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9:40 AM ET, November 13, 2018

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Washington Post:
Trump is preparing to remove Kirstjen Nielsen as Homeland Security secretary, aides say  —  President Trump has told advisers he has decided to remove Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, and her departure from the administration is likely to occur in the coming weeks, if not sooner …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN sues President Trump and top White House aides for barring Jim Acosta  —  New York (CNN)CNN is filing a lawsuit against President Trump and several of his aides, seeking the immediate restoration of chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta's access to the White House.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Welcome back ... Trump wants to oust DHS Secretary Nielsen
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Whitaker's Appointment as Acting Attorney General Faces Court Challenge  —  WASHINGTON — In the days since President Trump ousted Attorney General Jeff Sessions and declared that he was installing Matthew G. Whitaker as the acting attorney general, many critics have challenged Mr. Whitaker's fitness for the job.
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
State of Maryland asks judge to declare Rosenstein acting attorney general  —  Trump bypassed Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who is overseeing the special counsel investigation, in favor of Matt Whitaker for acting AG.  —  WASHINGTON — The state of Maryland plans to ask a federal judge …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Whitaker's appointment as acting attorney general is unlawful, Maryland says
Discussion: USA Today
Politico:
Whitaker consulting ‘ethics officials’ on possible recusal from Mueller probe
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
New York Times:
‘Tell Your Boss’: Recording Is Seen to Link Saudi Crown Prince More Strongly to Khashoggi Killing  —  ‘Tell Your Boss’: Recording Is Seen to Link Saudi Crown Prince to Khashoggi Killing  — Shortly after the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed last month at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul …
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Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Picks New York City, Northern Virginia for Its HQ2 Locations  —  E-commerce giant is expected to make announcement on HQ2 cities as soon as Tuesday  —  New York City and Northern Virginia will be the homes for Amazon.com Inc.'s AMZN -4.41% second and third headquarters …
Robert Reich / American Prospect:
Amazon and America's Real Divide  —  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks at The Economic Club of Washington.  —  While America was fixated on the most tumultuous midterm election in modern history, Amazon reportedly decided that its much-vaunted “second headquarters” would be split between Long Island City …
Washington Post:
Amazon HQ2 decision: Amazon splits prize between Crystal City and New York
Karen Weise / New York Times:
Amazon Chooses Queens and a Washington Suburb for ‘Second Headquarters’
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Ricochet:
5 Reasons Why Sinema Won Arizona  —  Jon Gabriel, Ed.  —  Outsiders think of Arizona as one of the reddest states.  From Barry Goldwater to anti-immigration hawks like Sheriff Joe Arpaio, our most famous politicians tend to be Republicans.  But traditionally, Arizona is rather purple and regularly features tight statewide elections.
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Simon Romero / New York Times:
Kyrsten Sinema Declared Winner in Arizona Senate Race  —  PHOENIX — Representative Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat and former social worker, scored a groundbreaking victory in the race for a Senate seat in Arizona, defeating her Republican opponent after waging a campaign in which she embraced …
Arizona Republic:
Sinema vs. McSally … Democrat Kyrsten Sinema's unbreakable hold on Maricopa County, along with overwhelming support for her from Martha McSally's Tucson-based congressional district, gave her an electoral edge Republicans could not erase in the race for Arizona's open U.S. Senate seat.
Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Federal Judge Delays Certification of Georgia Election Results  —  ATLANTA — A federal judge on Monday ordered a delay in the certification of Georgia's election results, citing concerns about the state's voter registration system and the handling of provisional ballots.
Discussion: HuffPost and Common Cause
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge orders review of provisional ballots in Georgia election
Discussion: Political Wire and Daily Kos
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia secretary of state tells election officials to count absentee ballots
Discussion: Raw Story and Splinter
Emily Sullivan / NPR:
Police Fatally Shoot Black Security Guard Who Detained Shooting Suspect  —  When police arrived after reports of a shooting over the weekend at a bar outside Chicago, witnesses say Jemel Roberson, a 26-year-old security guard who worked there, had already subdued the alleged assailant, pinning him to the ground.
Discussion: WGN-TV, New York Times and WQAD-TV
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
No ‘blue wave,’ but Democrats' midterm success sinking in  —  NEW YORK (AP) — No it wasn't a blue wave.  But a week after the voting, Democrats are riding higher than they thought on Election Night.  —  As vote counting presses on in several states, the Democrats have steadily chalked …
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Associated Press:
Why wait? Democrats openly flirt with 2020 White House bids
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Axios:
The Trump-GOP 2020 doomsday scenario  —  In private conversations after the midterms, many top Republicans and Democrats said that President Trump seemed to be heading into his 2020 re-election race in a relatively strong position.  —  The big picture: They couldn't be more wrong.
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Pelosi moves aggressively to snuff out challenge to her bid for House speaker  —  House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is moving aggressively to snuff out a challenge from some lawmakers who are demanding new party leadership, while powerful allies outside Congress are helping rally support for her bid for speaker.
Discussion: Power Line and Political Wire
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Pelosi warns against ousting a woman
Washington Post:
How a badly designed ballot might have swayed the election in Florida  —  In Broward County, thousands of ballots didn't include a vote for senator.  That may have been because of how the ballot looked.  —  In the run-up to an election, it's all about getting access to the ballot.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Chalkbeat
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
What's Happening in Florida Is a Nightmare. 2020 Could Be So Much Worse.
John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Dems Priority List Includes Attacks On Free Speech And Gun Rights  —  Election 2018: Democrats took control of the House by talking endlessly about health care.  But it turns out their actual priorities are things that they didn't talk about much on the campaign trail.  Now we know why.
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Asma Khalid / NPR:
A Third Rail No More: Incoming House Democrats Embrace Gun Control
James Fallows / The Atlantic:
Can Marine One Fly in the Rain?  —  Why, exactly, did Donald Trump not join Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, and Justin Trudeau at Saturday's commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the original Armistice Day?  I don't know, and I don't think anyone outside the White House does at this point.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Voters just approved the biggest expansion of the voting franchise in half a century  —  Those of us who participated in the 2000 presidential election are getting political PTSD from the current gubernatorial and senatorial recounts in Florida.  President George W. Bush was eventually declared winner …
Discussion: The Federalist
Adeel Hassan / New York Times:
Photo of More Than 60 Students Giving Apparent Nazi Salute Is Being Investigated  —  Police and school officials in a small town in Wisconsin are investigating a photograph taken last spring of about 60 male high school students, many of them making what appears to be a Nazi salute.
Discussion: NPR, Boing Boing and East Bay Times
Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Death toll rises to 42 in California's Camp Fire, making it the deadliest wildfire ever in the state  —  BREAKING: Death toll rises to 42 in California's Camp Fire, making it the deadliest wildfire ever in the state.  —  PARADISE, Calif. — The thing about Paradise is that people expected to live out their lives here in the hills.
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Washington Post:
U.S. says audio recording of Khashoggi killing does not implicate Saudi crown prince  —  SINGAPORE — U.S. national security adviser John Bolton said Tuesday that an audio recording of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's death inside an Istanbul consulate did not appear to provide any link between …
WFLD:
Kansas City Health Department pours bleach on food meant for homeless people  —  KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI (Fox 32 News) - The Kansas City Health Department threw away and poured bleach on food meant for homeless people.  —  The food was going to be distributed by a group called Free Hot Soup KC.
German Lopez / Vox:
I looked for a state that's taking gun violence seriously.  I found Massachusetts.  —  Massachusetts offers a model for dealing with gun violence that the rest of the country could follow.  —  In New Hampshire, the process for buying a gun is easy — easier than getting a driver's license.
Samuel Earle / New Republic:
Enter Boris?  —  Boris Johnson—former mayor of London, gadfly of the British political establishment, and, most recently, Brexit's cheerleader-in-chief—has a colorful range of rebuttals when asked about his evident desire to be prime minister.  “As I never tire of saying …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Fox News Twitter Account Remains Dark for Fourth Day Over Tucker Carlson Protest  —  Fox News continued its Twitter boycott for a fourth day on Monday in an apparent attempt to protest how the social media platform handled tweets surrounding a recent rally against Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
Deadspin:
This Is All Donald Trump Has Left  —  President Donald Trump often stands near a helicopter on the White House's South Lawn while reporters shout questions at him.  Certain elements of this ritual are the same every time.  The wheedling honk of Trump's voice and the uneasy tilt of his standing …
 
 
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Washington Post:
For Trump, even disaster response is colored in red and blue
New York Times:
Trump Dreams Up Another Immigrant Crisis
Discussion: HuffPost and Front Page Magazine
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Donald Trump knows the true meaning of sacrifice
Discussion: France 24
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
The right lessons and the wrong ones from 2018
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike Gallagher / The Atlantic:
How to Salvage Congress
Remy Smidt / BuzzFeed News:
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Discussion: Salon and Washington Post
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Midterms Point to Reshaped Map for 2020 Presidential Campaign
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US analysts locate secret North Korean missile sites
New York Times:
Bipartisan Sentencing Overhaul Moves Forward, but Rests on Trump
Don Thompson / Associated Press:
Democrats Gain Veto-Proof Majority in California Legislature
New York Times:
Facebook Failed to Police How Its Partners Handled User Data
Jack Crowe / National Review:
Kat Timpf Chased Out of Brooklyn Bar
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