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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Intelligence Committee to begin circulating draft Ukraine report Monday — Members of the House Intelligence Committee will begin reviewing a report Monday on the panel's investigation of President Donald Trump's efforts to press Ukraine to investigate his Democratic adversaries …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Committee to meet Tuesday to approve release of Ukraine report
Committee to meet Tuesday to approve release of Ukraine report
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The Gateway Pundit
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Case for Bernie — The Democrats need a unifier. It could be the Vermont Socialist. — The Democratic Party needs a nominee, but right now it has a train wreck instead. The front-runner seems too old for the job and is poised to lose the first two primary season contests.
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Fox News and Outside the Beltway
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Mary Kay Linge / New York Post:
Joe Biden munches wife Jill's finger at Iowa campaign stop — She must have looked good enough to eat. — A jovial Joe Biden nipped his wife Jill's finger onstage Saturday at a rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa, as she introduced him at the first stop of an eight-day, 800-mile road trip through the first-to-caucus state.
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Twitchy
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The Democratic presidential campaign has produced confusion rather than clarity
The Democratic presidential campaign has produced confusion rather than clarity
Rick Pearson / Chicago Tribune:
Ahead of a Chicago rally, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren gets endorsement from Rep. Jan Schakowsky
Ahead of a Chicago rally, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren gets endorsement from Rep. Jan Schakowsky
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The Hill
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Liberty University opens Falkirk Center to fight attacks on Jesus, Constitution — Growing concerns in conservative circles that liberals are trying to convert young Christians into socialists by distorting the Bible and U.S. Constitution have prompted Virginia's Liberty University to form …
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Newsweek fires reporter who published inaccurate story on Trump's Thanksgiving Day plans — The Newsweek reporter who published an inaccurate story about President Trump's Thanksgiving Day plans has been fired. The outlet's original story claimed the president only planned on tweeting …
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Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Fox News, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Redstate, Power Line, The Gateway Pundit and Twitchy
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Summer Concepcion / Talking Points Memo:
Report: Newsweek Reporter Fired After Inaccurate Report On Trump's Thanksgiving Plans
Report: Newsweek Reporter Fired After Inaccurate Report On Trump's Thanksgiving Plans
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Fox News, American Greatness, The Daily Caller and Redstate
Dan Coles / Mirror.co.uk:
London Bridge terrorist ‘preached with ISIS flags after being bullied at school’ — Usman Khan's former classmate said he became a recluse with only one friend at school - but just a year later preached about his hate ideologies on the streets of Stoke-on-Trent
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Jihad Watch
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Laura Italiano / New York Post:
London Bridge stabber belonged to jihadist group that admired Hitler
London Bridge stabber belonged to jihadist group that admired Hitler
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KTVZ-TV, Jihad Watch, The Guardian, CNN and ITV
Gregory Katz / Associated Press:
UK police: Suspect in attack had served time for terrorism
UK police: Suspect in attack had served time for terrorism
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Metro.co.uk, Townhall, The Guardian and Slate
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Trump has surrounded himself with ‘failsons’ starting with ‘dimwitted’ Don Trump Jr. and Kushner: columnist — In a biting piece for the Daily Beast, acerbic columnist Molly Jong-Fast accuses Donald Trump of stocking his administrations with “failsons” — which she described as …
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The Daily Beast
New York Times:
Trump's Intervention in SEALs Case Tests Pentagon's Tolerance — Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher's case pits a Pentagon hierarchy committed to enforcing longstanding rules of combat against a commander in chief with no military experience but a finely honed sense of grievance against authority.
Simon Sebag Montefiore / The Guardian:
This antisemitism poisons any good Labour might do — It is possible to criticise Israel without being antisemitic but Corbynists are obsessed with the country's destruction — Last week Jeremy Corbyn made history in all the wrong ways. Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis attacked him for racism.
Aaron Reich / Jerusalem Post:
Senior London rabbi brutally attacked by antisemitic teenagers — According to reports, the two teenagers allegedly shouted “Kill Jews” and “F*** Jews” while beating the victim. — A rabbi in the Amhurst Park area of Stamford Hill, London was attacked by two unidentified teenagers and left bleeding on the ground over Shabbat.
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Jihad Watch
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
The job no GOP senator wants: 'I'd rather have a root canal' — A prime chairmanship is poised to come open in the Senate next year. The problem? No GOP senators seem to want it. — Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) is set to retire in approximately a month, creating an opening atop …
Matthew Karnitschnig / Politico:
German government in doubt after shock SPD vote — BERLIN — German politics were thrust into disarray late Saturday after a surprise decision by the Social Democrats (SPD) to elect a leadership duo that has expressed deep reservations over the party's participation in Angela Merkel's government.
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One America News Network
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
John Kerry Launches Star-Studded Climate Coalition — WASHINGTON — John Kerry, the former senator and secretary of state, has formed a new bipartisan coalition of world leaders, military brass and Hollywood celebrities to push for public action to combat climate change.
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Breitbart
Ella Nilsen / Vox:
House Democrats have passed nearly 400 bills. Trump and Republicans are ignoring them. — Legislative paralysis gripped Capitol Hill well before impeachment started. — There's a pervasive sense of legislative paralysis gripping Capitol Hill. And it's been there long before the impeachment inquiry began.
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Hullabaloo and POLITICUSUSA
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Paul Dibb / The Strategist:
How the geopolitical partnership between China and Russia threatens the West — We are in an era when the risks of major-power conflict are growing. The most likely contenders are commonly seen to be China, the rising power, and the US, the formerly dominant power that's now in relative decline.