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7:30 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: NPR
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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
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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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
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
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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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.
Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:
Taylor Swift, Apolitical No More, Endorses Democratic Candidates in Tennessee  —  Taylor Swift, the pop music titan who has been notably apolitical in turbulent political times, broke her silence on Sunday and endorsed two Democratic candidates running for election in Tennessee.
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Cindy Watts / Tennessean.com:   Last Slide  —  The singer's announcement came the day after …
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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
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 …
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
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.
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Why New Jersey Democrats Are Suddenly Worried About the Menendez Race  —  Democrats in New Jersey, one of the country's bluest states, are growing anxious that the national party is not paying attention to warning signs that Senator Robert Menendez's re-election prospects are shakier than expected.
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CBS News:
Senate races: GOP up in Texas, Tennessee; Dems up in Arizona, New Jersey — CBS News poll
Discussion: RedState, Breitbart and HuffPost
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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Hugh Hewitt / Washington Post:
Trump may be outside our norms. But he is succeeding for all of us.
Discussion: 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
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
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
 Earlier Items: 
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Nunes' hometown newspaper endorses opponent in midterms
Discussion: HuffPost, The Week and POLITICUSUSA
Thaddeus G. McCotter / American Greatness:
Kavanaugh and the Crux of a Cold Civil War
Emily Zanotti / Daily Wire:
WATCH: Leftist Protesters FREAK OUT, Claw At Supreme Court Doors While Brett Kavanaugh Is Sworn In
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Battle for the House Has a Wide Range of Possible Outcomes
 

 
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