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12:45 PM ET, September 15, 2019

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New York Times:
Brett Kavanaugh Fit In With the Privileged Kids.  She Did Not.  —  Deborah Ramirez's Yale experience says much about the college's efforts to diversify its student body in the 1980s.  —  Deborah Ramirez had the grades to go to Yale in 1983.  But she wasn't prepared for what she'd find there.
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NYT Reporters Say They Uncovered New Sexual Misconduct Claim Against Kavanaugh  —  Two New York Times reporters said they learned of the unreported claim while investigating Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh for an upcoming book.  —  Two New York Times reporters say they've uncovered …
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Trump says Justice Brett Kavanaugh should ‘start suing people’ after new report of sexual misconduct  —  KEY POINTS  — President Donald Trump said that Justice Brett Kavanaugh should “start suing people” or the Department of Justice “should come to his rescue” on Sunday.
Audrey McNamara / The Daily Beast:
New Sexual Misconduct Allegation Against Brett Kavanaugh Emerges: NYT
Sydney Ember / New York Times:   Bernie Sanders, in Las Vegas, Previews Plan for Affordable Housing
Hanna Rosin / New York Times:
‘The Education of Brett Kavanaugh’ Takes a Hard Look at the Supreme Court Justice and His Accusers
Discussion: Vox and Washington Post
New York Times:
‘People Actively Hate Us’: Inside the Border Patrol's Morale Crisis  —  Overwhelmed by desperate migrants and criticized for mistreating the people in their care, many agents have grown defensive, insular and bitter.  —  One Border Patrol agent in Tucson said he had been called a “sellout” and a “kid killer.”
Discussion: Axios
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Biden allies attack Warren's electability  —  As Elizabeth Warren climbs in the polls, Joe Biden's Massachusetts allies are warning that her home-state election history suggests she runs weakest among the types of voters Democrats need to win over to capture the White House.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Let's Debate: Are Democrats Doomed?  —  Trump changed the game forever.  —  WASHINGTON — He's in our heads.  —  Even more than we knew.  —  It isn't just that he hovered over the Democratic debate on Thursday night: Should the candidates attack him or leave him to self-destruct?
Discussion: Althouse
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Texas congressman switches endorsement from Castro to Biden
Discussion: Breitbart
Amir Vera / CNN:
Minnesota police charge man with arson in connection with fire that destroyed a 119-year-old synagogue  —  (CNN)A man was arrested Friday in connection with a fire that destroyed a 119-year-old synagogue, Minnesota authorities said.  —  Adas Israel Synagogue in Duluth …
Discussion: New York Times
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Brady Slater / duluthnewstribune.com:
Suspect arrested in Duluth synagogue fire
Robert Reich / The Guardian:
Trump is seriously, frighteningly unstable - the world is in danger  —  It is almost too late for impeachment.  The 25th amendment is untested.  The ballot box offers our only remaining hope  —  In retrospect, what's most disturbing about “Sharpiegate” isn't Trump's clumsy effort to doctor …
Discussion: Althouse
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Kellyanne Conway: It's unconstitutional for Democrats to ‘embarrass this president’ with impeachment  —  White House aide Kellyanne Conway on Sunday insisted that Democrats do not have a “constitutional basis” to embarrass President Donald Trump by conducting an impeachment inquiry.
Wall Street Journal:
Iran Rejects U.S. Accusations Over Saudi Oil-Facility Attacks  —  Saudis race to repair the damage from the strikes, which forced the suspension of more than half of the kingdom's output  —  Iran denied American accusations that it was behind Saturday's debilitating strikes on Saudi oil facilities …
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Attack on Saudi oil sites raises risks amid US-Iran tension
Washington Post:
Iran denies carrying out crippling attacks on Saudi oil facilities
Discussion: The Week
Chris Bumbaca / USA Today:
VP Mike Pence says Triple Crown winner American Pharoah bit him during visit to Kentucky farm  —  American Pharoah has it all these days.  By becoming the first Triple Crown winner in 37 years in 2015, the horse secured a life of pampering and mating at Coolmore's Ashford Stud Farm in Versailles, Kentucky.
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Blake Schuster / Yahoo! Sports:   American Pharoah manager denies horse bit Mike Pence during 2018 visit
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Despite Turning Down Inauguration Gig, Elton John Has a Recurring Role in Trump's Presidency  —  The email was cordial, warm and deferential.  —  “Thank you so much for the extremely kind invitation to play at your inauguration,” wrote one of President Trump's favorite musicians, Sir Elton John.
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Back Off from the ‘Resist’ Nonsense  —  Perhaps we should back off from the Third Reich analogies and begin to take our duties as citizens seriously.  —  When Donald Trump was elected president of these United States — or, more properly, president of the federal government of the United States of America …
Kansas City Star:
Kris Kobach sent names of Nebraska residents to ICE while running for Kansas governor  —  Kris Kobach was in the middle of running for Kansas governor in December 2017, but he had unfinished business in Nebraska.  —  The former Kansas secretary of state helped write an ordinance in 2010 for Fremont …
Discussion: Politico
Kalina Oroschakoff / Politico:
David Cameron: Boris Johnson 'didn't believe' in Brexit  —  David Cameron has accused Boris Johnson of not believing in Brexit but backing it anyway during the referendum campaign on Britain's EU membership to advance his political career.  —  In an extract from his forthcoming memoir …
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Was Ready to Brawl From the Beginning  —  In her first race, she defied her old boss, a fund-raising pledge — and the implication that she owed her career to her ex-boyfriend.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The rebuttal sounded something like a threat.  That seemed to be Kamala Harris's point.
Discussion: Althouse
San Francisco Chronicle:
Democrats are and should be conducting an impeachment inquiry  —  From the moment Democrats became a majority in a divided Congress under a compromised presidency, the foremost question facing them has been whether to impeach the president.  So what's their answer?  —  Don't ask them.
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
'I'm going to kill myself:' A veteran tells Sanders he's drowning in medical debt  —  John Weigel, a 58-year-old Navy veteran, was desperate to tell Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) his story.  —  So on Friday afternoon, he folded his $139,000 hospital bill into his pants pocket and took …
Discussion: Fox News
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Discussion: The Boston Globe
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Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
Associated Press:
Fetal remains found on property of former South Bend abortion doctor
CNN:
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Discussion: Washington Examiner
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