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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
CBS Miami:
Broward Judge Will NOT Issue Injuction In Rick Scott Motion To Impound Broward Election Equipment & Records
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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
Beyond Parallel:
Undeclared North Korea: Missile Operating Bases Revealed
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.
TMZ.com:
Marvel Comics Legend Stan Lee Dead at 95  —  Stan Lee, the man responsible for much of the Marvel Universe, has died ... Stan's daughter tells TMZ.  —  We're told an ambulance rushed to Lee's Hollywood Hills home early Monday morning and he was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
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Mike Barnes / Hollywood Reporter:   Stan Lee, Marvel Comics' Real-Life Superhero, Dies at 95
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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Byron York / Washington Examiner:   As Dems consider impeaching Trump, GOP leaders regret pursuing Clinton
RealClearInvestigations:   The Silence of Mueller's Trump-Russia ‘Canaries’
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.
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.
Steve Cortes / Real Clear Politics:
Macron Misses the Mark on Nationalism  —  French President Emanuel Macron chose an odd occasion to implicitly lecture an American president over the weekend.  After all, he was commemorating the 100th anniversary of the conclusion of the Great War, when the United States tipped the balance …
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Rick Noack / Washington Post:   Merkel and Macron got along so well in Paris that a 100-year-old woman thought they were married
Tom Porter / Newsweek:   Trump Confused the Baltics With Balkans—And Accused Confused Leaders of Starting Yugoslav Wars: Report
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
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
Mike Allen / Axios:
Democrats load “subpoena cannon” with 85+ Trump targets  —  House Democrats plan to probe every aspect of President Trump's life and work, from family business dealings to the Space Force to his tax returns to possible “leverage” by Russia, top Democrats tell us.
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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
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
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 …
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New York Times:   Saudi Arabia Is Misusing Mecca
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
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
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 …
David Marchese / Vulture:
In Conversation: Alex Trebek The Jeopardy! icon on retirement, his legacy, and why knowledge matters.  —  Alex Trebek, dressed in a chambray shirt and blue jeans, walks into the plushly carpeted, book-lined study of his rambling Los Angeles home and plops down in an easy chair, draping a leg over an armrest.
Discussion: The Week
Aiden Pink / The Forward:
Rep.-Elect Ilhan Omar Backs BDS In New Interview  —  Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar supports the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, her office told the website MuslimGirl on Sunday.  —  “Ilhan believes in and supports the BDS movement, and has fought to make sure people's right to support it isn't criminalized.
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
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.
 
 
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David Sharp / Associated Press:
New way of voting faces test in Maine congressional district
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Meet the New House Democrats: They Could Be a Management Headache
Discussion: Politico
Wall Street Journal:
Palantir Has a $20 Billion Valuation and a Bigger Problem: It Keeps Losing Money
Agence France-Presse:
Crazy in love? The Japanese man ‘married’ to a hologram
Discussion: Daily Wire
Jason Samenow / Washington Post:
Yes, some wet snow has a chance to fall in parts of the Washington region Thursday
Wall Street Journal:
Trial of ‘El Chapo’ Poses Unprecedented Challenges
Vanessa Williams / Washington Post:
Stacey Abrams, still hoping to force a runoff in Georgia governor's race, files a new lawsuit
Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
New York Magazine's Sites Are Going Behind a Paywall
 Earlier Items: 
tompepinsky.com:
What Happens if Elections Are No Longer Legitimate?
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
Democrats had a good showing on Election Day. It's been even better for them since.
Ashley Southall / New York Times:
Scholar Who Escaped Nazis Dies After a Push by a Subway Rider in a Rush
Discussion: Gothamist and Raw Story
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Deval Patrick's Presidential Prospects
Discussion: Political Wire
Amy Harder / Axios:
Climate change is getting too big and divisive to solve
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.'
Discussion: Mashable, Daily Wire and HuffPost
John Bresnahan / Politico:
'You can't beat somebody with nobody': Pelosi foes struggle to find a leader
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump wants no more relief funds for Puerto Rico
 

 
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New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

 
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