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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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Summer Meza / The Week:
Democrats' first 2020 debate is only months away  —  Those hoping for a break from high-pressure politics after the November midterms are out of luck.  After just a short couple of months to catch our collective breath, it'll be time to start thinking about the 2020 presidential election.
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
Associated Press:
Trump says allegations against Kavanaugh ‘hoax’
Discussion: Washington Post and Breitbart
Sarah Kendzior / Globe and Mail:   Kavanaugh's appointment isn't a step backward. It's a head-first plunge into an ugly past
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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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.  —  After a week of dire news — the certainty of our ruptured nation, the likelihood of a journalist being murdered — the United Nations' report on climate change was, for some people, a bridge too far.
Jonathan Watts / The Guardian:
We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN
Discussion: Unfogged
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public  —  Google opted not to disclose to users its discovery of a bug that gave outside developers access to private data.  It found no evidence of misuse.  —  Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users …
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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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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Hope Hicks to join New Fox as chief communications officer
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Beast
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.”
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.
Discussion: Bangor Daily News and twitchy.com
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Susan Rice says she'll decide after midterm elections whether to challenge Susan Collins in 2020
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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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump says he has no plans to fire Rosenstein
Discussion: The Daily Beast, The Week and Daily Kos
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
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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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 …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Bill and Hillary Clinton are going on tour in 2018, 2019
New York Times:
Passenger Expressed Concern About Limo Shortly Before Crash Killed 20  —  The company that provided the limousine that crashed in upstate New York on Saturday, killing 20 people, had repeatedly failed motor vehicle inspections and the driver did not have a proper license, according to state officials and federal transportation records.
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Boing Boing
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.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and The Verge
Middle East Eye:
‘Deafening silence’: White House's response to Khashoggi disappearance  —  MBS has been at the helm of a kingdom-wide crackdown on opposition since ascending to crown prince.  But has Trump emboldened him?  —  The US presidency has yet to comment on the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi (AFP)
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Jamal Khashoggi chose to tell the truth. It's part of the reason he's beloved.
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 …
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.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Mike Bloomberg's super PAC spends over $2 million to support seven Democratic women running in House races  — A super PAC funded mainly by billionaire Mike Bloomberg spends over $2 million this month in support of seven women running to unseat veteran House Republicans.
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
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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Stephanie Baker / Bloomberg:
Trump Is Still Losing Millions at His Golf Resorts in Scotland
Media Matters for America:
The press helped build Donald Trump's lie; now it has to reckon with that
Discussion: VICE
Andrew Roth / The Guardian:
Trust in Vladimir Putin declines steeply among Russians, poll shows
Discussion: Boing Boing
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Trump's successful neutering of the FBI's Kavanaugh investigation has scary implications
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
Facebook unveils the Portal, a video chat camera for the people who still trust Facebook
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
One Ford Narrative Too Many  —  In the end, the Christine …
Joe Lawlor / Press Herald:
As lawyers argue Medicaid expansion case, uninsured Mainers forgo health care
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN:
Who needs brand names? Now Amazon makes the stuff it sells
 Earlier Items: 
Asra Q. Nomani / Wall Street Journal:
George Soros's March on Washington
Discussion: The Federalist
Kaya Oakes / New Republic:
The Conservative Resistance Inside the Vatican
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
On Africa Trip, First Lady Reveals a Trump-like Side
Discussion: The Daily Beast and theGrio
Weekly Standard:
Feinstein's Disgrace  —  The California senator has plunged …
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic:
A High-Stakes Immigration Case Hits the Supreme Court
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
James Oliphant / Reuters:
Republicans fear Democratic ‘blue wave’ spreading to once-safe districts