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8:45 PM ET, September 26, 2018

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NBC News:
Senate probing new allegation of misconduct against Kavanaugh  —  Supreme Court Nominee has been asked privately about an accusation of physical assault, sources tell NBC News.  —  WASHINGTON —The Senate Judiciary Committee is inquiring about at least one additional allegation of misconduct …
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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 …
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 …
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
“I Was Ashamed”: After Ford's Accusation, a Generation of Holton-Arms Alumnae Wrestle with Their Own Truths—Together  —  Seven Holton alums recently shared their experiences of sexual assault with me.  Many had not spoken of the incidents since they occurred in high school or shortly thereafter.
New York Times:
Julie Swetnick Is Third Woman to Accuse Brett Kavanaugh of Sexual Misconduct  —  Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh was accused on Wednesday by another woman of engaging in sexual misconduct at parties while he was a student at Georgetown Preparatory School in the 1980s.
Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Trump Supporter on MSNBC Tells Her Daughters That Groping is ‘No Big Deal’  —  In response to the numerous sexual misconduct allegations leveled against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a Trump supporter in Montana told her young daughters that men groping women is “no big deal” while on MSNBC.
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 …
CNN:
Yale classmates remember very different images of Brett Kavanaugh  —  Here's what we know about Brett Kavanaugh  —  (CNN)Brett Kavanaugh's time at Georgetown Prep, a private high school in the Washington suburbs, and Yale, the Ivy League college where Kavanaugh attended both undergraduate and law school …
Discussion: Raw Story, KTLA and FOX 61
CNN:
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Discussion: Axios, Politico, Bustle and VICE News
Politico:
Ex-boyfriend filed restraining order against third Kavanaugh accuser  —  Julie Swetnick, the woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and a friend of attending house parties where women — including herself — were sexually assaulted, had a restraining order filed against her years later in Miami by her former boyfriend.
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.
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 …
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Ford's Senate testimony: ‘I will never forget’ the details of night of alleged assault
Discussion: Townhall
Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:   Brett Kavanaugh, the Child Drug Runner and Gang Rape Organizer, Is Not This Guy
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Kavanaugh nomination: Judge says he is victim of ‘character assassination’ as third woman comes forward
Media Matters for America:
Conservative media figures won't listen to multiple women about Brett Kavanaugh, but they did …
CNN:
Trump suggests Rosenstein could stay at DOJ
Discussion: Mother Jones and KTVQ-TV
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump on Kavanaugh allegations: ‘These are all false to me’
Wall Street Journal:
Third Woman, Julie Swetnick, Makes Allegations Against Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feinstein: Kavanaugh misled about grand jury secrecy in Vince Foster probe
Discussion: Daily Kos and Political Wire
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Kavanaugh hearings: How both sides will fight to prove their case
Adam J. White / Weekly Standard:
The Democrats' “Flight 93” Nomination
Discussion: Bloomberg and Townhall
Jenna Portnoy / Washington Post:
Rep. Comstock declines to say if she believes her friend Kavanaugh's accusers
Discussion: The Atlantic, Splinter and HuffPost
John LaLoggia / Pew Research Center:
Voter Enthusiasm at Record High in Nationalized Midterm Environment  —  Top voting issues: Supreme Court, health care, economy  —  With less than six weeks to go before the elections for Congress, voter enthusiasm is at its highest level during any midterm in more than two decades.
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Associated Press:   The Republican Party's woman problem is in the spotlight
Angelo Codevilla / American Greatness:   Cowardly Republicans Grant a False Premise
Emily Tamkin / BuzzFeed News:
Diplomats Say They Were Definitely Laughing At Trump At The UN  —  Donald Trump's speech to the UN was met by widespread laughter, and diplomats have confirmed that their delegations were laughing at — not with — the US president.  —  “Sometimes, when we see a behavior or listen to arguments …
Discussion: Raw Story and VICE News
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Haaretz:   Nikki Haley to Fox News: World Leaders Laughed at Trump Out of ‘Respect’
Associated Press:   The Latest: Trump insists he has proof of Chinese meddling
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump on U.N. speech: ‘They were laughing with me’
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and Shakesville
Vox:
Read: Trump's bizarre, rambling solo press conference on Kavanaugh, Rosenstein, and more  —  Trump addressed the Kavanaugh allegations in a truly bizarre news conference Wednesday.  Read for yourself.  —  President Donald Trump touched on a wide array of topics during a rambling solo press conference …
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Washington Post:
President Trump's U.N. press conference, annotated
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo:
Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information  —  Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was 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 …
Tampa Bay Times:
In shakeup, Ron DeSantis hires Susie Wiles to take over floundering campaign  —  The Republican candidate for governor ‘needed an adult in the room,’ according to supporters.  —  TALLAHASSEE — Trailing in the polls and with a sense of impending doom setting in among his supporters …
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.
Discussion: The Guardian, ABC News and France 24
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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Aaron C. Davis / Washington Post:
Kavanaugh's ‘choir boy’ image on Fox interview rankles former Yale classmates
 
 
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Christopher Grimes / Financial Times:
Analysts say Netflix's live boxing match Friday night between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul is designed to get new subscribers, particularly on its ad-supported tier

Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

 
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