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TMZ.com:
Michael Avenatti Arrested for Felony Domestic Violence, Confident He'll Be Exonerated  —  Michael Avenatti — Arrested for Felony Domestic Violence ... I'll Be ‘Fully Exonerated’  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  5:50 PM PT — Avenatti bailed out and held a brief news conference, saying, “I have never struck a woman.
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Claudia Rosenbaum / BuzzFeed News:
Stormy Daniels' Attorney Michael Avenatti Has Been Arrested On Suspicion Of Domestic Violence  —  LOS ANGELES — Michael Avenatti, the attorney representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her legal pursuit of President Trump, has been arrested on suspicion of domestic violence in Los Angeles, police confirmed.
Ryan Parker / Hollywood Reporter:
Michael Avenatti Arrested For Suspected Felony Domestic Violence  —  A report for the alleged abuse was filed Tuesday.  —  Michael Avenatti was arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence on Wednesday, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.  —  A report for the alleged abuse was filed Tuesday …
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Official: Michael Avenatti in Los Angeles police custody
Discussion: Breitbart
Los Angeles Times:
Michael Avenatti arrested by LAPD on suspicion of domestic violence
Anna Schecter / NBC News:
Exclusive text messages show Roger Stone and friend discussing WikiLeaks plans  —  “Big news Wednesday ... Hillary's campaign will die this week,” Randy Credico appears to have texted Stone six days before WikiLeaks email dump.  —  Six days before WikiLeaks began releasing Hillary Clinton …
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Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Probes Possible Witness Intimidation by Roger Stone  —  Former Trump adviser angry that radio personality Randy Credico denies being WikiLeaks conduit  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office is exploring whether longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone tried to intimidate and discredit …
New York Times:
Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook's Leaders Fought Through Crisis  —  Sheryl Sandberg was seething.  —  Inside Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, top executives gathered in the glass-walled conference room of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.  It was September 2017 …
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Insanity,” “Furious,” “On His Own”: Trump's Post-Midterms Blues Are Vexing His Staff and Roiling the White House  —  He's lashing out at aides and press and foreign leaders, and threatening to roll West Wing heads—but at least he didn't get his hair wet at the Belleau Wood memorial.
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CNN:
Trump's mood takes a foul turn: 'He's pissed — at damn near everyone'  —  Washington (CNN)A political clobbering, bickering aides and now a public grenade launched across the White House by the first lady have placed President Donald Trump in a position he loathes: backed into a corner.
Washington Post:   A White House aide picked a fight with Melania Trump. The first lady won.
Benny Johnson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: President Trump Calls For Brenda Snipes To Be Fired  —  President Donald Trump believes that the embattled Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes is a “disgrace” and that she should be fired and removed from office.  —  President Trump spoke to The Daily Caller in an exclusive …
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Sabrina Eaton / Plain Dealer:
Rep. Marcia Fudge weighing a bid for House Speaker  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Warrensville Heights Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge says she's considering challenging California Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi for House Speaker.  —  Fudge said she does not believe Pelosi has enough votes to win the job …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The #FiveWhiteGuys Are Offering a Sucker's Bet to Anti-Pelosi Democrats  —  There is no need for any of this.  —  The battle for the leadership of the incoming Democratic majority in the House of Representatives is already a mess.  This is not necessarily a bad thing.
Discussion: Roll Call and Political Wire
Matt Fuller / HuffPost:
Nancy Pelosi's Democratic Foes Prepare To Go Public
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Paul McLeod / BuzzFeed News:
Mitch McConnell Just Blocked A Bipartisan Bill To Protect Robert Mueller  —  WASHINGTON — A bill that would make it harder for President Donald Trump to remove special counsel Robert Mueller was rejected on the floor of the Senate Tuesday.  —  Republican Sen. Jeff Flake and Democratic …
Discussion: Vox, Hot Air and twitchy.com
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Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Republican senator threatens to vote against judges after GOP blocks vote on Mueller protection bill
Discussion: Splinter
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
Don't Forget Impeachment; It Must Be On The Table
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Flake says he'll oppose judicial nominees until Mueller bill gets vote
Discussion: Townhall and Breitbart
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
In non-satirical piece, McConnell stresses virtues of bipartisanship
Discussion: Washington Post, Hmm Daily and Townhall
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
MacArthur loses New Jersey House race to Democratic challenger Andy Kim  —  Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) lost his seat to Democratic challenger Andy Kim on Wednesday, resulting in a near-wipeout for the GOP in the state, The Associated Press reported.  —  With MacArthur's loss …
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
N.J. Democrat Defeats Trump Ally, Leaving the State With Just 1 Republican in Congress
Discussion: The Week
Washington Post:
Whitaker's unusual path to Justice Department included owning day-care center, trailer maker and concrete supplier  —  He was a local lawyer in Iowa who rose to become one of the most important figures in the nation's capital.  But Matthew G. Whitaker's path to the top of the Justice Department was decidedly offbeat.
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Walter M. Shaub Jr / Slate:
This Is the Saturday Night Massacre
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
‘He was yelling’: Whitaker pushed back against early fraud complaints about company he advised  —  Acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker received early warnings that customers were complaining that an invention-marketing company he advised might be a fraud, according to several people familiar …
Discussion: Mother Jones, Splinter and Jezebel
New York Times:
In Florida Recount, Sloppy Signatures May Disqualify Thousands of Votes  —  RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — The nuns at Zina Rodriguez's Catholic school in the Bronx thwacked her knuckles to punish sloppy handwriting, so she was shocked when her mail-in ballot in Florida was rejected because her signature …
CNN:
Judge in CNN v. Trump case says he will rule on Thursday  —  Washington (CNN)The first hearing in CNN and Jim Acosta's federal lawsuit against President Trump and several top White House aides ended with the judge saying that he would rule on Thursday.  —  CNN and Acosta are alleging …
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Scott McCartney / Wall Street Journal:
The Best of the Biggest U.S. Airports  —  The first WSJ U.S. Airport Rankings uses 15 metrics to determine which of the 20 largest airports treat travelers better  —  Call it the Mile-High Miracle: Denver International Airport is the best airport in the U.S. in the first-ever Wall Street Journal U.S. Airport Rankings.
Vera Bergengruen / BuzzFeed News:
Mattis Visited The Troops Deployed To The Border And They Had Some Questions For Him  —  “Sir, I have a question.  The wire obstacles that we've implanted along the border...are we going to be taking those out when we leave?”  —  On a visit to US troops on the southern border on Wednesday …
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Splinter and Vox
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Robert Burns / ABC News:
Mattis defends use of military on US-Mexico border
New York Times:
In Florida Recount Fight, Democratic Lawyer Draws Plaudits and Fire  —  WASHINGTON — He has been accused of rigging the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries to thwart Bernie Sanders and facilitating a deluge of big money into politics.  He helped arrange financing for the dossier …
John Bresnahan / Politico:
CBC votes no confidence in Democratic Chair Perez  —  The Congressional Black Caucus passed a vote of no confidence in Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez on Wednesday, the latest sign of lingering bad blood between lawmakers on Capitol Hill and the Democratic Party's top official.
Discussion: Breitbart
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
WATCH: Al Jazeera host corners Trump supporter on president's lies like few American journalists ever have  —  Mehdi Hasan, the host of the show UpFront on Al Jazeera English, tweeted out on Wednesday a video of a recent interview that he conducted with Steven Rogers, an adviser to President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign.
Discussion: HuffPost
Borzou Daragahi / The Independent:
Jamal Khashoggi's killers carried syringes, electro-shock devices and cutting tools as they left Istanbul, says report  —  Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt becomes highest-ranking UK official to meet with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman since killing of Washington Post journalist
Artemisia L / The Wellesley News:
Title IX protects those who Emily Yoffe and Wellesley College disempower  —  Dear President Johnson, Wellesley administration, staff, and faculty; Wellesley community, and friends:  —  On Nov. 14, the Freedom Project plans to host Emily Yoffe — a contributing editor of The Atlantic …
BBC:
‘Too short’ Tom Cruise to be replaced for Jack Reacher reboot  —  Action hero Jack Reacher is to get a reboot for the small screen with a new actor in the lead role after creator Lee Child admitted Tom Cruise, who played him in two films, is too short.  —  In Child's books …
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Rep. Mia Love sues to halt vote count in Salt Lake County  —  Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah) is filing a lawsuit against the Salt Lake County Clerk in a bid to stop the counting of votes until her campaign is allowed to challenge whether signatures on ballot envelopes match those on file …
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
Raccoons drunk on crab apples cause false rabies scare in West Virginia  —  Rabid animals are, of course, no laughing matter.  The rabies virus can infect the central nervous system, resulting in disease and death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
This 31-year-old had had enough.  So she ran.  And won.  —  What finally did it for Kathy Hoffman was watching the confirmation hearing of Betsy DeVos nearly two years ago.  —  Hoffman, then a 31-year-old speech therapist in a suburban Phoenix public school district …
Discussion: New York Times
Anna M. Tinsley / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
‘This is not all of us.’ Call to remove Muslim from post divides Tarrant Republicans  —  There's a clear division in the Tarrant County Republican Party.  —  At a time when many want to focus on the 2020 election, in the wake of this reliably red county turning blue in this year's U.S. Senate race …
 
 
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EU Press Room:
Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland
Discussion: Politico and Bloomberg
Mark Hicks / Detroit News:
Name change eyed for Benjamin Carson High, other Detroit schools
Discussion: TheBlaze and twitchy.com
Arjun Singh Sethi / Washington Post:
The FBI recorded a surge of hate crimes last year. But it undercounted — by a lot.
Vince Cestone / KRON:
Camp Fire: 56 dead, nearly 9,000 homes lost in Butte County wildfire
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Mitt Romney is telling friends he wants seats on the high-profile Senate Finance and Commerce committees
VICE News:
Progressives unseated all 59 Republican judges up for re-election in Houston in the midterms
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
White women saunter around in hoodies to prove Tennessee mall's policy targets black people
Discussion: The Root
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NBC News:
Under Ben Carson, more families live in HUD housing that fails health and safety inspections
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
The Vaporware Presidency  —  Step 1: Propose something ridiculous.
Discussion: The Atlantic
Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:
Vice President Mike Pence confronts Myanmar's Suu Kyi over Rohingya persecution
Discussion: New Republic
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Abrams gains ground as judges order more Georgia votes to be counted
Joy Pullmann / The Federalist:
School Punishes Male Teacher For Refusing To Watch A Naked Girl In The Boys' Locker Room
Discussion: Daily Wire and Townhall
Laura Meckler / Washington Post:
Betsy DeVos set to bolster rights of accused in rewrite of sexual assault rules
Discussion: Common Dreams, Axios and twitchy.com
Michel Rose / Reuters:
France says Trump should have shown ‘decency’ on Paris attacks anniversary
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Conservative Lawyers Say Trump Has Undermined the Rule of Law