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Politico:
Schiff: Pence aide provided new impeachment evidence — but VP's office classified it — A national security aide to Vice President Mike Pence submitted additional classified evidence to House impeachment investigators about a phone call between Pence and Ukraine's president …
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Washington Post:
As impeachment tide swirls around Trump, Giuliani drops anchor in Ukraine — Even as the House of Representatives began drafting charges against President Trump this week, his private attorney, who many believe is partly responsible for leading Trump on the path to his likely impeachment …
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Los Angeles Times:
We've seen enough. Trump should be impeached — The House of Representatives' inquiry into President Trump's actions on Ukraine is not yet complete, but the evidence produced over the last two months is more than sufficient to persuade us that he should be impeached.
Michael Crowley / New York Times:
In Prisoner Swap, Iran Frees American Held Since 2016 — Xiyue Wang was a graduate student at Princeton who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison on two charges of espionage that U.S. officials have called groundless. — WASHINGTON — Iran on Saturday freed an American graduate student …
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Associated Press:
Iran frees Chinese-American scholar for US-held scientist — This photo provided by U.S. Embassy Switzerland, Edward McMullen greets Xiyue Wang in Zurich, Switzerland on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. In a trade conducted in Zurich, Iranian officials handed over Chinese-American graduate student Xiyue Wang …
Daily Mail:
Six Saudis are arrested over Pensacola naval base shooting including three who FILMED the attack by countryman who killed three and wounded eight before being shot dead - as FBI probes terror link — Sources identified the suspected gunman as Saudi Air Force aviation student Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani
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New York Times:
Six Saudis Said to Be Questioned After Pensacola Navy Base Shooting — Authorities were trying to determine whether the shooting that killed three and injured eight others was an act of terrorism. — PENSACOLA, Fla. — A member of the Saudi Air Force armed with a handgun fatally shot three people …
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Photo surfaces showing Eric Trump in Ukraine as investigations into the Trump Org intensify: report … 'I haven't had a personal cell phone for years': Trump demands retraction from CNN
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CNN:
Trump still uses his personal cell phone despite warnings and increased call scrutiny — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has continued to use his personal cell phone to make calls, despite repeated warnings from his staff that the practice could leave him vulnerable to foreign surveillance, multiple officials told CNN.
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump again accused of mishandling info, creating security threat
Trump again accused of mishandling info, creating security threat
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Raw Story, Washington Post and POLITICUSUSA
Laurence H. Tribe / USA Today:
Why care about the Trump impeachment? Your right to vote in free elections is at stake. — The Trump impeachment is about protecting our freedom and right to vote from lawless foreign election manipulation invited by a dangerous president. — Of particular interest to me in last week's …
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Impeaching Donald Trump Is Already a Win for Democrats — There appears to be an emerging consensus that the impeachment of Donald Trump won't matter very much in November, 2020. “Impeachment will eclipse all for the next seven weeks. And then it will recede, and other events will supersede …
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Supreme Court halts subpoena to Deutsche Bank for Trump records — The Supreme Court on Friday granted President Trump's emergency request to temporarily block a congressional subpoena for his financial records from Deutsche Bank. — The court's order came just hours after the president's legal team asked …
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Kellie Mejdrich / Politico:
Justice Ginsburg temporarily halts Trump financial records subpoena
Justice Ginsburg temporarily halts Trump financial records subpoena
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Bloomberg:
Trump Orders Toilet Rule Review Over Low-Flow Flushing — President complains about impact of water efficiency rules — He says hand washing is nearly impossible due to water flow — Donald Trump's latest target for deregulation is Americans' toilets.
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Amber Athey / The Daily Caller:
Trump Jokes About Getting Rid Of Light Bulbs That Make Him Look Orange
Trump Jokes About Getting Rid Of Light Bulbs That Make Him Look Orange
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Redstate
Keiko Morris / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Leases New Manhattan Office Space, Less Than a Year After HQ2 Pullout — Tech giant agrees to take 335,000 square feet in Hudson Yards neighborhood in deal without any financial incentives from city or state — Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to take new office space in Midtown Manhattan …
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Dana Hull / Yahoo Finance:
Teflon Musk Wins Again With Escape From ‘Pedo Guy’ Firestorm — (Bloomberg) — Even before the verdict came in Friday, Elon Musk had earned the sobriquet Teflon Man on Twitter. — Once a jury decided that he hadn't defamed a British man by calling him a “pedo guy” in a post on the social media platform …
Val Demings / Washington Post:
What William Barr doesn't understand about law enforcement — Val Demings, a Democrat, represents Florida's 10th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. — This week, Attorney General William P. Barr honored 19 law enforcement officers selected by the Justice Department for “Distinguished Service in Policing.”
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Here are the Senate Republicans who could vote to convict Trump — Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) caused a stir Friday when he said a “handful” of Senate Republican colleagues have privately told him they would consider voting to remove President Trump from office.
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Financial Times:
Macron and Merkel risk doing Putin's work — After months of haggling about dates and the agenda, the “Normandy Four” summit meeting between Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia has finally been set for December 9 in Paris. — French president Emmanuel Macron in particular had been pushing …
Marc Caputo / Politico:
‘People have real questions about this’: Hunter-Ukraine questions cloud Biden tour — ELKADER, Iowa — Joe Biden has two methods of responding to questions about his son's controversial business dealings in Ukraine: denial and anger. — But so far, Biden doesn't have a clear and cogent message …
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Arelis Hernández / Washington Post:
Texans on southern border vow to fight Trump's efforts to take their homes for border wall — BROWNSVILLE, Tex. — Salvador Castillo was yearning for tranquility when he became enchanted by a one-acre homestead close — but not too close — to the city, a place where cows graze beneath whispering mesquite trees on the property's edge.
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Raw Story
Tim Carpenter / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Gov. Laura Kelly's approval rating in Kansas tops President Donald Trump's — Kansans participating in a statewide political survey expressed greater satisfaction with the job performance of Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly than Republican President Donald Trump, who finds himself underwater in the deeply red Midwest state.
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
As Candidates Jostle for Position, a Long Race May Become a Marathon — In a volatile primary with no true front-runner, Democrats face the prospect of a monthslong delegate battle that would also feature a lengthy public airing of the party's ideological fissures.
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Political Wire
Jack Williams / The Sun:
FRESH CLAIMS Prince Andrew rocked by new bombshell claim as second Epstein victim says she had sex with him too — A SECOND woman allegedly abused by paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has claimed she had sex with Prince Andrew. — The fresh allegations come after Epstein's “sex slave” …
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Top Russian diplomat to visit Washington in first visit since 2017 Oval Office controversy, officials say — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is expected to travel to Washington next week for his first visit to the United States since his controversial Oval Office meeting with President Trump in 2017 …