memeorandum: One-Fifth Of Russians Live In Poverty, 36 Percent In ‘Risk Zone,’ Study Finds (RFE/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

Elana Schor / Politico:

Sherrod Brown sets his sights on Trump in 2020 — Democrat Sherrod Brown just won reelection resoundingly in a Trump state running on Trump's issues — taking a hard line on trade and helping blue-collar workers. — Now the Ohio senator is talking increasingly like he's prepared to take on the president himself.

Discussion: Political Wire

John Russo / American Prospect:

Ohio: Another Brick in the Red Wall? — Unsuccessful Ohio gubernatorial candidate Richard Cordray speaks to reporters on Election Day 2018 in Columbus. — The midterm elections showed that the Democrats' blue wall is being rebuilt brick by brick in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and northern Illinois.

New York Times:

Saudis Want a U.S. Nuclear Deal. Can They Be Trusted Not to Build a Bomb? — WASHINGTON — Before Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was implicated by the C.I.A. in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, American intelligence agencies were trying to solve a separate mystery …

Discussion: Middle East Eye

Reuters:

CIA Has Recording of Saudi Crown Prince Ordering Khashoggi Silenced, Turkish Media Reports — Prominent Turkish columnist says CIA director Gina Haspel had ‘signaled’ the existence of the recording in a visit to Ankara — The CIA has a recording of a phone call in which Saudi Crown Prince …

The Daily Beast:
CIA Heard Audio of Saudi Crown Prince Giving Order to ‘Silence’ Jamal Khashoggi: Report

Discussion: Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA and Informed Comment

Reuters:
Turkish paper: CIA had recording of Saudi prince demanding Khashoggi be ‘silenced’

Discussion: Mediaite

Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump brushes aside CIA assertion that crown prince ordered killing, defends him and Saudi Arabia

Discussion: One America News Network, Al Jazeera and Axios

Rafael Carranza / Arizona Republic:

Last Slide — The mayor of Tijuana declared an international humanitarian crisis on Thursday over the arrival of more than 5,000 mostly Central American migrants traveling in a caravan. — The migrants have streamed into the border city in the past week to seek asylum in the United States.

Tom Elliott / Grabien News:

Trump Warns: We May Close ‘the Whole Border’ with Mexico if Things Get ‘Uncontrollable’ — ‘Our southern border is going to be very strong’ — During an extended conversation with the press following a Thanksgiving call with military leadership, President Trump said he might shut down the entire southern border.

Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:

Is a Recession Coming? — In December 2007, Larry Kudlow, then a talking head for the business network CNBC, proclaimed that “there's no recession coming. It's not going to happen.” That same month, the economy plunged into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

Discussion: Bloomberg

Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider:

‘We are not robots’: Thousands of Amazon workers across Europe are striking on Black Friday over warehouse working conditions — Thousands of Amazon workers across Europe were striking and protesting on Black Friday in anger at the company's warehouse working conditions.

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Associated Press:

Amazon staff in Europe protest to coincide with Black Friday — MADRID (AP) — Some of Amazon's workers in Europe are protesting against what they call unfair work conditions, in a move meant to disrupt operations on Black Friday. — Amazon Spain said that around 90 percent of workers …

CNN:

After his politicized Thanksgiving call, maybe Trump should not visit the troops — CNN national security analyst John Kirby, a retired rear admiral in the US Navy, was a spokesman for both the State and Defense departments in the Obama administration. The opinions expressed in this commentary …

Kate Sullivan / CNN:
Trump politicizes Thanksgiving call with troops to attack migrants, judges

Discussion: Washington Press, AOL, fox13now.com, Axios, The Guardian and Washington Post

Reuters:
Trump warns of government shutdown next month over border security

Discussion: USA Today and POLITICUSUSA

Steven Shepard / Politico:

Warning signs mount for Trump reelection bid — Donald Trump insists the GOP's midterm election shellacking had nothing to do with him. Things will be different, he says, when his name is actually on the ballot in 2020. — While it's true that most presidents who see their party suffer major losses …

Washington Post:

Fear and faith: Inside the last days of an American missionary killed by remote island tribe — NEW DELHI — The night before John Chau returned for the last time to India's remote North Sentinel Island, he struggled with a sense of fear that his death might be imminent.

Discussion: KFOR-TV, Faithwire, The American Conservative and Raw Story

RFE / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:

One-Fifth Of Russians Live In Poverty, 36 Percent In ‘Risk Zone,’ Study Finds — More than one-fifth of the Russian population now lives in poverty, according to a new study by a research institute with ties to the Kremlin. — The November 21 report by the Russian Presidential Academy …

Esther King / Politico:

Spanish PM threatens Brexit ‘veto’ over Gibraltar — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has vowed to “veto Brexit” if the terms of the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union are not amended to reflect Spanish concerns about negotiations over the future of Gibraltar.

Discussion: One America News Network, Leave.EU, France 24 and Bloomberg