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2:40 PM ET, September 25, 2018

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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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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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Politico:
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 …
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.
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
What Brett Kavanaugh should have said
Discussion: Politico, Townhall and Fox News
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Kavanaugh's fate rests with Sen. Collins
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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.
Discussion: Breitbart and ABC News
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.
Discussion: Axios
Washington Post:
At United Nations, Trump rejects constraints imposed by other nations, says U.S. will act to counter ‘global control’
Discussion: USA Today
Poolreports / Public Pool:
Subject: WH print pool report #8 — quotes on Iran and Kavanaugh from pool spray with Columbian leader
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
UN audience laughs when Trump boasts of achievements
Alex Ward / Vox:
Read Trump's speech to the UN General Assembly
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump 'didn't expect' UN speech reaction he got
Discussion: New Republic and KTVQ-TV
CBS News:
Trump blasts “ideology of globalism” in address to U.N. General Assembly — live updates
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
UN audience literally bursts out laughing at Trump's speech
Discussion: Weekly Standard
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: AOL and Full Feed
Washington Post:
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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Nicole Weisensee Egan / The Daily Beast:
Bill Cosby Victim Andrea Constand Gives Impact Statement: He ‘Took My Beautiful Spirit and Crushed It’
Discussion: Press Association
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Atlantic
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
 
 
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Discussion: National Review
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