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4:21 AM ET, November 25, 2018

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CNN:

Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith pushed resolution praising Confederate soldier's effort to ‘defend his homeland’ — Photo surfaces of Senator with Confederate artifacts — (CNN)Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith once promoted a measure that praised a Confederate soldier's effort to …

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mother Jones, Law & Crime, Splinter, Raw Story, ThinkProgress, Sludge, Jackson Free Press and Talking Points Memo

Jonathan Martin / New York Times:

Across South, Democrats Risk Speaking Boldly and Alienating Rural White Voters — JACKSON, Miss. — When Mike Espy, the Democrat challenging Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, faced his opponent at a debate ahead of this Tuesday's runoff election, he had to make a choice …

Popular Information: A former Klansman and Cindy Hyde-Smith

Quint Forgey / Politico:
Mississippi newspaper: Hyde-Smith attended segregation academy

Discussion: TheBlaze, HuffPost, Washington Press and ThinkProgress

Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:

Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers — Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the US social media giant to account after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly refused to answer MPs' questions.

Discussion: KTLA, Raw Story and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »

Washington Post:

Deal with Mexico paves way for asylum overhaul at U.S. border — MEXICO CITY — The Trump administration has won the support of Mexico's incoming government for a plan to remake U.S. border policy by requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims move through U.S. courts …

Discussion: Hot Air, New York Times, The Gateway Pundit, Politico, HuffPost, Vox, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, POLITICUSUSA, Splinter, The Guardian, Mother Jones, RedState, Townhall, Axios, CNN, KTLA, Reuters and Mediaite

Kate Linthicum / Herald-Mail Media:

A border clash turns deadly — TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Henry Diaz Reyes and about 1,500 other Central American migrants had just pushed past Guatemalan authorities and onto a border bridge to Mexico. — Mexican federal police were waiting for them in riot gear. The official border entry was closed, police said.

Amy Guthrie / Associated Press:

Incoming Mexico gov't: No deal to host US asylum-seekers — MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's incoming government denied a report Saturday that it plans to allow asylum-seekers to wait in the country while their claims move through U.S. immigration courts, one of several options the Trump administration …

Discussion: Mediaite

Reuters: Mexico has no deal with U.S. to overhaul asylum rules: incoming minister

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:

New book by Trump advisers alleges that the president has ‘embedded enemies’ — Two of the president's longest-serving advisers allege in a new book that scores of officials inside the White House, Congress, the Justice Department and intelligence agencies are “embedded enemies of President Trump” …

Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story

Katie Paul / Reuters:

Senior Saudi prince says CIA cannot be trusted on Khashoggi conclusion — ABU DHABI (Reuters) - A senior Saudi prince cast doubt upon the reported CIA finding that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month …

Christal Hayes / USA Today: Finland, Denmark and Germany stop arm sales to Saudi Arabia after Khashoggi's death

Christina Caron / New York Times:

Students Who Made Apparent Nazi Salute in Photo Won't Be Punished — The Wisconsin students who appeared to make a Nazi salute in a widely criticized photo will not be punished, the school's superintendent said this week in a letter to parents. — The superintendent, Lori Mueller …

Discussion: madison.com, Washington Press, TheBlaze, Daily Kos and Splinter

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Free-speech protects those in viral prom photo appearing to show Nazi salute, Baraboo district says

Economist:

Donald Trump is attacking the rule of law and may well get away with it — On the evidence available, most Americans do not think President Donald Trump has committed a high crime or misdemeanour. Only a third of voters say he should be impeached over his alleged complicity …

Rob Merrick / The Independent:

Brexit: High Court to rule if referendum vote ‘void’ as early as Christmas after Arron Banks investigation — Exclusive: Judges poised to fast-track explosive legal challenge after Theresa May's ‘failure to act’ on growing evidence of illegality — {{#singleComment}}{{total}} comment{ …

Andrea Long Chu / New York Times:

My New Vagina Won't Make Me Happy — And it shouldn't have to. — Ms. Chu is an essayist and critic. — Next Thursday, I will get a vagina. The procedure will last around six hours, and I will be in recovery for at least three months. Until the day I die, my body will regard the vagina as a wound …

Discussion: The American Conservative

Juliet Linderman / Associated Press:

Memos to Nobody: Inside the work of a neglected fed agency — WASHINGTON (AP) — Mark Robbins gets to work at 8:15 each morning and unlocks the door to his office suite. He switches on the lights and the TV news, brews a pot of coffee and pulls out the first files of the day to review.

Mihir Zaveri / New York Times:

Black Man Killed by Officer in Alabama Mall Shooting Was Not the Gunman, Police Now Say — The police in Alabama said an officer fatally shot a 21-year-old black man on Thursday night who they said shot at least one person at a mall near Birmingham, turning a Thanksgiving holiday shopping scene into chaos.

Discussion: Mother Jones, TheBlaze and Daily Kos

WRAL-TV:

Dozens arrested after ICE detains undocumented man living in Durham church for 11 months — MORRISVILLE, N.C. — More than two dozen people were arrested Friday while protesting the detention of an undocumented man who had been living in a Durham church for 11 months.

Camila Molina / Raleigh News & Observer:
Undocumented man arrested after leaving sanctuary to meet with immigration officials

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Katelyn Massarelli / Tampa Bay Times:

Sinatra, a blue-eyed Husky from Brooklyn, turns up in Seffner after 18 months missing — SEFFNER — The bookends are clear in the life of Sinatra, a 5-year-old, brown-and-white, blue-eyed Husky. — Beloved by his teenage owner and her parents, Sinatra disappeared after the girl died in a tragic gun accident.

Fortune:

Nancy Pelosi Urges Democrats to Unite Ahead of First Leadership Vote — Nancy Pelosi, who's facing challenges to her possible return as U.S. House Speaker, urged her Democratic colleagues to unite and support her candidacy to be leader of the party in the new Congress.

Discussion: Townhall and TheBlaze