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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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'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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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.
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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 …


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 …


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 …


Second thoughts on Kavanaugh — Minutes after President Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh '87 LAW '90 to the Supreme Court, I published a controversial op-ed in The New York Times endorsing the nomination. I later testified in support of Kavanaugh on the final day of his confirmation hearings.
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Republicans are digging in on Kavanaugh. Here's why. — WASHINGTON (AP) — The first allegation against Brett Kavanaugh left Republicans rattled and nervous. The second left them angry and ready to fight back. — The GOP punched back hard Monday, seeming to cast aside — for now …


Kavanaugh denies sexual misconduct in Fox News exclusive: 'I know I'm telling the truth' — Exclusive: Judge Kavanaugh talks to Martha MacCallum about the sexual misconduct allegations. — EXCLUSIVE - Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh denied accusations of sexual misconduct …
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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 …
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Man Up, Grassley. Question Blasey Ford Yourself.
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Third Kavanaugh accuser, a former US Mint employee, ‘100 percent credible,’ Avenatti says
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White House, GOP point to Democratic ‘resistance’ behind Kavanaugh ‘smear’
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Supreme Court Fight Goes Prime Time With Kavanaugh's Fox News Interview
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Activists shouting ‘we believe survivors’ chase Ted Cruz from restaurant
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Kavanaugh's wife tests standing by your man in the #MeToo era
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Ted Cruz Chased Out Of DC Restaurant By Anti-Kavanaugh Protesters
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Kavanaugh Just Played ‘Checkers’ on Fox
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Avenatti calls Kavanaugh a H.S. rapist; Kavanaugh says he was a virgin; Media pounces
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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 …
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Scoop: The DOJ's full Rod Rosenstein exit statement
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“The Strategy Was to Try and Do Something Really Big”: Trump Wanted to Nuke Rosenstein to Save Kavanaugh's Bacon
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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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The Evolution of Kyrsten Sinema, from Homeless Child to Senate Candidate
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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.


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 …
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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.
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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 …
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The Abandoned World of 1982 — The year Brett Kavanaugh allegedly assaulted Christine Blasey Ford at a party saw the first stirrings of a revolution in how American girls were raised, and how they would regard themselves. — We are invited now to consider the late adolescence and early young manhood of Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
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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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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.
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