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David Taylor / The Guardian:
‘He has moved incredibly quickly’: Mueller nears Trump endgame — A new urgency surrounds the Russia investigation, with Donald Trump Jr and longtime Trump ally Roger Stone in legal peril — Donald Trump only has himself to blame for Robert Mueller's return to public life.
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ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcripts 11-25-18: Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Gov. John Kasich, Sen. Sherrod Brown — A rush transcript of a special edition of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” airing on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018 on ABC News is below. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
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Political Wire and POLITICUSUSA
Roey Hadar / ABC News:
Mueller report will be ‘devastating’ for the president: Frequent Trump defender — Alan Dershowitz, a frequent defender of President Donald Trump, said special counsel Robert Mueller's report will be “devastating” for the president. — The Harvard Law professor emeritus told ABC News Chief …
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Political Wire and Law & Crime
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.
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Internal documents Facebook has fought to keep private obtained by UK Parliament
Internal documents Facebook has fought to keep private obtained by UK Parliament
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Political Wire and Althouse
S. Matthew Liao / New York Times:
Do You Have a Moral Duty to Leave Facebook?
James Arkin / Politico:
Alabama GOP: Sessions not guaranteed to win back his old seat — Republicans are certain they can win back the Alabama Senate seat they lost in spectacular fashion last year. They just aren't sure whether Jeff Sessions is the one to do it. — Sessions' name surfaced as a potential candidate immediately …
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Raw Story
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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 …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Across South, Democrats Who Speak Boldly Risk Alienating Rural White Voters
Across South, Democrats Who Speak Boldly Risk Alienating Rural White Voters
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Hullabaloo and Eschaton
BBC:
Migrant caravan: Mexican officials deny US border deal — Mexico's incoming foreign minister has said discussions on how to deal with migrants travelling to the United States are continuing despite reports a deal has been reached. — Marcelo Ebrard denied reaching an agreement …
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ThinkProgress, Townhall, Fox News Insider, The Daily Caller and Althouse
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Amy Guthrie / Associated Press:
Incoming Mexico gov't: No deal to host US asylum-seekers
Incoming Mexico gov't: No deal to host US asylum-seekers
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HuffPost, Washington Free Beacon, Mediaite and Chicago Tribune
Kate Linthicum / Herald-Mail Media:
A border clash turns deadly
Washington Post:
Ex-Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos must report to prison Monday, judge orders — A federal judge on Sunday ruled that George Papadopoulos must report to prison as scheduled on Monday, rejecting a bid from the former Trump campaign adviser to delay the start of his prison sentence …
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Associated Press and Axios
David Siders / Politico:
New Hampshire political legend falls prey to Trump effect — Secretary of State Bill Gardner has had a decades-long run as the legendary, hard-nosed guardian of New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary. But he may not make it through the Trump era. — Gardner, a fixture …
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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 …
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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” …
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Axios, POLITICUSUSA, HuffPost and Raw Story
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.
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al.com, Mother Jones, TheBlaze, Daily Kos, Law & Crime and Breitbart
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.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
When it comes to undermining faith in democracy, another low point — For more than two years, voters have heard Democrats accuse Republicans of trying to undermine confidence in the American democratic system. — The charge was thrown about repeatedly in the 2016 presidential election …
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
‘Never Trump’ Republicans went Democrat in 2018. Are they gone for good? — Mocked as irrelevant after President Trump's election, voters who leaned Republican in prior races handed Democrats huge wins in suburban districts. — WASHINGTON — Kristin Olsen, who until 2016 led …
BBC:
EU leaders agree UK's Brexit deal at Brussels summit — EU leaders have approved an agreement on the UK's withdrawal and future relations - insisting it is the “best and only deal possible”. — After 20 months of negotiations, the 27 leaders gave the deal their blessing after less than an hour's discussion.
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BBC, Politico and Associated Press
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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 …
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madison.com, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Washington Press, Daily Kos, TheBlaze and Splinter