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10:15 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, Townhall, Metro.co.uk and Politico
Washington Post:
Biden approves Ukraine's use of long-range U.S. weapons inside Russia, reversing policy  —  The Biden administration will allow Kyiv limited use of ATACMS to strike enemy positions in Russia, according to senior U.S. officials.  —  President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use …
Associated Press:
Biden authorizes Ukraine to use US-supplied long-range missiles for deeper strikes inside Russia  —  President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to strike deeper inside Russia, easing limitations on the weapons as Russia deploys thousands of North Korean troops …
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 …
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BBC:
Undocumented migrants hope Trump mass deportations only ‘for criminals’
Discussion: CNN
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Gonzales: Targeting workers instead of convicted criminals for deportation means ‘government has failed us’
Discussion: ABC News and Mediaite
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 …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Treasury Cabinet Pick in Flux as Jockeying Slows Selection
Politico:
Republicans suddenly think the economy's great and the election wasn't rigged  —  Less than two weeks since Donald Trump's victory, consumer sentiment in the Republican Party has skyrocketed.  Democrats, meanwhile, are despondent.  —  The vibes have officially shifted.  —  The economy Donald Trump said was broken?
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Mia McCarthy / Politico:
Dems who overcame GOP tide urge party to focus on ‘kitchen-table issues’
Discussion: The Free Press
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:   Big voter turnout this year benefited Republicans, contradicting conventional political wisdom
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 …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Signals a ‘Seismic Shift,’ Shocking the Washington Establishment  —  The president-elect's early transition moves amount to a generational test of a system as he seeks to rewrite the balance of power and install lieutenants to blow up key parts of government.  —  Somehow disruption doesn't begin to cover it.
Discussion: Raw Story and Politico
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David Smith / The Guardian:   Trump's shock-and-awe approach to transition is both shocking and awful
Dan Balz / Washington Post:   Trump's early moves show he wants to disrupt government and exact retribution
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.
Bloomberg:
Trump Team Is Seeking 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 …
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.
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Trump defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth denies sexual assault allegation, acknowledges payment to accuser  —  In a statement, Hegseth's attorney said the former Fox News host paid a woman in 2023 who had previously accused him of sexual assault but maintained that the woman lied.
Ella Nilsen / CNN:
Trump picks fracking company CEO Chris Wright as next Department of Energy secretary  —  President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named Chris Wright, the CEO of Denver-based fracking company Liberty Energy, as his pick to be the next secretary of the Department of Energy.
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Politico:
VP rejects: The Trump administration takes shape
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike Allen / Axios:   Exclusive data: Trump's record pace for Cabinet picks
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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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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Donald Trump Jr. says pushback against Cabinet picks proves they're the disrupters voters wanted
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Discussion: Washington Examiner
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
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 Earlier Items: 
NBC News:
DOJ and FBI officials reach out to lawyers as potential Trump revenge prosecutions loom
Discussion: Raw Story and Associated Press
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Johnson says he has not talked to Trump about Matt Gaetz report: ‘Not once’
Erica Pandey / Axios:
Secret Trump voters have post-election coming out party
Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world
Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
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John Hendel / Politico:
Trump says FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair the agency; Carr can immediately assume control once Trump is inaugurated as he is already on the commission

Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
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