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Conservatives mount a whisper campaign smearing Khashoggi in defense of Trump — Hard-line Republicans and conservative commentators are mounting a dark whisper campaign against Jamal Khashoggi that is designed to protect President Trump from criticism of his handling of the dissident …
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Pompeo listened to an alleged recording of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi: Turkish Source — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has heard an alleged audio recording of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi's murder inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, according to a senior Turkish official.
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Saudi Arabia Weighs Blaming Intelligence Official for Khashoggi Killing — ISTANBUL — The rulers of Saudi Arabia are considering blaming a top intelligence official close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, three people with knowledge of the Saudi plans said Thursday.
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Trump's closing argument is full of conspiracy theories and brute force. And it just might work. — 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 — In the final days …
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The Experts Were Wrong About the Middle East — “I know what I'm going to do: I'm going to sanction the hell out of Saudi Arabia.” — That's what Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said last week, to the delight of Saudi Arabia's detractors on social media.
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Trump praises Gianforte for assault on Guardian reporter: 'He's my guy' — President's comments at Montana rally in praise of violence against US journalist come amid international outcry over Khashoggi — Play Video — Donald Trump has praised Greg Gianforte, the Congress member from Montana …
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Khashoggi's alleged murder says as much about America as Saudi Arabia — The apparent barbaric killing of Jamal Khashoggi tells us something important about Saudi Arabia. But it also tells us something important about the United States. — First, Saudi Arabia.
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Exclusive: Twitter pulls down bot network that pushed pro-Saudi talking points about disappeared journalist — Twitter became aware of some of the bots on Thursday when NBC News presented the company with evidence of coordinated activity. — Twitter suspended a network of suspected Twitter bots …
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Politico, Hullabaloo, The Verge, The New Arab, Engadget, Boing Boing and Axios, more at Mediagazer »
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Trump Praises Republican Criminal for Attacking Journalist
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U.S. intel officials: Inconceivable Saudi prince had no link to Khashoggi death
U.S. intel officials: Inconceivable Saudi prince had no link to Khashoggi death
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How the current crown prince changed Saudi Arabia — for the worse
How the current crown prince changed Saudi Arabia — for the worse
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Middle East Eye
New York Times:
In Shift on Khashoggi Killing, Trump Edges Closer to Acknowledging a Saudi Role
In Shift on Khashoggi Killing, Trump Edges Closer to Acknowledging a Saudi Role
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Obama's First National Security Adviser Now Works for the Saudis
Obama's First National Security Adviser Now Works for the Saudis
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Kelly, Bolton Get in Profane Shouting Match Outside the Oval Office — President Donald Trump's chief of staff and his national security adviser engaged in a profanity-laced argument outside the Oval Office on Thursday, according to three people familiar with the episode.
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John Kelly and John Bolton Have Shouting Match Over Immigration
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Trump considering Richard Grenell for U.N. ambassador
Trump considering Richard Grenell for U.N. ambassador
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Haley breaks with Trump: ‘In America, our political opponents are not evil’ — Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley insisted Thursday night that “in America, our political opponents are not evil,” a shark rhetorical break from her boss, President Donald Trump …
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At charity dinner, Nikki Haley takes playful jabs at Trump and other political elites — During an address to an annual charity dinner in New York on Thursday night, outgoing U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, the daughter of immigrants from India, recalled the first time President Trump learned of her heritage.
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Hillary? — She's not going away—and Democrats aren't sure what to do about it. — In recent months, some reporters who cover the Trump White House have received phone calls from the last person they would expect: Hillary Clinton.
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Why Hillary Clinton's comments were even more painful than Trump's
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Theodore R. Johnson / Politico:
How 2018 Became the ‘Year of the Black Progressive’
How 2018 Became the ‘Year of the Black Progressive’
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A President Who Believes He Is Entitled to His Own Facts — WASHINGTON — He accepts less-than-credible denials from autocratic heads of state about nefarious acts. He disputes the existence of man-made climate change and insists that photographic evidence of the crowd at his inauguration is fake, part of a media plot to harm him.
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Mueller report PSA: Prepare for disappointment — And be forewarned that the special counsel's findings may never be made public. — President Donald Trump's critics have spent the past 17 months anticipating what some expect will be among the most thrilling events of their lives …
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Paul Manafort is spending A LOT of time with Robert Mueller these days
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Fake intern who recorded McCaskill campaign had access to voter info, campaign says — A conservative activist with Project Veritas posed as an intern with U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill's campaign and had access to voter information, according to a stack of documents McCaskill's lawyer delivered …
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Trump administration does about-face on announcement that top HUD aide would lead Interior watchdog — Interior Department officials said Thursday that they did not approve the hiring of a political appointee as the agency's acting watchdog, calling the announcement of her move by Housing …
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Interior Dept. probe faults Zinke for travels with wife
Interior Dept. probe faults Zinke for travels with wife
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Justice Dept. Rank-and-File Tell of Discontent Over Sessions's Approach — WASHINGTON — During his 20 months in office, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has swept in perhaps the most dramatic political shift in memory at the Justice Department, from the civil rights-centered agenda of the Obama era …
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PolitiFact is forced to retract a story claiming Claire McCaskill didn't say what she definitely said — At some point, we may have to consider the possibility that certain media fact-checkers are not so dispassionate and free from partisan biases as they'd like us to believe.
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Putin says Russia will deploy hypersonic missiles in ‘coming months,’ surpassing US and China — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Moscow will deploy hypersonic weapons in the “coming months.” — A hypersonic weapon is a missile that travels at Mach 5 or higher …
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Burlington police chief reacts to Madelyn Ellen Linsenmeir obituary: ‘I have a problem’ — Burlington police Chief Brandon del Pozo posted this to his Facebook account on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. — I have a problem with this obituary. — Born here in Burlington, Madelyn was the 30-year old mother of a toddler.
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Twitter has a huge Louis Farrakhan problem — Apparently, saying Jews are termites isn't offensive. At least, not offensive enough for Twitter to ban Louis Farrakhan for it. — The Nation of Islam leader's history of blatant anti-Semitism goes back decades.
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Republicans are short on policy wins so they are trying to fire up Trump's base with extreme attack ads — With Election Day just two weeks away, GOP candidates seek to alarm a conservative base disproportionately composed of older, less-educated whites in small towns and rural areas.
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I pulled a 1,500-year-old sword out of a lake — People are saying I am the queen of Sweden because of the legend of King Arthur — Every summer, my parents, my six-year-old brother and I go to stay in a cabin by a lake called Vidöstern in Tånnö in southern Sweden, not far from where we live.
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HBO's ‘Veep’ gag and new Joe Donnelly political ad are basically the same — Dwight Adams, dwight.adams@indystar.com — Many Hoosiers who saw the latest Joe Donnelly ad entitled “Axe” may have viewed it and thought, “well, there's a fella who likes to chop his own wood!”
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Ex-teacher pleads guilty to sex with 14-year-old student … A former middle school teacher in Florida pleaded guilty to having sex with a 14-year-student in her car and in a barn — and is now facing up to 10 years in prison. — Stephanie Peterson, 27, who previously taught …
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Facebook hires Nick Clegg as head of global affairs — Facebook has hired Nick Clegg, the former UK deputy prime minister, to head its global affairs and communications team as it faces escalating problems over data protection and the threat of greater government regulation.
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What does Trump's ascendance mean about America? — It is a sign of the times — the kind involving the seven-horned beast, and the rain of fire, and the end of days — that recent news has been dominated by Kanye, Stormy and the misogynist boor who is president of the United States.
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