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10:50 AM ET, October 14, 2018

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Los Angeles Times:
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's family benefited from U.S. program for minorities based on disputed ancestry  —  A company owned by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's in-laws won more than $7 million in no-bid and other federal contracts at U.S. military installations …
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
After journalist vanishes, focus shifts to young prince's ‘dark’ and bullying side  —  When he hosted last October's glittering global investment conference in Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had the world at his fingertips.  Thousands of investors, corporate chieftains …
Discussion: Nuclear Diner
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Kelsey Tamborrino / Politico:
Rubio: No ‘business as usual’ with Saudi Arabia  —  Sen. Marco Rubio said Sunday the U.S. should not continue with “business as usual” in response to Saudi Arabia following the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.  —  Rubio, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee …
Discussion: ABC News
Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Saudis reject threats as stocks plunge after Trump comments
Discussion: Axios and POLITICUSUSA
Zainab Fattah / Bloomberg:   Saudi Arabia Says It Will Retaliate Against Punitive Measures
Martin Chulov / The Guardian:
Claims of state-sanctioned hit trigger crisis for Saudi Arabia
Discussion: Washington Post
Hatice Cengiz / New York Times:
My Fiancé Jamal Khashoggi Was a Lonely Patriot
CBS News:
Trump on prospect of Mattis' departure: “At some point, everybody leaves”  —  President Trump suggested that Defense Secretary James Mattis could be one of the next administration officials to depart his Cabinet.  In an interview airing on “60 Minutes” Sunday, the president said there are …
Washington Post:
Voters say they are more likely to cast ballots in this year's midterm elections  —  Three weeks before critical midterm elections, voters are expressing significantly more interest in turning out than they were four years ago, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Trump's approval improves, yet Dems still lead for the House  —  Donald Trump's job approval rating advanced to its second-highest of his career in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, but not by enough to erase a double-digit Democratic lead in midterm election vote preferences.
Discussion: Axios
CNN:
CNN Poll: More see Trump win likely as Biden leads crowded Democratic field  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)Americans are becoming more likely to think President Donald Trump will win a second term in office, while Joe Biden stands atop a crowded field of Democrats perhaps looking to replace him, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.
Discussion: Political Wire
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The Daily Beast:
Far-Right ‘Proud Boys’ Kick, Punch People in New York Following Speech From Leader
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
Todd S. Purdum / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump's Absentee Presidency  —  It is a poignant paradox of Donald Trump's ubiquitous presidency—all tweets, all the time—that a leader who prides himself as omnipresent in digital public discourse is so often absent from national life in the hundred human ways in which the country has come to expect its presidents to perform.
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Three reasons Mueller may not charge Trump with obstruction  —  Washington is in another frenzy over the disclosure that President Trump's lawyers are preparing answers to written questions from special counsel Robert Mueller.  Observers are speculating on the meaning of this move …
Phil Helsel / NBC News:
Trump suggests support for family separations, after earlier practice caused outcry  —  “I will say this: If they feel there will be separation, they don't come,” Trump said.  —  Trump on border security: 'If they feel there will be separation, they won't come'
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Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:   Trump Defends Separating Families at the Border
Washington Post:
Trump has chosen Washington lawyer Pat Cipollone as next White House counsel, people familiar with decision say
Discussion: CNN, Axios and Talking Points Memo
Ronald J. Hansen / Arizona Republic:
Under pressure, Rep. Debbie Lesko takes down false ‘fake doctor’ signs  —  Republican U.S. Rep. Debbie Lesko has agreed to take down campaign signs falsely asserting her Democratic opponent, Hiral Tipirneni, is a “fake doctor” after a medical group that backed Lesko pressed her on the issue.
Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Young Women Aren't Waiting to Seek Political Power  —  Surge of candidates breaks from prior generations who postponed running for office until after their families were established  —  House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, like many female politicians of her generation, began her career after her children were grown.
NBC News:
Democrats have a Latino problem.  Can they fix it in time?  —  Given Trump's rhetoric about immigrants and his border policies, you'd think Hispanics would be leading a march to the polls.  They aren't.  —  HOUSTON — Donald Trump stares at Mary Morales every day from across her office …
Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / Oregonian:
Bear spray, bloody brawls at Patriot Prayer ‘law and order’ march in Portland  —  Gallery: Patriot Prayer in Portland, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018  —  Warning: This post contains graphic content  —  A demonstration billed as a march for “law and order” in the streets of Portland descended …
Des Moines Register:
The Register's endorsements for Congress: GOP has failed to govern; give Democrats a chance  —  When Republicans achieved the trifecta in 2016, winning the presidency as well as holding the House and Senate, it seemed the country was poised to move beyond the GOP-engineered partisan gridlock …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Teresa Watanabe / Los Angeles Times:
Banishment of an acclaimed UC Irvine professor sparks debate over whether #MeToo can go too far  —  For years, the professor told the assistant dean that she was beautiful and greeted her with hugs and a kiss on each cheek.  —  During their time together at UC Irvine, Francisco J. Ayala …
Discussion: Instapundit and Axios
Kyle Smith / National Review:
‘White Women’ Becomes a Disparaging Term  —  The Left is lumping white women together into a giant bloc subject to absurdly broad stereotyping and vitriolic condemnation.  —  Using “white men” as a putdown is no longer extreme enough for the Left.  Now it is moving on to doing the same for “white women.”
James Randerson / Politico:
David Davis: Cabinet must kill off May's Brexit plan  —  The U.K. Cabinet must rise up and kill off Theresa May's Brexit plan in favor of a Canada-style free trade deal, said former Brexit Secretary David Davis.  —  Writing in the Sunday Times, he argued that the deal on the table would preclude …
The Guardian:
MP demands Met police explain why Brexit inquiry dropped  —  Damian Collins says Scotland Yard must explain failure to look into potential crimes committed by three pro-Brexit groups  —  A senior Conservative MP has demanded that Scotland Yard urgently explain why it has not opened …
Daily Wire:
35 Times Men Were Falsely Accused Of Sexual Assault  —  In recent weeks, left-wing activists have been pushing a “Believe All Women” narrative.  This narrative not only ignores due process, but also reality.  Sexual assaults do happen, but so do false accusations.
 
 
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Crackdowns on potential voter fraud fuel worries about ballot access in November
Discussion: Raw Story and ThinkProgress
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
How the Secret Service Foiled an Assassination Plot Against Trump by ISIS
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Fresno Bee:
Trump to give Nunes the Medal of Freedom? Better idea: free nights at a Trump hotel
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
BBC:
Germany protest: Tens of thousands march against far right
Discussion: NPR
Peter Maass / The Intercept:
Max Boot Is Very Sorry for Backing the GOP and the Iraq Invasion. Why Is He Being Praised for This?
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Donald Trump Jr. emerges as GOP fundraising force
Diana Olick / CNBC:
Thousands line up for zero-down-payment, subprime mortgages
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David Siders / Politico:
Kamala Harris books first trip to Iowa
Kelsey Mo / Arizona Republic:
Mitt Romney boosts Martha McSally: She ‘has fought for American safety’
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Can our modern ‘house divided’ remain one nation?
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Different Ends of NeverTrump
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
There's Been a George Soros for Every Era of Anti-Semitic Panic
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No Food, No FEMA: Hurricane Michael's Survivors Are Furious
Thomas Friestad / Bucks County Courier Times:
Political tracker posed as Courier Times reporter at Scott Wallace event
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
As Suburban Women Turn to Democrats, Many Suburban Men Stand With Trump
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
 

 
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Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
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