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Reuters:
GM to slash jobs and production, cancel some car models — DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors Co will cut car production, stop building several slow-selling models, and slash its North American workforce, its biggest restructuring in North America since its bankruptcy a decade ago.
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Political Wire
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Associated Press:
The Latest: GM to slash 14,700 jobs in North America — DETROIT (AP) — The Latest on General Motors' restructuring plans (all times local): — General Motors will lay off 14,700 factory and white-collar workers in North America and put five plants up for possible closure as it restructures …
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Shareblue Media
Reuters:
GM to slash jobs and production, cancel some car models: sources — DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors Co will cut car production, stop building several low-selling car models, and slash its North American workforce, sources said on Monday, marking its biggest restructuring in North America since its bankruptcy a decade ago.
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USA Today, Media Matters for America and The Verge
Neal E. Boudette / New York Times:
G.M. to Stop Production at 5 Plants in U.S. and Canada — General Motors said Monday that it planned to idle three car plants and two transmission plants in a bid to trim costs as the North American auto sector slows. — The plants include a factory in Lordstown, Ohio …
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Mother Jones
Taylor Telford / Washington Post:
GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada
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Bloomberg, CNN, Investor's Business Daily and NPR
NBC News:
In 2018, political gravity caught up to Trump — First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — WASHINGTON — A few hours into Election Night 2018, it felt like it was happening again …
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The Gateway Pundit, Outside the Beltway, Political Wire, Conservative News Today, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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Donald J. Trump / Popular Information:
Cindy Hyde-Smith strikes out
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Shareblue Media, Washington Post and USA Today
Jackson Free Press:
Full ‘Public Hanging’ Video Surfaces, Revealing More About Hyde-Smith's Views
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Popular Information
Morgan Howard / WLBT-TV:
Nooses, hate signs found at Mississippi State Capitol
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The Clarion Ledger and POLITICUSUSA
Washington Post:
‘These children are barefoot. In diapers. Choking on tear gas.’ — A little girl from Honduras stares into the camera, her young features contorted in anguish. She's barefoot, dusty, and clad only in a diaper and T-shirt. And she's just had to run from clouds of choking tear gas fired across the border by U.S. agents.
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Brandon Morse / RedState:
Those of the Migrant Caravan Attempting to Storm the US Border Aren't Asylum Seekers — There's a good deal of people telling us to watch our language when it comes to the migrant caravan knocking on the shut door of the United States and demanding entry and have issued the “correct” descriptive language for us when we speak of them.
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Breitbart, The Daily Caller and Conservative News Today
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump seizes on border unrest ahead of perilous month
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The Gateway Pundit, Vox, IJR, Louder With Crowder, KTLA, twitchy.com, Daily Wire, Contemptor and Reuters
Sara Murray / CNN:
Roger Stone associate says he won't agree to plea deal — Stone reacts to his associate's plea talks — (CNN)An associate of Roger Stone said Monday he is refusing to sign a plea deal offered by special counsel Robert Mueller. — Jerome Corsi, whose role in Mueller's investigation …
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Breitbart and Washington Times
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
‘I connect the dots’: Mueller target claims Podesta hack knowledge was educated guess — Conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi said Monday that he knew WikiLeaks had obtained a trove of emails from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in the summer of 2016 — but insisted his awareness was simply an educated guess.
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Raw Story
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Right-wing conspiracy monger Jerome Corsi says he would ‘rather sit in prison’ …
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The Atlantic, Washington Post and Talking Points Memo
Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
How a Liberal Couple Became Two of N.Y.'s Biggest Trump Supporters — In some ways, they are a typical political power couple seeking to “Make America Great Again.” — They are throwing a $5 million fund-raiser for President Trump this winter, and are quick to make it known …
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Raw Story
Laura Nahmias / Politico:
Franken scandal haunts Gillibrand's 2020 chances — Just a month after Al Franken formally resigned from the Senate amid sexual misconduct allegations, the former senator met with an intimate group of Bay Area supporters at the home of major Democratic Party financiers Mary and Steve Swig.
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New Republic, Splinter, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon and Jezebel
Washington Post:
In the United States, right-wing violence is on the rise — As a Republican, Mitchell Adkins complained of feeling like an outcast at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky. “Hardcore liberals” made fun of him, he wrote, and he faced “discrimination on a daily basis.” He soon dropped out and enrolled in trade school.
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ThinkProgress and Axios
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
Flashback: Despite Twitter's Protests, The Stifling of Conservative Speech On The Platform Is Real. — UPDATE: People seem to want more, and although there's nothing duller than posting a screed on why you're quitting a platform, here's the gist: I've never liked Twitter even though I've used it.
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Watts Up With That?, The Federalist, Conservative Review, twitchy.com, Althouse and Patterico's Pontifications
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Ricochet:
Twitter Slides Further into Irrelevancy
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The Federalist, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, twitchy.com and RedState
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Conservative pundit Jesse Kelly's Twitter ban sparks outrage: ‘New low’
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The Moderate Voice, The Federalist, Hit & Run and twitchy.com
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump's Personal Aide Karem Is Said to Intend to Resign Post — President Donald Trump is losing his personal aide, Jordan Karem, who plans to resign after less than a year on the job, according to people familiar with the matter. — Karem serves as Trump's so-called “bodyman,” …
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Raw Story
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John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump's second ‘body man,’ Jordan Karem, leaving post at year's end
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Politico
Washington Post:
Democratic rebel seeks negotiations with Pelosi on races for leadership — A high-profile critic of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi signaled on Monday that he is seeking to hold negotiations with her about changes to her leadership team, a development that makes her ascendancy …
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Talking Points Memo, Political Wire and New York Times
Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
Jared Kushner pushed to inflate Saudi arms deal to $110 billion: Sources — President Donald Trump's reluctance to hold Saudi leadership accountable for the brutal murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi stemmed from a partly aspirational $110 billion arms deal between the U.S. and Saudia Arabia …
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Politico, Washington Post, Raw Story and The Atlantic
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
White House lacks lawyers to deal with empowered Democrats — The White House counsel's office is down to a skeletal staff, potentially leaving them unprepared to deal with a flood of subpoenas for documents and witnesses when Democrats take control of the House.
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Talking Points Memo, Law & Crime and Raw Story
Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
Trump Accuses Mueller of ‘Conflicts of Interest’ in Explosive Tweet: ‘NO Collusion & Mueller Knows It!’ — President Donald Trump on Monday morning attacked Special Counsel Robert Mueller directly and personally on Twitter, questioning his honesty and integrity.
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The Guardian, CNBC and Talking Points Memo
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump accuses Mueller of ignoring 2016 staffers who ‘want to be’ questioned
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Washington Post and Political Wire
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
'It's a Long Story': Justice John Paul Stevens, 98, Is Publishing a Memoir — WASHINGTON — Four years after Justice John Paul Stevens retired from the Supreme Court in 2010, his wife, Maryan, threw a surprise party for his 94th birthday. The gathering of old friends summoned vivid memories …
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ThinkProgress and CNN
Devan Cole / CNN:
Mia Love slams Trump in concession speech: ‘No real relationships, just convenient transactions’ — GOP Rep. Mia Love: Trump comments racist — Washington (CNN)Republican Rep. Mia Love sharply criticized President Donald Trump during a concession speech on Monday, saying Trump's vision of the world is …
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The Guardian
Sharyl Attkisson / The Hill:
More questions than answers in too many Trump stories — Something strange has happened to the news. We've largely suspended our normal ethical practices and standards when it comes to covering President Trump. — Maybe it doesn't seem strange to the usual crowd: the Washington …
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Washington Monthly and Washington Post
Marilynn Marchione / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: First gene-edited babies claimed in China — HONG KONG (AP) — A Chinese researcher claims that he helped make the world's first genetically edited babies — twin girls born this month whose DNA he said he altered with a powerful new tool capable of rewriting the very blueprint of life.
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MIT Technology Review, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, Daily Wire and RT
Scott Pelley / CBS News:
The chaos behind Donald Trump's policy of family separation at the border — A 60 Minutes investigation has found the separations that dominated headlines this summer began earlier and were greater in number than the Trump administration admits — This past week, a federal judge struck down the president's latest immigration order.
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Washington Post, IJR, Mediaite and Daily Kos
New York Times:
It's Not Just Trump in House Democrats' Cross Hairs. His Family Is, Too. — WASHINGTON — When two Republican members of Congress began formally questioning last week Ivanka Trump's use of private email for government business, it was seen by people close to the White House as a sign of things to come for the president's family.
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POLITICUSUSA
Eli Meixler / TIME:
Home Is the ‘Most Dangerous Place’ for Women Around the World, New U.N. Study Says — The “most dangerous place” for women around the world may be at home. More than half of female murder victims last year were killed by their partners or family members, according to a new United Nations study.
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