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7:55 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 …
Discussion: Climate Home News
CNN:
Planet has only until 2030 to stem catastrophic climate change, experts warn
Discussion: CBS Baltimore
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.”
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: Betsy's Page, NPR and PJ Media Home
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Bitter partisan battle wounded Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court he's joined
Discussion: The Week
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic:   Requiem for the Supreme Court
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Disappearance and alleged killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi could complicate U.S.-Saudi relations  —  The disappearance and alleged killing last week of dissident Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi while he was visiting the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul is only the latest challenge …
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Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Did the Saudis Murder Jamal Khashoggi?
Discussion: The Week and Washington Post
James Oliphant / Reuters:
Republicans fear Democratic ‘blue wave’ spreading to once-safe districts  —  SPOTSYLVANIA, Virginia (Reuters) - The last time U.S. congressional elections were held in this central Virginia district, Meg Sneed voted for the Republican incumbent, Representative Dave Brat.  Her friend, Cheryll Lesser, did not vote at all.
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:   Court Battle Shifts the Political Terrain for Senators in the Heartland
New York Times:
Interpol Chief Meng Hongwei Quits and Is Detained by China  —  In a startling 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, was under investigation on …
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Emily Yahr / Washington Post:
Taylor Swift's stunning statement: Famously apolitical star slams Tennessee Republican, endorses Democrats  —  In a stunning turnaround from her refusal to discuss anything related to politics, Taylor Swift revealed whom she's voting for in the 2018 midterms.
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Cindy Watts / Tennessean.com:   Last Slide  —  The singer's announcement came the day after …
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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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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Washington Post:
Survey of battleground House districts shows Democrats with narrow edge  —  Likely voters who live in 69 battleground House districts across the country narrowly prefer Democratic candidates, according to a new Washington Post-Schar School survey, a potentially worrying sign for Republicans given …
Discussion: Political Wire
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: The Texas Tribune and 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.
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Jennifer Gould Keil / New York Post:
Feds freeze Russian oligarch's assets, Upper East Side mansion … A sprawling mansion on the Upper East Side has been frozen as part of a hard-core battle between the US government and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, The Post has learned.  —  US officials say Deripaska, an aluminium billionaire …
Discussion: Political Wire
Cameron McWhirter / Wall Street Journal:
Georgia Boosts Eligible Voters in Groups Leaning Democratic  —  Increase in voting ranks among women, minorities comes during closely-contested race for governor  —  ATLANTA—Since Georgians went to the polls in 2016, more than half a million voters have been registered …
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.
Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?  —  A team of computer scientists sifted through records of unusual Web traffic in search of answers.  —  In June, 2016, after news broke that the Democratic National Committee had been hacked, a group of prominent computer scientists went on alert.
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
Thomas Fuller / New York Times:
Life on the Dirtiest Block in San Francisco  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The heroin needles, the pile of excrement between parked cars, the yellow soup oozing out of a large plastic bag by the curb and the stained, faux Persian carpet dumped on the corner.  —  It's a scene of detritus that might bring …
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.
 
 
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Garrett Epps / The Atlantic:
A High-Stakes Immigration Case Hits the Supreme Court
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Post:
Trump may be outside our norms. But he is succeeding for all of us.
Discussion: USA Today and IJR
Sarah Kendzior / Globe and Mail:
Kavanaugh's appointment isn't a step backward. It's a head-first plunge into an ugly past
John Detrixhe / Quartz:
The UK is practicing cyberattacks that could black out Moscow
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Why New Jersey Democrats Are Suddenly Worried About the Menendez Race
Discussion: CBS News
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
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
In their celebrations, Team Kavanaugh thanks Michael Avenatti
Discussion: Political Wire and twitchy.com
KATU-TV:
Driver plows through protesters in downtown Portland
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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: HuffPost, The Week and POLITICUSUSA
Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
The Political Aftermath of the Senate's Final Kavanaugh Vote
Thaddeus G. McCotter / American Greatness:
Kavanaugh and the Crux of a Cold Civil War
 

 
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The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney expects to spend $24B on content in 2025, up from $23.4B in 2024, due to sports programming expenses rising after NFL rate increases and NBA contracts

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Disney said Disney+ Q4 ARPU in the US and Canada, down 1% QoQ to $7.70, was affected partly by new wholesale arrangements with some distributors

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google plans to stop showing political ads to users in the EU in 2025 due to uncertainties around new transparency rules coming into effect in October 2025

 
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