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9:40 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
Discussion: Breitbart and Fox News
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Behind Trump's secret war-zone trip: A Mar-a-Lago escape, a twin Air Force One and a Twitter plan  —  The president gave his thanks to the troops in a visit to Afghanistan shrouded in secrecy and packed with the displays of military strength Trump loves.  —  President Donald Trump …
Discussion: NBC News
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CNN:
Inside Trump's sneak Thanksgiving trip to Afghanistan  —  (CNN)On Thanksgiving eve, President Donald Trump slipped unnoticed out of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on his way to a bare-bones military plane with just a handful of top aides.  —  Sixteen hours later, he touched …
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
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Yen Nee Lee / CNBC:
2020 US presidential election is Trump's to lose, says BET founder Bob Johnson  — The next U.S. presidential election is Donald Trump's to lose despite some polls suggesting the president is behind several of his potential Democratic challengers, entrepreneur and media mogul Robert Johnson said.
Susan Simpson / Just Security:
Here's the Proof that Trump's “No Quid Pro Quo” Call Never Happened  —  At the heart of the impeachment inquiry, members of Congress may have been mistakenly led to believe that there were two phone calls between President Donald Trump and Ambassador Gordon Sondland in early September …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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
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
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
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 …
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.
 
 
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Nine conservative groups caught bulk buying Donald Trump Jr.'s book onto the Best Seller's list
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 12% YoY to $24.97B, a new quarterly record, but below est.

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Amazon reports Q3 ad revenue up 19% YoY to $14.33B, vs. $14.25B est., amid its push to insert ads into Prime Video, and subscription sales up 11% YoY to $11.3B

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OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google

 
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