Finland's president rakes memory for source of Trump remark  —  HELSINKI (AP) — Finland's president isn't sure where U.S. President Donald Trump got the idea that raking is part of his country's routine for managing its substantial forests.  —  Trump told reporters Saturday while visiting …

Trump suggests venerated Navy SEAL commander should have found bin Laden faster  —  President Trump derided retired Adm. William H. McRaven as a “Hillary Clinton fan” and an “Obama backer” and suggested that the venerated former head of U.S. Special Operations Command should have apprehended Osama bin Laden faster.

Brenda Snipes submits her resignation as Broward elections supervisor  —  Broward Supervisor of Elections Dr. Brenda C. Snipes waves goodbye to the media, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018, at the Broward Supervisor of Elections office in Lauderhill.  Broward County reported their recount results with 52 minutes to spare Sunday.

Bloomberg gives Johns Hopkins a record $1.8 billion for student financial aid  —  Former New York mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced Sunday he is giving a record $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins University to support student financial aid at his alma mater and make its admissions process “forever need-blind.”

Trump Says He's Unlikely to Sit for Interview in Russia Investigation  —  President Trump said in an interview aired Sunday that he most likely would not sit for an interview with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, asserting that “we've wasted enough time on this witch hunt and the answer is, probably, we're finished.”

Browns want to interview Condoleezza Rice for head-coaching job  —  Browns general manager John Dorsey said last week that he was open to hiring a woman as Cleveland's next head coach, and one prominent name is on the team's wish list to interview.  —  The Browns would like to interview former Secretary …

Why Democrats Should Not Call the Georgia Governor's Race “Stolen”  —  There are three important reasons to cool this rhetoric, despite Brian Kemp's odious voter suppression efforts.  —  Many Democrats are understandably angry about efforts to suppress the vote in Georgia and elsewhere in the 2018 midterm elections.

California fire: What started as a tiny brush fire became the state's deadliest wildfire.  Here's how … Before there was a spark, there was the wind.  —  On the morning of Nov. 8, as the sun rose over the isolated mountains in the Sierra Nevada, gale-force winds tore through the canyon.

With Facebook at ‘War,’ Zuckerberg Adopts More Aggressive Style  —  New approach causes turmoil, driving several key executives from the company and creating tensions with longtime Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg  —  Mark Zuckerberg gathered roughly 50 of his top lieutenants earlier …

Searchers in California wildfire step up efforts before rain  —  CHICO, Calif. (AP) — Volunteers in white coveralls, hard hats and masks poked through ash-covered debris Sunday, searching for the remains of victims of the devastating Northern California wildfire before rains that are forecast for this week complicate their efforts.

‘Nothing on this page is real’: How lies become truth in online America  —  NORTH WATERBORO, Maine — The only light in the house came from the glow of three computer monitors, and Christopher Blair, 46, sat down at a keyboard and started to type.  His wife had left for work and his children …

Why the blood of a 1955 Mississippi murder drenches today's U.S. Senate race  —  The cold-blooded killing of Lamar Smith — which occurred in broad daylight before a crowd of people outside the Lincoln County Courthouse in Brookhaven, Miss., on Aug. 13, 1955 — is still considered an unsolved murder …

Tests Showed Children Were Exposed to Lead.  The Official Response: Challenge the Tests  —  For at least two decades, the New York City Housing Authority routinely disputed tests that revealed lead in its apartments.  Private landlords almost never do this.

If Not Pelosi, Who?  The Question Hovers Over a Simmering Rebellion  —  WASHINGTON — What if House Democrats tried to stage a coup and nobody showed up?  —  That is the predicament facing Democrats as a quiet rebellion simmers in their ranks to block Representative Nancy Pelosi of California from being speaker.

Bill Nelson concedes Florida Senate race to Rick Scott  —  Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson conceded the highly contested Florida Senate race to Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott, according to a statement from Scott.  After rounds of recounts in the state, Scott maintained a lead of about 10,000 votes.

‘Smoking gun’ would help implicate Saudi prince, Senate Republican says  —  A top Senate Republican said Sunday that “high confidence” by American intelligence officials may not be enough to implicate Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi and that …