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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 …
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Jonathan Watts / The Guardian:
We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN
We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN
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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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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 …
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Washington Post:
Rosenstein to fly with Trump to Florida on Monday, official says — Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, whose future at the Justice Department has been steeped in drama, is planning to fly with President Trump on Air Force One to an event in Florida on Monday, according to an official familiar with his plans.
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Brett Kavanaugh will bring change to the Supreme Court, but maybe not what you think
Brett Kavanaugh will bring change to the Supreme Court, but maybe not what you think
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Sarah Kendzior / Globe and Mail:
Kavanaugh's appointment isn't a step backward. It's a head-first plunge into an ugly past
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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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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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Court Battle Shifts the Political Terrain for Senators in the Heartland — RUTLAND, N.D. — When Senator Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat, and her Republican opponent, Representative Kevin Cramer, put Sunday's annual Uffda Day celebration on their schedules this year, they most likely thought …
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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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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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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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Disappearance and alleged killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi could complicate U.S.-Saudi relations
Disappearance and alleged killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi could complicate U.S.-Saudi relations
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Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Did the Saudis Murder Jamal Khashoggi?
Did the Saudis Murder Jamal Khashoggi?
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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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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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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.
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 …
Benjamin Fearnow / Newsweek:
Colin Powell Says Donald Trump has Turned America from ‘We the People’ to ‘Me the President’ — Former U.S. Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Madeleine Albright both questioned the dramatic negative effects the Trump administration has had on the United States and its people Sunday.
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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.
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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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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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 …
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Kaya Oakes / New Republic:
The Conservative Resistance Inside the Vatican — In August, in a letter published in the National Catholic Register, Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò blamed the Roman Catholic Church's sexual abuse crisis on gay priests who “act under the concealment of secrecy and lies …