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 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 …

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.”

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.

‘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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

How the Democrats Took Back Michigan  —  A Democratic tsunami in the midterms engulfed the state Trump won most narrowly in 2016—and could keep the state blue in 2020.  —  Detroit—gretchen whitmer had her red water bottle with the Wonder Woman logo.  Debbie Stabenow was touching up her makeup.

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.

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 …

“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

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.

The DOG accused of a hate crime after fouling outside a home in just one of 2,500 cases probed over two years  —  We all know it's irritating, unsightly and unhygienic, but one case of dog fouling has been logged by police as a racist hate crime.  —  The incident is among numerous alleged …

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 …