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11:35 AM ET, November 30, 2021

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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump called aides hours before Capitol riot to discuss how to stop Biden victory  —  Sources tell Guardian Trump pressed lieutenants at Willard hotel in Washington about ways to delay certification of election result  —  Hours before the deadly attack on the US Capitol this year …
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump Never Got Another Classified Intelligence Briefing After Jan. 6  —  Donald Trump skipped his classified intelligence briefings for the holidays.  And then, after his Jan. 6 briefing didn't happen, he never got another one, a new CIA book reveals.  —  After a holiday break …
Discussion: Raw Story and Insider
Peter Nicholas / The Atlantic:
Pence 2024?  —  Mike Pence spent much of his vice presidency quietly catering to the whims of President Donald Trump.  But on January 6, he broke with Trump by refusing to overturn the 2020 election results.  And now, Pence is eyeing a presidential run of his own, even though his old boss hasn't ruled out a 2024 campaign.
CNN:   Appeals court judges skeptical of Trump's arguments for blocking release of his January 6 documents
Jamie Smyth / Financial Times:
Moderna chief predicts existing vaccines will struggle with Omicron  —  Stéphane Bancel foresees ‘material drop’ in current jabs' effectiveness, sending stocks and oil prices lower  —  The chief executive of Moderna has predicted that existing vaccines will be much less effective …
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Wall Street Journal:
Powell Warns Omicron Variant Could Worsen Inflation-Boosting Bottlenecks  —  Officials could weigh whether to accelerate reduction in asset purchases at next meeting  —  Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is grappling with how to chart policy amid an inflationary surge far larger …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Case Against Abortion  —  A striking thing about the American abortion debate is how little abortion itself is actually debated.  The sensitivity and intimacy of the issue, the mixed feelings of so many Americans, mean that most politicians and even many pundits really don't like to talk about it.
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Why Conservatives Adopted a Pro-Choice Slogan
Discussion: Bloomberg and Washington Post
New York Daily News:
An errant op-ed: Rich Azzopardi, Gov. Cuomo and Attorney General Tish James  —  We publish lots of op-eds.  More often than we'd like, errors make it into print.  It is rare that a guest opinion essay has misstatements rooted in an author's personal recollection that we specifically sought …
Discussion: Politico
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
CNN host Chris Cuomo used his media sources to find out info on brother Andrew's accusers, records show
CNN:
CNN to conduct ‘thorough review’ of documents showing Chris Cuomo's intimate role advising brother Andrew Cuomo
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: How the continuing resolution stole Christmas
Discussion: Power Line, HotAir and Mediaite
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Greene calls fellow Republican ‘trash’ of GOP conference  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) blasted Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) after the South Carolina lawmaker criticized Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) for an anti-muslim remark Boebert made about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
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Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
US Rep. Debbie Dingell's Dearborn office vandalized, window smashed
Discussion: New York Post and The Hill
Representative Ilhan Omar:
Rep. Ilhan Omar Statement on Conversation with Rep. Lauren Boebert
Twitter:
Expanding our private information policy to include media  —  As part of our ongoing efforts to build tools with privacy and security at the core, we're updating our existing private information policy and expanding its scope to include “private media.”  Under our existing policy …
New York Times:
Supervised Injection Sites for Drug Users to Open in New York City  —  The Manhattan facilities will provide clean needles, administer medication to reverse overdoses and provide users with options for addiction treatment.  —  In an attempt to curb a surge in overdose deaths caused …
Discussion: NBC New York and National Review
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Peter Jamison / Washington Post:
New opioids, more powerful than fentanyl, are discovered in D.C. amid deadly wave of overdoses
Discussion: The Hill
Washington Post:
GOP resistance to preschool plan could imperil key Biden proposal in many states  —  His signature universal preschool plan would depend on the participation of states, which have had uneven approaches to implementing federal aid  —  The White House's proposal to create universal prekindergarten …
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Red states are now paying people not to get vaccinated  —  Once upon a time, states debated whether to pay people to get vaccinated.  Now, some red states are paying people not to get vaccinated, by cutting checks to workers who quit or are fired because they refuse covid-19 shots.
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors and Insider
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Washington Post:
Threat of Russian invasion of Ukraine tests Biden administration
Politico:
Democrats' December dread builds after defense stumble  —  Senate Democrats' daunting year-end agenda started off with a face plant on a routine, popular defense bill.  That was supposed to be the easy part.  —  Senate Republicans' Monday blockade of the annual defense legislation over lack …
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Dan Zak / Washington Post:
Lorne Michaels still lives for Saturday night … NEW YORK — Episode 4.  Season 47.  —  “I got a lot of notes here.”  —  “Chloe, you've got to play it to camera.”  —  Fifty-three minutes to showtime.  —  “James, can we get you up in the seat?”  —  You can't see Lorne Michaels behind …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
A shadow war in space is heating up fast  —  When Russia blows up a satellite in space with a missile (as it did this month), or when China tests a new hypersonic missile (as it did last month), the ongoing arms race in space leaps into the news.  But in between these “Sputnik”-like moments …
Discussion: The Nation
Hannah Allam / Washington Post:
‘Welcome to our world’: Muslims see disparities and dangers in Jan. 6 probe  —  “LOL!!”  Obeidallah tweeted when a rioter who bragged that she'd never go to jail ended up with a two-month sentence.  —  “FINALLY!!!” he wrote in celebration of charges against a man who allegedly punched a police officer.
Wall Street Journal:
White House Considering Richard Cordray as Top Fed Banking Regulator  —  Ohio attorney served as the first confirmed director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau  —  President Biden is considering Richard Cordray, the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau …
Chris Casteel / The Oklahoman:
Defense secretary Lloyd Austin says Oklahoma National Guard members must get vaccinated  —  Members of the Oklahoma National Guard must get vaccinated against COVID-19 regardless of their duty status or personal beliefs, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Gov. Kevin Stitt on Monday.
 
 
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Washington Post:
Jill Biden's first White House Christmas brings back a warmer, simpler vibe
Discussion: Althouse and Slate
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Trump decries smash-and-grab robberies
American Greatness:
The Madness of Anthony Fauci
Discussion: Breitbart
Jake Auchincloss / Fox News:
Republicans politicize inflation while Dems work to fix it. Let's tackle this together
Axios:
Right-wingers making McCarthy sweat for future Speaker post
Discussion: Twitchy and Page Array
New York Times:
Éric Zemmour, Far-Right Pundit, Makes French Presidential Run Official
Axios:
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Billy Binion / Reason:
A SWAT Team Blew Up This Innocent Woman's House and Cost Her Over $50,000. The City Tried To Stop Her From Suing.
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Althea Legaspi / Rolling Stone:
Marilyn Manson's Home Raided by L.A. County Sheriff in Sexual Assault Investigation
Discussion: TMZ.com and Insider
Teaganne Finn / NBC News:
Manchin indicates ‘pathway’ to resolving debt ceiling standoff
ProPublica:
How Steve Bannon Has Exploited Google Ads to Monetize Extremism
Javier C. Hernández / New York Times:
As ‘Nutcracker’ Returns, Companies Rethink Depictions of Asians
Discussion: Althouse
 

 
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A profile of incoming FCC Chair Brendan Carr, a telecom lawyer and longtime FCC official who believes tech and media companies have been unfair to conservatives

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