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Jamal Khashoggi / Washington Post:
What the Arab world needs most is free expression  —  I received this column from Jamal Khashoggi's translator and assistant the day after Jamal was reported missing in Istanbul.  The Post held off publishing it because we hoped Jamal would come back to us so that he and I could edit it together.
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Shane Harris / Washington Post:
Crown prince under scrutiny in journalist's disappearance even as Saudis search for exculpatory explanation  —  The Trump administration and the Saudi royal family are searching for a mutually agreeable explanation for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — one that will avoid implicating …
New York Times:
U.S. Spy Agencies Are Increasingly Convinced of Saudi Prince's Ties to Journalist's Disappearance  —  WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials are increasingly convinced that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is culpable in the killing of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi …
Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Aide to Saudi Crown Prince, Suspect in Khashoggi Case, Is Shown Walking into Consulate  —  A frequent companion of Saudi Arabia's crown prince entered its Istanbul consulate just hours before the dissident writer Jamal Khashoggi disappeared inside, according to a time-stamped photograph published …
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
A President Kowtowing to a Mad Prince  —  Trump is providing cover for Saudi barbarism.  —  American presidents have periodically engaged in cover-ups of their own corruption or licentiousness, but President Trump is breaking new ground.  He is using the United States government to cover up a foreign despot's barbarism.
Mark Moore / New York Post:
Saudi who arrived in Turkey day of Khashoggi disappearance dies in ‘traffic accident’ … One of the 15 Saudis who arrived in Turkey the same day Jamal Khashoggi disappeared has died in a “suspicious traffic accident” and the Saudi consul in Istanbul could be the “next execution,” according to Turkish media reports.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Fox News
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Saudi Arabia transfers $100 million to U.S. amid crisis over Khashoggi
Washington Post:   Secret recordings give insight into Saudi attempt to silence critics
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
Rod Rosenstein Defends Mueller Probe as ‘Appropriate and Independent’  —  In interview, deputy attorney general says investigation has revealed widespread Russian effort to meddle in 2016 election  —  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein defended the special counsel's investigation …
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CNN:
Mueller's quiet period has not been very quiet
Discussion: ABC News
New York Times:
McGahn, a Soldier for Trump and a Witness Against Him, Departs White House
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Rosenstein talks to press, but not to Congress; Republicans irate
Discussion: HuffPost
David Uberti / Columbia Journalism Review:
Forecasting the midterms: Uncertainty with a chance of finger-pointing  —  Ahead of the November 6 elections, CJR invited writers to spotlight stories that deserve closer scrutiny, in their states and beyond, before voters cast their ballots.  Read dispatches from “States of the Union” here.
Joel Ebert / The Tennessean:
New Vanderbilt poll finds Bredesen with narrow edge over Blackburn in Senate race  —  A look at the several polls detailing the race of Marsha Blackburn and Phil Bredesen for U.S. Senate Michael Schwab, The Tennessean  —  Democratic nominee Phil Bredesen has a slight edge over Republican Marsha Blackburn …
The Guardian:
Revealed: Russian billionaire set up US company before Trump Tower meeting  —  Aras Agalarov, who attended the meeting with Donald Trump Jr in June 2016, formed a shell company with an accountant who has had clients accused of money laundering and embezzlement
The Daily Beast:
Trump Believed His Stormy Daniels ‘Horseface’ Tweet Was Politically Brilliant  —  The president workshopped it before tweeting it out.  And he doesn't care about the angry reactions.  —  Donald Trump caught various West Wing officials off-guard on Tuesday when he decided to describe …
Greg Norman / Fox News:
Trump threatens to call US military to close southern border as 4,000-strong migrant caravan pushes north  —  President Trump warned Thursday he will “call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER” with Mexico if officials there don't stop the northward flow of a growing migrant …
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Sonia Perez D. / Associated Press:   Food, water, ride: Guatemalans aid Honduran caravan migrants
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Heidi Cruz Didn't Plan for This  —  A whole new world—that is what Ted Cruz wanted to give her.  —  It was the spring of 2001, and Heidi Nelson was planning her nuptials to the man she'd met just over a year earlier.  On Christmas break from Harvard Business School, she'd encountered …
Discussion: Raw Story
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Conservative Group's Closed-Door ‘Training’ of Judicial Clerks Draws Concern  —  WASHINGTON — The closed-door “training academy” was aimed at a select group: recent law school graduates who had secured prestigious clerkships with federal judges.  It was organized by the Heritage Foundation …
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
GOP congressman tells incarcerated woman he has it worse because of attack ads  —  Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA), who is locked in a toss-up re-election race against Democrat Abigail Spanberger, met with members of an addiction support group during a recent visit to the Chesterfield County Jail.
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Ben Paviour / Community Idea Stations:
Brat Hears From Addicts at Chesterfield County Jail
Discussion: WTVR-TV, Shareblue Media and Splinter
YouTube:
MN-01: “Owns”  —  Paid for by the NRCC and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. www.nrcc.org
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Senate Truce Collapses as G.O.P. Rush to Confirm More Judges Begins Anew  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats struck a deal last week with Republicans that saw the quick confirmation of 15 more conservative judges in exchange for a rapid flight to the campaign trail.
Sarah D / Los Angeles Times:
De León has run against Feinstein from the left, but much of his support comes from Republicans, new poll finds … Senate candidate Kevin de León has campaigned as the progressive alternative to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, but with the election just weeks away …
Gregg Re / Fox News:
State Department provided ‘clearly false’ statements to derail requests for Clinton docs, ‘shocked’ federal judge says  —  In a combative exchange at a hearing Friday in Washington, D.C., a federal judge unabashedly accused career State Department officials of lying and signing “clearly false” …
Annie Lowrey / The Atlantic:
Kamala Harris's Trump-size Tax Plan  —  Senator Kamala Harris, a California Democrat and potential 2020 presidential contender, has a Trump-size tax plan of her own.  —  Harris is offering a kind of fun-house-mirror inversion of the sweeping Republican tax initiative, one that would …
Discussion: CNBC
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Trump's Focus on a Washington Building Project Draws Scrutiny  —  WASHINGTON — Nearly two years before he would begin his presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump arrived in Washington to show off his plans for a luxury hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue under a deal he had reached to lease the site from the General Services Administration.
Discussion: ABC News
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The 2018 Midterms Are All About Trump  —  In its final stages, the tumultuous 2018 midterm election appears to be moving in contradictory directions, with Democrats and Republicans alike finding legitimate reasons for optimism amid the daily flurry of new polls.
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
The Proud Boys, The GOP And ‘The Fascist Creep’  —  Gavin McInnes spoke at a GOP club, then his followers violently attacked leftist protesters.  Modern American fascism finds its foot soldiers.  —  NEW YORK — Gavin McInnes, the founder of the violent neo-fascist gang the Proud Boys …
Yahoo:
Baltimore puts 230 desk officers on streets as murders mount  —  BALTIMORE (AP) — A day after 11 people were shot in Baltimore, the troubled police department said it's shutting down its administrative functions so that more officers can hit the streets.  —  The Baltimore Sun reports Interim …
Politico:
Theresa May told Irish PM Brexit backstop 'can't have time limit'  —  Theresa May told her Irish counterpart that the “backstop” agreement to avoid a hard border in Ireland “can't have a time limit,” Ireland's Europe minister said, apparently contradicting a statement the prime minister made to MPs on Monday.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
POLITICO race ratings: Democrats blaze Midwestern path  —  Seven states — all currently led by GOP governors — are considered toss-ups.  —  Democrats are poised to chip away at Republican statehouse dominance in next month's midterm elections, with wins appearing likely in some of the biggest states in the industrial Midwest.
Discussion: The Week
Adam Davidson / New Yorker:
Is Fraud Part of the Trump Organization's Business Model?  —  A new investigation shows a pattern in different projects around the country and the world.  —  What, exactly, is Donald Trump's business?  The Trump Organization is unusual in that it doesn't appear to do the same thing for very long.
Grabien News:
Ocasio-Cortez on Kimmel: Like, Like, for Sure, Like, Yeah, Yeah, Like Yeah [Montage]  —  ‘Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure, um, yeah’  —  The media starlet and New York congressional candidate, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, has, like, something to say.  —  During an appearance …
Discussion: WhoWhatWhy and twitchy.com
Grace Segers / CBS News:
Biden on Democrats impeaching Trump: “I hope they don't”  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview with “CBS This Morning” co-host Norah O'Donnell that if Democrats retake the House of Representatives, he hopes “they don't” impeach President Trump.  —  “I hope they don't.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Did Facebook's faulty data push news publishers to make terrible decisions on video?  —  “It will probably be all video.”  —  In June 2016, Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook's VP for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, spent several minutes of a panel at a Fortune conference talking about how Facebook was witnessing video overtake text.
Jason Hancock / Kansas City Star:
McCaskill demands Hawley's office investigate hidden-camera videos of her campaign  —  JEFFERSON CITY  —  U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill's campaign is demanding Attorney General Josh Hawley open a fraud investigation into hidden-camera videos released this week by a nonprofit run by conservative activist James O'Keefe.
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Bernie 2016 alums wary of 2020 sequel  —  Bernie Sanders has a problem as he decides whether to run in 2020: Many of his former staffers are looking elsewhere.  —  With the Vermont senator kicking off a nine-state tour on Friday with stops in Iowa, South Carolina, Nevada and California …
Discussion: National Review and NTK Network
Charlotte Alter / TIME:
How the Anti-Trump Resistance Is Organizing Its Outrage  —  Carolyn Eberly is an unlikely warrior.  A former chemist from Waxhaw, N.C., she works at the local library, plays volleyball and wears her blond hair pulled back in a big clip.  Her husband has always followed politics …
Washington Post:
U.S. commander in Afghanistan survives deadly attack at governor's compound that kills top Afghan police general  —  KABUL — A gunman wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire Thursday on participants in a meeting with the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, killing three top southern provincial officials …
Discussion: Townhall and twitchy.com
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Democrats' Left Turn Is Not an Illusion  —  Like many overnight sensations, it has been years in the making.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  Over the past 18 years, the Democratic electorate has moved steadily to the left …
 
 
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