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Saudis are said to have lain in wait for Jamal Khashoggi — ISTANBUL — As Jamal Khashoggi prepared to enter the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, a squad of men from Saudi Arabia who investigators suspect played a role in his disappearance was ready and in place.
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New York Times:
Turkish Officials Say Khashoggi Was Killed on Order of Saudi Leadership — ISTANBUL — Investigators are examining the movements of Saudi officials who flew to Istanbul and went to the Saudi Consulate there on the same day that a Saudi dissident journalist disappeared after going to the building …
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Washington Post:
Video shows team accused in Khashoggi disappearance in Istanbul hotels, airport
Video shows team accused in Khashoggi disappearance in Istanbul hotels, airport
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Sputnik International
Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Lawmakers Challenge Trump's Support for Saudi War In Yemen
U.S. Lawmakers Challenge Trump's Support for Saudi War In Yemen
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Axios, The American Conservative and Boing Boing
Donald J. Trump / USA Today:
Donald Trump: Democrats ‘Medicare for All’ plan will demolish promises to seniors — The Democrats want to outlaw private health care plans, taking away freedom to choose plans while letting anyone cross our border. We must win this. — CONNECT — Throughout the year …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Fact-Checking President Trump's USA Today op-ed on ‘Medicare-For-All’ — President Trump wrote an opinion article for USA Today on Oct. 10 regarding proposals to expand Medicare to all Americans - known as Medicare-For-All — in which almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or a falsehood.
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Brett Kavanaugh Didn't Buy His URL. It's Now A Resource For Sexual Assault Survivors. — BrettKavanaugh.com directs visitors to organizations offering support. — Don't expect to find any flattering biographical information about newly-minted Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on his namesake website domain.
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Bloomberg:
Bannon Says Republicans Still Have a Shot at Keeping the House
Bannon Says Republicans Still Have a Shot at Keeping the House
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Political Wire
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Wave watch: Inside the Democratic primary turnout surge
Wave watch: Inside the Democratic primary turnout surge
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Hullabaloo
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Conway: Blue wave forecasts coming from ‘same geniuses’ who predicted Clinton win
Conway: Blue wave forecasts coming from ‘same geniuses’ who predicted Clinton win
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Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
Trump's Patron-in-Chief — Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has never been more powerful. The Trump administration has advanced his ideological and financial interests, including an assist in his quest to build a casino in Japan. — LATE ON A THURSDAY evening in February 2017 …
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KNXV:
Poll: Martha McSally gaining in Senate race against Kyrsten Sinema — abc15.com staff , Danielle Lerner — PHOENIX - A new poll of Arizona's contested Senate race shows frontrunner Republican Martha McSally increasing her lead over Democrat Kyrsten Sinema.
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Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Senate Dem hopeful Kyrsten Sinema promoted events featuring convicted terror lawyer
Senate Dem hopeful Kyrsten Sinema promoted events featuring convicted terror lawyer
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Washington Free Beacon, Jihad Watch and Daily Wire
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Kavanaugh confirmation energizes Democrats more than GOP — A total of 46 percent say the Senate ‘made the wrong decision.’ — Republicans are touting the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh as rocket fuel for the GOP grass roots in next month's midterm elections …
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Jackie Borchardt / Cincinnati.com:
Midterm election poll: Ohio Issue 1, Democrats leading among likely voters
Midterm election poll: Ohio Issue 1, Democrats leading among likely voters
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wabe.org:
Voting Rights Become A Flashpoint In Georgia Governor's Race — Marsha Appling-Nunez was showing the college students she teaches how to check online if they're registered to vote when she made a troubling discovery. Despite being an active Georgia voter who had cast ballots in recent elections, she was no longer registered.
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Alan Cullison / Wall Street Journal:
A Trio of Wealthy Russians Made an Enemy of Putin. Now They're All Dead. — Nikolai Glushkov, a close associate of the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky, was preparing to testify that Aeroflot was a corrupt instrument of Russian intelligence — LONDON—Nikolai Glushkov, a Russian émigré …
Deborah Haynes / Sky News:
Ex-MI6 spy's veiled swipe at Donald Trump revealed — Christopher Steele, the former MI6 officer behind the Russia dossier on Donald Trump, has broken 18 months of silence with a veiled swipe at the US president. — He has written about the importance of speaking “truths to power” …
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Julia Macfarlane / ABC News:
Former MI6 spy Christopher Steele, who compiled controversial dossier, breaks silence to criticize Trump
Former MI6 spy Christopher Steele, who compiled controversial dossier, breaks silence to criticize Trump
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ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
A Man Charged In Connection With Mueller's Russian Troll Farm Case Was Sentenced To Six Months In Prison — Richard Pinedo pleaded guilty to one count of identity fraud. Prosecutors say there was no evidence he knew he was aiding Russians trying to influence the 2016 election, however.
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Political Wire and Axios
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Mueller gets longest sentence yet for man who helped Russian trolls
Mueller gets longest sentence yet for man who helped Russian trolls
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ABC News
Financial Times:
James Murdoch in line to replace Elon Musk as Tesla chair — James Murdoch has become the favourite to succeed Elon Musk as the chairman of Tesla, which has to replace the electric carmaker's founder in the role by the middle of next month. — Mr Musk agreed to leave the chairman's post …
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
The Trump Campaign Says Exploiting Hacked Emails Is Free Speech — In a motion to dismiss a new lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump's campaign team of illegally conspiring with Russian agents to disseminate stolen emails during the election, Trump campaign lawyers have tried out a new defense: free speech.
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Wall Street Journal:
Late GOP Activist Peter W. Smith Met With Former Trump Adviser Michael Flynn in 2015, Sources Say — New email and interviews indicate the Republican operative who sought to obtain Hillary Clinton's emails had established a relationship with Mr. Flynn — A veteran Republican activist whose quest …
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Welcome to the jungle — Sometimes a particular event, the fate of a particular individual, becomes a symbol of a global, historical trend. The reported murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Post contributor, in a consulate in Istanbul is one of those moments.
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New York Times:
Why Is Israel Scared of This Young American? — Societies that bar their critics aren't protecting themselves. They are advertising their weakness. — In March, the writer Andrew Sullivan described each of us as a “Zionist fanatic of near-unhinged proportions.” It was a cheap shot.
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The Hill:
Haley resigns as US ambassador to UN — Nikki Haley on Tuesday resigned as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a surprising departure that deprives President Trump's foreign policy team of one of its most well-known and outspoken figures. — Haley, a former South Carolina governor …
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Associated Press:
McConnell to AP: 'Nobody's going to beat' Murkowski — WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that “nobody's going to beat” Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska despite her opposition to Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination.
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Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Dow drops 400 points as October rout continues, tech stocks lead slide — Stocks sank on Wednesday, led by a steep decline in tech shares as this month's sell-off continued. — The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 400 points lower as Intel and Microsoft fell more than 1.5 percent each.
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
One Year of #MeToo: What Women's Speech Is Still Not Allowed to Do — During the past year, I have grown increasingly uneasy with a fairly common bit of semantic slippage: in headlines, in think pieces, and on social media, many people use the phrases “#MeToo movement” and “#MeToo moment” …
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The Daily Beast
Leah Crane / New Scientist:
Moons can have moons and they are called moonmoons — Stars are orbited by planets, which are orbited by moons, but what comes next? More moons, according to a new analysis. — Juna Kollmeier at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and Sean Raymond at the University of Bordeaux …
Hollywood Reporter:
Stephen Miller's Third-Grade Teacher: He Was a “Loner” and Ate Glue — In 1993, Donald Trump's senior political adviser attended Santa Monica's Franklin Elementary, where he was “off by himself all the time.” — I can still picture him sitting in my classroom.
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Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Nervous Democrats ask: Could Election Day disaster strike again? — It was this week two years ago that Hillary Clinton's victory looked assured, when the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape of Donald Trump bragging about sexual assault appeared all but certain to end his campaign.
Adam Rubenstein / Weekly Standard:
Charlie Kirk's Campus Battlefield Is a Hot Mess — This isn't a book; it's a direct mail pitch that you have to pay to read. — Charlie Kirk has given America another gift, this time a monograph on the university called Campus Battlefield: How Conservatives Can WIN the Battle on Campus and Why It Matters.
Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture — On social media, the country seems to divide into two neat camps: Call them the woke and the resentful. Team Resentment is manned—pun very much intended—by people who are predominantly old and almost exclusively white.
Louis Casiano / Fox News:
Jamie Lee Curtis wields firearms in new ‘Halloween’ movie despite advocating for gun control — Jamie's got a gun in the latest “Halloween” reboot. — In the 11th installment of the horror film series, Jamie Lee Curtis's character, Laurie Strode, is seen wielding firearms in her quest …
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New York Times:
In New York Limo Crash, Son of Company Owner Is Arrested — ALBANY — The son of the owner of a limousine company at the center of an investigation of the crash in upstate New York that killed 20 people was arrested on Wednesday, according to a law enforcement official.
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