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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 …
Jonathan Watts / The Guardian:
We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN
Discussion: Unfogged
CNN:
Planet has only until 2030 to stem catastrophic climate change, experts warn
Discussion: KTVQ-TV and CBS Baltimore
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.
Discussion: Washington Post, Daily Kos and Splinter
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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 …
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
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Brett Kavanaugh will bring change to the Supreme Court, but maybe not what you think
Discussion: Betsy's Page, NPR and PJ Media Home
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.
Discussion: Yahoo, Talking Points Memo, IJR and Althouse
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The Daily Beast:
Taylor Swift Endorses Bredesen & Cooper, Says Blackburn ‘Terrifies’ Her
Discussion: Raw Story
Emily Yahr / Washington Post:   Taylor Swift's stunning statement: Famously apolitical star slams Tennessee Republican, endorses Democrats
Cindy Watts / Tennessean.com:   Last Slide  —  The singer's announcement came the day after …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Washington Post:
Rosenstein to fly with Trump to Florida on Monday, official says
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 …
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Margot Cleveland / USA Today:
Democrats have unleashed a red wave of Brett Kavanaugh-believing women voters
Discussion: Washington Post
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
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.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Presidential Proclamation on Columbus Day, 2018
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Yahoo:   US in new global court showdown with Iran
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
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 …
US Department of State:
Remarks With Traveling Press  —  Remarks  —  Secretary of State  —  Special Representative for North Korea  —  Grand Hyatt Hotel Seoul, South Korea  —  QUESTION: So how close are you guys on the logistics for a second summit?  —  SECRETARY POMPEO: Pretty close.  —  QUESTION: Like, so an announcement should be —
Discussion: Weekly Standard
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CNN:
North Korea is ready to allow inspection of key nuclear site, Pompeo says
Discussion: National Review and The Week
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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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 …
Discussion: theGrio and Washington Times
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.
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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