Brenda Snipes submits her 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.

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.

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.

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.”

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 …

California wildfires: Nearly 1,300 unaccounted for in Camp Fire - live updates  —  The death toll from the Camp Fire in Northern California increased Saturday to 76, while the number of people unaccounted for reached 1,276.  The blaze is now 60 percent contained after consuming more than 149,500 acres.

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 …

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.

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 …

California fires: For one man in the Camp fire evacuation zone, caring for animals and checking properties keep him busy  —  Jeff Evans steers his white Dodge Ram along a narrow dirt road, scanning the blackened trees and ashen ground for two skittish dogs.  —  They come running when they hear …

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.”

Trump says he won't listen to Khashoggi ‘suffering tape’  —  President Trump acknowledged the existence of an audio recording of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul but said he has not listened to what he called the “suffering tape” …

Eight white-majority districts elected black members of Congress this year.  That's a breakthrough.  —  This year, Americans appear to have elected a record 53 African Americans to the House — assuming that Republicans William Hurd of Texas and Mia Love of Utah will win their tight races, which haven't been called as of this writing.

The Ultimate Fake News  —  Fake news is a serious problem in our political life.  I'm not referring to a pathetically small number of Facebook ads bought by Russian provocateurs.  I'm talking about the fake news that was paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee …

If Not Pelosi, Who?  The Question Hovers Over a Simmering Rebellion  —  WASHINGTON — What if House Democrats tried to stage a coup and nobody showed up?  —  That is the predicament facing Democrats as a quiet rebellion simmers in their ranks to block Representative Nancy Pelosi of California from being speaker.

Canada's brain-injured Cuba diplomats speak out about Ottawa's silence  —  For members of the tight-knit community of Canadian diplomats based in Havana, life became terrifying and disorienting last year - and many of them, speaking to the media for the first time, say it has only become …

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.