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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“I Do Hate What He Is Doing”: Adam Schiff on Trump, Impeachment, and What's Next — The chair of the House Intelligence Committee reflects on his still-open investigation of the President. — Just after 9 a.m. on Thursday morning, Nancy Pelosi made it official: the House of Representatives will vote to impeach President Trump.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Giuliani just confessed to the crime. He also revealed something bigger. — Rudolph W. Giuliani just confessed to the crime in broad daylight — or, more precisely, in broad cyber-daylight. Yet he did so defiantly, with a middle finger unfurled in our faces, without the slightest concern …
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
More than 500 law professors say Trump committed ‘impeachable conduct’ — More than 500 legal scholars have signed on to an open letter asserting that President Trump committed “impeachable conduct” and that lawmakers would be acting well within their rights if they ultimately voted to remove him from office.
Washington Post:
Phone logs in impeachment report renew concern about security of Trump communications — President Trump has routinely communicated with his personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and other individuals speaking on cellphones vulnerable to monitoring by Russian and other foreign intelligence services …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump creates evidence faster than the House can draft impeachment articles
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Raw Story, National Review, ENM NEWS and POLITICUSUSA
Scott Jennings / CNN:
Donald Trump was elected to break the elite. Of course they want to impeach him
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The Philadelphia Inquirer and Vox
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Hostilities between Warren and Buttigieg boil over — Long-simmering tensions between Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren, the two ascendant Democratic presidential candidates in Iowa, burst into the open this week. — Warren and Buttigieg's campaigns each called the other out in a flurry …
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David Catanese / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
How progressives are plotting to stop Pete Buttigieg's rise in the 2020 race — Progressive activists around the country are mobilizing to halt the momentum of Pete Buttigieg, who they increasingly view as a formidable threat to win the Democratic presidential nomination.
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The Hill, The Guardian, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Post
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The Problematic Pete Wars — Last week a problematic photo of Pete Buttigieg “surfaced” on Twitter dot com. — Problematic photos and videos about Mayor Pete seem to be “surfacing” to political reporters all the time these days, framed as if they were Milkshake Cicadas randomly emerging …
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Michael Forsythe / New York Times:
When Pete Buttigieg Was One of McKinsey's ‘Whiz Kids’
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Associated Press:
US official: Pensacola shooting suspect was Saudi student — WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says the Florida Naval station shooting suspect was an aviation student from Saudi Arabia and authorities are investigating if the shooting was terrorism-related.
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Jobs growth soars in November as payrolls surge by 266,000 — By Jeff Cox@JEFF.COX.7528@JEFFCOXCNBCCOM — Nonfarm payrolls surged by 266,000 in November, better than the 187,000 expected by economists polled by Dow Jones. — The unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5% from 3.6% …
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Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
Cramer: Like or hate Trump, ‘these are the best numbers of our lives’ on jobs
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Disrn
Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
US gains a robust 266,000 jobs; unemployment falls to 3.5%
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CBS News:
Mike Bloomberg says he's “not trying to take” Joe Biden's job in 2020 race — Mike Bloomberg says he's not just another billionaire running for president. In an exclusive interview with “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King, Bloomberg spoke about President Trump, the other Democratic …
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Eliza Mackintosh / CNN:
Senior British diplomat in US quits with tirade over Brexit ‘half-truths’ — Here's what you need to know about Brexit — (CNN)A senior British diplomat in the US has quit with a blast at the UK government over Brexit, saying she could no longer “peddle half-truths” on behalf of political leaders she did not “trust.”
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Politico:
Senate Republicans puncture House GOP dreams for impeachment trial — GOP leaders have no interest in turning the Senate into a circus with the hard-line demands of Trump's House allies. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Win McNamee/Getty Images
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No More Mister Nice Blog, POLITICUSUSA and Talking Points Memo
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Jason Sattler / USA Today:
An election is no solution when Trump, Russia and Republicans are determined to steal it
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Daily Kos, CNN and The Atlantic
The Daily Beast:
Ukrainian Fugitive Who Claimed to Have Dirt on Biden Firm Is Arrested — Oleksandr Onyshchenko publicly claimed to have inside information about Hunter Biden just as the impeachment proceedings got underway. — A former Ukrainian member of parliament who has claimed to have dirt …
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Raw Story
Ali Watkins / New York Times:
Accused of Killing a Gambino Mob Boss, He's Presenting a Novel Defense — Anthony Comello is obsessed with conspiracy theories. His paranoia is being a litigated in a Staten Island court. — Four days after pulling off the most high-profile mob killing in decades, Anthony Comello sat …
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Raw Story
Ryan Nobles / CNN:
Bernie Sanders campaign parts ways with staffer after report of homophobic and anti-Semitic tweets — (CNN)Bernie Sanders' campaign has parted ways with a newly hired staffer after a conservative website unearthed a series of tweets allegedly from the staffer that contained anti-Semitic and homophobic language.
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Washington Free Beacon and PinkNews
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing have vanished from Fox — Neither has appeared on Fox News since Oct. 8 or Fox Business since Nov. 13 — Republican attorneys Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing have been fixtures on Fox News and Fox Business for years, serving as critical figures …
Associated Press:
Supreme Court to hear Delaware courts political balance case — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to resolve a dispute over Delaware's requirement of a political balance among state court judges. Delaware says the outcome could affect the makeup of regulatory commissions in many states.
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Washington Post
CREW:
100+ Members of Congress Visited Trump Properties, 50 During Impeachment — More than 100 members of Congress have now visited at least one of the properties that President Trump owns and profits from while in office, according to tracking by CREW. While Congress is charged …
Charles T. Clark / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Issa says Trump clemency for Hunter could save imprisonment costs — DeMaio, another candidate for the congressman's seat, calls a pardon ‘the wrong message to the American people’ — On the day Rep. Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty to misuse of campaign funds in federal court …
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Talking Points Memo and The American Independent
MSNBC:
Impeachment fact-check: Military funding did not get to Ukraine, shredding Trump defense — The House impeachment report documents more evidence undercutting one of the White House's last factual defenses to impeachment - the claim that there can't be an impeachable abuse of power …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Rudy Not Even Waiting for Impeachment to End to Resume Ukraine Shakedown — The official House Republican impeachment report is dedicated to nitpicking the vast evidence of misconduct against President Trump, and wedging a handful of available facts into an alternative frame.
Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill:
House passes bill meant to restore Voting Rights Act — The House on Friday passed a Democrat-led bill aimed at restoring a provision of the Voting Rights Act that would require certain jurisdictions to obtain preclearance from the federal government before implementing any changes to voting practices.
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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
House Votes to Restore the Voting Rights Act
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Vox, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Common Dreams and The Leadership Conference …
Medium:
Letter to Congress from Legal Scholars — We, the undersigned legal scholars, have concluded that President Trump engaged in impeachable conduct. — We do not reach this conclusion lightly. The Founders did not make impeachment available for disagreements over policy, even profound ones …
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POLITICUSUSA, Axios and Law & Crime
Bisma Parvez / Detroit Free Press:
Uranium-contaminated site collapses into Detroit River — A Detroit property contaminated with uranium and other dangerous chemicals partially collapsed into the Detroit River on Nov. 26, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy has confirmed.
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Sputnik International and Detroit Metro Times
Wall Street Journal:
Trump administration Weighs Putting Amazon Foreign Sites on ‘Notorious Markets’ List — Some administration officials are advocating Amazon's inclusion on the list but no decision has been made, people familiar with the matter say — WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is considering adding …
Heather Long / Washington Post:
This is the hottest job market since the 1990s. Why aren't wages growing faster? — By just about any metric this is the best job market since the late 1990s. The economy has been adding jobs for 110 straight months — a record streak. Jobs are plentiful. Unemployment is at a half-century low.
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Mother Jones and The Last Refuge
Joe Murphy / London Evening Standard:
John Major breaks Tory ranks as he urges young voters to stop Boris Johnson's Brexit plan — ES News email — The latest headlines in your inbox Enter your email address Continue — Please enter an email address Email address is invalid Fill out this field Email address is invalid You already have an account.
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