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Haley Britzky / Axios:
Fox News backs CNN in lawsuit against Trump White House  —  Fox News is supporting CNN's lawsuit against the Trump administration over the White House's revocation of Jim Acosta's press pass and plans to file an amicus brief in the case, according to a statement from the network's president Jay Wallace.
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump's relationship with Fox News starts to show cracks  —  Fox News said Wednesday it would back CNN in its lawsuit to restore reporter Jim Acosta's press credentials after the White House revoked them last week — the latest move by President Donald Trump's favorite news organization to distance itself from him in recent weeks.
Discussion: IJR
CNN:
Trump argues in court filing that he can limit journalists' access to White House
Discussion: KAJ-TV
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump campaign fundraises off CNN's lawsuit against him
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Political Wire
Associated Press:   Trump to back major rewrite of sentencing laws
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Conservative Lawyers Say Trump Has Undermined the Rule of Law  —  WASHINGTON — The annual convention of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, has long been a glittering and bustling affair.  In the Trump era, though, the group has become more powerful than ever …
Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Probes Possible Witness Intimidation by Roger Stone  —  Former Trump adviser angry that radio personality Randy Credico denies being WikiLeaks conduit  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office is exploring whether longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone tried to intimidate and discredit …
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
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CNN:   Roger Stone repeatedly claimed contact with Donald Trump and his campaign while touting WikiLeaks connections
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform:
Top Dems Launch Investigation of Acting Attorney General's Involvement in Company Charged with Bilking Consumers of Millions of Dollars  —  “On November 7, 2018, President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions and put in his place Matthew G. Whitaker to serve as Acting Attorney General,” the Members wrote.
Discussion: The Daily Signal
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:   Justice Department OLC Opinion Claims Matt Whitaker's Attorney General Appointment Is Legit
Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
The Acting Attorney General Helped an Alleged Scam Company Hawk Bizarre Products
Benny Johnson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: President Trump Calls For Brenda Snipes To Be Fired  —  President Donald Trump believes that the embattled Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes is a “disgrace” and that she should be fired and removed from office.  —  President Trump spoke to The Daily Caller in an exclusive …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump meddles in McCarthy-Jordan leadership brawl  —  On the eve of Kevin McCarthy's long-awaited defeat of his nemesis, Rep. Jim Jordan, President Donald Trump is jumping into the fray to play peacemaker.  —  Trump has privately urged the House majority leader to strike a deal …
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Washington Post:
House Republicans elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy as party leader
Discussion: Axios, Politico, RedState and New York Times
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Trump ally Kevin McCarthy selected to lead House GOP
Discussion: Splinter
Scott McCartney / Wall Street Journal:
The Best of the Biggest U.S. Airports  —  The first WSJ U.S. Airport Rankings uses 15 metrics to determine which of the 20 largest airports treat travelers better  —  Call it the Mile-High Miracle: Denver International Airport is the best airport in the U.S. in the first-ever Wall Street Journal U.S. Airport Rankings.
Washington Post:
Scientists acknowledge key errors in study of how fast the oceans are warming  —  A major study claimed the oceans were warming much faster than previously thought.  But researchers now say they can't necessarily make that claim.  —  Scientists behind a major study that claimed the Earth's oceans …
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Joshua Emerson Smith / sandiegouniontribune.com:
Climate contrarian uncovers scientific error, upends major ocean warming study
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
A frightful portrait of a president out of control  —  The Post reports: … Trump hollered at British Prime Minister Theresa May in a phone call, berated aides and insisted on personnel changes likely to worsen morale in an already besieged White House.  It is this ongoing funk that may explain …
Discussion: The Week and Mediaite
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Five days of fury: Inside Trump's Paris temper, election woes and staff upheaval
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:   Trump's post-election rage, and what it suggests about his alternate reality
Michel Rose / Reuters:
France says Trump should have shown ‘decency’ on Paris attacks anniversary  —  PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, who attacked his French counterpart in a series of tweets on Tuesday, should have shown “common decency” instead since the country was mourning the anniversary …
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Summer Concepcion / Associated Press:
France: Trump Lacked ‘Common Decency’ When We Were In Mourning
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Des Bieler / Washington Post:
Marco Rubio roasted for ‘3 pt kick’ tweet about Florida election  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was reminded again Tuesday night that it's dangerous when he mixes sports with politics.  —  Rubio was roasted online for a tweet in which he referred to a “3 pt kick,” more commonly known as a field goal …
Discussion: IJR, Florida Politics and Daily Kos
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Marco Rubio, Trumpified
Discussion: Florida Politics
Matt Dixon / Politico:
Federal prosecutors reviewing altered election documents tied to Florida Democrats  —  TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Department of State last week asked federal prosecutors to investigate dates that were changed on official state election documents, the first voting “irregularities” it has flagged in the wake of the 2018 elections.
Sasha Issenberg / New York Magazine:
Divided We Stand The country is hopelessly split.  So why not make it official and break up?  —  The year is 2019.  California's new governor, Gavin Newsom, recently elected on a platform that included support for the creation of a single-payer health-care system, now must figure out how to enact it.
Discussion: Splinter
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Abrams gains ground as judges order more Georgia votes to be counted  —  Georgia's tight races for governor and Congress remained unsettled Tuesday as last-minute votes trickled in, protests rocked the Capitol and judges issued rulings to ensure more ballots are counted.
FiveThirtyEight:
Yes, It Was A Blue Wave  —  Welcome to FiveThirtyEight's weekly politics chat.  The transcript below has been lightly edited.  —  sarahf (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): So we're here today to talk about the midterm elections and the BLUE WAVE ... or blue trickle?  Which is it, team!?!
Laura Meckler / Washington Post:
Betsy DeVos set to bolster rights of accused in rewrite of sexual assault rules  —  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is set to release a sweeping overhaul of how colleges and universities must handle allegations of sexual assault and harassment, giving new rights to the accused including …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Yair Ghitza:
What Happened Last Tuesday: Part 2—Who Did They Vote For?  —  Last week, I shared the news that we at Catalist have developed a new methodology for projecting the true shape of an electorate, almost immediately following Election Day.  We followed it up on Friday with estimates of the composition of the electorate, going back to 2006.
Dan Crenshaw / Washington Post:
SNL mocked my appearance.  Here's why I didn't demand an apology.  —  Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, is a Republican representative-elect from Texas.  —  The past couple of weeks have been unusual for me, to say the least.  After a year of hard campaigning for Congress in Texas …
Discussion: RedState and HuffPost
Joy Pullmann / The Federalist:
School Punishes Male Teacher For Refusing To Watch A Naked Girl In The Boys' Locker Room  —  A Florida school district allowed a self-described transgender female student access to the boys' locker room, with no warning to parents.  The first time she walked in, she caught ‘boys (literally) with their pants down.’
Discussion: Townhall
NBC News:
Lawyers seek ‘Apprentice’ tapes in Trump immigration suit for evidence of racism  —  Lawyers for Civil Rights has issued subpoenas to MGM Holdings and Trump Productions for any footage in which Trump “uses racial and/or ethnic slurs.”  —  BOSTON — Lawyers suing President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Jezebel
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Public Wants Congress to be a Check on Trump  —  Few support re-electing the president in 2020; not too keen on Pelosi, McConnell as leaders  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Nearly 6-in-10 Americans say they would like to see someone other than Donald Trump elected president in 2020 …
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Says Decision On Nielsen Happening ‘Shortly’  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump expects to make a decision on the future of his Department of Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen “shortly,” he told The Daily Caller in an exclusive Oval Office interview Wednesday.
fox5sandiego.com:
Video shows group climbing border fence  —  SAN DIEGO — People on the Mexican side of the border could be seen climbing the fence near Friendship Park Tuesday afternoon after part of the Central American migrant caravan arrived in Tijuana.  —  Several people scaled the fence and sat on top of it.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:
Vice President Mike Pence confronts Myanmar's Suu Kyi over Rohingya persecution  —  Pence said her country's atrocities were “without excuse.”  He called on her to hold those responsible to account.  —  SINGAPORE — Vice President Mike Pence confronted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday over the …
Discussion: New Republic
Eric Umansky / Trump, Inc.:
The Emolument Suit Against Trump That Is Moving Ahead  —  There's lots of talk about congressional investigations of the Trump administration that may be coming.  Meanwhile, there is already a push to pull back the veil on the president's conflicts.  And it's making progress.
 
 
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Sarah Kolinovsky / ABC News:
Former CENTCOM commander tapped to be Saudi ambassador
Zachary Basu / Axios:
EU trade chief: “We have not received any assurances” on U.S. auto tariffs
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
The Vaporware Presidency  —  Step 1: Propose something ridiculous.
Li Zhou / Vox:
Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell hang on to their Senate leadership roles
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Washington Post:
U.S. military edge has eroded to ‘a dangerous degree,’ study for Congress finds
Discussion: Shakesville and The Week
Russ Choma / Mother Jones:
Trump Campaign Paid Millions to Trump Businesses During Midterms
Discussion: New Republic
 Earlier Items: 
Nigel Jaquiss / Willamette Week:
Oregon's junior senator wants to be able to run for president without giving up his U.S. Senate seat.
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Top Census Scientist's Testimony Casts Doubt On Motives For Study On Citizenship Question
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Forget Impeachment. Mueller's Real Threat to Trump Is in 2020.
Discussion: Townhall
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

 
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