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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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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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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
What Trump Can Do About Saudi Arabia — What happened to Jamal Khashoggi? The Saudis need to provide the U.S. with answers. — When it comes to Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist who has been missing since entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week, we remain in the allegation-and-denial phase.
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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.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Cancel your Christmas plans ... DRIVING THE DAY — CANCEL YOUR CHRISTMAS PLANS ... OVER THE LAST few days, we've seen a massive ramp-up of the “build-the-wall” rhetoric from key Hill Republicans — signaling that the Dec. 7 funding deadline will be a major funding clash over the physical border with Mexico.
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Bruce Riedel / Lawfare:
After Khashoggi, U.S. Arms Sales to the Saudis Are Essential Leverage
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
‘Sweep it under the rug’: Fears grow Trump won't confront Saudis over journalist's disappearance
Elliott Abrams / Washington Post:
Why Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance will haunt the Saudi government
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David Hearst / Middle East Eye:
EXCLUSIVE: Jamal Khashoggi ‘dragged from consulate office, killed and dismembered’
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Brian Klaas / Washington Post:
Jamal Khashoggi's fate casts a harsh light on Trump's friendship with Saudi Arabia
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Catherine Lucey / Associated Press:
Trump: US investigators looking into missing Saudi writer
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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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Associated Press:
Melania Trump says she might be ‘the most bullied person’
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump pledges to ‘weed out’ administration officials he does not trust
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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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Jacey Fortin / New York Times:
Matthew Shepard Will Be Interred at the Washington National Cathedral, 20 Years After His Death — For 20 years, the ashes of Matthew Shepard have not been laid to rest. — Mr. Shepard's killing in 1998, when he was a 21-year-old college student, led to national outrage and, almost overnight …
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Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
Matthew Shepard, whose 1998 murder became a symbol for the gay rights movement, will be interred at Washington National Cathedral — His family didn't bury his remains after Shepard was beaten and left to die near Laramie, Wyo., out of concern that the site would be desecrated.
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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The Daily Beast:
White House Will ‘Look Into’ Fox News' Decision to Stop Broadcasting Trump Rallies — The White House has vowed to “look into” a decision taken by Fox News to stop broadcasting Donald Trump's rallies live and in full because they're no longer bringing in high ratings.
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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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Shakesville, Jezebel and Splinter
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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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ABC News, Hot Air, LifeNews.com and Washington Times
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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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 …
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Republicans Abandon Vulnerable Lawmakers, Striving to Keep House — DALLAS — Vice President Mike Pence laid out a hopeful vision for the midterm elections this week as he campaigned for Representative Pete Sessions of Texas, telling Republican donors that candidates like Mr. Sessions …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump's Contradiction: Assailing ‘Left-Wing Mob’ as Crowd Chants ‘Lock Her Up’ — ERIE, Pa. — When President Trump mocked a Democratic senator at a midterm election rally the other night, the crowd responded with one of his supporters' favorite chants from his own campaign two years ago. “Lock her up!
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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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Jonathan S. Tobin / National Review:
Doubling Down on Global-Warming Alarmism
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Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Study: 80% of Americans Believe Political Correctness Is a Problem — Except among a tiny minority of far-left Americans, political correctness (P.C.) is deeply unpopular. Some 80 percent of people said they viewed P.C. excess as a problem. — That's according to a fascinating survey conducted …
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Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
White Americans Gain the Most From Trump's Tax Cuts, Report Finds — The differing benefits by race reflect longstanding patterns of economic inequality and the structure of the law President Trump signed last year. — The tax cuts that President Trump signed into law last year …
Ken Klippenstein / TYT Network:
Cruz Aide Worked for Dictator Now on Trial for Crimes Against Humanity — Child soldiers. Torture. Rape. Mass executions. — These are some of the atrocities attributed to the regime of Laurent Gbagbo, former president of West Africa's Ivory Coast.
Washington Post:
Larry Hogan for Maryland governor — HAVING CAMPAIGNED in 2014 on a platform by turns vague, glib and pie-in-sky, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan shifted gears and struck a clear and bracing note on the day he took office, promising in his inaugural address to surmount partisanship and wedge politics …
Laura Beckerman / CREW:
Trump Will Likely Benefit from a Massive New Loophole in the Tax Bill — Last year's tax reform legislation disproportionately benefits the wealthiest Americans, including President Trump. However, Trump's ongoing refusal to disclose his tax returns ensures that Americans cannot …
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Republicans warn ‘green wave’ of Democratic cash could overwhelm House GOP candidates — One by one, Democrats running for the House have released jaw-dropping figures the past week: First-time candidates raising $2.7 million in New Jersey, $3.5 million in California's Central Valley and more than $3.6 million in northern Kentucky.
Josh Nathan-Kazis / Forward:
Israeli Spy Firm That Approached Trump First Proposed Dirty Tricks Against BDS — The Israeli private intelligence company that offered to manipulate social media for the Trump campaign offered similar services a year earlier to a group of U.S. Jewish donors who sought to target Israel's critics …
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Politics as the New Religion for Progressive Democrats — The voters who are most amped for the 2018 elections look elite in nearly every way. They are Democrats, college-educated, and largely secular. They are likely to be women, but they're not necessarily white or particularly young.
León Krauze / Slate:
The Democrats Have a Latino Problem — Hispanic voters were supposed to be the party's future. It's not working out that way. — If the Democratic Party is to regain control of Congress or win back the White House, it will need the support of women and minorities.
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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