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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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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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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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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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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Newly released email suggests Kavanaugh did not tell the truth while he was under oath in 2006
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
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
Booker releases ‘confidential’ Kavanaugh documents
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Alex Pappas / Fox News:
‘Confidential’ Kavanaugh emails posted by Cory Booker were cleared, despite dramatic claim of defying rules
‘Confidential’ Kavanaugh emails posted by Cory Booker were cleared, despite dramatic claim of defying rules
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Kavanaugh hearing: ‘Confidential’ emails were already cleared for public release
Kavanaugh hearing: ‘Confidential’ emails were already cleared for public release
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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Daily Wire
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
I am the real Resistance, the Resistance within the Trump administration
Washington Post:
Trump's reputation precedes him. So does Woodward's.
Trump's reputation precedes him. So does Woodward's.
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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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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump to op-ed writer: You are ‘sabotaging’ our country
Melania Trump to op-ed writer: You are ‘sabotaging’ our country
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Axios, Media Matters for America and Politico
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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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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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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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
Trump admin plans to hold migrant kids indefinitely, upending decades-old ban
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Splinter
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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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 …
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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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.
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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Raw Story
New York Daily News:
Yes to Cuomo, no to Nixon: The Daily News picks Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for governor — In the Democratic primary, two-term incumbent Gov. Cuomo is being challenged from the far left by a newcomer to state politics. — Cuomo has more than earned a ticket to the general election.
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 …
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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.
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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