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New York Times:
Trump Knew of Whistle-Blower Complaint When He Released Aid to Ukraine — White House lawyers briefed President Trump in late August about the complaint, people familiar with the matter said. — WASHINGTON — President Trump had already been briefed on a whistle-blower's complaint …
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CNN, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Contemptor, The Hill, POLITICUSUSA, The Week, Political Wire and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Two OMB officials resigned in part over concerns about Ukraine aid hold, official testifies — Mark Sandy, a career official at the White House Office of Management and Budget, revealed the resignations in testimony to impeachment investigators — Two officials at the White House Office …
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Breitbart, Greensburg Tribune-Review, POLITICUSUSA, Political Wire, Bloomberg, The Week and Mediaite
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CNN:
Trump administration officially put hold on Ukraine aid same day as Trump call — (CNN)The Office of Management and Budget's first official action to withhold $250 million in Pentagon aid to Ukraine came on the evening of July 25, the same day President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President …
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Politico, Law & Crime, Talking Points Memo, Hullabaloo, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA and Axios
Axios:
2 budget officials allegedly resigned over handling of Ukraine aid freeze
2 budget officials allegedly resigned over handling of Ukraine aid freeze
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The Hill
New York Times:
White House Budget Official Said 2 Aides Resigned Amid Ukraine Aid Freeze
White House Budget Official Said 2 Aides Resigned Amid Ukraine Aid Freeze
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The Stranger, CNN, The Atlantic, The Hill, IJR, NBC News and Law & Crime
Associated Press:
House Judiciary Committee sets Dec. 4 impeachment hearing
House Judiciary Committee sets Dec. 4 impeachment hearing
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Fox News and Florida Politics
Garrett Haake / NBC News:
White House budget office formally held Ukraine aid on same day as Trump-Zelenskiy call
White House budget office formally held Ukraine aid on same day as Trump-Zelenskiy call
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CNN, Talking Points Memo and POLITICUSUSA
QU Poll:
Release Detail — November 26, 2019 - Biden Retakes Lead As Warren Plunges, Buttigieg Rises, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Voters Not Swayed By Impeachment Hearings — Former Vice President Joe Biden has retaken the lead in the Democratic primary race for president …
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Michael Harriot / The Root:
Pete Buttigieg Called Me. Here's What Happened — The first thing you should know about me is that I absolutely hate talking on the phone. — My friends, family and co-workers all know this about me. It's not the talking that bothers me, it's the anticipation angst from waiting for a phone call.
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Lunch Break and Joe.My.God.
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Michael Harriot / The Root:
Pete Buttigieg Is a Lying MF — Seven thousand three hundred twenty-two dollars. — I hid it in a white Piggly Wiggly bag in the back of the dishwasher. Every single time I returned to that tiny apartment, I opened up that Navajo-white Kenmore dishwasher and made sure it was there.
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CNN, The Hill, New York Times, The Daily Caller, Joe.My.God., Axios, Breitbart, Instapundit and Portland Mercury
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Trump Denies Sending Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine for Biden Probe — President discusses Giuliani in interview with Bill O'Reilly — Giuliani has said he conducted Ukraine investigation for Trump — Donald Trump denied directing Rudy Giuliani to go to Ukraine to look for dirt on his political rivals …
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Axios, The Hill, HuffPost, Political Wire, Hullabaloo and Joe.My.God.
New York Times:
They Voted Democratic. Now They Support Trump. — Two-thirds of battleground state voters who chose Trump in 2016 but selected Democrats in the midterms say they will return to the president next year. — Midterm victories in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin gave Democrats hope …
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Breitbart and The Federalist
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Washington Post:
Former Clinton strategist Mark Penn counsels President Trump on impeachment — As President Trump's White House battles impeachment, he turned to a familiar face last week: Mark Penn, one of President Bill Clinton's top strategists. — Penn came to the Oval Office for more than an hour last Monday …
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Politico, CNN, The Moderate Voice, Talking Points Memo, National Review, The Hill, Common Dreams, The Daily Caller and Balloon Juice
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Dems move rapidly on impeachment with first Judiciary Committee hearing
Dems move rapidly on impeachment with first Judiciary Committee hearing
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Daily Kos
Sacramento Bee:
Cows don't have fingers and can't insult Devin Nunes on Twitter, court filing says — A Democratic strategist is refusing to disclose communications that could reveal the identity of anonymous Twitter users who criticize Rep. Devin Nunes, arguing in a new court filing that the accounts …
Tasneem Nashrulla / BuzzFeed News:
Melania Trump Was Booed By Middle And High School Students At A “Be Best” Event — First lady Melania Trump was met with loud boos from an audience of mostly middle and high school students at an event in Baltimore on Tuesday. — Trump was addressing students at the B'More Youth Summit …
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Daily Kos, Joe.My.God., Occupy Democrats, The Independent, Common Dreams and Sputnik International
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Betsy Klein / CNN:
Melania Trump booed at youth opioid summit in Baltimore — (CNN)First lady Melania Trump took her “Be Best” initiative to the Baltimore area on Tuesday, where she was met with a chorus of boos from attendees at a youth summit aimed at raising awareness about the nation's opioid crisis.
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Associated Press, The American Independent, The Guardian, Mercury News, The Week, The Daily Caller, CNBC, Deseret News and VICE
Ephraim Mirvis / The Times:
What will become of Jews in Britain if Labour forms the next government? — Elections should be a celebration of democracy. However, just weeks before we go to the polls, the overwhelming majority of British Jews are gripped by anxiety. — During the past few years …
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BBC, Bloomberg, Fox News, Jewish News, Politico, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Federalist, Financial Times, Breitbart, New York Times, MelaniePhillips.com and National Review
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Collin Binkley / Associated Press:
UNC to update policies following complaint of anti-Semitism
UNC to update policies following complaint of anti-Semitism
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National Review and The Hill
Page Six:
Hunter Biden suspected of smoking crack in DC strip club's VIP room — Hunter Biden was suspected of smoking crack inside a strip club where he dropped “thousands of dollars” during multiple visits — at the same time he held a seat on the board of a controversial Ukrainian natural-gas company, The Post has learned.
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The Gateway Pundit
Reed Galen / USA Today:
Stefanik's impeachment dive into Trump's MAGA nihilism reveals dark Republican future — Nihilism is neither a governing ethos nor a foundational ideology. When it's over, there's nothing to fall back on. This is 21st century Republicanism. — Rep. Elise Stefanik's sudden dive this month …
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Jezebel
Reuters:
Trump says U.S. will designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorists — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Tuesday that he will designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorists over their role in drug and human trafficking.
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Waiting for Obama — Today, almost every Democratic presidential campaign starts with what one close adviser to Barack Obama calls “The Pilgrimage”: the journey to the West End to meet the former president. — The West End of Washington, D.C., sandwiched between the better-known districts …
Benjamin Fearnow / Newsweek:
Texas Republicans Mistakenly Email 2020 Strategy to Democrats, Seek to Reduce ‘Polarizing Nature’ of Trump — POLITICS TEXAS REPUBLICANS EMAIL 2020 — Texas Republicans blamed a “staffer” Monday after their blueprint for winning 2020 elections and plans to mitigate President Donald Trump's …
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Occupy Democrats, Progress Pond, The Independent and Raw Story
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Giuliani Represented Venezuelan Investor in Discussion With Justice Dept. — The president's lawyer met with the head of the department's criminal division about a money laundering case involving Alejandro Betancourt López. — WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer …
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Washington Post and Mediaite
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Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Net support for impeachment grew steadily during U.S. congressional hearings, poll shows — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Public support for impeaching President Donald Trump has tracked steadily higher over the past few weeks while a U.S. House of Representatives committee held a series …
Melissa Healy / Los Angeles Times:
Suicides and overdoses among factors fueling drop in U.S. life expectancy — It's official: Americans are dying much sooner in life. — Preliminary signals of declining health were neither a false alarm nor a statistical fluke. A reversal of American life expectancy …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
On centennial coins, Trump struggles with how time works — There was a point last year at which Harley-Davidson announced plans to move some of its production overseas as a result of Donald Trump's trade policies. The president. outraged, responded that customers were so angry …
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Raw Story, Mother Jones, Joe.My.God. and Slate
Matt Berman / BuzzFeed News:
Anthony Weiner Is The Most Important Politician Of The 2010s — Anthony Weiner changed the course of American history when he tweeted out a picture of his dick on May 27, 2011. — This is not an exaggeration. There is a direct line between Anthony Weiner's penis and the rise of far-right media …
Media Matters for America:
Fox News guest Micheal Blake: “Why the hell does Tucker Carlson still have a job here?” — Michael Blake: “Why the hell does Tucker Carlson have a job here in the first place? The reality is this is someone who said white supremacy is a hoax and why does Fox allow him to still be here in the first place?”
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Wall Street Journal:
Georgia Governor, Trump Appear at Odds Over Senate Pick — In a White House meeting, Brian Kemp pushed Kelly Loeffler, while president prefers Rep. Doug Collins — President Trump quietly met Sunday in the White House with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and the governor's preferred pick to fill …
Tal Kopan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Exclusive: Trump's top border official broke FBI rules to fund happy hours — WASHINGTON — President Trump's top border official broke federal ethics rules in a previous job by seeking sponsors to buy alcohol and fancy food for FBI happy hours, according to a watchdog report exclusively obtained by The Chronicle.
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump heads where everybody loves him — and hates impeachment — Goodbye, New York. Hello, Florida. — That'll be part of President Donald Trump's mantra as he returns to the Sunshine State for a campaign rally in the city of Sunrise, before starting his Thanksgiving break at his private club, Mar-a-Lago.
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NBC News:
Influential neo-Nazi eats at soup kitchens, lives in government housing — In his writings, James Mason advocates waging war against “the system.” But at 67 and living in Denver, he's now dependent on it. — A fan of Charles Manson and follower of Hitler, James Mason published essays …
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CANNONFIRE
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Tech Companies Prop Up China's Vast Surveillance Network — Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others aided and profited from China's multibillion-dollar surveillance industry, used in its Muslim crackdown — Critical pieces of China's cutting-edge surveillance state share a connection.
Axios:
Trump to raise campaign cash on NATO trip to London — When President Trump visits London next week for the NATO summit, he'll also use his brief time on the ground there to raise big bucks for his 2020 campaign, according to an invitation reviewed by Axios and conversations with people familiar with the event.
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Raw Story