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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trump Jr. Boosts Smear Tying Missing Journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Islamic Terrorism  —  The president's son, along with conservative media, are using Jamal Khashoggi's interviews with Osama bin Laden to imply he supported Islamic terror.  —  Donald Trump Jr. on Friday promoted …
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CBS News:
Trump vows “severe punishment” if Saudi Arabia is behind missing journalist  —  President Trump tells 60 Minutes Saudi Arabia has denied playing a part in the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, but says the case is being investigated.  See the full interview Sunday, Oct. 14 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. PT on CBS.
Discussion: Bloomberg, Axios and Political Wire
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Trump Jr. promotes tweet smearing missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a secret terrorist ally  —  Donald Trump Jr. on Friday promoted a tweet from Federalist founder Sean Davis that smeared missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi as an ally of the late terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Will you work for a murderer?  That's the question a host of ex-generals, diplomats and spies may soon face.  —  “Why do you work for a murderer?”  —  Increasingly, it seems that is a question many Americans should be preparing themselves to answer.  —  Each year, Saudi Arabia employs …
Discussion: New York Times, Kotaku and CNN
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Jamal Khashoggi's long road to the doors of the Saudi Consulate  —  The long road that took Jamal Khashoggi to the front door of the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and the horror that lay inside began in the 1980s in Afghanistan, when he was a passionate young journalist who supported the Saudi establishment …
Washington Post:
Khashoggi's alleged killing puts pressure on Saudi Arabia's lobbying corps in Washington
Discussion: Sports Illustrated, HuffPost and NPR
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:   Mohammed bin Salman doesn't care about the world's fury
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Trump praises Robert E. Lee during Ohio rally  —  President Donald Trump praised Confederate General Robert E. Lee at a rally in Ohio Friday night during a soliloquy in which he also praised a number of Ohioans, including Union General Ulysses S. Grant.  —  “So Robert E. Lee was a great general …
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Veronica Rocha / CNN:
Trump tells story of Lincoln's “phobia,” says Grant is “finally being recognized as a great general”  —  President Trump launched into an unusual story about two of his predecessors — former President Abraham Lincoln and former President and Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
State Department revokes Hillary Clinton's security clearance at her request  —  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's security clearance has been revoked at her request, the State Department told lawmakers, according to a letter made public Friday.  —  Clinton's clearance was withdrawn …
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MVBreaking / MAGAVoter:   BREAKING: Hillary Clinton's Security Clearance Officially Revoked
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Hillary Clinton loses security clearance after server scandal
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Breitbart
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
'We've never seen anything like this': GOP overwhelmed by Democratic cash  —  The gush of spending in House races has triggered recriminations on the right as the party tries to salvage its majority.  —  A deluge of Democratic spending in the final days of the battle for the House …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Los Angeles Times:   Top GOP funding group snubs incumbents Rohrabacher and Walters 3 weeks before midterm election
Kerry Picket / The Daily Caller:
Vandals Hit NYC GOP Headquarters: ‘Attack Is Merely A Beginning’  —  The Metropolitan Republican Club on Manhattan's Upper East Side was vandalized Thursday night with broken windows, spray-painted anarchy signs, and a threatening message that the “attack is merely a beginning.”
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YouTube:   Proud Boys Violent Fight After Gavin McInnis Republican Club Event 10/12/18
Washington Post:
Trump administration weighs new family separation effort at border  —  The White House is actively considering plans that could again separate parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to reverse soaring numbers of families attempting to cross illegally into the United States …
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Angelina Chapin / HuffPost:
ICE Is Sending Separated Children Home With No One To Pick Them Up
Discussion: Boing Boing
Denver Post:
Endorsement: Mike Coffman's morality must be rewarded in this age of Trump  —  Editorials, Endorsements, Opinion, Perspective  —  Editor's note: This represents the opinion of The Denver Post editorial board, which is separate from the paper's news operation.
Brandon Morse / RedState:
The Meme the Gaming Community Created to Label SJW's Is Pretty Brilliant  —  If you've ever picked up a video game that features other characters that are controlled by the computer, then you've run into non-player characters or NPC's.  —  NPC's serve a host of different functions depending …
Discussion: Right Wing Watch
New York Times:
‘We Need Answers’: Hurricane Michael Leaves Florida Residents Desperate for Aid  —  PANAMA CITY, Fla. — It was two days after Hurricane Michael, and Eddie Foster was pushing his mother in a wheelchair down a thoroughly smashed street, his face creased with a concentrated dose of the frustration …
Discussion: Vox, The Daily Caller and CBS Miami
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
New York Times scrambles to defuse a full-blown staff rebellion … The New York Times is scrambling to quell a staff rebellion at its metro desk after the section's editor, Cliff Levy, unleashed a blistering email to staffers last week, saying the section had “lost its footing” and was in need of “urgent” change.
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Top Hollywood Execs Give Overwhelmingly to Democrats for Midterms  —  Only three members of the THR 100 list donated to the GOP: ‘Saturday Night Live’ creator Lorne Michaels, WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey and Viacom CEO Bob Bakish.  —  Hollywood has always been a reliable source of contributions …
Discussion: Breitbart
Christian Vasquez / Politico:
West Virginia's voting experiment stirs security fears  —  West Virginia is about to take a leap of faith in voting technology — but it could put people's ballots at risk.  —  Next month, it will become the first state to deploy a smartphone app in a general election …
Discussion: Political Wire
David French / National Review:
The Black Men Who Identify with Brett Kavanaugh Understand the Stakes  —  A response to Jemele Hill  —  Earlier today, freshly minted Atlantic writer Jemele Hill published a piece that broke new ground in the Brett Kavanaugh debate.  She revealed that, in her experience …
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Jemele Hill / The Atlantic:
What the Black Men Who Identify With Brett Kavanaugh Are Missing
Discussion: Breitbart
Star Tribune:
Wardlow says he'd fire Democrats in Minnesota AG's office  —  ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republican Minnesota Attorney General candidate Doug Wardlow told a group of supporters that he would fire “42 Democratic attorneys right off the bat” and replace them with Republicans if he wins in November …
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Liberalism Pierces Its Tongue, Again  —  The Democratic Party has become Donald Trump's unwitting ally.  —  Michael Kelly, the legendary journalist who died covering the invasion of Iraq in 2003, once wrote that the “animating impulse” of modern liberalism was to “marginalize itself and then enjoy its own company.
Michael Tackett / New York Times:
Joe Biden Doesn't Hold Back on Trump: He's ‘Trashing American Values’  —  OWINGSVILLE, Ky. — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., in some of his harshest criticism of President Trump to date, said on Friday that the president was “trashing American values” and undermining institutions to …
Discussion: Axios, Political Wire and HuffPost
Jerry Iannelli / Miami New Times:
Miami-Dade County Investigating Fraud Claims Against Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart … Fraud investigators from Miami-Dade's property appraiser are looking into claims that Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart committed homestead-exemption fraud, an office spokesperson confirms to New Times.
New York Times:
Ted Cruz Leads Beto O'Rourke in Times Poll  —  With strong support from men and older voters, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas held a solid lead over Representative Beto O'Rourke, his Democratic challenger, in a poll completed Thursday night by The New York Times Upshot and Siena College.
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
GOP senator demands records on FBI's contact with DNC lawyer over Russian meddling  —  A top Republican senator is demanding documents regarding the FBI's 2016 interactions with a lawyer working for the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign who provided information on Russian meddling.
 
 
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Elliot Dinkin / CNBC:
40% of the American middle class face poverty in retirement, study concludes
Amanda Woods / New York Post:
Teacher who smiled for mugshot pleads guilty to sex with student
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook prototypes Unsend 6 months after Zuckerberg retracted messages
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Collins blasted ‘dark money’ groups in Kavanaugh fight. One just paid to thank her for her vote.
David Dayen / Working In These Times:
Thousands of Amazon Delivery Drivers Won't Be Eligible for the $15 Wage
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Considers Ambassador to Canada as Next U.N. Envoy
Discussion: CNBC
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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
The Danger of Trump's Political Accomplishments
Discussion: National Review
Kristen V Brown / Bloomberg:
‘Everyone Will Be Potentially Identifiable’: Booming DNA Testing Means No Identity Is Hidden on the Web
Aaron Rodriguez / CREW:
CREW Files Hatch Act Complaint Against Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Grace Segers / CBS News:
GOP Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate says he'll “stomp” on opponent's face with golf spikes
 

 
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Financial Times:
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