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Reuters:
How the man behind Khashoggi murder ran the killing via Skype — (Reuters) - He ran social media for Saudi Arabia's crown prince. He masterminded the arrest of hundreds of his country's elite. He detained a Lebanese prime minister. And, according to two intelligence sources …
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Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Khashoggi met with crown prince's brother amid efforts to return him to Saudi Arabia — Prince Khalid had been contacting Khashoggi for at least a year to try to persuade him to return, three individuals told NBC News. — WASHINGTON — Months before he was killed in Istanbul …
Martin Chulov / The Guardian:
Khashoggi case has put Saudi prince right where Erdoğan wants him — Turkish president on losing end of regional power struggle with Bin Salman now finds himself in the ascendant — At about noon on Tuesday two regional leaders are due to make landmark addresses.
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Mnuchin meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman despite outcry over government's role in journalist's death
Mnuchin meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman despite outcry over government's role in journalist's death
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CNN, Axios and Middle East Eye
CNN:
Surveillance footage shows Saudi operative in Khashoggi's clothes after he was killed, Turkish source says — Graphics by Henrik Pettersson, CNN — Istanbul (CNN)One member of the 15-man team suspected in the death of Jamal Khashoggi dressed up in his clothes and was captured …
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Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Khashoggi Double Sent to Create False Trail in Turkey, Surveillance Images Suggest — BEIRUT, Lebanon — After the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, a member of the team that had flown in to confront him put on his clothes and left the building …
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The Atlantic, Axios, EUobserver and Outside the Beltway
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Here's how the Saudi crown prince could face international justice
Here's how the Saudi crown prince could face international justice
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Townhall and POLITICUSUSA
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Jared Kushner declines to say whether he believes Saudi account of Khashoggi's death
Jared Kushner declines to say whether he believes Saudi account of Khashoggi's death
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Politico, Axios, One America News Network and ThinkProgress
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Republicans outpacing Democrats in early voting in key states, NBC News finds — The data suggests enthusiasm among early GOP voters that could put a dent in Democratic hopes for a “blue wave” in the midterms. — Is the “blue wave” turning purple? — Republican-affiliated voters …
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Jeremy Wallace / Houston Chronicle:
Shocking turnout for first day of early voting in Houston — Thousands of people were already camped out at a key early voting location in Houston on Monday morning, hours before voting was even set to begin. — Nearly 2,000 people stood in line outside of the Metropolitan Multi-Service Center …
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Bloomberg, Splinter, Washington Post and Daily Wire
David Catanese / US News:
The Early Voting Explosion — Some states are already reporting presidential-level turnout for this midterm election. — WHILE ELECTION DAY IS still just over two weeks away, more than 5 million people have already cast ballots in this year's midterm general election …
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Fox News, The Guardian, HuffPost and Political Wire
Los Angeles Times:
Michael Avenatti hit with $4.85-million judgment for unpaid debt as court orders eviction of his law firm — Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for porn actress Stormy Daniels, was hit with a personal judgment of $4.85 million Monday for his failure to pay a debt to a former colleague at his longtime Newport Beach firm.
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Matthew Fuhrman / ABC News:
Obama goes up against Trump in fight for Nevada Senate seat — Former President Barack Obama is back on the campaign trail two weeks before the midterm elections, appearing Monday at a rally at the University of Nevada Las Vegas campus to boost Democrats up and down the ballot.
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
Barack Obama Is Back On The Campaign Trail. Here's What He's Doing. — “That is not how America works. That is how some tin-pot dictatorship works.” — Reporting From — Former President Barack Obama was on stage at the University of Las Vegas here Monday, doing a familiar, uncomfortable job.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The late Trump bump — and what it does and doesn't mean
The late Trump bump — and what it does and doesn't mean
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Karla Zabludovsky / BuzzFeed News:
The Caravan's Members Have No Idea What Trump Meant When He Tweeted About “Middle Easterners” — TAPACHULA, Mexico — As the migrant caravan advanced through Mexico en route to the US on Monday, 15 days before midterm elections, President Donald Trump attempted to stoke new fears, tweeting that …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The caravan is coming! And it's high time to calm the rising media frenzy. — The exodus of migrants walking through Mexico is, no doubt, a real story. — It's just not the same story that much of the American news media is incredulously — at times hysterically — telling.
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The Week, CNN and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump: US to ‘begin cutting off’ aid to countries associated with migrant caravan
Trump: US to ‘begin cutting off’ aid to countries associated with migrant caravan
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Zero Hedge, Washington Post, Weekly Standard, Roll Call and RedState
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump gets sweet revenge on Ted Cruz today in Texas — (CNN)On Monday night in Houston, Donald Trump will dunk on Ted Cruz one last time. — Trump will travel to Texas to hold a massive get-out-the-vote rally for Cruz in the final days of a closer-than-expected race against Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D).
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Do Liberals Hate Trump Because He's a Typical American? — Anti-intellectualism is an enduring feature of modern Republican politics, and accordingly, conservative intellectuals have taken up the job of justifying this state of affairs. Historically, their claims have glommed onto …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, American Greatness and Instapundit
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VIDEO: Surveillance footage shows man kicking down glass door to get into FOX 5 building — Surveillance video shows suspect kicking glass door to get into FOX 5's building — FOX 5 security shoots man attempting to break into building — Scene outside of FOX 5's building after suspect was shot by security
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Tess Bonn / The Hill:
Bernie Sanders casts doubt on blue wave — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) thinks there is reason to doubt the predicted “blue wave” in next month's midterm elections, saying control of Congress will be decided by a few tight races. — “I know a lot of people talk about this blue wave and all that stuff …
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders, Stumping for Democrats, Says Blue Wave in Midterms Is Not Assured
Bernie Sanders, Stumping for Democrats, Says Blue Wave in Midterms Is Not Assured
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Axios and Washington Free Beacon
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Joachim Ronneberg, Leader of Raid That Thwarted a Nazi Atomic Bomb, Dies at 99 — The Norwegian saboteurs skied across the Telemark pine forest in winter whites, phantom apparitions gliding over moonlit snow. They halted at a steep river gorge and gazed down at a humming hydroelectric power plant …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Trump distances himself from a potential GOP thumping — At his rallies, President Donald Trump argues that the midterm elections are about one person — Donald Trump. “Get out in 2018,” Trump told a crowd in Missouri last month, “because you're voting for me!” — Privately, the president says the exact opposite.
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Natasha Bach / Fortune:
Lyft Partners With Voto Latino to Help Get Dodge City Voters to the Polls — Less than a week after the sole polling place in Dodge City, Kansas was moved outside city limits, corporate sponsors are pledging to help voters get to the polls. — Since 2002, Dodge City had one polling place …
Reuters:
Trump lawyer: Manafort said nothing damaging in Mueller interviews — (Reuters) - Under an unusual arrangement, Paul Manafort's attorney has kept Donald Trump informed about the former campaign chairman's meetings with prosecutors investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and …
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Two in Three Americans Now Support Legalizing Marijuana — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sixty-six percent of Americans now support legalizing marijuana, another new high in Gallup's trend over nearly half a century. The latest figure marks the third consecutive year that support on the measure has increased and established a new record.
David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
With the midterm campaign in its final weeks, poll signals a Democratic edge for the House and widespread doubts about Kavanaugh … The last year has seen the enactment of a major tax cut, the first-ever summit between a U.S. president and the leader of North Korea, felony convictions …
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Sara Murray / CNN:
Mueller drills down on Roger Stone's WikiLeaks contacts — Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's scrutiny of Roger Stone includes investigating whether Stone had backchannels to WikiLeaks during the 2016 election beyond the New York radio host and political activist whom Stone claims …
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Olga Khazan / The Atlantic:
Fewer Sex Partners Means a Happier Marriage — If you are on the proverbial market, as you rack up phone swipes, first dates, and—likely—new sexual partners, you might start to ask yourself, Is all this dating going to make me happier with whomever I end up with?
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Tina Moore / New York Post:
NYPD boss accused of stuffing her panties in co-worker's mouth — A ball-busting female boss at a Brooklyn precinct is under investigation for allegedly stuffing a pair of her panties into a male colleague's mouth, police sources told The Post on Monday. — Sgt. Ann Marie Guerra …
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New York Daily News, Law & Crime and The Daily Caller
Nitasha Tiku / Wired:
An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption — A FEW YEARS after the Great Recession, you couldn't scroll through Google Reader without seeing the word “disrupt.” TechCrunch named a conference after it, the New York Times named a column after it, investor Marc Andreessen warned that …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Your move, Bloomberg — John Micklethwait, the editor in chief of Bloomberg News, told a group of top editors a week ago that their news organization no longer had to groom young, raw talent. It could go after the best journalists around. As an example of its capabilities in high-impact reporting …
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