WHCA announces acclaimed author Ron Chernow as featured speaker for 2019 dinner  —  The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) is pleased to announce that Ron Chernow, one of the most eminent biographers of American presidents and statesmen, will be the featured speaker at its annual dinner on Saturday, April 27, 2019.

Brenda Snipes submits 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.

Book Offers Firsthand Account of a Venomous Den Inside the White House  —  A firsthand account of the tumult inside President Trump's White House is scheduled to be published in January, the latest in a string of books that seek to decipher his unprecedented presidency.

The Daily 202: Trump's pattern of insulting war heroes continues with commander of bin Laden raid  —  THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump's insults of war heroes and military families who criticize him are a feature, not a bug, of his presidency.  —  Bill McRaven, a retired Navy SEAL …

'He's Barack Obama, but white': Beto O'Rourke blows up the 2020 Democratic primary  —  Sparked by his narrow defeat in a Texas Senate race, Beto O'Rourke is scrambling the 2020 presidential primary field, freezing Democratic donors and potential campaign staffers in place as they await word of his plans.

A $12 Billion Program to Help Farmers Stung by Trump's Trade War Has Aided Few  —  WASHINGTON — America's farmers have been shut out of foreign markets, hit with retaliatory tariffs and lost lucrative contracts in the face of President Trump's trade war.  But a $12 billion bailout program …

Senate Democrats Sue To Block Matt Whitaker From Serving as Attorney General  —  This is now the second legal action seeking to stop the now-acting AG from serving any longer  —  A group of Senate Democrats is suing to block Matt Whitaker from serving as acting attorney general on grounds …

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.

Why bring a bonesaw to a kidnapping, Your Highness?  —  Why bring a bonesaw to a kidnapping?  —  That is a question the crown prince of Saudi Arabia should be asked at every opportunity.  —  “Thank you for granting me an audience, Your Majesty,” everyone should say.  “Why bring a bonesaw to a kidnapping?”

Founder's Big Idea to Revive BuzzFeed's Fortunes?  A Merger With Rivals  —  Jonah Peretti, the chief executive, says his company could eventually merge with other online publishers in order to negotiate better terms with tech platforms like Facebook.  —  BuzzFeed has long positioned itself …

Trump's Lies Are a Virus, and News Organizations Are the Host  —  The news media today face an epistemic crisis: how to publish the president's commentary without amplifying his fabrications and conspiracy theories.  —  One flashpoint came several weeks ago, when President Donald Trump told Axios reporters …

Anti-vaccination stronghold in N.C. hit with state's worst chickenpox outbreak in 2 decades  —  Chickenpox has taken hold of a school in North Carolina where many families claim religious exemption from vaccines.  —  Cases of chickenpox have been multiplying at the Asheville Waldorf School …

No, Democrats Didn't Win The Senate.  But They Did Better Than It Seems.  —  The 2018 election has become a tale of divided government: the House broke for Democrats, but the Senate held for Republicans — and what's more, Republicans were even able to expand their majority in the Senate.

Amazon HQ2 could push 800 people into homelessness, economist says  —  Amazon's HQ2 is slated to bring 25,000 well-paying jobs to both New York City and Crystal City, but it's also expected to push rents and home prices upward.  That side effect has advocates for the homeless and hungry worried.

Maxine Waters wants to investigate Trump, but her party may resist  —  Rep. Maxine Waters is running into an unexpected obstacle in her bid to investigate a president who has mocked her as a “low IQ person”: members of the California Democrat's own party.  —  Waters, the incoming chairwoman …

The United States Is Becoming a Two-Tiered Country With Separate and Unequal Voting Laws  —  But the midterms showed that voting rights may finally be a political winner. … Phoebe Einzig-Roth, an 18-year-old freshman at Atlanta's Emory University, moved to Georgia in August and was excited to vote in her first election.

Elijah Cummings endured two painful years.  Soon he'll be more powerful than ever.  —  When the word of the Lord came to Elijah, it arrived on a slip of paper tucked in a stranger's bra.  —  In 2017, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings had been laid up in a Johns Hopkins hospital bed for two months …

2020 Democrats go all-in on ‘identity politics’  —  Democrats thinking about running for president in 2020 are dramatically changing the way the party talks about race in Donald Trump's America: Get ready to hear a lot more about intersectionality, allyship, inclusivity and POC.

So What Do You Think: Hijabs In Congress?  —  Elections do, indeed, have consequences.  —  And one of the most interesting and perhaps controversial consequences of Nancy Pelosi and Democrats being elected to take control of the House of Representatives come January is their planned rules change …

‘The man behind the curtain’: Interior's No. 2 helps drive Trump's agenda  —  David Bernhardt, deputy secretary of the Department of Interior, had just left McDonald's on his way to work last year when he started choking on his breakfast burrito.  —  His 2017 white Jeep Wrangler careened …

Prosecuting Wikileaks, Protecting Press Freedoms: Drawing the Line at Knowing Collaboration with a Foreign Intelligence Agency  —  The inadvertent disclosure of the likely existence of a sealed indictment against Julian Assange raises the question of what the constitutional implications of such an indictment might be.

Today in History - November 19  —  Gettysburg Address  —  On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the close of ceremonies dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  Honoring a request to offer a few remarks, Lincoln memorialized …