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New York Times:
Saudi Arabia Weighs Blaming Intelligence Official for Khashoggi Killing  —  ISTANBUL — The rulers of Saudi Arabia are considering blaming a top intelligence official close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, three people with knowledge of the Saudi plans said Thursday.
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New York Times:
Trump, Citing Intelligence Reports, Says He Believes Khashoggi Is Dead  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Thursday that he believes the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead, and he expressed confidence in intelligence reports from multiple sources that strongly suggest a high-level Saudi role in Mr. Khashoggi's assassination.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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.
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 …
Madawi Al-Rasheed / New York Times:
Why King Salman Must Replace M.B.S.
Discussion: middleeastmonitor.com
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Kushner and Saudi crown prince communicated informally on WhatsApp: report
Discussion: HuffPost, Talking Points Memo and CNN
Jamal Khashoggi / Washington Post:
What the Arab world needs most is free expression
Washington Post:
Secret recordings give insight into Saudi attempt to silence critics
Discussion: Axios
Ken Klippenstein / TYT Network:
US to Train Saudi Arabia Prison Officials
Discussion: Law & Crime, Vox and LewRockwell
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Kelly, Bolton Get in Profane Shouting Match Outside the Oval Office  —  President Donald Trump's chief of staff and his national security adviser engaged in a profanity-laced argument outside the Oval Office on Thursday, according to three people familiar with the episode.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
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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.
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HuffPost:
Trump Closely Involved In Killing FBI's Move Out Of Washington, Emails Show  —  Opening up the FBI's Pennsylvania Avenue location for redevelopment would have created competition for Trump International Hotel.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump personally intervened to stop the FBI …
Discussion: Political Wire, NPR and USA Today
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 …
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Democrats' Left Turn Is Not an Illusion
Steven Hayward / Power Line:   The Democrats' Leftward March
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 …
Madeline Shi / Business Insider:
A day in the life of an HSBC exec who wakes up at 5:30 a.m. to work out, always eats green, and studies at Stanford in her free time  —  Melania Edwards is always on the move.  —  The HSBC exec, who's part of the bank's Global Venture Capital Coverage Group, works from two Northern California offices an hour apart.
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 …
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
Washington Post:
Trump administration does about-face on announcement that top HUD aide would lead Interior watchdog  —  Interior Department officials said Thursday that they did not approve the hiring of a political appointee as the agency's acting watchdog, calling the announcement of her move by Housing …
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Ari Natter / Bloomberg:
Interior Department Says Inspector General Can Keep Her Job After All
Discussion: GovExec.com
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 …
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 …
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.
Bill Roggio / FDD's Long War Journal:
Taliban attack meeting attended by General Miller, kills Kandahar police chief  —  The Taliban claimed credit for an attack at a high level meeting in Kandahar that killed General Raziq, the province's chief of police and arguably the most powerful man in southern Afghanistan.
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Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:   The Afghanistan War Is Over. We Lost.
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: Shareblue Media and Political Wire
Paul Hammel / Omaha World-Herald:
Nebraska's new tourism pitch: 'Honestly, it's not for everyone'  —  “Like Stonehenge, but a newer model,” says this example of a new Nebraska tourism ad that shows Carhenge near Alliance.  The first ads of the new campaign will roll out in January.  —  NEBRASKA CITY — Nebraska's …
Discussion: Political Wire and Joe.My.God.
Michael Burke / The Hill:
Meadows calls on Rosenstein to resign ‘immediately’  —  House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) on Thursday called on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to resign “immediately.”  —  “I think at this particular point, Rod Rosenstien's priorities are misplaced.
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.
WDJT-TV:
Greendale High School student suspended after she says she was called the N-word  —  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video  —  GREENDALE, Wis. (CBS 58) — The suspension of a black student at Greendale High School …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
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.
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: Raw Story and The Root
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
America Already Has a Centrist Party.  It's Called the Democrats.  —  Are you part of the “Exhausted Majority” that opposes both Donald Trump and far-left activists?  Good news: there's a party for you.
The Harvard Crimson:
In Admissions, Harvard Favors Those Who Fund It, Internal Emails Show  —  In one 2013 email headlined “My Hero,” former Kennedy School Dean Ellwood thanked Harvard's admissions dean for his help accepting a set of students with very particular qualifications.  “[Redacted] and [redacted] are all big wins.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Just about everything you've read on the Warren DNA test is wrong  —  “Warren might even be less Native American than the average European American.”  —  “Pocahontas (the bad version), sometimes referred to as Elizabeth Warren, is getting slammed.  She took a bogus DNA test and it showed …
Discussion: Daily Wire and twitchy.com
 
 
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