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 …

Trump targets Acosta ouster — again  —  After a federal court ruling on Friday restored the White House press pass of CNN's Jim Acosta, the West Wing moved almost immediately to once again contest his access, sources involved in the negotiations tell me.  —  What's happening …

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?”

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.

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 …

Trump suggests Californians can rake their forests to prevent wildfires.  (He is wrong.)  —  Update: Since this article originally published, some have suggested that Trump had in mind a more esoteric form of raking, such as perhaps an excavator rake; or a McLeod tool (a.k.a. a “fire rake” …

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 …

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 …

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 …

‘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.

EU ministers back Brexit divorce deal  —  EU ministers gathered in Brussels on Monday backed the Brexit deal agreed last week, chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier said.  —  “I am pleased that ministers today supported the overall package.  In particular the member states support …

EXCLUSIVE: How Trump administration pressure to dump 4-H's LGBT policy led to Iowa leader's firing  —  The Trump administration pushed the national 4-H youth organization to withdraw a controversial policy welcoming LGBT members — a move that helped lead to the ouster of Iowa's top 4-H leader earlier …