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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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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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
Mnuchin says he won't go to Saudi conference amid tension over Khashoggi disappearance
Discussion: Vox, CBS News, Politico and Axios
Washington Post:   Secret recordings give insight into Saudi attempt to silence critics
Ahval:   Saudi suspect in Khashoggi disappearance reportedly dies in car accident - pro-gov't Yeni afak
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Conservative Group's Closed-Door ‘Training’ of Judicial Clerks Draws Concern  —  The conservative legal movement has long cultivated law students and young lawyers, partly to ensure a deep bench of potential judicial nominees  —  A bipartisan Senate truce has fallen apart as Republicans renew …
Discussion: Law & Crime
Lauren Fox / CNN:
Trump more involved in stopping FBI HQ move than previously known, emails show  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump was more instrumental than previously known in scrapping plans to move the FBI headquarters out of Washington to the DC suburbs, according to newly released internal government emails.
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Politico:
McGahn exits as White House counsel
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 …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Rosenstein talks to press, but not to Congress; Republicans irate  —  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein doesn't give many press interviews.  But he did, on Wednesday, invite a Wall Street Journal reporter to the Justice Department for what the Journal called an “expansive” conversation.
Discussion: HuffPost
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CNN:
Mueller's quiet period has not been very quiet
Discussion: ABC News
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
Rod Rosenstein Defends Mueller Probe as ‘Appropriate and Independent’
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 …
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.
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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
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 …
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.
Matthew DeFour / madison.com:
Fourth former Scott Walker secretary comes forward to criticize governor  —  A fourth former secretary for Gov. Scott Walker has come forward to criticize the Republican governor after resigning from his job leading Madison's economic development agency in order to speak more freely.
Discussion: Raw Story
Dylan Byers / NBC News:
Netflix braces for investigation into workplace culture  —  The media company has been a runaway success in recent years, but The Wall Street Journal is looking behind the scenes to see what its employees think.  —  Netflix executives have been telling employees to brace …
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
YouTube:
MN-01: “Owns”  —  Paid for by the NRCC and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. www.nrcc.org
The Advocate:
Our Views: Back three changes in constitution  —  When voters go to the polls in November, six constitutional amendments will be on ballots in Louisiana.  —  That's not as many as in some years, and several involve relatively small matters, but there is a long-standing trend …
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer / New York Times:
Eight Stories of Men's Regret  —  Late on the Friday afternoon of Sept. 21, the same week that Christine Blasey Ford went public with accusations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh, The New York Times invited male readers to tell us about their high school experiences.
Liz Mair / The Daily Beast:
Dear God, Hillary Clinton.  Please, Just Go.  —  No one benefits from her latest venture back onto the political scene.  —  We're three weeks out from the 2018 midterm election, and Hillary Clinton is popping up again like a Halloween ghoul who keeps rising from the grave to terrorize the American public …
Hunter Woodall / Kansas City Star:
Another former GOP governor of Kansas just endorsed Dem Laura Kelly over Kris Kobach  —  A second former Republican governor of Kansas is spurning Kris Kobach's run for the office in favor of Democrat Laura Kelly's candidacy.  —  Former Kansas Gov. Mike Hayden, who served from 1987 to 1991 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
Kristen Taketa / sandiegouniontribune.com:
La Jolla Elementary School principal apologizes for email warning parents about a black man at Starbucks  —  La Jolla Elementary School (U-T files) … The La Jolla Elementary School principal apologized this week for an email to parents that she says unintentionally perpetuated stereotypes about black people.
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Menendez Leads Hugin for Senate  —  Trump more important factor to voters than incumbent  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Bob Menendez holds a lead of between 9 and 12 points over Bob Hugin in the former's bid for a third full term in the U.S. Senate, according to the latest Monmouth University Poll.
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” …
Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
The Afghanistan War Is Over.  We Lost.  —  The Taliban, which knows the U.S. is desperate to leave, just attacked a meeting between Afghan officials and the top U.S. military commander.  —  America has lost the war in Afghanistan.  Washington may not want to admit it, and the U.S. military insists the conflict is a “stalemate.”
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
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
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
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 …
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Dems likely to flip governorships in some of the biggest Midwest states  —  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
 
 
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
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