Good morning.
Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of thirty-six. Sunrise is 6:57 AM and sunset 4:25 PM, for 9h 27m 40s of daytime. The moon is full with 99.8% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the seven hundred forty-fourth day.
On this day in 1876, William M. “Boss” Tweed is returned to the United States after his escape to Spain from the Ludlow Street Jail, where he had been confined following his failure to make bail; Tweed died in prison after his return to New York. (The caption on the embedded cartoon: “As long as I count the Votes, what are you going to do about it?”)
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Allan Smith reports Democrats won House popular vote by largest midterm margin since Watergate:
As of noon on Wednesday, Democratic House candidates won 58,990,609 votes while their Republican counterparts pulled in 50,304,975. That means that, so far, Democrats won 53.1 percent of all votes counted while Republicans earned 45.2 percent.
Eugene Scott reports Disapproval of Trump’s handling of race relations hits 60 percent:
Nearly 60 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Trump is handling race relations, according to the most recent Quinnipiac University poll. The only group that gives him high marks are Republicans, with 76 percent. White men are the next highest, with half approving of Trump’s handling of race relations.
Lachlan Markay reports ‘Judge’ Jeanine Ghosted on Old Campaign Debt and Ignored Feds’ Demands for Financial Records:
The lawyer-turned-Fox News host mounted an ill-fated run for the U.S. Senate in 2006, when she vied for the Republican nomination to challenge then-Sen. Hillary Clinton before dropping out after just four months. But in that brief period, Pirro’s campaign managed to rack up nearly $600,000 in debts to its campaign vendors.
Candidates can’t dissolve their campaign committees until all their debts are repaid, or a plan is put in place to do so. As a result, Pirro’s campaign remains active to this day. But the status of its huge campaign debts isn’t clear, because the committee stopped filing financial reports with the Federal Election Commission nearly seven years ago.
Alex Kotch reports Charles Koch Is Funding Rightwing, Pro-Trump Media, New Disclosure Reveals:
Through his foundations, Koch is bankrolling some very pro-Trump outlets. In 2017, the Charles Koch Foundation gave the Daily Caller News Foundation $960,000, while the Charles Koch Institute added $20,000. The previous year, the two nonprofits combined to give a slightly smaller amount, $958,000, but this total made up 83 percent of the Daily Caller News Foundation’s annual budget. The foundation, which produces much of the content for The Daily Caller website, has not yet released its 2017 tax form, so its revenues for last year are unknown.
Founded by Tucker Carlson, now a Fox News primetime host who promotes Trump and has many white nationalist fans, The Daily Caller often publishes uncritical, promotional stories about the president, publicizes the Trump administration’s conspiracy theories, and recently presented a softball interview of Trump.