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Increasingly worried, Trump takes over Kavanaugh defense — Trump torches ‘lousy’ Democrats on Kavanaugh — (CNN)President Donald Trump has grown increasingly dissatisfied with the way Brett Kavanaugh has defended himself in wake of sexual assault allegations that have threatened to derail …
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Republican Women Lose Faith in Kavanaugh — and Trump — After Week of Accusations — Fewer than half of GOP women now think Judge Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed — Protestors rally against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh as they make their way from the Supreme Court …
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Aaron C. Davis / Washington Post:
Kavanaugh's ‘choir boy’ image on Fox interview rankles former Yale classmates — On Monday night, Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh said in a nationally televised interview that in his younger years, he was focused on sports, academics and “service projects.”
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Steve Kiggins / USA Today:
Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford offers Senate four people who corroborate her assault claims — The attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford have sworn and signed declarations from four people who corroborate her claims of sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mark Judge's former girlfriend is ready to talk to FBI and Judiciary Committee, her lawyer says — The onetime girlfriend of Mark Judge, who is alleged by Christine Blasey Ford to have been present while Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the 1980s, has emerged as a pivotal if hidden figure …
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New York Times:
Kavanaugh Is Accused by a Third Woman of Sexual Misconduct — Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh was accused Wednesday by another woman of having engaged in sexual misconduct at parties while he was a student at Georgetown Preparatory School in the 1980s. — The allegation came from Julie Swetnick …
Paige Lavender / HuffPost:
Judicial Crisis Network On Kavanaugh Allegations: ‘We Have To Look Into This Further’ — The group's chief counsel made the comments after a third woman accused the Supreme Court nominee of sexual misconduct. — Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network …
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Elana Schor / Politico:
Merkley seeks injunction to stop Kavanaugh vote — Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) on Wednesday announced that he's seeking an injunction in federal court designed to stop a final vote on Brett Kavanaugh, asserting an obstruction of his constitutional duty to advise and consent on nominees.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Kavanaugh nomination: Judge says he is victim of ‘character assassination’ as third woman comes forward — Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh is scheduled to appear Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee at a high-stakes hearing. The committee will hear from Christine Blasey Ford …
Media Matters for America:
Conservative media figures won't listen to multiple women about Brett Kavanaugh, but they did take an anonymous 4chan post at face value — Right-wing media figures spread a hoax after an anonymous 4chan poster claimed without evidence to have duped lawyer Michael Avenatti about the existence …
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Brett Kavanaugh, the Child Drug Runner and Gang Rape Organizer, Is Not This Guy — To believe all the accusations about Kavanaugh is to disregard everything we intuitively know about human behavior. — Fact check: true. — Brett Kavanaugh, the left would have you believe …
Brian Bennett / TIME:
Kavanaugh Denied Gang-Rape Allegation Under Oath Behind Closed Doors Tuesday — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testified behind closed doors and under oath on Tuesday about allegations that he was present at parties in the 1980s where women were targeted and gang-raped …
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Christine Blasey Ford Polygraph Regarding Kavanaugh Assault Allegation Released
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Against the ‘Choir Boy’ Straw Man
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Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Trump Supporter on MSNBC Tells Her Daughters That Groping is ‘No Big Deal’
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Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, and the Things Men Do for Other Men
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feinstein: Kavanaugh misled about grand jury secrecy in Vince Foster probe
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
The anatomy of a smear — Senate Democrats seeking …
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Jenna Portnoy / Washington Post:
Rep. Comstock declines to say if she believes her friend Kavanaugh's accusers
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Politico:
Full transcript: Brett Kavanaugh's opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee
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New York Times:
In Yale's Culture of Privilege and Alcohol, Her World Converged With Kavanaugh's
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The Harvard Crimson:
Harvard Law School Refuses to Say Whether Kavanaugh Will Return to Teach in January
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CBS News:
Michael Avenatti says new Brett Kavanaugh accuser will come forward before Thursday
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Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Avenatti Client Emerges With New Allegations Against Kavanaugh
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CNBC:
New Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick details parties where girls allegedly were drugged and raped
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Avenatti: New Kavanaugh accuser ‘100 percent’ prepared to testify before Senate Judiciary Committee
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Haaretz:
Nikki Haley to Fox News: World Leaders Laughed at Trump Out of ‘Respect’ — ‘They loved how honest he is,’ claimed the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations — U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley claimed on Fox News that U.S. President Donald Trump's speech …
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Michael Schwirtz / New York Times:
Deliberate or Not, Trump's Speech Draws Laughter at the U.N.
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The Daily Beast:
Revealed: What Erik Prince and Moscow's Money Man Discussed in That Infamous Seychelles Meeting — Mueller's team and Congressional investigators have looked into a meeting in the Seychelles between allies of Trump and Putin. Now we have the Russian read-out of what was said.
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bellingcat:
Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga — Bellingcat and its investigative partner The Insider - Russia have established conclusively the identity of one of the suspects in the poisoning of Sergey and Yulia Skripal, and in the homicide of British citizen Dawn Sturgess.
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Hayley Dixon / Telegraph:
Skripal ‘hitman’ unmasked as GRU colonel awarded Russia's highest military honour by Vladimir Putin
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Politico
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
H.R. McMaster: ‘Wholly appropriate’ for Gary Cohn to remove letter from Trump's desk — Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster on Tuesday defended his ex-White House colleague Gary Cohn for removing a trade-related document from President's Trump. — “I know about that incident …
Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Trump set to sign spending bill to avert government shutdown — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will sign a spending bill to avert a looming government shutdown set to begin next week. — Speaking at the United Nations, Trump told reporters, “We're going to keep the government open.”
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Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo:
Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information — Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove. Mislove studies how privacy works on social networks and had a theory that Facebook is letting advertisers reach users …
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Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball:
New Polls: Democrats in Decent Shape Across the Frost Belt — Democratic Senate incumbents with big leads in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin; very close races in Indiana Senate and Ohio governor; Scott Walker behind in Wisconsin — A series of new Reuters/Ipsos/University …
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Neal Katyal / Washington Post:
How Rosenstein can protect the Mueller investigation — even if he's fired — I wrote the special counsel regulations. This is what he should do before his meeting with Trump. — Neal Katyal is the former acting solicitor general of the United States and presently serves …
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Lissandra Villa / BuzzFeed News:
Rep. Keith Ellison Is Asking The House To Investigate An Ex-Girlfriend's Claims That He Abused Her — A growing number of Democrats say the domestic abuse allegations against Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison should be investigated, and now the House Democrat says he will request a House investigation himself.
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