Michael Avenatti Arrested for Felony Domestic Violence, Confident He'll Be Exonerated  —  5:50 PM PT — Avenatti bailed out and held a brief news conference, saying, “I have never struck a woman.  I will never strike a woman.”  He added he's looking forward to the investigation and is confident he'll be “fully exonerated.”

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.

The #FiveWhiteGuys Are Offering a Sucker's Bet to Anti-Pelosi Democrats  —  There is no need for any of this.  —  The battle for the leadership of the incoming Democratic majority in the House of Representatives is already a mess.  This is not necessarily a bad thing.

‘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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Theresa May faces House of Commons as Brexit secretary resigns  —  LONDON — Theresa May defended her Brexit deal in the House of Commons Thursday, as a string of ministers quit her government.  —  Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab resigned shortly before the prime minister's statement to MPs …

This Is the Saturday Night Massacre  —  With the firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, America is in uncharted territory.  The last time a president made a personnel change to undermine an investigation of his associates, Congress forced him to resign.  That was when President Richard Nixon pushed …

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 …

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

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.

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 …

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.

House blocks bill to end support for Saudi coalition in Yemen as UK yields diplomatic progress  —  The House of Representatives voted to block the passage of a bill that would have ended U.S. military support for the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen.

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 …

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 …

US says ex-Macedonian PM who fled to Hungary should face justice  —  The U.S. believes that a former Macedonian prime minister who is seeking political asylum in Hungary should serve his jail term at home.  —  “After a thorough and transparent legal process, Nikola Gruevski was convicted …

Rep. Mia Love sues to halt vote count in Salt Lake County  —  Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah) is filing a lawsuit against the Salt Lake County Clerk in a bid to stop the counting of votes until her campaign is allowed to challenge whether signatures on ballot envelopes match those on file …

First Wave of Migrants in Caravan Reaches U.S. Border in Tijuana  —  TIJUANA, Mexico — Hundreds of migrants in the caravan traveling from Central America have begun arriving in the northern Mexico border city of Tijuana, setting up a potential confrontation with the American authorities that has been brewing for weeks.

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.

‘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 …