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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 …
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CNN:
Worry rises in military over Trump's decision-making
Worry rises in military over Trump's decision-making
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Sean Gallagher / Navy Times:
Op-ed: Navy corruption and the Gallagher case
Op-ed: Navy corruption and the Gallagher case
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Townhall and The Gateway Pundit
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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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” …
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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 …
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Rudy Giuliani gives shifting answers on seeking information from Ukrainian oligarch
Rudy Giuliani gives shifting answers on seeking information from Ukrainian oligarch
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Daily Kos, Mediaite, Raw Story, Washington Monthly and The Dispatch
Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
Rudy Giuliani Has a Foreign-Lobbying Problem, and It Just Got Bigger
Rudy Giuliani Has a Foreign-Lobbying Problem, and It Just Got Bigger
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Giuliani Weighed Doing Business With Ukrainian Government
Giuliani Weighed Doing Business With Ukrainian Government
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ProPublica:
Multiple Women Recall Sexual Misconduct and Retaliation by Gordon Sondland — Three women recall Sondland made unwanted sexual contact in business settings. One says he exposed himself. All recall professional retaliation after they rejected him. Sondland denies the allegations.
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Portland Monthly:
Multiple Women Recall Sexual Misconduct and Perceived Retaliation by Gordon Sondland
Multiple Women Recall Sexual Misconduct and Perceived Retaliation by Gordon Sondland
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Mother Jones, Portland Mercury and Raw Story
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Sondland denies report accusing him of sexual harassment, calling it ‘fundamentally false’
Sondland denies report accusing him of sexual harassment, calling it ‘fundamentally false’
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Redstate, The Guardian and Washington Times
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 …
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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 …
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Washington Post:
Witness testimony and records raise questions about account of Trump's ‘no quid pro quo’ call — President Trump was cranky when they spoke on the phone in September, Ambassador Gordon Sondland told members of Congress, but his words were clear: Trump wanted no quid pro quo with Ukraine.
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The Daily Beast:
Sondland's Ties to Romanian Official Set Off Alarms at National Security Council — Sources say the ambassador grew increasingly close to a Romanian politician with a worrisome record on corruption. — Even before Gordon Sondland's work in Ukraine set off alarm bells …
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Raw Story
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.
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Trump official who suggested dropping nuclear bombs on Afghanistan now responsible for arms control issues — A former conservative talk radio host and naval intelligence officer who suggested dropping nuclear bombs on Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks now works on arms control issues …
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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.
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
Trump signs bill expressing support for Hong Kong protestors — President Trump signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on Wednesday, reaffirming U.S. support for the city's autonomy after months of pro-democracy protests. — Why it matters: The bill, which was passed …
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HuffPost:
Trump Has Spent $115 Million On Golf Trips ― Or 287 Years Of Presidential Salary — Trump often boasts of donating his White House pay, but taxpayers are shelling out much larger sums for his hobby. — With his Thanksgiving vacation, President Donald Trump's golf hobby has now cost Americans …
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
YouGov: Boris Johnson on course for 68-seat majority in UK election
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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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Scott Stedman / Forensic News:
Deutsche Bank Executive Who Signed Off On Trump Loans Kills Himself 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 Los Angeles county coroner's initial report.
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Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Devin Nunes Subpoena Aimed at ‘Cow’ and ‘Mom’ Twitter Accounts Was Improperly Filed — Today is a day ending with the letter “y” so that means Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) has been mocked. This time, however, the ridicule comes by way of a court filing in Virginia.
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Trump's claim of a ‘war on Thanksgiving’ is absurd — but also sinister — Do you plan to spend Thanksgiving cowering in the basement, taking surreptitious bites from a turkey hidden beneath the floorboards, terrified that at any moment the Political Correctness police might burst in and haul away …
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Danielle Wallace / Fox News:
Trump vows not to change the name of Thanksgiving despite cries from the ‘radical left’
Trump vows not to change the name of Thanksgiving despite cries from the ‘radical left’
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's electoral college advantage may be deepening. Do Democrats have a plan for that? — The big gubernatorial victories in Kentucky and Louisiana have unleashed optimism in the Democratic Party. They underscored the story we've seen again and again in the Trump era …
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Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Inside 'America's Got Talent': Ousted Judges Had Complained of Toxic Culture (EXCLUSIVE) — In April of this year, former late night host Jay Leno visited NBCUniversal in Los Angeles to appear as a guest judge on the network's unscripted program “America's Got Talent,” a variety show that seeks …
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Jonathan S. Tobin / JNS.org:
Who can speak for American Jews against anti-Semitism? Not the ADL — While British Jewry has pulled together against the threat of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, American Jews seem more focused on partisan grudges then on combating hate. — Earlier this week, Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis …
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 …
Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Appeals court stays ruling that former White House counsel Donald McGahn must comply with House subpoena — A federal appeals court on Wednesday evening stayed a lower-court ruling that former Trump White House counsel Donald McGahn must comply with a House subpoena after the administration appealed …
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