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6:15 PM ET, December 8, 2019

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Keren Blankfeld / New York Times:
Lovers in Auschwitz, Reunited 72 Years Later.  He Had One Question.  —  Was she the reason he was alive today?  —  The first time he spoke to her, in 1943, by the Auschwitz crematory, David Wisnia realized that Helen Spitzer was no regular inmate.  Zippi, as she was known, was clean, always neat.
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Following the Pensacola shooting, Trump auditions as Saudi Arabia's press secretary  —  President Trump has long held a double standard when it comes to terrorist attacks: When the perpetrator is a white supremacist, he offers anodyne expressions of sympathy for the victims (often …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
For Trump, Instinct After Florida Killings Is Simple: Protect Saudis
Discussion: Hullabaloo and HotAir
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Trump adviser says Florida shooting looks like ‘terrorism’
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
CNN:
Nadler: Impeachment would be a guilty verdict in ‘three minutes flat’  —  Washington (CNN)With sources telling CNN a vote in the Judiciary Committee to impeach President Donald Trump is expected as soon as this week, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler said Sunday that he sees the Ukraine evidence …
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New York Times:
Deepening Divide Turns Impeachment Into Another Partisan Brawl  —  The White House is refusing to engage and Democrats have abandoned all but a semblance of comity as the House races ahead, rendering a historic undertaking little more than a foregone conclusion.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
Nadler: Trump will do everything to make sure 2020 is ‘not a fair election’
Discussion: Redstate
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Nadler on potential Mueller article of impeachment: “It's part of a pattern”
Discussion: The Hill
Ruairí Arrieta-Kenna / Politico:
How the Cool Kids of the Left Turned on Elizabeth Warren  —  Millennial socialists' favorite magazine is breaking up with Elizabeth Warren.  But it's saying: It's not me.  It's you.  —  That magazine is Jacobin, the nine-year-old publication that has become the de facto voice of the young socialist movement in America.
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Brandon Tensley / CNN:
Biden, ‘The Irishman’ and the enduring power of aging white men
Discussion: NPR, HuffPost and New York Post
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden has edge over Dems in Nevada, bests Trump by 7 points
Discussion: CNN and TheBlaze
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
‘Trump changed everything’: Big cities break hard left in Dem primary
Discussion: Raw Story
Miami Herald:
Pardoned soldiers are Trump's special guests at closed-door fundraiser in Aventura  —  President Donald Trump, speaking during a closed-door speech to Republican Party of Florida donors at the state party's annual Statesman's Dinner, was in “rare form” Saturday night.
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Finland's Social Democrats name Marin to be youngest ever prime minister  —  HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's transportation minister Sanna Marin was selected by her Social Democratic party on Sunday to become the country's youngest prime minister ever, taking over after the resignation of Antti Rinne.
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Neil Murphy / Mirror.co.uk:
New Finland prime minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become youngest person to hold role  —  Sanna Marin - a minister for the country's Social Democrats - will become the youngest leader in the world when he takes control of the country next week  —  Finland has just nominated its youngest ever prime minister - who is aged just 34.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
It has come to this: Ted Cruz is Putin's stooge  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) has spent his entire adult life touting the West's defeat of communism in the Cold War.  In July 2014, he declared to a young conservative group, “'Mr. Putin, give back Crimea.' Why is it so unimaginable for President Obama to utter those words?”
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Cruz promotes conspiracy that Ukraine “blatantly interfered” in U.S. election  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said on NBC's “Meet the Press” Sunday that Ukraine “blatantly interfered” in the 2016 election, repeating a conspiracy theory that experts warn has been promoted by Russian intelligence services.
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Lindsey Graham torches Schiff over impeachment tactics: He ‘is doing a lot of damage to the country, and he needs to stop.’  —  Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is preparing for a likely impeachment trial in the Senate, and he lambasted House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff …
Discussion: Axios, NBC News, The Hill and Breitbart
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Rep. Jim Banks / Fox News:
Subpoena Adam Schiff's phone records - He did it to Republicans, we should do it to him
Discussion: Redstate
David Harsanyi / New York Post:
Democrats have embraced the exact surveillance tactics they used to warn about
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
A Powerful Statement of Resistance from a College Student on Trial in Moscow  —  I was going to write a column about Wednesday's impeachment hearing, about the way it once again showcased the two non-overlapping realities into which American politics has split.
Washington Post:
Democrats leveraged Trump's fixation on Space Force to pursue parental-leave victory for federal workers  —  When Congress took up a must-pass defense bill earlier this year, President Trump saw it as a rare opportunity to win approval for Space Force — his proposed sixth branch of the military — ahead of the 2020 election.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
The Boston Globe:
Tiny Dixville Notch may see its midnight tradition disappear  —  For six decades, Americans have woken up on the morning of the New Hampshire presidential primary, turned on the news, and heard about Dixville Notch, the tiny hamlet where perhaps a dozen voters had cast paper ballots …
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Treasury's Monica Crowley on the Explosive Trump Economy Success: ‘Boom!’  —  Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department Monica Crowley told Breitbart News that President Donald Trump's “economic freedom agenda” has sparked the highly successful economic growth …
Adam H. Domby / Washington Post:
Nikki Haley gets the history of the Confederate flag very wrong  —  Adam H. Domby is an assistant professor of history at the College of Charleston and the author of “The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory.”  —  Much of the crowd cheered …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
 
 
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Emma Goldberg / New York Times:
A Farewell to Feministing and the Heyday of Feminist Blogging
The Sunday Times:
John McDonnell apologises for Labour anti-semitism
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New York Times:
Hong Kong Protest, Largest in Weeks, Stretches Several Miles
New York Times:
Buttigieg Struggles to Square Transparency With Nondisclosure Agreement
Emily Tillett / CBS News:
White House “working” on official visit between Trump and Russia's Lavrov, Robert O'Brien says
Yahoo News:
Meet the lawyer at the center of the Trump universe
Katherine Kersten / Star Tribune:
The New York Times ‘1619 Project’ revisited
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Natalia Datskevych / KyivPost:
Zelensky hopes for concrete results from Normandy Format talks
Jon Lockett / The Sun:
GOING NUCLEAR Donald Trump fires warning shot at Kim Jong-un after latest ‘nuclear missile’ test
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
‘Go after your enemies’: Trump's 21-year-old impeachment playbook
Discussion: Raw Story, NBC News and Washington Post