Manafort still lying — even after reaching a plea deal

Special counsel moves to nullify agreement with Trump’s former campaign chief. No Images? Click here   By Paul Vale     Tuesday, November 27 MANAFORT LIED TO MUELLER AFTER PLEA DEAL Special counsel Robert Mueller filed a complaint alleging that former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort breached his plea deal by repeatedly lying to prosecutors. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook] GM SLASHES JOBS General Motors will cut up to 14,000 workers in North America and put five plants up for possible closure as it abandons many of its car models and restructures to cut costs and focus more on autonomous and electric vehicles. GM stock surged on the news, with investors cheering the restructuring as long overdue. [AP] CHRISTIANS SLAM TEAR GASSING KIDS Some Christians denounced White House “cruelty” after Trump’s administration defended federal agents’ use of tear gas at the U.S.-Mexico border. Doctors told HuffPost that using tear gas on children can have serious physical and psychological health effects. However, Trump’s homeland security secretary issued a forceful defense of the gassing, saying migrants were “warned about the danger” of traveling to the border. [HuffPost] TRUMP DOESN’T BELIEVE CLIMATE REPORT Trump rejected the findings of his own government’s report into the economic costs of climate change. “I don’t believe it,” he told reporters outside the White House before attempting to blame global warming on China, Japan and “all these other countries.” [HuffPost] STATE PROSECUTORS CHALLENGE WHITAKER A coalition of attorneys general from 14 states and the District of Columbia asked a federal judge to block the appointment of Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker, the latest challenge to Trump’s efforts to replace former Attorney General Jeff Sessions. [HuffPost] NASA BACK ON MARS After seven months and 300 million miles, NASA’s InSight spacecraft touched down on Mars. The suspenseful landing was NASA’s first touchdown on the Red Planet in six years. [HuffPost]         REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE SLAMS TRUMP Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah) used her concession speech to Democratic opponent Ben McAdams to rip into Trump’s treatment of her and the Republican Party’s relationship with minorities. [HuffPost] PROUD BOYS IMPLODING The Proud Boys, a punch-happy extremist gang whose members spend their time harassing people online and attacking them in real life, are falling apart. [HuffPost] SCIENTISTS ACHIEVE FIRST ION FLIGHT Scientists at MIT have created a plane that flies with no moving parts, using an ion drive to propel itself through the air in absolute silence. [HuffPost] TRUMP MULLS APPLE TARIFFS Trump told The Wall Street Journal that he could put tariffs on Apple products imported from China, including iPhones and laptops. Apple's stock fell 1.5 percent in after-hours trading. [CNN] UKRAINE IMPOSES MARTIAL LAW Ukraine has imposed martial law in parts of the country “subject to Russian aggression,” ratcheting up tensions after a high-stakes clash between Russian and Ukrainian ships on the Black Sea near Crimea. [LA Times] TRUMP INTERVENES IN BREXIT… AGAIN Trump delivered a blow to Theresa May’s hopes of steering her Brexit deal through parliament, saying it sounded like a “great deal for the EU” that would stop U.K. trading with the U.S. [The Guardian]       Here are 28 honest tweets that explain what married life is actually like. Melania Trump’s red tree Christmas decorations look like a festive “Handmaid’s Tale.” Amazon’s upcoming anthology series “Modern Love” boasts a stellar cast, including Anne Hathaway, Tina Fey, Dev Patel and Andy Garcia. Trump emerged from a big fake Christmas fireplace at a rally in Biloxi, Mississippi — and Twitter wasn’t having it. Amanda Bynes opened up about her drug-fueled downfall in the annual “Break the Internet” issue of Paper Magazine. Human Rights Watch has asked Argentina to use a war crimes clause in its constitution to investigate the role of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Vernita Lee, mother of media mogul Oprah Winfrey, has died. She was 83. This large dog and small horse are the very best of friends. A son found skeletal remains in the home his dad disappeared from decades ago. Video has emerged of the moment a Border Patrol agent’s explosive gender-reveal party stunt sparked a massive wildfire in Arizona last year. Trump attacked CNN for “portraying the United States in an unfair and false way” and threatened to start “our own Worldwide Network to show the World the way we really are, GREAT!” A Mississippi pastor glided into his pulpit on a Hollywood-style lift. No one knows why. Nooses were found hanging from trees outside the Mississippi State Capitol — a day before a runoff election to decide whether a black man will represent the state in the U.S. Senate for the first time since the 1880s. Here are 26 tweets that sum up the hell that is using your office bathroom. Geraldo Rivera of Fox News said he’s “ashamed” at the way asylum-seekers are being described, and at how they’re being greeted with tear gas at the border. Love this newsletter? Share it with a friend!      HuffPost is now a part of Oath and a part of Verizon. On May 25, 2018 we introduced a new Oath Privacy Policy which will explain how your data is used and shared. Learn More. Start your workday the right way with the news that matters most — all with a dash of signature Morning Email snark. Does somebody keep forwarding you this email? Get your own copy. It's free! Sign up here. 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