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2:55 PM ET, September 6, 2018

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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 …
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 …
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 …
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
'Most of Bush's nominees are Nazis' — those memos Patrick Leahy griped about were damning to the Democrats
Discussion: 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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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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Bloomberg, Raw Story and Vanity Fair
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:   Senator Ben Sasse On Day Two Of The Kavanaugh Hearings
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The crisis isn't Trump. It's his Republican enablers.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Publishing that anonymous New York Times article wasn't ‘gutless.’ But writing it probably was.
BuzzFeed News:   I Am Part Of The Resistance Inside The New York Times Opinion Desk
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump, alone
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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The Daily Beast:   Government Photographer Edited Inauguration Pics to Make Crowd Look Bigger: Documents
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 …
Discussion: Splinter
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 …
Discussion: RedState
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 …
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 …
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.
Associated Press:
Inside the makeover of the Democratic Party  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic makeover is in full swing.  —  With just a few primaries remaining before the decisive midterm elections in November, voters have dramatically reshaped the Democratic Party to become younger, more diverse and unquestionably liberal.
Discussion: Politico
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Molly Ball / TIME:
Nancy Pelosi Doesn't Care What You Think of Her. And She Isn't Going Anywhere
Discussion: Bustle and Raw Story
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 …
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 …
Discussion: RedState
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: Axios and Breitbart
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.
Roger Clegg / National Review:
The Trump Administration Needs a ‘Disparate Impact Inventory’  —  I wrote last week to give kudos to the Department of Justice for its filing against Harvard in the lawsuit where the school is charged with discrimination against Asian Americans in admissions.
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 …
Brooke Sopelsa / NBC News:
Brown University criticized over removal of transgender study  —  The paper by a Brown assistant professor suggests that gender dysphoria occurring around the time of puberty could be due to peer pressure or online influences.  —  Brown University is being criticized over its decision …
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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Richard Aucock / Motoring Research:
The world's fastest SUV will be a 200 mph Lister
Reuters:
Exclusive: Right-wing sites swamp Sweden with ‘junk news’ in tight election race
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Ex-CNN Trumpkin Star Scottie Nell Hughes Now Working for RT, the Kremlin's News Outlet
Discussion: Raw Story
Zachary Basu / Axios:
U.S. agrees Russian intelligence officers were behind Skripal poisoning
Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
FBI document shows agents lacked confidence in anti-Trump dossier author Steele
 Earlier Items: 
Susan Cornwell / Reuters:
House Speaker says he has understanding with Trump to fund government
Discussion: Political Wire
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Video surfaces refuting Trump's claim that he's never called someone ‘retarded’
CNN:
Republican congressman had lengthy dinner with extremist anti-Muslim politician during London trip
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Kyle Kondik / Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Senate 2018: At Least for Now, the Elephant Endures
Discussion: Politico
Tom McCarthy / The Guardian:
'I'm a popularist': Trump struggles with Bannon's coaching in Woodward book
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