked men while hosting a youth party in Gothenburg, Sweden, local media have reported. — Police arrived at the scene, where Jewish students had taken refuge in the basement.
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Protests in Lebanon Near U.S. Embassy After Trump's Jerusalem Decision
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CNN and The Daily Caller

Burning objects thrown at synagogue in Sweden: reports
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Fox News, Voice of Europe, The Week, CNN and Raw Story

Why I Can No Longer Call Myself an Evangelical Republican — There are times in life when the institutional ground underneath you begins to crumble — and with it, longstanding attachments. Such is the case for me when it comes to the Republican Party and evangelicalism.


Under Trump, E.P.A. Has Slowed Actions Against Polluters, and Put Limits on Enforcement Officers — EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio — The highway billboard at the entrance to town still displays a giant campaign photograph of President Trump, who handily won the election across industrial Ohio.


As tax plan gained steam, GOP lost focus on the middle class — The GOP tax plan on the cusp of becoming law diverges wildly from the promises President Trump and top advisers said they would deliver for the middle class — an evolution that shows how traditional Republican orthodoxy swamped …
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More women plan to run for Congress than ever before — As of December 7 there were 369 women running or planning to run for Congress in 2018, according to Rutgers University's Center for American Women and Politics, which would biggest group of women House candidates ever.