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9:15 PM ET, September 15, 2019

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John McCormack / National Review:
The New York Times Anti-Kavanaugh Bombshell Is Actually a Dud  —  Maybe Pogrebin and Kelly's book is stronger than their essay, but I'm skeptical.  —  If you opened Twitter on Sunday morning, you were likely greeted with the bombshell headline of the top trending news story …
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NBC News:
Democrats call for Kavanaugh impeachment over new sexual misconduct claims  —  Trump defended Kavanaugh after two New York Times reporters revealed new information on the sexual misconduct allegations facing the Supreme Court Justice.  —  A slew of prominent Democrats called on Congress …
Sandra E. Garcia / New York Times:
Calls for Kavanaugh's Impeachment Come Amid New Misconduct Allegations  —  President Trump and other Republicans defended the Supreme Court justice after a New York Times essay described a previously unreported story about him as a student at Yale.  —  Several Democratic presidential candidates called …
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Corey Lewandowski is plotting a run for Senate in New Hampshire as a pro-Trump candidate  —  Watch for Trump's former campaign manager at the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday — and not just because of the prospect of a fiery exchange with Chairman Jerry Nadler.
Discussion: Raw Story
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
New Book: Christine Blasey Ford's Friend Leland Keyser Doesn't Believe Her  —  “It just didn't make any sense,” lifelong friend Leland Keyser told New York Times reporters about Ford's allegations, adding “I don't have any confidence in the story.”  —  Buried at the end of their new book …
Daniel Politi / Slate:
Elizabeth Warren Joins Harris, Castro in Calling for Kavanaugh's Impeachment
Emily Wax-Thibodeaux / Washington Post:
Democratic candidates demand Kavanaugh impeachment after new allegation in Times piece
Discussion: Fox News, Reuters and Washington Times
Lissette Rodriguez / ABC News:
Sen. Amy Klobuchar says Kavanaugh vetting process ‘was a sham’
New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Campaign Shakes Up New Hampshire Operation  —  Senator Bernie Sanders has overhauled his New Hampshire state operations five months before the primary, as his campaign fights to maintain support in a state he won by more than 22 percentage points in 2016.
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Politico:
Bernie Sanders shakes up campaign leadership in New Hampshire
Discussion: Political Wire
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Nancy Pelosi's next target: Mitch McConnell  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will escalate her caucus' anti-Mitch McConnell messaging this fall, testing a theory that this can be more effective than just continuing the party's anti-Trump rhetoric, Democratic leadership aides tell Axios.
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
In call with Trump, Pelosi and Schumer say any gun bill that doesn't include background checks …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Politico
Sarah Ferris / Politico:   Moderate Democrats warn Pelosi of impeachment obsession
The Texas Tribune:
Julián Castro hit Joe Biden over Barack Obama's immigration legacy.  But in 2013, Castro supported Obama's policies.  —  Castro hasn't always been a liberal darling on border issues: In 2013, he gave a full-throated endorsement of the border and immigration policies advocated by Obama …
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Kate Sullivan / CNN:
Texas congressman pulls endorsement from Castro to support Biden
Discussion: Breitbart and Axios
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Let's Debate: Are Democrats Doomed?
Discussion: Althouse
Thor Benson / The Daily Beast:
The Climate Crisis Is Poised to Make Huge Swaths of America Totally Uninsurable  —  “People are going to be trapped because once it's uninsurable, good luck selling the house,” one climate expert cautioned.  —  As climate change spurs increasingly destructive wildfires in California …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Raw Story
David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
Trenton councilman defends McBride, says ‘Jew down’ is just a ‘statement of speech’  —  Muschal: 'You know, it's like a car dealer, they wanted $5,000, you Jew ‘em down to $4,000’ … Longtime Trenton City Councilman George Muschal says that will he didn't hear a colleague make an anti-Semitic slur …
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.”
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Trump: US ‘locked and loaded’ against attackers of Saudi oil facility ‘depending on verification’  —  President Trump on Sunday suggested U.S. investigators had “reason to believe” they knew who launched crippling attacks against a key Saudi oil facility, and vowed that America was “locked and loaded depending on verification.”
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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
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Blake Schuster / Yahoo! Sports:
American Pharoah manager denies horse bit Mike Pence during 2018 visit
Discussion: USA Today
NBC News:
Biden delivers most significant speech yet on race, says silence on hate ‘is complicity’  —  “There can be no realization of the American Dream without grappling with the original sin of slavery,” Biden said.  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday made his most expansive speech yet on race …
Emily Shugerman / The Daily Beast:
Steven Mnuchin's Mysterious Link to Creepy Epstein Model Scout  —  The treasury secretary's name shows up on official records for a company formed in the 1980s by Jeffrey Epstein's close friend, the model scout Jean-Luc Brunel.  —  In the late 1980s—before he was a member of Donald Trump's Cabinet …
Colin Packham / Reuters:
Exclusive: Australia concluded China was behind hack on parliament, political parties - sources     —  SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian intelligence determined China was responsible for a cyber-attack on its national parliament and three largest political parties …
Washington Post:
TikTok's Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds a huge U.S. audience  —  Hong Kong unrest features prominently on most social media, but not on TikTok  —  A search for “#hongkong” on Twitter reveals a vast visual patchwork of the city's unavoidable protests, including pro-China agitprop …
 
 
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Streiff / RedState:
Babylon Bee Accurately Predicts a Snopes Fact Check Nine Months Before They Do It
Discussion: Snopes.com
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Why Trump is rallying in New Mexico
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Virginia's ‘off-off-year’ elections were once sleepy. And then came Trump.
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Wyoming coal country struggling despite Trump's support
Gwen Aviles / NBC News:
Trans cafe worker fired after kicking out conservative activist
Discussion: The Daily Caller and twitchy.com
Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers Make Long-Shot Bid to Check Presidential Tariff Powers
Discussion: Raw Story
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
McCarthy promises accountability as Barr reviews IG's FISA report: 'The closest we've ever seen to a coup'
Josh Campbell / CNN:
‘No turning back now’: The inside story of James Comey's trip to Trump Tower
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Cohn / U.S. Political News …:
Trump's War On Obamacare Is Also A War On Opioid Treatment
Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
No millennial bump for Buttigieg, but hints of broad appeal
Kansas City Star:
Kris Kobach sent names of Nebraska residents to ICE while running for Kansas governor
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Politico
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Kellyanne Conway: It's unconstitutional for Democrats to ‘embarrass this president’ with impeachment
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Was Ready to Brawl From the Beginning
Discussion: Althouse
Amir Vera / CNN:
Minnesota police charge man with arson in connection with fire that destroyed a 119-year-old synagogue
Discussion: WGN-TV