• Martha McSally concedes defeat to Kyrsten Sinema in Arizona Senate race (CBS News)

• Florida braces for volatile recount (The Hill)

• U.S. analysts locate secret North Korean missile sites (Associated Press)

• Trump planning shakeup, eyeing new chief of staff and DHS secretary (ABC News)

• California wildfire becomes deadliest in state’s history as toll hits 42 (Yahoo News)

• By 2020, interest on the debt will cost more than Medicaid; by 2025, it will cost more than defense spending (Reason)

• Food stamp recipients down 4,123,082 under Trump (CNS News)

• Vatican cancels U.S. bishops’ vote on sex abuse reform measures (The Daily Wire)

• Conflicting reports of a Facebook executive’s firing fan the flames of an anti-conservative debate in Silicon Valley (CNBC)

• Cops shoot armed security guard who stopped bar shooting (Hot Air)

• Texas Board of Education considers eliminating Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller from curriculum (Fox News)

• China’s communist party expands control under Xi (The Washington Free Beacon)

• CNN sues President Trump and White House for banning reporter Jim Acosta (CNBC)

• Humor: CNN unveils new slogan: “Orange Man Bad” (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: The fallacy of single-payer health care (City Journal)

• Policy: Why we need more climate change skeptics (Foundation for Economic Education)

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