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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
New Evidence Emerges of Steve Bannon and Cambridge Analytica's Role in Brexit — For two years, observers have speculated that the June, 2016, Brexit campaign in the U.K. served as a petri dish for Donald Trump's Presidential campaign in the United States. Now there is new evidence that it did.
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Raw Story
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The Guardian:
Emails reveal Arron Banks' links to Steve Bannon in quest for campaign cash — Businessman sought Trump strategist's help to raise funds for Leave.EU in the US — The controversial businessman Arron Banks was keen to involve Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon in a scheme …
Peter Geoghegan / openDemocracy:
Brexit bankroller Arron Banks, Cambridge Analytica and Steve Bannon - explosive emails reveal fresh links
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Political Wire
New York Times:
Top White House Official Involved in Saudi Sanctions Resigns — WASHINGTON — A top White House official responsible for American policy toward Saudi Arabia resigned on Friday evening, a move that may suggest fractures inside the Trump administration over the response to the brutal killing of the dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
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Christine Mai-Duc / Los Angeles Times:
Democrat Gil Cisneros defeats Republican Young Kim, flipping last GOP House seat in Orange County — Gil Cisneros has defeated Republican Young Kim in the 39th Congressional District, putting the seat held by retiring GOP Rep. Ed Royce into the Democrats' column.
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
A Democratic Rout in Orange County: Cisneros's Win Makes It Four — California Democrats completed their sweep of the congressional delegation in Orange County on Saturday as Gil Cisneros defeated Young Kim, a Republican, to capture a fourth seat in what had once been one of the most conservative Republican bastions in the nation.
Michael R. Blood / Associated Press:
Democrat Cisneros nabs GOP House seat in Southern California — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democrat Gil Cisneros captured a Republican-held U.S. House seat in Southern California on Saturday, capping a Democratic rout in which the party picked up six congressional seats in the state.
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Axios
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
RIP, California GOP: Republicans lash out after midterm election debacle
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Mother Jones, Hullabaloo, CALmatters, Political Wire and Washington Free Beacon
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Nearly 3,000 Votes Disappeared From Florida's Recount. That's Not Supposed to Happen. — Nearly 3,000 votes effectively disappeared during the machine recount of Florida's midterm races, according to election records, calling into question whether officials relied on a flawed process to settle the outcome of three statewide contests.
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Sun-Sentinel and Breitbart
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Barnini Chakraborty / Fox News:
Broward counts the wrong ballots as Florida races to finish manual recount ahead of Sunday deadline
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New York Times, The Gateway Pundit, The Last Refuge and The Guardian
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
In Mississippi, Republican concern rises over a U.S. Senate runoff that should have been a romp — JACKSON, Miss. — A U.S. Senate runoff that was supposed to provide an easy Republican win has turned into an unexpectedly competitive contest, driving Republicans and Democrats to pour …
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Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Controversies hamper candidates in Mississippi Senate race
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Talking Points Memo and Washington Post
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Ocasio-Cortez backs campaign to primary fellow Democrats — Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday threw her weight behind a new national campaign to mount primaries against incumbent Democrats deemed to be ideologically and demographically out of step with their districts.
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Political Wire and The Daily Caller
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Jim Carlton / Wall Street Journal:
Facing Deadlier Fires, California Tries Something New: More Logging — Environmentalists and the timber industry, after long butting heads, increasingly agree that cutting trees to thin forests is vital to reducing fire danger — FRENCH MEADOWS RESERVOIR, Calif.—Obscured amid the chaos …
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
DeSantis wins Florida gubernatorial race as Gillum concedes
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RedState, twitchy.com and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Abrams plans suit to seek cure to problems in Georgia's voting process — Her campaign for governor may be over, but Stacey Abrams is not going away. — She told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution she's not ruling out a run for another public office, perhaps as early as 2020.
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New York Times:
Are Jared and Ivanka Good for the Jews? — Jewish communities stand more divided than ever on whether to embrace or denounce Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. — On election night in Beverly Hills, Jason Blum, the hot shot horror-movie producer, was accepting an award at the Israel Film Festival.
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twitchy.com, Instapundit and TalkLeft
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
House GOP women confront a political crisis — their party is mostly men — About a half dozen House Republican women gathered this week for a somber, post-election dinner. — Exchanging thoughts about the brutal results for GOP candidates, they realized something depressing, according to one attendee.
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Washington Post:
Fight for House speaker explodes into national political campaign — Music legend Barbra Streisand retweeted a list of Rep. Nancy Pelosi's biggest legislative achievements. Film director Rob Reiner called her “the smartest, toughest strategic thinker in our party.”
David Knowles / Yahoo News:
Trump explains his no-show at Arlington: ‘I was extremely busy on calls’ — President Trump admitted Friday he made a mistake by not attending a public event at Arlington National Cemetery to pay tribute to U.S. soldiers this year on Veterans Day. — “I should have done that,” Trump told “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace.
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Danny Westneat / The Seattle Times:
‘Unwanted subject’: What led a Kirkland yogurt shop to call police on a black man — He turned out to be supervising a parental visit, and is also a nine-year Air Force veteran. But the employees were scared of him and the police asked him to leave anyway.
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
‘This would be a very good time to do a shutdown,’ Trump says — President Trump suggested Saturday he was prepared to shut down the federal government next month if Congress fails to give him the money he wants to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.
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Booman Tribune and Political Wire
Alex Stamos / Washington Post:
Yes, Facebook made mistakes in 2016. But we weren't the only ones. — Alex Stamos is a Hoover fellow and adjunct professor at Stanford University. He previously served as the chief security officer at Facebook until August. — Yup, Sheryl Sandberg yelled at me.
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New York Times:
Hazing, Humiliation, Terror: Working While Female in Federal Prison — Inmates expose themselves and threaten rape. Male guards let them do it. Women who complain are ‘pretty much blackballed.’ — VICTORVILLE, Calif. — Makeup, earrings and perfume are off limits. So are smiles.
Maria L. La Ganga / Los Angeles Times:
California fire: If you stay, you're dead. How a Paradise nursing home evacuated — How do you evacuate a nursing home when the deadliest wildfire in California history is bearing down and there are 91 men and women to move to safety — patients in need of walkers or wheelchairs or confined …
Martin Cizmar / Raw Story:
‘God will not bless America’: Texas pastor curses nation after ‘Godless’ Democrats win midterms — A Texas pastor is reacting with rage to the result of the midterm elections, in which Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives. — Following the election …
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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