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11:05 AM ET, November 21, 2018

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New York Times:
Trump Wanted to Order Justice Dept. to Prosecute Comey and Clinton  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump told the White House counsel in the spring that he wanted to order the Justice Department to prosecute two of his political adversaries: his 2016 challenger, Hillary Clinton …
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Washington Post:
Conservative nonprofit with obscure roots and undisclosed funders paid Matthew Whitaker $1.2 million  —  In the three years after he arrived in Washington in 2014, Matthew G. Whitaker received more than $1.2 million as the leader of a charity that reported having no other employees, some of the best pay of his career.
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Former Bush attorney general Alberto Gonzales rebukes Trump for reportedly seeking to prosecute Clinton, Comey
Tess Bonn / The Hill:
House GOP to hold hearing into DOJ's probe of Clinton Foundation
CREW:   CREW Requests All Versions of Whitaker's Financial Disclosures
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Top Trump officials saved the President from himself
Discussion: KTLA
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Matt Whitaker Suggested Trump Administration Should Prosecute Hillary Clinton
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed News:   The White House Won't Say When Trump Formally Named Matthew Whitaker As Acting Attorney General
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senators demand Trump say whether Saudi prince ordered Khashoggi killing  —  The bipartisan leadership of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is demanding a definitive determination from President Donald Trump about whether Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Crude Realpolitik  —  His statement about the Saudis had no mention of America's values.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  President Trump did himself and the country no favor with his crude statement Tuesday on the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of Jamal Khashoggi's murder by Saudi agents.
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
Trump's Statement on Saudi Arabia, Explained!
Discussion: Washington Post and Althouse
Washington Post:
Trump calls Saudi Arabia a ‘great ally,’ discounts crown prince's responsibility for Khashoggi's death
India Today:
American killed on Andaman island home to uncontacted people, body yet to be recovered  —  The murder took place on an island inhabited by the Sentinelese people, who are protected under Indian law  —  A rare photo of two members of the Sentinelese tribe, which is protected under Indian law …
Discussion: NPR and Althouse
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France 24:
US tourist killed by arrow-shooting Indian tribe
Discussion: Daily Wire
Tara Copp / Military Times:
White House approves use of force, some law enforcement roles for border troops  —  The White House late Tuesday signed a memo allowing troops stationed at the border to engage in some law enforcement roles and use lethal force, if necessary — a move that legal experts have cautioned may run afoul of the Posse Comitatus Act.
Discussion: Axios
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Facebook President Sean Parker Funded Race-Baiting Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith's Super PAC  —  A spokesman for the Napster founder said he denounces Cindy Hyde-Smith's comments but isn't calling for a refund of the money he's given.  —  As embattled incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) …
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Jennifer E. Duffy / The Cook Political Report:
Mississippi Senate Special: It's All About Turnout  —  Lost amid recounts in Florida, uncertainty in Georgia and a handful of uncalled House races is the special election run-off in Mississippi to fill the remainder of former Republican U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran's term.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Behind the scenes: Trump vs. Mueller  —  President Trump delivered to Robert Mueller handwritten answers about pre-election dimensions of the Russia probe but did not answer questions about his behavior as president, including allegations of obstruction of justice — and will resist doing so in the future …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Mueller got some answers, but he's not done with Trump
Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:
Judge dismisses female genital mutilation charges in historic case  —  In a major blow to the federal government, a judge in Detroit has declared America's female genital mutilation law unconstitutional, thereby dismissing the key charges against two Michigan doctors and six others accused …
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Laura Ly / CNN:
Charges dropped in first federal genital mutilation case in US
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
BBC:
Russia loses Interpol presidency vote  —  Interpol has elected South Korean Kim Jong-yang as its president, rejecting the Russian frontrunner who had been accused of abusing the international police body's arrest warrant system.  —  Mr Kim was chosen by Interpol's 194 member states at a meeting of its annual congress in Dubai.
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Associated Press:
South Korean named Interpol president in blow to Russia
Discussion: Colorado Politics and TheBlaze
Josie Ensor / Telegraph:
British academic Matthew Hedges sentenced to life in prison by UAE court for ‘spying for UK government’  —  A British academic has been sentenced by an Abu Dhabi court to life in prison for spying for the UK government, in a shock decision which Jeremy Hunt warned could damage relations between the two allies.
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Nazia Parveen / The Guardian:   Matthew Hedges: British academic accused of spying jailed for life in UAE
Max Read / New York Magazine:
The Decline and Fall of the Zuckerberg Empire  —  Mark Zuckerberg isn't the first person in human history to draw inspiration from Augustus Caesar, the founder of the Roman Empire, but he's one of a very few for whom the lessons of Augustus's reign have a concrete urgency.
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Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
As Facebook faces fire, heat turns up on No. 2 Sandberg
Discussion: CNN, AOL and KTLA
Los Angeles Times:
Election fraud scheme on L.A.'s skid row got homeless to sign fake names for cigarettes and cash, D.A. says  —  A forged signature swapped for $1 — or sometimes a cigarette.  —  The crude exchange played out hundreds of times on L.A.'s skid row during the 2016 election cycle and again this year …
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Dennis Romero / NBC News:   Skid Row vote fraudsters preyed on L.A. homeless, authorities charge
The Daily Beast:
Trump Helped Roger Ailes Create Fox Business Network, the Most Pro-Trump Cable Outlet  —  A decade ago, The Donald advised Fox News on launching its business network.  Now the Fox Business Network advises President Trump.  —  The most pro-Trump cable-news outlet was helped in its founding by none other than Donald Trump himself.
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:   Will Fox Business Network Take Action After Lou Dobbs Tells Judge to “Go to Hell”?
The Guardian:
Steve Bannon's far-right Europe operation undermined by election laws  —  Exclusive: ambitious plan to campaign in EU elections would fall foul of laws in nine of 13 targeted states  —  Play Video  —  Steve Bannon's political operation to help rightwing populists triumph …
Brady McCombs / Associated Press:
Democrats flip Utah House seat as McAdams tops Rep. Mia Love  —  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Democrat Ben McAdams has flipped a U.S. House seat in deep-red Utah, defeating incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Mia Love by fewer than 700 votes in a race that took two weeks to settle.
Discussion: TheBlaze, The Week and The Hill
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The time Nancy Pelosi saved Social Security  —  “Never.  Is never good enough for you?”  —  To people whose main reference point for politics is the late Obama years, the 2016 presidential campaign, and the post-Bernie Sanders blossoming of left-wing politics in the United States …
Mark Osborne / ABC News:
Comedian Michelle Wolf delivers one-liner in response to Trump attack  —  Michelle Wolf won't be making any jokes from the podium at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, but last year's host was ready with a one-liner after the president attacked her on Twitter.
Discussion: Townhall, Washington Post and Politico
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Stalemate on Trump's wall amid threat of shutdown  —  Congress just can't help itself: With a partial government shutdown potentially two weeks away, Democrats and Republicans are dug in, each side upping its demands and vowing not to buckle to the other.  —  President Donald Trump …
Discussion: SARAH PALIN
Reuters:
Harvesting in a trade war: U.S. crops rot as storage costs soar  —  (Reuters) - U.S. farmers finishing their harvests are facing a big problem - where to put the mountain of grain they cannot sell to Chinese buyers.  —  For Louisiana farmer Richard Fontenot and his neighbors, the solution was a costly one: Let the crops rot.
 
 
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Trump Is Losing His War Against the Courts
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Blast of snow for New England before record-cold Thanksgiving
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
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Elaine Godfrey / The Atlantic:
House Democrats Don't Know What to Make of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Discussion: Weekly Standard
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James Oliphant / Reuters:
Democrats see rural gains bolstering fight for White House in 2020
 

 
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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:
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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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