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Washington Post:
Trump is preparing to remove Kirstjen Nielsen as Homeland Security secretary, aides say — President Trump has told advisers he has decided to remove Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, and her departure from the administration is likely to occur in the coming weeks, if not sooner …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN sues President Trump and top White House aides for barring Jim Acosta — New York (CNN)CNN is filing a lawsuit against President Trump and several of his aides, seeking the immediate restoration of chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta's access to the White House.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Whitaker's Appointment as Acting Attorney General Faces Court Challenge — WASHINGTON — In the days since President Trump ousted Attorney General Jeff Sessions and declared that he was installing Matthew G. Whitaker as the acting attorney general, many critics have challenged Mr. Whitaker's fitness for the job.
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
State of Maryland asks judge to declare Rosenstein acting attorney general — Trump bypassed Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who is overseeing the special counsel investigation, in favor of Matt Whitaker for acting AG. — WASHINGTON — The state of Maryland plans to ask a federal judge …
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Politico:
Whitaker consulting ‘ethics officials’ on possible recusal from Mueller probe
Whitaker consulting ‘ethics officials’ on possible recusal from Mueller probe
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Talking Points Memo and The Week
Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Whitaker's appointment as acting attorney general is unlawful, Maryland says
Whitaker's appointment as acting attorney general is unlawful, Maryland says
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USA Today
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Welcome back ... Trump wants to oust DHS Secretary Nielsen
POLITICO Playbook: Welcome back ... Trump wants to oust DHS Secretary Nielsen
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Washington Post and The Week
Adam B. Schiff / Washington Post:
Matthew Whitaker, we're watching you
Matthew Whitaker, we're watching you
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New York Times:
‘Tell Your Boss’: Recording Is Seen to Link Saudi Crown Prince More Strongly to Khashoggi Killing — ‘Tell Your Boss’: Recording Is Seen to Link Saudi Crown Prince to Khashoggi Killing — Shortly after the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed last month at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul …
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Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Picks New York City, Northern Virginia for Its HQ2 Locations — E-commerce giant is expected to make announcement on HQ2 cities as soon as Tuesday — New York City and Northern Virginia will be the homes for Amazon.com Inc.'s AMZN -4.41% second and third headquarters …
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Robert Reich / American Prospect:
Amazon and America's Real Divide — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks at The Economic Club of Washington. — While America was fixated on the most tumultuous midterm election in modern history, Amazon reportedly decided that its much-vaunted “second headquarters” would be split between Long Island City …
Washington Post:
Amazon HQ2 decision: Amazon splits prize between Crystal City and New York
Amazon HQ2 decision: Amazon splits prize between Crystal City and New York
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Karen Weise / New York Times:
Amazon Chooses Queens and a Washington Suburb for ‘Second Headquarters’
Amazon Chooses Queens and a Washington Suburb for ‘Second Headquarters’
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Common Dreams, Outside the Beltway, The Atlantic and The Week
Ricochet:
5 Reasons Why Sinema Won Arizona — Jon Gabriel, Ed. — Outsiders think of Arizona as one of the reddest states. From Barry Goldwater to anti-immigration hawks like Sheriff Joe Arpaio, our most famous politicians tend to be Republicans. But traditionally, Arizona is rather purple and regularly features tight statewide elections.
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Simon Romero / New York Times:
Kyrsten Sinema Declared Winner in Arizona Senate Race — PHOENIX — Representative Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat and former social worker, scored a groundbreaking victory in the race for a Senate seat in Arizona, defeating her Republican opponent after waging a campaign in which she embraced …
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Arizona Republic:
Sinema vs. McSally … Democrat Kyrsten Sinema's unbreakable hold on Maricopa County, along with overwhelming support for her from Martha McSally's Tucson-based congressional district, gave her an electoral edge Republicans could not erase in the race for Arizona's open U.S. Senate seat.
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Khorri Atkinson / Axios:
Kyrsten Sinema has flipped Jeff Flake's Senate seat to the Democrats
Kyrsten Sinema has flipped Jeff Flake's Senate seat to the Democrats
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Washington Post, Arizona Republic, Wall Street Journal, The Gateway Pundit and ABC News
Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Federal Judge Delays Certification of Georgia Election Results — ATLANTA — A federal judge on Monday ordered a delay in the certification of Georgia's election results, citing concerns about the state's voter registration system and the handling of provisional ballots.
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge orders review of provisional ballots in Georgia election — A federal judge on Monday ordered election officials to review thousands of provisional ballots that haven't been counted in Georgia's close election for governor. — U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg's order calls for a hotline …
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Political Wire and Daily Kos
Axios:
The Trump-GOP 2020 doomsday scenario — In private conversations after the midterms, many top Republicans and Democrats said that President Trump seemed to be heading into his 2020 re-election race in a relatively strong position. — The big picture: They couldn't be more wrong.
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Raw Story
Emily Sullivan / NPR:
Police Fatally Shoot Black Security Guard Who Detained Shooting Suspect — When police arrived after reports of a shooting over the weekend at a bar outside Chicago, witnesses say Jemel Roberson, a 26-year-old security guard who worked there, had already subdued the alleged assailant, pinning him to the ground.
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
No ‘blue wave,’ but Democrats' midterm success sinking in — NEW YORK (AP) — No it wasn't a blue wave. But a week after the voting, Democrats are riding higher than they thought on Election Night. — As vote counting presses on in several states, the Democrats have steadily chalked …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Pelosi warns against ousting a woman — Nancy Pelosi is making gender a central part of her bid to reclaim the speaker's gavel — leaning hard into the pitch that Democrats cannot oust the only woman at their leadership table following a historic election for women.
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James Fallows / The Atlantic:
Can Marine One Fly in the Rain? — Why, exactly, did Donald Trump not join Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, and Justin Trudeau at Saturday's commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the original Armistice Day? I don't know, and I don't think anyone outside the White House does at this point.
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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Trump skipped a U.S. cemetery visit abroad. The French army trolled him for avoiding the rain.
Trump skipped a U.S. cemetery visit abroad. The French army trolled him for avoiding the rain.
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miamiherald:
Miami-Dade is halfway through its recount. Broward hasn't started yet. — By noon on Monday, Miami-Dade managed to recount about half of the more than 800,000 votes cast in the 2018 election. Broward County had not yet started its state-mandated recount.
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Washington Post:
How a badly designed ballot might have swayed the election in Florida
How a badly designed ballot might have swayed the election in Florida
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
What's Happening in Florida Is a Nightmare. 2020 Could Be So Much Worse.
What's Happening in Florida Is a Nightmare. 2020 Could Be So Much Worse.
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John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Dems Priority List Includes Attacks On Free Speech And Gun Rights — Election 2018: Democrats took control of the House by talking endlessly about health care. But it turns out their actual priorities are things that they didn't talk about much on the campaign trail. Now we know why.
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Asma Khalid / NPR:
A Third Rail No More: Incoming House Democrats Embrace Gun Control
A Third Rail No More: Incoming House Democrats Embrace Gun Control
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Donald Trump knows the true meaning of sacrifice — “We are the Dead. Short days ago — We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, — In Flanders fields. remembering the sacrifice of fellow — World War I troops. — “We're getting drenched.”
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France 24
Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Death toll rises to 42 in California's Camp Fire, making it the deadliest wildfire ever in the state — BREAKING: Death toll rises to 42 in California's Camp Fire, making it the deadliest wildfire ever in the state. — PARADISE, Calif. — The thing about Paradise is that people expected to live out their lives here in the hills.
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Adeel Hassan / New York Times:
Photo of More Than 60 Students Giving Apparent Nazi Salute Is Being Investigated — Police and school officials in a small town in Wisconsin are investigating a photograph taken last spring of about 60 male high school students, many of them making what appears to be a Nazi salute.
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Washington Post:
U.S. says audio recording of Khashoggi killing does not implicate Saudi crown prince — SINGAPORE — U.S. national security adviser John Bolton said Tuesday that an audio recording of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's death inside an Istanbul consulate did not appear to provide any link between …
WFLD:
Kansas City Health Department pours bleach on food meant for homeless people — KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI (Fox 32 News) - The Kansas City Health Department threw away and poured bleach on food meant for homeless people. — The food was going to be distributed by a group called Free Hot Soup KC.
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Washington Post:
In a morning tweetstorm, Trump takes repeated aim at France's Macron — President Trump unleashed verbal attacks Tuesday on French President Emmanuel Macron, taking aim at his approval rating, his country's employment rate, its trade policies on wine and his vision for the military.
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Voters just approved the biggest expansion of the voting franchise in half a century — Those of us who participated in the 2000 presidential election are getting political PTSD from the current gubernatorial and senatorial recounts in Florida. President George W. Bush was eventually declared winner …
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The Federalist
Samuel Earle / New Republic:
Enter Boris? — Boris Johnson—former mayor of London, gadfly of the British political establishment, and, most recently, Brexit's cheerleader-in-chief—has a colorful range of rebuttals when asked about his evident desire to be prime minister. “As I never tire of saying …