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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 …
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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 …
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Political Wire, The Week and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Has Decided To Remove Homeland Security Secretary Nielsen — Nielsen's ouster may be first in series of Trump Administration shakeups — WASHINGTON—President Trump is considering high-level staff change in his administration—including discussing potential replacements for White House Chief …
New York Times:
Trump Considers Staff Shake-Up in White House and Homeland Security
Trump Considers Staff Shake-Up in White House and Homeland Security
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Washington Post, Outside the Beltway and The Week
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
CNN sues President Trump, aides over suspension of Jim Acosta's press pass
CNN sues President Trump, aides over suspension of Jim Acosta's press pass
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Daily Wire and The Gateway Pundit
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 …
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Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Picks New York City, Northern Virginia for Its HQ2 Locations
Amazon Picks New York City, Northern Virginia for Its HQ2 Locations
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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 …
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Hot Air and POLITICUSUSA
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.
Arizona Republic:
Sinema vs. McSally
Sinema vs. McSally
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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Vote fraud fact check: Trump's bogus (so far) claims about Florida
Vote fraud fact check: Trump's bogus (so far) claims about Florida
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New York Times, BuzzFeed News 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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Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Federal Judge Delays Certification of Georgia Election Results
Federal Judge Delays Certification of Georgia Election Results
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
In Georgia, Now Stacey Abrams Wants a Federal Judge to Change the Election Rules
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) …
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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 …
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
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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New Republic, Politico, ABC News and Associated Press
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Walter Russell Mead / Wall Street Journal:
Macron's Faux Pas on Nationalism
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
Democrats' blue wave was much larger than early takes suggested
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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
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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WGN-TV, Washington Post and The Week
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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twitchy.com and Washington Press
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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 …
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The Daily Caller and twitchy.com
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.
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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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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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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Armored school doors, bulletproof whiteboards and secret snipers — Billions are being spent to protect children from school shootings. Does any of it work? — School shootings have fueled a $2.7 billion school safety industry. What makes kids safer?
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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