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Philip Ewing / NPR:
Trump Jr.'s 2017 Testimony Conflicts With Cohen's Account Of Russian Talks  —  Donald Trump Jr.'s testimony to Congress about his family's real estate negotiations with powerful Russians does not comport with the new version laid out by Donald Trump's ex-attorney Michael Cohen, official transcripts show.
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Conservatives, Prepare Yourself Now for What Mueller May Find  —  How we react in the aftermath of the special counsel's findings will determine the future of the Republican Party and, possibly, the country.  —  Matt Lewis  —  Things are speeding up in Robert Mueller's universe.
Discussion: Raw Story
BuzzFeed News:
The Trump Organization Planned To Give Vladimir Putin The $50 Million Penthouse In Trump Tower Moscow  —  President Donald Trump's company planned to give a $50 million penthouse at Trump Tower Moscow to Russian President Vladimir Putin as the company negotiated the luxury real estate development during …
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Trump's inner circle has always been a cesspool  —  President Trump recently tweeted: “Did you ever see an investigation more in search of a crime?”  —  It is usually a bad idea to raise a rhetorical question when the answer is both obvious and unfavorable.
Michael Hirsh / Foreign Policy:
Why the G-20 Leaders Are Gloating Behind Trump's Back
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Mueller eyes Ivanka and Don Jr.'s work on Trump Tower Moscow
Washington Post:
‘Individual 1’: Trump emerges as a central subject of Mueller probe
Garrett M. Graff / Axios:
The new clues we have about where the Mueller investigation is going
Discussion: Washington Post
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump Gave Russia Leverage Over His Presidency
Discussion: National Review and Vox
Bloomberg:
Acting AG Appears to Have Misled FTC Over Actions at Miami Firm  — FTC emails show Whitaker denied communicating with customers  — Officials also expressed surprise at AG's hiring of Whitaker  —  New documents released by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission suggest …
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Washington Post:
Whitaker fielded early fraud complaints from customers at patent company yet promoted it for years, records show  —  Months after joining the advisory board of a Miami-based patent company in 2014, Matthew G. Whitaker began fielding angry complaints from customers that they were being defrauded …
Discussion: Political Wire
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Acting attorney general Whitaker was notified in advance of Cohen plea
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
Louisiana School Made Headlines for Sending Black Kids to Elite Colleges.  Here's the Reality.  —  T.M. Landry, a school in small-town Louisiana, has garnered national attention for vaulting its underprivileged black students to elite colleges.  But the school cut corners and doctored college applications.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Mueller could hit Manafort with retrial, new charges  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller's office is considering retrying former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on a slew of federal charges that resulted in a hung jury over the summer.  —  At a hearing in federal court Friday morning …
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New York Times:
Robert Mueller and His Prosecutors: Who They Are and What They've Done  —  Ahmad  —  Zelinsky  —  Andres  —  Zebley  —  Atkinson  —  Weissmann  —  Dreeben  —  Mueller  —  Goldstein  —  Rhee  —  Jed  —  Quarles III  —  Meisler  —  Prelogar  —  Ahmad  —  Zelinsky  —  Andres
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Government watchdog finds six Trump staffers violated Hatch Act  —  The U.S. Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) on Friday found that six members of the Trump administration violated the Hatch Act.  —  The OSC cited six staffers with violating the federal law in response to a complaint filed …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and IJR
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Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
Six Officials Reprimanded for Hatch Act Violations Following CREW Complaints
Discussion: NPR and Splinter
Raul M. Grijalva / Associated Press:
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke must resign.  His multiple scandals show he's unfit to serve.  —  Ryan Zinke needs to resign immediately as Secretary of the Interior.  —  I take no pleasure in calling for this step, and I have resisted it even as questions have grown about Mr. Zinke's ethical and managerial failings.
Michael Sykes / Axios:
In photos: Trump, Putin and MBS collide at the G20  —  Many of the world's most prominent leaders gathered at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires on Friday, including President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) — whose interactions have remained firmly in the headlines over recent weeks.
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Karen Elliott House / Wall Street Journal:   Rethinking Saudi Arabia
San Francisco Chronicle:
California's late votes broke big for Democrats.  Here's why GOP was surprised  —  California Democrats took advantage of seemingly minor changes in a 2016 law to score their stunningly successful midterm election results, providing a target for GOP unhappiness that is tinged with a bit of admiration.
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Ryan casts doubt on ‘bizarre’ California election results
Bill Glauber / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Where is Wisconsin GOP headed after midterm losses?  Ron Johnson enlists Reince Priebus to help party rebound
Discussion: Political Wire
Dylan Scott / Vox:
There's something very weird going on with this House election in North Carolina  —  State officials refuse to certify the results of a US House race in North Carolina.  It's a wild story.  —  North Carolina election officials have declined to certify the winner of the state's Ninth …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House Democrats to unveil political reform legislation as ‘H.R. 1’  —  House Democratic leaders are set to publicly unveil on Friday the outline of a broad political overhaul bill that will include provisions for public financing of elections, voting rights reforms and new ethics strictures for federal officials.
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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
House Democrats' 1st bill targets big donors, voting access
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Media Matters for America:
Bret Stephens' 2018 midterm analysis is quietly getting worse  —  In the aftermath of election night 2018, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote a column arguing that the Democrats had kind of blown it.  Under the headline “The Midterm Results Are a Warning to the Democrats,” …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Griffin Connolly / Roll Call:
Democrat Claire McCaskill Angry with Her Party as She Departs Senate  —  Sen. Claire McCaskill is leaving the Senate after losing her re-election bid to state Attorney General Josh Hawley by 6 points earlier this month, but the Missouri Democrat isn't heading out on a whimper.
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Peter Granitz / NPR:
McCaskill Blames Senate Defeat On Democratic ‘Failure’ With Rural America
Discussion: Jezebel
Los Angeles Times:
Trump and leaders of Mexico and Canada sign new trade pact to revise NAFTA, but uncertainty remains … President Trump and the leaders of Canada and Mexico signed a revision of the quarter-century-old North American Free Trade Agreement early Friday, but their ceremony did not disguise …
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
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Washington Post:   Trump scores political win with signing of new North American trade pact at G-20, but deal still faces …
New York Times:
Sheryl Sandberg Is Said to Have Asked Facebook Staff to Research George Soros  —  Sheryl Sandberg asked Facebook's communications staff to research George Soros's financial interests in the wake of his high-profile attacks on tech companies, according to three people with knowledge of her request …
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
On the Trump-Mood Beat — But Why?  —  “Let's start with the state of Donald Trump,” Fox News's Chris Wallace said at the outset of the president's latest on-camera interview, on Nov. 17, in the manner of a support-group facilitator pausing for a little check-in before an unpacking of recent events.
Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Raids Home Of Whistleblower On Clinton Foundation, Lawyer Says  — The FBI raided the home of a whistleblower who was in possession of documents regarding the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One, according to the whistleblower's lawyer, Michael Socarras.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Fox News:
Temple University stands by Marc Lamont Hill after CNN fires him for anti-Israel remarks  —  At least one person is somehow too polarizing for cable news, but apparently just fine for academia.  —  Temple University stood by Marc Lamont Hill on Thursday, the same day he was fired from CNN …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP governors call out Trump after midterm drubbing  —  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Republican governors are warning President Donald Trump that he and the GOP need to make a sharp course correction after their midterm shellacking to avoid losing again in 2020.  —  While the president has hailed …
 
 
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Associated Press:
URGENT: Powerful Quakes Buckle Alaska Roads, Trigger Tsunami Warning
Discussion: The Daily Caller
CNN:
Rep. Steve King appeared on podcast frequented by white nationalists
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
EPA watchdog clears former policy chief Samantha Dravis of charges she skipped work
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Trump administration to let companies run deafening seismic tests that can kill marine life …
Discussion: Common Dreams
Lauren Hepler / New York Times:
Menial Tasks, Slurs and Swastikas: Many Black Workers at Tesla Say They Faced Racism
Discussion: The Verge and The Daily Caller
Summer Concepcion / Talking Points Memo:
Franken Wades Into A Comeback In The #MeToo Era
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Associated Press:
‘Enemy’ or ‘mother’? Chinese party members occupy homes
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Kathleen Gray / Detroit Free Press:
Republican bills seek to challenge incoming Democrats in Michigan
Discussion: Shareblue Media
YouTube:
Senator Soundbite: 100 Media Interviews, 0 Accomplishments
Discussion: Political Wire
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
The China hawk who captured Trump's ‘very, very large brain’
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Post
Marriott News Center:
Marriott Announces Starwood Guest Reservation Database Security Incident
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Google Employees Debated Burying Conservative Media In Search
 

 
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Liam Scott / Voice of America:
Reporters Without Borders sues X in France for “complicity in disseminating false information”, after X failed to block a fake video with RSF's logo

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Disney said Disney+ Q4 ARPU in the US and Canada, down 1% QoQ to $7.70, was affected partly by new wholesale arrangements with some distributors

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with Telegraph Director of Technology Dylan Jacques on the goal of launching 12 significant uses of AI in the newsroom over 12 months

 
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