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8:50 AM ET, November 13, 2018

Top Items:

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 …

Discussion: Townhall, Axios, CNN, POLITICUSUSA, The Week, Jezebel, Breitbart, Raw Story, HuffPost, Splinter, Daily Wire, Mediaite, Washington Times, ImmigrationProf Blog and rbc.ru

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 …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Just Security, KAJ-TV, Middle East Eye, Al Jazeera, The Week, New Republic, The National Memo, The American Conservative, Mediaite and Political Wire

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 …

Discussion: Splinter, Grabien News, twitchy.com, KFOR-TV, Gizmodo, Deadline, Engadget, Mediaite, CBS New York, CBS Miami, WGN-TV and Commercial Observer, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Politico:

POLITICO Playbook: Welcome back ... Trump wants to oust DHS Secretary Nielsen — DRIVING THE DAY — WELCOME BACK! ... CONGRESS comes back into session tonight, and new-member orientation begins today. — READ THE TEA LEAVES ... As we enter the lame-duck session of Congress …

Discussion: The Week

Robert Reich / American Prospect: Amazon and America's Real Divide

Karen Weise / New York Times:
Amazon Chooses Queens and a Washington Suburb for ‘Second Headquarters’

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

Washington Post:
Amazon HQ2 decision: Amazon splits prize between Crystal City and New York

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and WTOP

Washington Post: Amazon picks Northern Virginia and New York for its additional headquarters after year-long, high-profile search

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 …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Associated Press, Advocate, RedState, KAJ-TV, The Daily Caller, Vox, Jezebel, Splinter, Breitbart, HuffPost, Talking Points Memo, Boing Boing and Washington Free Beacon

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.

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.

Discussion: NPR, Washington Post, NBC News, ABC News, Townhall, Washington Press, TheBlaze, LifeZette, The Last Refuge and The Week

Khorri Atkinson / Axios:
Kyrsten Sinema has flipped Jeff Flake's Senate seat to the Democrats

Discussion: Arizona Republic, Wall Street Journal, The Gateway Pundit and ABC News

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.

Discussion: Townhall, Raw Story and emptywheel

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 …

Adam B. Schiff / Washington Post:
Matthew Whitaker, we're watching you

Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos, The Week, Just Security, VICE News, Common Dreams and demwritepress.com

Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Seek Ethics Advice Sought or Received by Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker

Discussion: Political Wire, Politico and The Week

Emily Sullivan / NPR:

Police Fatally Shoot Black Security Guard Who Detained Suspected Shooter — When police arrived on the scene 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.

Discussion: WGN-TV, WQAD-TV and Breitbart

Washington Post:
‘They basically saw a black man with a gun’: Police kill armed guard while responding to call

Discussion: abc7chicago.com, fox8.com, WGN-TV and Vox

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.

Discussion: Raw Story

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 …

Discussion: Mediaite

Associated Press:

Why wait? Democrats openly flirt with 2020 White House bids — WASHINGTON (AP) — In the days after the midterm election, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker worked the phones with Democratic luminaries in Iowa. Montana Gov. Steve Bullock courted high-dollar donors in New York.

Discussion: Balloon Juice

Washington Post:

Pelosi moves aggressively to snuff out challenge to her bid for House speaker — House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is moving aggressively to snuff out a challenge from some lawmakers who are demanding new party leadership, while powerful allies outside Congress are helping rally support for her bid for speaker.

Discussion: Power Line and Political Wire

Rachael Bade / Politico:
Pelosi warns against ousting a woman

Discussion: Louder With Crowder

Dana Bash / CNN:
Nancy Pelosi: ‘I want women to see that you do not get pushed around’

Discussion: Political Wire

Richard L. Hasen / Slate:

What's Happening in Florida Is a Nightmare. 2020 Could Be So Much Worse. — With Florida set this week to undertake a massive and massively politicized recount in the critical races for governor and senator, the way that election fight has played out so far has been an absolute nightmare.

Discussion: Washington Post, Washington Press, @politifact, NBC News, BuzzFeed News, Mic, RedState, New York Times, HuffPost and LifeZette

Washington Post:
How a badly designed ballot might have swayed the election in Florida

Discussion: Chalkbeat and Wall Street Journal

Washington Post: Republicans fan unfounded worries about voter fraud in Florida and other close contests

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.

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.

Asma Khalid / NPR:
A Third Rail No More: Incoming House Democrats Embrace Gun Control

Discussion: Young Conservatives and POLITICUSUSA

Ali Dukakis / ABC News:

Special counsel witness says he expects to be charged in Mueller probe — The former Infowars Washington bureau chief, who recently testified before a federal grand jury in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election …

Discussion: The National Memo, Washington Times, Mediaite and Axios

Shannon K. Crawford / ABC News:
Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, mysteriously arrives in Washington, D.C.

Discussion: CNBC and Conservative News Today

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.

Discussion: Feeds and HuffPost

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.

Discussion: NPR, East Bay Times and Washington Press

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.

Discussion: CBS News, The Week, New York Times and New Republic

Sacramento Bee:
Fire and police fought Camp Fire as blaze hit home: More than 90 first responders lost houses

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, CNN, BBC and Shareblue Media

German Lopez / Vox:

I looked for a state that's taking gun violence seriously. I found Massachusetts. — Massachusetts offers a model for dealing with gun violence that the rest of the country could follow. — In New Hampshire, the process for buying a gun is easy — easier than getting a driver's license.

Janko Roettgers / Variety:

Fox News Twitter Account Remains Dark for Fourth Day Over Tucker Carlson Protest — Fox News continued its Twitter boycott for a fourth day on Monday in an apparent attempt to protest how the social media platform handled tweets surrounding a recent rally against Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

Discussion: RedState, The Daily Caller, Daily Wire and Lawyers, Guns & Money, more at Mediagazer »

Deadspin:

This Is All Donald Trump Has Left — President Donald Trump often stands near a helicopter on the White House's South Lawn while reporters shout questions at him. Certain elements of this ritual are the same every time. The wheedling honk of Trump's voice and the uneasy tilt of his standing …