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Christina Tkacik / Baltimore Sun:
Man shouts ‘Heil Hitler, Heil Trump’ during intermission of Baltimore performance of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ — The audience reacts after a man interrupts the “Fiddler on the Roof” performance at the Hippodrome Theatre. (Video courtesy of Rich Scherr) — A man shouted a pro-Nazi …
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New York Times:
Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook's Leaders Fought Through Crisis — Sheryl Sandberg was seething. — Inside Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, top executives gathered in the glass-walled conference room of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. It was September 2017 …
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Facebook Cuts Ties With Definers Public Affairs Following Outcry — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said Thursday that it had ended its relationship with a Washington-based consulting firm, Definers Public Affairs, which spread disparaging information about the social network's critics and competitors.
Alex Shephard / New Republic:
Facebook Betrayed America
Facebook Betrayed America
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New York Times Update
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Washington Post:
Federal judge gives Florida voters until Saturday to correct signature problems roiling close races — TALLAHASSEE — Florida's historic recount was thrown once more into uncertainty Thursday when a federal judge ruled that voters whose mail-in and provisional ballots were rejected …
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In Florida Recount, Sloppy Signatures May Disqualify Thousands of Votes — RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — The nuns at Zina Rodriguez's Catholic school in the Bronx thwacked her knuckles to punish sloppy handwriting, so she was shocked when her mail-in ballot in Florida was rejected because her signature …
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Daily Kos, Tampa Bay Times and Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
Florida recount: Palm Beach County says it will probably miss deadline as judge gives voters time to fix ballots with signature issues — TALLAHASSEE — Florida's historic recount was thrown once more into uncertainty Thursday when a county said it probably won't meet a counting deadline …
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Orlando Sentinel, ABC News and The Week
Harry Enten / CNN:
Bill Nelson needs a miracle in Florida. It likely won't come.
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Insanity,” “Furious,” “On His Own”: Trump's Post-Midterms Blues Are Vexing His Staff and Roiling the White House — He's lashing out at aides and press and foreign leaders, and threatening to roll West Wing heads—but at least he didn't get his hair wet at the Belleau Wood memorial.
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A White House aide picked a fight with Melania Trump. The first lady won.
A White House aide picked a fight with Melania Trump. The first lady won.
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Mira Ricardel, Aide Who Crossed Melania Trump, Is Removed From Her White House Role
Mira Ricardel, Aide Who Crossed Melania Trump, Is Removed From Her White House Role
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Splinter and The Guardian
TMZ.com:
Michael Avenatti Arrested for Felony Domestic Violence, Confident He'll Be Exonerated — 5:50 PM PT — Avenatti bailed out and held a brief news conference, saying, “I have never struck a woman. I will never strike a woman.” He added he's looking forward to the investigation and is confident he'll be “fully exonerated.”
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Kareem Fahim / Washington Post:
Saudi Arabia seeks death penalty for five suspects in killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — ISTANBUL — Saudi Arabia said Thursday it has indicted 11 people in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month and that it is seeking the death penalty against five …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump renews attacks on Mueller investigation after midterms — President Trump renewed his attacks on the credibility of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation in a series of Thursday morning tweets, using his oft-repeated refrain of “WITCH HUNT.” — The inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess.
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Stephen Castle / New York Times:
Two U.K. Cabinet Ministers, Including Chief Brexit Negotiator, Quit — LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain faced a deep political crisis on Thursday after two cabinet ministers quit her government, including Dominic Raab, her chief negotiator on withdrawal from the European Union …
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Charlie Cooper / Politico:
Theresa May buffeted by resignations over her Brexit deal
Theresa May buffeted by resignations over her Brexit deal
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Charlie Cooper / Politico:
Theresa May faces hostility on all sides as she fights to save Brexit deal
Theresa May faces hostility on all sides as she fights to save Brexit deal
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New Republic, EU Press Room and One America News Network
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Democratic Rep. Fudge says she's ‘overwhelmed’ by support as she weighs speaker bid — Rep. Marcia L. Fudge said on Thursday that she has been “overwhelmed” by the support from many of her colleagues for her possible entry into the race for House speaker, becoming the first Democrat …
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Political Wire, The Guardian and Splinter
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Washington Post:
‘He was yelling’: Whitaker pushed back against early fraud complaints about company he advised — Acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker received early warnings that customers were complaining that an invention-marketing company he advised might be a fraud, according to several people familiar …
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The National Memo, Splinter and Patterico's Pontifications
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Anna Schecter / NBC News:
Exclusive text messages show Roger Stone and friend discussing WikiLeaks plans — “Big news Wednesday ... Hillary's campaign will die this week,” Randy Credico appears to have texted Stone six days before WikiLeaks email dump. — Six days before WikiLeaks began releasing Hillary Clinton …
Ben White / Politico:
The looming threat to Trump's booming economy — President Donald Trump, already in a grumpy post-midterm mood, faces a growing list of economic problems that could irritate him even more next year. Chief among them is a withdrawal from the economy's sugar high.
Benny Johnson / The Daily Caller:
Full Transcript Of Trump's Oval Office Interview With The Daily Caller — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sat for an exclusive Oval Office interview Wednesday with The Daily Caller's Saagar Enjeti and Benny Johnson for approximately 31 minutes. — The transcript is as follows:
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Courtney McBride / Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Nominate Handbag Designer as Ambassador to South Africa — Lana Marks is a member of the president's Mar-a-Lago Club — WASHINGTON—President Trump intends to nominate Lana Marks, a Palm Beach, Fla.-based handbag designer and a member of Mr. Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club resort, to serve as the U.S. ambassador to South Africa.
Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:
Second Trump-Kim summit to go ahead without list of nuclear North Korean weapons, Pence says — “It will be absolutely imperative ... that we come away with a plan for identifying all of the weapons in question,” the vice president told NBC News. — SINGAPORE — The U.S. will not require North Korea …
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The Daily Beast:
Even Trump Can't Stop Mocking Sean Hannity's ‘Dumb’ Softball Questions — Trump craves friction to set off sparks and drama. Hannity's slobbering extinguishes them. — Donald Trump's close relationship—on air and off—with Sean Hannity hasn't stopped the president from mocking …
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Emma Best:
Sealed transcripts show Assange and WikiLeaks solicited hacks against governments, politicians and corporations - and received files as a result — It's been seven days since WikiLeaks has tweeted or made a public comment. In that time, they've had only one overt communication …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Demographic shifts and Trump effect move southern states into 2020 toss-up territory — Note: Nebraska and Maine split their electoral college votes according to statewide popular vote and the vote within each congressional district; Data: Doug Sosnik; Chart: Axios Visuals
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Political Wire
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Veterans aren't getting their GI Bill payments — because VA's 50-year-old computer system broke — Daniel Gorman knows what it's like to return from war, and he wants to help fellow veterans come home, too: The former sailor turned New York National Guardsman is finishing a graduate degree in social work at Fordham University.
Pete Wells / New York Times:
10 of the Best Pizza Slices in N.Y.C. — Pete Wells, our restaurant critic, on old-school pizzerias. — Pete Wells, The New York Times's restaurant critic since 2012, eats hundreds and hundreds of meals every year, searching for the best food the city has to offer.
Anna Denejkina / Foreign Policy:
In Russia, Feminist Memes Buy Jail Time, but Domestic Abuse Doesn't — A year after the country decriminalized domestic violence, women feel the consequences. — In January 2018, Artyom Iskhakov, a 19-year-old Russian man, killed his roommate and former girlfriend, Tatyana Strakhova, who was also 19.
NBC 10 Philadelphia:
NJ Couple and Homeless Man in GoFundMe Controversy Accused of Making Up Story, Source Says — Mark D'Amico, Kate McClure and Johnny Bobbitt will face charges including conspiracy and theft by deception, according to the source. — NJ Couple and Homeless Man to Be Charged With Lying About GoFundMe Story
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Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Absentee ballots missing birth dates must be counted, judge orders — A federal judge has ruled that Georgia counties must count absentee ballots even if the voter's date of birth is incorrect or missing, and he is preventing the state from finalizing election results until that happens.
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Kelsey D. Atherton / New York Times:
Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons — It's a freezing, snowy day on the border between Estonia and Russia. Soldiers from the two nations are on routine border patrol, each side accompanied by an autonomous weapon system, a tracked robot armed …
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
This 31-year-old had had enough. So she ran. And won. — What finally did it for Kathy Hoffman was watching the confirmation hearing of Betsy DeVos nearly two years ago. — Hoffman, then a 31-year-old speech therapist in a suburban Phoenix public school district …
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