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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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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.
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ThinkProgress, New York Times, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, Axios, Shareblue Media, HuffPost, The Week and Media Matters for America
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 …
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The Resurgent, twitchy.com, Raw Story, CNN, New York Times, Jezebel and Liberty Unyielding
Devan Cole / CNN:
Ted Cruz forced from restaurant amid Kavanaugh drama — Washington (CNN)Sen. Ted Cruz was forced to leave a Washington restaurant Monday after left-wing activists swarmed the senator, heckling him with chants and demanding to know his position on embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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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 …
John Bresnahan / Politico:
GOP support for Kavanaugh wavers — Senate Republicans have gone from confidently predicting the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court to a new message: It all comes down to Thursday. — The GOP is staking Kavanaugh's prospects to his hearing later this week …
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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 …
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 …
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POLITICUSUSA
Lara Bazelon / New York Times:
Man Up, Grassley. Question Blasey Ford Yourself.
Man Up, Grassley. Question Blasey Ford Yourself.
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RedState and Media Matters for America
Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:
The Abandoned World of 1982 — We are invited now to consider …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Supreme Court Fight Goes Prime Time With Kavanaugh's Fox News Interview
Supreme Court Fight Goes Prime Time With Kavanaugh's Fox News Interview
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Politico:
White House, GOP point to Democratic ‘resistance’ behind Kavanaugh ‘smear’
White House, GOP point to Democratic ‘resistance’ behind Kavanaugh ‘smear’
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Akhil Amar / Yale Daily News:
Second thoughts on Kavanaugh
Second thoughts on Kavanaugh
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
The Democratic Dream: Defeat Kavanaugh, Win the Senate and Stop Trump Supreme Court Picks
The Democratic Dream: Defeat Kavanaugh, Win the Senate and Stop Trump Supreme Court Picks
Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Kavanaugh denies sexual misconduct in Fox News exclusive: 'I know I'm telling the truth'
Kavanaugh denies sexual misconduct in Fox News exclusive: 'I know I'm telling the truth'
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USA Today:
Third Kavanaugh accuser, a former US Mint employee, ‘100 percent credible,’ Avenatti says
Third Kavanaugh accuser, a former US Mint employee, ‘100 percent credible,’ Avenatti says
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Conservative News Today, Fox News, The American Spectator, Raw Story, The Week, Boing Boing, Splinter, The Guardian and National Review
Annie Karni / Politico:
Kavanaugh's wife tests standing by your man in the #MeToo era
Kavanaugh's wife tests standing by your man in the #MeToo era
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Talking Points Memo
Chris Perez / New York Post:
Activists shouting ‘we believe survivors’ chase Ted Cruz from restaurant
Activists shouting ‘we believe survivors’ chase Ted Cruz from restaurant
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Townhall, Mediaite, The Federalist and Althouse
Amber Athey / The Daily Caller:
Ted Cruz Chased Out Of DC Restaurant By Anti-Kavanaugh Protesters
Ted Cruz Chased Out Of DC Restaurant By Anti-Kavanaugh Protesters
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ThinkProgress, Politico, RedState, National Review, NewsBusters and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
John Wagner / Washington Post:
White House open to public testimony from second Kavanaugh accuser, Sanders says
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Kavanaugh Just Played ‘Checkers’ on Fox
Kavanaugh Just Played ‘Checkers’ on Fox
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New Republic, New York Times and Law & Liberty
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump says he has ‘no plans’ to meet with Iranian leader at the U.N. — NEW YORK — President Trump said Tuesday that he has “no plans” to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani while both leaders are attending the annual U.N. General Assembly this week.
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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
The Evolution of Kyrsten Sinema, from Homeless Child to Senate Candidate
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ABC News
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 …
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.
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 …
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New York Times
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 …
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The Guardian
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.
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Trump Isn't the Only One Who Wants to Get Along With Putin — Remember when Democrats wanted a “reset” of Russian relations? Some still do. — Liberal foreign policy in the Trump era is a bit like a fantasy novel. The narrative is compelling, but it requires a suspension of disbelief.