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Florida Senate Race Recount Will Be Done Manually

7:39am November 16, 2018

by Miles Parks

Florida's Senate race has headed to a manual recount. The governor's race appears to remain in favor of Republican Ron DeSantis. NPR's Miles Parks has been tracking the recounts in Florida.

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Voter Recount Slowed Because Of Signature Verification Process

7:39am November 16, 2018

by Brian Naylor

Vote counting has been slowed by the need to check signatures on ballots against voter files. A problem in an age where signatures are less important elsewhere and cursive isn't taught in schools.

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Georgia Governor Still Undecided

5:33am November 16, 2018

by Johnny Kauffman

It's been a very tense week in Georgia around the still undecided governor race. There was a protest at the state capitol, lots of litigation, campaign bickering and no end in sight.

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Ted Olson, one of the lawyers representing CNN in a case against the Trump administration, helped NPR's Nina Totenberg when she was frozen out of the Justice Department in the early 1980s.

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How A Lawyer In The CNN Case Saved Me From Being Shut Down On My Beat

9:12pm November 15, 2018

by Nina Totenberg

NPR's Nina Totenberg was frozen out at the Justice Department in the early 1980s. Ted Olson, among those defending Jim Acosta over his revoked press pass, got Totenberg back in the loop.

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Facebook Is On The Defensive After 'NYT' Report On Response To Russian Interference

6:22pm November 15, 2018

by Alina Selyukh

Facebook says it is cutting ties with the Washington consulting firm Definers Public Affairs, which spread disparaging information about the social network's critics.

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Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown Discusses A Potential 2020 Bid

6:22pm November 15, 2018

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, about potentially running a presidential campaign in 2020, and what it would take for Democrats to win over Trump voters.

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Florida's U.S. Senate Race Headed For Hand Recount

6:22pm November 15, 2018

by Asma Khalid

Florida's U.S. Senate race is headed for a hand recount. After counties submitted new vote totals in that race and the close race for governor, more confusion and legal action was introduced.

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Conservative Lawyers Form Group To Focus On Trump And The Rule Of Law

6:08pm November 15, 2018

Checks and Balances is a group of conservative lawyers speaking up against what they see as the Trump administration threatening the rule of law. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks to member Marisa Maleck.

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A appellate court found Suffolk County Police went too far by putting Susai Francis, an Indian national living on Long Island, back in jail at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Local Police Can't Detain Immigrants For ICE, NY Court Finds

5:45pm November 15, 2018

by Beth Fertig

An appellate court in Brooklyn ruled that local police officers in New York state can't detain immigrants solely to turn them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement without a judicial warrant.

Former Florida Secretary Of State Weighs In On Election Recounts

5:37pm November 15, 2018

Florida counties face a deadline for machine recounts. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris about the similarly contentious 2000 presidential election.

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