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New York Times:
New Documents Reveal Details of Pompeo's Role in Ukraine Affair — Emails and documents released by the State Department support testimony showing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo enabled the Ukrainian pressure campaign at the center of the impeachment proceedings.
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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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Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
Secretary of Navy says Trump's tweet is not a formal order — 1 of 2 — HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — The secretary of the U.S. Navy said Saturday he doesn't consider a tweet by President Donald Trump an order and would need a formal order to stop a review of a sailor who could lose his status as a Navy Seal.
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Washington Post:
Top House Democrat says ethics probe of Nunes is likely over alleged meeting with Ukrainian about Bidens — A high-ranking House Democrat said Saturday it's “quite likely” Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) will face an ethics investigation over allegations that he met with an ex-Ukrainian official …
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Political Wire and Axios
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump's GOP support hardens despite damning impeachment testimony
Trump's GOP support hardens despite damning impeachment testimony
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The Hill, LevittownNow.com, HuffPost and Raw Story
Evan Semones / Politico:
Top Dem says ethics investigation into Devin Nunes likely
Top Dem says ethics investigation into Devin Nunes likely
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Raw Story, The Week, Law & Crime, HuffPost, CNN, Talking Points Memo, Occupy Democrats, The Hill, The Guardian and Vox
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Forget the Oval. The real Trump action is in the residence. — The Oval Office is the traditional epicenter of power for American presidents, but a new one is emerging that's more exclusive, more secluded and more convenient. — President Donald Trump is increasingly morphing the White House residence into a second Oval.
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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 …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospitalized — The justice was admitted after experiencing chills and a fever and expects to be released as early as Sunday morning, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said. — WASHINGTON — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore …
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Bernie Sanders / ABC News:
New Hampshire may test durability of Sanders' popularity — Bernie Sanders has remained among the front-runners in the Democratic primary despite his campaign-trail heart attack and the rise of Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg, but perhaps no state will test that more than New Hampshire
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Fox News, The Daily Beast and Associated Press
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Ken Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Joe Biden Tells Democrats, 'We've Got to Stop This Circular Firing Squad'
Maura Barrett / NBC News:
Kamala Harris tells Iowa voters she's ‘not a socialist’
Kamala Harris tells Iowa voters she's ‘not a socialist’
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Roger Kimball / American Greatness:
Trump's Disruptive Energy vs. the Deep State — For the last 56 years, this time in November has been an occasion—at first pious and lachrymose, latterly perfunctory—to commemorate the assassination of John F. Kennedy. That event was certainly a cultural cataclysm. America was a changed place after November 22, 1963.
Ros Krasny / Bloomberg:
Giuliani Says Biden Documents to Be Released ‘If I Disappear’ — In Fox interview downplays suggestion Trump will dump him — Actions in Ukraine have been a focus of impeachment inquiry — Rudy Giuliani, a focus of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump's foreign policy dealings …
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The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, New York Post and TIME
NBC News:
Schiff on more public hearings: 'Don't foreclose the possibility' — House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joins Chuck Todd to discuss the impeachment inquiry.
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Louisiana election shows limits of ‘old tough-on-crime stuff’ — Republicans spent the fall hammering Louisiana's Democratic governor, John Bel Edwards, as “dangerously soft on crime” and said his policies “put everyone in danger.” — But then, Edwards won reelection in his conservative …
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Todd Frankel / Washington Post:
Dozens of infant deaths have been tied to a popular baby product. But regulators are too paralyzed to act. — A paralyzing conflict inside the nation's product safety regulator has prevented the agency from taking action against a popular baby product that studies have linked …
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New York Post
ESPN:
Harvard-Yale game ends in near-darkness after climate change protest — Spectators rushed the field to stage a climate change protest at halftime of Saturday's Harvard-Yale game, delaying the start of the second half by nearly an hour and causing the game to finish in near-darkness.
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Associated Press:
Bloomberg vows to refuse donations, presidential salary — Bloomberg's team has reserved more than $30 million in television ads set to begin running Sunday in several primary states. — NEW YORK — Michael Bloomberg will not accept political donations if he runs for president …
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NBC News, The Federalist and Breitbart
NewsHound Ellen / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Press Sec Grisham Smears Bolton: Too Old To Understand Twitter — Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham did not deny John Bolton's accusation that the White House blocked his Twitter account. Instead she dodged the question by attacking him as too old to know how Twitter works. — Views:
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