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 …

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.

‘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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …