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BuzzFeed News:
Senate Democrats Have Referred A Secret Letter About Brett Kavanaugh To The FBI — Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee have referred a letter concerning Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the FBI. — The contents of the letter have been closely guarded by Sen. Dianne Feinstein …
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New York Times:
Dianne Feinstein Refers a Kavanaugh Matter to Federal Investigators — WASHINGTON — The senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee referred information involving Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, to federal investigators on Thursday …
Michael Avenatti / New York Times:
The Case for Indicting the President — Justice Department lawyers have said a sitting president cannot be indicted. It's time to test that proposition by bringing an indictment that can be reviewed by the Supreme Court. — Mr. Avenatti is the lawyer for Stephanie Clifford in her lawsuits …
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Law & Crime and Mediaite
Ronn Blitzer / Law & Crime:
This Could be Why Dems Went to FBI Over Mysterious Kavanaugh Letter — Thursday afternoon, the political world was abuzz over a mysterious letter that Democrats in Congress had from an unidentified woman regarding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The only things that Sen. Dianne Feinstein …
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CNN, Bustle and National Review
Washington Post:
Feinstein says she referred letter concerning Kavanaugh to federal investigators
Feinstein says she referred letter concerning Kavanaugh to federal investigators
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Daily Wire and Hot Air
HuffPost:
Dianne Feinstein Acknowledges Having A Secret Brett Kavanaugh Document
Dianne Feinstein Acknowledges Having A Secret Brett Kavanaugh Document
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Brett Kavanaugh has a mysterious #MeToo problem
Brett Kavanaugh has a mysterious #MeToo problem
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, CBS San Francisco, The Daily Beast and twitchy.com
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Senate committee delays vote on Kavanaugh nomination until next week
Senate committee delays vote on Kavanaugh nomination until next week
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Common Dreams and IJR
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Tentative deal reached between Manafort and special counsel: Sources — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has tentatively agreed to a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller that will head off his upcoming trial, sources familiar with the negotiations tell ABC News.
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Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, Law & Crime, Raw Story, Vox and Mediaite
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Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
How Trump and Manafort Are Helping Each Other in the Russia Investigation — President Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, insisting that Manafort only worked for him for a very short time and that his recent convictions on tax …
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emptywheel, Towleroad Gay News, Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Washington Times and Talking Points Memo
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump's FEMA chief under investigation over use of official cars — Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long is the target of an ongoing Department of Homeland Security inspector general investigation into whether he misused government vehicles during his commutes …
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Washington Post, Axios, The Daily Beast, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, New York Times, Splinter, CNN, ABC News and Political Wire
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
‘Mr. President. SHUT UP’: Florida Republicans pan Trump's Puerto Rico conspiracy — MIAMI — Florida Republicans are angered by President Donald Trump advancing a conspiracy theory casting doubt on Hurricane Maria's estimated death toll in Puerto Rico. Even Trump's two top Florida allies …
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CNN, Raw Story, Post On Politics and One America News Network
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Republicans dodge, weave around Trump's hurricane tweets
Republicans dodge, weave around Trump's hurricane tweets
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Politico, The Daily Beast and Washington Post
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Believes There's a Coup”: Freaked by the Times Op-Ed, the President Is Seeing Enemies Everywhere — With Anonymous still on the loose and the “administrative state” unchecked, the last person Trump trusts is Stephen Miller. — BY - GABRIEL SHERMANSeptember 13, 2018,
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William Cummings / USA Today:
Was Jared Kushner behind the anonymous New York Times op-ed? Ann Coulter thinks so
Was Jared Kushner behind the anonymous New York Times op-ed? Ann Coulter thinks so
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Crooked Media, Snopes.com and CNN
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Ann Coulter Daydreams About Trump Whacking Jared Kushner
Ann Coulter Daydreams About Trump Whacking Jared Kushner
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Chicks On The Right, Raw Story and Daily Wire
David French / National Review:
End Qualified Immunity — Congress passed a law to restrain government actors. The courts should enforce it as written. — I'm going to start with a story that will break your heart. In the early morning hours of July 15, 2012, a young man named Andrew Scott was up late, home with his girlfriend.
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Rick Scott Is Preparing to Pack the State Supreme Court After His Term Ends — On Jan. 8, 2019, a new governor of Florida will be sworn in. On that same day, three of the Florida Supreme Court's seven justices will complete their final terms. Based on those facts alone …
KDFW:
Search warrant: Marijuana found in Botham Jean's apartment after deadly shooting — Image Gallery — DALLAS - Following the shooting death of Botham Jean by the hands of Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger, multiple search warrants were executed at Jean's apartment as part of the investigation.
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New York Times:
U.S. Spies Rush to Protect Defectors After Skripal Poisoning — WASHINGTON — When a suspected hit man for Russian intelligence arrived in Florida about four years ago, F.B.I. surveillance teams were alarmed. — The man approached the home of one of the C.I.A.'s most important informants …
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The Guardian
Stefan Heck / Deadspin:
I Did Not Buy 6,500 Pairs Of Nikes To Send To The Dump, But Thousands Of Idiots Think I Did — First off, let's get something out of the way: I did not purchase $1.3 million dollars' worth of Nike Air VaporMaxes (White/Varsity Purple/Metallic Silver/Aqua, size 9.5) with the intent of shipping them to the Glendale city dump.
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Audio Reveals Potentially Illegal Coordination Between NRA and Montana Senate Hopeful Matt Rosendale — The gun-rights group gave Jon Tester's challenger a heads-up that it'd be spending money trying defeat the senator. That's a no-no, watchdogs say.
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Politico, Roll Call, Montana Free Press, Political Wire, Associated Press and electionlawblog.org
The Times & The Sunday Times:
Michael Bloomberg set to run for Democrats against Trump for presidency in 2020 — Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire founder of a business news empire, is preparing to run for president as a Democrat, The Times understands. — Mr Bloomberg, 76, a former mayor of New York with a personal fortune …
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The Daily Caller
Tanya Basu / The Daily Beast:
Trump Adviser Gina Loudon's Book Claims She Has a Ph.D. in Psychology. She Doesn't. — Gina Loudon's book jacket proclaims she's 'America's favorite psychological expert.' The problem? She doesn't have the credentials to be one. — Gina Loudon, the Republican commentator and author …
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Mediaite
James Hibberd / EW.com:
Tim Allen gets candid about politics and Trump: 'I'm kind of an anarchist' — Tim Allen has a message for anybody on the fence about watching the revival of the conservative comedian's sitcom Last Man Standing this fall: “Who cares what I think?!” the actor-comedian declares.
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The Daily Caller, IJR, Breitbart, Chicks On The Right, Daily Wire, Conservative News Today and Hit & Run
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Michael Flynn To Appear At Far-Right Conference With Pizzagaters, Racist YouTube Stars — President Trump's disgraced former national security adviser will be picking up an award from conspiracy-mongering outlet The Gateway Pundit. — While he awaits sentencing for lying to the FBI …
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Talking Points Memo and It's Going Down
David Wade / Politico:
Why Is Trump's State Department Stealing Ideas from Old Spice Commercials? — Mike Pompeo's #Swagger hashtag diplomacy is an international embarrassment. — On Monday, coupled with the launch of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's Instagram account, the State Department launched a campaign rebranding itself the “Department of Swagger.”
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The American Conservative, Inkstick and Diplopundit
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Two Republican Congressmen Hobnob With an Alleged Holocaust Denier. Again. — A Republican congressman who earlier this year got into trouble for hobnobbing with an accused Holocaust denier held a small fundraiser this summer, and the attendees included, yes, the very same alleged Holocaust denier.
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Little Green Footballs
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Plans to Rebrand Nafta — President wants to call it the ‘USMC’ pact, telling donors he will drop the ‘C’ if Canada doesn't agree to changes — WASHINGTON—President Trump revealed plans to rebrand the North American Free Trade Agreement as the “USMC” pact—for the U.S. …
WCVB:
State police: Columbia Gas customers in Lawrence, Andover, North Andover should evacuate — LAWRENCE, Mass. — Authorities were responding to dozens of fires and explosions that are being blamed on a gas issue across the Merrimack Valley Thursday afternoon.
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New York Times, KDFW and CBS Boston
Jennings Brown / Gizmodo:
This Is How It Starts: FBI Suspiciously Locks Down, Evacuates Solar Observatory in New Mexico — This is how it happens when extraterrestrials make contact with Earth. — It starts with a newspaper report about suspicious activity at a space research facility—government agents and military vehicles.
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CNET, Daily Kos and Instapundit
Katie Reilly / TIME:
‘I Work 3 Jobs And Donate Blood Plasma to Pay the Bills.’ This Is What It's Like to Be a Teacher in America — Hope Brown can make $60 donating plasma from her blood cells twice in one week, and a little more if she sells some of her clothes at a consignment store.
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Shakesville
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page ‘interned’ ‘under Clinton,’ texts reveal — EXCLUSIVE - Ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page, whose Trump-bashing texts made it clear who she backed in the 2016 presidential election, refers in a newly revealed message to serving as an intern “under Clinton.”
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The Daily Caller, Politico and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Can Democrats take the Senate? A top operative talks about the brutally tough path. — If Democrats are going to have any hope of winning control of the Senate, they have to overcome a very tough math problem. — Right now, while it looks as if Democratic incumbents in places such as Ohio …
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Townhall, Bloomberg and McClatchy Washington Bureau
Joe Simonson / The Daily Caller:
After Dismissing Potential Bias As A ‘Conspiracy Theory,’ CNN Doesn't Cover Leaked Google Tape — After Breitbart published a leaked video of Google employees reacting to President Donald Trump's victory in 2016 on Thursday, CNN left its viewers in the dark by spending no time on-air covering …
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LoveBreedsAccountability, Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, The Rush Limbaugh Show and Fox News
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
It happened there: how democracy died in Hungary — A new kind of authoritarianism is taking root in Europe — and there are warning signs for America. — The Hungary-Serbia border runs through a wilderness, tall grass flatlands ringed by imposing clusters of trees and thickets.
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One America News Network and Wall Street Journal
CNN:
CNN Poll: Democrats' midterm advantage holds among likely voters — (CNN)Democrats maintain a wide lead over Republicans in the race for control of the House of Representatives, a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS finds, including a 10-point lead among those most likely to turn out this November.
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Scared Monkeys, CBS Pittsburgh, CBS Sacramento and Political Wire