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Associated Press:
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 …
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Trump told Niinistö revealed raking being crucial part of fire prevention in Finland - The Finnish president says he never mentioned raking — Donald Trump pointed to Finland as an example of how to better maintain forests, citing president Sauli Niinistö.
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Finnish president denies ever discussing ‘raking’ with Trump
Finnish president denies ever discussing ‘raking’ with Trump
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
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.”
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Gregg Re / Fox News:
Trump, in exclusive interview, suggests turning off Acosta's camera, reveals Obama's private guidance on greatest threat to the US — President Trump, speaking exclusively to Fox News' Chris Wallace in a wide-ranging interview, revealed what President Obama told him was the biggest challenge facing the U.S. …
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump says Whitaker is right about Russia probe and won't sit with Mueller for interview
Trump says Whitaker is right about Russia probe and won't sit with Mueller for interview
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump says he wouldn't stop acting attorney general from curtailing Mueller probe
Trump says he wouldn't stop acting attorney general from curtailing Mueller probe
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ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 11-18-18: Rep. Adam Schiff and Sen. Roy Blunt
‘This Week’ Transcript 11-18-18: Rep. Adam Schiff and Sen. Roy Blunt
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
‘Smoking gun’ would help implicate Saudi prince, Senate Republican says
‘Smoking gun’ would help implicate Saudi prince, Senate Republican says
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Axios, CNN, One America News Network and The Daily Beast
Zachary Warmbrodt / Politico:
Trump: 'I don't know' if Saudi prince lied
Trump: 'I don't know' if Saudi prince lied
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One America News Network and ABC News
Adam Schefter / ESPN:
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 …
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Nick Anderson / Washington Post:
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.”
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Douglas Belkin / Wall Street Journal:
Michael Bloomberg to Give Johns Hopkins Record $1.8 Billion — Potential 2020 presidential candidate wants school to be need-blind to allow more poor and middle-class students to attend — Former New York City Mayor and possible 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg …
Kimberly Hefling / Politico:
Potential 2020 candidate Bloomberg gives $1.8B to Johns Hopkins
Potential 2020 candidate Bloomberg gives $1.8B to Johns Hopkins
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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.
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Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
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 …
Paul Sonne / Washington Post:
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.
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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 …
New York Times:
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.
Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
No Longer Leading State Senate, Republicans Plan to Go on Attack — Leader anticipates battles over property taxes, charter schools, undocumented immigrants and more — Republicans in the state Senate, their ranks reduced by almost a third after electoral losses, say their focus will shift …
Khorri Atkinson / Axios:
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.
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
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.
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
How the Democrats Took Back Michigan — DETROIT—Gretchen Whitmer had her red water bottle with the Wonder Woman logo. Debbie Stabenow was touching up her makeup. Dana Nessel was up front, sitting with her wife, right behind the stack of boxed salads that was the food for the day.
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
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 …
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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Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press:
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.
Ema O'Connor / BuzzFeed News:
“A Separate Standard”: Voters In Florida Say Disability And Age Can Erase Your Vote — A man in Florida rendered quadriplegic by multiple sclerosis has had to jump through hoops for years to get his vote counted. There are many more like him. — Reporting From