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Washington Post:
Stone associate Jerome Corsi is in plea negotiations with special counsel, according to a person with knowledge of the talks — Conservative writer and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi is in plea negotiations with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, according to a person with knowledge of the talks.
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Chad Day / Associated Press:
Associate of Roger Stone in plea talks with Mueller — JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A conservative writer and associate of Trump confidant Roger Stone said Friday that he is in plea talks with special counsel Robert Mueller's team. — Jerome Corsi told The Associated Press he has been negotiating …
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Breitbart and Talking Points Memo
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” …
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Law & Crime
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democrats must hold Trump accountable on Saudi Arabia. Adam Schiff explains how. — President Trump has again brushed off the horrifying murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, blithely claiming that the Saudi crown prince “vehemently denied” any role in the killing.
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CNN, Axios, Political Wire, Hullabaloo, POLITICUSUSA, Washington Times, CNBC, One America News Network and The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »
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John Solomon / The Hill:
The greatest threat to American journalism: the loss of neutral reporting — Over the past several months, I've watched, read and heard much about the potential Armageddon facing the profession of journalism. — I've watched colleagues proclaim that “fake news” attacks by President Trump …
CNN:
Senate Dem on Armed Services panel: Trump lying about CIA report on Khashoggi — Sen. Jack Reed: Trump lying about CIA report — Washington (CNN)The top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee on Friday accused President Donald Trump of lying about the CIA's report …
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Raw Story and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Major Trump administration climate report says damages are ‘intensifying across the country’ — Scientists are more certain than ever that climate change is already impacting the United States — and that it is going to be very expensive. — The federal government on Friday released …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
How Early Voting Could Turn the Democratic 2020 Race on Its Head — Don't be shocked when presidential hopefuls' usual Des Moines-to-Manchester route adds a few stops in Los Angeles, Austin, and Chicago this time around. — That's because when next year's Democratic primary process gets started …
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Political Wire
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Rafael Carranza / Arizona Republic:
Migrant caravan: Tijuana declares humanitarian crisis, asks for international help — 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.
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The Daily Caller
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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 …
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Financial disclosure form for top Trump communications advisor Bill Shine shows $15.4 million in severance and bonuses from Fox News — Bill Shine, the former Fox News executive and current top communications official under President Trump, received $8.4 million in severance pay …
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Deadline and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
When Mike Pence met Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping — Vice President Pence was not planning to meet with the leaders of Russia or China during his Asia trip last week, but they sought him out anyway. In several conversations with Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang …
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emptywheel, Mediaite, Balloon Juice and Raw Story
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.
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Political Wire
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John Russo / American Prospect:
Ohio: Another Brick in the Red Wall?
Page Six:
National Enquirer editor writing book about ‘Trump and his women’ … The National Enquirer's long-held secrets about Donald Trump may be about to get substantially less secret. — Page Six is told that the longtime executive editor of the tabloid, Barry Levine, is penning a book for Hachette about the president.
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Hill Reporter, Raw Story and Mediaite
Vanessa Williams / Washington Post:
What's up with all those black men who voted for the Republican in the Georgia governor's race? — About US is a new initiative by The Washington Post to cover issues of identity in the United States. Sign up for the newsletter. — White female voters in Georgia showed little interest …
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twitchy.com
CNN:
Young, rich and loyal: Nick Ayers could be Trump's next chief of staff — Washington (CNN)As President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence prepared to gather for their weekly lunch in August 2017, the President told his staff to add two more plates. — Both men had just welcomed …
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Mediaite
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed News:
The Trump Administration Just Asked The Supreme Court To Let It Enforce Its Transgender Military Ban — The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to take up three cases challenging the administration's repeated efforts to bar transgender people from serving in the military.
Patrick Wintour / The Guardian:
US media must ‘get smarter’ to tackle Trump, says Hillary Clinton — Exclusive: former presidential candidate criticises media for failing to challenge Trump — Hillary Clinton has criticised the US media over its coverage of Donald Trump, calling on the press to “get smarter” …
Associated Press:
Impeach the president? House Democrats saying not so fast — WASHINGTON (AP) — Whatever happened to trying to impeach President Donald Trump? — As House Democrats begin laying out the vision for their new majority, that item is noticeably missing from the to-do list and firmly on the margins.
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POLITICUSUSA
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.
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Associated Press, Common Dreams, The Daily Caller, Gothamist, Mashable and Daily Kos, more at Techmeme »
Doug Friednash / Denver Post:
After that thorough rout, Democrats have all the power and all the responsibility — No matter what happens, change is on the horizon. — Having decimated the Colorado Republican party in the midterm elections, Democrats are now firmly in control of every branch of state government.
Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
Republicans and Trump Failed in FISAgate Probe — Pause for a moment and imagine you are so gullible that you believe one of the biggest political stunts of all time—that your mind is so incurious and facile that you've fallen for a crackpot conspiracy theory force-fed to you by fabulists in the media for two solid years.
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Fox News
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Judge Jeanine Ghosted on Old Campaign Debt and Ignored Feds' Demands for Financial Records — PayDirt found that ‘Judge’ Jeanine still owes nearly $600,000 to vendors and stopped filing required updates to the FEC years ago. — “Judge” Jeanine Pirro is the voice of law-and-order …
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Hill Reporter and Raw Story
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Is a Recession Coming? — In December 2007, Larry Kudlow, then a talking head for the business network CNBC, proclaimed, “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.
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Bloomberg
Louisa Loveluck / Washington Post:
One of Syria's most famous activists killed by assassins in rebel stronghold — BEIRUT — One of Syria's most famous activists was assassinated by gunmen, according to associates, underscoring the mortal threats facing a dwindling pool of dissidents who still openly oppose government and extremist forces there.
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Alex MacDonald / Middle East Eye:
Prominent Syrian opposition activist Raed Fares shot dead in Idlib
Prominent Syrian opposition activist Raed Fares shot dead in Idlib
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The Guardian and Al Jazeera