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3:05 AM ET, October 10, 2018

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Washington Post:
Saudis are said to have lain in wait for Jamal Khashoggi  —  ISTANBUL — As Jamal Khashoggi prepared to enter the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, a squad of men from Saudi Arabia who investigators suspect played a role in his disappearance was ready and in place.
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New York Times:
Turkish Officials Say Khashoggi Was Killed on Order of Saudi Leadership  —  ISTANBUL — Investigators are examining the movements of Saudi officials who flew to Istanbul and went to the Saudi Consulate there on the same day that a Saudi dissident journalist disappeared after going to the building …
Hatice Cengiz / Washington Post:
Please, President Trump, shed light on my fiance's disappearance  —  Hatice Cengiz is Jamal Khashoggi's fiancee.  She lives in Istanbul.  —  ISTANBUL — More than a week has passed since our last meeting outside the consulate of Saudi Arabia, before his disappearance became global news.
Discussion: CNN
Martin Chulov / The Guardian:
Khashoggi case: CCTV disappears from Saudi consulate in Turkey  —  Security footage removed and Turkish staff told to go home on day missing journalist visits  —  Security camera footage was removed from the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and Turkish staff were abruptly told to take a holiday …
Washington Post:
How Trump enabled the abuses of Saudi Arabia's crown prince
Discussion: Politico
Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
Saudi Story About Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Doesn't Hold Up, Says Bob Corker: ‘Everything Points’ to Murder
Discussion: Al Jazeera English
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
The end of the Saudi Whisperer
David Gauthier-Villars / Wall Street Journal:
Turkish Investigation of Missing Saudi Journalist Shifts Focus to Mercedes Van
Discussion: Boing Boing
Ben White / Politico:
Dina Powell tops White House list for U.N.  —  NEW YORK — Dina Powell, the Goldman Sachs executive and former senior White House official, is the top candidate to replace outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
'Something doesn't smell right': The curious timing of Nikki Haley's exit  —  This post has been updated.  —  Nikki Haley is resigning as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.  And the timing is raising eyebrows.  —  President Trump and Haley held a quickly arranged media availability Tuesday morning …
Andy Shain / Post and Courier:
Nikki Haley has up to $1 million in debt as she steps down as U.N. ambassador  —  Nikki Haley's political capital and foreign policy credentials skyrocketed during her time as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, but one aspect of the former South Carolina governor's life didn't
Discussion: Raw Story, Politico and CREW
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump has accepted Nikki Haley's resignation
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Nikki Haley flips the script on Trump
Discussion: Townhall, CNN and Axios
Washington Post:
‘A rising star’: Haley poses a potential threat to Trump even if she doesn't run in 2020
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Abrupt release of hundreds of migrants in Phoenix is ‘start of dam breaking’  —  “You'll start to see this all across the southern border soon,” a senior DHS official told NBC News.  —  WASHINGTON — Hundreds of migrant families seeking asylum in the U.S. were released from detention …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Splinter
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Migrant families overwhelm detention capacity in Arizona, prompting mass releases
Discussion: Axios
Grace Sparks / CNN:
CNN poll: Democrats are fired up and maintain a strong 2018 lead  —  Washington (CNN)Four weeks out from Election Day, Democrats remain well ahead of Republicans in a generic ballot matchup, with 54% of likely voters saying they support the Democrat in their district and 41% backing a Republican …
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: Races in Nevada are a dead heat  —  Both the gubernatorial and Senate races are neck and neck.  —  Democrats and Republicans are running neck and neck in Nevada's key contests for U.S. Senate and governor, according to a new NBC News/Marist poll of the state released Tuesday, four weeks before Election Day.
Discussion: Political Wire
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Mitch McConnell: Forget Merrick Garland, GOP can confirm a Supreme Court justice in 2020 if it wants  —  Democrats argue that GOP rhetoric over Judge Merrick Garland's failed nomination in 2016 means that Republicans cannot try to push through a Supreme Court nominee in 2020.  Mitch McConnell begs to differ.
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Lindsey Graham says Trump jokingly asked if he wanted to be attorney general
Discussion: KTVQ-TV, The Root and The Atlantic
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
This is not what a pro-Kavanaugh electoral backlash looks like
Discussion: Roll Call and CNN
Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
Administration mum on climate change report as Trump says: ‘I want to look at who drew it’  —  The day after an international panel of scientists issued a stark warning about the short window in which world leaders can act to avoid catastrophic climate change, the president of the United States …
Kevin Daley / The Daily Caller:
Anger Recedes As Normalcy, Good Humor Characterize Kavanaugh's First Day On The Supreme Court  —  Justice Brett Kavanaugh appeared at oral arguments for the first time Tuesday, where the bitterness attending his confirmation appeared to break, if only a little.
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CNN:   Roger Stone aide hopes Kavanaugh will support his case against Mueller
Jennifer Weiner / New York Times:
How Do I Explain Justice Kavanaugh to My Daughters?
Discussion: Mediaite and USA Today
Associated Press:
Trump rally crowd chants ‘Lock her up!’ about Sen. Feinstein  —  COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Chants of “Lock her up!” rang once again throughout an Iowa arena as President Donald Trump rallied supporters Tuesday night.  —  But this time, the staple of Trump's 2016 campaign …
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Rachel Ventresca / CNN:
Clinton: ‘You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for’
William E. Scheuerman / USA Today:
Kavanaugh Yale classmate: The FBI investigation was a joke.  I tried to help and was ignored. … Sen. Mitch McConnell said the vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court showed the Republican Party standing up for the presumption of innocence, and he doesn't see the fight hurting his party, in fact he says it may help.
Alexander C. Kaufman / HuffPost:
EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler Engaged With Racist, Conspiratorial Posts On Social Media  —  Exclusive: The agency head brushed off his interactions with a Pizzagater and said he doesn't remember liking a racist picture of the Obamas.  —  Andrew Wheeler, the acting administrator …
Discussion: Raw Story, Bloomberg and Boing Boing
Matthew Stolle / Post Bulletin:
Quam's mic grab creates a commotion  —  Legislative forums sponsored by the League of Women Voters Rochester are typically earnest, decorous and orderly affairs.  —  But an exception to that rule occurred Monday during a forum between incumbent GOP state Rep. Duane Quam and DFL challenger Jamie Mahlberg at Rochester Public Library.
Discussion: Raw Story
Pema Levy / Mother Jones:
Supreme Court Makes It Harder for Tribal North Dakotans to Vote  —  The order could hurt the reelection chances of Heidi Heitkamp, the most vulnerable Democratic senator. … The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a lower-court order requiring voters in North Dakota to present certain forms …
Ashe Schow / Daily Wire:
Five Teenage ‘Mean Girls’ Falsely Accused A Boy Of Sexual Assault.  They Weren't Punished.  —  Several high school girls - dubbed “mean girls” - claimed a male student sexually assaulted them because they “just don't like him.”  Now the school district and district attorney are facing heat …
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Trump officials plan maintenance downtime for healthcare.gov during ObamaCare sign-ups  —  The Trump administration is planning hours-long downtimes for maintenance on healthcare.gov during the coming ObamaCare sign-up period.  —  The administration drew criticism for a similar move last year …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Shareblue Media
The Moscow Times:
Infamous St. Petersburg ‘Troll Factory’ Set on Fire  —  The office of Russia's infamous troll factory believed to be at the vanguard of Russia's information war has been set on fire in St. Petersburg overnight.  —  An investigation revealed last year that the secretive troll factory …
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Rand Paul on political climate: ‘I really worry that someone is going to be killed’  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said lawmakers should tamp down their political rhetoric, warning that otherwise it could lead to violence.  —  Paul, during an interview with a Kentucky radio station …
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
Sen. Cotton Pushes Disturbing Christine Blasey Ford Conspiracy Theory  —  The assault accusations against Brett Kavanaugh can be traced back to Chuck Schumer, the senator from Arkansas claimed.  —  Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Tuesday morning told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt …
Elizabeth Dias / New York Times:
Beto O'Rourke May Benefit From an Unlikely Support Group: White Evangelical Women  —  In the Texas race, any small shift among evangelical voters could be a significant loss for Senator Ted Cruz — and a signal to Democrats.  —  October 9, 2018  —  Nikki Haley to Resign as Trump's Ambassador to the U.N.
Discussion: Raw Story
Chicago Sun-Times:
Trump's Justice Department to oppose pending Chicago police consent decree  —  WASHINGTON - The Justice Department will later this week oppose a pending consent decree the city of Chicago agreed to in the wake of police misconduct allegations tied to the Laquan McDonald case, the Sun-Times has learned.
Kurt Erickson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Judge calls Missouri voter photo ID advertising ‘misleading’  —  • A Cole County judge ruled Tuesday that Missouri election officials can no longer tell voters that a photo ID is required to cast a ballot.  —  With the Nov. 6 election less than a month away, Senior Judge Richard Callahan …
Discussion: Axios
Wall Street Journal:
SoftBank Discusses Taking Majority Stake in WeWork  —  Investment could total between $15 billion and $20 billion and would likely come from SoftBank's Vision Fund  —  SoftBank Group Corp. 9984 -3.93% is in discussions to take a majority stake in WeWork Cos., in what would be a giant bet …
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Ross Questioning in Census Suit  —  (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court late on Tuesday temporarily blocked an order forcing Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to be questioned this week by lawyers for states suing over his decision to ask respondents to the 2020 census whether they are citizens.
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Kavanaugh Casualties  —  In tatters: The mainstream Left, Never Trumpers, conventional wisdom, #MeToo, the media . . .  When the Christine Ford saga finally ended with the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, a lot of truth had distilled out, along with the evaporation of prior pretensions and misconceptions.
 
 
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Democratic staffer held without bond in Senate ‘doxing’ case
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Ryan Dezember / Wall Street Journal:
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Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
Underage Girls Allege That Michael Moates Sent Them Inappropriate Messages
Discussion: Raw Story
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Barnes & Noble says political book sales have skyrocketed and it released a map that shows how polarized the sales are
Discussion: Political Wire and IJR
Brittany Miller / WGCL-TV:
White woman calls police on black man babysitting children
Discussion: Raw Story, The Root and Boing Boing
Kansas City Star:
GOP official on Davids: radical socialist, lesbian will be sent back to reservation
Discussion: Splinter
Washington Post:
Gov. Larry Hogan leads Democrat Ben Jealous by 20 points, Post-U. Md. poll finds
Discussion: New Republic and Political Wire