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11:50 AM ET, November 13, 2018

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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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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 …
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump planning shakeup, eyeing new chief of staff and DHS secretary: Sources  —  President Donald Trump is considering yet another shakeup of his administration, preparing to remove Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and looking at possible replacements for Chief of Staff John Kelly …
Day One / US Day One Blog:
Amazon selects New York City and Northern Virginia for new headquarters  —  Amazon to invest $5 billion and create more than 50,000 jobs across the two new headquarters, and announces Nashville as new Operations Center of Excellence with more than 5,000 jobs.
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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 …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Amazon's imminent arrival in Queens  —  “Displacement is not community development.”  —  New York's 14th Congressional District Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez represents a number of gentrifying neighborhoods in Queens (plus some not-so-gentrifying neighborhoods …
Discussion: Politico and twitchy.com
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 …
Robert Reich / American Prospect:   Amazon and America's Real Divide
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 …
Discussion: Hot Air and POLITICUSUSA
Politico:
Whitaker consulting ‘ethics officials’ on possible recusal from Mueller probe
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Welcome back ... Trump wants to oust DHS Secretary Nielsen
Discussion: CNN, National Review and Breitbart
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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Washington Post:
Trump supports democracy — except when he is losing  —  FLORIDA IS in a recount mess.  An incompetent elections administrator in Broward County is putting a face to the nation's widespread problems with unprepared voting staff, badly designed ballots and extended tallying delays.
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos, CBS Miami and LifeZette
Simon Romero / New York Times:
Kyrsten Sinema Declared Winner in Arizona Senate Race
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Vote fraud fact check: Trump's bogus (so far) claims about Florida
Discussion: BuzzFeed News, New York Times and Mic
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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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:   In Georgia, Now Stacey Abrams Wants a Federal Judge to Change the Election Rules
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia secretary of state tells election officials to count absentee ballots
Discussion: Raw Story and Splinter
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Hate crimes rose 17 percent last year, according to new FBI data  —  Hate crimes in America rose 17 percent last year, the third consecutive year that such crimes increased, according to newly released FBI data.  —  Law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 hate crimes occurred in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation:
2017 Hate Crime Statistics Released  —  Report Shows More Departments Reporting Hate Crime Statistics  —  The number of hate crime incidents reported to the FBI increased about 17 percent in 2017 compared with the previous year, according to the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) …
Discussion: HuffPost
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
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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Walter Russell Mead / Wall Street Journal:   Macron's Faux Pas on Nationalism
Scott Thistle / Press Herald:
Poliquin sues in federal court to stop ranked-choice count  —  As Maine's Secretary of State continues the process to determine winner in the 2nd Congressional District, attorneys for the campaigns of Jared Golden and Bruce Poliquin head to court.  —  AUGUSTA - Republican 2nd District …
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
2018 rewrote the main rule of US politics  —  Did media underplay the ‘blue wave’ election?  —  (CNN)So much for the old rule that all politics is local.  —  The results of last week's election demonstrated how powerfully national trends now shape election outcomes in every region.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Democrats' blue wave was much larger than early takes suggested
Discussion: Raw Story
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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Mike Gallagher / The Atlantic:   How to Salvage Congress
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: twitchy.com and Washington Press
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Associated Press:
Why wait? Democrats openly flirt with 2020 White House bids
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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.
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.
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: Washington Post, Raw Story and NPR
The Intercept:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Joins Environmental Activists in Protest at Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi's Office  —  Protesters with the environmental group Sunrise marched on Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi's office on Tuesday.  The group, made up of young people pushing for urgent action on climate change …
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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Washington Post:
Pelosi moves aggressively to snuff out challenge to her bid for House speaker
Discussion: Power Line and Political Wire
Monica Lewinsky / Vanity Fair:
“Who Gets to Live in Victimville?”:  Why I Participated in a New Docuseries on The Clinton Affair  —  Reliving the events of 1998 was traumatic, yes—but also worth it, if it helps another young person avoid being “That Woman"-ed.  —  It's the fall of 2018.  I'm sitting on the floor of my mom's apartment surrounded by My Past.
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.”
Discussion: France 24 and The Guardian
 
 
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David Priess / Hachette Book Group:
How to Get Rid of a President  —  History's Guide to Removing …
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
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Jesus Rodriguez / Politico:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg to miss another day at court, recovering after fall
Discussion: Washington Post and Vox
Bill Gertz / Washington Free Beacon:
China's Communist Party Expands Control Under Xi
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Washington Post:
For Trump, even disaster response is colored in red and blue
New York Times:
Trump Dreams Up Another Immigrant Crisis
Samuel Earle / New Republic:
Enter Boris?  —  Boris Johnson—former mayor of London …
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
The right lessons and the wrong ones from 2018
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 Earlier Items: 
German Lopez / Vox:
I looked for a state that's taking gun violence seriously. I found Massachusetts.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Voters just approved the biggest expansion of the voting franchise in half a century
Discussion: The Federalist
John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Dems Priority List Includes Attacks On Free Speech And Gun Rights
Washington Post:
U.S. says audio recording of Khashoggi killing does not implicate Saudi crown prince
Remy Smidt / BuzzFeed News:
Doctors Are Sharing Gruesome Photos Of What It's Like To Treat Gun Violence Victims
Discussion: Washington Post and Salon
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Midterms Point to Reshaped Map for 2020 Presidential Campaign
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