Trump: Goodell Has Lost Control of NFL

President Donald Trump criticized the NFL for the third time this week in his latest tweet targeting commissioner Roger Goodell, saying the “players are the boss.” Only one player reportedly knelt during the three national anthems for the Thanksgiving Day games, with New York Giants defensive end Olivier Vernon continuing his protest of racial inequality and police brutality during the playing of the “The Star-Spangled Banner.” …

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As He Investigates Trump’s Aides, Robert Mueller’s Record Shows Surprising Flaws

WASHINGTON — When he was named special counsel in May, Robert S. Mueller III was hailed as the ideal lawman — deeply experienced, strait-laced and nonpartisan — to investigate whether President Donald Trump’s campaign had helped with Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The accolades squared with Mueller’s valor as a Marine rifle platoon commander in Vietnam and his integrity as a federal prosecutor, a senior Justice Department official and FBI director from 2001 to 2013, the longest tenure since J. Edgar Hoover. He was praised by former courtroom allies and opponents, and by Democrats and Republicans in Congress. …

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Fusion GPS, Russian Dossier Firm, Paid Journalists for Work

Fusion GPS, the liberal research firm that funded and distributed the anti-Trump dossier, has paid three journalists for work related to Congress’ Russia probe, according to court filings. Lawyers representing the House Intelligence Committee made the assertion in a bid to force Fusion to turn over additional bank transactions involving reporters, law firms and a media company. …

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CBS Blackout Ends for 4 Million Dish Network Customers

CBS Corp. and Dish Network resolved their carriage-fee dispute by agreeing to a new distribution deal, restoring CBS station signals to millions of Dish customers across the country. The agreement, struck Thursday night, ended the three-day blackout that began late Monday when CBS walked away from the bargaining table feeling that the two sides were not making sufficient progress in the talks. …

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Bee-Friendly Insecticides Closer to Reality After Breakthrough Development

While commonly used pesticides have been shown to hurt bee populations, there may be a new development on the horizon that will simultaneously ensure the protection of honeybees and the crops that they pollinate. According to a new study that was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, scientists found that honeybees were able to resist a certain kind of pesticide called tau-fluvalinate. …

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Dreamers Tried to Disrupt the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as People Cheered

DemocracySpring/Twitter The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade got a taste of politics on Thursday as a group of people broke through barriers and sat in the middle of the parade route. The protesters wore shirts that showed they were protesting in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The “Dreamers” — named after the…

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Commentary: Millennials Blind to Socialism’s True History of Misery, Murder, and Refugees

Despite several horrifying current examples of nations in the grip of socialism, many of America’s millennials are happily skipping down the socialist Yellow Brick Road toward an Oz that could never be. It isn’t just Bernie Sanders’ young legions of admirers. A recent survey showed that a whopping 44 percent of young people favor socialism over…

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Flea Market Find Looks to Be An Authentic Photo of Billy the Kid with His Killer, Sheriff Pat Garret

When lawyer Frank Abrams paid $10 for an old photo at a flea market in North Carolina, he had no idea that what he had just purchased was probably the only known photograph of one of the Wild West’s most notorious outlaws, Henry McCarty, best known as Billy the Kid, standing a few feet away from the man who would eventually kill him for a $500 reward, Sheriff Pat Garret. …

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Former Presidential Candidate Martin O’Malley Says Democrats Gave Up Competing in State and Local Races

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley said Friday that Democrats allowed Republicans to win in state and local races by not competing the past eight years. “There were many so-called active Democrats that I would speak with on the phone trying to impress upon them, when I was chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, that states matter,”…

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