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Wall Street Journal:
Federal Subpoenas Seek Information on Giuliani's Consulting Business — Subpoenas are issued for information on Giuliani's associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman
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New York Times:
Why Giuliani Singled Out 2 Ukrainian Oligarchs to Help Look for Dirt — VIENNA — They were two Ukrainian oligarchs with American legal problems. One had been indicted on federal bribery charges. The other was embroiled in a vast banking scandal and was reported to be under investigation by the F.B.I.
Washington Post:
Investigators scrutinize Giuliani firm and donations to Trump super PAC as part of broad probe — The federal investigation into two associates of Rudolph W. Giuliani is exploring a wide range of potential crimes — including wire fraud and failure to register as a foreign agent …
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Giuliani associate Parnas wants to testify that Nunes aides hid Ukraine meetings on Biden dirt from Schiff — Lev Parnas, a business associate of Rudy Giuliani, wants to testify to Congress that aides to Rep. Devin Nunes called off a trip to Ukraine this year when they realized …
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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Esper says Trump ordered him to allow SEAL to keep status — In this Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019 photo, U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer fields questions at a media availability at the Halifax International Security Forum in Halifax, Nova Scotia. U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper has fired …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The worst commander in chief ever — President Trump has repeatedly dishonored the military. He sent troops to the southern border before the 2018 midterms in a xenophobic stunt designed to win votes. He seized funds for military construction to build his useless wall, which will never be built.
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Task & Purpose and New York Times
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
In firing Richard Spencer, Trump recklessly crosses another line — President Trump's attempt to manipulate military justice had a sorry outcome Sunday with the firing of Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer. For the past nine months, Spencer had tried to dissuade Trump …
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CNN:
National Enquirer company chief David Pecker talking with New York prosecutors — (CNN)David Pecker, the head of the company that publishes the National Enquirer, has spoken with prosecutors with the New York district attorney's office as part of its investigation into the Trump Organization's handling …
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Joe.My.God., Political Wire and Raw Story
William Cummings / USA Today:
'God's used imperfect people all through history': Perry shares why he thinks Trump is the ‘chosen one’ — Energy Secretary Rick Perry said in an interview that he told President Donald Trump that he was God's “chosen one” to lead the United States, just as he chose the kings to lead Israel in the Old Testament.
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Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
Rick Perry Calls Donald Trump The Chosen One Sent By God To Rule Over Us
Rick Perry Calls Donald Trump The Chosen One Sent By God To Rule Over Us
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Aris Folley / The Hill:
Rick Perry says Trump is the ‘chosen one’ sent ‘to do great things’
Rick Perry says Trump is the ‘chosen one’ sent ‘to do great things’
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Washington Post, Sputnik International, Religion News Service, Newsweek and Althouse
Benjamin Wittes / The Atlantic:
What Impeachment Is Revealing About the Republican Party — The House Intelligence Committee brought impeachment onto the public stage over the past two weeks. But now Congress has scattered for Thanksgiving, cable news is picking over the remnants of the hearings in search of content …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Schiff: Ukraine report will be sent to Judiciary Committee after Thanksgiving
Schiff: Ukraine report will be sent to Judiciary Committee after Thanksgiving
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Associated Press and The Hill
David Kusnet / New Republic:
Could This Be the Guy Who Wrote Anonymous's Warning? — Back in September 2018—an eternity ago in the Trump administration—a self-described “senior official” came forward with a counterintuitive but comforting message. — In an op-ed in The New York Times, the anonymous author decried Trump's …
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Biden's senior Latina adviser quits in frustration — A senior Joe Biden campaign staffer in charge of outreach to Latino, African-American and women's groups has quit her post, telling two allies she was frustrated over her lack of input and with the presidential candidate's immigration rhetoric.
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Breitbart, The Hill, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Gateway Pundit
Joe Sonka / Courier-Journal:
Gov. Matt Bevin pardons man serving life sentence for sex abuse of 6-year-old stepdaughter — Gov. Matt Bevin has pardoned a man serving a life sentence for sexually abusing and sodomizing his 6-year-old stepdaughter 20 years ago. — In his pardon and commutation order on Friday …
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Raw Story, Joe.My.God. and The Hill
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
A Reporter's Guide to Texting With Rudy Giuliani — Everyone who texts with Rudy Giuliani knows the hands of fate control the fingertips. Digital communication with President Trump's 75-year-old personal attorney is a delicate exercise in optimism and patience.
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Raw Story, Joe.My.God., The Week, Mediaite and Contemptor
Reuters:
Special report: ‘Time to take out our swords’ - Inside Iran's plot to attack Saudi Arabia — (Reuters) - Four months before a swarm of drones and missiles crippled the world's biggest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia, Iranian security officials gathered at a heavily fortified compound in Tehran.
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Mehdi Hasan / The Intercept:
Michael Bloomberg's Right-Wing Views on Foreign Policy Make Him a Perfect Candidate for the Republican Nomination
Michael Bloomberg's Right-Wing Views on Foreign Policy Make Him a Perfect Candidate for the Republican Nomination
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BBC, CNN and The Guardian
Lauren Lantry / ABC News:
Trump welcomes Conan, hero dog from al-Baghdadi raid, to White House — At the White House on Monday, President Donald Trump welcomed Conan — the hero dog from the raid that led to the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. — After emerging from the Oval Office with the dog and his handler …
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Axios, The Post Millennial and Joe.My.God.
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Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Trump Praises Military Dog Conan Amid Fight With Navy
Trump Praises Military Dog Conan Amid Fight With Navy
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Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Emails Confirm Miller's Twin Obsessions: Immigrants and Crime — Stephen Miller linked immigration to violence in emails to Breitbart News - writing of crimes committed by nonwhites that “each one [is] more disturbing than the next.” — “It has never been easier in American history …
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Washington Post
Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
People Are Doubling Down On Their Opinions On Impeachment, Poll Finds — Those with the least-settled opinions on impeachment are also the least likely to be following the hearings. — Days of televised impeachment hearings have left Americans largely dug into their original opinions …
Maya Kosoff / GEN:
Big Calculator: How Texas Instruments Monopolized Math Class — These $100 calculators have been required in classrooms for more than twenty years, as students and teachers still struggle to afford them — his fall, Stephen Thompson began his first year of teaching Algebra 2 …
Nico Lang / Election:
Exclusive: Warren Leads Among LGBTQ+ Voters in First-of-Its-Kind Poll — A survey conducted by YouGov and Out magazine shows Warren with a double-digit lead in LGBTQ+ support. — Elizabeth Warren, shante you stay. — In a first-of-its-kind poll, a new survey from YouGov and Out magazine found …
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PinkNews, Political Wire, Joe.My.God. and LGBTQ Nation
Slade Gorton / New York Times:
My Fellow Republicans, Please Follow the Facts — It seems clear to me that the president of Ukraine was subjected to a shakedown. — Mr. Gorton is a former Republican senator from Washington. — In March of 1974, as a young state attorney general, I reluctantly called …
Joseph Cox / VICE:
The California DMV Is Making $50M a Year Selling Drivers' Personal Information — The California Department of Motor Vehicles is generating revenue of $50,000,000 a year through selling drivers' personal information, according to a DMV document obtained by Motherboard.
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National Review
Francis Wilkinson / Yahoo Finance:
This White Wisconsin County Has No Time for Trump — (Bloomberg Opinion) — White voters were the key to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential victory. Their continued support for him is the main reason he is unlikely to be removed from office by impeachment. They are the foundation of his political support heading into 2020.
Rolling Stone:
That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It — Internet trolls don't troll. Not the professionals at least. Professional trolls don't go on social media to antagonize liberals or belittle conservatives. They are not narrow minded, drunk or angry. They don't lack basic English language skills.
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Raw Story
Joe Light / Bloomberg:
Trump Ordered Review of U.S. Sanctions on Turkey's Halkbank — President lobbied by Turkey over effects on state-owned bank — Trump asked for Treasury, DOJ help after Erdogan entreaty — President Donald Trump told the Treasury Department and Justice Department to look into the impact …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Mike Bloomberg just stabbed the journalistic heart of his news organization — Months ago, when former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg said he wouldn't run for president, a palpable feeling of relief flooded the global newsrooms that bear his name. — “The sound of 2,700 exhaling,” as the quip had it.
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Spot the crime in progress — Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch are the principals of Fusion GPS. In April 2016 the Clinton presidential campaign and Democratic National Commmittee hired Fusion GPS “to build a Trump-Russia echo chamber,” as Lee Smith puts it in The Plot Agains the President.
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Arian Campo-Flores / Wall Street Journal:
In Cincinnati Suburb, Some Republicans Are Uneasy About Trump's Tone — Support for GOP candidates has slipped; ‘I am not anti-Trump, but I am anti-incivility’ — FORT THOMAS, Ky.—Some Republicans in this Cincinnati suburb of tidy homes and tree-lined streets, long a GOP stronghold …
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Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
Are Trump's Critics Demonically Possessed? — It isn't enough for Franklin Graham and Eric Metaxas, two prominent figures within the American evangelical movement, to lavish praise on President Donald Trump. They have now decided they must try to demonize his critics. — Literally.
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Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Joyce Karam / The National:
Turkey tests S-400 Russian missile system with US F-16, in defiance of Washington — Footage shows jets flying over Ankara to test newly acquired system, despite US and Nato opposition to deal — Turkey moved a step closer to activating the S-400 Russian missile defence system on Monday as it used F-16 jets to test its radars.
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Could Donald Jr. or Lara Trump Run for Office in New York, and Win? — A poll showed Lara Trump, the president's daughter-in-law, would win a primary for a Long Island congressional seat by more than 30 points. — In some Republican circles, the notion of President Trump's children running …
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