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Donald J. Trump / USA Today:
Donald Trump: Democrats ‘Medicare for All’ plan will demolish promises to seniors  —  The Democrats want to outlaw private health care plans, taking away freedom to choose plans while letting anyone cross our border.  We must win this.  —  CONNECT  —  Throughout the year …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Fact-Checking President Trump's USA Today op-ed on ‘Medicare-For-All’  —  President Trump wrote an opinion article for USA Today on Oct. 10 regarding proposals to expand Medicare to all Americans - known as Medicare-For-All — in which almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or a falsehood.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Eric Holder: 'When they go low, we kick them.  That's what this new Democratic Party is about.'  —  For the second time this week, a leading Democratic voice is proposing that the party pursue a meaner, more combative approach — with this one going so far as to allude to metaphorical violence.
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Gabriella Muñoz / Washington Times:
Eric Holder: ‘When they go low, we kick them’
Discussion: Grabien News and Hot Air
Dan Merica / CNN:
Eric Holder on Republicans: ‘When they go low, we kick them’
Wall Street Journal:
Late GOP Activist Peter W. Smith Met With Former Trump Adviser Michael Flynn in 2015, Sources Say  —  New email and interviews indicate the Republican operative who sought to obtain Hillary Clinton's emails had established a relationship with Mr. Flynn  —  A veteran Republican activist whose quest …
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Lisa Ryan / The Cut:
Stephen Miller Gets Roasted by His Third-Grade Teacher  —  Just two months after Stephen Miller's uncle referred to him as an “immigration hypocrite” in a scathing op-ed, the sleepy senior Trump political adviser is getting roasted by another person from his past: his third grade teacher …
Discussion: Townhall and The Daily Caller
wabe.org:
Voting Rights Become A Flashpoint In Georgia Governor's Race  —  Marsha Appling-Nunez was showing the college students she teaches how to check online if they're registered to vote when she made a troubling discovery.  Despite being an active Georgia voter who had cast ballots in recent elections, she was no longer registered.
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Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
Brian Kemp Is Blocking 53K Applicants From Registering To Vote, Most Of Them Black
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
My Private Oval Office Press Conference With Donald Trump, Mike Pence, John Kelly, and Mike Pompeo  —  Around 12:20 p.m. on Tuesday, I was on my way out of the White House after a series of meetings in the West Wing.  I was reporting on a question that has hung over this administration for months …
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Chinese spy charged with stealing U.S. aviation secrets and extradited for prosecution  —  In a rare feat, federal agents lured a Chinese government spy to Belgium, where authorities transferred him this week to the United States for prosecution on economic espionage charges, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
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Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Welcome to the jungle  —  Sometimes a particular event …
U.S. Department of Justice:
Chinese Intelligence Officer Charged with Economic Espionage Involving Theft of Trade Secrets …
Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
Trump's Patron-in-Chief  —  Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has never been more powerful.  The Trump administration has advanced his ideological and financial interests, including an assist in his quest to build a casino in Japan.  —  LATE ON A THURSDAY evening in February 2017 …
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Kavanaugh confirmation energizes Democrats more than GOP  —  A total of 46 percent say the Senate ‘made the wrong decision.’  —  Republicans are touting the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh as rocket fuel for the GOP grass roots in next month's midterm elections …
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Bloomberg:
Bannon Says Republicans Still Have a Shot at Keeping the House
Discussion: Political Wire and Hullabaloo
Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture  —  On social media, the country seems to divide into two neat camps: Call them the woke and the resentful.  Team Resentment is manned—pun very much intended—by people who are predominantly old and almost exclusively white.
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:
Turkey Names Saudi Operatives It Says Killed Dissident Journalist
Discussion: Middle East Eye
Associated Press:
Images surface of Saudis allegedly sent to target writer
Discussion: CNN and Washington Post
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
At Immigration Argument, Justice Kavanaugh Takes Hard Line  —  WASHINGTON — A Supreme Court argument on Wednesday over the detention of immigrants during deportation proceedings seemed to expose a divide between President Trump's two appointees, Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Breaking taboo, negative ads fly during Florida hurricane  —  Once in Florida, it had been considered taboo to run negative campaign attack ads as a hurricane batters the state.  —  But no more.  —  Story Continued Below  —  As Hurricane Michael bore down Wednesday on the Panhandle …
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The Weather Channel:
Eyewall of Hurricane Michael Is Coming Ashore on Florida Panhandle, Life-Threatening Storm Surge …
Washington Post:
Roberts refers judicial misconduct complaints against Kavanaugh to federal appeals court in Colorado  —  Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Wednesday referred more than a dozen judicial misconduct complaints filed recently against Brett M. Kavanaugh to a federal appeals court in Colorado.
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
Alan Cullison / Wall Street Journal:
A Trio of Wealthy Russians Made an Enemy of Putin.  Now They're All Dead.  —  Nikolai Glushkov, a close associate of the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky, was preparing to testify that Aeroflot was a corrupt instrument of Russian intelligence  —  LONDON—Nikolai Glushkov, a Russian émigré …
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Poll: Martha McSally gaining in Senate race against Kyrsten Sinema  —  abc15.com staff , Danielle Lerner  —  PHOENIX - A new poll of Arizona's contested Senate race shows frontrunner Republican Martha McSally increasing her lead over Democrat Kyrsten Sinema.
Deborah Haynes / Sky News:
Ex-MI6 spy's veiled swipe at Donald Trump revealed  —  Christopher Steele, the former MI6 officer behind the Russia dossier on Donald Trump, has broken 18 months of silence with a veiled swipe at the US president.  —  He has written about the importance of speaking “truths to power” …
Discussion: Washington Times
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Julia Macfarlane / ABC News:
Former MI6 spy Christopher Steele, who compiled controversial dossier, breaks silence to criticize Trump
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
One Year of #MeToo: What Women's Speech Is Still Not Allowed to Do  —  During the past year, I have grown increasingly uneasy with a fairly common bit of semantic slippage: in headlines, in think pieces, and on social media, many people use the phrases “#MeToo movement” and “#MeToo moment” …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Financial Times:
James Murdoch in line to replace Elon Musk as Tesla chair  —  James Murdoch has become the favourite to succeed Elon Musk as the chairman of Tesla, which has to replace the electric carmaker's founder in the role by the middle of next month.  —  Mr Musk agreed to leave the chairman's post …
Associated Press:
The Latest: McConnell says no GOP senator for Sessions' job  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's interview with The Associated Press (all times local):  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says that if President Donald Trump decides …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Shareblue Media
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Associated Press:
McConnell to AP: 'Nobody's going to beat' Murkowski
Discussion: The Week
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
Romney says Supreme Court confirmation process ‘awful’  —  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney said the bitter fight over Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation shows the Supreme Court nominating process is “awful,” a sentiment his Democratic Senate opponent largely shared even though they differed on how to fix it during a Tuesday debate.
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
The Trump Campaign Says Exploiting Hacked Emails Is Free Speech  —  In a motion to dismiss a new lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump's campaign team of illegally conspiring with Russian agents to disseminate stolen emails during the election, Trump campaign lawyers have tried out a new defense: free speech.
Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
The Complicated Politics of Alec Baldwin  —  With a new ABC talk show and his return to ‘Saturday Night Live,’ the unfiltered star is mobilizing against the GOP ("anything you equate with leadership, they don't have it"), courting controversy ("ever since I played Trump, black people love me" …
New York Times:
Why Is Israel Scared of This Young American?  —  Societies that bar their critics aren't protecting themselves.  They are advertising their weakness.  —  In March, the writer Andrew Sullivan described each of us as a “Zionist fanatic of near-unhinged proportions.”  It was a cheap shot.
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Confirmation bias: Brett Kavanaugh and the major media's worst moment  —  For all the recent talk about facts versus “fake news,” telling the truth, and recapturing the public's trust in the era of President Trump, some of our most important newsrooms blew it when it mattered most.
Discussion: twitchy.com
Axios:
Scoop: Netanyahu tells Greece, Cyprus that Trump will keep heat on Turkey  —  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the foreign ministers of Greece and Cyprus during meetings in Jerusalem last month that he doesn't see President Trump reducing the pressure on Turkey over the arrest …
Lauretta Brown / Townhall:
Don Lemon Cracks Up As CNN Panelists Use Offensive Racial Term to Mock Kanye West  —  CNN's Don Lemon moderated a panel Tuesday evening in which two of the panelists referred to Kanye West using an offensive racial term.  Lemon cracked up at the first use of the term which was apparently …
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
More Still Disapprove Than Approve of 2017 Tax Cuts  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the midterm elections less than a month away and Republicans fighting to retain control of both houses of Congress, more Americans continue to disapprove than approve of last year's sweeping tax overhaul bill signed …
Discussion: Political Wire
Louis Casiano / Fox News:
Jamie Lee Curtis wields firearms in new ‘Halloween’ movie despite advocating for gun control  —  Jamie's got a gun in the latest “Halloween” reboot.  —  In the 11th installment of the horror film series, Jamie Lee Curtis's character, Laurie Strode, is seen wielding firearms in her quest …
Adam Rubenstein / Weekly Standard:
Charlie Kirk's Campus Battlefield Is a Hot Mess  —  This isn't a book; it's a direct mail pitch that you have to pay to read.  —  Charlie Kirk has given America another gift, this time a monograph on the university called Campus Battlefield: How Conservatives Can WIN the Battle on Campus and Why It Matters.
Mattathias Schwartz / New York Magazine:
Obama Had a Secret Plan in Case Trump Rejected 2016 Election Results  —  In October 2016, senior staff in the Obama White House discussed what they should do if Hillary Clinton won the November election and Donald Trump refused to accept the result as legitimate.  They had cause to be worried.
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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James Stavridis / TIME:
The Trump Administration Has Escalated Its Conflict with China Even Further. …
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