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Washington Post:
White House privately doubts Saudi account of journalist's killing — President Trump and his aides have begun to privately express doubts about Saudi Arabia's explanation for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi even as the administration stands publicly in support of the oil-rich monarchy, according to U.S. officials.
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Raw Story and Axios, more at Mediagazer »
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New York Times:
Saudis' Image Makers: A Troll Army and a Twitter Insider — Each morning, Jamal Khashoggi would check his phone to discover what fresh hell had been unleashed while he was sleeping. — He would see the work of an army of Twitter trolls, ordered to attack him and other influential Saudis who had criticized the kingdom's leaders.
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Deadline, Vox, TheBlaze, Engadget, The Verge, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
Saudi Explanation of Jamal Khashoggi's Killing Fails to Squelch Skepticism — Saudi Arabia's acknowledgment that its agents had strangled the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul was met with a flood of international skepticism on Saturday …
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The Week
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Step Away From the Orb — WASHINGTON — I was having dinner here once with a Saudi muck-a-muck. Midway through the interview, he passed an oblong velvet box across the table. Inside I found an expensive piece of jewelry. — I began laughing and explained that I was a reporter and could not take such baubles.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, more at Mediagazer »
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
In Post interview, Trump calls Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed a ‘strong person’ who ‘truly loves his country’ — President Trump retreated late Saturday from his stance that Saudi Arabia's story about the killing of journalist Jamaal Khashoggi inside their Turkish consulate was credible …
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
Corey Stewart says Khashoggi was a “mystery guy” and his death not worth clashing with Saudis
Discussion:
POLITICUSUSA and ThinkProgress
Washington Post:
The Saudi explanation for Jamal Khashoggi's death is a fable. Still Trump plays along.
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New York Times, Discourse.net, France 24, ThinkProgress and CNN
Vivian Nereim / Bloomberg:
Saudis Shocked by Official Flip-Flop on Khashoggi
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Raw Story, Political Wire, Hit & Run and New York Times
Rula Jebreal / Newsweek:
Jamal Khashoggi Secret Interview: The Saudi Journalist's Views of Islam, America and the …
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Sputnik International
New York Times:
Trump, Breaking With U.S. Intelligence, Appears to Accept Saudi Explanation of Journalist's Death
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BBC, Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, HuffPost, Daily Kos, Joe.My.God., Mediaite, Al Jazeera English, The Week, Splinter, The Guardian and Politico
Jamal Khashoggi / Agence France-Presse:
Donald Trump says he finds Saudi explanation of Khashoggi death ‘credible’
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The Guardian, Spectator USA and Mother Jones
TMZ.com:
Senator Mitch McConnell Confronted at Restaurant by Angry Customers — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, was confronted Friday night by some angry diners who loudly berated him for his politics. — The Kentucky Senator was eating dinner with his wife at Havana Rumba in Louisville, when 4 men confronted Mitch.
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The Hill, twitchy.com, Power Line, Breitbart, TheBlaze, Axios, The Gateway Pundit, RedState, Washington Times, The Mahablog, IJR, Daily Wire, Mediaite, Raw Story, The Daily Caller and Talking Points Memo
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Early voting hints at huge turnout — More than 4.3 million Americans have already cast their ballots in the midterm elections, and early signs point to a huge increase in turnout from the last midterm elections in 2014, when overall voter participation hit a 70-year low.
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Ted Enamorado / Washington Post:
Georgia's ‘exact match’ law could disenfranchise 909,540 eligible voters, my research finds — Recently, there's been an uproar about Georgia's approach to voter registration. The state's “exact match” law, passed last year, requires that citizens' names on their government-issued IDs must precisely match …
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ThinkProgress and The Guardian
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
President campaigns for former foe at Nevada rally — ELKO, Nev. — Before Donald Trump's improbable victory nearly two years ago, Dean Heller, this state's Republican senator, told reporters that “I vehemently oppose” the GOP's presidential nominee and returned a donation Trump made to his campaign.
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One America News Network, Politico, The Daily Beast and Washington Times
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David Siders / Politico:
Sanders hints at reckoning with Warren over 2020 ambitions — The two progressive icons are on a collision course. — BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Bernie Sanders says he speaks with Elizabeth Warren nearly every day — just not about 2020. — But with the two progressive behemoths on a collision course …
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Political Wire
The Daily Beast:
Convicted Ex-Trump Adviser George Papadopoulos Fights to Become the Next Big Fox News Star — Asked if aides and those close to Trump see Papadopoulos as an ongoing liability, one White House official replied that they see him generally as a ‘clown trying to make a buck.’
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
G.O.P. Candidates Struggling in Key Battlegrounds, With House at Stake — ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Republican leaders are increasingly worried that their candidates for governor and Senate are in political trouble across Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and other states that the party prizes …
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POLITICUSUSA
Christine Stapleton / Palm Beach Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Mar-a-Lago member Lana Marks headed to South Africa post? — President Donald Trump is said to be ready to nominate couture handbag designer and Palm Beach resident Lana Marks to become ambassador to South Africa, making her the fourth member of the Mar-a-Lago Club that the president has tapped for an ambassadorship.
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Mediaite
Associated Press:
Trump says US will pull out of intermediate range nuke pact — President Donald Trump said Saturday he will pull the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty because Russia has violated the agreement, but he provided no details on the violations.
Discussion:
Front Page Magazine and Politico
Allison Kite / Kansas City Star:
Missouri GOP sent 10,000 voters false absentee voting information — The Missouri Republican Party sent mailers to 10,000 voters across the state with false information about when their absentee ballots are due, the party's executive director acknowledged Friday.
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HuffPost
Dana Schuster / New York Post:
Anthony Scaramucci spills about Trump in tell-all book … It was less than six months before the 2016 election and Donald Trump was aboard his private jet, en route to a campaign rally in Albuquerque, NM — but politics were the farthest thing on his mind. — In front of him on a table …
Anita Snow / KSAZ:
Big numbers of Central Americans arriving at Arizona border — PHOENIX (AP) - Large groups of Central American migrants continue to surrender to Border Patrol agents in Arizona with the arrival of one recent group numbering 108 captured in dramatic video images, authorities said Friday.
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