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12:35 PM 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 …
Politico:
White House says it still plans to revoke access for CNN's Acosta
Axios:
Next year's White House Correspondents' dinner will not feature a comedian
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.
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
TEAM OF VIPERS: Ousted Trump Aide Reportedly Nabs Seven-Figure Advance For White House Tell-All  —  You may not have heard the name Cliff Sims, but that didn't stop a publisher from shelling out SEVEN FIGURES to the former Trump aide for a tell-all book about his time in the White House, the New York Times reports.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
3 takeaways from Trump's testy Fox News interview  —  President Trump sat down this weekend with one of the best interviewers in the business — Chris Wallace — for a segment on “Fox News Sunday.”  —  Wallace pressed Trump on many of the major issues of the day, including Trump's attacks …
Discussion: CNN, IJR, New Republic and Task & Purpose
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Washington Post:
Trump's attack on retired admiral who led bin Laden raid escalates a war of words  —  President Trump has long put the American military at the center of his presidential brand, tapping retired officers to serve as advisers, touting increases in defense spending, and citing support from troops and veterans as a sign of his success.
Discussion: CNN, USA Today and The Moderate Voice
CNN:
Architect of bin Laden raid: Trump ‘threatens the Constitution’ when he attacks the media
James Hohmann / Washington Post:   The Daily 202: Trump's pattern of insulting war heroes continues with commander of bin Laden raid
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Says in Interview He Is the Sole Arbiter of Truth
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 …
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? …
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
'He's evolving': Once a sunny conservative, Rubio goes all-in on Trumpism
Discussion: Political Wire, Splinter and Axios
David Siders / Politico:
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 …
Edmund Lee / New York Times:
Founder's Big Idea to Revive BuzzFeed's Fortunes?  A Merger With Rivals  —  Jonah Peretti, the chief executive, says his company could eventually merge with other online publishers in order to negotiate better terms with tech platforms like Facebook.  —  BuzzFeed has long positioned itself …
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo:
Op-Ed from Governor Andrew M. Cuomo  —  The Amazon transaction is an historic transformative moment for the entire New York City region.  I have done enough development work during my career to know there is no large development project that is accomplished without controversy …
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg B. Smith / New York Daily News:
NYC's top watchdog fires back at Mayor de Blasio over his firing  —  The city's top watchdog charged Monday that Mayor de Blasio fired him in part to put the brakes on pending probes, describing the mayor as vindictive and at times unhinged in his fury at the Department of Investigation.
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 …
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
Yeni Safak:
The audio recordings of the Khashoggi case will be released today or this week... A quake will take place in the Saudi palace, and the crown prince will bite the dust... Counter-coup: The alliance that sold out Jerusalem may collapse  —  I guess the audio recordings of the moments during …
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Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Why bring a bonesaw to a kidnapping, Your Highness?
Discussion: VICE News and Axios
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 …
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.
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 …
Rebecca Ungarino / CNBC:
Facebook is on track to post its longest losing streak ever, and some say there's more pain ahead  —  Facebook is facing a mountain of problems.  —  The social media giant's stock fell nearly 5 percent on Monday, hitting its lowest level since February 2017, as the social media company came under fire …
Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
Thomas Farr Devised Ways to Keep Blacks From Voting.  Mitch McConnell Wants to Make Him a Judge.  —  A protégé of Jesse Helms wrote a law targeting minority voters with ‘surgical precision’ in North Carolina.  His nomination is part of a plan to pack the courts with extremists.
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 …
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
The Dick Cheney Dossier: Inside Adam McKay's Searing Exposé of D.C.'s “Ultimate Gamesman” in ‘Vice’  —  Christian Bale (who gained 45 pounds) and Amy Adams star in a satirical takedown of one of the most cunning figures in American politics as the director opens up about the current climate …
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 …
Stuart Leavenworth / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Air pollution is shaving years from people's lives.  Where is it claiming the most?  —  WASHINGTON  —  People could add years to their lives in California and other smog-plagued parts of the world if authorities could reduce particulate pollution — soot from cars and industry …
Robert Draper / New York Times:
Nancy Pelosi's Last Battle  —  As she prepares to lead the House of Representatives again, the most powerful Democrat in Washington will have to navigate between a rampaging president and her colleagues' plans for fighting back.  —  Four days before the election that would return …
 
 
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Alan Gomez / USA Today:
President Donald Trump's efforts to limit asylum being challenged in federal courts
Colin Woodard / Press Herald:
Maine's pioneering ranked-choice election likely to catch on nationally
Discussion: Bangor Daily News
Charles J. Sykes / Weekly Standard:
A Speech in Search of a Candidate
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Finnish Biologist Corrects Trump On Rakes
Discussion: Raw Story, HuffPost and Politico
Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
Teenager Claims Body-Cams Show the Police Framed Him. What Do You See?
Discussion: The Root
Washington Post:
Right of return or time to move on?
Kari Paul / MarketWatch:
Amazon HQ2 could push 800 people into homelessness, economist says
James Kirchick / Tablet Magazine:
The Truth About George Soros
 Earlier Items: 
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
‘The man behind the curtain’: Interior's No. 2 helps drive Trump's agenda
The Library of Congress:
Today in History - November 19
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
The United States Is Becoming a Two-Tiered Country With Separate and Unequal Voting Laws
Alex Thompson / Politico:
2020 Democrats are dramatically changing the way they talk about race
Discussion: Splinter
Axios:
Exclusive poll: America sours on social media giants
Discussion: CNBC
Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:
The Dueling Deities of Harvard
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
'If We Pass Medicare for All, I'm Going to Be Silent as a Lamb'
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Des Moines Register:
EXCLUSIVE: How Trump administration pressure to dump 4-H's LGBT policy led to Iowa leader's firing
 

 
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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

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:
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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