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Christina Tkacik / Baltimore Sun:
Man shouts ‘Heil Hitler, Heil Trump’ during intermission of Baltimore performance of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’  —  The audience reacts after a man interrupts the “Fiddler on the Roof” performance at the Hippodrome Theatre.  (Video courtesy of Rich Scherr)  —  A man shouted a pro-Nazi …
NBC News:
White House weighs booting Erdogan foe from U.S. to appease Turkey  —  “Once they realized it was a serious request, the career guys were furious,” a U.S. official said of request tied to Khashoggi killing.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House is looking for ways to remove an enemy …
Discussion: Axios, New Republic and Political Wire
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Kareem Fahim / Washington Post:
Saudi Arabia seeks death penalty for five suspects in killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi  —  ISTANBUL — Saudi Arabia said Thursday it has indicted 11 people in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month and that it is seeking the death penalty against five …
Washington Post:
Federal judge gives Florida voters until Saturday to correct signature problems roiling close races  —  TALLAHASSEE — Florida's historic recount was thrown once more into uncertainty Thursday when a federal judge ruled that voters whose mail-in and provisional ballots were rejected …
Discussion: miamiherald, TheBlaze and Axios
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Ana Ceballos / Naples Daily News:
Florida Dems planned to use altered forms to fix mail ballots across state after deadline  —  Senator Bill Nelson has called for a recount.  Do the vote margins in his race against Rick Scott call for one?  —  CONNECT  —  TALLAHASSEE — A day after Florida's election left top state races …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Harry Enten / CNN:
Bill Nelson needs a miracle in Florida. It likely won't come.
Discussion: Townhall, Breitbart and Politico
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Becomes Twitter Laughingstock Over ‘Envy Of The World’ Boast  —  “Take it from an outsider: we feel sorry for Americans.”  —  Donald Trump on Thursday sought to stifle media reports that his administration is engulfed “in chaos” and “in meltdown” by claiming that the U.S. under his presidency was “the envy of the world.”
Discussion: Mediaite, Townhall and Daily Wire
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump renews attacks on Mueller investigation after midterms  —  President Trump renewed his attacks on the credibility of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation in a series of Thursday morning tweets, using his oft-repeated refrain of “WITCH HUNT.”  —  The inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess.
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.
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 …
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Alex Shephard / New Republic:
Facebook Betrayed America
Tasneem Nashrulla / BuzzFeed News:
A Top George Soros Aide Called For An Independent Investigation Of Facebook's Lobbying And PR
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Breitbart and Mashable
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi says she has the votes to become the next House speaker  —  An unbowed House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) insisted Thursday that she has the votes to become the chamber's speaker despite solid opposition from more than a dozen Democrats who want fresh leadership …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Democratic Rep. Fudge says she's ‘overwhelmed’ by support as she weighs speaker bid  —  Rep. Marcia L. Fudge said on Thursday that she has been “overwhelmed” by the support from many of her colleagues for her possible entry into the race for House speaker, becoming the first Democrat …
The Hill:
Insurgents seek female challenger to replace Pelosi
Discussion: Politico and RedState
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Matt Naham / Law & Crime:
Is a Storm Brewing? The Likely Reason Trump Chose Now to Trash the Mueller Probe All Over Again
USA Today:
Whitaker will break public trust and federal law if he controls Mueller investigation
The Daily Beast:
Even Trump Can't Stop Mocking Sean Hannity's ‘Dumb’ Softball Questions  —  Trump craves friction to set off sparks and drama.  Hannity's slobbering extinguishes them.  —  Donald Trump's close relationship—on air and off—with Sean Hannity hasn't stopped the president from mocking …
The Trace:
The NRA Has Killed Free Coffee for Employees  —  The National Rifle Association is doing away with free coffee and water coolers for employees at its Fairfax, Virginia, headquarters — a cost-cutting move that has NRA insiders “freaking out,” The Trace has learned.
Discussion: Splinter
The Daily Beast:
Navy SEALs, Marines Charged With Green Beret Logan Melgar's Murder  —  The victim allegedly discovered SEALs in Mali were stealing money from an informant fund and soliciting prostitutes.  —  The military has formally charged two Navy SEALs and two special-forces Marines in one of the most grisly cases …
Discussion: USNI News
Axios:
The warning signs for Republicans ahead of 2020  —  With changing demographics across the country and waning support in the Midwest, President Trump and the GOP could face a tough slog in the 2020 presidential election, according to Doug Sosnik, a White House adviser to President Bill Clinton …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Demographic shifts and Trump effect move southern states into 2020 toss-up territory
Discussion: Political Wire
NBC 10 Philadelphia:
NJ Couple and Homeless Man in GoFundMe Controversy Accused of Making Up Story, Source Says  —  Mark D'Amico, Kate McClure and Johnny Bobbitt will face charges including conspiracy and theft by deception, according to the source.  —  NJ Couple and Homeless Man to Be Charged With Lying About GoFundMe Story
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NBC News:
Homeless man and N.J. couple concocted story for GoFundMe fundraiser, complaint says
Discussion: fox13now.com
TMZ.com:
Michael Avenatti Arrested for Felony Domestic Violence, Confident He'll Be Exonerated  —  5:50 PM PT — Avenatti bailed out and held a brief news conference, saying, “I have never struck a woman.  I will never strike a woman.”  He added he's looking forward to the investigation and is confident he'll be “fully exonerated.”
Ben White / Politico:
The looming threat to Trump's booming economy  —  President Donald Trump, already in a grumpy post-midterm mood, faces a growing list of economic problems that could irritate him even more next year.  Chief among them is a withdrawal from the economy's sugar high.
Pete Wells / New York Times:
10 of the Best Pizza Slices in N.Y.C.  —  Pete Wells, our restaurant critic, on old-school pizzerias.  —  Pete Wells, The New York Times's restaurant critic since 2012, eats hundreds and hundreds of meals every year, searching for the best food the city has to offer.
Stephen Castle / New York Times:
Two U.K. Cabinet Ministers, Including Chief Brexit Negotiator, Quit  —  LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain faced a deep political crisis on Thursday after two cabinet ministers quit her government, including Dominic Raab, her chief negotiator on withdrawal from the European Union …
Courtney McBride / Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Nominate Handbag Designer as Ambassador to South Africa  —  Lana Marks is a member of the president's Mar-a-Lago Club  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump intends to nominate Lana Marks, a Palm Beach, Fla.-based handbag designer and a member of Mr. Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club resort, to serve as the U.S. ambassador to South Africa.
Discussion: HuffPost
Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Influential president of Human Rights Campaign stepping down  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Chad Griffin, the influential gay rights activist who helped turn the Human Rights Campaign into a powerful political force, announced Thursday that he is stepping down as the organization's president.
Discussion: Washington Blade
Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
Taxpayers' cost for Trump Jr.'s business trip to India nearly $100K, documents show  —  Donald Trump Jr.'s lavish trip to India to sell his family's luxury condominium projects cost U.S. taxpayers nearly $100,000, documents obtained by The Washington Post show.
Discussion: Jezebel
Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:
Second Trump-Kim summit to go ahead without list of nuclear North Korean weapons, Pence says  —  “It will be absolutely imperative ... that we come away with a plan for identifying all of the weapons in question,” the vice president told NBC News.  —  SINGAPORE — The U.S. will not require North Korea …
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
BuzzFeed News:
Here Are The Most Outrageous Incentives Cities Offered Amazon In Their HQ2 Bids  —  Amazon's competitive search for a location for its second headquarters — dubbed HQ2 — inspired a fierce bidding war.  Dozens of cities across the US offered fantastically shameless incentives in an attempt …
Jason Cherkis / Highline:
The Best Way To Save People From Suicide  —  Over the last few years, nobody, it seems, has been left untouched by suicide.  We wanted to understand why that is.  We also wanted to discover what could be done about it.  That hopeful impulse motivates the story below, the first of two we're running on suicide.
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 …
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Veterans aren't getting their GI Bill payments — because VA's 50-year-old computer system broke  —  Daniel Gorman knows what it's like to return from war, and he wants to help fellow veterans come home, too: The former sailor turned New York National Guardsman is finishing a graduate degree in social work at Fordham University.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
GOP money group prepares opposition research blitz against Mike Bloomberg if he runs for president in 2020  — America Rising is preparing an opposition-research blitz against Bloomberg that would focus on a range of topics, from his close relationships with Wall Street executives to controversial comments he made about women.
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Dailystar.co.uk:
Jacob Rees-Mogg begins COUP against Theresa May with vote of no-confidence over Brexit
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Trump-appointed judge upholds Mueller's indictment against Russian troll farm
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Beto O'Rourke / Beto O'Rourke:
I woke up after a good night's sleep. - Beto O'Rourke - Medium
Kevin Miller / Press Herald:
Golden wins Maine's 2nd District race following historic ranked-choice count
Discussion: Political Wire and Daily Kos
Andrew Siff / NBC New York:
MTA Proposals for Toll, Subway and Commuter Rail Hikes Revealed Ahead of Thursday Board Meeting
Wall Street Journal:
'It's a Crisis of Civilization in Mexico.' 250,000 Dead. 37,400 Missing.
Susan Chira / New York Times:
Banner Year for Female Candidates Doesn't Extend to Republican Women
Discussion: Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Emma Best:
Sealed transcripts show Assange and WikiLeaks solicited hacks against governments, politicians …
Anna Denejkina / Foreign Policy:
In Russia, Feminist Memes Buy Jail Time, but Domestic Abuse Doesn't
Kelsey D. Atherton / New York Times:
Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
U.S. says defendant in Elliott Broidy hacking case has diplomatic immunity
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
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
 

 
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