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3:45 AM ET, October 13, 2018

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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trump Jr. Boosts Smear Tying Missing Journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Islamic Terrorism  —  The president's son, along with conservative media, are using Jamal Khashoggi's interviews with Osama bin Laden to imply he supported Islamic terror.  —  Donald Trump Jr. on Friday promoted …
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Trump Jr. promotes tweet smearing missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a secret terrorist ally  —  Donald Trump Jr. on Friday promoted a tweet from Federalist founder Sean Davis that smeared missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi as an ally of the late terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.
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Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Will you work for a murderer?  That's the question a host of ex-generals, diplomats and spies may soon face.  —  “Why do you work for a murderer?”  —  Increasingly, it seems that is a question many Americans should be preparing themselves to answer.  —  Each year, Saudi Arabia employs …
Discussion: New York Times, CNN and Yahoo
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Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:   Mohammed bin Salman doesn't care about the world's fury
Washington Post:
Khashoggi's alleged killing puts pressure on Saudi Arabia's lobbying corps in Washington
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
State Department revokes Hillary Clinton's security clearance at her request  —  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's security clearance has been revoked at her request, the State Department told lawmakers, according to a letter made public Friday.  —  Clinton's clearance was withdrawn …
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MVBreaking / MAGAVoter:
BREAKING: Hillary Clinton's Security Clearance Officially Revoked
Discussion: The Hill
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Hillary Clinton loses security clearance after server scandal
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Breitbart
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.
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Dan Chamberlain / The Cut:
In Praise of Beto O'Rourke, the Sweaty Man
Discussion: KTVQ-TV, CNN and Politico
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Avenatti and ‘Skeezy’ Others Try to Make Their Own Money Off Beto O'Rourke
Discussion: Political Wire and HuffPost
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 …
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Angelina Chapin / HuffPost:
ICE Is Sending Separated Children Home With No One To Pick Them Up
Discussion: Boing Boing
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 …
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Women lead support for further investigation of Kavanaugh (POLL)
Discussion: Mother Jones
Veronica Rocha / CNN:
Trump tells story of Lincoln's “phobia,” says Grant is “finally being recognized as a great general”  —  President Trump launched into an unusual story about two of his predecessors — former President Abraham Lincoln and former President and Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Trump praises Robert E. Lee during Ohio rally
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Kerry Picket / The Daily Caller:
Vandals Hit NYC GOP Headquarters: ‘Attack Is Merely A Beginning’  —  The Metropolitan Republican Club on Manhattan's Upper East Side was vandalized Thursday night with broken windows, spray-painted anarchy signs, and a threatening message that the “attack is merely a beginning.”
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YouTube:   Proud Boys Violent Fight After Gavin McInnis Republican Club Event 10/12/18
Brandon Morse / RedState:
The Meme the Gaming Community Created to Label SJW's Is Pretty Brilliant  —  If you've ever picked up a video game that features other characters that are controlled by the computer, then you've run into non-player characters or NPC's.  —  NPC's serve a host of different functions depending …
Discussion: Right Wing Watch
New York Times:
‘We Need Answers’: Hurricane Michael Leaves Florida Residents Desperate for Aid  —  PANAMA CITY, Fla. — It was two days after Hurricane Michael, and Eddie Foster was pushing his mother in a wheelchair down a thoroughly smashed street, his face creased with a concentrated dose of the frustration …
Discussion: Vox, The Daily Caller and CBS Miami
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
New York Times scrambles to defuse a full-blown staff rebellion … The New York Times is scrambling to quell a staff rebellion at its metro desk after the section's editor, Cliff Levy, unleashed a blistering email to staffers last week, saying the section had “lost its footing” and was in need of “urgent” change.
Denver Post:
Endorsement: Mike Coffman's morality must be rewarded in this age of Trump  —  Editorials, Endorsements, Opinion, Perspective  —  Editor's note: This represents the opinion of The Denver Post editorial board, which is separate from the paper's news operation.
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Top Hollywood Execs Give Overwhelmingly to Democrats for Midterms  —  Only three members of the THR 100 list donated to the GOP: ‘Saturday Night Live’ creator Lorne Michaels, WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey and Viacom CEO Bob Bakish.  —  Hollywood has always been a reliable source of contributions …
Discussion: Breitbart
Star Tribune:
Wardlow says he'd fire Democrats in Minnesota AG's office  —  ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republican Minnesota Attorney General candidate Doug Wardlow told a group of supporters that he would fire “42 Democratic attorneys right off the bat” and replace them with Republicans if he wins in November …
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.
Jerry Iannelli / Miami New Times:
Miami-Dade County Investigating Fraud Claims Against Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart … Fraud investigators from Miami-Dade's property appraiser are looking into claims that Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart committed homestead-exemption fraud, an office spokesperson confirms to New Times.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Kemp Blasts ‘Outside Agitators’ After Scrutiny Of Policy Blocking 53K From Voting  —  Following intense scrutiny over his policy that blocked 53,000 Georgia residents from registering to vote, Georgia secretary of state and GOP candidate for governor Brian Kemp went after “outside agitators” in a Wednesday statement.
Discussion: Yahoo and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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.
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
GOP senator demands records on FBI's contact with DNC lawyer over Russian meddling  —  A top Republican senator is demanding documents regarding the FBI's 2016 interactions with a lawyer working for the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign who provided information on Russian meddling.
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
The Danger of Trump's Political Accomplishments  —  If you can think back through the mists of Trump time, before Kanye and Khashoggi and even Kavanaugh — a whole couple of weeks back, even — you might remember what was, for me, one of the most cathartic moments of the Trump presidency.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
'We've never seen anything like this': GOP overwhelmed by Democratic cash  —  The gush of spending in House races has triggered recriminations on the right as the party tries to salvage its majority.  —  A deluge of Democratic spending in the final days of the battle for the House …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook prototypes Unsend 6 months after Zuckerberg retracted messages  —  In April, TechCrunch broke the news that some of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook messages were deleted from recipients' inboxes in what some saw as a violation of user trust and abuse of power since Facebook Messenger doesn't have an Unsend button.
 
 
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Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Collins blasted ‘dark money’ groups in Kavanaugh fight. One just paid to thank her for her vote.
David Dayen / Working In These Times:
Thousands of Amazon Delivery Drivers Won't Be Eligible for the $15 Wage
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Considers Ambassador to Canada as Next U.N. Envoy
Discussion: CNBC
Ina Jaffe / NPR:
GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter, Under Indictment, Launches False Attacks On Opponent
Discussion: IJR
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Pentagon reveals cyber breach of travel records
Discussion: Cyberscoop and Axios
Kristen V Brown / Bloomberg:
‘Everyone Will Be Potentially Identifiable’: Booming DNA Testing Means No Identity Is Hidden on the Web
 Earlier Items: 
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Why Is John Kasich Meeting With Top Cable-News Executives?
New York Times:
California Today: Devin Nunes vs. The Fresno Bee
Aaron Rodriguez / CREW:
CREW Files Hatch Act Complaint Against Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and ThinkProgress
Jemele Hill / The Atlantic:
What the Black Men Who Identify With Brett Kavanaugh Are Missing
Discussion: National Review and Breitbart
Guy Rosen / Facebook:
An Update on the Security Issue