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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Trump's Jewish Allies Denounce Dinner With Kanye West and Nick Fuentes — Supporters who looked past the former president's admirers in bigoted corners of the far right, and his own use of antisemitic tropes, now are drawing a line. “He legitimizes Jew hatred and Jew haters,” says one.
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NBC News:
Republican criticism of Trump builds after his dinner with a white supremacist — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is embroiled in another controversy, and this time some Republicans on Capitol Hill are less willing to defend him. — After he dined with the notorious white supremacist Nick Fuentes …
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The GOP's sickness is far worse than a ‘Trump problem’ — No one is buying the idea that Donald Trump's dinner last week at Mar-a-Lago with antisemite and white nationalist Nick Fuentes was some sort of aberration — even if Trump's claim is true that Fuentes showed up unannounced in the company of rapper …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Antisemitism's March Into the Mainstream — Tom Stoppard's wrenching drama “Leopoldstadt,” which I recently saw on Broadway, begins in 1899 at a Christmas party in the Vienna apartment of Hermann Merz, a prosperous and assimilated Jewish businessman, who is married to a Catholic and nominally converted.
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PBS NewsHour and Bloomberg
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
Let's Play ‘Secret Hitler’ — Making Sense of Trump's Meeting with Fuentes and Kanye — As you probably know already, last week Donald Trump had dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Kanye West and Nicholas J. Fuentes, one of America's premier White Nationalists and Holocaust deniers.
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The Daily Beast and National Review
Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Trump's former antisemitism envoy calls Trump out for meeting with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes
Trump's former antisemitism envoy calls Trump out for meeting with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kemp slams Trump's ‘un-American’ white supremacist dinner guest; Walker is silent
Kemp slams Trump's ‘un-American’ white supremacist dinner guest; Walker is silent
Orthodox Union:
Orthodox Union Criticizes Former President Trump for Hosting Kanye West and Nick Fuentes
Orthodox Union Criticizes Former President Trump for Hosting Kanye West and Nick Fuentes
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Jay Nordlinger / National Review:
Guess Who Came to Dinner
Guess Who Came to Dinner
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Independent, Raw Story, New York Daily News and Commentary Magazine
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Herschel Walker Only Recently Stopped Renting Out Georgia Home He Claims as His Residence — Records show the Senate hopeful—who's facing fresh questions about his Georgia residency—rented out his Atlanta home just before launching his campaign. — When he launched his campaign …
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Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Trump Plans Limited Role in Georgia Senate Runoff — The former president, who held two big rallies before the state's two runoff elections two years ago — both of which Democrats won — will steer clear of Georgia before next week's Senate election. — Donald J. Trump will not cross …
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Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
Counties in Arizona, Pennsylvania fail to certify election results by legal deadlines — Two counties in a couple of swing states turned what is usually an uneventful step in the election process into a political flashpoint on Monday. — Officials in rural, Republican-controlled Cochise County …
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Mark Scolforo / Associated Press:
Pennsylvania county deadlocks on certifying election results
Pennsylvania county deadlocks on certifying election results
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Washington Post:
Elon Musk says Apple threatened to remove Twitter from App Store — In a series of tweets, the billionaire says Apple also has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter — Elon Musk on Monday went on a tear against Apple, Twitter's top advertiser, after he said the company threatened to block …
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Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk's Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America — The tunnel venture has repeatedly teased local officials with a pledge to ‘solve soul-destroying traffic,’ only to back out — ONTARIO, Calif.—The unsolicited proposal from Elon Musk's tunnel-building venture arrived in January 2020.
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The Information, TESMANIAN and Eschaton
Washington Post:
As rail strike deadline nears, Biden to call on Congress to intervene — Railroad workers would need to ratify union contracts before a Dec. 9 strike deadline to avert a rail shutdown, renewing pressure on Congress and the White House to intervene — With less than two weeks until …
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James Crisp / Telegraph:
Netherlands to close up to 3,000 farms to comply with EU rules — Government tries to cut down on nitrogen pollution in a move set to reignite tensions with farmers who say the industry is unfairly targeted — The Dutch government plans to buy and close down up to 3,000 farms near …
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The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and TIMCAST
Chantal Da Silva / NBC News:
Virginia law enforcement worker killed in shootout with deputies after murdering family of teen he had catfished, police say — A Virginia law enforcement worker was killed in a shootout with deputies in California after he allegedly killed the mother and grandparents of a teenage girl he had catfished online, police said Sunday.
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Emily Heil / Washington Post:
Elon Musk and the hardcore cult of Diet Coke — Elon Musk, the world's richest human, might be completely unrelatable in most ways — who among us can buy a $44 billion company on a whim or build a rocket ship to Mars because they liked reading science fiction as a kid?
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New York Post and Slate
Anthony Gockowski / Alpha News:
Controversial energy official charged with stealing woman's luggage at MSP — Sam Brinton, one of the first “openly genderfluid individuals in federal government leadership,” was charged with felony theft last month after allegedly stealing a woman's luggage at MSP Airport.
Theodore Schleifer / Puck:
An S.B.F. Ally in the Barrel — Sean McElwee, the ur-connected political operative, is the latest to get singed by the FTX scandal following a no-confidence vote at Data for Progress. His exit speaks volumes, not only about Sam Bankman-Fried, but about the power of social media contagion.
Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Trump Immunity Claim in 2020 Civil Rights Suit Rejected by Judge — Donald Trump can't claim presidential immunity to avoid a lawsuit that accuses him of civil rights violations in his efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 election, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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Diana Glebova / The Daily Caller:
Biden Family Excludes Hunter Biden's Daughter From Christmas Stockings Two Years In A Row — The Biden family unveiled the 2022 White House Christmas decorations on Monday, hanging a stocking for each of President Joe Biden's grandchildren other than the daughter Hunter Biden had out of wedlock.
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New York Post, Fox News, The Western Journal, Twitchy and Washington Times
Daniel Boguslaw / The Intercept:
Lobbyist for Saudi Alfalfa Company Desiccating Arizona Was Elected to Maricopa County Board of Supervisors … An official recently elected to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, where he holds sway over an ongoing water dispute, was also a lobbyist for a Saudi company looking to protect its extraction of precious groundwater.
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Arizona Daily Independent and Mercury News
Gabriel Rinaldi / Politico:
Germany plans overhaul of immigration system, citizenship laws — BERLIN — In a new effort to attract talented foreign workers to the country, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced plans to reform Germany's immigration system and citizenship laws. — On Monday, Scholz reiterated his backing …
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Euractiv and ImmigrationProf Blog
U.S. Department of Justice:
Indiana Man Arrested on Felony Charges for Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach — Defendant Accused of Striking Officers With Flagpole; Nephew Charged With Related Misdemeanor Offenses — WASHINGTON — An Indiana man has been arrested on felony charges, including assaulting law enforcement officers …
Washington Post:
Covid deaths skew older, reviving questions about ‘acceptable loss’ — The pandemic has become a plague of the elderly, with nearly 9 out of 10 deaths in people 65 or older — President Biden may have declared the coronavirus pandemic “over,” but from John Felton's view …
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Suggests It Will Limit Corruption Prosecutions — US Supreme Court justices signaled they will put new limits on public-corruption prosecutions as they considered overturning the conviction of a onetime top aide to former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
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Landon Mion / Fox News:
Virginia Democratic Rep. Donald McEachin dead at 61 after battle with colorectal cancer — Rep. Donald McEachin was just re-elected for his fourth term in Congress earlier this month — Fox News Flash top headlines for November 28 — Virginia Democratic Rep. Donald McEachin died on Monday …
Mark Harris / Wired UK:
A Peek Inside the FBI's Unprecedented January 6 Geofence Dragnet — Google provided investigators with location data for more than 5,000 devices as part of the federal investigation into the attack on the US Capitol. — The FBI's biggest-ever investigation included the biggest-ever haul …
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Raw Story, RedState, Twitchy, Washington Free Beacon and Big League Politics
America Magazine:
Exclusive: Pope Francis denounces polarization, talks women's ordination, the U.S. bishops and more — Editor's Note: On Nov. 22, 2022, five representatives of America Media interviewed Pope Francis at his residence at Santa Marta at the Vatican. Matt Malone, S.J., the departing editor in chief of America …
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