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9:05 AM ET, November 29, 2019

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New York Times:
How Kamala Harris's Campaign Unraveled  —  Ms. Harris is the only 2020 Democrat who has fallen hard out of the top tier of candidates.  She has proved to be an uneven campaigner who changes her message and tactics to little effect and has a staff torn into factions.
Discussion: Althouse
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Chelsea Janes / Washington Post:
Harris faces uphill climb amid questions about who she is  —  GREENVILLE, S.C. — Sen. Kamala D. Harris had everything she needed to make her pitch.  Big yellow cutout letters spelled “Justice for the People” on the stage behind her.  White folding chairs splayed out ahead of her …
Discussion: Breitbart and Fox News
Michael Crowley / New York Times:
Trump Visits Afghanistan and Says He Reopened Talks With Taliban  —  Details were unclear.  The declaration came on an unannounced trip as the president seeks to tout a record of achievement while he campaigns for re-election.  —  BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — President Trump paid …
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ITV:
Boris Johnson tells ITV News he would ‘walk away’ from US trade talks if NHS put on table  —  Boris Johnson has told ITV News he would “say goodbye” to President Trump if the White House asked for the NHS to be included in trade talks.  —  The prime minister said he would “walk away” …
Discussion: Politico and HuffPost
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Associated Press:
Iraq's PM announces he'll resign amid worsening crisis  —  1 of 6  —  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said Friday he would submit his resignation to parliament, a day after more than 40 people were killed by security forces and following calls by Iraq's top Shiite cleric for lawmakers to withdraw support.
Ben White / Politico:
2 big things that could save or sink Trump in 2020  —  It's one of several nightmare scenarios for markets: A Trump administration failure to complete the China and USMCA trade deals could wreck the 2020 economic outlook.  But Trump's team remains optimistic.  —  President Donald Trump.
Discussion: CNN and Political Wire
Shane Savitsky / Axios:
Why Baby Yoda should scare Michael Bloomberg and Deval Patrick  —  Baby Yoda, the juggernaut character from Disney+'s Star Wars series “The Mandalorian,” is driving almost twice as many average social media interactions on news stories about it as any 2020 Democrat, according to data from NewsWhip exclusively provided to Axios.
Discussion: Politico
Jessica Glenza / The Guardian:
Ohio bill orders doctors to ‘reimplant ectopic pregnancy’ or face ‘abortion murder’ charges  —  Ohio introduces one of the most extreme bills to date for a procedure that does not exist in medical science  —  A bill to ban abortion introduced in the Ohio state legislature requires doctors to …
New York Times:
Warren Wealth Tax Has Wide Support, Except Among One Group  —  Senator Elizabeth Warren's plan to tax the assets of America's wealthiest individuals continues to draw broad support from voters, across party, gender and educational lines.  Only one slice of the electorate opposes it staunchly: Republican men with college degrees.
Discussion: Political Wire
Tom Mackaman / en:
An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times' 1619 Project  —  Gordon Wood is professor emeritus at Brown University and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Radicalism of the American Revolution, as well as Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic …
CNN:
Police raids in Italy uncover weapons, propaganda and suspects who wanted to create an ‘openly pro-Nazi’ party  —  Rome (CNN)Police in Italy say they raided the homes of 19 people who allegedly wanted to create an “openly pro-Nazi, xenophobic and anti-Semitic” party.
Jessica Kwong / Newsweek:
How is Trump spending Thanksgiving?  Tweeting, golfing and surprising U.S. troops in Afghanistan  —  President Donald Trump has been spending his Thanksgiving holidays at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, which he calls the “winter White House,” and this year is no exception.
Jacob M. Schlesinger / Wall Street Journal:
Will the U.S. Bring Down the WTO?  —  By depriving the world's trade court of new judges, the Trump administration may succeed in paralyzing the institution  —  For the quarter-century since the World Trade Organization began operating, Robert Lighthizer has been calling it “a threat to sovereignty” …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Susan Rice's memoir prompts nostalgia for the Obama years  —  Reading Susan Rice's new memoir, “Tough Love,” is a reminder of two things: what a remarkably gifted, subtle but maddeningly distant man President Barack Obama was; and how people such as Rice who served him endured ceaseless public attacks …
 
 
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