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5:00 PM ET, November 17, 2024

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New York Times:
Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles  —  With two months left in office, the president for the first time authorized the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces in the Kursk region of Russia.
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Reuters:
Biden allows Ukraine to use US arms to strike inside Russia  —  President Joe Biden's administration will allow Ukraine to use U.S.-provided weapons to strike deep into Russian territory, three sources familiar with the matter said, in a significant change to Washington's policy in the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
Discussion: BBC, Politico, CBS News and Reuters
David Smith / The Guardian:
Trump's shock-and-awe approach to transition is both shocking and awful  —  This week a flurry of controversial and extremist picks for Trump's cabinet came at a hectic pace with a level of provocation that made heads spin  —  “Welcome back,” Joe Biden told Donald Trump, his predecessor and successor …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Signals a ‘Seismic Shift,’ Shocking the Washington Establishment
Discussion: Raw Story
Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Playbook: What's in store for Trump's DOJ
Discussion: Raw Story
Dan Balz / Washington Post:   Trump's early moves show he wants to disrupt government and exact retribution
Mike Allen / Axios:   Exclusive data: Trump's record pace for Cabinet picks
J. Ann Selzer / Des Moines Register:
Pollster Ann Selzer ending election polling, moving ‘to other ventures and opportunities’  —  Public opinion polling has been my life's work.  I collected my first research data as a freshman in college, if you don't count a neighborhood poll I did at age 5.
David French / New York Times:
Donald Trump Is Already Starting to Fail  —  That was quick.  —  Donald Trump is planting the seeds of his own political demise.  The corrupt, incompetent and extremist men and women he's appointing to many of the most critical posts in his cabinet are direct threats to the well-being of the country …
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Roxane Gay / New York Times:
Enough  —  For the past decade, as Donald Trump has risen in political stature, I have waited for that precarious but inevitable moment when his well-documented liabilities would end his political ascendancy, when it would all finally be too much.  I waited through scandalous allegations …
Bloomberg:
Trump Team Said to Want to Ease US Rules for Self-Driving Cars  — Policy leaders are being pursued for key Musk priority  — Tesla CEO, named to efficiency role, plans push on robotaxis  —  Members of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team have told advisers they plan …
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Joe Kucinski / Road & Track:   Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands, Study Finds
Naomi LaChance / Rolling Stone:
Trump Makes RFK Jr. Pose with McDonald's Meal  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who's set to run the Health and Human Services Department, recently complained that flying with Trump means eating “poison”  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services …
Stephen Starr / The Guardian:
Haitian immigrants flee Springfield, Ohio, in droves after Trump election win  —  City subjected to false rumors from Trump loses residents integral to community over mass deportation fears  —  From a tiny office behind a Haitian grocery store on Springfield's South Limestone Street …
Associated Press:
Biden becomes the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon rainforest  —  Joe Biden toured the drought-shrunken waters of the Amazon River's greatest tributary Sunday as the first sitting American president to set foot in the legendary rainforest, while the incoming Trump administration seems poised …
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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world  —  In the wake of Trump's unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance  —  1 When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
The Guardian:
In Donald Trump, the morality of civil society has been abandoned  —  Limiting access to civic education in US schools leads people to be less well educated in basic principles  —  The reason Donald Trump won is because he exemplifies men who think only of themselves.
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Cabinet of Wonders  —  The President-elect's nominations look like the most flagrant act of vindictive trolling since the rise of the Internet.  But it is a trolling beyond mischief.  —  In the first few days after the reëlection of Donald Trump, one heard across …
Discussion: Breitbart
 
 
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Adeola Adeosun / Newsweek:
AOC Blasts Rumored DNC Chair Contender: ‘Disease’
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Trump defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth denies sexual assault allegation, acknowledges payment to accuser
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Big voter turnout this year benefited Republicans, contradicting conventional political wisdom
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Gonzales: Targeting workers instead of convicted criminals for deportation means ‘government has failed us’
Discussion: ABC News and Mediaite
Politico:
VP rejects: The Trump administration takes shape
Discussion: Raw Story
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Maine Rep. Jared Golden, Trump Country Democrat, Wins Reelection
NBC News:
DOJ and FBI officials reach out to lawyers as potential Trump revenge prosecutions loom
 Earlier Items: 
Wall Street Journal:
Messy Fight for Trump's Treasury Chief Spills Into Public
Erica Pandey / Axios:
Secret Trump voters have post-election coming out party
Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
Election Reveals Right-Wing Shift of Social Media Platforms
The White House:
Readout of President Joe Biden's Meeting with President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China
Discussion: Washington Examiner
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Richard Parsons, who had a long career as chairman, CEO, and as a board member of media companies including CBS and Time Warner, died at 76 of bone cancer

Reuters:
Palestinian sources say an Israeli airstrike killed five journalists from Al-Quds Today; the Israeli military called the five “operatives posing as journalists”

 
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