Matthew Whitaker: An Attack Dog With Ambition Beyond Protecting Trump  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump first noticed Matthew G. Whitaker on CNN in the summer of 2017 and liked what he saw — a partisan defender who insisted there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

For Democrats, a midterm election that keeps on giving  —  In the early hours of election night on Tuesday, a consensus began to take hold that the vaunted Democratic blue wave that had been talked about all year was failing to materialize.  Now, with a handful of races still to be called …

Whoops!  Brenda Snipes' office mixed bad provisional ballots with good ones  —  Broward's elections supervisor accidentally mixed more than a dozen rejected ballots with nearly 200 valid ones, a circumstance that is unlikely to help Brenda Snipes push back against Republican allegations of incompetence.

Tape of Khashoggi's killing has been given to U.S., Saudi, Europeans, Erdogan says  —  ANKARA — An audio recording tracking the dying moments of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul has been shared with Saudi Arabia, Britain, France and Germany in addition to the United States …

GOP Rep. Denham falls behind Democrat as 3 other Republicans lose ground in Friday's ballot tally  —  Republican Rep. Jeff Denham lost his lead over Democrat Josh Harder on Friday in one of California's four unresolved congressional races as updated ballot counts showed the GOP in growing danger …

Photos Show Scores of Uncounted Ballots in Opa-locka Mail Center … Miami-Dade County announced today that it has finished counting votes for the 2018 election.  —  But photos obtained by New Times show scores of mail-in ballots sitting inside an Opa-locka mail distribution center …

Deployed Inside the United States: The Military Waits for the Migrant Caravan  —  With little electricity, no combat pay and holidays away from home, the 5,600 American troops on the southwest border are on a mission ordered by a politically determined commander in chief and a Pentagon unable to convince him of its perils.

James Comey discussed sensitive FBI business on his private email … Fired FBI chief James Comey used his private Gmail account hundreds of times to conduct government business — and at least seven of those messages were deemed so sensitive by the Justice Department that they declined to release them.

What Beto Won  —  They said it couldn't be done and, in the end, they were right.  Texas had been a one-party state for years.  It's true that the state's motley, virtually nonexistent opposition party, hardly worthy of the same name as its national counterpart, had put up strong showings …

Truce in Paris after Trump's offense at Macron's EU army pledge  —  PARIS — It was an awkward truce to avert a Twitter war, a day before the big Armistice Day commemoration in Paris.  —  French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Donald Trump, meeting at the Élysée Palace …

17 Black Women Sweep to Judgeships in Texas County  —  The photo was unforgettable: 19 black women, all dressed in black, gathered in a mock courtroom in Thurgood Marshall School of Law.  All of them were running for judgeships in November.  —  On Tuesday, 17 of them won their races …

Trump blames California forest policies for deadly wildfires  —  President Donald Trump on Saturday blamed “mismanagement” of California's forests for ongoing deadly wildfires, threatening to withhold federal payments after multiple blazes killed 9 people and prompted evacuation orders for some 250,000 state residents.

‘What a stupid question’: Trump demeans three black female reporters in three days  —  President Trump has made no secret of his contempt for reporters, whom he calls “fake news” and “enemy of the American people.”  He's also had unkind things to say about women and people who are African American.