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2:45 AM ET, October 8, 2018

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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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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 …
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.”
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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Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:   The Political Aftermath of the Senate's Final Kavanaugh Vote
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Susan Collins's Declaration of Cowardice
Alan Dershowitz / Fox News:
Kavanaugh and impeachment - Democrats, don't try to conduct a revenge inquisition
Discussion: Daily Wire and Raw Story
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
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
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic:   Requiem for the Supreme Court
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
Discussion: EURACTIV.com and 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: RedState, Breitbart and HuffPost
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:   Why New Jersey Democrats Are Suddenly Worried About the Menendez Race
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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Albany Times Union:
20 killed in Schoharie limousine crash
Discussion: USA Today, New York Post, Breitbart and AOL
Washington Post:
We need answers on Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance  —  THREE GOVERNMENTS now bear inescapable responsibility to act on the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, the renowned Saudi journalist and commentator for The Post, who vanished after entering Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul last Tuesday.
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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
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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
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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Emily Tillett / CBS News:
McConnell: Senate won't be “intimidated” by “mob-like tactics” of anti-Kavanaugh protesters
Discussion: Political Wire and Hullabaloo
Emily Zanotti / Daily Wire:
WATCH: Leftist Protesters FREAK OUT, Claw At Supreme Court Doors While Brett Kavanaugh Is Sworn In
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.
Matthew Rozsa / Salon:
This website will tell Georgia voters if they were purged... but they must reregister by Tuesday  —  Journalist Greg Palast has created a website so that voters in Georgia can learn if they were wrongly purged  —  If you're a voter in Georgia, there is a 1 in 10 chance that you were purged from the voting rolls at some point in 2017.
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
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 …
 
 
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Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
Populist Wave Hits Latvia, Lifting Pro-Russia Party in Election
Discussion: EURACTIV.com
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Rule Breaking Worked
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
In their celebrations, Team Kavanaugh thanks Michael Avenatti
Discussion: Political Wire and twitchy.com
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Hillary Clinton is still finding ways to denigrate democracy
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Nunes' hometown newspaper endorses opponent in midterms
Discussion: The Week, HuffPost and POLITICUSUSA
Thaddeus G. McCotter / American Greatness:
Kavanaugh and the Crux of a Cold Civil War
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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
Barbara Starr / CNN:
Trump set to shuffle top generals
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Operative Secretly Raised at Least $100,000 in Search for Clinton Emails
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and emptywheel
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
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