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Turks tell U.S. officials they have audio and video recordings that support conclusion Khashoggi was killed — The Turkish government has told U.S. officials that it has audio and video recordings that prove Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate …
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Kavanaugh isn't popular with Middle America — First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — WASHINGTON — For all of the talk and evidence of how the fight over Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh …
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Khashoggi friend says journalist angered Saudi government with column during its ‘charm campaign’ — WASHINGTON — In October 2017, Saudi journalist — Jamal Khashoggi crossed a line that made him a marked man and led, most likely, to his brutal death, according to one of his close friends.
Aaron David Miller / The Atlantic:
The U.S.-Saudi Relationship Is Out of Control
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HuffPost:
Trump Calls Media The ‘Enemy Of The People.’ Maybe The Saudis Took Him Literally.
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New York Times:
From Wall Street to K Street, Companies Gauge the Risks of Doing Business With Saudi Arabia
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
America deserves to know how much money Trump is getting from the Saudi government
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Axios, Politico and Mother Jones
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Khashoggi intrigue: A text from the Saudi ambassador, then silence
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Politico
Dylan Byers / NBC News:
Media companies pulling out of Saudi conference after Khashoggi's disappearance
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New York Times:
The World Needs Answers on Jamal Khashoggi
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
I Listened to All Six Trump Rallies in October. You Should, Too — It's not a reality show. It's real. — From the start of the Trump Presidency, many Beltway wise men, and more than a few of Donald Trump's own advisers, said, Don't pay attention to the tweets; forget the overheated language …
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Raw Story
Haley Britzky / Axios:
Beto O'Rourke breaks fundraising record, raises $38 million in 3 months — Sen. Ted Cruz's Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke has raised more $38 million in the third quarter, all from individual contributions, he announced on Friday morning. — You just raised a record-breaking $38.1 million in three months.
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Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Beto O'Rourke raised $38.1 million in last three months, smashing all records in bid to oust Ted Cruz — WASHINGTON — Rep. Beto O'Rourke raised an astonishing $38.1 million in three months, as Democrats in Texas and nationwide showered him with donations for his bid to oust Sen. Ted Cruz.
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Stop the Press Before It Profiles Beto O'Rourke Again
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Sarah Stillman / New Yorker:
The Five-Year-Old Who Was Detained at the Border and Persuaded to Sign Away Her Rights — Helen—a smart, cheerful five-year-old girl—is an asylum seeker from Honduras. This summer, when a social worker asked her to identify her strengths, Helen shared her pride in “her ability to learn fast and express her feelings and concerns.”
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Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed News:
John Kelly Called Elizabeth Warren An “Impolite Arrogant Woman” In An Email — Washington, D.C. — WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff John Kelly called Sen. Elizabeth Warren an “impolite arrogant woman” in a private email he exchanged last year with his top aide following …
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Washington Post:
Republicans who clucked that Clinton and Obama disrespected the Oval Office never heard Kanye West's f-bomb — The Debrief: An occasional series offering reporters' insights — For more than 10 minutes Thursday, President Trump was struck nearly speechless as rapper, activist …
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Tamar Auber / Mediaite:
Kanye West Storms D.C. Apple Store, Gives ‘Keynote Speech’ on Table, Says He's Leaving for Africa
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Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
First lady has ‘more important things to think about’ than Trump's alleged affairs — First lady Melania Trump is brushing aside allegations of infidelity on her husband's part, telling ABC News in an exclusive interview that she has no time for what she calls media speculation and gossip.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
‘We are fine’: Melania Trump brushes off questions about her husband's alleged infidelity
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Ben Jacobs / The Guardian:
Republican pair apparently pose as communists to make Democratic donation — Men visit office of Arizona's Tom O'Halleran with jar of money in apparent effort to create link to far-left — Two young Arizona Republicans tried to make a donation to a Democratic congressman as members …
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Talking Points Memo and Splinter
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The 15 Republican Seats That Democrats Could Sweep — Democrats' promising prospects in the 25 Republican-held House districts that voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 underscore the price of the electoral trade that Donald Trump's tempestuous presidency is imposing on the Republican Party.
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Clinton and Pelosi take star turn — in GOP attack ads
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David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
House Rating Changes: Post-Kavanaugh Polls Reveal an Even More Polarized Landscape — It's not saying much, but House Republicans have seen more bright spots in the past week of polling since the Kavanaugh confirmation fight than they saw in over a month. Both sides agree Democrats' enthusiasm advantage …
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Is Mulling Candidates Who Could Replace Jeff Sessions — Potential candidates for attorney general include Alex Azar, Steven Bradbury and Bill Barr — WASHINGTON—President Trump is considering as many as five candidates as his new attorney general on the assumption that Jeff Sessions …
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Greg Bluestein / politics.myajc:
AJC/Channel 2 poll: Abrams and Kemp in tight race; Trump's approval up — Republican Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams remain locked in a tight race for Georgia governor less than a month before the election, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Channel 2 Action News poll that showed …
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Washington Post:
Hurricane Michael aftermath: Death toll spikes after five storm-related fatalities reported in Virginia — Hurricane Michael is no more. The violent storm that ripped through the Southeast, leaving a trail of death and destruction from Florida to Virginia, finally moved off the coast over the Atlantic Ocean overnight.
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New York Times:
Pope Accepts Wuerl's Resignation as Washington Archbishop, but Calls Him a Model Bishop — VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Friday accepted the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, a moment many victims of clerical sexual abuse had hoped would demonstrate …
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Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
Pope Francis accepts resignation of DC's archbishop, Cardinal Wuerl, amid criticism of Wuerl's handling of abuse claims
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Axios, The Daily Beast and Joe.My.God.
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
POLITICO-Harvard poll: Most Democratic voters driven by desire to ice GOP health agenda — Fear and anger over the GOP's health policies are driving a majority of Democratic voters to the polls in an effort to flip control of the House and put the brakes on the Trump administration's agenda …
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miamiherald:
New poll shows Democrat Shalala trailing GOP opponent in a district Trump lost badly — WASHINGTON — Donna Shalala may be in trouble. — Shalala, a Democrat running in a district that President Donald Trump lost by nearly 20 percentage points in 2016, is trailing Republican TV journalist …
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National Review
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
He Settled a Sex Discrimination Complaint. Now He Wants to Lead Maine. — SCARBOROUGH, Me. — Shawn Moody has made his difficult upbringing and success in business the twin pillars of his campaign to become Maine's next governor, boasting in commercials, debates and speeches about how he built …
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Bangor Daily News
Politico:
Trump May Not Be Crazy, But the Rest of Us Are Getting There Fast — Psychologists' couches are filling up as Americans seek relief from Trump Anxiety Disorder. — CNN before love-making is not his idea of a turn-on. — But she can hardly turn it off—engrossed as she is in the latest unnerving gyrations of Washington.
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Harry Enten / CNN:
The Forecast with Harry Enten: Democrats poised to take the House, GOP likely retains control in Senate — (CNN)Today, we launched The Forecast. — We'll be letting you know, based on our data analysis, who is favored to win and lose in House and Senate races through the election.
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Political Wire and Raw Story
Walker Davis / CREW:
Ethanol Lobbyist Gave Trump Agenda $250K in Dark Money — Republican lobbyist C. Boyden Gray contributed $250,000 to pro-Trump political nonprofit America First Policies in April 2018, according to lobbying disclosure forms filed with Congress. The contribution makes Gray the fifth known contributor …
Antonia Noori Farzan / Washington Post:
Elected mayor at 23 in struggling Fall River, Mass., Jasiel F. Correia II had the makings of a rising star — until Thursday — Jasiel F. Correia II had all the makings of a rising Democratic star. — While still an undergraduate at Providence College, he landed a seat on the city council …
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Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Blocks Aid Workers From North Korea — Move raises pressure on Kim Jong Un amid tense nuclear talks — WASHINGTON—U.S. officials are preventing American aid workers from making humanitarian trips to North Korea, according to people familiar with the matter, inhibiting the flow of food …
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The American Conservative
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: How Mike Bloomberg scared off Anthony Weiner from challenging him in 2009 — THE BIG IDEA: As crazy as it sounds a decade later, Michael Bloomberg considered Anthony Weiner his most formidable potential challenger as he prepared to seek a third term as mayor of New York City in 2009.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge orders partial release of Watergate ‘road map’ — A federal judge has ordered the partial release of a Watergate report that fueled an impeachment drive against President Richard Nixon and could serve as a precedent for a similar effort aimed at President Donald Trump.
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Joe.My.God., Law & Crime and HuffPost
Sean Illing / Vox:
The case for abolishing the Supreme Court — A Harvard law professor on whether it's time to rethink the nation's highest court. — When he was arguing for the ratification of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton wrote that the judiciary “will always be the least dangerous branch …
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American Thinker and Fox News
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: Walker trails in race for Wisconsin governor — Democrat Tony Evers has 53 percent support from likely voters, while Republican Scott Walker has 43 percent. — Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin is behind by double digits in his re-election bid, while Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin …
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