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New Yorker:
A Sexual-Misconduct Allegation Against the Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Stirs Tension Among Democrats in Congress  —  On Thursday, Senate Democrats disclosed that they had referred a complaint regarding President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, to the F.B.I. for investigation.
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BuzzFeed News:
Here's How That Letter From 65 Women Supporting Brett Kavanaugh Came Together So Quickly  —  A group of women who have known Brett Kavanaugh since his high school days decided on Thursday to put together the letter of support for him — a day after rumors of allegations against him first became public …
New York Times:
Letter Claims Attempted Assault by a Teenage Brett Kavanaugh  —  WASHINGTON — A secretive letter shared with authorities by the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee charges that a teenage Brett M. Kavanaugh and a male friend trapped a teenage girl in a bedroom during a party …
David French / National Review:
Now Even Evidence of Brett Kavanaugh's Good Character Is Used Against Him  —  I agree with Charlie's post below.  What Dianne Feinstein has done to Brett Kavanaugh is unconscionable.  She sat on a vague, anonymous accusation for months, refused to question Kavanaugh about it …
Discussion: Townhall, twitchy.com and Daily Kos
Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Woman Alleges Brett Kavanaugh Attempted To Rape Her In High School
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Vox and Daily Wire
Patrick Leahy / Washington Post:
Brett Kavanaugh misled the Senate under oath. I cannot support his nomination.
Discussion: Althouse, SCOTUSblog, TalkLeft and USA Today
Hot Air:
Ronan Farrow: Accuser Claims Kavanaugh Tried To Force Himself On Her In High School, Kavanaugh Denies
Discussion: IJR and Daily Wire
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Woman accuses Kavanaugh of assault in letter to senator
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Manafort to cooperate with Mueller as part of plea deal  —  President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller under a plea agreement revealed Friday.  —  Manafort appeared in a Washington, D.C., courtroom Friday morning …
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Paul Manafort has agreed to cooperate with Robert Mueller  —  The former Trump campaign chair appeared in court and pleaded guilty Friday.  —  It finally happened — Paul Manafort flipped.  —  The former Trump campaign chair appeared in court in Washington on Friday and pleaded guilty to a reduced set of charges.
Washington Post:
Manafort plans to plead guilty to second set of charges  —  President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has agreed to plead guilty to federal crimes at a hearing Friday morning, officials said.  —  The planned plea, if accepted by a judge, would short-circuit his second trial scheduled …
emptywheel:
Checkmate: The Manafort Cooperation Is Pardon Proof  —  I was virtually certain that the plea deal Manafort is pleading to today would include cooperation — and I was correct.  Andrew Weissmann told Amy Berman Jackson that the deal does require Manafort cooperation.
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:   Michael Cohen Is the Latest Former Trump Ally to Talk to Mueller
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Former Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort Is Expected To Plead Guilty And Avoid A Second Trial
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
What Paul Manafort Knows
Discussion: Vox, Raw Story and Washington Post
Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
Paul Manafort plea deal includes ‘broad’ cooperation with special counsel
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Go deeper: Read the charges against Paul Manafort
Discussion: Politico
Matt Kwong / Associated Press:
Paul Manafort pleads guilty to 2 counts, to co-operate ‘fully’ with Mueller investigation
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Robert Mueller may have just eliminated one of Trump's biggest complaints
Discussion: USA Today and emptywheel
Fox News:
Paul Manafort to plead guilty as part of plea deal with special counsel
Discussion: Chicks On The Right and LEX18.com
The Guardian:
Manafort to cooperate with Mueller's inquiry in latest blow to Trump - as it happened
Discussion: Shakesville
Lawfare:
The Watergate ‘Road Map’ and the Coming Mueller Report  —  According to countless media accounts and President Trump's own lawyers, Special Counsel Robert Mueller is writing some kind of report on allegations of presidential obstruction of justice.  Exactly what sort of report this may be is unclear.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Legal Experts Urge Release of Watergate Report to Offer Mueller a Road Map  —  WASHINGTON — A question has loomed over Washington: What will the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, do when he wraps up his investigation into whether the Trump campaign conspired with Russia and whether President Trump obstructed justice?
Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
State Department Spent $52,701 on Curtains for Nikki Haley's Residence  —  WASHINGTON — The State Department spent $52,701 last year buying customized and mechanized curtains for the picture windows in Nikki R. Haley's official residence as ambassador to the United Nations …
Vivian Wang / New York Times:
Democratic Insurgents Topple 6 New York Senate Incumbents  —  Years of anger at a group of Democratic state senators who had collaborated with Republicans boiled over on Thursday, as primary voters ousted nearly all of them in favor of challengers who had called them traitors and sham progressives.
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bellingcat:
Skripal Poisoning Suspect's Passport Data Shows Link to Security Services  —  Read The Insider Russian report on this same topic here.  —  An ongoing Bellingcat investigation conducted jointly with The Insider Russia has confirmed through uncovered passport data that the two Russian nationals identified …
Discussion: Meduza.io and The Guardian
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:   Suspect Indeed: Odd Moments From RT's Interview With The Novichok ‘Lads’
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“None of Them Is Where the President Is”: It's Trump vs. Trumpworld Over North Korea  —  Is this what today's “resistance” looks like inside the Trump Administration?  —  In the past few days, as a “tremendously big” and “tremendously wet” hurricane barrelled toward the Carolinas …
Milan Schreuer / New York Times:
Russians Planned Attack on Lab Testing Salisbury Nerve Agent, Swiss Say  —  BRUSSELS — Two Russian spies caught in the Netherlands and expelled had been plotting cyber sabotage of a Swiss defense laboratory analyzing the nerve agent used to poison a former Russian agent in Britain, Swiss officials said Friday.
Discussion: NPR
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The opposite of Trump isn't Bernie Sanders.  It's this guy.  —  His presidency is defined by self-absorption, fondness for authoritarians, contempt for democracy and an erratic personality.  To the extent that President Trump has any animating ideology, he seems enamored of a mishmash …
Discussion: Politico
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
The threat to democracy — from the left  —  For several years now, scholars have argued that the world is experiencing a “democratic recession.”  They have noted that the movement of countries toward democracy has slowed or stopped and even, in some places, reversed.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Papadopoulos Addresses Key Question Looming Over Collusion Conspiracy Theory  — In an exclusive interview, George Papadopoulos says nobody on the Trump campaign asked him to follow up on a professor's claims to know about Hillary Clinton emails.  — Papadopoulos says he cannot remember …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republican Extremism Is Turning Democrats Left on Health Care  —  When President Obama urged Congress to pass the Affordable Care Act, a plan modeled after Mitt Romney's health-care plan, conservatives decried it as a government takeover of health care.  Obama explained that his plan did no such thing.
Discussion: Weekly Standard
The Weather Channel:
Hurricane Florence Has Made Landfall Near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina; Catastrophic Flash Flooding to Hammer the Carolinas, Appalachia  — Florence is expected to crawl near or along the coast of the Carolinas through Friday.  — This will produce catastrophic flash flooding and major river flooding.
Discussion: Washington Post and Althouse
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CNN:
Hurricane Florence is trudging across the Carolinas, submerging homes, with days of rain in store
 
 
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