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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
MeToo Is a ‘Movement Toward Victimization,’ G.O.P. Senate Candidate Says — BISMARCK, N.D. — Representative Kevin Cramer of North Dakota has repeatedly made headlines this year in his race against Senator Heidi Heitkamp because of off-the-cuff comments that range from inflammatory to indelicate.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
With Battle Over, Kavanaugh Quickly Gets to Work as a Supreme Court Justice — WASHINGTON — A day after the bitter fight over his nomination ended in his elevation to the Supreme Court, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh was in his new chambers on Sunday, preparing for the arguments the court …
Kathryn Krawczyk / The Week:
Brett Kavanaugh just hired the Supreme Court's first all-women law clerk team
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Court Battle Shifts the Political Terrain for Senators in the Heartland
Sarah Kendzior / Globe and Mail:
Kavanaugh's appointment isn't a step backward. It's a head-first plunge into an ugly past
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
On the Left, Eyeing More Radical Ways to Fight Kavanaugh
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NBC News, Breitbart and High School SCOTUS
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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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 …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The planet is on a fast path to destruction. The media must cover this like it's the only story that matters.
Jonathan Watts / The Guardian:
We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN
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Unfogged
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.”
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.
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Rod Rosenstein to Join Trump Aboard Air Force One — WASHINGTON — Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, and President Trump planned to travel to Florida together on Air Force One Monday morning, a week and a half after the two were scheduled to discuss remarks Mr. Rosenstein …
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Margot Cleveland / USA Today:
Democrats have unleashed a red wave of Brett Kavanaugh-believing women voters — Democrats' partisan treatment of Christine Blasey Ford's accusations against Brett Kavanaugh shows women just who is really on their side. — CONNECT — The Democrats declared war on Brett Kavanaugh in the name of women's rights.
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Weekly Standard:
Feinstein's Disgrace — The California senator has plunged the nation into a bitter fight from which it will not soon emerge. — We do not endorse candidates for office. And if we did, we wouldn't endorse a progressive Democrat. We are, however, sorely tempted to suggest Californians vote …
Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Christine Blasey Ford Can't Return Home Due To ‘Unending’ Threats, Lawyers Say
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American Greatness, Media Matters for America and POLITICUSUSA
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Can Taylor Swift, revered by young Americans, help lead Democrats out of the woods? — “Youth vote” can seem almost a contradiction in terms given the tendency of young people to stay home on Election Day, perhaps more enthralled by social networking and celebrities like Taylor Swift than by elections and the fate of the republic.
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Juliette Garside / The Guardian:
Former Cambridge Analytica chief used N-word to describe Barbados PM — Exclusive: leaked papers reveal racist slur by Alexander Nix, who is pitching to run election campaigns in Caribbean — Alexander Nix, the former chief executive of the elections consultancy Cambridge Analytica …
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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 …
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Hope Hicks to Head Communications for New Fox — Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director who served during the chaotic first year of the Trump administration, has been named head of corporate communications for New Fox, the company to emerge after 21st Century Fox completes …
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Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Presidential Proclamation on Columbus Day, 2018 — In 1492, Christopher Columbus and his mighty three-ship fleet, the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria, first spotted the Americas. His historic achievement ushered in an Age of Discovery that expanded our knowledge of the world.
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Benjamin Fearnow / Newsweek:
Colin Powell Says Donald Trump has Turned America from ‘We the People’ to ‘Me the President’
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John Solomon / The Hill:
FBI's smoking gun: Redactions protected political embarrassment, not ‘national security’ — To declassify or not to declassify? That is the question, when it comes to the FBI's original evidence in the Russia collusion case. — The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI have tried …
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The Gateway Pundit and The Last Refuge
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 …
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Politico, NBC News, Shareblue Media, POLITICUSUSA, The Week, Daily Kos and Political Wire
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Jamal Khashoggi chose to tell the truth. It's part of the reason he's beloved. — This column has been updated. — George Orwell titled a regular column he wrote for a British newspaper in the mid-1940s “As I Please.” Meaning that he would write exactly what he believed.
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Martin Chulov / The Guardian:
Khashoggi: case against Saudi agents reverberates through Ankara and Riyadh
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Jon Kyst / EU vs DISINFORMATION:
Viral “Manspreading” Video is Staged Kremlin Propaganda — A young woman walks up to a man in a subway train and pours liquid over him from a plastic bottle. — The scene is repeated a number of times with different men who all react with anger and bewilderment.
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BBC:
Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova killed in Ruse — Police in Bulgaria are investigating the killing of journalist Viktoria Marinova. — Her body was found in a park in the northern city of Ruse, near the River Danube, on Saturday. — Interior Minister Mladen Marinov later confirmed she had also been raped.
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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.
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
On Africa Trip, First Lady Reveals a Trump-like Side — CAIRO — Back home, Washington was in turmoil, but the first lady had something on her mind. — On one of the most consequential days of her husband's embattled presidency, as the Senate approved his controversial choice for the Supreme Court …
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Mesfin Fekadu / Yahoo:
APNewsBreak: Hillary, Bill Clinton to go on tour this year — NEW YORK (AP) — Now that Beyonce and Jay-Z are off the road, another power couple is taking their place: Hillary and Bill Clinton. — The Clintons announced Monday they will visit four cities in 2018 and nine in 2019 across North America …
Golf News Net:
Donald Trump visited the golf course for the 159th time as President — Donald Trump paid an Oct. 7 visit to Trump National Golf Club, Washington, D.C. in northern Virginia, representing the 158th time the 45th President has visited one of his 17 golf clubs (and, for most of them …
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