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11:00 AM ET, November 19, 2018

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Ron Chernow / WHCA:
WHCA announces acclaimed author Ron Chernow as featured speaker for 2019 dinner  —  The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) is pleased to announce that Ron Chernow, one of the most eminent biographers of American presidents and statesmen, will be the featured speaker at its annual dinner on Saturday, April 27, 2019.
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN asks for emergency hearing after Trump threatens to revoke Acosta's press pass again  —  (CNN)The White House has issued a new warning to CNN's Jim Acosta, saying his press pass could be revoked again at the end of the month.  —  In response, CNN is asking the U.S. District Court for another emergency hearing.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump targets Acosta ouster — again  —  After a federal court ruling on Friday restored the White House press pass of CNN's Jim Acosta, the West Wing moved almost immediately to once again contest his access, sources involved in the negotiations tell me.  —  What's happening …
Discussion: Politico, RedState and twitchy.com
Axios:
Next year's White House Correspondents' dinner will not feature a comedian
Anthony Man / Sun-Sentinel:
Brenda Snipes submits resignation as Broward elections supervisor  —  Broward Supervisor of Elections Dr. Brenda C. Snipes waves goodbye to the media, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018, at the Broward Supervisor of Elections office in Lauderhill.  Broward County reported their recount results with 52 minutes to spare Sunday.
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Politico:
DID BRENDA KILL BILL?  — DeSantis, Scott win (again) — Fraud probe puts Fla. Dems on defense — The lone Democrat: Nikki Fried  —  Good Monday morning.  The 12 post-Election Days are over.  The counts, machine recounts and hand recounts are finished.  All that's left is the ceremonial certification …
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
'He's evolving': Once a sunny conservative, Rubio goes all-in on Trumpism
Discussion: Political Wire, Splinter and Axios
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Book Offers Firsthand Account of a Venomous Den Inside the White House  —  A firsthand account of the tumult inside President Trump's White House is scheduled to be published in January, the latest in a string of books that seek to decipher his unprecedented presidency.
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump's pattern of insulting war heroes continues with commander of bin Laden raid  —  THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump's insults of war heroes and military families who criticize him are a feature, not a bug, of his presidency.  —  Bill McRaven, a retired Navy SEAL …
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CNN:
Architect of bin Laden raid: Trump ‘threatens the Constitution’ when he attacks the media
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
3 takeaways from Trump's testy Fox News interview
Discussion: CNN, IJR and New Republic
Washington Post:
Trump's attack on retired admiral who led bin Laden raid escalates a war of words
David Siders / Politico:
'He's Barack Obama, but white': Beto O'Rourke blows up the 2020 Democratic primary  —  Sparked by his narrow defeat in a Texas Senate race, Beto O'Rourke is scrambling the 2020 presidential primary field, freezing Democratic donors and potential campaign staffers in place as they await word of his plans.
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
A $12 Billion Program to Help Farmers Stung by Trump's Trade War Has Aided Few  —  WASHINGTON — America's farmers have been shut out of foreign markets, hit with retaliatory tariffs and lost lucrative contracts in the face of President Trump's trade war.  But a $12 billion bailout program …
Discussion: Raw Story and Wonkette
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Why Democrats Should Not Call the Georgia Governor's Race “Stolen”  —  There are three important reasons to cool this rhetoric, despite Brian Kemp's odious voter suppression efforts.  —  Many Democrats are understandably angry about efforts to suppress the vote in Georgia and elsewhere in the 2018 midterm elections.
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Weekly Standard:
Phantom Voter Suppression in Georgia
Discussion: CNN and The Resurgent
The Daily Beast:
Senate Democrats Sue To Block Matt Whitaker From Serving as Attorney General  —  This is now the second legal action seeking to stop the now-acting AG from serving any longer  —  A group of Senate Democrats is suing to block Matt Whitaker from serving as acting attorney general on grounds …
Discussion: Axios, CNN and Raw Story
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Anti-vaccination stronghold in N.C. hit with state's worst chickenpox outbreak in 2 decades  —  Chickenpox has taken hold of a school in North Carolina where many families claim religious exemption from vaccines.  —  Cases of chickenpox have been multiplying at the Asheville Waldorf School …
Discussion: KARE-TV, Raw Story, KFOR-TV and myfox8.com
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Trump's Lies Are a Virus, and News Organizations Are the Host  —  The news media today face an epistemic crisis: how to publish the president's commentary without amplifying his fabrications and conspiracy theories.  —  One flashpoint came several weeks ago, when President Donald Trump told Axios reporters …
Kari Paul / MarketWatch:
Amazon HQ2 could push 800 people into homelessness, economist says  —  Amazon's HQ2 is slated to bring 25,000 well-paying jobs to both New York City and Crystal City, but it's also expected to push rents and home prices upward.  That side effect has advocates for the homeless and hungry worried.
Zachary Warmbrodt / Politico:
Maxine Waters wants to investigate Trump, but her party may resist  —  Rep. Maxine Waters is running into an unexpected obstacle in her bid to investigate a president who has mocked her as a “low IQ person”: members of the California Democrat's own party.  —  Waters, the incoming chairwoman …
Yochai Benkler / Just Security:
Prosecuting Wikileaks, Protecting Press Freedoms: Drawing the Line at Knowing Collaboration with a Foreign Intelligence Agency  —  The inadvertent disclosure of the likely existence of a sealed indictment against Julian Assange raises the question of what the constitutional implications of such an indictment might be.
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Elijah Cummings endured two painful years.  Soon he'll be more powerful than ever.  —  When the word of the Lord came to Elijah, it arrived on a slip of paper tucked in a stranger's bra.  —  In 2017, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings had been laid up in a Johns Hopkins hospital bed for two months …
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 …
Andrew Malcolm / Hot Air:
So What Do You Think: Hijabs In Congress?  —  Elections do, indeed, have consequences.  —  And one of the most interesting and perhaps controversial consequences of Nancy Pelosi and Democrats being elected to take control of the House of Representatives come January is their planned rules change …
Alex Thompson / Politico:
2020 Democrats go all-in on ‘identity politics’  —  Democrats thinking about running for president in 2020 are dramatically changing the way the party talks about race in Donald Trump's America: Get ready to hear a lot more about intersectionality, allyship, inclusivity and POC.
Discussion: Splinter
The Library of Congress:
Today in History - November 19  —  Gettysburg Address  —  On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the close of ceremonies dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  Honoring a request to offer a few remarks, Lincoln memorialized …
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
‘The man behind the curtain’: Interior's No. 2 helps drive Trump's agenda  —  David Bernhardt, deputy secretary of the Department of Interior, had just left McDonald's on his way to work last year when he started choking on his breakfast burrito.  —  His 2017 white Jeep Wrangler careened …
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
The United States Is Becoming a Two-Tiered Country With Separate and Unequal Voting Laws  —  But the midterms showed that voting rights may finally be a political winner. … Phoebe Einzig-Roth, an 18-year-old freshman at Atlanta's Emory University, moved to Georgia in August and was excited to vote in her first election.
Washington Post:
Right of return or time to move on?  —  The do-it-yourself tattoo on Jihad al-Qassim's arm shows a faded outline of Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque, a brand from decades ago signifying a teenage hope to return to the land his family fled.  —  But now, at age 49, his yearning is to get out and go anywhere.
Axios:
Exclusive poll: America sours on social media giants  —  Silicon Valley has a big and growing problem: Americans have rising concerns with its most popular products and a growing majority wants big social media companies regulated, according to new poll conducted by Survey Monkey for “Axios on HBO.”
Discussion: CNBC
FiveThirtyEight:
No, Democrats Didn't Win The Senate.  But They Did Better Than It Seems.  —  The 2018 election has become a tale of divided government: the House broke for Democrats, but the Senate held for Republicans — and what's more, Republicans were even able to expand their majority in the Senate.
 
 
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James Kirchick / Tablet Magazine:
The Truth About George Soros
Matthew Sedacca / New York Times:
Better Local Journalism, by Local Reporters, Is the Goal of a New Database
Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
Thomas Farr Devised Ways to Keep Blacks From Voting. Mitch McConnell Wants to Make Him a Judge.
Washington Post:
From dire warnings to happy talk: Trump changes his tune after the midterms
Jacopo Barigazzi / Politico:
EU ministers back Brexit divorce deal
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Why bring a bonesaw to a kidnapping, Your Highness?
Discussion: VICE News, Axios and The Daily Caller
Julian Lee / Bloomberg:
The Oil Price Is Now Controlled By Just Three Men
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
‘Takes all of the oxygen out’: Trump further divides political map for 2020
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
'If We Pass Medicare for All, I'm Going to Be Silent as a Lamb'
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:
The Dueling Deities of Harvard
Caitlin Gibson / Washington Post:
40 years ago, this journalist survived the Jonestown massacre. He warns it could happen again.
Des Moines Register:
EXCLUSIVE: How Trump administration pressure to dump 4-H's LGBT policy led to Iowa leader's firing
Doug Saunders / Globe and Mail:
Canada's brain-injured Cuba diplomats speak out about Ottawa's silence
Lizzie Johnson / San Francisco Chronicle:
A fire, a newborn baby and a pact: Tales of survival from Paradise
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Why the blood of a 1955 Mississippi murder drenches today's U.S. Senate race
 

 
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic is profitable, has 1M subscribers, and revenue grew 10% in 2023 thanks to a 50% price hike, a harder paywall, and a shift to in-depth reporting

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

New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

 
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