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Shane Harris / Washington Post:
Crown prince sought to lure Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia and detain him, U.S. intercepts show — The crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered an operation to lure Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia from his home in Virginia and then detain him …
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New York Times:
Khashoggi's Disappearance Puts Kushner's Bet on Saudi Crown Prince at Risk — WASHINGTON — For President Trump, who has made Saudi Arabia the fulcrum of his Middle East policy, the possible murder of a Saudi journalist in Turkey is a looming diplomatic crisis.
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Screenshots show Khashoggi did not see text messages after entering Saudi consulate — Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi checked his phone before entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, but didn't see messages sent minutes later. — WASHINGTON — Missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi checked …
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Wall Street Journal, Just Security and Washington Post
Robert Palladino / US Department of State:
Department Press Briefing — Washington, DC — TRANSCRIPT: — MR PALLADINO: Something for the top. Looking ahead to tomorrow, we are honored to have the Vice President here at the State Department tomorrow to open the second Conference on Prosperity and Security in Central America.
David Hearst / Middle East Eye:
EXCLUSIVE: Jamal Khashoggi dragged from consulate office, killed and dismembered — MEE reveals details of the murder of the prominent Saudi journalist — CCTV footage shows Khashoggi arriving at the consulate on 2 October (AFP) — Jamal Khashoggi was dragged from the consul general's office inside …
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
‘Sweep it under the rug’: Fears grow Trump won't confront Saudis over journalist's disappearance — 'If the Saudis don't come up with a credible answer to this, they're done in this town,' one D.C.-based analyst said. — President Donald Trump's desire to maintain strong ties to Saudi Arabia …
Washington Post:
It's time for Saudi Arabia to tell the truth on Jamal Khashoggi
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Al Arabiya, middleeastmonitor.com, Reuters and Talking Points Memo
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump resists limiting Saudi arms sales amid growing diplomatic crisis over journalist's disappearance
Elliott Abrams / Washington Post:
Why Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance will haunt the Saudi government
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BostonGlobe.com and The Ringer
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
What Trump Can Do About Saudi Arabia
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The Atlantic, Reporters Without Borders and New York Times
Amy Harder / Axios:
Scoop: Obama energy secretary suspends role in Saudi megaproject
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BuzzFeed News and New York Times
United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations:
Corker, Menendez, Graham, Leahy Letter Triggers Global Magnitsky Investigation Into Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi
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Washington Post and ThinkProgress
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Why are U.S. media companies partnering with a Saudi conference?
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Observer, Bloomberg and WHYY, more at Mediagazer »
Rand Paul / The Atlantic:
Stop Military Aid to Saudi Arabia
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New York Times, The Week and The American Conservative
Washington Post:
Rosenstein-McCabe feud dates back to angry standoff in front of Mueller — Shortly after Robert S. Mueller III was appointed to investigate possible coordination between President Trump's campaign and the Kremlin, he was drawn into a tense standoff in which Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein …
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KTVQ-TV, The Last Refuge and Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Trump talked with Jeff Sessions's own chief of staff about replacing him as attorney general — President Trump talked recently with Jeff Sessions's own chief of staff about replacing Sessions as attorney general, according to people briefed on the conversation, signaling …
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Talking Points Memo, Law & Crime, The Week, Mediaite and Political Wire
New York Times:
Former Top F.B.I. Lawyer Says Rosenstein Was Serious About Taping Trump — WASHINGTON — The F.B.I.'s top lawyer told congressional officials in private testimony last week that he had taken seriously a suggestion by the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, to secretly tape conversations …
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Conservative News Today, HuffPost, Washington Post, Sara A. Carter and RedState
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
My Private Oval Office Press Conference With Donald Trump, Mike Pence, John Kelly, and Mike Pompeo — Around 12:20 p.m. on Tuesday, I was on my way out of the White House after a series of meetings in the West Wing. I was reporting on a question that has hung over this administration for months …
Washington Post:
Roberts refers judicial misconduct complaints against Kavanaugh to federal appeals court in Colorado — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Wednesday referred more than a dozen judicial misconduct complaints filed recently against Brett M. Kavanaugh to a federal appeals court in Colorado.
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
INTERVIEW. President Trump: Another Republican president would have taken ‘the easier path’ by dropping Kavanaugh — President Trump has said that while any other Republican president would have “abandoned” Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court nominee, he was so incensed by treatment …
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Washington Times
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
The Ethics Complaints Against Justice Brett Kavanaugh Haven't Gone Away
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Raw Story, Conservative News Today, POLITICUSUSA and NY State of Politics
Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
Melania Trump says she is one of the most bullied people in the world; distrusts some in the West Wing — First lady Melania Trump told ABC News in an exclusive interview that she has told her husband there have been people in his administration she didn't trust who worked for him.
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Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump, no longer ratings gold, loses his prime-time spot on Fox News — President Donald Trump loves to brag about ratings, but he's not getting them anymore. — As he's ramped up his rally schedule ahead of the midterms, viewership numbers for the raucous prime-time events have been roughly similar to …
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, The Week and Political Wire
NBC News:
Trump accuses Hillary Clinton of colluding with Russia as crowd chants ‘lock her up’ — Trump's evidence-free allegation at a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, was an unusually direct claim against his 2016 rival. — ERIE, Pa. — President Donald Trump directly accused Hillary Clinton …
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Washington Post, Jezebel and Splinter
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Mattathias Schwartz / New York Magazine:
Obama Had a Secret Plan in Case Trump Rejected 2016 Election Results
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Front Page Magazine, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo and Daily Wire
The Hill:
GOP shrugs off dire study warning of global warming — Republican lawmakers are largely shrugging off dire climate change warnings spelled out in a major new United Nations report. — Few GOP lawmakers on Wednesday said they had read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) …
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Little Green Footballs
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Jonathan S. Tobin / National Review:
Doubling Down on Global-Warming Alarmism
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Pacific Standard
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
At Immigration Argument, Justice Kavanaugh Takes Hard Line — WASHINGTON — A Supreme Court argument on Wednesday over the detention of immigrants during deportation proceedings seemed to expose a divide between President Trump's two appointees, Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh.
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Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
Justice Kavanaugh unlikely to heed calls for recusal
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Political Wire
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
‘When they go low, we kick them’: How Michelle Obama's maxim morphed to fit angry and divided times — The advice originated not as a blueprint for the midterm elections but as a moral lesson for her daughters. — As Malia and Sasha Obama were ushered into the center of Washington discord …
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Althouse, Chicks On The Right and twitchy.com
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John Wildermuth / San Francisco Chronicle:
Pelosi: Trump's tax returns are fair game if Democrats win House — Expect Democrats to immediately try to force President Trump to release his tax returns if they take back the House in November, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday. — Demanding the president's tax returns …
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Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
Rowan Walrath / Mother Jones:
Embattled Republicans Are Defending Popular Obamacare Provisions They Tried to Kill — Too bad they have a preexisting condition: Their votes. — Rep. Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican who's facing a tight race to keep his seat outside Dallas, has thrown his weight behind protecting insurance coverage …
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Harley Rouda for Congress, Dallas Morning News and Roll Call
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Intellectual Dark Web Frays After Jordan Peterson Tweets Critically About Brett Kavanaugh — Peterson used a blog post to elaborate on this Tweet about Trump's new Justice, and to reflect on the nature of Twitter. — Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation has roiled the group …
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Jordan Peterson and Breitbart
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Democrats aim for big gains in state legislatures — SUNFISH LAKE, Minn. — Bolstered by an unpopular Republican president and favorable winds in suburban districts, Democrats see a golden opportunity to win back hundreds of state legislative seats across the country, rebuilding a bench decimated …
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Political Wire
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Top Republican groups split on how to save the House majority — Sharp differences over spending and strategy are cleaving House Republicans as the two main groups charged with saving the party's embattled majority in the midterm elections go separate ways in key suburban battlegrounds.
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Political Wire
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP closes in on Heitkamp knockout — and control of the Senate — The North Dakota Democrat is down in polls. And if she loses, Democrats can all but kiss their hopes of winning the Senate goodbye. — Republicans say they're on the cusp of delivering a knockout blow to North Dakota Democratic …
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