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12:15 PM ET, December 1, 2019

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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.).
Discussion: ABC News
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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 …
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 …
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Committee to meet Tuesday to approve release of Ukraine report
Discussion: 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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Mary Kay Linge / New York Post:
Joe Biden munches wife Jill's finger at Iowa campaign stop
Discussion: Twitchy
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Case for Bernie  —  The Democrats need a unifier.
Discussion: Fox News and Outside the Beltway
Tim Stickings / Daily Mail:
Revealed: Six of London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan's fellow Stock Exhange bomb plotters have also been freed from prison since 2012  —  Six of the eight terrorist plotters who were jailed along with London Bridge attacker Usman Khan in 2012 have also been freed from prison, it has emerged.
Discussion: Power Line and The Sun
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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.
Dan Coles / Mirror.co.uk:
London Bridge terrorist ‘preached with ISIS flags after being bullied at school’
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Chuck Todd to GOP Senator: You're Selling the Same Argument as Putin!  —  Chuck Todd was left gobsmacked by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) when the GOP lawmaker said the ex-Ukrainian president “actively worked” for Hillary Clinton.  —  A week after claiming that he didn't know whether Russia …
Discussion: Axios and The Hill
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.
Discussion: Axios, 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.
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and Law & Crime
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 …
News Agency UNIAN:
Putin, Lukashenka agree on single parliament, govt - envoy  —  By December 8, 2019, just a day before the Normandy Summit in Paris, the authorities of Belarus and Russia are expected to sign a new agreement on deepening integration.  —  Belarus President Alyaksandr Lukashenka …
Ryan Fahey / Daily Mail:
Jeremy Corbyn's most loyal supporters are more likely to be anti-Semitic than those of other party leaders, YouGov poll reveals  —  Loyal supporters of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn are more likely to agree with statements deemed to be anti-Semitic than supporters of other political leaders, a poll has revealed.
 
 
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Catherine Lucey / Wall Street Journal:
Impeachment Fight at Home Hangs Over Trump's NATO Trip
Errin Haines / Associated Press:
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Michael Crowley / New York Times:
A Leak-Prone White House Finally Manages to Keep a Secret
Washington Post:
Trump isn't running in Britain's election. That hasn't stopped him from getting in the middle.
Politico:
Iraqi lawmakers accept premier's resignation amid ongoing violence
Discussion: NPR and One America News Network
Simon Sebag Montefiore / The Guardian:
This antisemitism poisons any good Labour might do
Aaron Reich / Jerusalem Post:
Senior London rabbi brutally attacked by antisemitic teenagers
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
John Kerry Launches Star-Studded Climate Coalition
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How the geopolitical partnership between China and Russia threatens the West
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Prime Mover: How Amazon Wove Itself Into the Life of an American City
Discussion: The Big Picture
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Liberty University opens Falkirk Center to fight attacks on Jesus, Constitution
Matthew Karnitschnig / Politico:
German government in doubt after shock SPD vote
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Trump has surrounded himself with ‘failsons’ starting with ‘dimwitted’ Don Trump Jr. and Kushner: columnist
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Trump administration proposals could cause millions to lose food stamps
Discussion: HuffPost and The Guardian
 

 
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Reporters Without Borders:
Investigation: how hack-for-hire Appin tried silencing 15+ outlets since 2022 over articles, newsletters, and podcasts covering Appin's “ethical hacking”

Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: CNN is considering making network anchor Kaitlan Collins its chief White House correspondent and relocating her show from New York to DC

 
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