Michael Avenatti Arrested for Felony Domestic Violence, Confident He'll Be Exonerated  —  Michael Avenatti — Arrested for Felony Domestic Violence ... I'll Be ‘Fully Exonerated’  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  5:50 PM PT — Avenatti bailed out and held a brief news conference, saying, “I have never struck a woman.

Exclusive text messages show Roger Stone and friend discussing WikiLeaks plans  —  “Big news Wednesday ... Hillary's campaign will die this week,” Randy Credico appears to have texted Stone six days before WikiLeaks email dump.  —  Six days before WikiLeaks began releasing Hillary Clinton …

Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook's Leaders Fought Through Crisis  —  Sheryl Sandberg was seething.  —  Inside Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, top executives gathered in the glass-walled conference room of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.  It was September 2017 …

“Insanity,” “Furious,” “On His Own”: Trump's Post-Midterms Blues Are Vexing His Staff and Roiling the White House  —  He's lashing out at aides and press and foreign leaders, and threatening to roll West Wing heads—but at least he didn't get his hair wet at the Belleau Wood memorial.

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 …

Mitch McConnell Just Blocked A Bipartisan Bill To Protect Robert Mueller  —  WASHINGTON — A bill that would make it harder for President Donald Trump to remove special counsel Robert Mueller was rejected on the floor of the Senate Tuesday.  —  Republican Sen. Jeff Flake and Democratic …

Rep. Marcia Fudge weighing a bid for House Speaker  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Warrensville Heights Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge says she's considering challenging California Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi for House Speaker.  —  Fudge said she does not believe Pelosi has enough votes to win the job …

Judge in CNN v. Trump case says he will rule on Thursday  —  Washington (CNN)The first hearing in CNN and Jim Acosta's federal lawsuit against President Trump and several top White House aides ended with the judge saying that he would rule on Thursday.  —  CNN and Acosta are alleging …

MacArthur loses New Jersey House race to Democratic challenger Andy Kim  —  Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) lost his seat to Democratic challenger Andy Kim on Wednesday, resulting in a near-wipeout for the GOP in the state, The Associated Press reported.  —  With MacArthur's loss …

‘He was yelling’: Whitaker pushed back against early fraud complaints about company he advised  —  Acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker received early warnings that customers were complaining that an invention-marketing company he advised might be a fraud, according to several people familiar …

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.

Whitaker's unusual path to Justice Department included owning day-care center, trailer maker and concrete supplier  —  He was a local lawyer in Iowa who rose to become one of the most important figures in the nation's capital.  But Matthew G. Whitaker's path to the top of the Justice Department was decidedly offbeat.

In Florida Recount Fight, Democratic Lawyer Draws Plaudits and Fire  —  WASHINGTON — He has been accused of rigging the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries to thwart Bernie Sanders and facilitating a deluge of big money into politics.  He helped arrange financing for the dossier …

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 …

WATCH: Al Jazeera host corners Trump supporter on president's lies like few American journalists ever have  —  Mehdi Hasan, the host of the show UpFront on Al Jazeera English, tweeted out on Wednesday a video of a recent interview that he conducted with Steven Rogers, an adviser to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign.

In Florida Recount, Sloppy Signatures May Disqualify Thousands of Votes  —  RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — The nuns at Zina Rodriguez's Catholic school in the Bronx thwacked her knuckles to punish sloppy handwriting, so she was shocked when her mail-in ballot in Florida was rejected because her signature …

Jamal Khashoggi's killers carried syringes, electro-shock devices and cutting tools as they left Istanbul, says report  —  Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt becomes highest-ranking UK official to meet with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman since killing of Washington Post journalist

‘Too short’ Tom Cruise to be replaced for Jack Reacher reboot  —  Action hero Jack Reacher is to get a reboot for the small screen with a new actor in the lead role after creator Lee Child admitted Tom Cruise, who played him in two films, is too short.  —  In Child's books …

This 31-year-old had had enough.  So she ran.  And won.  —  What finally did it for Kathy Hoffman was watching the confirmation hearing of Betsy DeVos nearly two years ago.  —  Hoffman, then a 31-year-old speech therapist in a suburban Phoenix public school district …

CBC votes no confidence in Democratic Chair Perez  —  The Congressional Black Caucus passed a vote of no confidence in Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez on Wednesday, the latest sign of lingering bad blood between lawmakers on Capitol Hill and the Democratic Party's top official.

Mattis Visited The Troops Deployed To The Border And They Had Some Questions For Him  —  “Sir, I have a question.  The wire obstacles that we've implanted along the border...are we going to be taking those out when we leave?”  —  On a visit to US troops on the southern border on Wednesday …

‘This is not all of us.’ Call to remove Muslim from post divides Tarrant Republicans  —  There's a clear division in the Tarrant County Republican Party.  —  At a time when many want to focus on the 2020 election, in the wake of this reliably red county turning blue in this year's U.S. Senate race …

Title IX protects those who Emily Yoffe and Wellesley College disempower  —  Dear President Johnson, Wellesley administration, staff, and faculty; Wellesley community, and friends:  —  On Nov. 14, the Freedom Project plans to host Emily Yoffe — a contributing editor of The Atlantic …

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 …

Raccoons drunk on crab apples cause false rabies scare in West Virginia  —  Rabid animals are, of course, no laughing matter.  The rabies virus can infect the central nervous system, resulting in disease and death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Camp Fire: 56 dead, nearly 9,000 homes lost in Butte County wildfire  —  Nearly 9,000 homes have been lost and 138,000 acres have been charred in the deadly Camp Fire in Butte County on Wednesday night.  —  In all, 10,321 structures have been destroyed, and 8,650 of those are single-family homes.