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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.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Fox News
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: The Week, Mother Jones and Haaretz
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 …
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: Townhall, New York Times and Axios
Ahval:   Saudi suspect in Khashoggi disappearance reportedly dies in car accident - pro-gov't Yeni afak
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
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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Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
Rod Rosenstein Defends Mueller Probe as ‘Appropriate and Independent’
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
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
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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.
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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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Michelle Cottle / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton's Master Class in Distraction
Discussion: Althouse and CNN
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
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 …
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.
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.
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
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” …
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 …
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
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
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.
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
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 …
Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
From Anguished Appeal to Presidential Tweet: The Doctor Who Changed U.S. Policy  —  Syrian-born cardiologist's personal plea to Trump spurs his demand that regime not attack rebel stronghold  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump uses Twitter as a bully pulpit for everything from the economy to CNN's ratings.
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
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.
 
 
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W. Bradford Wilcox / Institute for Family Studies Blog:
The Family Geography of the American Dream: New Neighborhood Data on Single Parenthood, Prisons, and Poverty
Hunter Woodall / Kansas City Star:
Another former GOP governor of Kansas just endorsed Dem Laura Kelly over Kris Kobach
Alison Flood / The Guardian:
Anthea Bell, ‘magnificent’ translator of Asterix and Kafka, dies aged 82
Discussion: New Republic and Literary Hub
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Trump smashes regs, cuts $33 billion vs. $245 billion added by Obama
Discussion: Power Line and USA Today
Yahoo:
Baltimore puts 230 desk officers on streets as murders mount
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
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McGahn exits as White House counsel
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Charlotte Alter / TIME:
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
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