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Saturday, November 24, 2018

The 10 essential reads you missed this week

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The 10 essential reads you missed this week
Congress is barreling toward a deadline to prevent a partial government shutdown, while significant political clashes are shadowing the funding battle.

Here's other important news of the week:
 
Dems target another Senate seat in Deep South
Democrats are aggressively targeting another Senate seat in the Deep South on Tuesday, with embattled Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) stumbling in deep-red Mississippi ahead of the runoff election, Lisa Hagen reports.
 

 
Federal report sounds alarm on growing impact of climate change
A new climate report from the federal government released Friday warns that current global and regional efforts to stave off the devastating effects of climate change are insufficient, Emily Birnbaum reports.
 

 
Five things to know about Ocasio-Cortez’s 'Green New Deal'
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) made waves on her first day in Washington after her election by participating in a protest to demand a “Green New Deal.” Here are five things to know about the deal, Timothy Cama writes.
 

 
Ocasio-Cortez storms Washington, winning headlines but rankling some colleagues
If Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s colleagues hoped she would tone it down once she arrived in Washington, they were mistaken, Scott Wong and Melanie Zanona write.
 

 
Pelosi flexes political power in Speaker’s race
Facing the toughest threat yet to her historic tenure as the top House Democrat, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) has made enormous strides in recent days to rally support for her bid to retake the Speaker's gavel, Mike Lillis reports.
 

 
GOP sits back and enjoys Dem fight over Pelosi
House Republicans are reveling in the messy fight for Speaker that is taking place across the aisle, Melanie Zanona and Juliegrace Brufke write.
 

 
Supreme Court's future rides on Ginsburg's health
Some offered to donate their ribs, others recommended cloaking her in bubble wrap. The reactions followed news that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had fractured three ribs in a fall at her office on Nov. 7, Lydia Wheeler reports.
 

 
Whitaker’s post provides ample tools to disrupt Mueller probe
Matthew Whitaker doesn’t have to fire Robert Mueller to throw a wrench in the special counsel’s investigation, Morgan Chalfant writes.
 

 
Dems are marking their turf in preparation for primary battle
When Sen. Sherrod Brown (Ohio) sent a note to supporters this week telling them he was “considering running for president,” he was laying down a marker for the 2020 presidential race, Amie Parnes reports.
 

 
10 things we learned from the midterms
We asked more than a dozen campaign managers from some of the most hotly contested races around the country what they learned from this year’s election. Reid Wilson reports on their takeaways.
 
 
 
© Getty: About 5,000 Central American migrants arrived in Tijuana, Mexico, this week.
 
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