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Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed News:
The Mueller Report's Secret Memos  —  BuzzFeed News sued the US government for the right to see all the work that Mueller's team kept secret.  Today we are publishing the first installment.  —  The 448-page report issued by then-special counsel Robert Mueller last March …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Mueller interview notes obtained by CNN show Trump's push for stolen emails  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump and other top 2016 Trump campaign officials repeatedly privately discussed how the campaign could get access to stolen Democratic emails WikiLeaks had in 2016, according …
Washington Post:
Internal Mueller documents show Trump campaign chief pushed unproven theory Ukraine hacked Democrats  —  President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, suggested as early as the summer of 2016 that Ukrainians might have been responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee during …
Discussion: Axios, BuzzFeed News and Raw Story
Washington Post:
A presidential loathing for Ukraine is at the heart of the impeachment inquiry  —  Three of President Trump's top advisers met with him in the Oval Office in May, determined to convince him that the new Ukrainian leader was an ally deserving of U.S. support.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
WaPo: WH Record Of Trump-Zelensky Call Put Words In Ukrainian Prez's Mouth, Official Testified  —  The White House's memorandum of the July 25 call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky put words in the Ukrainian president's mouth that he never said, a White House official testified this week.
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Smugglers are sawing through new sections of Trump's border wall  —  SAN DIEGO — Smuggling gangs in Mexico have repeatedly sawed through new sections of President Trump's border wall in recent months by using commercially available power tools, opening gaps large enough for people and drug loads …
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:   Killed That Wall! Smugglers Defeating Trump's New Replacement Border Fence with $100 Power Saws
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Nancy Pelosi Is Worried 2020 Candidates Are on Wrong Track  — Speaker questions appeal of Medicare For All, Green New Deal  — Ideas could repel voters in swing Midwestern states, she says  —  Nancy Pelosi is issuing a pointed message to Democrats running for president in 2020 …
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James Crowley / Newsweek:
Pete Buttigieg Says Democratic Race Is Shaping Up to Be a ‘Two-Way’ Between Him and Elizabeth Warren  —  South Bend, Indiana Mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said in a new interview that he believes the race for his party's nomination will be between Senator Elizabeth Warren and himself.
Discussion: Mediaite
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
At Iowa's Democratic dinner, Warren and Buttigieg take aim at one another
Discussion: The Hill
Giovanni Russonello / New York Times:
5 Takeaways From the Latest Iowa Poll
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Guardian
Harry Enten / CNN:
Iowa is anyone's game in a historically messy field
Discussion: Redstate and Vox
Yahoo News:
Children were told to ‘build the wall’ at White House Halloween party  —  WASHINGTON — A Halloween party on Oct. 25 at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building featured candy, paper airplanes and — concerning for some attendees — a station where children were encouraged to help “Build the Wall” with their own personalized bricks.
New York Times:
In Trump's Twitter Feed: Conspiracy-Mongers, Racists and Spies  —  In September, an obscure Twitter account promoting a fringe belief about an anti-Trump cabal within the government tweeted out a hashtag: #FakeWhistleblower.  —  It was typical for the anonymous account …
Discussion: Mashable and Political Wire
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New York Times:
How Trump Reshaped the Presidency in Over 11,000 Tweets  —  With a single tweet last fall, Mr. Trump sent his administration into a tailspin.  “I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught,” he wrote in October 2018, angry about a caravan of migrants from Central America.
New York Times:
Trump's Twitter Presidency: 9 Key Takeaways
Discussion: Axios
Dan Merica / CNN:
Castro fights to stay in race as staff looks for other jobs  —  Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)Julián Castro plans to refocus his 2020 presidential campaign on Iowa, Nevada and Texas in the coming days and is supporting his staffers looking for jobs with other campaigns, sources familiar with the plans tell CNN.
Discussion: The Hill
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David Siders / Politico:
Inside Beto O'Rourke's collapse
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Ashe Schow / The Daily Wire:
Elizabeth Warren Asked What Will Happen To Health Insurance Workers Under Medicare-For-All, Claims They'll Work In Car Insurance  —  About 600,000 people work in the health and medical insurance industry in the United States, according to market research firm IBIS World.
Discussion: Redstate, Power Line and Breitbart
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Associated Press:   US judge blocks Trump's health insurance rule for immigrants
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Donald Trump Jr. Has a Few Grievances to Air in Upcoming Book  — President's oldest son also shares some personal anecdotes  — Video-gaming with Michael Jackson; debating Obama's Nobel  —  The president's oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., airs some of the family's grievances over the probe …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Jr. Critiques Mueller in New Book
Discussion: CNN, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
NewsHound Ellen / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Tucker Carlson's Very Creepy Smear Of Adam Schiff: Impeachment In ‘Steamy, Unhinged Letters Using His Own Body Fluids’  —  Fox's Tucker Carlson probably grossed out a large number of viewers with what he must have imagined was a hilarious smear of Rep. Adam Schiff over impeachment.  —  Views:
Discussion: Hullabaloo
John McDermott / New York Times:
Those People We Tried to Cancel?  They're All Hanging Out Together  —  Depriving people of a platform works — in unexpected ways.  —  Katie Herzog was a largely unknown freelance journalist living in Seattle.  Then she published an article in The Stranger about trans people who halt or reverse transitions.
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Virginia Is On The Brink Of Cementing Its Democratic Status  —  Republicans risk losing their last footholds of power in the Old Dominion.  —  Democrats are poised to take control of both of Virginia's state legislative chambers on Tuesday, bringing the state under unified Democratic control for the first time in a quarter century.
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump lies about CNN at Mississippi rally  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump stood before thousands of supporters in Mississippi on Friday night, squinted and pointed, and told them he was seeing something that was not actually happening.  —  Trump criticized CNN at length at his campaign rally in Tupelo.
Axios:
GOP worries banned political ads could upend Trump's 2020 campaign  —  Top Republicans are privately worried about a new threat to President Trump's campaign: the possibility of Facebook pulling a Twitter and banning political ads.  —  Why it matters: Facebook says it won't, but future regulatory pressure could change that.
Discussion: Raw Story
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Adam Neumann and the Art of Failing Up  —  WeWork's chief risk-taker found a kindred spirit with an open checkbook: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son.  Now he's walking away from the wreckage with more than $1 billion.  —  Adam Neumann stood on the 57th floor of the Woolworth Building …
Jim Silver / Bloomberg:
U.K. Conservatives Have Eight-Point Lead in Telegraph/ORB Poll  —  U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservatives have 36% support, ahead of Labour's 28%, the Sunday Telegraph reported, citing the results of a survey by ORB International.  —  That was followed by the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats …
Discussion: Telegraph and Political Wire
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Hero dog ‘Conan’ injured during Baghdadi raid deserves purple heart: vets  —  It's a barking shame.  —  A heroic Belgian Malinois who chased down Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last week and was wounded after the ISIS boss blew himself up with a suicide vest will not receive a Purple Heart.
 
 
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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
The Hard Questions About Young People and Gender Transitions
Discussion: Breitbart
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Trump Keeps Picking Unqualified People To Be Lifetime Judges. Republicans Don't Care.
Wall Street Journal:
California Governor Threatens State Takeover of PG&E
Annie Karni / New York Times:
As Government Officials Testify Against Trump, Critics Question Why an Author Stays Anonymous
Bobby Lewis / Media Matters for America:
The White House press briefing now takes place on Fox News
Hanna Trudo / The Daily Beast:
Democrats Plan Political Siege on Trump's Sunshine State Move
Discussion: Raw Story
Radley Balko / Washington Post:
A Louisiana DA will let you out of your community service obligation — if you donate to his nonprofit
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Andrew Yang adds experience to his pirate-ship campaign
Discussion: The Week
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Shaun Walker / The Guardian:
George Soros: ‘Brexit hurts both sides - my money was used to educate the British public’
CNN:
Facebook will allow UK election candidates to run false ads
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The NeverTrump Vindication
Discussion: Raw Story
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Rules of impeachment, then and now: ANALYSIS
Discussion: Vox and Breitbart
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
‘Divorced from the facts’: DOJ shoots down claims Strzok and the FBI trapped Flynn
Tom McCarthy / The Guardian:
Experts on Trump's conduct: ‘Plainly an abuse of power, plainly impeachable’
Everton Bailey Jr / Oregonian:
Baton attack during June protests in downtown Portland lands man in prison for nearly 6 years
Polina Ivanova / Reuters:
Exclusive: Overhaul of Ukraine prosecution agency buries Manafort inquiries - investigators
 

 
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Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

 
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