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6:35 PM ET, November 18, 2018

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Associated Press:
Finland's president rakes memory for source of Trump remark  —  HELSINKI (AP) — Finland's president isn't sure where U.S. President Donald Trump got the idea that raking is part of his country's routine for managing its substantial forests.  —  Trump told reporters Saturday while visiting …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Ilta-Sanomat:
Trump told Niinistö revealed raking being crucial part of fire prevention in Finland - The Finnish president says he never mentioned raking  —  Donald Trump pointed to Finland as an example of how to better maintain forests, citing president Sauli Niinistö.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Intellectualist
Remy Smidt / BuzzFeed News:   People From Finland Collectively Said “Excuse Me?”  After Trump Said The Country Rakes Its Forest To Prevent Fires
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Finnish president denies ever discussing ‘raking’ with Trump
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Says He's Unlikely to Sit for Interview in Russia Investigation  —  President Trump said in an interview aired Sunday that he most likely would not sit for an interview with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, asserting that “we've wasted enough time on this witch hunt and the answer is, probably, we're finished.”
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Gregg Re / Fox News:
Trump, in exclusive interview, suggests turning off Acosta's camera, reveals Obama's private guidance on greatest threat to the US  —  President Trump, speaking exclusively to Fox News' Chris Wallace in a wide-ranging interview, revealed what President Obama told him was the biggest challenge facing the U.S. …
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump says Whitaker is right about Russia probe and won't sit with Mueller for interview  —  “There is no collusion,” Trump said.  “He happened to be right.  I mean, he said it.”  —  President Donald Trump said acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker is “right” about his criticism …
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump says he wouldn't stop acting attorney general from curtailing Mueller probe
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 11-18-18: Rep. Adam Schiff and Sen. Roy Blunt
Discussion: Politico, Breitbart and POLITICUSUSA
Zachary Warmbrodt / Politico:
Trump: 'I don't know' if Saudi prince lied
Quint Forgey / Politico:
‘Smoking gun’ would help implicate Saudi prince, Senate Republican says
Discussion: Axios and CNN
The Daily Beast:
Trump Claims He ‘Did Not Know’ Whitaker's Views on Russia Probe
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
Adam Schefter / ESPN:
Browns want to interview Condoleezza Rice for head-coaching job  —  Browns general manager John Dorsey said last week that he was open to hiring a woman as Cleveland's next head coach, and one prominent name is on the team's wish list to interview.  —  The Browns would like to interview former Secretary …
Nick Anderson / Washington Post:
Bloomberg gives Johns Hopkins a record $1.8 billion for student financial aid  —  Former New York mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced Sunday he is giving a record $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins University to support student financial aid at his alma mater and make its admissions process “forever need-blind.”
Discussion: Baltimore Sun, New York Times and NPR
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Kimberly Hefling / Politico:
Potential 2020 candidate Bloomberg gives $1.8B to Johns Hopkins  —  Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg — who is weighing a 2020 presidential bid — pledged Sunday to donate $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins University for undergraduate student financial aid — the largest donation ever to a U.S. university.
Discussion: Associated Press
Douglas Belkin / Wall Street Journal:
Michael Bloomberg to Give Johns Hopkins Record $1.8 Billion  —  Potential 2020 presidential candidate wants school to be need-blind to allow more poor and middle-class students to attend  —  Former New York City Mayor and possible 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg …
Los Angeles Times:
California fire: What started as a tiny brush fire became the state's deadliest wildfire.  Here's how … Before there was a spark, there was the wind.  —  On the morning of Nov. 8, as the sun rose over the isolated mountains in the Sierra Nevada, gale-force winds tore through the canyon.
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
‘Nothing on this page is real’: How lies become truth in online America  —  NORTH WATERBORO, Maine — The only light in the house came from the glow of three computer monitors, and Christopher Blair, 46, sat down at a keyboard and started to type.  His wife had left for work and his children …
Paul Sonne / Washington Post:
Trump suggests venerated Navy SEAL commander should have found bin Laden faster  —  President Trump derided retired Adm. William H. McRaven as a “Hillary Clinton fan” and an “Obama backer” and suggested that the venerated former head of U.S. Special Operations Command should have apprehended Osama bin Laden faster.
New York Times:
Tests Showed Children Were Exposed to Lead.  The Official Response: Challenge the Tests  —  For at least two decades, the New York City Housing Authority routinely disputed tests that revealed lead in its apartments.  Private landlords almost never do this.
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
With Facebook at ‘War,’ Zuckerberg Adopts More Aggressive Style  —  New approach causes turmoil, driving several key executives from the company and creating tensions with longtime Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg  —  Mark Zuckerberg gathered roughly 50 of his top lieutenants earlier …
Khorri Atkinson / Axios:
Bill Nelson concedes Florida Senate race to Rick Scott  —  Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson conceded the highly contested Florida Senate race to Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott, according to a statement from Scott.  After rounds of recounts in the state, Scott maintained a lead of about 10,000 votes.
Discussion: ABC News, Breitbart and Washington Post
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Washington Post:
Democrat Bill Nelson concedes to Rick Scott in Florida race for Senate
Discussion: Power Line, NPR and BuzzFeed News
Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal:
No Longer Leading State Senate, Republicans Plan to Go on Attack  —  Leader anticipates battles over property taxes, charter schools, undocumented immigrants and more  —  Republicans in the state Senate, their ranks reduced by almost a third after electoral losses, say their focus will shift …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
How the Democrats Took Back Michigan  —  A Democratic tsunami in the midterms engulfed the state Trump won most narrowly in 2016—and could keep the state blue in 2020.  —  Detroit—gretchen whitmer had her red water bottle with the Wonder Woman logo.  Debbie Stabenow was touching up her makeup.
James Randerson / Politico:
Dominic Raab: Restart Brexit talks and say UK won't be ‘bullied’  —  Britain should reopen Brexit negotiations with the EU and show that it will not be “blackmailed and bullied,” former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said today in an interview with the Sunday Times.
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National Review:   The Brexit Crisis  —  After what seem like years of a phony war …
Stanley B. Greenberg / New York Times:
Trump Is Beginning to Lose His Grip  —  It isn't just white suburban women who switched to Democrats.  Parts of rural and white working class America peeled off too.  —  Mr. Greenberg is a Democratic pollster.  —  America's polarized citizenry took a break from intense partisan bickering …
Discussion: The Mahablog
Ema O'Connor / BuzzFeed News:
“A Separate Standard”: Voters In Florida Say Disability And Age Can Erase Your Vote  —  A man in Florida rendered quadriplegic by multiple sclerosis has had to jump through hoops for years to get his vote counted.  There are many more like him.  —  Reporting From
Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press:
Searchers in California wildfire step up efforts before rain  —  CHICO, Calif. (AP) — Volunteers in white coveralls, hard hats and masks poked through ash-covered debris Sunday, searching for the remains of victims of the devastating Northern California wildfire before rains that are forecast for this week complicate their efforts.
Daily Mail:
The DOG accused of a hate crime after fouling outside a home in just one of 2,500 cases probed over two years  —  We all know it's irritating, unsightly and unhygienic, but one case of dog fouling has been logged by police as a racist hate crime.  —  The incident is among numerous alleged …
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Rise of big cities push Texas to swing-state territory — maybe by 2020  —  SAN ANTONIO — For a quarter century, Republicans have dominated Texas politics so much that the Democratic minority has often been an afterthought.  The big political battles in Austin have been fought between conservative …
 
 
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Democrats seek to turn Hyde-Smith's comments into a surge in black turnout in Mississippi Senate runoff
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Ted Mann / Wall Street Journal:
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New York Times:
The Land That Failed to Fail
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Flat Earth Conference, Where the World's Oldest Conspiracy Theory Is Hot Again
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Et Tu Jim Mattis?
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump considering changes at ‘three or four or five’ Cabinet positions
Discussion: Politico
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
These Americans Are Done With Politics
Discussion: Althouse
Anthony W. Orlando / Washington Post:
Is Trump country really better off under Trump? No. It's falling further behind.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Intellectualist
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was forgotten once, but never again
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Republicans battle to defend Trump from threat of impeachment
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The Obamas are ‘Becoming’ a billion-dollar brand
Erin Cunningham / Washington Post:
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