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Deseret News

Jay Evensen: What do we do with the final words of Utah's mayor hero?

Op-ed: Voting should not be a burden

Utah voters reject nonbinding question for gas tax hike to help fund education

Local ballot questions: Salt Lake City $87M bond wins early approval

Residents vote for a new old town: Brighton

Trump says Mia Love already lost race because she 'gave me no love ... too bad'

After Proposition 2 vote, those unhappy with expected medical marijuana compromise bill vow to push Utah lawmakers hard

'Overwhelmed with love': North Ogden mourns loss of Maj. Brent Taylor

Election night: Why Utah's cybersecurity team was on high alert

Democratic presence grows in Utah Legislature

Utah governor slams county as 'epicenter of dysfunction' for long election night lines

Salt Lake Tribune

Editorial: Thanks to everyone for our democracy

Utah schools don't always report teacher misconduct - and that could allow some educators to harm students again, audit says

Foundation behind MormonLeaks urges Utah lawmakers to remove 'clergy exemption' from child abuse reporting laws

'Love gave me no love': President Trump slams Utah Rep. Mia Love in post-election news conference, says she lost

Ben McAdams widens his lead over Mia Love slightly, and Proposition 4 inches up its precarious lead

Trump fired Sessions, and in response Utah's Sen.-elect Mitt Romney defended Mueller's investigation

Other

McAdams maintains narrow lead over Love as Salt Lake County releases more results (Daily Herald)

Weber County Dems on track to win first Utah House seat in a decade (Standard-Examiner)

Officials: Cache County saw high voter turnout this election (Logan Herald Journal)

  NATIONAL HEADLINES  

Breaking overnight: A gunman killed 12 people in a mass shooting at a Los Angeles-area bar packed with college students - https://lat.ms/2FazfGS

Wednesday's headlines:

• President Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday, replacing him with a loyalist who has been a critic of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the Russian attack on the 2016 election and whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia - https://nyti.ms/2FbcBhM 
  
  
• Matthew Whittaker, the acting Attorney General, has repeatedly argued that Mueller's investigation has gone too far. Whittaker now has direct oversight of Mueller's probe - https://cnn.it/2FdrWyt 
  
  
• Whittaker sat on the board of a Miami-based invention-marketing company that was shut down by the Federal Trade Commission for being a scam - http://bit.ly/2F8mL2M
  
  
• The White House pulled the credentials of CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta on Wednesday after he had a testy exchange with President Trump during a press conference. Trump called him a "rude, terrible person" when Acosta would not relinquish the microphone while asking a question of Trump - https://cnn.it/2FkMGEa
  
  
• The White House claimed Acosta placed his hands on a young woman trying to take the microphone away from Acosta and tweeted out a clearly doctored video to support their claim. All other available evidence and multiple members of the media suggest the White House is fabricating that claims - http://bit.ly/2Fc15mg 
  
  
• President Trump said on Wednesday he would adopt a "warlike posture" if the new Democratic majority in the House tried to investigate him - https://nyti.ms/2F9iKen 
  
  
• Worth the read: Here's a great tick-tock of how the Democrats won the majority in the House on Tuesday night - https://nyti.ms/2FaACp0 
  
  
• Democratic candidates who helped the party retake the House on Tuesday did so by outperforming Hillary Clinton and winning 28 districts that President Trump won in 2016 - http://bit.ly/2FcACFg
  
  
• Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate Tuesday, which will likely embolden social conservatives to push for more restrictions on abortion and move the party to the right on cultural issues - https://nyti.ms/2FbELcx
  
  
• Over 36 million people watched coverage of the midterm elections on Tuesday - http://bit.ly/2FbTlAz
  
  
• Now that the 2018 midterms are over, it's decision time for the Democrats mulling a 2020 presidential bid - https://politi.co/2FkrgaC
  
  
• Boring but important: President Trump's tariffs on China don't seem to be working very well. China's exports are up 16% over last year - https://cnn.it/2Fanyjv 
  
  
• Canada is running low on legal marijuana just one week after the country approved recreational use - https://nyti.ms/2FdtfgR

  ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY  

• 1519 - Explorer Hernan Cortez enters Tenochtitlan and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.
  
  
• 1837 - Mary Lyons founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
  
  
• 1889 - Montana is admitted as the 41st state.
  
  
• 1895 - Physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered X-rays.
  
  
• 1923 - Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
  
  
• 1933 - President Franklin Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.
  
  
• 1973 - The right ear of John Paul Getty III, who had been kidnapped four months earlier, was delivered along, with a ransom note, to a daily newspaper. The ransom was later paid, with Getty III found alive at a gas station in southern Italy.
  
  
• 1994 - Republican candidates swept the midterm elections, regaining control of both chambers of Congress. It marked the first time in 40 years the Republicans controlled both the House and Senate.

Policy News

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'Pretty ballsy': How McConnell and Trump blew away Senate Democrats (Politico)

Republicans' midterms secret weapon? Brett Kavanaugh. (CNN)

White House yanks press pass of CNN's Jim Acosta (Washington Examiner)

First Native American women elected to Congress: Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland (CNN)

Gavin Newsom 'loves' Sacramento, but maybe not enough to live there (Sacramento Bee)

NJ Voters Vent After Menendez Re-Elected: 'I Can't Get Out of This State Fast Enough' (FOX News)

Blackburn wins in Tennessee Senate race as 'Taylor Swift effect' comes up short (FOX News)

Donald Trump just seized control of the Russia probe (CNN)

Who Won the Georgia Governor's Race? Abrams Has Perilous Paths to Runoff Against Kemp (Fortune)

Celebs react to Ted Cruz defeating Beto O'Rourke in Texas Senate race: 'Now he can run for President' (FOX News)

Dow surges nearly 550 points because investors like divided government (CNN)