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6:45 PM ET, October 7, 2018

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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Why I'm Leaving the Republican Party  —  Unlike Senator Susan Collins, who took pages upon pages of text on national television to tell us something we already knew, I will cut right to the chase: I am out of the Republican Party.  —  I will also acknowledge right away what I assume …
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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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Dems see blue ‘tsunami’ in House as Senate path narrows  —  Democrats have a better shot than ever at winning back the House majority with 30 days to go before the midterm elections, but have seen their chances of taking back the Senate erode amid the controversy surrounding Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Susan Collins's Declaration of Cowardice
Discussion: New York Times and Daily Kos
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Defiant Republicans hope Kavanaugh fight will stoke their voters next month
Discussion: Politico, Axios and Fox News
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Kavanaugh's confirmation gives the GOP its most power since the Great Depression
Discussion: ThinkProgress
CBS News:
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.
Discussion: Breitbart
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:   Portrait of a female GOP voter who could hand the House majority to the Democrats
New York Times:
Interpol Chief, Detained by China, Resigns Under ‘Supervision’ of Party Watchdog  —  In a stunning move that could set back the country's efforts to expand its global presence, the Chinese Communist Party announced late Sunday that the missing president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei …
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Associated Press:
Wife says Interpol officer sent knife image as danger signal  —  LYON, France (AP) — The wife of a leader of international police agency Interpol made an impassioned plea to the world Sunday for help bringing her missing husband to safety, saying he sent her an image of a knife before he disappeared …
Discussion: Reuters, HuffPost, ThinkProgress and CNN
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Bulgarian TV host Victoria Marinova raped and killed  —  The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Bulgarian authorities to conduct a rigorous, thorough investigation into the killing of Victoria Marinova, presenter and administrative director for local television channel TVN.
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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 …
Discussion: The Guardian
Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Bulgarian Journalist Victoria Marinova Brutally Raped and Murdered  —  She is the fourth journalist murdered in Europe in the past 14 months.  —  ROME—The face of 30-year-old Bulgarian investigative journalist Victoria Marinova had been beaten with such brutal force that the popular television journalist was not recognizable.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Brett Kavanaugh will bring change to the Supreme Court, but maybe not what you think  —  Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination will change the court, but the question is how and to what degree.  —  CONNECT  —  With Brett Kavanaugh as the newest associate justice of the Supreme Court, things are going to be different.
Discussion: NPR
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Emily Zanotti / Daily Wire:   WATCH: Leftist Protesters FREAK OUT, Claw At Supreme Court Doors While Brett Kavanaugh Is Sworn In
Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
The Political Aftermath of the Senate's Final Kavanaugh Vote  —  On September 27th, when Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham delivered a four-minute speech that turned Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation process decisively.
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Kavanaugh was the ‘slut whore drunk’ of the Ford story, Sen. Lindsey Graham says
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed News:
Police Removed A Texas Yard Sign Showing A GOP Elephant With Its Trunk Up A Woman's Skirt  —  Police in Texas removed an anti-Republican political sign from a woman's yard Tuesday night last week, amid nationwide rancor over the Senate's vote on Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Law & Crime
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Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
A Texas yard sign depicted a GOP elephant with its trunk up a girl's skirt. Police seized it.
Discussion: Breitbart, HuffPost and CNN
New York Times:
Limo Crash Leaves 20 Dead in Upstate New York; Accident Toll Is One of the Worst in Memory  —  SCHOHARIE, N.Y. — It was an intersection of two highways, one a steep downhill road, that residents had long warned was notoriously dangerous.  —  On Saturday afternoon, their worst fears were realized …
Discussion: NPR, The Guardian and Splinter
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Albany Times Union:
20 killed in Schoharie limousine crash  —  State Police confirm the number of dead as they work to notify relatives of the dead  —  SCHOHARIE - Twenty people died in Saturday's crash of a limousine in Schoharie County, a tragedy that unfolded outside a popular tourist stop that was filled …
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 …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Nunes' hometown newspaper endorses opponent in midterms  —  The Fresno Bee on Sunday endorsed Democrat Andrew Janz over Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) in next month's election in California's 22nd Congressional District.  —  “Voters in the 22nd District... can elect a representative …
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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.
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
 
 
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Hillary Clinton is still finding ways to denigrate democracy
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Did Jane Mayer, Ronan Farrow, and Michael Avenatti give Trump his biggest victory yet?
Discussion: New York Times and ABC News
Thaddeus G. McCotter / American Greatness:
Kavanaugh and the Crux of a Cold Civil War
Chris Cameron / New York Post:
Hamptons millionaires build luxe panic rooms to hide from MS-13
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Battle for the House Has a Wide Range of Possible Outcomes
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At least 12 dead and more than 100 hurt in Haiti earthquake, with toll likely to rise
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Barbara Starr / CNN:
Trump set to shuffle top generals
Simon Denyer / Washington Post:
Pompeo has ‘productive conversation’ …
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
America, the radicalized
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