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8:05 AM ET, September 18, 2018

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Julia Prodis Sulek / Mercury News:
MeToo spurred Christine Blasey Ford to open up about alleged attack year before Kavanaugh nomination, friends say  —  'I've been trying to forget this all my life,' she told friend, 'and now I'm supposed to remember every little detail'  —  PALO ALTO — The fog was just lifting at Capitola beach …
Discussion: Popular Information
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Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:
I Believe Her  —  “Dear Caitlin,” an inscription in my 12th-grade yearbook begins.  “I'm really very sorry that our friendship plummeted straight downhill after the first few months of school.  Really, the blame rests totally on my shoulders.  To tell you the truth, I've wanted to say this all year.
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
No, Brett Kavanaugh's mother didn't foreclose on his accuser's parents' house  —  Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman, Christine Blasey Ford, when they were both in high school in the early 1980s.  Kavanaugh has now twice denied the allegations …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Kavanaugh accuser, a Palo Alto professor, is respected among academic colleagues
Discussion: CNN, Washington Post and Politico
Bloomberg:
White House Hasn't Asked FBI to Vet Kavanaugh Allegations, Sources Say
Discussion: Raw Story and BloombergQuint
HuffPost:
Alumnae Of Christine Blasey Ford's High School Circulate Letter Of Support
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Elizabeth Warren fundraises off sexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh
Discussion: Breitbart
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:   The claim against Kavanaugh is not a suspicious 11th-hour bombshell.  Because we're not in the 11th hour.
Russ Feingold / HuffPost:
We Know Brett Kavanaugh Has Lied Already  —  This nation is suffering a significant breakdown of civility, bipartisanship and ethical behavior.  For the Trump administration and the Republican leaders who enable it, truth is no longer a cherished value.  To them, lying seems to be part of the strategy …
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Politico:
McConnell works feverishly behind the scenes to save Kavanaugh  —  The Senate leader's legacy on the judiciary is on the line.  —  Mitch McConnell, preeminent cut-throat political tactician, is going with a softer touch to salvage Brett Kavanaugh's suddenly endangered Supreme Court confirmation.
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Attorney Sent Letter to Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein Claiming Federal Court Employees Willing to Speak About Brett Kavanaugh  —  The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee were both approached in July by an attorney claiming to have information relevant …
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Republicans fear reversals in November due to accusation against Supreme Court nominee  —  Republicans are bracing for political aftershocks from the sexual assault accusation against Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh, with some expressing fear that the coming investigation will refocus …
Lance Morrow / Wall Street Journal:
A Spectral Witness Materializes  —  The passage of time sometimes causes people to forget, sometimes to invent or embellish.  —  The Salem witch trials turned on what was called “spectral evidence.”  That was testimony from witnesses—either malicious or hysterical—who claimed the accused …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
With Trump muted, White House leans on Kavanaugh to defend himself
Discussion: Axios, CNN, Politico, Breitbart and Fox News
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump sticks with Kavanaugh as scandal escalates
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Deepti Hajela / Associated Press:
Man caught shaving on train in viral video says don't judge  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was mocked online after he was recorded shaving at his seat on a commuter train headed out of New York City said he was just trying to clean up after days spent in a homeless shelter.
Discussion: CBS New York
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Jordan Uhl / gofundme.com:
Anthony Torres Assistance Fund
Discussion: Gizmodo and WPIX 11 New York
New York Times:
Trump's Growing Legal Team Has a Problem: It's Operating Partly in the Dark  —  WASHINGTON — Nearly a dozen lawyers now assist President Trump in contending with two federal investigations, one in Washington and one in New York, that could pose serious threats to his presidency and his businesses.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Legal team still confident that Manafort will not implicate Trump, Giuliani says
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and Feeds
Politico:
Trump orders declassification of surveillance application, release of Comey texts  —  President Donald Trump has moved to immediately declassify 20 pages of the surveillance application that authorized the FBI to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Jordan says FBI used ‘crushing power of the state’ to probe Trump campaign based on dossier
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Probe of FEMA Chief Brock Long Referred to Prosecutors  —  Investigators asked U.S. attorney's office to look into whether criminal statutes were violated by Long and two aides  —  WASHINGTON—An investigation targeting President Trump's top emergency-management official has been referred …
Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:
White and Male: Trump's Ambassadors Don't Look Like the Rest of America  —  The diversity problem predates this administration, but some State Department officials fear it's getting worse.  —  President Donald Trump is pushing through scores of ambassador appointments to fill the depleted ranks …
Discussion: Diplopundit and Politico
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump to Cap Refugees Allowed Into U.S. at 30,000, a Record Low
Discussion: Bustle and Splinter
Michael R. Pompeo / US Department of State:
U.S. Department of State
Discussion: NPR and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Reuters:
Russia says a military aircraft vanishes near Syria during Israeli, French strikes  —  MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia's defense ministry said on Tuesday that one if its military aircraft with 14 people on board disappeared from radar screens over Syria at the same time that Israeli …
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RT:
Russia detects missile launches from French frigate off Syria's coast in Mediterranean
Discussion: RedState
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Anderson Cooper Lights Up Don Jr. For ‘Idiotic’ Misleading Photo of CNN Host: He's ‘Tweeting Lies’  —  On Monday night, Anderson Cooper ripped into Donald Trump Jr. for spreading a misleading photo of the CNN host in order to falsely claim that Cooper was trying to make a political statement against his father — President Donald Trump.
Discussion: The Week, Daily Wire and TVNewser
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Ronan Farrow has the long-rumored Donald Trump tapes from The Apprentice: report  —  Investigative journalist Ronan Farrow reportedly has possession of Donald Trump tapes from when he started on NBC's “The Apprentice,” Page Six reported Monday.  —  The tapes reportedly document Trump using …
Discussion: Page Six
Tom McCarthy / The Guardian:
Stormy Daniels' tell-all book on Trump: salacious detail and claims of cheating  —  Exclusive: pornographic actor says Trump 'didn't want to be president' in her book Full Disclosure  —  In a tell-all memoir, the pornographic actor Stormy Daniels details salacious descriptions of her time with Donald Trump …
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
GOP Edge in CD39  —  Kim seen as more in touch, better liked than Cisneros  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Republican Young Kim holds a slight edge over Democrat Gil Cisneros in the open seat contest for California's 39th Congressional District, according to the Monmouth University Poll.
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Internal RNC Poll: Complacent Trump Voters May Cost GOP Control of Congress  —  A private survey shows many Republican voters “don't believe there is anything at stake” in the midterm elections.  —  A private survey conducted for the Republican National Committee and obtained …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Exclusive: Iowa TVs already tuned to 2020 as early presidential ads sweep into the state
Discussion: Political Wire
Saim Saeed / Politico:
EU probes BMW, Daimler and VW over possible cartel activities
Margalit Fox / New York Times:
Alan Abel, Hoaxer Extraordinaire, Is (on Good Authority) Dead at 94
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
Jian Ghomeshi, John Hockenberry, and the Laws of Patriarchal Physics
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Brad Parscale / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Trump campaign manager: Twitter's liberal bias warrants action
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Tilove / mystatesman:
Searching for new wedge issue, Cruz says O'Rourke will ban barbecue
Discussion: The Week
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Mueller asks court to schedule Flynn sentencing
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Marcus Weisgerber / Defense One:
Air Force Pushes Back on Pentagon's First Blueprints for Trump's Space Force
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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