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CNN:
Roger Stone indicted on charges brought by special counsel  —  (CNN)Roger Stone has been indicted by a grand jury on charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller, who alleges that the longtime Donald Trump associate sought stolen emails from WikiLeaks that could damage Trump's opponents …
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Roger Stone, Adviser to Trump, Is Indicted in Mueller Investigation  —  WASHINGTON — Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime informal adviser to President Trump who has spent decades plying the dark arts of scandal-mongering and dirty tricks to help influence American political campaigns …
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Steve Bannon is the ‘high-ranking’ Trump official in Roger Stone indictment who asked about future WikiLeaks releases in October 2016  — Former White House chief strategist and Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon is the “high-ranking Trump campaign official” in special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of Roger Stone, CNBC has learned.
Associated Press:
Trump associate Stone arrested, faces obstruction charge  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, was arrested in the special counsel's Russia investigation in a pre-dawn raid at his Florida home on Friday and was charged with lying to Congress and obstructing the probe.
Washington Post:
Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone indicted by special counsel in Russia investigation  —  Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime informal adviser to President Trump, was arrested by the FBI on Friday after being indicted in the investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
What the Roger Stone indictment tells us about the Trump campaign  —  Roger Stone's indictment by the Mueller investigation reveals a series of alleged conversations between the Republican operative and Trump campaign officials regarding the timing and content of Wikileaks' email dumps during …
Discussion: NBC News
Sara Murray / CNN:
As Stone waits for Mueller, he's back to going out for pizza on Fridays
Talking Points Memo:
Roger Stone Indicted By Mueller Grand Jury
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Washington Post
NBC News:
Officials rejected Jared Kushner for top secret security clearance, but were overruled  —  Jared Kushner was rejected for a top secret clearance by 2 career security specialists, but their supervisor overruled them and approved him, say sources.  —  WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner's application …
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Washington Post:
‘This is your fault’: GOP senators clash over shutdown inside private luncheon  —  Republican senators clashed with each other and confronted Vice President Pence inside a private luncheon on Thursday, as anger hit a boiling point over the longest government shutdown in history.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators read Pence riot act before shutdown votes  —  Frustrated GOP senators read Vice President Pence the riot act at a closed-door meeting Thursday, telling him the partial government shutdown needs to end soon, according to lawmakers in the room.  —  Republican senators …
Discussion: Shareblue Media and The Resurgent
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Trump White House grows eager to escape losing shutdown fight  —  Now that the Senate has shot down President Donald Trump's compromise offer to end the month-long government shutdown, White House officials aren't sure of their next move.  —  But they do know one thing: they're losing, and they want to cut a deal.
CNN:
Exclusive: White House preparing draft national emergency order, has identified $7 billion for wall  —  Washington (CNN)The White House is preparing a draft proclamation for President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency along the southern border and has identified more than $7 billion …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The losing move  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  DAY 35 ... NEW ... ONE IDEA that seems to be picking up steam at the White House and in some quarters on Capitol Hill is creating a commission to study border security and a border wall.  —  NEEDLESS TO SAY, THIS WOULD BE REPUBLICANS FOLDING …
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump Just Lost His Leverage for Building a Wall
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, plans to integrate the social network's messaging services — WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger — asserting his control over the company's sprawling divisions …
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WCPO:
Nicholas Sandmann's family hires ‘attorney for the damned’ specializing in libel, slander  —  SCOTTSDALE, AZ - NOVEMBER 8: Republican presidential candidate and former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain waits as his lawyer speaks at a press conference November 8, 2011 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Elie Mystal / The Nation:   Black Children Don't Have Nick Sandmann's Rights
Rich Lowry / Politico:
In Defense of the MAGA Hat
Marc Caputo / Politico:
'Florida is Trump's state to lose'  —  The nation's biggest swing state looks even more like Trump Country heading into 2020.  —  Newly released Florida voter data suggest President Donald Trump will begin his reelection campaign as the favorite in a state that offers a windfall of 29 electoral votes.
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Rachel Bitecofer / New York Times:
Why Trump Will Lose in 2020  —  The president is running hard …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Paul Manafort in court to face Mueller probe allegations he lied after pleading guilty  —  Paul Manafort appeared in federal court Friday morning to face a U.S. judge weighing whether President Trump's former campaign chairman breached his plea agreement by lying repeatedly to prosecutors …
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Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort expected in court to confront special counsel's allegations of lying
Discussion: Daily Kos
Rachael Larimore / The Bulwark:
Darwin Is Coming for the GOP  —  A new survey of Generation Z shows that the Republican party is going to have to adapt or die.  —  In 1964, 80 percent of Republican House members and 82 percent of Republican senators voted for the Civil Rights Act.  In 1980, GOP presidential candidates spoke …
Washington Post:
Wilbur Ross says furloughed workers should take out a loan.  His agency's own credit union is charging nearly 9 percent  —  The Department of Commerce federal credit union is charging furloughed employees almost 9 percent interest on emergency loans to cover their missing paychecks …
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Washington Post:
‘Am I out of touch?’: Trump administration struggles to show empathy for workers.
Discussion: Politico
Associated Press:
Backed by military, Venezuela's Maduro hits back at rival  —  Backed by Venezuela's military, President Nicolas Maduro went on the offensive against an opposition leader who declared himself interim president and his U.S. supporters, setting up a potentially explosive struggle for power in the crisis-plagued South American nation.
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were a conservative  —  If Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) were a conservative, all anyone would be talking about is how uninformed she is.  She would be facing trick questions from reporters designed to expose her lack of knowledge, and brutal sketches on …
Discussion: Grist
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
GOP compares Ocasio-Cortez to Trump
Discussion: AOL and Hot Air
Sabrina Siddiqui / The Guardian:
Leading liberal thinktank will no longer accept funds from UAE  —  Center for American Progress says it aims to distance itself from authoritarian regimes amid questions over ‘which side our president is on’  —  The Center for American Progress, one of the most prominent liberal thinktanks in Washington …
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Mark Warner's Enablers  —  The Virginia senator gets too much respect for his Trump-Russia conspiracy theories.  —  Hand it to Sen. Mark Warner.  Of the many Russia-collusion theorists, how many get to claim “bipartisan” credentials?  —  That's one question that accompanied Thursday's supposedly big news …
 
 
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Trump Administration memo opens door to mass sickout by ATC
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Facebook knowingly duped game-playing kids and their parents out of money
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Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
School-Safety Panel Said to Pull Punches, Fearing ‘Racist’ Tag
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
A Rival Who Can Flummox Trump: A Powerful Woman Named Nancy Pelosi
Alberto Luperon / Law & Crime:
Oregon Man Sentenced to 20 Months for Sexually Assaulting a Horse
Washington Post:
Koch network tells donors it plans to stay out of 2020 race, once again declining to back Trump
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
Jeffrey Schweers / Tallahassee Democrat:
Florida Secretary of State Michael Ertel resigns after Halloween blackface photos emerge
 

 
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