memeorandum: Prominent Syrian opposition activist Raed Fares shot dead in Idlib (Alex MacDonald/Middle East Eye)

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 and Washington Post

Reuters: CIA Has Recording of Saudi Crown Prince Ordering Khashoggi Silenced, Turkish Media Reports

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

Discussion: Mediaite

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

Discussion: Washington Post, One America News Network, POLITICUSUSA and Informed Comment

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.

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.

Wendy Fry / sandiegouniontribune.com:
Small group breaks from caravan to press within 500 feet of U.S. border in Tijuana

Discussion: Daily Wire

Tom Elliott / Grabien News: Trump Warns: We May Close ‘the Whole Border’ with Mexico if Things Get ‘Uncontrollable’

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

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 …

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

Randall Eliason / Sidebars:

Judge in Mueller Case Upholds Legal Theory that Makes Collusion a Crime — Is collusion a crime? Since the beginning of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, allegations of “collusion” have dominated the debate. President Trump regularly claims there was “no collusion” …

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 …

Alex MacDonald / Middle East Eye:

Prominent Syrian opposition activist Raed Fares shot dead in Idlib — Broadcaster was one of the best-known members of civil society opposing both militant groups and the Assad government — Raed Fares (L) takes part in a demonstration against the Islamic State group (Syria Untold)

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 …

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

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

New York Times:

Hillary Clinton Says Europe Must ‘Get a Handle’ on Migration to Thwart Populism — Europe's leaders need to send a much stronger message that they will no longer offer “refuge and support” to migrants if they want to curb the right-wing populism spreading across the Continent, Hillary Clinton warned in an interview published Thursday.

Discussion: Hot Air, CNBC, Althouse, The Guardian and thedailychrenk.com