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CNN:
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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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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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.”
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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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
New Poll Finds Americans Deeply Divided By Gender On Kavanaugh Nomination — The stakes are high for Thursday's Capitol Hill hearing, pitting Trump Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh against Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused him of sexual assault — an accusation Kavanaugh has denied …
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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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Against the ‘Choir Boy’ Straw Man — This morning we have seen the arrival into the Kavanaugh Saga of a giant straw man: namely, that Brett Kavanaugh told Martha McCallum that he was a sober, dull “choir boy” in high school and college, and that this claim demonstrates that he is a liar.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Right Scoop and Washington Post
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, and the Things Men Do for Other Men
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ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, American Prospect and Vox
Brian Bennett / TIME:
Kavanaugh Denied Gang-Rape Allegation Under Oath Behind Closed Doors Tuesday
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
The anatomy of a smear — Senate Democrats seeking …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feinstein: Kavanaugh misled about grand jury secrecy in Vince Foster probe
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Christine Blasey Ford Polygraph Regarding Kavanaugh Assault Allegation Released
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Avenatti Client Emerges With New Allegations Against Kavanaugh
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Power Line, National Review and Balloon Juice
New York Times:
In Yale's Culture of Privilege and Alcohol, Her World Converged With Kavanaugh's
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CBS News:
Michael Avenatti says new Brett Kavanaugh accuser will come forward before Thursday
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Politico:
Full transcript: Brett Kavanaugh's opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee
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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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Axios, Washington Post, HuffPost and Law & Crime
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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Political Wire and Politico
Antonia Noori Farzan / Washington Post:
Who is Rachel Mitchell, the Arizona prosecutor chosen to question Kavanaugh and his accuser?
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Online NewsHour:
Majority of Americans oppose Kavanaugh nomination if Ford's allegation is true, poll says
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Arizona prosecutor Rachel Mitchell is GOP choice to question Kavanaugh and accuser at hearing
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Michael Schwirtz / New York Times:
Deliberate or Not, Trump's Speech Draws Laughter at the U.N. — UNITED NATIONS — They laughed. — Not even a minute into the speech. They laughed. — On the planet's biggest stage, with more than 100 world leaders gathered with their ministers, ambassadors and dignitaries of every stripe …
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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 …
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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Weekly Standard and Axios
Matt Dixon / Politico:
Former GOP rainmaker gives $200K to Gillum — TALLAHASSEE — Mike Fernandez, a longtime Republican megadonor who has left the party, gave $200,000 to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum last week. — The health care billionaire has long been one of Florida Republicans' biggest rainmakers …
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
The billionaire LA Times owner calls social media the ‘cancer of our time’ — Social platforms may have revolutionized how people get information, but they've also been criticized for spreading “fake news.” — “The short attention span we're creating in this millennium is actually very dangerous,” says the owner of the LA Times.
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