Acting AG Appears to Have Misled FTC Over Actions at Miami Firm  — FTC emails show Whitaker denied communicating with customers  — Officials also expressed surprise at AG's hiring of Whitaker  —  New documents released by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission suggest …

Trump Jr.'s 2017 Testimony Conflicts With Cohen's Account Of Russian Talks  —  Donald Trump Jr.'s testimony to Congress about his family's real estate negotiations with powerful Russians does not comport with the new version laid out by Donald Trump's ex-attorney Michael Cohen, official transcripts show.

Conservatives, Prepare Yourself Now for What Mueller May Find  —  How we react in the aftermath of the special counsel's findings will determine the future of the Republican Party and, possibly, the country.  —  Matt Lewis  —  Things are speeding up in Robert Mueller's universe.

Government watchdog finds six Trump staffers violated Hatch Act  —  The U.S. Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) on Friday found that six members of the Trump administration violated the Hatch Act.  —  The OSC cited six staffers with violating the federal law in response to a complaint filed …

Louisiana School Made Headlines for Sending Black Kids to Elite Colleges.  Here's the Reality.  —  T.M. Landry, a school in small-town Louisiana, has garnered national attention for vaulting its underprivileged black students to elite colleges.  But the school cut corners and doctored college applications.

Large earthquake rocks Anchorage, Alaska, causing ‘major infrastructure damage’: Officials  —  A massive earthquake, — registering 7.0 magnitude according to the U.S. Geological Survey — rocked Anchorage, Alaska Friday, sending debris crashing to the ground, damaging buildings and causing “major infrastructure damage,” officials said.

There's something very weird going on with this House election in North Carolina  —  State officials refuse to certify the results of a US House race in North Carolina.  It's a wild story.  —  North Carolina election officials have declined to certify the winner of the state's Ninth …

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke must resign.  His multiple scandals show he's unfit to serve.  —  Ryan Zinke needs to resign immediately as Secretary of the Interior.  —  I take no pleasure in calling for this step, and I have resisted it even as questions have grown about Mr. Zinke's ethical and managerial failings.

Mueller could hit Manafort with retrial, new charges  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller's office is considering retrying former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on a slew of federal charges that resulted in a hung jury over the summer.  —  At a hearing in federal court Friday morning …

In photos: Trump, Putin and MBS collide at the G20  —  Many of the world's most prominent leaders gathered at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires on Friday, including President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) — whose interactions have remained firmly in the headlines over recent weeks.

McCaskill Blames Senate Defeat On Democratic ‘Failure’ With Rural America  —  Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., is about to head home after losing her bid for re-election, and in defeat she's blaming her own Democratic Party for abandoning moderates.  —  McCaskill has represented Missouri in the Senate since 2007.

Bret Stephens' 2018 midterm analysis is quietly getting worse  —  In the aftermath of election night 2018, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote a column arguing that the Democrats had kind of blown it.  Under the headline “The Midterm Results Are a Warning to the Democrats,” …

House Democrats to unveil political reform legislation as ‘H.R. 1’  —  House Democratic leaders are set to publicly unveil on Friday the outline of a broad political overhaul bill that will include provisions for public financing of elections, voting rights reforms and new ethics strictures for federal officials.

Trump Is Losing His Influence  —  The president can no longer count on his party's support.  That suggests dangerous times ahead.  —  I've been warning that this would be a dangerous period for President Donald Trump.  With the midterms over, and no reason to think that Trump still …

DC clerk stalls marriage over ‘foreign’ New Mexico ID card  —  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A District of Columbia clerk and a supervisor refused to accept a New Mexico man's state driver's license as he sought a marriage license because she and her supervisor believed New Mexico was a foreign country.

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Raids Home Of Whistleblower On Clinton Foundation, Lawyer Says  — The FBI raided the home of a whistleblower who was in possession of documents regarding the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One, according to the whistleblower's lawyer, Michael Socarras.

On the Trump-Mood Beat — But Why?  —  “Let's start with the state of Donald Trump,” Fox News's Chris Wallace said at the outset of the president's latest on-camera interview, on Nov. 17, in the manner of a support-group facilitator pausing for a little check-in before an unpacking of recent events.

Homeland chief Nielsen issues unusual call for border cops  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has requested the deployment of civilian law enforcement officers from several other Cabinet departments to the U.S.-Mexico border as early as next week, according to an internal memo obtained by POLITICO.

California's late votes broke big for Democrats.  Here's why GOP was surprised  —  California Democrats took advantage of seemingly minor changes in a 2016 law to score their stunningly successful midterm election results, providing a target for GOP unhappiness that is tinged with a bit of admiration.

Think Sherrod Brown should run for president?  You might like this 2020 poll.  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio - Those who want Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown to run against Republican President Donald Trump in 2020 will be stoked at the first publicly available 2020 poll in Ohio.

CNN Submits to Right-Wing Outrage Mob, Fires Marc Lamont Hill Due to His “Offensive” Defense of Palestinians at the U.N.  —  CNN on Thursday afternoon fired its commentator, Temple University Professor Marc Lamont Hill, after right-wing defenders of Israel objected to a speech Professor Hill gave …