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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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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Newly released email suggests Kavanaugh did not tell the truth while he was under oath in 2006 — In December of 2005, the New York Times dropped a bombshell report. “Months after the Sept. 11 attacks,” it read, “President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Booker releases ‘confidential’ Kavanaugh documents — (D-N.J.) on Thursday released emails from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's time as a White House counsel, escalating a heated fight over his documents. — Booker released approximately 12 pages of emails tied to discussions Kavanaugh …
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Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
Sen. Cory Booker releases ‘confidential’ Kavanaugh emails in combative Supreme Court confirmation hearing
Sen. Cory Booker releases ‘confidential’ Kavanaugh emails in combative Supreme Court confirmation hearing
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Politico:
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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
'Most of Bush's nominees are Nazis' — those memos Patrick Leahy griped about were damning to the Democrats
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Kavanaugh hearing: New set of documents highlight Roe v. Wade, race
Kavanaugh hearing: New set of documents highlight Roe v. Wade, race
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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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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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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘The sleeper cells have awoken’: Trump and aides shaken by ‘resistance’ op-ed — President Trump and his aides reacted with indignation Wednesday to an unsigned opinion column from a senior official blasting the president's “amorality” and launched a frantic hunt for the author …
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Washington Post:
Trump's reputation precedes him. So does Woodward's. — BOB WOODWARD'S new book, “Fear,” does not paint a different picture of the early Trump White House than the one that has already emerged from credible news organizations in daily reporting on President Trump.
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Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Senator Ben Sasse On Day Two Of The Kavanaugh Hearings
Senator Ben Sasse On Day Two Of The Kavanaugh Hearings
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Publishing that anonymous New York Times article wasn't ‘gutless.’ But writing it probably was.
Publishing that anonymous New York Times article wasn't ‘gutless.’ But writing it probably was.
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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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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 — DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said the new rule is necessary to enforce immigration laws. — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced a new rule Thursday that would allow immigrant children …
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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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Elana Schor / Politico:
Kavanaugh stumbles when grilled on whether he discussed Mueller probe — Nearly 12 hours into Brett Kavanaugh's Senate confirmation hearing, Kamala Harris opened with a tantalizing query: Has the Supreme Court nominee ever discussed Robert Mueller's probe with a lawyer at Kasowitz Benson & Torres …
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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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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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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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.
Zach Carter / HuffPost:
Zephyr Teachout Sues Sean Patrick Maloney Over Campaign Finances — The Democratic congressman funneled $1.4 million from his federal re-election campaign to his state AG run. — Zephyr Teachout filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) of violating state campaign finance law …
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 …
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
The Bullet in My Arm — I was shot on a Sunday. It was late and it was hot and I was 21, on my way home from dinner during summer break. I'd rolled the windows down because the breeze felt good. — I pulled up to a red light, about half a mile from my home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Joe Uchill / Axios:
Justice Department files complaint against North Korean for cyberattacks — The Department of Justice announced Thursday it had filed a criminal complaint in June of this year against a North Korean and a North Korean entity for hacking Sony Pictures in 2014, digitally stealing millions …
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Daily Mail:
Four UFOs are spotted flying over US president's Scottish golf course — Trump's visitors! Four UFOs are spotted flying over US president's Scottish golf course — Four UFOs were spotted flying over US President Donald Trump's golf course in Scotland. — A golf fan shared a picture …
Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
FBI document shows agents lacked confidence in anti-Trump dossier author Steele — The FBI judged Christopher Steele's anti-Trump information as only “minimally corroborated,” according to a declassified document. — Yet the bureau used his reports to obtain a year-long wiretap …
Sun-Sentinel:
New video shows school cop Scot Peterson hiding as gunman shoots Parkland students — A video released Wednesday gives the first look at what law enforcement officers were doing and saying as gunman Nikolas Cruz prowled through Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
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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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Associated Press:
Abandoned trucks litter California highway as wildfire rages — REDDING, Calif. (AP) — An explosive wildfire closed down dozens of miles of a major California freeway only weeks after a nearby blaze that left neighborhoods in ruins and killed eight people.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
U.S. agrees Russian intelligence officers were behind Skripal poisoning — A joint statement released by the leaders of the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Canada supports the conclusions by the British government that officers from the Russian military intelligence service …
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Karen Pilarski / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Black teen who was handcuffed after false robbery report in Wauwatosa has retained an attorney — Police handcuffed and questioned him before releasing him Sept. 2 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel — A young black man on his way home from church with his white grandmother was handcuffed …