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How to Get the Kavanaugh Hearings Right — The Senate Judiciary Committee has a chance to do better by the country than it did nearly three decades ago. — Ms. Hill is a professor at Brandeis University. — There is no way to redo 1991, but there are ways to do better.
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Team Trump: If We Ditch Kavanaugh, We're Signing Our Own ‘Death Warrant’ — It's Judge Kavanaugh or bust. — For Donald Trump's White House, Brett Kavanaugh is increasingly irrelevant to the politics of his own Supreme Court nomination. Instead, those close to the president view …
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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 …


What the man accused of being part of Kavanaugh's alleged sexual assault had to say about women's sexuality — A quote from a playwright runs alongside the family photos on Mark Judge's page in his high school yearbook: “Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.”
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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 …
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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.


A former sex-crimes prosecutor analyzed Ford's allegations against Kavanaugh. Here's her take. — Soon after Christine Blasey Ford was revealed as the author of a letter alleging that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her decades ago, the responses ran along predictable lines.
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Brett Kavanaugh Defenders Are Sending A Message: Women Aren't People
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McConnell works feverishly behind the scenes to save Kavanaugh
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Monday's hearing of a lifetime
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Keith Ellison domestic violence accuser says Democratic party doesn't believe her story
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Kavanaugh accuser has not yet accepted invitation to testify before Congress
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairmn Chuck Grassley On Next Monday's Hearing
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THE CORRUPT REPUBLICAN PLOT TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT
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Kavanaugh accuser has not yet agreed to attend hearing
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Why the Brett Kavanaugh accusation isn't really a ‘he said, she said’ anymore
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A Spectral Witness Materializes
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Kamala Harris: Make The FBI Investigate Ford Allegation, Not Us
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No. 2 Senate Republican sharply questions credibility of Kavanaugh accuser
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Don't repeat Anita Hill nightmare with Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford
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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 …
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Hope you aren't eating when you read this, because Stormy Daniels went there
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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 …
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Ted Cruz and the Death of Conservatism — Ted Cruz is running for reelection in Texas trying to humanize himself by talking about basketball, and accusing his opponent, Beto O'Rourke, of liking tofu, hating the national anthem, and plotting to ban barbecue.
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RNC internal poll finds GOP in danger due to complacent Trump voters: report
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Trump's Growing Legal Team Has a Problem: It's Operating Partly in the Dark — The president's lawyers are struggling to understand where the investigations surrounding him are going, and the extent of his legal exposure. — 2018 EMMY AWARDS — ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Win Top Awards
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GOP stalwart Nancy Kassebaum picks Democrat Laura Kelly over Kris Kobach — A titan of Kansas Republican politics is shunning Kris Kobach, her party's nominee, in his run for governor. — Nancy Kassebaum, who represented Kansas for three terms in the U.S. Senate, said Tuesday …
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China raises tariffs on $60B of US goods in technology fight — BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday announced a tariff hike on $60 billion of U.S. products in response to President Donald Trump's latest duty increase in a dispute over Beijing's technology policy.
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China Once Looked Tough on Trade. Now Its Options Are Dwindling.
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China says it will immediately retaliate when Trump tariffs take effect
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Trump could play Scrooge this holiday season
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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.
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Leaked NPR Emails: Don't Call Kermit Gosnell an ‘Abortion Doctor’ — National Public Radio's own past reporting called Kermit Gosnell an ‘abortion doctor.’ But when the makers of a new documentary wanted to pay to use the phrase on air, no dice. — Early last month, John Sullivan …
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First he praised Castro. Now ‘Salt Bae’ chef lavishes Venezuela's Maduro with steak dinner — First the chef known as Salt Bae riled Cuban Americans by dressing up in honor of the late dictator Fidel Castro. — Now Turkish chef Nusret Gökçe, the man who became a meme …
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Senators Shouldn't Harass Their Constituents on Twitter
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Trump-proof aspects of Manafort deal rankle lawyers — Robert Mueller seems to have built in safeguards to discourage the president from pardoning Manafort. — Special counsel Robert Mueller's plea agreement with Paul Manafort on Friday took unusual and possibly unprecedented steps …
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Deep State Unmasked: State Department on Hidden Cam, “Resist Everything,” “I Have Nothing to Lose” — [This post contains video, click to play] — Federal Employee for State Department: “Resist everything... Every level. F**k sh*t up.” — Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) …
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Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Musk Statements — Tesla is under investigation by the Justice Department over public statements made by the company and Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, according to two people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News' Tom Schoenberg and Matt Robinson report.
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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.


How Puerto Rico Became the Newest Tax Haven for the Super Rich — A year after the tragedy of Hurricane Maria, the 51st state has become the favorite playground for extremely wealthy Americans looking to keep their money from the taxman. The only catch? They have to cut all ties to the mainland (wink, wink).