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2:50 PM ET, October 8, 2018

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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.
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
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.
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.
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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PR Newswire:
“FOX” Adds to Executive Team with Government Affairs and Corporate Communications Leads for the New Company  —  Danny O'Brien named EVP and Head of Government Relations  —  Hope Hicks appointed EVP and Chief Communications Officer  —  FOX, the company to be spun-off in connection …
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Hope Hicks to join New Fox as chief communications officer
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Beast
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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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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Weekly Standard:   Feinstein's Disgrace  —  The California senator has plunged …
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.”
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.
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
Can Mike Bloomberg Make America Boring Again?
Discussion: New York Daily News
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
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: CNN, The Week and 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
Media Matters for America:
The press helped build Donald Trump's lie; now it has to reckon with that  —  Donald Trump rose to prominence and the presidency on the strength of his self-proclaimed mastery of “The Art of the Deal.”  It was that business acumen, Trump claimed, that allowed him to turn a paltry loan from his father into a vast empire.
Discussion: VICE
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
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
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Trump's successful neutering of the FBI's Kavanaugh investigation has scary implications  —  A proof of concept for further erosion of the FBI.  —  Donald Trump's instinct was right.  A loyal FBI is worth a purge or two.  —  Case in point: Brett Kavanaugh is an associate justice on the Supreme Court.
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Hullabaloo
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 …
Andrew Roth / The Guardian:
Trust in Vladimir Putin declines steeply among Russians, poll shows  —  Backing for ruling party also falls as analysts say pension changes the likely cause  —  Trust in Vladimir Putin and Russia's ruling party have declined steeply over the past year with analysts pointing …
Discussion: Boing Boing
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.
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 …
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.
Ted Cruz Incumbent / New York Times:
We're getting ready to poll voters.  —  Can Democrats turn Texas blue?  —  Beto O'Rourke Congressman  —  This survey was conducted by The New York Times Upshot and Siena College.  —  Where we'll call:  —  Vote choice: Dem.  Rep. Don't know Didn't answer  —  Explore the 2016 election in detail with this interactive map.
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Your Dog May Be Smart, but She's Not Exceptional
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Christian nationalism, explained through one pro-Trump propaganda film
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
17 Years to the Day the U.S. Invaded, 54 Are Killed Across Afghanistan
Stephanie Baker / Bloomberg:
Trump Is Still Losing Millions at His Golf Resorts in Scotland
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
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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
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Susan Rice says she'll decide after midterm elections whether to challenge Susan Collins in 2020
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
 

 
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The Hollywood Reporter:
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