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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Leaked Documents From Kavanaugh's Time in White House Discuss Abortion and Affirmative Action — WASHINGTON — As a White House lawyer in the Bush administration, Judge Brett Kavanaugh challenged the accuracy of deeming the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision to be …
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Marc Kasowitz denies Kavanaugh ever spoke to anyone at his firm about Mueller probe, contradicting Kamala Harris claim — “There have been no discussions regarding Robert Mueller's investigation between Judge Kavanaugh and anyone at our firm,” a spokesman for Marc Kasowitz said in a statement first provided to CNBC on Thursday.
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Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
Sen. Cory Booker releases ‘confidential’ Kavanaugh emails in combative Supreme Court confirmation hearing — The ongoing partisan battle over whether documents from Brett Kavanaugh's work at the George W. Bush White House should be made public continued to dominate the nominee's Supreme Court …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Newly released email suggests Kavanaugh did not tell the truth while he was under oath in 2006
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Cory Booker and Senate Democrats just went into open revolt in the Kavanaugh hearings
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Booker releases ‘confidential’ Kavanaugh documents
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Kavanaugh hearing: ‘Confidential’ emails were already cleared for public release
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Alex Pappas / Fox News:
‘Confidential’ Kavanaugh emails posted by Cory Booker were cleared, despite dramatic claim of defying rules
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Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
'Most of Bush's nominees are Nazis' — those memos Patrick Leahy griped about were damning to the Democrats
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Axios:
Exclusive: Trump's nightmare: “The snakes are everywhere” — President Trump is not just seething about Bob Woodward. He's deeply suspicious of much of the government he oversees — from the hordes of folks inside agencies, right up to some of the senior-most political appointees …
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
The crisis isn't Trump. It's his Republican enablers. — Trump's flaws lie in plain sight. It's the GOP that pretends blindness. — This feels like a week of substantial, even shattering, revelations about the Trump White House. But it wasn't, not really.
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
I am the real Resistance, the Resistance within the Trump administration — When you think of the Resistance, you probably don't think of a group of senior Trump administration officials. But, you see, that is your mistake. That is exactly what I am, and I am resisting more than any of you, in your hats with your signs.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Publishing that anonymous New York Times article wasn't ‘gutless.’ But writing it probably was.
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump to op-ed writer: You are ‘sabotaging’ our country
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘The sleeper cells have awoken’: Trump and aides shaken by ‘resistance’ op-ed
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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Revealed: Trump inauguration crowd photos were edited after he intervened — Exclusive: documents released to Guardian reveal government photographer cropped space ‘where crowd ended’ — A government photographer edited official pictures of Donald Trump's inauguration …
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Mattathias Schwartz / New Yorker:
Facebook and Twitter's Rehearsed Dance on Capitol Hill — On Wednesday, top executives from Facebook and Twitter testified on Capitol Hill about their efforts to protect the next election—now sixty days away—from being hacked as aggressively as the last one was.
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The Daily Beast:
Twitter Permanently Bans Alex Jones and Infowars — A video of him berating a CNN reporter with ‘the eyes of a rat’ was the final violation after a series of them by Infowars and its founder. — Twitter banned Infowars and its founder, the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, following months of public pressure to do so.
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Sara Salinas / CNBC:
Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones and Infowars accounts — The accounts violated the company's abusive behavior policies, Twitter said in a series of tweets. — The ban comes weeks after Jones was banned or suspended by other major tech companies like Apple, Facebook and YouTube.
BuzzFeed:
After Multiple Provocations, Twitter Bans Alex Jones And Infowars — “We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to the accounts' previous violations.” — After weeks of equivocation …
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Daily Mail:
NY Democratic Senate hopeful Julia Salazar was accused of having affair with Mets Keith Hernandez — EXCLUSIVE: New York Socialist Democratic candidate, 27, who ‘faked her Jewish immigrant biography’ was accused of affair with Mets star Keith Hernandez, 64, and arrested over claim of stealing from his wife
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Yair Rosenberg / Tablet Magazine:
State Senate Candidate Julia Salazar Was Arrested in 2011 On Suspicion of Criminal Use of Personal Information — Julia Salazar, the Democratic Socialist candidate running for New York State Senate, was arrested in 2011 on allegations of fraudulently attempting to access the bank account of Kai Hernandez …
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Washington Post:
Trump administration to circumvent court limits on detention of child migrants — The Trump administration said Thursday it is preparing to circumvent limits on the government's ability to hold minors in immigration jails by withdrawing from the Flores Settlement Agreement …
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Trump admin plans to hold migrant kids indefinitely, upending decades-old ban
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Economist:
Donald Trump's approval ratings are pulled down by college-educated whites — His current numbers are only just above the low point of December 2017 — ANYONE wondering how long it takes Americans to digest the news that their president has been implicated in a conspiracy …
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Mike Barnes / Hollywood Reporter:
Burt Reynolds, Movie Star Who Played It for Grins, Dies at 82 — The ex-jock from Florida starred in ‘Deliverance’ and ‘Boogie Nights’ but preferred making such populist, fun fare as ‘Smokey and the Bandit,’ ‘The Cannonball Run’ and ‘Starting Over.’ — Burt Reynolds, the charismatic star …
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Prosecutors use grand jury as investigation of Andrew McCabe intensifies — Federal prosecutors have for months been using a grand jury to investigate former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe — an indication that the probe into whether he misled officials exploring his role …
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David Klepper / Associated Press:
Source: NY Catholic dioceses subpoenaed in sex abuse probe — ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood has subpoenaed all eight Roman Catholic dioceses in the state as part of her office's investigation into the church's handling of sex abuse allegations.
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Scoop: George Papadopoulos Spills on Mueller Cooperation in First TV Interview With Jake Tapper — George Papadopoulos, the former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign and a figures at the center of the Russia investigation, will appear in his first-ever T.V. interview with CNN's Jake Tapper …
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Ex-CNN Trumpkin Star Scottie Nell Hughes Now Working for RT, the Kremlin's News Outlet — Once among the most prominent pro-Trump cable-news stars, Scottie Nell Hughes is now apparently working for RT, the Kremlin-backed propaganda outlet. — It appears Scottie Nell Hughes has a new job …
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Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Christopher Steele Again Eludes His Republican Pursuers — When the news broke earlier this summer that the elusive former British spy Christopher Steele had for the first time testified under oath and on camera in a deposition about his explosive and controversial dossier outlining …
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Alex Pasternack / Fast Company:
A Facebook employee tied to Cambridge Analytica has quietly left Facebook — A Facebook psychology researcher who previously helped harvest millions of Facebook users' profiles for the controversial Trump campaign contractor Cambridge Analytica has left the tech giant.
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Live From the Battleground Districts: Polls of the Key Races for House Control — In a first, the Upshot and Siena College will publish polling results in real time. — Over the next two months, The New York Times will talk to more voters than ever before.
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
D.C. Wise Man Had Early Access To Trump's Pro-Russia Speech — Photos obtained by The Daily Beast show that controversial think tank chief Dimitri Simes was closer than previously known to the speech's drafting. — In the morning of April 21, 2016, a staffer at the Center for the National Interest …
Kyle Kondik / Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Senate 2018: At Least for Now, the Elephant Endures — GOP maintains edge in race for upper chamber, but Democratic path to majority remains open — Kyle Kondik, Managing Editor, Sabato's Crystal Ball September 6th, 2018 — KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
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