via CNN:
For Trump, there’s no easy way out of his funk:
The President is angry at his rebuke from voters in the midterm elections. The oppressive prospect of action by special counsel Robert Mueller hangs like an immovable cloud over his White House. Staff chaos in the West Wing is producing lurid
palace intrigue stories in the media that the President hates.
Abroad, he feuds with allied world leaders, and he’s been
so effective in implementing his “America First” policy that he’s the odd man out at summits.
Michelle Obama opens up about her friendship with George W. Bush:
In an interview
released Wednesday on NBC, Obama told Bush’s daughter, Jenna Bush Hager, who is also a correspondent on “Today,” that her relationship with Bush “reminds us that we can get there with the right leadership and with the right tone setting and with each of us giving one another the benefit of the doubt.”
Fox News and other outlets join CNN fight over press access to White House:
The list represents most of the biggest news organizations in the United States.
The most notable name on the list is Fox News. In fact, Fox went further than most other media companies on Wednesday, issuing a statement that said “Secret Service passes for working White House journalists should never be weaponized.”
The statement came from Jay Wallace, the president of Fox News, hours after Fox commentators like Sean Hannity publicly criticized Acosta and CNN.
Toxic: Oxford Dictionaries sums up the mood of 2018 with word of the year:
That’s the view of the esteemed Oxford Dictionaries, the British publisher that has been defining language — and our times — for over 150 years.
It has chosen the word as its annual “Word of the Year,” arguing that it’s “the sheer scope of its application that has made it the standout choice,” a video posted on the Dictionary’s twitter page explains.
Strictly defined as “poisonous,” Oxford Dictionaries says that its research shows that “this year more than ever, people have been using ‘toxic’ to describe a vast array of things, situations, concerns and events.”
The $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot winner has not claimed the prize:
The winning numbers — 5, 28, 62, 65 and 70, with a Mega Ball of 5 —
were announced October 23, but the winner remains a mystery.
The winning ticket was sold
at a KC Mart convenience store in Simpsonville, South Carolina. It was the largest US jackpot won by a single ticket and the nation’s second-largest jackpot ever.
“They still have over 100 days to come forward,” Holli Armstrong, a South Carolina Education Lottery spokeswoman, told CNN on Wednesday.
