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Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Trump, without evidence, calls Florida ballots ‘massively infected,’ demands end to recounts  —  Just after returning from his trip to Europe, President Donald Trump on Monday morning turned back to the increasingly bitter battle over recounts in the Senate and governor's races in Florida …
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Kirby Wilson / miamiherald:
In 26 recounts in major races around the nation since 2000, only 3 outcomes changed  —  The races for governor, U.S. Senate and commissioner of agriculture and consumer services are close — even for Florida.  —  But are they so close that a recount is likely to change the result?
Discussion: Associated Press
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump: Florida midterm results “must go with Election Night” ballots
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Vox
New York Times:
In North Korea, Missile Bases Suggest a Great Deception  —  WASHINGTON — North Korea is moving ahead with its ballistic missile program at 16 hidden bases that have been identified in new commercial satellite images, a network long known to American intelligence agencies but left undiscussed …
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Beyond Parallel:
Undeclared North Korea: The Sakkanmol Missile Operating Base
Discussion: Bloomberg and rbc.ru
Sabrina Eaton / Plain Dealer:
Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio is weighing a presidential run  —  WASHINGTON, D. C.  - After comfortably winning re-election to his U.S. Senate seat last week in a state that President Donald Trump won comfortably two years ago, Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is weighing a run for president.
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
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Jessica Wehrman / The Columbus Dispatch:
Sherrod Brown for president?  He's thinking about it  —  Sherrod Brown, speaking hours after an appearance on MSNBC's “Morning Joe,” said regardless of whether he runs, he wants Democrats who are seeking the White House to use lessons from his race as a blueprint for how to run in the industrial Midwest.
David Edwards / Raw Story:
White House confirms Trump will not visit Arlington cemetery on Veterans Day as rain is expected  —  The White House on Monday confirmed that President Donald Trump will not visit Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day.  —  According to Washington Post correspondent Josh Dawsey …
WGN-TV:
Officer shoots, kills armed security guard outside south suburban bar  —  Share Update: … For the latest updates on this story, click here.  —  ROBBINS, Ill. — Witnesses say a Midlothian police officer responding to a shooting inside a south suburban bar shot and killed the wrong person early Sunday morning.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
As Dems consider impeaching Trump, GOP leaders regret pursuing Clinton  —  If Democrats are trying to reassure anyone that they won't impeach President Trump, they're aren't doing a very good job of it.  —  Just days after her party won control of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi made clear …
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Peter Overby / NPR:
Democrats Say Their First Bill Will Focus On Strengthening Democracy At Home  —  Democrats will take control of the U.S. House in January with big items topping their legislative to-do list: Remove obstacles to voting, close loopholes in government ethics law and reduce the influence of political money.
Discussion: Political Wire, Daily Kos and Unfogged
Jason Lewis / Wall Street Journal:
Who Lost The House?  John McCain  —  His July 2017 vote killed ObamaCare repeal and made Democratic lies impossible to refute.  —  The Republican Party lost its House majority on July 28, 2017, when Sen. John McCain ended the party's seven-year quest to repeal ObamaCare.
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Anna Taylor / WJLA-TV:
West Virginia Senator Richard Ojeda announces run for U.S. president
Rick Noack / Washington Post:
Merkel and Macron got along so well in Paris that a 100-year-old woman thought they were married  —  BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron have had their ups and downs.  Each has been declared the new “leader of the free world” after President Barack Obama's term ended.
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Tom Porter / Newsweek:   Trump Confused the Baltics With Balkans—And Accused Confused Leaders of Starting Yugoslav Wars: Report
Steve Cortes / Real Clear Politics:
Macron Misses the Mark on Nationalism
Discussion: Daily Wire, The Hill, CNN and Breitbart
New York Times:
They Were Stopped at the Texas Border.  Their Nightmare Had Only Just Begun.  —  After crossing the Rio Grande, three immigrant women were picked up by a Border Patrol agent.  Their relief soon turned to terror.  —  MCALLEN, Tex. — The Border Patrol agent, she remembers …
Discussion: Jezebel
Shannon K. Crawford / ABC News:
Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, mysteriously arrives in Washington, D.C.  —  Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney and close associate, arrived in Washington, D.C., Monday morning, accompanied by one of his own criminal defense lawyers.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Money troubles: The GOP's problem with cash  —  Mitch McConnell stood before a roomful of Republican donors on Wednesday night to thank them for their help in the midterms.  But the Senate leader also issued a dire warning: Democrats had just thumped them in the all-important online donor game, and the GOP badly needs to catch up.
Discussion: Splinter and Eschaton
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
Kellyanne Conway on Jim Acosta video: 'That's not altered.  That's sped up.  They do it all the time in sports.'  —  Kellyanne Conway doesn't think the controversial video shared by the White House of CNN reporter Jim Acosta refusing to let go of the microphone during President Trump's news conference last week was altered.
Discussion: Mashable, Daily Wire and HuffPost
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Should the Press Boycott Trump? Political Strategists Weigh In
Tasneem Nashrulla / BuzzFeed News:
Baraboo High School Students Did The Nazi Salute In Their Prom Photo And Police Are Investigating  —  A Wisconsin school district and local police are investigating an incident in which male high school students appeared to be doing the Nazi salute in their prom photo.
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Veterans haven't received GI Bill benefits for months due to ongoing IT issues at VA  —  “This is — to be kind — a train wreck,” said Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., the chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs.  —  Shelley Roundtree departed the U.S. Army in 2013 after seeing friends …
Discussion: Hit & Run, POLITICUSUSA and TheBlaze
Kerry Howley / The Cut:
Everyone Believed Larry Nassar The predatory trainer may have just taken down USA Gymnastics.  How did he deceive so many for so long?  —  Larissa Boyce was 10 when her coach, John Geddert, forced her legs into a split so hard she cried.  He pulled her right leg up toward his torso …
Discussion: Boing Boing
Neal Katyal / Washington Post:
The rules are clear: Whitaker can't supervise Mueller's investigation  —  I wrote the special counsel regulations.  We never would have imagined a situation like this.  —  Neal Katyal  is the former acting solicitor general of the United States and presently serves as a partner …
Thomas Adamson / Associated Press:
Trudeau: Canadian intelligence has heard Khashoggi tapes  —  PARIS (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday became the first Western leader to acknowledge his country had heard recordings of the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi.  —  “Canada has been fully briefed …
Vanessa Williams / Washington Post:
Stacey Abrams, still hoping to force a runoff in Georgia governor's race, files a new lawsuit  —  Democrat Stacey Abrams is continuing her fight to force a runoff in the Georgia governor's race and filed a new lawsuit Sunday to block counties from tossing out some absentee and provisional ballots.
Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Will Run Again  —  Reinventing herself as a liberal firebrand, Mrs. Clinton will easily capture the 2020 nomination.  —  Get ready for Hillary Clinton 4.0.  More than 30 years in the making, this new version of Mrs. Clinton, when she runs for president in 2020, will come full circle …
Steve Phillips / New York Times:
Do the Math.  Moderate Democrats Will Not Win in 2020.  —  Learning the right lessons from the midterms is key for the party.  —  Mr. Phillips is the author of “Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority.”  —  Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Jason Samenow / Washington Post:
Yes, some wet snow has a chance to fall in parts of the Washington region Thursday  —  It's only mid-November, but the Washington region will have its first opportunity to see snowflakes between Thursday morning and midday.  Any snow that falls is unlikely to stick but would be an unusual event …
Wall Street Journal:
Palantir Has a $20 Billion Valuation and a Bigger Problem: It Keeps Losing Money  —  The Silicon Valley unicorn, which has been run like a scrappy startup, is under pressure to remake the business ahead of a possible IPO  —  PALO ALTO, Calif.—Palantir Technologies Inc. appears to be a prosperous Silicon Valley spy-software machine.
Ashley Southall / New York Times:
Scholar Who Escaped Nazis Dies After a Push by a Subway Rider in a Rush  —  Among the thousands of commuters traveling through Pennsylvania Station late last month was Kurt Salzinger, a native of Austria who fled the country as the Nazis marched in.  He distinguished himself years later …
Discussion: Raw Story and Gothamist
Washington Post:
Vatican asks U.S. bishops not to vote on their proposals to tackle sexual abuse  —  BALTIMORE—The bishops of America's 196 Catholic dioceses and archdioceses gathered in Baltimore on Monday morning, meeting for the first time since sexual abuse scandals rocked the church in the summer.
tompepinsky.com:
What Happens if Elections Are No Longer Legitimate?  —  Two years ago, just a couple weeks before the 2016 presidential election, I asked what does it look like when citizens don't trust elections? … The answers are not good, and I used the examples of Thailand and Madagascar to make my point.
Discussion: Raw Story
John Ziegler / Mediaite:
Here's What Happened When a Conservative Tried to Convince a Top House Democrat That Trump Should be Impeached  —  We are living in an upside-down world marked by a dangerous new level of division where most of the country has views of reality which are so divergent that it is literally impossible …
 
 
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David Sharp / Associated Press:
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Agence France-Presse:
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Discussion: Daily Wire
Oprah Winfrey / ELLE:
Michelle Obama Is Still Optimistic
Discussion: The Root and AOL
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Trump claims ‘presidential harassment by the Dems’ is weighing on the stock market
Discussion: Mother Jones and Business Insider
Wall Street Journal:
Trial of ‘El Chapo’ Poses Unprecedented Challenges
Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
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NBC News:
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
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Discussion: Political Wire
Amy Harder / Axios:
Climate change is getting too big and divisive to solve
RealClearInvestigations:
The Silence of Mueller's Trump-Russia ‘Canaries’
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Pair survived the Las Vegas massacre. A California shooting took one away.
John Bresnahan / Politico:
'You can't beat somebody with nobody': Pelosi foes struggle to find a leader
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
EyeEm, the bankrupt photo sharing network acquired by Freepik last year, will license users' photos to train AI if the images are not deleted within 30 days

 
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