'It's impossible' to finish recount by deadline, Palm Beach county election supervisor says  —  (CNN)The election overseer for a critical county in Florida confirmed to CNN on Sunday what observers in both parties had begun to predict: There is no way Palm Beach County's machine recount will be finished by the Thursday deadline.

Hillary Will Run Again  —  Reinventing herself as a liberal firebrand, Mrs. Clinton will easily capture the 2020 nomination.  —  Get ready for Hillary Clinton 4.0.  More than 30 years in the making, this new version of Mrs. Clinton, when she runs for president in 2020, will come full circle …

Famed First Amendment lawyer says CNN should sue the White House over Acosta access  —  New York (CNN)A veteran First Amendment lawyer says that CNN should sue the White House for revoking press access from reporter Jim Acosta.  —  Floyd Abrams, a constitutional law expert who has appeared frequently …

Trump wants no more relief funds for Puerto Rico  —  President Trump doesn't want to give Puerto Rico any more federal money for its recovery from Hurricane Maria, White House officials have told congressional appropriators and leadership.  This is because he claims, without evidence …

Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith Joked About Going to a ‘Public Hanging’  —  Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is facing a November 27 runoff election in Mississippi against Democrat Mike Espy, joked with supporters earlier this month about attending a “public hanging.”

Macron denounces nationalism as avowed “nationalist” Trump stands steps away  —  The two leaders' “bromance” isn't what it used to be.  —  At the World War I Armistice Day commemoration on Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron took a pointed stand against nationalism — calling it a …

Kyrsten Sinema widens lead again over Martha McSally in pivotal day for Arizona's U.S. Senate race  —  Democrat Kyrsten Sinema widened her lead again over Republican Martha McSally on Sunday, a pivotal day in the U.S. Senate race as the number of uncounted ballots dwindled.

Saudis Close to Crown Prince Discussed Killing Other Enemies a Year Before Khashoggi's Death  —  WASHINGTON — Top Saudi intelligence officials close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asked a small group of businessmen last year about using private companies to assassinate Iranian enemies of the kingdom …

Why Did Facebook Fire a Top Executive?  Hint: It Had Something to Do With Trump  —  Palmer Luckey, co-founder of virtual-reality pioneer Oculus, was ousted after his political activity sparked a furor within the social-media giant and Silicon Valley  —  Facebook Inc. FB -1.97% executive …

Weekend Update: Pete Davidson Apologizes to Lt. Com.  Dan Crenshaw - SNL  —  Pete Davidson stops by Weekend Update to apologize for his comments about Lt. Com.  Dan Crenshaw.  #SNL #SNL44 #LievSchreiber #LilWayne Subscribe to SNL: https...

More bodies found as officials fight California wildfire  —  PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — As relatives desperately searched shelters for missing loved ones, crews stepped up the search for bodies in the smoking ruins of Paradise on Sunday, loading the remains of at least one victim into a hearse.

Inside Trump's car obsession  —  Trump is as jazzed as ever about hitting foreign-made cars with steep tariffs.  Just about every member of his senior economic team besides Peter Navarro believes this is a terrible idea.  But they haven't swayed him.  —  What's happening: With each passing month …

House Democrats to Probe Trump's Role in Hush Payments  —  Inquiry will look at the president's involvement in transactions that may have violated campaign-finance laws  —  House Democrats, set to take over majority control next year, plan to probe President Trump's involvement …

ICE Is Imprisoning a Record 44,000 People  —  Congress told the immigration agency to reduce its detentions.  Instead, ICE detained more people than ever, The Daily Beast has learned.  Where did it find the money?  —  The number of people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement …

How the GOP Gave Up on Porn  —  The Year Was 1976.  Republicans were reeling from Watergate.  Christian conservatives were defecting to the Democratic Party.  And Jerry Falwell, the Virginia preacher with a booming Baptist congregation and a popular radio show, decided he could no longer sit …

Reporting On Mass Shootings: A Familiar Heartbreaking Script  —  This past week there was yet another tragic mass shooting, this time at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Twelve people were killed before the gunman fatally turned the gun on himself.  It's an all too common scene.

Let the People Vote  —  America finally has a pro-democracy movement — and it did very well at the polls last week.  —  The United States finally has the pro-democracy movement that it needs.  —  Last week, ballot initiatives to improve the functioning of democracy fared very well.

Can ‘Minnesota Nice’ trump Manhattan mean?  The case for Sen. Amy Klobuchar in 2020  —  Lauren Underwood was on almost nobody's radar screen in the frantic run-up to last Tuesday's midterm election, and that's not surprising.  —  As the Democratic candidate in Illinois' 14th Congressional District …