Editorial Board | Here's the Quid Pro Quo Proof, Lindsey Graham

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Editorial Board | Here's the Quid Pro Quo Proof, Lindsey Graham

The Washington Post | Editorial
Excerpt: "But Mr. Graham did say the other day that 'if you could show me that, you know, Trump was actually engaging in a quid pro quo, outside the phone call, that would be very disturbing.' We think we can help the South Carolina Republican."
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Pompeo Gets Drawn Deeper - Way Deeper - Into the Ukraine Scandal
Spencer Ackerman and Erin Banco, The Daily Beast
Excerpt: "Whatever hope Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had of staying in the background of the House Democratic impeachment inquiry evaporated under the heat of Ambassador William Taylor's damning deposition."
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Rep. Acasio-Cortez and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (photo: CMandel Ngan/Chip Somodevilla/AFP/Getty)

AOC Stumps Zuckerberg With Questions on Far Right and Cambridge Analytica
Kari Paul, Guardian UK
Paul writes: "Ocasio-Cortez and other lawmakers grilled the Facebook CEO during a hearing in front of the US House of Representatives financial services committee regarding the launch of Facebook's cryptocurrency project, Libra."

Zuckerberg said Facebook does support removing content in cases of violence or of census or voter suppression. He did not answer whether the company would take down outright lies if they were in political advertisements.

This month, the company declined to take down a Trump campaign ad that included a misleading portrayal of the former vice-president Joe Biden’s work in Ukraine.

“Do you see a potential problem here with a complete lack of factchecking on political advertisements?” Ocasio-Cortez asked.

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She also asked Zuckerberg about his “dinner parties with far-right figures” and if at those meetings he addressed the popular rightwing theory that Facebook cracks down on conservative speech, a question Zuckerberg also dodged.

Zuckerberg’s testimony marked the first time he has appeared before Congress since April 2018, when he spoke at a hearing regarding Cambridge Analytica. The executive repeatedly acknowledged Facebook’s mistakes during the questioning on Wednesday.

“I get that I’m not the ideal messenger for this right now. We’ve faced a lot of issues over the past few years and I’m sure there are a lot of people who wish it were anyone but Facebook that was helping to propose this,” he said.

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Comcast sales office. (photo: Cindy Ord/Getty)

Comcast Is Lobbying Against Encryption That Could Prevent It From Learning Your Browsing History
Joseph Cox, Vice
Cox writes: "Internet giant Comcast is lobbying U.S. lawmakers against plans to encrypt web traffic that would make it harder for internet service providers (ISPs) to determine your browsing history, according to a lobbying presentation obtained by Motherboard."
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The family of Javier Flores, an immigrant from Mexico, visit him in sanctuary at a Pennsylvania church in March 2017. (photo: Bastiaan Slabbers/Getty)

ICE Tried to Fine Immigrants Living in Sanctuary Churches
Nicole Narea, Vox
Narea writes: "US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has withdrawn hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines it had levied against unauthorized immigrants who sought sanctuary from deportation in churches across the US."
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Protests in Chile extended into Monday as demonstrators expressed their concerns over economic inequalities. (photo: Edward Garrido/Reuters)

ALSO SEE: Chile Protesters Tortured, Sexually Abused by Security Forces: Report

At Least 18 Dead and Thousands Arrested in Chile Protests
Associated Press
Excerpt: "Tens of thousands of protesters swarmed Chile's capital Wednesday, setting up fiery barricades and clashing with riot police as an apology and promises of economic reform from President Sebastián Piñera failed to calm the unrest that has led to at least 18 deaths."
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Oil Refinery. (photo: CCO Public Domain)

US Air Pollution Is Getting Worse Under Trump, New Study Finds
Jordan Davidson, EcoWatch
Davidson writes: "Tweeting that the U.S. has the cleanest air in the world does not make it so. Not only do we rank 10th, but a new study says that after steady improvement during the Obama-era, air pollution has gotten worse while Donald Trump has been president."
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Bill McKibben | How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet

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Bill McKibben | How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet 

Bill McKibben, The New Yorker
McKibben writes: "With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts."
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Senator Chuck Schumer. (photo: Getty Images)

Schumer Calls for Investigation of Whitaker's Contacts With White House
Alexander Bolton, The Hill
Bolton writes: "Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) is calling for an investigation into private conversations acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker had with the White House about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into President Trump's campaign and Russia."
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Units of the 1st Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army based at Fort Hood, Texas, move south along U.S. 281 in Blanco County as convoys of troops head to the Texas-Mexico border on orders of President Donald Trump. (photo: Bob Daemmrich/BDP, Inc)

Trump Told Aides He's Afraid to Visit Troops in Combat Zones
Josh Dawsey and Paul Sonne, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "President Trump has begun telling advisers that he may visit troops in a combat zone for the first time in his presidency, as he has come under increasing scrutiny for his treatment of military affairs and failure to visit service members deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq."
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Mia Love may still win re-election - with no help from Donald Trump. (photo: Getty Images)

US Midterms: How Election Results Just Got Worse for Trump
Anthony Zurcher, BBC
Zurcher writes: "Here's a look at some of the most significant developments since the first round of election-night instant analyses, many of which were written when it was challenging to spot the Democratic wave among the evening's early returns."
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Today, November 20, is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. (image: Daily Beast)

We Remember the Trans People Who Have Been Murdered in 2018 - So Far
Samantha Allen and Kelly Caminero, The Daily Beast
Excerpt: "The transgender community has endured attacks on all fronts in 2018. From the White House, there came bursts of shockingly anti-LGBT policy - like a definition of 'sex' in a federal agency memo that would erase transgender people from civil rights law. At the same time, on the streets and in their homes, transgender people continued to face the same steady, horrifying thrum of physical violence."
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A Mapuche person protests against Chile's Jungle Command in Santiago, October 18, 2018. (photo: Reuters)

Chileans Demand End of Police Force That Killed Mapuche Activist
teleSUR
Excerpt: "New protests broke out in Chile's capital of Santiago to demonstrate against last week's police killing of the young Mapuche land rights defender Camilo Catrillanca, and to demand the resignation of Interior Minister Andres Chadwick. The Carabinero National Police arrested around 30 demonstrators during the protest."
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A sperm whale that washed up in Indonesia's Wakatobi National Park had plastic bottles, bags and cups in its belly. (photo: @WWF_ID/Kartika Sumolang)

13 Pounds of Plastic Found in Dead Sperm Whale
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch
Chow writes: "Yet another whale has suffered from plastic pollution. A sperm whale that washed up dead in a national park in Indonesia had nearly 13 pounds of plastic waste in its stomach, park officials told the Associated Press."
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Matt Taibbi | Bernie Sanders Opens Up About New Democrats in Congress, Taking on Trumpism

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Matt Taibbi | Bernie Sanders Opens Up About New Democrats in Congress, Taking on Trumpism 

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "Sanders was implicitly a major part of the 2018 narrative. He had campaigned hard for several candidates, notably Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum, and seemed deeply disappointed in Gillum's narrow loss (which appears on the verge of being relitigated)."
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A Honduran family stands next to the border fence after they turned themselves in to Border Patrol agents. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

ALSO SEE: Migrant Caravan Begins Next Stage of Its Journey

ACLU Sues Trump Government Over Asylum Ban
teleSUR
Excerpt: "On Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's new asylum ban which is targeting the Central American migrant caravan."
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Matthew Whitaker. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's Acting Attorney General Involved in Firm That Scammed Veterans Out of Life Savings
Jon Swaine, Guardian UK  

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Whitaker, a former US attorney in Iowa, was paid to work as an advisory board member for World Patent Marketing (WPM), a Florida-based company accused by the US government of tricking aspiring inventors out of millions of dollars. Earlier this year, it was ordered to pay authorities $26m.

Several veterans, two of them with disabilities, said they lost tens of thousands of dollars in the WPM scam, having been enticed into paying for patenting and licensing services by the impressive credentials of Whitaker and his fellow advisers.

Swaine writes: "Donald Trump's new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, was involved in a company that scammed US military veterans out of their life savings, according to court filings and interviews."
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Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in before testifying the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building at the Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 27, 2018. (photo: Win McNamee/Reuters)

Christine Blasey Ford Is Still Getting Death Threats, Lawyers Say
Sophie Weiner, Splinter News
Weiner writes: "One month after she testified in front of Congress about her sexual abuse allegations against Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford's name has mostly disappeared from the headlines. But that doesn't mean life has returned to normal."
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People run from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gunfire was heard during the Las Vegas shooting. (photo: David Becker/Getty Images)

Man Who Survived Vegas Shooting Died in Thousand Oaks Massacre
CBS News 

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he mother of a 27-year-old man killed in the shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif. late Thursday night said her son had survived the October mass shooting in Las Vegas.

Telemachus "Tel" Orfanos lost his life in the Borderline Bar and Grill, less than 10 minutes from his home.

Susan Schmidt-Orfanos, her voice and head shaking with grief and rage, said outside her family's home, "My son was in Las Vegas with one of his friends and he came home. He didn't come home last night. And I don't want prayers, I don't want thoughts, I want gun control and I hope to God nobody else sends me more prayers. I want gun control. No. More. Guns."

Excerpt: "The mother of a 27-year-old man killed in the shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif. late Thursday night said her son had survived the October mass shooting in Las Vegas."
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Juan Emilio Cheyre was chief of the army between 2002 and 2006. (photo: Radio Universidad de Chile)

Chile's Caravan of Death: Ex-Army Chief Convicted for Pinochet-Era Crimes
BBC
Excerpt: "General Juan Emilio Cheyre was sentenced to three years and a day under house arrest."
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A narwhal. (photo: National Geographic)

Arctic Ship Traffic Threatens Narwhals and Other Extraordinary Animals
Donna Hauser, Harry Stern and Kristin Laidre, The Conversation
Excerpt: "Americans often associate fall with football and raking leaves, but in the Arctic this season is about ice. Every year, floating sea ice in the Arctic thins and melts in spring and summer, then thickens and expands in fall and winter."
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