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Washington Post:
Giuliani was in talks to be paid by Ukraine's top prosecutor as they together sought damaging information on Democrats  —  President Trump's personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, negotiated earlier this year to represent Ukraine's top prosecutor for at least $200,000 during the same months …
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New York Times:
Giuliani Pursued Business in Ukraine While Pushing for Inquiries for Trump  —  The president's private lawyer explored agreements with Ukrainian officials for hundreds of thousands of dollars.  —  As Rudolph W. Giuliani waged a public campaign this year to unearth damaging information …
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Giuliani calls Trump to tell him he was joking about having an ‘insurance policy’  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, called the president this week to reassure him that he had been joking when he told media outlets he had “insurance” …
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Rudy Giuliani gives shifting answers on seeking information from Ukrainian oligarch  —  (CNN)Rudy Giuliani acknowledged this week meeting with a lawyer for a Ukrainian oligarch who he had previously said he had “nothing to do with.”  —  Giuliani, the president's personal attorney …
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Giuliani Weighed Doing Business With Ukrainian Government  —  Trump's lawyer drew up retainer agreements with Yuriy Lutsenko and the Ukraine Justice Ministry worth $500,000 before deciding against the arrangement  —  Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday he was in talks earlier this year to earn hundreds …
The Daily Beast:   Giuilani Targeted Ukrainian President Zelensky's Top Aide
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Russia Inquiry Review Is Expected to Undercut Trump Claim of F.B.I. Spying  —  The F.B.I. never tried to place undercover agents or informants inside the Trump campaign, a highly anticipated inspector general's report is expected to find.  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's inspector general found …
Niraj Warikoo / Detroit Free Press:
ICE arrests 90 more students at fake university in Michigan  —  (Photo: Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press)  —  About 90 additional foreign students of a fake university in metro Detroit created by the Department of Homeland Security have been arrested in recent months.
Heather Vogell / ProPublica:
Trump Tax Records Reveal New Inconsistencies — This Time for Trump Tower  —  Documents show the president's company reported different numbers — higher ones to lenders, lower ones to tax officials — for Trump's signature building.  Last month, ProPublica revealed a similar pattern in two other Trump buildings.
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Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Trump Busted For Bank And Tax Fraud In Newly Obtained Documents  —  Property documents reveal that Donald Trump has been listing higher values on his loan applications and lower values on his taxes, which is bank and tax fraud.  —  ProPublica got the documents and reported:
Richard Spencer / Washington Post:
I was fired as Navy secretary.  Here's what I've learned because of it.  —  Richard Spencer is the former secretary of the Navy.  —  The case of Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, a Navy SEAL who was charged with multiple war crimes before being convicted of a single lesser charge earlier this year …
Discussion: Townhall, HuffPost and Fox News
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Sean Gallagher / Navy Times:
Op-ed: Navy corruption and the Gallagher case
Discussion: Townhall and The Gateway Pundit
Francis Elliott / The Times:
MRP election poll: Boris Johnson heads for big majority  —  Only survey to forecast hung parliament in last election predicts Tories will win 359 seats — with Labour down to 211  —  Boris Johnson is on course for a comfortable majority, according to a polling model that accurately predicted the election outcome two years ago.
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Emilio Casalicchio / Politico:
YouGov: Boris Johnson on course for 68-seat majority in UK election
BBC:
LIVEAs it happened: SNP launch and claims over NHS
Discussion: Breitbart
BBC:
Apple changes Crimea map to meet Russian demands  —  Apple has complied with Russian demands to show Crimea as part of Russian territory on its apps.  —  Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, in a move that was condemned by most of the global community.
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
William Ruckelshaus, Who Quit in ‘Saturday Night Massacre,’ Dies at 87  —  As deputy attorney general he refused Nixon's order to fire the special prosecutor Archibald Cox in the Watergate scandal.  He was earlier the E.P.A.'s first leader.  —  William D. Ruckelshaus …
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Tim Smith / Washington Post:   William D. Ruckelshaus, who refused to join in Nixon's ‘Saturday Night Massacre,’ dies at 87
Scott Stedman / Forensic News:
Deutsche Bank Executive Who Signed Off On Trump Loans Kills Self At Age 55  —  Thomas Bowers, a former Deutsche Bank executive and head of the American wealth-management division, killed himself in Malibu, California on Tuesday, November 19th, according to the coronor's initial report.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Law & Crime
Danielle Wallace / Fox News:
Trump vows not to change the name of Thanksgiving despite cries from the ‘radical left’  —  President Trump told supporters at a rally held in Sunrise, Fla., Tuesday that he wouldn't allow the “radical left” to change the name of Thanksgiving.  —  The president, who recently switched …
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Revoke Medals of Honor for Wounded Knee Massacre
Discussion: Axios and Desert Sun
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Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
An alien comet from another star is soaring through our solar system  —  SEWANEE, Tenn. — Something strange is sailing toward us.  Something small and cold and extraordinarily fast.  No one knows where it came from, or where it is going.  But it's not from around here.
Ryan Browne / CNN:
Trump administration to cut its financial contribution to NATO  —  Washington (CNN)The Trump administration has moved to substantially cut its contribution to NATO's collective budget according to several US and NATO officials, a symbolic move that comes as many continue to question President …
Discussion: Political Wire
Oleg Sukhov / KyivPost:
Riaboshapka fires top Ukrainian prosecutor who backed Biden conspiracy  —  Kostyantyn Kulik, a former top prosecutor accused of corruption.  —  Prosecutor General Ruslan Riaboshapka on Nov. 25 fired Kostyantyn Kulyk, a controversial top prosecutor accused of corruption and fabricating political cases.
Page Six:
Hunter Biden's ‘baby mama’ Lunden Roberts was stripper at club he frequented  —  The woman suing Hunter Biden for paternity was a stripper at a Washington, DC, club he frequented around the time he was dating his brother's widow, sources told The Post.  —  Biden was repeatedly seen …
Discussion: Redstate, PJ Media Home and Twitchy
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 …
CNN:
CNN Poll: Biden leads nationally as Buttigieg rises  —  Panelist: Biden does best when he isn't in public  —  (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to lead the newly expanded field of contenders for the Democratic nomination for president, with Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts …
Michael Kruse / Politico:
The Town Hall That Impeachment Blew Up  —  Moderate Democrat Mikie Sherrill returned to her district — and a wave of anger.  —  WHIPPANY, N.J.—One of Representative Mikie Sherrill's district directors began the town hall in a filled community center Monday night with her customary call for civility.
Washington Post:
Opponents of Elizabeth Warren spread a doctored photo on Twitter.  Her campaign couldn't stop its spread.  —  The reaction to the tweet, viewed hundreds of times, offers a hard lesson: Homespun disinformation campaigns on social media represent a rising threat
Discussion: Hullabaloo and FiveThirtyEight
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kemp criticizes ‘ridiculous’ conservative pushback to Senate favorite  —  ‘The attacks and games are absolutely absurd.’  —  Gov. Brian Kemp rejected the “ridiculous” mounting conservative pushback against his favorite for an open U.S. Senate seat, adding on Wednesday that he would only tap …
Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Facebook's only Dutch factchecker quits over political ad exemption  —  ‘Final straw’ was refusal to allow partner to mark dubious claims by far-right parties  —  Facebook's only Dutch factchecker has quit over the social network's refusal to allow them to highlight political lies as being false.
PBS NewsHour:
PBS NewsHour & POLITICO Name Judy Woodruff, Tim Alberta, Amna Nawaz and Yamiche Alcindor Co-Moderators for December Debate  —  The PBS NewsHour & POLITICO Democratic Debate will take place on  —  Washington, D.C. - PBS NewsHour and POLITICO today announce that PBS NewsHour anchor …
Discussion: The Hill
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
‘Anonymous’ vows to unveil identity as 2020 heats up  —  “Trump will hear from me, in my own name,” said the mysterious author of the famous op-ed and new book in a Reddit AMA.  —  Copies of “A Warning” by Anonymous.  Scott Olson/Getty Images  —  The anonymous Trump administration official …
Discussion: Breitbart
Washington Post:
Netanyahu unleashes populist fury over indictments as party members back away  —  JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was struggling to both stoke and contain a popular backlash against prosecutors as some of his supporters distanced themselves from the bellicose rhetoric …
 
 
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Warren's Big Bet on Medicare for All Is Not Paying Off
Discussion: Politico, Fox News and Tangle
Samantha J. Gross / Miami Herald:
‘Baby Trump’ balloon makes an appearance at Florida rally — with its own security team
Discussion: The Guardian
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
White House adviser Stephen Miller remains undaunted after leak of emails tying him to white nationalist talking points
Discussion: Political Wire and NPR
Mackubin Owens / American Greatness:
Prudence and Presidential Pardons
Anthony Julius / New Statesman:
An open letter to Sir Richard Evans: Labour's anti-Semitism cannot be disregarded
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
China hopes Trump will be reelected: He's ‘easy to read’
Michael J. Coren / Quartz:
Young Republicans think GOP boomers are on the wrong side of the climate debate
Discussion: Salon
Kevin M. Kruse / Vanity Fair:
Trump's Toadies Should Take Note: Watergate Says Everyone Goes Down
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Sean Hannity:
BERNIECARE: Sanders Vows to Cap Total Prescription Drug Costs at $200 Per Year for All Americans
Discussion: Raw Story
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Judge delays Flynn sentencing to wait for Russia IG report
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
Julián Castro, in Plan to End Hunger, Warns Against Neglecting the Poor
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Liberals Do Not Want to Destroy the Family
Discussion: Raw Story and Althouse
 

 
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