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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 …

HuffPost:

Here's Another Brett Kavanaugh Email Republicans Didn't Want You To See — Kavanaugh and his bros were planning a sailing weekend. — A major issue in Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings is Democratic anger over the limited release of documents related to his time working for President George W. Bush.

Discussion: twitchy.com

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.

Discussion: Daily Wire

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 …

Discussion: CBS News, New York Times, Politico, Business Insider, Patterico's Pontifications, Breitbart and Axios

Jenavieve Hatch / HuffPost:
Brett Kavanaugh Refers To Birth Control As ‘Abortion-Inducing Drugs’ At Confirmation Hearing

Discussion: Salon, POLITICUSUSA, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Bustle and Shareblue Media

Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Kavanaugh hearing: Nominee declines to condemn Trump's attacks on judiciary

Discussion: HuffPost, Talking Points Memo, NorthJersey.com, Common Dreams, CNN, Washington Free Beacon, Roll Call, ThinkProgress, Hit & Run, AOL, Louder With Crowder, Mediaite, Law & Crime, The Mahablog, Daily Kos, SCOTUSblog and Reason

Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
There's Now A Big Dumb Fight Over How Dems Released Kavanaugh Docs

Discussion: Daily Wire, Washington Monthly, TheBlaze, twitchy.com, Washington Post, Vox and Fox News Insider

Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Newly released email suggests Kavanaugh did not tell the truth while he was under oath in 2006

Discussion: Mother Jones, Common Dreams, Slate, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Daily Kos, Splinter and The Daily Beast

Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Cory Booker and Senate Democrats just went into open revolt in the Kavanaugh hearings

Discussion: Media Matters for America, Townhall, RedState, The Root and Talking Points Memo, more at Mediagazer »

Alex Pappas / Fox News:
‘Confidential’ Kavanaugh emails posted by Cory Booker were cleared, despite dramatic claim of defying rules

Discussion: The Hill, Power Line, The Daily Caller, The Last Refuge, Townhall, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, Law & Crime, Daily Wire and Washington Free Beacon

Manu Raju / CNN:

Elizabeth Warren: Time to use 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office — (CNN)Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, seizing on an explosive op-ed from an anonymous administration official, said Thursday that it's time to use constitutional powers to remove President Donald Trump office if top officials don't think he can do the job.

Discussion: HuffPost, Washington Times, CBS San Francisco, The Hill, Raw Story, CBS Miami, Jamie Dupree - AJC and illegal immigration …

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 …

Denis Slattery / New York Daily News:

White House officials flagged Trump's behavior to psychiatrist last year — White House officials reached out to a noted Yale University psychiatrist last fall out of concern over President Trump's increasingly erratic behavior. — Dr. Bandy Lee, who edited the best-selling book …

Discussion: Political Wire

The Daily Beast:
‘We See Ourselves as Rebels’: Trump's Internal Resistance Celebrates

Discussion: CBS News and CNN

Politico:
White House aides turn on each other in hunt for op-ed author

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Washington Post and Big Think

Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Warren calls for 25th Amendment to be invoked against Trump

Discussion: CNN, Washington Post and Bloomberg, more at Mediagazer »

Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
I am the real Resistance, the Resistance within the Trump administration

Discussion: CNN, Associated Press, Politico and HuffPost

NBC News:
It wasn't me. List of senior officials who deny writing the NY Times op-ed.

Discussion: Religion News Service, Raw Story, News One, AOL and MSNBC

Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Senator Ben Sasse On Day Two Of The Kavanaugh Hearings

Discussion: MSNBC and Washington Post

Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump to op-ed writer: You are ‘sabotaging’ our country

Discussion: Washington Post, NPR, Fox News, Bustle, Townhall and The Moderate Voice, more at Mediagazer »

Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney:

Twitter bans Alex Jones and InfoWars — Why Facebook, YouTube and Apple are removing InfoWars content — Twitter banned far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his website InfoWars from its platform Thursday afternoon, a month after several of its Silicon Valley counterparts did so.

Discussion: USA Today, Wall Street Journal, RedState, Mother Jones, National Review, Fox News, ThinkProgress, New Republic, New York Times, NPR, FOX News Radio, Engadget and Talking Points Memo, more at Techmeme »

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.

Discussion: Politico, Media Matters for America, twitchy.com, Breitbart, Rantt and Axios

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 …

Discussion: Vox, Refinery29 and Vanity Fair, more at Mediagazer »

Sara Salinas / CNBC:
Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones and Infowars accounts

Discussion: Hit & Run, The Atlantic, Political Wire, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Wire, Mashable, Mediaite and Media Matters for America

Mattathias Schwartz / New Yorker:
Facebook and Twitter's Rehearsed Dance on Capitol Hill

Discussion: BloombergQuint and Investor's Business Daily

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 …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Shareblue Media, Bustle, Daily Kos, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, Political Wire, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Dead even: AJC/Channel 2 poll shows Georgia governor's race is tied — The race for Georgia governor couldn't be closer just two months before the election, as an Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Channel 2 Action News poll showed Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp deadlocked at 45 percent.

Discussion: Political Wire

Mark Murray / NBC News:

NBC/Marist poll: It's a neck-and-neck Senate race in Tennessee — Democrat Phil Bredesen gets support from 48 percent of likely voters, compared with 46 percent for Republican Marsha Blackburn. — WASHINGTON — Democrat Phil Bredesen and Republican Marsha Blackburn are running neck and neck …

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Talking Points Memo

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 …

Discussion: Instapundit, The Last Refuge and The Gateway Pundit

Carrie Johnson / NPR: Grand Jury Looking Into Case Of Ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe

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 …

Discussion: RedState and New York Times

Daily Mail:
NY Democratic Senate hopeful Julia Salazar was accused of having affair with Mets Keith Hernandez

Discussion: Politico, New York Times, Front Page Magazine, Gothamist and The Daily Caller

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 …

Discussion: New York Times, CBS San Francisco, Latino Rebels, Washington Monthly, NPR, ThinkProgress, Shareblue Media, Washington Free Beacon, RedState, Shakesville and Federal Register

Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Trump admin plans to hold migrant kids indefinitely, upending decades-old ban

Discussion: News One, Common Dreams and Splinter

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 …

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 …

Discussion: Political Wire, Washington Post, Washington Monthly and Booman Tribune

Barbara Starr / CNN:

Russia warns US of pending attack in Syrian area with US troops — Washington (CNN)Russia has warned the US military twice in the last week that its forces, along with Syrian regime units, are prepared to attack in an area where dozens of US troops are located, according to several US defense officials.

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 …

Discussion: Raw Story

NBC News:

Obama won't hold ‘punches’ as he kicks off midterm campaign push — The former president is expected to frame election as choice between an “inclusive” or “fearful” America, aides say. — WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama is set to launch a political offensive designed to focus …

Glenn Thrush / New York Times:

After Scaling Back Student Loan Regulations, Administration Tries to Stop State Efforts — WASHINGTON — After the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, started scaling back consumer protections for student borrowers last year, six states and the District of Columbia sped up their own efforts …

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.

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 …

Discussion: Variety, Vox, The Guardian, New York Times, TMZ.com, CBS Chicago, Bustle, Full Feed, Mashable, Mediaite, Outside the Beltway, CBS Boston, Consequence of Sound, CBS San Francisco and smokeroom.com

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.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, National Review, The Federalist, The Daily Caller and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

U.S. Department of the Treasury:

U.S. Treasury Imposes Sanctions on Assad Regime's Key ISIS Intermediary and a Petroleum Procurement Network — Nine targets designated for facilitating petroleum shipments and financing to the Syrian Regime — Washington - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control …

Discussion: The Daily Caller