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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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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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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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Bruce Riedel / Lawfare:
After Khashoggi, U.S. Arms Sales to the Saudis Are Essential Leverage — Photo Credit: AFP/Mandel Ngan via Times of Israel — Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos. — Eighteen months ago, Donald Trump visited Saudi Arabia and said he had concluded $110 billion dollars in arms sales with the kingdom.
David Hearst / Middle East Eye:
EXCLUSIVE: Jamal Khashoggi dragged from consulate office, killed and dismembered
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump resists limiting Saudi arms sales amid growing diplomatic crisis over journalist's disappearance
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
‘Sweep it under the rug’: Fears grow Trump won't confront Saudis over journalist's disappearance
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
What Trump Can Do About Saudi Arabia
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Washington Post:
It's time for Saudi Arabia to tell the truth on Jamal Khashoggi
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Elliott Abrams / Washington Post:
Why Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance will haunt the Saudi government
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Amy Harder / Axios:
Scoop: Obama energy secretary suspends role in Saudi megaproject
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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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Mike Levine / ABC News:
Fired official Andrew McCabe accuses FBI of stalling his upcoming book — The fired deputy director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, is accusing his former agency of potentially targeting him unfairly by stalling publication of his much-anticipated book, “The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump.”
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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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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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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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.
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
The Ethics Complaints Against Justice Brett Kavanaugh Haven't Gone Away
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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 …
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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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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Mattathias Schwartz / New York Magazine:
Obama Had a Secret Plan in Case Trump Rejected 2016 Election Results
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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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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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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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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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David Dayen / The Intercept:
Dianne Feinstein Finally Agrees to “Debate” Senate Challenger, While Ensuring Almost No One Watches It — Photos: Marcio Jose Sanchez, Alex Brandon/AP — Dianne Feinstein, the longtime California senator, has finally agreed to a share a stage with her Democratic opponent …
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Sacramento Bee and Splinter
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 and POLITICUSUSA
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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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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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.
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