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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040 — INCHEON, South Korea — A landmark report from the United Nations' scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought …
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Raw Story and Common Dreams
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Washington Post:
The world has barely 10 years to get climate change under control, U.N. scientists say — “There is no documented historic precedent” for the scale of changes required, the body found. — The world stands on the brink of failure when it comes to holding global warming to moderate levels …
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.
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NPR
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Bitter partisan battle wounded Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court he's joined
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Many women saw Kavanaugh as unfairly accused, could be ‘our husbands, our sons’: Trump counselor
Many women saw Kavanaugh as unfairly accused, could be ‘our husbands, our sons’: Trump counselor
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IJR, The Daily Caller and Breitbart
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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Sophia A. Nelson / NBC News:
Sophia A. Nelson Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation is the ultimate affirmation of the patriarchy …
Sophia A. Nelson Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation is the ultimate affirmation of the patriarchy …
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The Gateway Pundit, Daily Caller News Foundation, The Daily Caller, New York Times and Daily Kos
CBS News:
Susan Collins: Kavanaugh vote “ranks right up there” with the most difficult votes she has cast
Susan Collins: Kavanaugh vote “ranks right up there” with the most difficult votes she has cast
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Mother Jones, AOL, Lawyers, Guns & Money, CBS Los Angeles and Jezebel
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Susan Collins's Declaration of Cowardice
Susan Collins's Declaration of Cowardice
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CNN, New York Times and Bangor Daily News
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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The Diplomat and Daily Caller News Foundation
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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 …
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Reuters, HuffPost, CNN and 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.
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Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Did the Saudis Murder Jamal Khashoggi? — The last time I spoke with Jamal Khashoggi, in August, he was worried about his life. The Saudi dissident, a fifty-nine-year-old former editor and government adviser, was convinced that the kingdom's new leadership wanted to kill him.
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Washington Post:
We need answers on Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance
We need answers on Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance
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The Guardian, KTVQ-TV and ThinkProgress
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Astronaut Scott Kelly apologizes after quoting, praising Winston Churchill — Scott Kelly, a retired American astronaut with multiple space flights under his belt, apologized Sunday after quoting Winston Churchill and calling the 20th century British prime minister “one of the greatest leaders of modern times.”
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RedState
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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Politico, more at Mediagazer »
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Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Bulgarian Journalist Victoria Marinova Brutally Raped and Murdered
Bulgarian Journalist Victoria Marinova Brutally Raped and Murdered
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European Federation …, One America News Network and France 24
Martin Dimitrov Birn Sofia / Balkan Insight:
TV Host's Brutal Murder Shakes Bulgaria
TV Host's Brutal Murder Shakes Bulgaria
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The Guardian
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 …
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WCDC-TV, AOL, Associated Press, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, NPR and Splinter
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Albany Times Union:
20 killed in Schoharie limousine crash
20 killed in Schoharie limousine crash
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USA Today, New York Post, Breitbart and AOL
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.
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Hullabaloo and Law & Crime
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: White House begins prepping for Democratic legal storm — Top officials inside the White House have taken their first steps to prepare for an onslaught of investigations if Democrats win the House. — What we're hearing: According to a source with direct knowledge …
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Raw Story
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.
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Washington Post, Splinter, The Moderate Voice and Breitbart
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Emily Tillett / CBS News:
McConnell: Senate won't be “intimidated” by “mob-like tactics” of anti-Kavanaugh protesters
McConnell: Senate won't be “intimidated” by “mob-like tactics” of anti-Kavanaugh protesters
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Political Wire and Hullabaloo
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic:
Requiem for the Supreme Court
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
KATU-TV:
Driver plows through protesters in downtown Portland — A driver plowed through a group of protesters marching in downtown Portland on Oct. 6, 2018. KATU photo — AA — PORTLAND, Ore. - A driver plowed through a group of protesters in downtown Portland Saturday afternoon.
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The Gateway Pundit
Corey Kilgannon / WRAL-TV:
The World's Oldest Barber Is 107 and Still Cutting Hair Full Time — NEW WINDSOR, N.Y. — Anthony Mancinelli shook out a barber towel and welcomed the next customer to his chair in Fantastic Cuts, a cheery hair salon in a nondescript strip mall, about an hour's drive north of New York City.
John Detrixhe / Quartz:
The UK is practicing cyberattacks that could black out Moscow — British defense officials say they have practiced cyber war games that could shut off electricity in Russia's capital, the Sunday Times (paywall) reports. — The measures are part of a wider range of strategies to hit …