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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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‘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 …
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 …
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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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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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 …
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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Adam B. Schiff / Washington Post:
Matthew Whitaker, we're watching you
Matthew Whitaker, we're watching you
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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 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.
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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.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Pelosi warns against ousting a woman
Pelosi warns against ousting a woman
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Dana Bash / CNN:
Nancy Pelosi: ‘I want women to see that you do not get pushed around’
Nancy Pelosi: ‘I want women to see that you do not get pushed around’
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Washington Post:
How a badly designed ballot might have swayed the election in Florida — In Broward County, thousands of ballots didn't include a vote for senator. That may have been because of how the ballot looked. — In the run-up to an election, it's all about getting access to the ballot.
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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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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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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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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 …
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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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 …
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Shannon K. Crawford / ABC News:
Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, mysteriously arrives in Washington, D.C.
Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, mysteriously arrives in Washington, D.C.
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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
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.
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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.
Mike Gallagher / The Atlantic:
How to Salvage Congress — If you are among the 11 percent of Americans who believe that everything in Congress is going swimmingly, then save some time and stop reading right now. (But first, please share whatever experimental drugs you are on.) But if you are among the 87 percent …