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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 …
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Week
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 …
New York Times:
Audio Contains Gruesome Details of Khashoggi Killing, Turkish Official Says  —  ISTANBUL — His killers were waiting when Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago.  They severed his fingers during an interrogation and later beheaded and dismembered him …
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Saudi Arabia transfers $100 million to U.S. amid crisis over Khashoggi  —  The United States received a payment of $100 million from Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the same day Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Riyadh to discuss the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi …
Tara Isabella Burton / Vox:
Prominent evangelical leader on Khashoggi crisis: let's not risk “$100 billion worth of arms sales”  —  Pat Robertson urged caution over US-Saudi relations  —  A major evangelical leader has spoken in defense of US-Saudi relations after the apparent killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi …
CNN:
Khashoggi disappearance prompts Kushner retreat from Saudi frontlines
Discussion: KTLA and Splinter
Patrick Leahy / U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont:   Statement Of Senator Patrick leahy On Jamal Khashoggi
Max Fisher / New York Times:   How One Journalist's Death Provoked a Backlash That Thousands Dead in Yemen Did Not
WashPostPR / Washington Post:
The Washington Post to publish a special edition Op-Ed page with new column by Jamal Khashoggi
Washington Post:
Pompeo hears Turkey's accusations against Saudi Arabia in Khashoggi case
MSNBC:   Trump floats ‘rogue killers’ on Khashoggi disappearance
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  —  Is Mueller feeling pressure to wrap up probe?  —  Washington (CNN)Ever since reaching a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort has kept the Russia prosecutors busy.  —  The former Trump campaign chairman and his lawyers …
New York Times:
McGahn, a Soldier for Trump and a Witness Against Him, Departs White House  —  WASHINGTON — Donald F. McGahn II departed as White House counsel on Wednesday, ending a tumultuous 21-month tenure where he spearheaded some of President Trump's most significant political accomplishments …
CNN:
Don McGahn out as White House counsel, sources say
Discussion: The Week and Political Wire
John Santucci / ABC News:
Special counsel pushing Paul Manafort for information on Roger Stone: Sources
Discussion: The Week, Law & Crime and MAGAVoter
Nancy Cook / Politico:   Don McGahn Leaves Trump With Big Wins — And Big Risks
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Dem operative for Soros-funded group arrested for ‘battery’ against Nevada GOP candidate's campaign manager  —  A Democratic operative for American Bridge 21st Century, a group founded by David Brock and funded by liberal billionaire George Soros, was arrested Tuesday after the female campaign manager …
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Michelle Rindels / The Nevada Independent:
Employee of Dem super PAC jailed, fired after allegedly grabbing, twisting arm of Laxalt campaign manager  —  A 50-year-old employee of a Democratic super PAC was jailed in Las Vegas and then fired after allegedly grabbing Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt's campaign manager after a political forum.
Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
Dem Operative Arrested in Nevada After Assaulting Female GOP Staffer
Discussion: Politico
Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
A New Facebook Lawsuit Makes ‘Pivot to Video’ Seem Even More Shortsighted  —  Facebook acknowledged in 2016 that it had been overstating to advertisers the average time users spent watching videos on the platform.  But when exactly Facebook found out about that error—and how long the company kept …
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Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company:
Why media people are furious over Facebook's bad video metrics
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Media Congratulates Trump for Spreading Lie About Elizabeth Warren  —  One of the innumerable ways in which Donald Trump has degraded American politics is his habit of relentlessly using belittling nicknames for his political opponents.  Seizing on a superficial or imagined characteristic …
Discussion: Axios
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Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“You Can't Out-Trump Trump”: Elizabeth Warren Shows Democrats How to Lose in 2020
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News:
Twitter Won't Suspend Louis Farrakhan For His Tweet Comparing Jews To Insects  —  Twitter will not suspend controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan for a tweet comparing Jews to insects, the company said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.  —  Farrakhan, who has been dogged …
Jennifer Levitz / Wall Street Journal:
You Want 20% for Handing Me a Muffin?  The Awkward Etiquette of iPad Tipping  —  Countertop payment tablets turn gratuities into a public ordeal; ‘It guilts you into it’  —  Mina Dimyan frequents a Stamford, Conn., cafe, where he orders a cup of strong coffee for $3.  It comes with a splash of guilt.
Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:
Liberal Upper West Siders Get Their Revenge: Trump Place Sign Is Coming Down  —  Few places in the United States are more staunchly liberal than the Upper West Side of Manhattan.  And so few things are more galling to many residents of a residential complex there than the big letters that greet …
Discussion: Raw Story
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:   Another Trump-branded building has decided to take down the president's name
Wes Siler / Outside Online:
Ryan Zinke Has Fired the DOI Inspector General … At last count, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was the subject of 14 separate government investigations.  (A new record!)  But that number could soon be zero.  That's because Zinke just fired the Department of the Interior's acting inspector general.
Laurie Everett / The Wilson Post:
Blackburn backlash shocks Mt. Juliet restaurant owner  —  Courtney's Restaurant and Catering owner Tom Courtney said he's experienced a strong social media backlash because he rented the event room at his Mt. Juliet business to U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Marsha Blackburn on Saturday.
Discussion: Power Line
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” …
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
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.
Ernest Luning / Colorado Politics:
Denver TV station pulls GOP ad attacking Jared Polis  —  Denver TV station KMGH-Denver7 decided Wednesday to pull a pro-Republican independent expenditure committee's TV ad attacking gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis.  The move came after the Colorado Democrat's attorneys demanded …
David Morgan / Reuters:
McConnell says Senate Republicans might revisit Obamacare repeal  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans could try again to repeal Obamacare if they win enough seats in U.S. elections next month, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday, calling a failed 2017 push to repeal the healthcare law a “disappointment.”
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Forecasting the races for governor  —  Our forecast for every race for governor  —  What share of the national population Democrats and Republicans are expected to govern, based on the most likely winner in each of the 36 gubernatorial elections taking place in 2018 and who controls the 14 seats not up for election.
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Max Blumenthal / Harper's:
Nikki Haley at the Council for National Policy  —  Inside the conference rooms of power: the former US ambassador to the United Nations speaks about working with Trump  —  Nikki Haley's surprising resignation on October 4 as US ambassador to the United Nations fueled rumors about the underlying reasons for its suddenness and timing.
Discussion: Raw Story
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Where Has All the Tab Gone?  A Shortage Panics Fans  —  The plea for Tab came across in a message on Facebook.  —  It was Sept. 27, and Anne White saw a post from a neighbor telling her their local grocery store in Cincinnati had been stripped of the diet soda, last popular in the 1980s and now a cult favorite.
Philippe Bohstrom / Haaretz:
Huge if True: The Archaeological Case for Goliath  —  Is the story of the Philistine champion Goliath a distant memory of an event that took place in the 11th century B.C.E. or a fable by priests conspiring in Jerusalem 400 years later?
Discussion: Daily Wire
Adam Rubenstein / Weekly Standard:
Steve King: America's Most Deplorable Congressman  —  He's an embarrassment to the GOP and to America.  —  Representative Steve King is an embarrassment to the Republican party.  He has been for some time.  On October 16, he endorsed white-nationalist Faith Goldy for mayor of Toronto.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Odds Are, Your Next Governor Will Be A Democrat  —  In the midterm elections for the House and Senate, Democrats are very likely to win the majority of votes, but they face structural barriers to winning the majority of seats.  In the House, for instance, we project that Democrats would need …
 
 
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The Sun:
EU WHAT?  Brexit deal latest - Theresa May says Britain could stay tied to EU for another year …
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Riley Snyder / The Nevada Independent:
Republicans plan campaign for deceased Hof to keep Assembly seat
NBC New York:
Manhattan DA: Lead Detective in Weinstein Case Told Witness to Delete Messages
Discussion: Townhall
Zach Everson / Fast Company:
Trump endorsements follow in the wake of candidates spending money at his properties
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Amy Harmon / New York Times:
Why White Supremacists Are Chugging Milk (and Why Geneticists Are Alarmed)
CNN:
New satellite images suggest military buildup in Russia's strategic Baltic enclave
Sarah Holder / CityLab:
Why Are So Many People In San Jose Fighting Housing for Teachers?
Daniel B. Shapiro / Haaretz:
Opinion Why the Khashoggi Murder Is a Disaster for Israel
Washington Post:
Record number of families crossing U.S. border, as Trump threatens new crackdown