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10:05 AM ET, September 30, 2018

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NBC News:
White House limits scope of the FBI's investigation into the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh  —  The FBI has not been permitted to investigate the claims of Julie Swetnick, a White House official confirmed to NBC News.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House is limiting the scope …
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New York Times:
Details of F.B.I.'s Kavanaugh Inquiry Show Its Restricted Range  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Saturday that the F.B.I. will have “free rein” to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, but the emerging contours of the inquiry showed its limited scope.
NBC News:
Trump: No limits on FBI's investigation into allegations against Brett Kavanaugh  —  The FBI has not been permitted to investigate the claims of Julie Swetnick, a White House official confirmed to NBC News.  —  FBI begins new Brett Kavanaugh background investigation
Discussion: Law & Crime, Axios and Splinter
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
White House Directs FBI to Interview First Two Kavanaugh Accusers, But Not the Third  —  FBI probe won't include interviewing Julie Swetnick, drawing criticism from her attorney  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been instructed by the White House to interview two of the women …
Discussion: Mediaite and Big League Politics
Victoria McGrane / BostonGlobe.com:
Warren says she will ‘take a hard look at running for president’  —  HOLYOKE - US Senator Elizabeth Warren made her most definitive indication to date that she is mulling a run for the White House in 2020, telling a town hall crowd Saturday that she will take a “hard look at running for president” after the Nov. 6 midterm elections.
Associated Press:
3rd Kavanaugh accuser has history of legal disputes  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Julie Swetnick, one of the women who has publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, has an extensive history of involvement in legal disputes, including a lawsuit in which an ex-employer accused …
Alexander Burns / New York Times:   Warren Says She Will Take ‘A Hard Look’ at Running for President in 2020
Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
Fewer Believe Brett Kavanaugh Than His Accuser, Poll Finds
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
FBI reaches out to second woman who has accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct
CNN:
Classmate: Kavanaugh drank heavily - CNN Video  —  Liz Swisher, former Yale classmate of Brett Kavanaugh, told CNN's Chris Cuomo she never saw Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh be sexually aggressive, but said that he lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee about his drinking habits.
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Washington Post:
Amy Klobuchar's big Brett Kavanaugh moment earned rave reviews.  But is it what Democrats demand for 2020?
Discussion: ABC News
Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Trump asks if Feinstein leaked allegation against Kavanaugh, says FBI probe may be ‘blessing in disguise’
Discussion: RedState
Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek:
Kavanaugh Confirmation: Former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Says We're Seeing The 'Death …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Washington Post:
FBI reaches out to Deborah Ramirez, a woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Capitol Hill Ralph Club  —  Brett Kavanaugh faces his moment of truth in a town that doesn't care about truth.  —  WASHINGTON — I never thought it could be as brutal.  —  The same Republican gargoyles who once tore Anita Hill limb from limb knew they had to tread gingerly, with women at the barricades.
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Mara Gay / New York Times:   Make My Sexual Assault Count
Sarah Hepola / New York Times:   Kavanaugh and the Blackout Theory
Nathan J. Robinson / Current Affairs:
How We Know Kavanaugh Is Lying  —  This man should not serve another day as any kind of judge...  On Thursday morning, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford detailed under oath her claim that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh attacked her and sexually violated her when he was 17.
Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:
Hundreds of Migrant Children Quietly Moved to a Tent Camp on the Texas Border  —  In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
An Age Divided by Sex  —  The Kavanaugh nightmare shows how the competing moralisms of conservatism and feminism are tearing us apart.  —  The Year of Our Lord 1982, upon whose disputed summertime events a Supreme Court nomination now hinges, was part of the Reagan era but not a particularly conservative year.
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Kanye West Delivers Pro-Trump Rant on ‘SNL,’ Gets Booed By Audience  —  The rapper/entrepreneur delivered a pro-Trump speech in a red MAGA hat after his final performance—one that didn't make it to air.  —  Following his performance of “Ghost Town” during the 44th season premiere of Saturday Night Live …
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
The politicians we deserve  —  In the spring of 2011, then-governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana announced he would not seek the Republican presidential nomination, ending months of excitement among conservatives around his possible run.  His family's reservations under the spotlight far outweighed …
Doree Lewak / New York Post:
Israeli student at Columbia says she's being bullied by Palestinian group … As an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, Ofir Dayan served in hostile territory in Gaza and Lebanon.  But, the undergrad told The Post, nothing prepared her for life at Columbia University.
Rick Montgomery / Stars & Stripes:
Judge's ruling may force Kansas Army officer's adopted Korean daughter to leave US  —  A retired Kansas Army officer has lost his fight in federal court over his adopted daughter's citizenship status, meaning she may have to return to her native South Korea.
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Kavanaugh's hearings are a national disaster — and the worst is yet to come  —  This is a golden age for cynics.  You will rarely go wrong in assuming an absence of decency and courage in the political class.  However low the bar is set, it will not be low enough.
Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
Five myths about capitalism  —  Maybe greed isn't so good.  —  Steven Pearlstein, a Washington Post economics columnist and the Robinson professor of public affairs at George Mason University, is the author of “Can American Capitalism Survive?”  —  Thirty years ago, in the face …
Discussion: Hot Air, The Week and Instapundit
 
 
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