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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: Amid Kavanaugh Confirmation Battle, Democratic Enthusiasm Edge Evaporates — Just over a month away from critical elections across the country, the wide Democratic enthusiasm advantage that has defined the 2018 campaign up to this point has disappeared, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
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Bloomberg:
FBI Lacks White House Approval to Talk to Kavanaugh and Ford, Sources Say — White House views Senate testimony as sufficient, people say — Sanders says Senate to ‘make the determination of the scope’ — The FBI hasn't interviewed Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh …
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Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Democratic staffer arrested in doxxing of GOP senators during Kavanaugh hearing — A Democratic congressional staffer was arrested Wednesday and accused of posting the personal information of at least one Republican senator during last week's hearing about sexual assault claims …
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Townhall, Roll Call, The Daily Caller and Chicks On The Right
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Ex-Democratic staffer charged with posting senators' private info — The U.S. Capitol Police on Wednesday arrested a 27-year-old man for posting addresses and private information of senators, according to the police department. — The department reported that it arrested Jackson A. Cosko …
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United States Capitol Police and Mediaite
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
National Council of Churches calls for Kavanaugh's nomination to be withdrawn — The nation's largest coalition of Christian churches on Wednesday called for the withdrawal of Brett Kavanaugh's nomination for the Supreme Court. — The National Council of Churches, which has membership …
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Conservative Women Are Angry About Kavanaugh—And They Think Other Voters Are, Too — When many conservative women around the country watched Christine Blasey Ford appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, they didn't find her testimony compelling or convincing, as many liberals did.
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CNN:
Friend of Kavanaugh accuser disputes polygraph controversy — Examiner: No deception in Ford's testimony — (CNN)A friend of Christine Blasey Ford is speaking out publicly for the first time to deny an allegation that Ford lied during testimony when she said she had never given advice on how to take a polygraph.
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Cruelty Is the Point — The Museum of African-American History and Culture is in part a catalogue of cruelty. Amid all the stories of perseverance, tragedy, and unlikely triumph, there are the artifacts of inhumanity and barbarism: the child-size slave shackles, the bright red robes …
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The Guardian and The Intellectualist
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: More Believe Ford Than Kavanaugh, A Cultural Shift From 1991 — After a day of wrenching testimony from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford — who has accused him of sexual assault in high school — more Americans say they believe Ford's account over Kavanaugh's denials …
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Talking Points Memo, No More Mister Nice Blog and New York Times
NBC News:
Dozens of potential sources of information have not been contacted by the FBI in Kavanaugh investigation — With the investigation winding down, multiple individuals who have tried to contact the bureau have not heard back. — WASHINGTON — More than 40 people with potential information …
Matthew Miller / Politico:
It's Time for Democrats to Play Hardball With the FBI
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NBC News
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
The Man Behind the Brett Kavanaugh Strategy: Don McGahn
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Splinter
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
After money surge, GOP frets Democrats can ‘buy rage in bulk’
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Raw Story
Cristina Laila / The Gateway Pundit:
BREAKING: Capitol Police Arrest 27-Year-Old Democrat Staffer Jackson Cosko For Doxxing 3 GOP Senators
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twitchy.com and The Right Scoop
New York Times:
Swing Republican Senators Condemn Trump's Mockery of Kavanaugh Accuser
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Justin Wise / The Hill:
Grassley asks for Kavanaugh accuser to hand over therapy notes, lie-detector test recordings
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans Still Closely Divided on Kavanaugh Confirmation
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YouGov and Los Angeles Times
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Brett Kavanaugh's anger may be backfiring
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Shareblue Media, Raw Story, The Hill and The Daily Caller
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
QAnoners Cheer Trump's Text Alert Test, See It as a Step Toward Martial Law — ‘That is how we will receive orders if all else fails.’ — Phones across the country buzzed Wednesday afternoon for the first national test of FEMA's presidential-level emergency alert system.
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Robert S. Smith / New York Daily News:
Where Brett Kavanaugh lost me: A conservative former appeals judge explains why he turned against the nominee — It seems very few minds were changed by the Christine Blasey Ford-Brett Kavanaugh hearings. But mine, I'm sorry to say, was one of them. — I was enthusiastic about the Kavanaugh appointment.
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Margot Cleveland / USA Today:
Christine Blasey Ford's changing Kavanaugh assault story leaves her short on credibility
Melina Delkic / New York Times:
How Times Journalists Uncovered the Original Source of the President's Wealth — Three reporters spent over a year digging through more than 100,000 pages of documents and chasing down key sources familiar with President Trump's father and his empire. — Times Insider delivers behind …
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Aaron Elstein / Section Page News:
If ‘Times’ is right, Trumps could face $400M state tax bill — The president is trustee to his parents' estates—which could put him in line to pay a bigger share — President Donald Trump and his siblings could owe New York state more than $400 million in unpaid taxes …
Justin Wise / The Hill:
New York State Tax Department reviewing Trump tax scheme allegations
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Politico
Henry Goldman / Bloomberg:
New York City Is ‘Looking to Recoup’ Any Unpaid Trump Taxes, de Blasio Says
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National Review, Vox, BloombergQuint and New York Times
New York Times:
Signed, 650+ Law Professors (and Counting). — The following letter will be presented to the United States Senate on Oct. 4. It will be updated as more signatures are received. — Judicial temperament is one of the most important qualities of a judge. As the Congressional Research Service explains …
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
The Senate's two faces: A day marked by bipartisan achievements and character attacks — The Senate took on a split-screen image throughout Wednesday — one side showing what bipartisan efforts can achieve and the other dominated by the sort of personal character attacks that are well outside …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Meritocracy Against Itself — How Ivy League resentments took over the Kavanaugh debate. — A week ago, Elizabeth Bruenig of The Washington Post wrote a column about the dreadful feeling of being yanked back, thanks to the allegations of teenage sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh …
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The American Conservative
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David French / National Review:
Brett Kavanaugh and the Limits of Social-Class Privilege for Conservatives
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The American Conservative
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
House Rating Changes: Eight More GOP Seats Move Towards Democrats — Five weeks out, several personally popular Republicans who appeared to be defying the “blue wave” in Clinton-won districts are beginning to see their leads erode. GOP Reps. Carlos Curbelo (FL-26), John Katko (NY-24) …
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Axios
WBTW-TV:
Suspect in custody, situation over after 3 Florence Co. deputies, 2 city officers shot in Florence — FLORENCE, SC (WBTW) - Five law enforcement officers have been shot in Florence and a suspect is now in custody. — Florence County Emergency Management officials said on Facebook around 6 p.m …
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Chicks On The Right, CBS San Francisco, FOX59, The Week and Daily Wire
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Hollie Silverman / CNN:
1 law enforcement officer killed in Florence, South Carolina, 4 others injured
James D. Melville Jr / Washington Post:
I stepped down as U.S. ambassador to Estonia. Here's why. — James D. Melville Jr. is a former member of the U.S. Foreign Service who served as ambassador to Estonia from 2015 until his resignation in July. — When you serve as U.S. ambassador to a foreign capital, you represent your country, of course.
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Raw Story
Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed News:
This Ohio Woman's Run-In With The FBI Gives Us A Window Into Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia Probe — WASHINGTON — Cassandra Ford tends to stay online late into the evening and then sleep in. So when two FBI agents dispatched by special counsel Robert Mueller's office pounded on her boyfriend's door …
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Raw Story
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Republicans make gains in top Senate races — A new round of Fox News battleground polls shows a Republican trend in the fight for the U.S. Senate. The GOP candidates are helped by increased interest in the election among Republicans and pro-Donald Trump sentiment.
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Politico and The Gateway Pundit
Allison Kite / Kansas City Star:
Kevin Yoder says he won't attend Trump Topeka rally, citing scheduling conflict — Republican Congressman Kevin Yoder won't attend President Donald Trump's campaign stop in Topeka this weekend, he said Wednesday, citing a scheduling conflict in Johnson County.
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