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Andy Borowitz | Poll: Americans Hope Trump Follows Pence's Example and Leaves Early 

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "A poll taken after Vice-President Mike Pence made headlines on Sunday with an abrupt early departure reveals that a broad majority of Americans hope that Donald Trump follows Pence's example and leaves early, as well."
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Google Uncovers Russian-Bought Ads on YouTube, Gmail and Other Platforms
Elizabeth Dwoskin, Adam Entous and Craig Timberg, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Google for the first time has uncovered evidence that Russian operatives exploited the company's platforms in an attempt to interfere in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the company's investigation."
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The 15th-Century Doctrine That Let Columbus 'Discover America' Is Now the Basis of Indian Policy in the US
Rebecca Nagle, ThinkProgress
Nagle writes: "The Supreme Court turned a backwards, racist papal bull into American law. It's preventing this country from confronting a genocide."
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Trump's Immigration Proposals Threaten 'Dreamers' Deal
Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "US president seeks border wall funding in exchange for a deal to protect some 690,000 immigrants known as 'Dreamers.'"
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It Shouldn't Surprise Anyone That Breitbart Had Help From Mainstream Media
Sarah Jones, New Republic
Jones writes: "The simple fact is that Cernovich is a bigot, and Yiannopolous is a bigot, and Breitbart News has always been a bigoted website. They can reject the alt-right label all they want; their politics are no less malicious for the disavowal. The main reason they've been able to get away with this cynical bait-and-switch maneuver for so long is that too many journalists just don't care."
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Colombian Officials Admit to Police Killing of Campesinos
teleSUR
Excerpt: "The Colombian Ombudsman's Office has determined that members of the national police - not dissident FARC guerrillas or local gangs as the government had earlier alleged - were responsible for the killing of campesinos in the southern town of Tumaco on Oct. 5."
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Scientist Warns of Mass Marine Extinction
Tim Radford, EcoWatch
Radford writes: "The world will be condemned to, or at imminent risk of, a 'great dying' of the kind that characterized the end of the geological period called the Permian, in which 95 percent of marine species vanished, or the Cretaceous era that witnessed the last of the dinosaurs."
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Here's How to Support Puerto Rico as It Recovers From Devastating Hurricane Maria
Remezcla
Excerpt: "With the island expected to go without power for months, Puerto Rico now needs our help. The US territory is in the midst of a financial crisis and already struggling in many ways."
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RSN: People [WHITE SUPREMACISTS] Are Blaming the Chicago Kidnapping on Black Lives Matter With Zero Evidence [LIES], Paul Ryan Says GOP Will Defund Planned Parenthood as Part of Obamacare Repeal

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Garrison Keillor | Idealists Can't Win 
 
Garrison Keillor, The Washington Post 
Keillor writes: "Idealists don't do as well in politics as gamers do. Idealists are in a grim struggle to save mankind from itself, and gamers are just trying to capture your bishop with two pawns. A crafty old fox can beat the goddess of light two out of three times." 
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Paul Ryan Says GOP Will Defund Planned Parenthood as Part of Obamacare Repeal 
Melissa Chan, TIME 
Chan writes: "Republicans will move to defund Planned Parenthood as part of a process to dismantle Obamacare, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced Thursday." 
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Sources: Trump Will Ask Congress, Not Mexico, to Pay for Border Wall 
Mary Pascaline, International Business Times 
Pascaline writes: "President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is working on making his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall, the cornerstone of his 2016 presidential campaign, a reality. However, there is a slight change in plans." 
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The Story of the 16-Year-Old Who Died in Custody After Being Arrested for Arguing With Her Mother 
Caroline Preston, Jezebel 
Preston writes: "Police officers arrested Gynnya McMillen for a domestic-violence related offense, and took her to Lincoln Village Juvenile Treatment and Detention Center, a troubled state-run facility 70 miles away. Approximately 28 hours later, Gynnya was found dead in the cell where she'd been detained." 
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People Are Blaming the Chicago Kidnapping on Black Lives Matter With Zero Evidence 
Tasneem Nashrulla, BuzzFeed 
Nashrulla writes: "Mike Cernovich, a vocal alt-right member, wrote an article referring to the four suspects as 'Black Lives Matter supporters,' without offering any evidence of their affiliation with the movement." 
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The US Dropped More Than 26,000 Bombs on Muslim-Majority Countries in 2016 
Micah Zenko, Council on Foreign Relations 
Zenko writes: "In President Obama's last year in office, the United States dropped 26,171 bombs in seven countries. This estimate is undoubtedly low, considering reliable data is only available for airstrikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya, and a single 'strike,' according to the Pentagon's definition, can involve multiple bombs or munitions." 
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Washington State Has Blocked Plans for the Nation's Largest Coal Export Terminal 
Sabrina Imbler, Grist 
Imbler writes: "Washington state has blocked plans for the nation's biggest coal export terminal. The Millennium Bulk Terminals project - proposed to be built in Longview, Washington, along the Columbia River - would have exported up to 44 million tons of coal a year from Montana and Wyoming to Asia." 
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