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https://www.yahoo.com/news/matt-whitaker-apos-appointment-may-074811751.html
Nov. 8, 2018
President Donald Trump’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker as Acting Attorney General may be illegal, Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst for Fox News, said on Wednesday. 
“Under the law, the person running the Department of Justice must have been approved by the United States Senate for some previous position. Even on an interim post,” Napolitano told Fox News’ Dana Perino. 
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was dismissed on Wednesday and Napolitano said his interim replacement should have been Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. 
While Whitaker was confirmed by the Senate in 2004 when he was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, Napolitano said that he was nevertheless ineligible to serve in his current post as the confirmation was not “for a leadership position in the Justice Department.”


He just proved to the world that there was good reason to vote him out.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-midterms-republican-judge-releases-130241358.html
A Republican judge released nearly every juvenile defendant who appeared before him the morning after he lost his re-election campaign in the US midterms.
Glenn Devlin reportedly said it was “what the voters wanted” to justify his actions.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/ve-won-midterms-were-presidential-212046884.html
Nov. 8, 2018
Out of curiosity, TIME gamed out what a presidential election would have looked like in 2018 if one were to replace votes for House candidates with votes for a presidential candidate of the same party. In this speculative face-off, the hypothetical Democrat wins the White House with 284 electoral votes, well north of the 270 needed to win.
Of course, we can’t assume that every person who voted for a member of Congress this year would have voted for a presidential candidate of the same party. But many would have, given that “split-ticket voting” has declined steadily in the past several cycles.


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/it-is-imperative-that-mueller-probe-continue-unimpeded-says-mitt-romney-2018-11-07?mod=mw_share_facebook&fbclid=IwAR1hND52WG5De6uWLIGDUpqHfpcXiV5WVe-xOS0untwfgtiuCPmWDE-1JZs
Nov. 7, 2018
Mitt Romney hasn’t even been sworn in as a senator, but he had strong words Wednesday over concerns that acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker would pull the plug on the Mueller investigation.
‘It is imperative that the important work of the Justice Department continues, and that the Mueller investigation proceeds to its conclusion unimpeded.’


https://www.yahoo.com/news/flash-floods-kill-seven-jordan-210411200.html
Nov. 9, 2018
Flash floods killed seven people in Jordan on Friday, the government and civil defence said, adding that five more people were missing.
The bad weather also saw over 3,700 tourists evacuated by the authorities from the world famous historic site of Petra.
The deaths come more than two weeks after October 25 floods in the Dead Sea region of Jordan cost 21 lives, most of them children on a school trip.
tags: extreme weather, severe weather


https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/09/us/camp-fire-california/index.html
Nov. 9, 2018
A series of fast-moving wildfires is racing Friday up and down California, leaving at least five dead, destroying thousands of structures and forcing thousands of residents to evacuate through flame-lined streets.