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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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Adia Robinson / ABC News:
President, lawyers should participate in impeachment hearing: Demings, McClintock — Reps. Val Demings, D-Fla., and Tom McClintock, R-Calif., said on ABC's “This Week” that they think having President Donald Trump or his lawyers participate in Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing …
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POLITICUSUSA, The Hill and The Daily Caller
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Top Judiciary Republican demands Schiff testify in impeachment hearing — Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday” that the first witness Republicans will attempt to call in the upcoming impeachment hearing is House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
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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 Hill and The Gateway Pundit
Mike Allen / Axios:
Why the Democratic nominee might ultimately be chosen at the July convention — Democrats say a very realistic scenario now calls for Pete Buttigieg to win Iowa, Elizabeth Warren to win New Hampshire, Joe Biden to win South Carolina and Bernie Sanders to win Nevada.
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Outside the Beltway, Political Wire, Fox News, The Hill and Washington Post
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Mary Kay Linge / New York Post:
Joe Biden munches wife Jill's finger at Iowa campaign stop
Joe Biden munches wife Jill's finger at Iowa campaign stop
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Twitchy
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Case for Bernie — The Democrats need a unifier.
The Case for Bernie — The Democrats need a unifier.
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Fox News and Outside the Beltway
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.
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DownWithTyranny! and Raw Story
New York Times:
How a Divided Left Is Losing the Battle on Abortion — Miscalculations, and an unexpected victory by President Trump, have put abortion access at its most vulnerable point in decades, and the left on the defensive. Now it is trying to recover. — ATLANTA — The pin was small, and rusted on the back.
Raphael Minder / New York Times:
Assange to Testify on Being Recorded in Embassy in London — Recordings have emerged of private conversations that Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, had while living in the Ecuadorean Embassy. He and a Spanish prosecutor blame the United States. — MADRID — This much has become clear …
Jon Stone / The Independent:
Google bans eight different Tory election adverts as disinformation concerns mount — Conservatives accused of using ‘fake news’ and disinformation to win election — Google has banned eight different adverts paid for by the Conservatives over the last month because they broke its rules, The Independent can reveal.
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Raw Story
Michael Crowley / New York Times:
A Leak-Prone White House Finally Manages to Keep a Secret — President Trump's aides were delighted that news of his Thanksgiving Day visit to Afghanistan stayed under wraps. — BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — It may be the leakiest White House in history.
Reuters:
UK Labour's Corbyn: Convicted terrorists should ‘not necessarily’ serve full sentences — LONDON (Reuters) - Convicted terrorists should “not necessarily” serve their full prison terms, the leader of Britain's main opposition Labour party said on Sunday, after a man freed early from a terrorism sentence killed two people in London.
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Justice's election-year conundrum: How to probe team Trump — The Justice Department is in another election-season jam — faced with politically loaded decisions over how aggressively to investigate President Donald Trump and his allies in the heat of the 2020 campaign.
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Law & Crime
Catherine Lucey / Wall Street Journal:
Impeachment Fight at Home Hangs Over Trump's NATO Trip — President heads to London eager to lead on foreign policy as he faces serious domestic challenge — Facing an impeachment inquiry at home, President Trump is heading to London for a different political challenge: a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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 …
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.
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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The Guardian, KDFX-TV, Jihad Watch, CNN and ITV