OTHER UTAH HEADLINES   

Deseret News

Pignanelli and Webb: Odd election results explained - sort of

Op-ed: Faster, cheaper and less vitriolic elections for our cities

Boyd Matheson: Hope in future Olympic Games requires a Utah strategy

Editorial: Orrin Hatch gets the medal he deserves

Trump awards 'great friend' Sen. Orrin Hatch nation's highest civilian honor

Report: Salt Lake City department head fired for 'offensive behavior' related to sex, religion

Rep. Mia Love takes narrow lead in 4th District on same day judge dismisses her lawsuit over ballot verifications

Good morning, Dave: Proposal would open pod bay doors for autonomous cars in Utah

Unhealthy forests, wildfires and few dollars add up to tragedy in the West

Utah County is expected to get 1 million new residents in the next 50 years. Here's how leaders are planning for the growth

Salt Lake Tribune

Op-ed: Emery County bill an opportunity for conservation and recreation

Editorial: Pass the First Step Act. Now.

Utah Board of Regents changes how it will scrutinize and approve tuition hikes

Judge tosses Rep. Mia Love's lawsuit against Salt Lake County clerk

Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch honored with nation's highest civilian medal as Trump says, 'He liked me right from the beginning and therefore I like him'

Rep. Mia Love jumps ahead of Ben McAdams by 419 votes after updates from Utah, Salt Lake counties

Prop 4 on independent redistricting still winning by a whisker in updated vote tally

Gehrke: What would it take for McAdams to regain the lead in Utah's 4th District? It comes down to the provisional ballots.

Utah Senate president warns lawmakers he'd be willing to use his power to compel them to vote on medical marijuana

Equality Utah aims to ban gay conversion therapy of minors as new research shows harm such programs can do

Other

Mia Love overtakes Ben McAdams by 419 votes with Utah County's latest release (Daily Herald)

Utah bill would outlaw holding phone while driving; hands-free only allowed (Standard-Examiner)

Air quality in Cache Valley on the way to meeting EPA's standard for attainment area (Logan Herald Journal)

USOC visits Park City, Salt Lake City as bid race narrows (Park Record)

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  NATIONAL HEADLINES  

• President Trump attacked the retired Navy SEAL who oversaw the mission that killed Osama bin Laden during an interview with Fox News on Sunday, calling Adm. William McRaven a "Hillary Clinton fan" and an "Obama backer." He also suggested that McRaven should have caught bin Laden faster. McRaven responded by saying Trump's behavior is the "greatest threat to our democracy" in his lifetime - https://wapo.st/2FwxLqE 
  
  
• President Trump also gave himself an "A+" for his presidency so far, asking if he could "go higher than that" when assessing his performance - http://bit.ly/2FvhUJ6 
  
  
• On Sunday, Trump launched a juvenile attack on incoming House Intelligence Chair Rep. Adam Schiff, calling him "little Adam Schitt." Schiff responded on Twitter, suggesting that Trump's lawyers are writing the President's answers to questions from special counsel Robert Mueller - https://cnn.it/2FuVWpF
  
  
• The White House warns CNN journalist Jim Acosta they will suspend his press pass again when a temporary restraining order expires in two weeks - https://wapo.st/2FuGxp4
  
  
• Several Democrats don't want Nancy Pelosi to be the next House Speaker, but nobody has stepped up to challenge her - https://nyti.ms/2FuEJwi
  
  
• Republican Rick Scott wins the Florida Senate race following a recount - https://nyti.ms/2FvccqC
  
  
• Democrats who want to run for president in 2020 are waiting to see what former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke decides - https://politi.co/2FunPOp
  
  
• President Trump said he probably won't sit down for an in-person interview with special counsel Robert Mueller. He also claimed he had no idea acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker was a critic of Mueller's investigation when he appointed him to the post - https://nyti.ms/2FwyN66 
  
  
• Worth your time today: Bill McKibben argues in The New Yorker that extreme weather is putting large parts of the planet at risk of becoming uninhabitable. He also says climate change is playing out more or less as scientists warned it would but at a much faster rate - http://bit.ly/2Fsjzij 
  
  
• The Cleveland Browns are interested in interviewing former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice for their vacant head coaching job - https://es.pn/2FwASyW
  
  
• President Trump says he won't listen to an audio recording of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul - https://wapo.st/2FsNCGE
  
  
• President Trump again hinted that he's ready to shake up his administration. Departures could include chief of staff John Kelly and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen - https://cnn.it/2FseaIo
  
  
• Authorities say the massive Camp Fire in California is not even halfway finished burning yet - https://cnn.it/2FsPeAc 
  
  
• Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is giving $1.8 billion to his alma mater Johns Hopkins University to help lower and middle-income students - https://nyti.ms/2FHxth1
  
  
• Florida is suing Walgreens and CVS alleging they added to the opioid crisis by overselling painkillers and not taking precautions to stop illegal sales of the drugs - http://bit.ly/2FwraMT

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  ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY  

• 1863 - President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address on a Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
  
  
• 1932 - Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow carried out the first of their series of bank robberies.
  
  
• 1950 - US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO.
  
  
• 1969 - Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean become the third and fourth humans to walk on the moon.
  
  
• 1985 - President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time in Geneva, Switzerland.
  
  
• 1998 - The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton.

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Policy News

42nd annual Women & Business Conference and ATHENA Awards luncheon
The Salt Lake Chamber, Utah's largest and longest-serving statewide business association, honored Cindy Crane, CEO of Rocky Mountain Power, as the 2018 ATHENA Leadership Award recipient at this year's Women & Business Conference and ATHENA Awards Luncheon....

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Register now for the U.S. Department of Commerce's flagship event
Salt Lake City has been designated as the host city for the U.S. Department of Commerce's largest annual export event this December, Discover Global Markets (DGM): Indo-Pacific....

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Cicero Group's Dr. Hollie Pettersson honored by Salt Lake Chamber
The Salt Lake Chamber announced Cicero Group's Ed Direction practice lead, Dr. Hollie Pettersson as a winner of the 2018 "Pathfinder Award."...

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SLCC math department wins national award for OER efforts
Salt Lake Community College's mathematics department won the Digital Learning Innovation award from the Online Learning Consortium, presented Nov. 13 during the annual OLC Accelerate Conference in Orlando, Florida....

More National Headlines

Rift Widens Between Facebook and Democratic Allies (New York Times)

The Obamas are 'Becoming' a billion-dollar brand (New York Post)

Sonia Sotomayor: Brett Kavanaugh is part of Supreme Court 'family' (FOX News)

Monica Lewinsky has finally turned the tables on the Clintons (New York Post)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Backs Effort to Unseat Fellow Democrats (Daily Beast)

Go Ahead, Democrats. Fight Over Nancy Pelosi. (New York Times)

Why Democrats Should Not Call the Georgia Governor's Race 'Stolen' (Slate)

Trump considering changing 'three or four or five positions' in staff shake-up (Guardian)

Jim Acosta abused his privileges as a member of the press (New York Post)

Bill Nelson concedes Florida Senate race to Rick Scott after manual recount (FOX News)

Republicans had a secret weapon in the Florida recount fight (NBC News)