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Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Ken Cuccinelli walked into a bar. And Martin O'Malley lit into him. — A liberal ex-governor walks into a bar, followed by a conservative Trump administration official. — Instead of a punchline, what followed, one witness said, was a “shame-invoking tirade” by Martin O'Malley …
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Chantal Da Silva / Newsweek:
Ken Cuccinelli Forced To Leave Thanksgiving Eve Bash After Martin O'Malley Publicly Shames Him For Putting ‘Immigrant Kids In Cages’ — Ken Cuccinelli, the acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, was reportedly forced to retreat from a Thanksgiving Eve bash on Wednesday …
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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New York Times:
Donald Trump Jr., Debut Author, Sees Sales Bolstered by G.O.P. Allies — Boxes began arriving in early November at the Phoenix headquarters of Turning Point USA, a conservative student group with ties to the Trump family. — They contained copies of the new book by Donald Trump Jr. …
Yanan Wang / Associated Press:
Furious, China summons US ambassador over Hong Kong bills — 1 of 9 — BEIJING (AP) — China reacted furiously Thursday to President Donald Trump's signing two bills aimed at supporting human rights in Hong Kong, summoning the U.S. ambassador to protest and warning the move would undermine cooperation with Washington.
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
Trump signs bill expressing support for Hong Kong protestors
Trump signs bill expressing support for Hong Kong protestors
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
How money laundering is poisoning American democracy — After winning the cold war, the US sought to export the rule of law to other countries. That flow has gone into reverse. Today it is importing some of the worst corruption from abroad. America's largest law firms …
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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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
Maeve Reston / CNN:
The precipitous fall of America's mayor — (CNN)For the last three years, Rudy Giuliani seemed to roam the world with impunity as a kind of rogue ambassador to President Donald Trump, swatting aside concerns from US national security aides and diplomats as he carried out the President's bidding.
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Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Giuliani calls Trump to tell him he was joking about having an ‘insurance policy’
Giuliani calls Trump to tell him he was joking about having an ‘insurance policy’
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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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NBC News, Breitbart, Vanity Fair and The Gateway Pundit
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Giuliani Weighed Doing Business With Ukrainian Government
Giuliani Weighed Doing Business With Ukrainian Government
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Mediaite and The American Independent
CNN:
Trump official who promoted fringe conspiracy theories now senior adviser at State Department — (CNN)A former naval intelligence officer and conservative talk radio host who promoted fringe conspiracy theories in radio appearances is now a senior adviser at the State Department Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance.
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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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CANNONFIRE, ABC News and Occupy Democrats
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.
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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Yashar Ali / Vulture:
Gabrielle Union Criticized the Culture at America's Got Talent. Now She's No Longer There.
Gabrielle Union Criticized the Culture at America's Got Talent. Now She's No Longer There.
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Consequence of Sound, Page Six and Fox News
Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
Apple, Bowing to Russian Pressure, Recognizes Crimea Annexation on Map — The tech giant, following Google and others, has bowed to Russian demands that its apps not show Crimea as belonging to Ukraine on digital maps seen in Russia. — MOSCOW — Since it grabbed Crimea from Ukraine five years ago …
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Apple alters Maps and Weather to show Crimea as a Russian territory
Apple alters Maps and Weather to show Crimea as a Russian territory
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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 …
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Common Dreams
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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Brian Resnick / Vox:
Most people are bad at arguing. These 2 techniques will make you better. — Argue better — with science. — Anyone who has argued with an opinionated relative or friend about immigration or gun control knows it is often impossible to sway someone with strong views.
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Peter Maass / The Intercept:
The Nobel Prize, a Rape Camp in Bosnia, and Peter Handke — What does it mean to spend a night at the Vilina Vlas hotel? — The answer to this seemingly odd question reveals the moral and intellectual collapse of the Swedish Academy, which last month bestowed on Peter Handke the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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
Breitbart:
Chick-Fil-A Donates to Extremist Southern Poverty Law Center — Internal Revenue Service (IRS) records show that Chick-fil-A is not only stopping donations to Christian organizations but is funding left-wing extremist groups, including the anti-Christian Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
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The Daily Caller, American Greatness, Mediaite, The Post Millennial and Big League Politics
Paul Musgrave / Foreign Policy:
Mikhail Gorbachev's Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Miracle … It's dangerous for leaders to outlive their countries. Whether they move on or become obsessed with returning to power, they cannot escape their role as symbols of a vanished world—a condition fraught with both nostalgia and danger.
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Balloon Juice
Nick Squires / Telegraph:
Maltese PM's chief-of-staff arrested over journalist's murder — The former chief of staff of Malta's government was arrested over the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia on Wednesday as suspects reportedly began pointing the finger at each other and opposition MPs renewed calls for the prime minister to resign.