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12:10 PM 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.
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Chelsea Janes / Washington Post:
Harris faces uphill climb amid questions about who she is
Discussion: Breitbart and Fox News
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 …
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 …
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.
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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.
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is First to Use PATRIOT Act to Detain a Man Forever  —  Never in 18 years has the government used Section 412 of the PATRIOT Act, which permits indefinite detention of resident aliens on national-security grounds.  Until now.  —  For the 18-year lifespan of the war on terrorism …
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
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Behind Trump's secret war-zone trip: A Mar-a-Lago escape, a twin Air Force One and a Twitter plan  —  ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Donald Trump started his day like so many others at his south Florida resort: a relaxing round of golf, a few sharp tweets and then a White House announcement that he'd be staying in for the evening.
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Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Trump has turned the suburbs into a GOP disaster zone.  Does that doom his reelection?  —  For decades, there was an unvaried rhythm to life in America's suburbs: Carpool in the morning, watch sports on weekends, barbecue in the summer, vote Republican in November.  —  Then came President Trump.
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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Associated Press:   The Latest: Celebrations after Iraqi PM says he'll resign
James Walker / Newsweek:
White House ‘Obstruction’ of Impeachment ‘Worse’ than Nixon During Watergate, Says Former Acting Solicitor General  —  An Obama-era acting solicitor general of the United States has argued that the White House is “engaged in unprecedented obstruction” of the Ukraine probe.
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MSNBC:   Neal Katyal on the case for impeaching Trump
Ben White / Politico:
2 big things that could save or sink Trump in 2020  —  President Donald Trump needs two big achievements to keep markets and the economy as glittering assets in his challenging 2020 reelection bid: passage of a new NAFTA and a trade deal with China.  —  But Democrats are stringing him along …
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and Political Wire
Mark Potok / The Daily Beast:
The Creepy Racist Network Behind Trump Aide Stephen Miller  —  The White House aide's emails frightened America, and rightly so.  But the bigger story is a vast racist network that has shocking reach into the GOP.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  Even amid the impeachment drama …
Discussion: Raw Story
Rich Lowry / Politico:
Why Are Democrats Shrinking From the Impeachment Fight?  —  They came out on top after the first round of hearings but seem to be giving up on questioning the most important witnesses.  —  Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman (right), National Security Council Director for European Affairs and Jennifer Williams …
Discussion: Raw Story
David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
NATO spending tweak lets Berlin push back on Trump  —  Germany can now tell Donald Trump that Berlin pays as much as Washington for NATO operations.  —  That boast is not quite as impressive as it sounds, as it relates to a change in formula for the alliance's common funding …
 
 
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ITV:
Boris Johnson tells ITV News he would ‘walk away’ from US trade talks if NHS put on table
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CNN:
Police raids in Italy uncover weapons, propaganda and suspects who wanted to create an ‘openly pro-Nazi’ party
Jacob M. Schlesinger / Wall Street Journal:
Will the U.S. Bring Down the WTO?
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