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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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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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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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'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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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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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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Congressman Cramer on Kavanaugh and more
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The Democratic Dream: Defeat Kavanaugh, Win the Senate and Stop Trump Supreme Court Picks

Kavanaugh's friends promoted him. Now they have to rescue him.
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Trump Accuses Democrats of Running ‘Con Game’ Against Kavanaugh
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GOP support for Kavanaugh wavers
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Jimmy Kimmel Suggests Cutting Brett Kavanaugh's Penis Off If He's Confirmed
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Jimmy Kimmel goes below the belt, says Kavanaugh needs ‘pesky penis’ cut off in public
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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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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.


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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At United Nations, Trump rejects constraints imposed by other nations, says U.S. will act to counter ‘global control’
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Subject: WH print pool report #8 — quotes on Iran and Kavanaugh from pool spray with Columbian leader
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UN audience laughs when Trump boasts of achievements
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Read Trump's speech to the UN General Assembly
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Trump 'didn't expect' UN speech reaction he got
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Trump blasts “ideology of globalism” in address to U.N. General Assembly — live updates
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UN audience literally bursts out laughing at Trump's speech
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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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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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Sarah Sanders won't offer assurances for future of Mueller probe if Rod Rosenstein goes
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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.


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.

Bill Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison in the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era — Cosby's sentencing follows an April conviction on charges of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, a Temple University basketball official he was mentoring.
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Bill Cosby Victim Andrea Constand Gives Impact Statement: He ‘Took My Beautiful Spirit and Crushed It’
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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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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 …


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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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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