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Deseret News

Mike Leavitt: Dan Jones had the stature of a giant

Sen. Mike Lee disagrees with Trump on Saudi Arabia, killing of journalist

Alta ski president: Unfair exclusion from land trades is attempt to 'bully'

Election results certified as officials tout 75.55 percent voter turnout

Mia Love criticizes Republicans and Trump; calls Ben McAdams 'wolf in sheep's clothing'

Will Utah's Inland Port move fossil fuels? Port critics worry it will, but no decisions have been made

How Utah Sen. Mike Lee may have paved the way for Trump's new asylum plan

Salt County D.A., FBI seek dismissal of ex-A.G. Mark Shurtleff's civil rights lawsuit

These Prop. 2 supporters just expressed their issues with the medical marijuana compromise bill. Here's what they're worried about

Salt Lake Tribune

Editorial: The rent is too damn high

Utahns to enjoy one last Cyber Monday without a comprehensive internet sales tax

Five years after the government shutdown, Utah is no closer to seeing a $1 million payback from the feds

Rep. Mia Love takes shots at Trump, McAdams and news media in her first public appearance since election loss

Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox praises 'ridiculous' jump in Utah voter turnout after statewide canvass of election results

Inland Port opponents criticize naming of oil and gas advocates to new technical committee

During 5-hour meeting, speakers push to keep Prop 2, while Hughes argues cannabis bill won't nullify initiative vote

Other

Rep. Mia Love slams Trump, Republicans in concession speech (Daily Herald)

  NATIONAL HEADLINES  

• Bombshell! Special counsel Robert Mueller says former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort broke his plea agreement by lying repeatedly to investigators and should be sentenced to jail immediately. Manafort's team disputes the claim - https://wapo.st/2FK9uxD
  
  
• Longtime national security journalist Marcy Wheeler suggests Mueller may have played Manafort and may have ensured his report on the Russia investigation will be made public no matter what - http://bit.ly/2FIpgZD
  
  
• Conservative author Jerome Corsi says he is rejecting a plea agreement deal offered by investigators from special counsel Robert Mueller - https://wapo.st/2FGLH1q
  
  
• Democrats won control of the House with the largest margin of victory in a midterm election for either party - https://nbcnews.to/2FLsTy5 
  
  
• President Trump insists he wants no less than $5 billion in funding for his proposed border wall in a funding package to avoid a government shutdown. GOP leaders think the president may be willing to make a deal - https://politi.co/2FSFJLc
  
  
• Republicans in Congress are making a last-ditch effort to pass more tax reform before Democrats take control of the House in January - http://bit.ly/2FEvoCe 
  
  
• House Democrats are urging their members to tap the brakes on launching investigations of the Trump White House. Instead, they want to focus on other issues like immigration - https://reut.rs/2FVJRKr 
  
  
• Surprise! Democrat Beto O'Rourke has changed his mind about 2020. He says he's not ruling out a run for president after vowing not to run during his U.S. Senate campaign - https://politi.co/2FL0Grn
  
  
• General Motors announced it planned to shutter five factories in North America and cut 14,000 jobs. The move angered President Trump who promised to bring manufacturing jobs back to America. The move suggests the U.S. economy may be starting to slow - https://nyti.ms/2FMn1EL 
  
  
• Voters go to the polls Tuesday in Mississippi to decide the winner of that state's racially charged U.S. Senate runoff election. Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith is a heavy favorite to defeat Democrat Mike Espy - http://bit.ly/2FGLn2I 
  
  
• President Trump says he does not believe the sobering report on the effects of climate change released by his own administration - http://bit.ly/2FHbbM0
  
  
• The Ukranian government imposed martial law in some parts of the country that could be vulnerable to military action by Russia - https://fxn.ws/2FG5yh5
  
  
• The federal government is spending more than $1 billion to rebuild houses in Puerto Rico. Contractors are gouging the feds by charging steep markups on many items, like $600 for a bathroom sink - https://nyti.ms/2FK8Ujr 
  
  
• Fox News unveils their subscription-only streaming service, Fox Nation, today. It's described as Netflix for conservatives - https://nyti.ms/2FI0NUr 
  
  
• President Trump suggested creating a worldwide state-run news network to combat the "unfair" way the U.S. is treated by the media - https://politi.co/2FIssVb 
  
  
• NASA's InSight lander touched down successfully on Mars Monday. The probe will spend two years exploring the interior of the red planet - https://cnn.it/2FKwjkz

  ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY  

• 1924 - In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
  
  
• 1968 - Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball, for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.
  
  
• 1973 - The U.S. Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President. On Dec. 6, the House will confirm him 387-35.
  
  
• 1978 - San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
  
  
• 1989 - Virginia certified Douglas Wilder as the first elected African-America governor by a margin of 0.38% of the vote.

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'No collusion' with Russia during 2016 campaign: Former Trump aide (ABC News)

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California Today: Sexual Misconduct Claims Roil the State's Democratic Party (New York Times)

Graham blasts Ocasio-Cortez's comparison of migrants to Jews in Nazi Germany (The Hill)

Trump suggests US could slap 10% tariffs on iPhones and laptops imported from China (CNBC)

The anti-Nancy Pelosi forces just admitted defeat (CNN)

Lawsuit against Trump and his DC hotel is dismissed (CNN)

Obamacare enrollment is lagging, despite cheaper options (Washington Post)

Trump makes final push for Hyde-Smith (The Hill)