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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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EUobserver and Outside the Beltway
Bruce Riedel / Al-Monitor:
Saudi Arabia's shifting narrative on Khashoggi reveals fragility
Saudi Arabia's shifting narrative on Khashoggi reveals fragility
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Washington Post
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 and ThinkProgress
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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Associated Press:
Judge: Michael Avenatti must pay $4.85M in ex-lawyer's suit — WASHINGTON (AP) — A California judge has ordered Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti to pay $4.85 million to an attorney at his former law firm. — The ruling was issued Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
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Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast and The Last Refuge
Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
Michael Avenatti Lived the High Life While Owing Millions to IRS
Michael Avenatti Lived the High Life While Owing Millions to IRS
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The Week, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon, Daily Wire and Splinter
Ronn Blitzer / Law & Crime:
Avenatti Hit with $4.85 Million Verdict in Lawsuit from Fmr Law Partner
Avenatti Hit with $4.85 Million Verdict in Lawsuit from Fmr Law Partner
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The Gateway Pundit and Washington Free Beacon
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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Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
Battle for the GOP's Soul? Trump Has Won
Battle for the GOP's Soul? Trump Has Won
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Washington Post, Townhall and Fox News Insider
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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Daily Wire
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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 …
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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American Greatness and Instapundit
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Patrick Reevell / ABC News:
US national security adviser John Bolton in Russia to announce end to historic Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty — U.S. national security adviser John Bolton has arrived in Moscow, where he is expected to tell Russian officials that America plans to withdraw from a historic nuclear arms treaty that dates to the Cold War.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Bolton relays Trump's message to Russia: U.S. out of arms control treaty
Bolton relays Trump's message to Russia: U.S. out of arms control treaty
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, New York Times, Outside the Beltway and One America News Network
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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Raphael Satter / Associated Press:
Malta academic in Trump probe has history of vanishing acts — SWIEQI, Malta (AP) — It was her last day of class and Leida Ruvina was getting suspicious. — The Albanian student had just finished the first module in what was purported to be a doctoral program co-administered …
Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:
Black Voters in Georgia Fear Brian Kemp Is Rigging the Election — The man running for governor also oversees the election as Secretary of State. He's also sitting on voter registrations, sparking a wave of skepticism among voters. — Patricia Murphy — Bibb County, Ga. …
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.
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 …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Tribalism Isn't Our Democracy's Main Problem. The Conservative Movement Is. — A pernicious force was hollowing out American democracy. It had neutered Congress, and lobotomized the electorate. Lawmakers had become incapable of taking action on many of the day's most pressing issues …
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 …
Brian Faler / Politico:
Tax cuts a bust for Republicans in midterms — Republicans thought their massive tax overhaul would be the centerpiece of their midterm strategy. But It turns out they were so wrong they've been barely mentioning the $1.5 trillion tax cut on the campaign trail.
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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Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:
In Win for Trump, Merkel Changes Course on U.S. Gas Imports — Chancellor calls her decision to open Germany up to U.S. liquefied natural gas a ‘strategic’ move — BERLIN—Chancellor Angela Merkel has offered government support to efforts to open up Germany to U.S. gas …
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The Daily Caller and Front Page Magazine
New York Post:
The Mooch interprets what the White House was like through dance — Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci stopped by The Post in advance of his upcoming book, “Trump The Blue-Collar President,” out Oct. 23. Watch as his historic tenure in the White House...
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Week and Mashable
Ted Fioraliso / Gray DC:
Manchin increases lead in new Gray TV West Virginia poll — WASHINGTON (Gray DC) — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is now 16 percentage points ahead of his Republican challenger, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. That's according to a new Gray Television poll released Monday.
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Political Wire
Dylan Byers / NBC News:
The temptations of Twitter: Why social media is still a minefield for journalists — Politico editor-in-chief John Harris became the most recent high-profile journalist to slip up on Twitter, where there is a temptation to stray from reporting. — Politico editor-in-chief John Harris …
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Florida's culture clash pits Gillum against Trump voters — THE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump's loyalists here at Florida's premier retirement community fear Andrew Gillum. — It has nothing to do with his race, they insist, when asked about the 39-year-old Democrat …
Jennifer Gonnerman / New Yorker:
Larry Krasner's Campaign to End Mass Incarceration — Philadelphia's District Attorney reinvents the role of the modern prosecutor. — Until Larry Krasner entered the race for District Attorney of Philadelphia last year, he had never prosecuted a case. He began his career as a public defender …
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
Next time you wonder why New York Times people get so defensive, read this. — It may help explain. — The readers of the New York Times have more power now. They have more power because they have more choices. Because the internet, where most of the reading happens, is inherently two-way.
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Trump says eyeing a 10 percent middle income tax cut plan — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House as he departed on a trip to campaign in Texas, said on Monday his administration plans to produce a resolution calling for a 10 percent tax cut for middle income earners.