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Good Thursday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today. Read the story and six takeaways on what the rewrite would do. But there may be one thing: the need to repair the criminal justice system. • Thousands of ballots have been rejected in Florida because voters’ signatures don’t match what’s on file, and Democrats are calling it disenfranchisement. • Marc Elias, an election lawyer representing Senator Bill Nelson of Florida, the Democratic incumbent, has been criticized from both the left and the right. Now he’s entwined in the Florida recount. Still, the Justice Department is defending his appointment. The victory leaves New Jersey with just one Republican in Congress. Here’s more on the trade fallout.

Good Thursday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today. _____________________ • President Trump forced out Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday, ending a partnership that soured almost from the start, in part because of Mr. Sessions’s recusal from the Russia inquiry. Here’s what the shake-up means. • Mr. Trump offered to work with the Democrats who gained control of the House, but threatened to retaliate if they use their new power to investigate him. • A cascade of contradictory verdicts in the midterm elections added up to a portrait of a nation at odds with itself. Here’s what the results tell us. Read more on the president’s surprising support. • Mr. Trump said he would not meet with President Vladimir Putin of Russia this weekend. After weeks of conflicting reports on the on-again, off-again plans, Mr. Trump says they will meet instead in Buenos Aires later in the month.

Good Thursday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today. Some Democrats are wrestling with that question. • The Hub Project, a Democratic organization, has spent nearly $30 million on the midterm elections. But the group, which does not reveal its donors, is a mystery even to some of those involved. • On both sides of the Atlantic, a loose right-wing network has spent years trying to cast George Soros, the billionaire investor and Democratic donor, as the shadowy leader of a radical global movement. Here’s how it happened. Their plan includes an overhaul of campaign and ethics laws, infrastructure investment and controlling prescription drug prices. • Democratic leaders are scrambling to rescue Senator Robert Menendez’s candidacy in New Jersey and preserve their long-shot dreams of a Senate majority. Brian Kemp, the Republican, wanted the schedule changed so he could campaign with Mr. Trump.

Image Good Thursday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today. • The Food and Drug Administration put electronic cigarette makers on notice to prove they can keep their devices away from minors. [Read the story] • A year after Puerto Rico, the Trump administration is preparing for a test of its ability to do better during Hurricane Florence. [Read the story] • Gov. Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island defeated a liberal challenger in a Democratic primary election, but she remains vulnerable in November. [Read the story] • Lawmakers dismissed a new White House effort to punish foreign election meddling as inadequate. [Read the story] • Scott Pruitt is in discussions to work as a consultant to the Kentucky coal mining tycoon Joseph W. Craft III. [Read the story] • Members of Congress pressed Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to impose limits on the sale of certain technologies to Chinese companies amid human rights abuses. [Read the story] • The income of the median American household has finally rebounded from the damage caused by the 2008 financial crisis.