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6:15 PM ET, November 23, 2019

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New York Times:
Navy Is Said to Proceed With Disciplinary Plans Against Edward Gallagher  —  Top military officials threatened to resign or be fired if their plans to remove Chief Gallagher from the SEALs were halted by President Trump, administration officials said.  —  The secretary of the Navy and the admiral …
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NBC News:
Navy secretary strongly considering resigning over Trump's meddling in SEAL case  —  Navy Secretary Spencer considered quitting over Trump's demand the Navy stop a probe of SEAL Eddie Gallagher.  Military leaders lobbied Trump to reconsider.  —  WASHINGTON — Military leaders hoping to keep …
Discussion: Vox and Raw Story
Steve Scherer / Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. Navy secretary backs SEAL's expulsion review, despite Trump objection
Discussion: Navy Times and The Gateway Pundit
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump's GOP support hardens despite damning impeachment testimony  —  After two weeks of extraordinary open hearings that Democrats envisioned as their best opportunity to shape public opinion on impeachment, President Trump claims to be impervious to the cascade of damaging revelations …
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Evan Semones / Politico:
Top Dem says ethics investigation into Devin Nunes likely  —  The top Democrat on the House armed services committee said Saturday that Republican Rep. Devin Nunes is likely to face an ethics investigation over allegations he met with an ex-Ukrainian prosecutor at the center of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
Discussion: Joe.My.God., CNN, The Week and Raw Story
Amanda Teuscher / American Oversight:
State Department Releases Ukraine Documents to American Oversight  —  On Friday evening, the State Department released nearly 100 pages of records in response to American Oversight's lawsuit seeking a range of documents related to the Trump administration's dealings with Ukraine.
Michael Wilner / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Records show contact between Pompeo and Giuliani ahead of Ukraine ambassador's ouster  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had several phone calls with President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, toward the end of March, weeks before U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch …
Vicky Ward / CNN:
Exclusive: Giuliani associate willing to tell Congress Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official to get dirt on Biden
Tareq Haddad / Newsweek:
After Giuliani ‘Fixer’ Alleges Nunes Met With Ukrainian Officials to Seek Biden Dirt, Congressman Threatens to Sue Media
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Week
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Gatekeeper Put Rudy in Touch With Pompeo: Emails
Discussion: Political Wire
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Devin Nunes to Sue CNN, Daily Beast over Fake News Attacks
Kristen Welker / NBC News:
Giuliani associate willing to testify Rep. Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official, attorney says
Discussion: Vox and Crooks and Liars
NBC News:
Documents released to ethics group show Giuliani, Pompeo contacts before Ukraine ambassador ousted
Discussion: New York Post
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
How Facebook's Embed in the Trump Campaign Helped the President Win  —  James Barnes is now focused on using digital-ad strategies to try to get Trump out of office in 2020  —  After the 2016 presidential election, Republican Party officials credited Facebook Inc. with helping Donald Trump win the White House.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ken Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Joe Biden Tells Democrats, 'We've Got to Stop This Circular Firing Squad'  —  Former vice president campaigns in Iowa as recent polls in the state have shown him losing ground to South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg  —  DES MOINES, Iowa—Former Vice President Joe Biden is warning Democrats to halt a …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Maura Barrett / NBC News:
Kamala Harris tells Iowa voters she's ‘not a socialist’
Tom Vilsack / USA Today:
Joe Biden has stood the test of time. He should be the next president
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Privately Frets 'What's Going on With Drudge?'  During Impeachment, Asks Jared Kushner to ‘Look Into It’  —  One of the most powerful media organs in the conservative movement hasn't been kind to the president during impeachment.  He's noticed.  —  As House lawmakers move quickly toward …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Trevor Nace / Forbes:
Koalas ‘Functionally Extinct’ After Australia Bushfires Destroy 80% Of Their Habitat  —  As Australia experiences record-breaking drought and bushfires, koala populations have dwindled along with their habitat, leaving them “functionally extinct.”  —  The chairman of the Australian Koala Foundation …
Discussion: Metro.co.uk and Mashable
William J. Broad / New York Times:
Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project  —  His Soviet code name was Godsend, and he came to Los Alamos from a family of secret agents.  —  The world's first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexican desert — a result of a highly secretive effort code-named …
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Fiona Hill: The Antidote to Trump  —  I've been in Britain, so it was tough to give this week's impeachment hearings the attention they deserve.  But one obvious theme has emerged: the imperturbability, professionalism, and courage of the women who have testified.
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
In Trump's Washington, the rogue actors are the real players — and the experts are increasingly irrelevant  —  Two years ago President Trump shared a version of his foreign policy philosophy with a Fox News interviewer who asked about widespread vacancies at the State Department.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
In Three Touchstone Speeches, Elizabeth Warren Grounds Her Campaign in a History of American Protest and Movement Building  —  To launch her campaign, back in January, Sen. Elizabeth Warren had a number of locations to choose from.  She could have started in Norman, Oklahoma …
Discussion: Bad News, Raw Story and The Federalist
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YouTube:   Elizabeth Warren: Bolivia “Sure Looks Like” A Coup
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
McAuliffe hire suggests he is interested in a second bid for Virginia governor  —  RICHMOND — Former governor Terry McAuliffe is staffing up his political action committee, a move that suggests the Democrat is interested in another run for the Executive Mansion in 2021.
Discussion: Political Wire
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Pence on surprise Iraq trip to reassure Kurds, greet troops  —  1 of 4  —  ERBIL, Iraq (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Saturday in the highest-level American trip since President Donald Trump ordered a pullback of U.S. forces in Syria two months ago.
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Jeff Mason / Reuters:   Pence visits U.S. troops in Iraq, holds call with prime minister
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A Senate Trial Could Put Trump's Use of Aggressive Defense Tactics to Their Biggest Test  —  The president's campaign against the Mueller report and its author is a road map of what is likely to lie ahead.  —  WASHINGTON — Over four decades in public life, President Trump has sought to bend business …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Mariam Khan / ABC News:
Path for Senate impeachment proceedings unclear as Trump says ‘I want a trial’
Discussion: The Hill
 
 
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Merkel and Macron Publicly Clash Over NATO
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Rebecca Ellis / OPB:
Oregon Supreme Court Bans Police Officers From Asking Random Questions During Traffic Stops
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / New York Times:
The Cancellation of Colin Kaepernick
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Andrew Pulver / The Guardian:
Sacha Baron Cohen: Facebook would have let Hitler buy ads for ‘final solution’
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Wall Street Journal:
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
How Republicans Won Phase One Of Impeachment
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The Age:
The moment a Chinese spy decided to defect to Australia
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The United States Is Starting to Look Like Ukraine
Discussion: Crooked Timber
Antonia Farzan / Washington Post:
When a deep red town's only grocery closed, city hall opened its own store.  Just don't call it ‘socialism.’
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
‘Tuesday Afternoon Impeachment’ Is as Big as ‘Monday Night Football’
Discussion: Daily Kos and Althouse
Yelena Dzhanova / CNBC:
Rep. Alcee Hastings, who faces House ethics probe, paid his girlfriend more than his chief of staff
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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