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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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Will Trump participate now?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WE HAVE SOME INTEL TO REPORT about the next phase of the impeachment inquiry, but we are going to do so with this caveat: Nailing down this White House is like trying to tack Jell-O to a wall.
Discussion: New York Times
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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Axios:
2 budget officials allegedly resigned over handling of Ukraine aid freeze
Discussion: The Hill
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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John McCormack / National Review:
Quinnipiac Poll: Half of Warren's Supporters Have Abandoned Her in One Month
Discussion: The Week and Bloomberg
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.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
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 …
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.
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump heads where everybody loves him — and hates impeachment  —  Goodbye, New York.  Hello, Florida.  —  That was part of President Donald Trump's mantra as he returned to the Sunshine State for a campaign rally Tuesday in the city of Sunrise, before starting his Thanksgiving break at his private club, Mar-a-Lago.
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Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:
Taxpayers Have Now Paid for Trump to Visit Mar-a-Lago 100 Times
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
'There's something terribly wrong': Americans are dying young at alarming rates  —  Death rates from suicide, drug overdoses, liver disease and dozens of other causes have been rising over the past decade for young and middle-aged adults, driving down overall life expectancy in the United States …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Belligerents in the Persian Gulf are trying something new: diplomacy  —  There's an intriguing anomaly in global politics this Thanksgiving: Despite a summer of confrontation in the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are exploring possible dialogue with Tehran and its allies …
Politico:
Here's why Bloomberg insists he's not crazy  —  None of his assumptions is wildly implausible.  It would just take all of them coming true for this to work.  —  Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg.  Yana Paskova/Getty Images  —  Yes, say the political strategists around former …
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CNBC:
Here's why Mike Bloomberg thinks he can defy the odds and win the Democratic nomination
Discussion: Rolling Stone
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.
Discussion: The Hill and Axios
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Justin Sink / Bloomberg:   Trump Says U.S. Will Designate Mexican Cartels as Terror Groups
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump: Why Wasn't 100th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage Observed ‘Years Ago?’  —  Yesterday, President Trump signed the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act.  The effect of this law is self-explanatory — it creates a coin to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, ratifying women's suffrage.
Discussion: Mother Jones, Daily Kos and Joe.My.God.
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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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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 …
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Pompeo says Trump's debunked Ukraine conspiracy theory is worth looking into  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that a debunked conspiracy theory pursued by President Trump accusing Ukraine, not Russia, of interfering in the 2016 presidential election by hacking the network …
Discussion: Vanity Fair and Axios
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Pompeo just flirted with Trump's Ukraine conspiracy theory. This isn't normal, folks.
Discussion: Wired and POLITICUSUSA
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News guest nails it: ‘Why in hell does Tucker Carlson have a job here?’  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson is a propagandist, though a clever and savvy one.  And on his program Monday night, he was up to the usual routine of discrediting the entire Democratic presidential field …
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Ashley Feinberg / Slate:
Good Boy?  Good Girl?  Experts Weigh In on Conan the Dog's Genitals.  —  For over 24 hours, the nation has been reeling as our country's military and White House officials appear unable to agree on the biological sex of Conan the dog, the four-legged commando praised for participating …
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Dems move rapidly on impeachment with first Judiciary Committee hearing  —  The House Judiciary Committee will hold its first hearing next week on the impeachment of President Donald Trump, as Democrats move quickly to the next stage of a process that is likely to lead to the third-ever …
Discussion: The Wrap and Daily Kos
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Jezebel
 
 
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Carl Campanile / New York Post:
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Carl Meyer / National Observer:
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Ben Winslow / fox13now.com:
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Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
NRA boosted executive pay while cutting funding for key programs, filing shows
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
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Axios:
Trump to raise campaign cash on NATO trip to London
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Tech Companies Prop Up China's Vast Surveillance Network
 Earlier Items: 
Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
Pete Buttigieg's PAC Was Supposed To Help Elect Democrats. It Mostly Touted Him.
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Net support for impeachment grew steadily during U.S. congressional hearings, poll shows
NBC News:
Influential neo-Nazi eats at soup kitchens, lives in government housing
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Thomas Lecaque / Washington Post:
The apocalyptic myth that helps explain evangelical support for Trump
Matt Berman / BuzzFeed News:
Anthony Weiner Is The Most Important Politician Of The 2010s
Tal Kopan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Exclusive: Trump's top border official broke FBI rules to fund happy hours
Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill and Axios
Talia Richman / Baltimore Sun:
Maryland Rep. Cummings' daughters endorse his longtime staffer for his congressional seat
Discussion: Washington Post and CNN
New York Times:
They Voted Democratic. Now They Support Trump.
Discussion: Breitbart and The Federalist
 

 
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David Gilmour / Mediaite:
Elon Musk appears to confirm that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X, saying it is to stop “lazy linking”

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Trade body data: copyrighted music revenue was $45.5B in 2023, above cinema box office spending of $33.2B in 2023 and $41.9B in 2019; record labels made $28.5B

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: CVC Capital Partners and a major European broadcaster, thought to be France's Groupe TF1, are among those considering a takeover of the UK's ITV

 
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