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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Five days of fury: Inside Trump's Paris temper, election woes and staff upheaval  —  The president's post-election outbursts during his Paris trip include a testy call with the British prime minister and threats to fire aides.  — Josh Dawsey, Philip Rucker -  · - 1 hour ago -  ·
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Eli Stokols / Los Angeles Times:
Trump, stung by midterms and nervous about Mueller, retreats from traditional presidential duties … For weeks this fall, an ebullient President Trump traveled relentlessly to hold raise-the-rafters campaign rallies — sometimes three a day — in states where his presence was likely to help Republicans on the ballot.
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Staff anger spills over at White House  —  Bottled-up hostility in President Donald Trump's administration flowed to the surface Tuesday during a remarkable 12-hour period following an awkward midterm détente and tense trip to Paris over which the president is still seething.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Conservative Lawyers Say Trump Has Undermined the Rule of Law  —  WASHINGTON — The annual convention of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, has long been a glittering and bustling affair.  In the Trump era, though, the group has become more powerful than ever …
Discussion: Axios
Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
NeverTrump's Billionaire Leftist Benefactors  —  Just hours after Jeff Sessions resigned as attorney general last Wednesday at the president's behest, #TheResistance found its newest target for destruction: Sessions' interim replacement, Matthew Whitaker.  —  Negative coverage …
Discussion: Vox and CNN
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Forget Impeachment. Mueller's Real Threat to Trump Is in 2020.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Reuters:
U.S. Senator Graham says supports Mueller bill, urges vote
Discussion: Splinter and Political Wire
NBC News:   Trump could submit answers to Mueller's questions on Russia this week
The Daily Beast:
Melania Trump Exploits the John Kelly Power Vacuum  —  He was a stately general called in to replace the omnishambles with order.  But since his first day as White House chief of staff, John Kelly's grasp on power in Trumpworld has been tenuous.  —  Now, as Trump enters the back end …
Discussion: Raw Story, Reuters, Political Wire and Vox
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CNN:
In a stunning move, Melania Trump calls for ouster of a top national security aide
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump meddles in McCarthy-Jordan leadership brawl  —  On the eve of Kevin McCarthy's long-awaited defeat of his nemesis, Rep. Jim Jordan, President Donald Trump is jumping into the fray to play peacemaker.  —  Trump has privately urged the House majority leader to strike a deal …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Associated Press:
Whitaker abandoned taxpayer-funded project in Iowa in 2016  —  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — While in private business, acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker walked away from a taxpayer-subsidized apartment-rehabilitation project in Iowa after years of cost overruns, delays and other problems, public records show.
Discussion: Political Wire
NBC News:
With Pelosi, Democrats are stuck between a gavel and a hard place  —  First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.  —  WASHINGTON — Democrats face a dilemma when it comes to Nancy Pelosi's quest to regain the speaker's gavel next year.
Discussion: Breitbart
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Washington Post:
Scientists acknowledge key errors in study of how fast the oceans are warming  —  A major study claimed the oceans were warming much faster than previously thought.  But researchers now say they can't necessarily make that claim.  —  Scientists behind a major study that claimed the Earth's oceans …
Discussion: CNN and Althouse
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Joshua Emerson Smith / sandiegouniontribune.com:
Climate contrarian uncovers scientific error, upends major ocean warming study
Discussion: Watts Up With That?
Washington Examiner:
Amazon follows the money — to the Swamp  —  THE SWAMP — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won't be the only one setting up home bases in both Queens and the Beltway.  The bartender-turned-congresswoman- elect will be joined by the world's richest man: Jeff Bezos.  Bezos's retail giant Amazon announced Tuesday …
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Veronique De Rugy / National Review:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Right about Amazon's Corporate Welfare
Nathan Bomey / USA Today:
Was Amazon's headquarters search ‘a giant ruse’? NYC, D.C. centers of power prevail
New York Times:
A Week After the Midterms, Trump Seems to Forget the Caravan  —  WASHINGTON — For weeks before the midterm elections, President Trump warned ominously about the threat from a caravan of migrants streaming from Central America toward Mexico's border with the United States.
Washington Post:
D.C. man arrested on gun charge after relatives alert police to his alleged white nationalist outbursts  —  A D.C. man who described himself as a white nationalist to law enforcement officers and became a follower on social media of the accused Pittsburgh synagogue shooter has been arrested …
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HuffPost:   DC Neo-Nazi Who Called Pittsburgh Murders A ‘Dry Run’ Arrested; Has Deep Ties To ‘Alt Right’
Mitch McConnell / Fox News:
Will Dems work with us, or simply put partisan politics ahead of the country?  —  Last Tuesday I was proud to see that the American people voted keep Republicans in control of the U.S. Senate.  But we also learned that, come January, the Republican Senate majority will be dealing with a House …
Discussion: Mediaite and HuffPost
Charles Stewart III / Washington Post:
Why we're still waiting for election results from Florida and Georgia — and why newly counted ballots favor Democrats  —  It's been a week since Election Day, and we're still awaiting results from Florida and Georgia, where nationally prominent races are too close to call.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Marco Rubio, Trumpified  —  The Florida senator is promoting false conspiracy theories for partisan gain.  —  Senator Marco Rubio wasn't very pleased with yesterday's edition of this newsletter.  —  “Left wing commentators have no shame just making things up,” he tweeted, along with a link to the newsletter.
Discussion: Mother Jones and Florida Politics
Los Angeles Times:
Democrat Katie Porter overtakes GOP Rep. Mimi Walters in Orange County House ballot count  —  After clinging for a week to a slim lead in her run for reelection, Republican Rep. Mimi Walters fell 261 votes behind her Democratic challenger, Katie Porter, as Orange County's latest ballot count …
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along With Stock Price  —  Employee surveys show weaker optimism about future, confidence in platform's mission  —  Facebook Inc.'s FB .43% difficult year is taking a toll on employee morale, with several key measures of internal sentiment taking a sharp turn …
Discussion: Hot Air
Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
In Crystal City, news of Amazon's arrival inspires yearnings for a facelift  —  To the legions of motorists who pass by every day on their way to Washington and beyond, Crystal City is a thicket of high-rises that look about as inviting as rows of oversized filing cabinets.
Discussion: New Republic
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Meet the Native American Woman Who Beat the Sponsor of North Dakota's ID Law  —  In the end, the Native American tribes of North Dakota could not save their preferred candidate, Senator Heidi Heitkamp, from a double-digit loss.  —  But, galvanized by anger over the state's voter ID law …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Chris Megerian / Los Angeles Times:
Adam Schiff wants ‘comity’ for the House Intelligence Committee.  It won't be easy. … As midterm election results rolled in on Nov. 6, Rep. Adam B. Schiff was at the rooftop patio of the Burbank Bar & Grille “trying to exorcise the ghost of two years ago,” when he watched Hillary Clinton lose …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Palm Beach machines overheat, miss recount votes  —  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on Florida's election recount (all times local):  —  The Palm Beach County elections supervisor says aging equipment has overheated, causing mismatched results in the recount of ballots in Florida's U.S. Senate race.
Erin McGroarty / Fairbanks Daily News-Miner:
Latest ballot count puts two Democrats ahead of GOP candidates in Fairbanks legislative races … Democratic candidates for Senate District A Scott Kawasaki, left, and House District 1 Kathryn Dodge, right, watch as question ballots are tallied at the Fairbanks Division of Elections downtown Tuesday afternoon, November 13, 2018.
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Inside Georgia's secret bid for Amazon's second headquarters  —  A state-funded academy to train Amazon's employees.  An exclusive lounge - with free parking - at the world's busiest airport.  An Amazon-dedicated car on MARTA.  And more than $2 billion worth of publicly-funded incentives.
Dan Crenshaw / Washington Post:
SNL mocked my appearance.  Here's why I didn't demand an apology.  —  Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, is a Republican representative-elect from Texas.  —  The past couple of weeks have been unusual for me, to say the least.  After a year of hard campaigning for Congress in Texas …
Discussion: HuffPost
Ashe Schow / Daily Wire:
462 Financial Journalists Were Asked Their Political Leanings.  Guess How Many Said They Were Conservative.  —  Just about everything you would assume about journalists covering the financial industry is true, according to a new study.  —  Scholars from Arizona State University and Texas …
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Key ‘resistance’ group plots how newly elected reps can take on Trump — and House Democratic leaders  —  “Indivisible,” which organized protests around the country against the president, has written a ‘how-to’ guide for a progressive agenda in Congress.  —  WASHINGTON — Indivisible …
Discussion: Indivisible
Jennifer Senior / New York Times:
I Take Back My Praise of Jeff Flake's Book  —  He's a class act with a faint heart.  —  At some point or another, all book critics agonize over whether they've taken the wrong measure of a book.  They've overpraised; they've underpraised; they've dwelled too long on imperfections that hardly deserved the molecular scrutiny.
Associated Press:
In Yemen, a race to save a boy from al-Qaida and a US drone  —  ATAQ, Yemen (AP) — Al-Qaida was giving away motorcycles up in the mountains — that's what the kids in town were saying the day Abdullah disappeared.  —  Early that morning, Mohsanaa Salem woke her 14-year-old son to go buy vegetables.
David R. Lurie / Slate:
CNN Will Win Its Lawsuit to Have Jim Acosta's White House Press Pass Restored  —  On Tuesday morning, CNN announced it has filed suit against the Trump administration, arguing that the revocation of Jim Acosta's White House credentials “violates CNN and Acosta's First Amendment rights of freedom of the press …
Discussion: Vox, Bloomberg, Axios and The Atlantic
Emily Jashinsky / The Federalist:
VIDEO: Ohio State Protesters Chant 'John McCain's Dead' Outside Ben Shapiro Lecture  —  Students put on a shameful display Tuesday at Ohio State University, where conservative commentator Ben Shapiro appeared as part of his campus lecture tour.  Leftist protesters who gathered outside the doors …
Popular Information:
After lynching comments, Google donates $5000 to Cindy Hyde-Smith  —  U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) was caught on tape “joking” about her willingness to attend a lynching at a campaign event in November.  “If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row,” Hyde-Smith said on November 2.
 
 
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Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Top Census Scientist's Testimony Casts Doubt On Motives For Study On Citizenship Question
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Diversity as a Second Job
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
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Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg:
GOP to Pick Another Cheney to Help Party Find a Winning Message
Discussion: Political Wire
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
A Week After the Election, Democratic Gains Grow Stronger
Discussion: Hot Air
Alex Barasch / Variety:
Robert De Niro Bashes Trump Again: ‘Down With This Motherf—er!’
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Emma Dumain / The State:
Detractors using racial ‘dog whistle’ tactics in House leadership race, Clyburn says
Discussion: American Thinker
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Marco Rubio / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Is Right About Nationalism
John Harwood / CNBC:
A week later it's clear the midterms did produce a blue wave …
Ted Hesson / Politico:
Trump considers tough-talking former ICE director for DHS chief