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10:45 AM ET, September 25, 2018

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Gabriel Pogrund / Washington Post:
'How'd you find me?':  Mark Judge has been holed up in a beach house in Delaware amid a media firestorm  —  Bethany Beach, Del. — Mark Judge has been conspicuously absent for more than a week: Named as the only witness to an alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh …
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abc7news.com:
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's Yale roommate says he believes second accuser  —  Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's roommate from Yale says he believes the second woman accusing Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.  —  James Roche says he was Kavanaugh's roommate in the Fall of 1983.
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
When the Muzzle Comes Off  —  I write this not knowing if by the time it is published, Brett Kavanaugh will still be the Supreme Court nominee, or whether more people will have come forward with more stories of assault or degradation, or whether Chuck Grassley or Donald Trump will have doubled …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Kavanaugh's fate rests with Sen. Collins  —  Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), a prominent moderate voice and one of the Senate's most conscientious members, is poised to make or break Brett Kavanaugh's chance at becoming a Supreme Court justice.  —  A big reason for that is several Senate colleagues …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Kavanaugh's friends promoted him.  Now they have to rescue him.  —  White House aides and allies who encouraged President Donald Trump to choose him for the highest court have a lot to lose.  —  Brett Kavanaugh isn't the only prominent conservative whose reputation is threatened by allegations …
Discussion: USA Today, Breitbart, CBS News and Vox
Lara Bazelon / New York Times:
Man Up, Grassley.  Question Blasey Ford Yourself.  —  Outsourcing this responsibility to female aides or an outside female lawyer because of bad optics is sexist and cowardly.  —  Ms. Bazelon has written about gender bias against female litigators.  —  Who will question Christine Blasey Ford …
Politico:
Kavanaugh drama rattles GOP support  —  Republicans signal they will wait to pass judgment on the Supreme Court nominee until hearing from him and an accuser later this week.  —  Senate Republicans have gone from confidently predicting the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court …
The Daily Beast:
Democrats to Michael Avenatti: You're Not Helping in the Kavanaugh Fight  —  Avenatti to Democrats: Don't act so weak.  —  On Sunday evening, just as The New Yorker revealed the identity of a second woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct …
Associated Press:   Republicans are digging in on Kavanaugh. Here's why.
Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Kavanaugh denies sexual misconduct in Fox News exclusive: 'I know I'm telling the truth'
USA Today:
Third Kavanaugh accuser, a former US Mint employee, ‘100 percent credible,’ Avenatti says
John Wagner / Washington Post:   White House open to public testimony from second Kavanaugh accuser, Sanders says
Annie Karni / Politico:
Kavanaugh's wife tests standing by your man in the #MeToo era
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Wall Street Journal:   The Politics of Destruction  —  A second Kavanaugh accuser betrays …
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Kavanaugh Just Played ‘Checkers’ on Fox
Emily Birnbaum / The Hill:
Avenatti: New client will go public with Kavanaugh accusations by Wednesday
Politico:
Democrats believe Ramirez but stiff-arm Avenatti
Discussion: VICE News
New York Times:
Kavanaugh's Yearbook Page Is ‘Horrible, Hurtful’ to a Woman It Named  —  Brett Kavanaugh's page in his high school yearbook offers a glimpse of the teenage years of the man who is now President Trump's Supreme Court nominee: lots of football, plenty of drinking, parties at the beach.
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
New York Times Hid Multiple Key Facts In Kavanaugh Yearbook Hit  —  A New York Times article scrutinizing inside jokes in the 1983 yearbook of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's Georgetown Preparatory School hid multiple problems with its claims.  —  A New York Times article scrutinizing …
Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:   The Abandoned World of 1982  —  We are invited now to consider …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: The DOJ's full Rod Rosenstein exit statement  —  The full text of the Rod Rosenstein exit statement, drafted by Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores and sent to the White House Monday morning, has been reviewed by Axios.  —  Its veracity has been confirmed by three sources close …
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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Sarah Sanders won't offer assurances for future of Mueller probe if Rod Rosenstein goes  —  White House press secretary Sarah Sanders would not offer any assurances that President Trump will allow the special counsel investigation to continue without delay if Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein exits …
Discussion: Politico, Mediaite and The Daily Beast
Carrie Dann / NBC News:
NBC News poll: It's neck-and-neck in the Arizona Senate race  —  Among likely voters, Kyrsten Sinema has 48 percent support compared with 45 percent for Martha McSally, within the poll's margin of error.  —  WASHINGTON — Arizona's closely watched Senate race is a statistical tie …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
The Evolution of Kyrsten Sinema, from Homeless Child to Senate Candidate
Discussion: ABC News
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
There's a suburban tsunami driving 2018  —  (CNN)Converging crises are compounding the risk that Republicans could suffer historic 2018 losses in suburban communities that could harden a starkly polarized alignment in American politics.  —  Precisely as sexual abuse allegations …
Discussion: New York Times
Ben Steverman / BloombergQuint:
Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet  —  (Bloomberg) — Americans under the age of 45 have found a novel way to rebel against their elders: They're staying married.  —  New data show younger couples are approaching relationships very differently from baby boomers, who married young, divorced, remarried and so on.
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Instagram's Co-Founders Said to Step Down From Company  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of the photo-sharing app Instagram, have resigned and plan to leave the company in coming weeks, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.
Laura Kipnis / New York Times:
What Ian Buruma's Departure Will Cost Us  —  The editor's exit from The New York Review of Books threatens to inhibit our intellectual culture.  —  Ms. Kipnis is the author of a book about campus sexual harassment policies.  —  When Robert B. Silvers, the founding editor of The New York Review of Books …
Discussion: The Guardian
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Bloomberg-founded gun control group launches ads to flip 15 GOP House districts  —  Everytown for Gun Safety, the group founded by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is rolling out a $5 million digital ad campaign targeting 15 House races, as the group continues heavy investment in the midterm elections.
Discussion: National Review
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Beto O'Rourke's false claim he did not try to leave the scene of a DWI  —  “I did not try to leave the scene of the accident, though driving drunk, which I did, is a terrible mistake for which there is no excuse or justification or defense, and I will not try to provide one.”
 
 
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Amnesty International USA:
Amnesty International USA Issues Rare Call for a Halt on Kavanaugh Nomination
Discussion: TheBlaze
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The Next Step for #MeToo Is Into the Gray Areas
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