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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.
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Outside the Beltway, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Michael R. Blood / Associated Press:
Democrat Cisneros nabs GOP House seat in Southern California
Democrat Cisneros nabs GOP House seat in Southern California
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Axios
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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James Randerson / Politico:
Dominic Raab: Restart Brexit talks and say UK won't be ‘bullied’ — Britain should reopen Brexit negotiations with the EU and show that it will not be “blackmailed and bullied,” former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said today in an interview with the Sunday Times.
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The Times & The Sunday Times, Breitbart and One America News Network
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Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
‘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 …
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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The Daily Caller and Political Wire
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was forgotten once, but never again — GETTYSBURG, PA — In the days that followed Abraham Lincoln's 272-word speech to thousands of onlookers in this small Pennsylvania farm town, few newspapers in the country immediately reported on the speech.
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JustOneMinute
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, POLITICUSUSA and U.S. Pastor Council
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Republicans battle to defend Trump from threat of impeachment — The audition to become President Donald Trump's most visible defender in Congress — and lead the fight against any impeachment proceedings — is in full swing. — One of Trump's fiercest allies, Rep. Jim Jordan …
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Political Wire
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Rise of big cities push Texas to swing-state territory — maybe by 2020 — SAN ANTONIO — For a quarter century, Republicans have dominated Texas politics so much that the Democratic minority has often been an afterthought. The big political battles in Austin have been fought between conservative …
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Zuckerberg Defends Company in Friday Meeting With Employees — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg fiercely defended Facebook in a question-and-answer session with employees on Friday afternoon, pushing back against criticism of the company in the wake of a New York Times investigation into how it reacted to Russian influence operations.
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Wonkette
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Alex Stamos / Washington Post:
Yes, Facebook made mistakes in 2016. But we weren't the only ones.
Yes, Facebook made mistakes in 2016. But we weren't the only ones.
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Daily Kos, New York Times, Raw Story and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Los Angeles Times:
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.
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump considering changes at ‘three or four or five’ Cabinet positions — President Trump said Sunday he's considering making a change to as many as five Cabinet positions amid speculation that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kirstjen Nielsen and White House chief of staff John Kelly could depart imminently.
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Politico and Political Wire
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
Broward counts the wrong ballots as Florida races to finish manual recount ahead of Sunday deadline
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The Other McCain, New York Times, The Gateway Pundit and Politico
Erin Cunningham / Washington Post:
Fresh sanctions on Iran are already choking off medicine imports, economists say — ISTANBUL — New U.S. sanctions on Iranian financial firms, including a bank that until recently handled most payments for Iran's imports of humanitarian goods, are having a chilling effect on foreign companies …
Stanley B. Greenberg / New York Times:
Trump Is Beginning to Lose His Grip — It isn't just white suburban women who switched to Democrats. Parts of rural and white working class America peeled off too. — Mr. Greenberg is a Democratic pollster. — America's polarized citizenry took a break from intense partisan bickering …
Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
The Obamas are ‘Becoming’ a billion-dollar brand … The Obamas are “Becoming” — billionaires. — SEE ALSO — The launch of Michelle Obama's cross-country book tour for her new memoir, “Becoming,” last week is just the latest marker on the road to fabulous wealth for the former first couple …
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Robert Mueller Has More Questions for Longtime Roger Stone Acquaintance Randy Credico — Randy Credico, a lefty comedian and activist who has known Stone for decades, testified before Mueller's grand jury in September, but his work with the Mueller probe is not done. — Betsy Woodruff
Anthony W. Orlando / Washington Post:
Is Trump country really better off under Trump? No. It's falling further behind. — Two years have passed since Donald Trump made his famous campaign promise in disaffected regions across the country: “We are going to start winning again!” For many voters who felt that they had lost ground …
Reuters:
Trump calls CIA assessment of Khashoggi murder premature but possible — WASHINGTON/MALIBU, California (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Saturday called a CIA assessment blaming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi “very premature” …
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
DeSantis wins Florida gubernatorial race as Gillum concedes
DeSantis wins Florida gubernatorial race as Gillum concedes
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RedState, twitchy.com and The Capitolist