Trump Jr.'s 2017 Testimony Conflicts With Cohen's Account Of Russian Talks  —  Donald Trump Jr.'s testimony to Congress about his family's real estate negotiations with powerful Russians does not comport with the new version laid out by Donald Trump's ex-attorney Michael Cohen, official transcripts show.

Acting AG Appears to Have Misled FTC Over Actions at Miami Firm  — FTC emails show Whitaker denied communicating with customers  — Officials also expressed surprise at AG's hiring of Whitaker  —  New documents released by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission suggest …

Government watchdog finds six Trump staffers violated Hatch Act  —  The U.S. Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) on Friday found that six members of the Trump administration violated the Hatch Act.  —  The OSC cited six staffers with violating the federal law in response to a complaint filed …

Louisiana School Made Headlines for Sending Black Kids to Elite Colleges.  Here's the Reality.  —  T.M. Landry, a school in small-town Louisiana, has garnered national attention for vaulting its underprivileged black students to elite colleges.  But the school cut corners and doctored college applications.

California's late votes broke big for Democrats.  Here's why GOP was surprised  —  California Democrats took advantage of seemingly minor changes in a 2016 law to score their stunningly successful midterm election results, providing a target for GOP unhappiness that is tinged with a bit of admiration.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke must resign.  His multiple scandals show he's unfit to serve.  —  Ryan Zinke needs to resign immediately as Secretary of the Interior.  —  I take no pleasure in calling for this step, and I have resisted it even as questions have grown about Mr. Zinke's ethical and managerial failings.

House Democrats to unveil political reform legislation as ‘H.R. 1’  —  House Democratic leaders are set to publicly unveil on Friday the outline of a broad political overhaul bill that will include provisions for public financing of elections, voting rights reforms and new ethics strictures for federal officials.

Democrat Claire McCaskill Angry with Her Party as She Departs Senate  —  Sen. Claire McCaskill is leaving the Senate after losing her re-election bid to state Attorney General Josh Hawley by 6 points earlier this month, but the Missouri Democrat isn't heading out on a whimper.

Bret Stephens' 2018 midterm analysis is quietly getting worse  —  In the aftermath of election night 2018, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote a column arguing that the Democrats had kind of blown it.  Under the headline “The Midterm Results Are a Warning to the Democrats,” …

In photos: Trump, Putin and MBS collide at the G20  —  Many of the world's most prominent leaders gathered at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires on Friday, including President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) — whose interactions have remained firmly in the headlines over recent weeks.

Sheryl Sandberg Is Said to Have Asked Facebook Staff to Research George Soros  —  Sheryl Sandberg asked Facebook's communications staff to research George Soros's financial interests in the wake of his high-profile attacks on tech companies, according to three people with knowledge of her request …

‘Tangled web’ in Bladen County has questions swirling about votes in the 9th District  —  Allegations of voting irregularities in and around Bladen County swirled on Thursday, with the North Carolina Democratic Party calling for an official hearing and a flurry of affidavits surfacing involving absentee ballots.

On the Trump-Mood Beat — But Why?  —  “Let's start with the state of Donald Trump,” Fox News's Chris Wallace said at the outset of the president's latest on-camera interview, on Nov. 17, in the manner of a support-group facilitator pausing for a little check-in before an unpacking of recent events.

Mueller could hit Manafort with retrial, new charges  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller's office is considering retrying former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on a slew of federal charges that resulted in a hung jury over the summer.  —  At a hearing in federal court Friday morning …

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Raids Home Of Whistleblower On Clinton Foundation, Lawyer Says  — The FBI raided the home of a whistleblower who was in possession of documents regarding the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One, according to the whistleblower's lawyer, Michael Socarras.

GOP governors call out Trump after midterm drubbing  —  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Republican governors are warning President Donald Trump that he and the GOP need to make a sharp course correction after their midterm shellacking to avoid losing again in 2020.  —  While the president has hailed …

DC clerk stalls marriage over ‘foreign’ New Mexico ID card  —  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A District of Columbia clerk and a supervisor refused to accept a New Mexico man's state driver's license as he sought a marriage license because she and her supervisor believed New Mexico was a foreign country.

Franken Wades Into A Comeback In The #MeToo Era  —  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Nearly a year after he resigned his U.S. Senate seat amid sexual misconduct allegations, Al Franken is testing whether he can make a comeback in the #MeToo era.  —  The former “Saturday Night Live” …

Landlord Tells Harvard Student to Move Out Over Legally Owned Guns  —  A Massachusetts landlord told a Harvard University graduate student that he wanted her to move out of her apartment because her legally owned firearms made some of her roommates uncomfortable.

EPA watchdog clears former policy chief Samantha Dravis of charges she skipped work  —  Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.) had demanded the inquiry in March, suggesting she did not perform her duties for three months.  —  The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general concluded …

FCPA  —  Small point in the rapidly unfolding batches of information about the Trump campaign's dealing with Russia in the summer of 2016.  There's this thing called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).  The gist of it is that American business people can't bribe people abroad to do business overseas.