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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Khashoggi intrigue: A text from the Saudi ambassador, then silence  —  On Monday afternoon, I received an unsolicited note on the encrypted messaging service, WhatsApp, from the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Khalid bin Salman.  He is the younger brother of Saudi Crown Prince …
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Khashoggi friend says journalist angered Saudi government with column during its ‘charm campaign’  —  WASHINGTON — In October 2017, Saudi journalist  —  Jamal Khashoggi crossed a line that made him a marked man and led, most likely, to his brutal death, according to one of his close friends.
Scott Nover / The Atlantic:
Jamal Khashoggi's Friends in Washington Are in Shock  —  Karen Attiah knew Jamal Khashoggi's name and face.  She saw him constantly on TV, heard him on the radio, and read his name quoted in countless articles.  But it was only after she edited his first column in The Washington Post …
Discussion: Washington Post
Washington Post:
Turks tell U.S. officials they have audio and video recordings that support conclusion Khashoggi was killed
Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post:
Western walkout of Saudi ‘Davos in the Desert’ conference over Jamal Khashoggi undermines kingdom's modernization plans
Discussion: Axios, Bloomberg and ABC News
Aaron David Miller / The Atlantic:
The U.S.-Saudi Relationship Is Out of Control
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Companies back away from Saudi business over missing journalist
Discussion: New York Times
Patrick Wintour / The Guardian:
Saudi summit in crisis as Khashoggi case prompts mass withdrawals
Discussion: CNN, KTVQ-TV and Observer
CNN:
Kyrsten Sinema's anti-war activist past under scrutiny as she runs for Senate  —  (CNN)Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema's past ties to far-left groups are resurfacing as she campaigns to win Arizona's Senate race against her Republican opponent, Rep. Martha McSally.
Haley Britzky / Axios:
Beto O'Rourke breaks fundraising record, raises $38 million in 3 months  —  Sen. Ted Cruz's Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke has raised more $38 million in the third quarter, all from individual contributions, he announced on Friday morning.  —  You just raised a record-breaking $38.1 million in three months.
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New York Times:
Ted Cruz Leads Beto O'Rourke in Times Poll  —  With strong support from men and older voters, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas held a solid lead over Representative Beto O'Rourke, his Democratic challenger, in a poll completed Thursday night by The New York Times Upshot and Siena College.
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Beto O'Rourke registers voter after reading about him in the Guardian
Discussion: Off the Kuff and Politico
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
I Listened to All Six Trump Rallies in October.  You Should, Too  —  It's not a reality show.  It's real.  —  From the start of the Trump Presidency, many Beltway wise men, and more than a few of Donald Trump's own advisers, said, Don't pay attention to the tweets; forget the overheated language …
Washington Post:
More Americans disapprove of Kavanaugh's confirmation than support it, new poll shows  —  More Americans disapprove of Brett M. Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court than approve, and a narrow majority says congressional investigation of the new justice should not end with his elevation to the court …
Discussion: Political Wire and Hullabaloo
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Women lead support for further investigation of Kavanaugh (POLL)  —  Led by discontent among women, Americans by a 51-41 percent margin disapprove of Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court — and a majority favors further investigation by Congress that could lead to efforts to remove him from office.
Discussion: Mother Jones
National Review:
A Party of Stalkers  —  J  —  ames Hodgkinson seems to have slipped down the memory hole.  —  Hodgkinson was the left-wing activist who accused Donald Trump and Mike Pence of treason and — “fueled by rage against Republican legislators,” as the Virginia attorney general put it …
Washington Post:
Trump administration weighs new family separation effort at border  —  The White House is actively considering plans that could again separate parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to reverse soaring numbers of families attempting to cross illegally into the United States …
Guy Rosen / Facebook:
An Update on the Security Issue  —  We have been working around the clock to investigate the security issue we discovered and fixed two weeks ago so we can help people understand what information the attackers may have accessed.  Today, we're sharing details about the attack we've found that exploited this vulnerability.
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Hackers accessed personal information of 30 million Facebook users
Discussion: Fox17
Victoria Bissell Brown / Washington Post:
Thanks for not raping us, all you ‘good men.’ But it's not enough.  —  A flood of rage is rushing through women's brains.  Why can't men organize to change themselves?  —  Victoria Bissell Brown, a retired history professor at Grinnell College, lives in Haverford Township, Pa.
Grace Segers / CBS News:
GOP Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate says he'll “stomp” on opponent's face with golf spikes  —  Scott Wagner, the Republican candidate for governor in Pennsylvania, threatened his opponent, incumbent Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, in a Facebook Live video criticizing the negative ads against him.
Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Two Elections: Democrats' Chance of Taking the Senate Fading, House Likely to Flip  —  ANALYSIS — The Democrats' chances of netting at least two Senate seats always seemed like a long shot.  But a month ago, the stars looked to be aligning for Democrats.  Today, those stars tell a different story.
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CNN:
HARRY EXPLAINS THE FORECAST
Discussion: KTVQ-TV and Political Wire
Harry Enten / CNN:
The Forecast with Harry Enten: Democrats poised to take the House, GOP likely retains control in Senate
Discussion: Raw Story
Jemele Hill / The Atlantic:
What the Black Men Who Identify With Brett Kavanaugh Are Missing  —  When men of color see themselves in the embattled Supreme Court justice, they're not seeing the bigger picture.  —  On Tuesday night, I was in an auditorium with 100 black men in the city of Baltimore, when the subject pivoted to Brett Kavanaugh.
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David French / National Review:   The Black Men Who Identify with Brett Kavanaugh Understand the Stakes
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Fox swooned over Kanye West at the White House.  Here's how it covered rappers visiting Obama.  —  Kanye West's visit to the White House — not as a musical guest, but as a potential policy adviser — was hailed by conservatives and rewarded with glowing coverage on Fox News.
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:   Can we talk? Trump's riding high _ and he's got a lot to say
Erin Cunningham / Washington Post:
Pastor Andrew Brunson released to U.S. diplomatic personnel after being detained by Turkish authorities for two years  —  BREAKING: Brunson will be departing his apartment in Turkey to go to the airport to leave the country.  His lawyer, Jay Sekulow, said Brunson will be flown to a U.S. air base …
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Edges Toward New Cold-War Era With China  —  A more hard-nosed stance with Beijing is emerging from the Trump administration as China's help with North Korea wanes and trade talks stall  —  WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is moving deliberately to counter what the White House views …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:   National Security Advisor John Bolton On His Trip To Russia, The Missing Saudi Jamal Khashoggi, Iran, China and Big Tech
Benny Johnson / The Daily Caller:
Protester Asks GOP Senator To ‘Apologize’ To Her Children — His Response Makes Her Very Angry  —  Anti-Brett Kavanaugh protesters flooded Capitol Hill for weeks before his eventual confirmation to the Supreme Court, walking hallways in protest, holding loud demonstrations and confronting senators in their office buildings.
Brandon Morse / RedState:
Blue Wave Goodbye: Polls Show Crushing Midterm Defeats for Dems and a Maintained Republican Senate Majority In the Cards  —  When viewing the Democrat's strategies over the past few months, the words “inept failures” would be an accurate description to put on them.
Ben Jacobs / The Guardian:
Republican pair apparently pose as communists to make Democratic donation  —  Men visit office of Arizona's Tom O'Halleran with jar of money in apparent effort to create link to far-left  —  Two young Arizona Republicans tried to make a donation to a Democratic congressman as members …
Politico:
Trump May Not Be Crazy, But the Rest of Us Are Getting There Fast  —  Psychologists' couches are filling up as Americans seek relief from Trump Anxiety Disorder.  —  CNN before love-making is not his idea of a turn-on.  —  But she can hardly turn it off—engrossed as she is in the latest unnerving gyrations of Washington.
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
House Rating Changes: Post-Kavanaugh Polls Reveal an Even More Polarized Landscape  —  It's not saying much, but House Republicans have seen more bright spots in the past week of polling since the Kavanaugh confirmation fight than they saw in over a month.  Both sides agree Democrats' enthusiasm advantage …
Angelina Chapin / HuffPost:
ICE Is Sending Separated Children Home With No One To Pick Them Up  —  Immigration officials sent a 4-year-old separated child from the U.S. to Guatemala City without telling her family she was coming home.  —  On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent a 4-year-old separated child …
Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times:
Teacher who recounted Trump aide eating glue as a child is suspended  —  A teacher who recounted how a senior aide to President Trump ate glue as a third-grader is in trouble with her employers.  —  The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District has placed veteran teacher Nikki Fiske on …
 
 
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Aaron Rodriguez / CREW:
CREW Files Hatch Act Complaint Against Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Discussion: ThinkProgress and POLITICUSUSA
Leon Neyfakh / Slate:
In 1998, Congress weighed whether Juanita Broaddrick's rape accusation against Bill Clinton was grounds for impeachment.
Discussion: twitchy.com
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
A school board president swapped the Pledge of Allegiance with a Maya Angelou quote
Amanda Connolly / globalnews.ca:
Stephen Harper on why it's Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn, not Donald Trump, who scare him
James O'Neill / New York Daily News:
The truth about stop-and-frisk: An education for President Trump
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's potential new attorney general once mused about choking off Robert Mueller's funding
Discussion: Observer and Daily Kos
David Lawder / Reuters:
World Bank chief exits planned Saudi investment conference
 Earlier Items: 
Bill Leukhardt / Hartford Courant:
Connecticut Legislative Candidate Quits After Uproar Over Online Comments About Parkland Victims
Jessica Wehrman / daytondailynews:
Brown has raised $27M in Senate race
Washington Post:
Hurricane Michael aftermath: Death toll spikes after five storm-related fatalities reported in Virginia
Antonia Noori Farzan / Washington Post:
Elected mayor at 23 in struggling Fall River, Mass., Jasiel F. Correia II had the makings …
Discussion: TheBlaze and Boston Magazine
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
He Settled a Sex Discrimination Complaint. Now He Wants to Lead Maine.
Discussion: Beacon and Bangor Daily News
Kara Swisher / Slate:
“I Just Knew I Was Going to Surpass These Guys I Was Working For”
Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
First lady has ‘more important things to think about’ than Trump's alleged affairs