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Senate races: GOP up in Texas, Tennessee; Dems up in Arizona, New Jersey — CBS News poll — The battle for Senate control finds Democrats trying to mount upset challenges in a string of typically Republican states, and this round of Battleground Tracker polls shows them having at best mixed results so far.
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Portrait of a female GOP voter who could hand the House majority to the Democrats — LAKELAND, Tenn. — If Democrats capture at least the House, they'll owe the good fortune to Republican voters like Anna Smith. — The 40-year-old, college-educated mother of two young children is married …
Emily Tillett / CBS News:
McConnell: Senate won't be “intimidated” by “mob-like tactics” of anti-Kavanaugh protesters — Fresh off the successful confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the vote showed the Senate “will not be intimidated” by what he called the …
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Political Wire
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Susan Collins's Declaration of Cowardice
Susan Collins's Declaration of Cowardice
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New York Times and Bangor Daily News
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Why I'm Leaving the Republican Party
Jamal Khashoggi / Washington Post:
Read Jamal Khashoggi's columns for The Washington Post — Jamal Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi journalist, was killed in Istanbul after walking into the consulate of Saudi Arabia, according to Turkish officials. In a statement released Saturday, Fred Hiatt, The Post's editorial page editor …
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Mondoweiss, Common Dreams, The Week and Raw Story
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New York Times:
Turkey Demands ‘Convincing Explanation’ on Missing Saudi Journalist
Turkey Demands ‘Convincing Explanation’ on Missing Saudi Journalist
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ThinkProgress, NPR, Reuters, Fox News, Committee to Protect … and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
Turkey Believes Prominent Saudi Critic Was Killed in Saudi Consulate in Istanbul
Turkey Believes Prominent Saudi Critic Was Killed in Saudi Consulate in Istanbul
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Outside the Beltway, middleeastmonitor.com and The American Conservative
Lynn Maalouf / Amnesty International:
Saudi Arabia / Turkey: Alleged assassination of Jamal Khashoggi in Consulate would set abysmal new low
Saudi Arabia / Turkey: Alleged assassination of Jamal Khashoggi in Consulate would set abysmal new low
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KTVQ-TV, Daily Caller News Foundation and Middle East Eye
Dominic Evans / Reuters:
Saudi Arabia opens up consulate after journalist vanishes
Martin Chulov / The Guardian:
Saudi journalist ‘killed inside consulate’ - Turkish sources
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Many women saw Kavanaugh as unfairly accused, could be ‘our husbands, our sons’: Trump counselor — President Trump's counselor Kellyanne Conway said that many women viewed Brett Kavanaugh as unfairly accused, and “saw in him possibly our husbands, our sons, our cousins, our co-workers, our brothers.”
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The Daily Caller, IJR and Breitbart
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Trump on why he mocked Christine Blasey Ford: ‘I had to even the playing field’ — President Trump said late Saturday that he mocked Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, because he needed to “even the playing field.”
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ThinkProgress, ABC News, Politico, Breitbart and Axios
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Kavanaugh's confirmation gives the GOP its most power since the Great Depression
Kavanaugh's confirmation gives the GOP its most power since the Great Depression
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ThinkProgress
Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed News:
Police Removed A Texas Yard Sign Showing A GOP Elephant With Its Trunk Up A Woman's Skirt
Police Removed A Texas Yard Sign Showing A GOP Elephant With Its Trunk Up A Woman's Skirt
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Washington Post and Law & Crime
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Operative Secretly Raised at Least $100,000 in Search for Clinton Emails — Opposition researcher's efforts are of intense interest to investigators probing Russian election interference — WASHINGTON—A veteran Republican operative and opposition researcher solicited and raised …
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Lindsey Graham Is the Saddest Story in Washington — His fight for Brett Kavanaugh completed his transformation into Donald Trump's slobbering manservant. — The battle over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court was an especially ugly episode of a reality-show presidency …
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Kavanaugh was the ‘slut whore drunk’ of the Ford story, Sen. Lindsey Graham says
Kavanaugh was the ‘slut whore drunk’ of the Ford story, Sen. Lindsey Graham says
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Talking Points Memo
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
A Day of Broad Smiles and Raised Thumbs for Trump
Martin Dimitrov Birn Sofia / Balkan Insight:
TV Host's Brutal Murder Shakes Bulgaria — Bulgarian police confirmed on Sunday that Victoria Marinova, TV host and administrative director of the local TVN, has been killed - after reportedly being raped and then strangled. — Victoria Marinova, the 30-year-old TV host and administrative director …
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European Federation …, The Daily Beast and The Guardian
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New York Times:
Interpol President Is Detained by China and Has Quit His Post — The Chinese Communist Party announced late Sunday that the missing president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, was under investigation on “suspicion of violating the law” and was “under the supervision” of an anticorruption watchdog tied to the party.
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HuffPost
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
Pompeo Trip to North Korea Yields New Summit Meeting, South Korea Says — SEOUL, South Korea — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he had a “good trip” to North Korea, meeting with its leader, Kim Jong-un, on Sunday and making progress in diplomatic efforts to denuclearize the country.
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Vox, Test Feed Using Fields and The Week
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Simon Denyer / Washington Post:
Pompeo has ‘productive conversation’ …
Barbara Starr / CNN:
Trump set to shuffle top generals — Washington (CNN)As President Donald Trump grapples with a number of huge foreign policy challenges over the coming months, he is going to have to make some key decisions on the generals who advise him and lead the US military.
John F. Harris / Politico:
Democrats Fear They're the Wet Rag Party — Al Franken is a long-time liberal warrior accused of predatory sexual behavior who is now licking his wounds in exile. — Brett Kavanaugh is a long-time conservative warrior accused of predatory sexual behavior who is now licking his wounds on the United States Supreme Court.
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RedState, No More Mister Nice Blog and twitchy.com
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
The junk science Republicans used to undermine Ford and help save Kavanaugh — The politically convenient, scientifically baseless theory that sexual assault so traumatized Christine Blasey Ford she mixed up her attacker is now something like common wisdom for many Republicans.
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HuffPost, Mother Jones, Townhall, Law & Crime and Splinter
Jerusalem Post:
WEST BANK SHOOTING VICTIMS IDENTIFIED: KIM YEHEZKEL (29), ZIV HAJBANI (35) — Two of the victims, a man and woman in their 30's, were fatally wounded and later passed away and one, a woman in her 50's, was in moderate condition, according to Magen David Adom.
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Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
Palestinian Killed 2 Israelis in West Bank Attack
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Battle for the House Has a Wide Range of Possible Outcomes — The size of the Democratic advantage is unclear, polling shows, and the Kavanaugh controversy introduces an element of volatility. — The size of the Democratic advantage in the fight for control of the House is unclear …
Alexis Grenell / New York Times:
White Women, Come Get Your People — They will defend their privilege to the death. — Ms. Grenell has written on gender and politics for The New York Daily News, The Washington Post and other outlets. — After a confirmation process where women all but slit their wrists …
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twitchy.com, The American Conservative, Front Page Magazine and The Hill