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9:00 PM ET, October 7, 2018

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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 and Hullabaloo
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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.
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Lindsey Graham Is the Saddest Story in Washington
Discussion: Raw Story and ABC News
Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:   The Political Aftermath of the Senate's Final Kavanaugh Vote
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Kavanaugh was the ‘slut whore drunk’ of the Ford story, Sen. Lindsey Graham says
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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 and Axios
Al Weaver / Washington Examiner:   Senate Democrats stand by Manchin, Bredesen despite Kavanaugh support
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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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Bitter partisan battle wounded Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court he's joined  —  It is easy to answer the question of how Brett M. Kavanaugh will be received by his fellow justices at the Supreme Court after a historically bitter and tumultuous confirmation battle: as one of nine equals …
Emily Zanotti / Daily Wire:
WATCH: Leftist Protesters FREAK OUT, Claw At Supreme Court Doors While Brett Kavanaugh Is Sworn In
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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Thaddeus G. McCotter / American Greatness:   Kavanaugh and the Crux of a Cold Civil War
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, CNN and ThinkProgress
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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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.
Martin Dimitrov Birn Sofia / Balkan Insight:
TV Host's Brutal Murder Shakes Bulgaria
Discussion: The Guardian
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: New York Times and 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
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.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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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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
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.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
 
 
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
In their celebrations, Team Kavanaugh thanks Michael Avenatti
Discussion: Political Wire and twitchy.com
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic:
Requiem for the Supreme Court
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Hillary Clinton is still finding ways to denigrate democracy
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