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6:00 PM ET, October 14, 2018

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Financial Post:
Oil could hit $200 ‘or even double that figure’: Saudis threaten to retaliate against any sanctions over Khashoggi disappearance  —  DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia on Sunday warned against threats to punish it over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last week …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and CNN
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GOV.UK:
Joint statement on the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi by Foreign Ministers from the UK, France and Germany
Discussion: Politico
Yahoo:   Saudi stocks dive 7.0 percent, wiping out 2018 gains
BBC:   Jamal Khashoggi case: Saudis defy ‘threats’ over missing writer
Washington Post:
After journalist vanishes, focus shifts to young prince's ‘dark’ and bullying side
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Saudis reject threats as stocks plunge after Trump comments
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Axios
Kelsey Tamborrino / Politico:
Rubio: No ‘business as usual’ with Saudi Arabia
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Khashoggi crisis is a reckoning for Jared Kushner
Los Angeles Times:
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's family benefited from U.S. program for minorities based on disputed ancestry  —  A company owned by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's in-laws won more than $7 million in no-bid and other federal contracts at U.S. military installations …
CBS News:
Democratic lead continues to grow in race for House — CBS News Battleground Tracker  —  Democrats' position in the contest for the House of Representatives is the best it's been since June, but they remain dependent on turnout of less frequent voters, as well as winning over Trump voters from 2016.
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CBS News:
Gender gap helps keep Democrats in front — CBS News poll
Discussion: Opinion Today and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Voters say they are more likely to cast ballots in this year's midterm elections
CBS News:
Trump on prospect of Mattis' departure: “At some point, everybody leaves”  —  President Trump suggested that Defense Secretary James Mattis could be one of the next administration officials to depart his Cabinet.  In an interview airing on “60 Minutes” Sunday, the president said there are …
CBS News:
Hillary Clinton: Bill should “absolutely not” have resigned over Lewinsky scandal  —  Hillary Clinton says that her husband was right not to resign from the presidency in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, she told CBS' “Sunday Morning.”  As first lady, she stood by his side …
Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / Oregonian:
Bear spray, bloody brawls at Patriot Prayer ‘law and order’ march in Portland  —  Gallery: Patriot Prayer in Portland, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018  —  Warning: This post contains graphic content  —  A demonstration billed as a march for “law and order” in the streets of Portland descended …
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CNN:
CNN Poll: More see Trump win likely as Biden leads crowded Democratic field  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)Americans are becoming more likely to think President Donald Trump will win a second term in office, while Joe Biden stands atop a crowded field of Democrats perhaps looking to replace him, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.
Des Moines Register:
The Register's endorsements for Congress: GOP has failed to govern; give Democrats a chance  —  When Republicans achieved the trifecta in 2016, winning the presidency as well as holding the House and Senate, it seemed the country was poised to move beyond the GOP-engineered partisan gridlock …
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Lucas Willard / WAMC:
Cuomo Blames Republicans For “Proud Boys” Brawl … New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is blaming the Republican Party and President Donald Trump for Friday night's violence in Manhattan outside a GOP headquarters.  —  A fight occurred between members of the far-right group the Proud Boys and protesters.
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Kate King / Wall Street Journal:
A Sexual-Assault Accusation in New Jersey Exposes a National Dilemma  —  In the #MeToo era, law-enforcement officials consider new ways to handle sexual-assault allegations  —  JERSEY CITY, N.J.—Katie Brennan spent more than a year trying to get authorities to take action against the man she accuses of sexually assaulting her.
Todd S. Purdum / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump's Absentee Presidency  —  It is a poignant paradox of Donald Trump's ubiquitous presidency—all tweets, all the time—that a leader who prides himself as omnipresent in digital public discourse is so often absent from national life in the hundred human ways in which the country has come to expect its presidents to perform.
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai: It's ‘very confusing’ trying to figure out who Trump listens to on trade
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Why The House And Senate Are Moving In Opposite Directions  —  At first, I was a little skeptical of the narrative that Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation process could send the House and Senate moving in opposite directions.  Usually in politics, a rising tide lifts all boats …
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Elizabeth Warren builds expansive Democratic campaign effort ahead of likely 2020 bid  —  BOSTON — During the past six months, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has quietly built a shadow war room designed to elect Democrats across the country in the midterm elections, overtaking …
Discussion: Axios
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Trump adviser on UN climate change warning: 'They overestimate.. I'm just saying, do we know precisely?'  —  A top economic adviser to President Trump responded to a recent U.N. report warning the world needs to take drastic action within 12 years to avoid a possible climate crisis, saying, “I think they overestimate.”
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Tapper Confronts Rubio on Climate Change: What Will You Tell ‘Your Children and My Children’ in 20 Years?  —  The Florida senator ultimately abdicated responsibility, telling CNN that ‘no matter what we do with laws... this trend would still continue.’  —  Republican Senator Marco Rubio appeared …
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Andrew Shinn / Fresno Bee:
Why a lifelong Republican once believed in Devin Nunes, but not anymore  —  I am one of the left-behind Republicans.  I am a Christian and grew up thinking that voting Republican was the only option for people like me.  Opposing abortion was all-important, followed closely by the value of integrity.
Discussion: Raw Story
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
A senator snatched a student's phone while being asked about Georgia voter registration uproar  —  An attempted conversation between a Georgia Tech student and Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) ended abruptly with the lawmaker snatching the student's cellphone away while he was being asked about possible voter suppression in the state.
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Michael Cohen: 2018 midterms ‘might be the most important vote in our lifetime’  —  Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, is urging the public to #GetOutAndVote next month.  —  In a Sunday afternoon tweet, Cohen said the Nov. 6 midterms, in which Democrats are aiming …
 
 
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Saudigazette:
5-year jail, 3 million fine for rumormongers
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
G.O.P. Finds an Unexpectedly Potent Line of Attack: Immigration
Discussion: Political Wire
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Pollster Zogby: Dem House win ‘far from certain, elusive,’ Senate ‘nearly impossible’
NRC:
Attacks that kill civilians are no longer an anomaly in Yemen's war
Amber Jamieson / BuzzFeed News:
Immigrant Teens Are Stuck In An Expanding Tent City In Texas
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Is Trump on a Collision Course With Impeachment?
Discussion: Raw Story
Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Young Women Aren't Waiting to Seek Political Power
NBC News:
Democrats have a Latino problem. Can they fix it in time?
Kyle Smith / National Review:
‘White Women’ Becomes a Disparaging Term
The Guardian:
MP demands Met police explain why Brexit inquiry dropped