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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

‘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.

‘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.

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.

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 …

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.

Sotomayor says Kavanaugh a part of the Supreme Court ‘family’  —  Washington (CNN)Justice Sonia Sotomayor in an interview with CNN's David Axelrod said that Justice Brett Kavanaugh was welcomed into the Supreme Court “family” in the wake of his polarizing confirmation process.