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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Lisa Murkowski Delivers Message: Take Kavanaugh Accusations Seriously — WASHINGTON — Republican Party leaders may be insisting that they will install Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, but Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is offering a blunt warning of her own …
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GOP hires female attorney to question Kavanaugh accuser — Republicans, however, won't name the questioner. — Senate Republicans have hired an attorney to use as a questioner of Christine Blasey Ford at Thursday's high-stakes hearing on sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court …
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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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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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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Supreme Court Fight Goes Prime Time With Kavanaugh's Fox News Interview — Even the toughest Supreme Court confirmation battles never quite came to this: a grim-faced nominee, stoic wife at his side, going on national television and describing when, approximately, he lost his virginity.
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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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Congressman Cramer on Kavanaugh and more
Congressman Cramer on Kavanaugh and more
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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 Yale roommate says he believes second accuser
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
What Brett Kavanaugh should have said
What Brett Kavanaugh should have said
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Is It Time for the FBI?
Is It Time for the FBI?
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Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Republican Senators Hire A Woman To Question Christine Blasey Ford
Republican Senators Hire A Woman To Question Christine Blasey Ford
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New York Times:
Trump Accuses Democrats of Running ‘Con Game’ Against Kavanaugh
Trump Accuses Democrats of Running ‘Con Game’ Against Kavanaugh
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The Ford-Kavanaugh hearing took a lot of work to arrange. Democrats want to scrap it
The Ford-Kavanaugh hearing took a lot of work to arrange. Democrats want to scrap it
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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
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Kavanaugh's friends promoted him. Now they have to rescue him.
Kavanaugh's friends promoted him. Now they have to rescue him.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Kavanaugh's fate rests with Sen. Collins
Kavanaugh's fate rests with Sen. Collins
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
GOP support for Kavanaugh wavers
GOP support for Kavanaugh wavers
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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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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump bragged about his presidency and world leaders laughed — World leaders laughed Tuesday after President Donald Trump said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly that his administration had accomplished more than any other in American history.
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Trump 'didn't expect' to get laughed at while speaking at the UN — President Donald Trump appeared to go off-script after boasting about his administration's accomplishments. — He went on to defend his June meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and some of the controversial moves he's made at the United Nations.
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Washington Post:
At United Nations, Trump rejects constraints imposed by other nations, says U.S. will act to counter ‘global control’
At United Nations, Trump rejects constraints imposed by other nations, says U.S. will act to counter ‘global control’
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
UN audience literally bursts out laughing at Trump's speech
UN audience literally bursts out laughing at Trump's speech
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump 'didn't expect' UN speech reaction he got
Trump 'didn't expect' UN speech reaction he got
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
UN audience laughs when Trump boasts of achievements
UN audience laughs when Trump boasts of achievements
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Chris Francescani / ABC News:
Bill Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 years in state prison with no bail during appeals — Bill Cosby was sentenced Tuesday to three to 10 years in state prison by a Pennsylvania judge who had designated the comedian a “sexually violent predator.” — Judge Steven O'Neill sentenced Cosby in a Norristown …
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Bill Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era
Tyler McCarthy / Fox News:
Bill Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 years for drugging, sexually assaulting Andrea Constand
Bill Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 years for drugging, sexually assaulting Andrea Constand
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Cosby denied bail; to be locked up immediately
The Latest: Cosby denied bail; to be locked up immediately
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Associated Press:
Andrea Constand's impact statement: Bill Cosby ‘robbed me’
Andrea Constand's impact statement: Bill Cosby ‘robbed me’
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Nicole Weisensee Egan / The Daily Beast:
Bill Cosby Victim Andrea Constand Gives Impact Statement: He ‘Took My Beautiful Spirit and Crushed It’
Bill Cosby Victim Andrea Constand Gives Impact Statement: He ‘Took My Beautiful Spirit and Crushed It’
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New York Times:
Supreme Confusion — Revelations about Brett Kavanaugh and Rod Rosenstein got the week started on a tumultuous note. Where are we headed now? — Bret Stephens: Good morning, Gail. I know we'll have plenty to say about Blasey v. Kavanaugh today, but, first, Rod Rosenstein!
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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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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Tight Race in CD07 — Dem running strong against Tea Party incumbent — West Long Branch, NJ - Democrat Abigail Spanberger holds a narrow lead over incumbent Republican Dave Brat in the race for Virginia's 7th Congressional District, according to the Monmouth University Poll.
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Jessie Van Berkel / Star Tribune:
Star Tribune sues to unseal Ellison's divorce records — Ellison, Democratic candidate for attorney general accused by ex-girlfriend of abuse, was divorced in 2012. — TEXT SIZE — The Star Tribune has joined a legal effort to unseal the divorce records of U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, the Democratic candidate for attorney general.
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Padma Lakshmi / New York Times:
I Was Raped at 16 and I Kept Silent — I understand why a woman would wait years to disclose a sexual assault. — Ms. Lakshmi is an A.C.L.U. ambassador for immigration and women's rights. — When I was 16 years old, I started dating a guy I met at the Puente Hills Mall in a Los Angeles suburb.
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook Has Removed More Than A Dozen Big Conservative And Liberal Political Pages — Facebook has removed over a dozen American hyperpartisan liberal and conservative pages with more than 30 million combined fans after discovering they were administered by the same fake account …
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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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.
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