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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.
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Welcome to the jungle  —  Sometimes a particular event, the fate of a particular individual, becomes a symbol of a global, historical trend.  The reported murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Post contributor, in a consulate in Istanbul is one of those moments.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and CNN
Washington Post:
How Trump enabled the abuses of Saudi Arabia's crown prince  —  TWO YEARS ago it would have been inconceivable that the rulers of Saudi Arabia, a close U.S. ally, would be suspected of abducting or killing a critic who lived in Washington and regularly wrote for The Post …
Discussion: Politico
Associated Press:   Images surface of Saudis allegedly sent to target writer
Martin Chulov / The Guardian:
Khashoggi case: CCTV disappears from Saudi consulate in Turkey
Discussion: Just Security
Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
Saudi Story About Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Doesn't Hold Up, Says Bob Corker: ‘Everything Points’ to Murder
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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Mike Allen / Axios:   Axios AM  —  Subscribe  —  Good Wednesday morning from L.A. 27 days until midterms.
Axios:   How Trump hires  —  UN Ambassador Nikki Haley doesn't seem …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Haley's departure sparks a battle for the future of Trump's foreign policy
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
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.
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Conway: Blue wave forecasts coming from ‘same geniuses’ who predicted Clinton win  —  Widespread predictions of a “blue wave” of Democratic victories in next month's midterm elections should be taken with a hefty grain of salt, counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway warned Wednesday morning …
Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Nervous Democrats ask: Could Election Day disaster strike again?  —  It was this week two years ago that Hillary Clinton's victory looked assured, when the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape of Donald Trump bragging about sexual assault appeared all but certain to end his campaign.
Discussion: AOL
Mike Calia / CNBC:   Mike Bloomberg registers as a Democrat - again - as he considers running for president
Associated Press:   Trump rally crowd chants ‘Lock her up!’ about Sen. Feinstein
Mark Niquette / Bloomberg:
Michael Bloomberg Registering as Democrat as He Weighs 2020 Bid
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
Associated Press:   Bloomberg becomes Democrat again, looks at presidential run
Manu Raju / CNN:
Lindsey Graham says Trump jokingly asked if he wanted to be attorney general
Discussion: KTVQ-TV, The Nation and The Root
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Bob Henson / Weather Underground:
Florida Panhandle Bracing for Category 4 Hit from Michael  —  Above: Infrared satellite image of Hurricane Michael at 0212Z Wednesday, October 10, 2018 (11:23 pm EDT Tuesday).  Image credit: NASA/MSFC Earth Science Branch.  —  Just hours away from an expected Wednesday afternoon landfall …
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Jason Samenow / Washington Post:
Michael, a Category 4, could become the strongest hurricane on record to strike the Florida Panhandle
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and VICE News
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: Splinter and ThinkProgress
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Migrant families overwhelm detention capacity in Arizona, prompting mass releases
Discussion: Axios
KNXV:
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.
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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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: Races in Nevada are a dead heat
Discussion: Political Wire
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: Splinter, HuffPost and Raw Story
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 …
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.
Discussion: NPR
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
Alexandra Stevenson / New York Times:
Soldiers in Facebook's War on Fake News Are Feeling Overrun  —  MANILA — The fictional news stories pop up on Facebook faster than Paterno Esmaquel II and his co-workers can stamp them out.  —  Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, debated a Catholic bishop over using violence to stop illegal drugs — and won.
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Vice President Mike Pence On The U.N., The Missing Saudi Arabian Journalist, and the PRC  —  Vice President Pence joined me this afternoon for an interview Tuesday afternoon that aired in its entirety Wednesday morning:  —  10-10hhs-pence  —  Transcript:  —  HH: Vice President, Hugh Hewitt.
Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
Russian Whistleblower Assassinated After Uncovering $200 Billion Dirty-Money Scandal  —  Andrei Kozlov was gunned down in 2006, weeks after trying to shutter the world's biggest money-laundering scam—one reportedly used by Putin's family and the FSB.  —  LONDON—A crusading Russian official traveled …
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 …
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Wave watch: Inside the Democratic primary turnout surge  —  Data: Ballotpedia; Chart: Chris Canipe and Neal Rothschild/Axios  —  Democratic voter turnout in this year's House primaries increased in each of the 19 competitive, comparable House districts compared to 2014, and doubled in more than two thirds of them.
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Trump's midterm pitch: Vote for me  —  The president is not on the ballot until 2020 — but he's asking supporters to imagine his future is at stake this November.  —  President Donald Trump, who as a candidate warned that he alone could fix the nation's ills, is making the midterms …
 
 
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Discussion: Axios
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
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