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1:50 PM ET, October 19, 2018

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Washington Post:
Conservatives mount a whisper campaign smearing Khashoggi in defense of Trump  —  Hard-line Republicans and conservative commentators are mounting a dark whisper campaign against Jamal Khashoggi that is designed to protect President Trump from criticism of his handling of the dissident …
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Washington Post:
Mnuchin still plans to attend Saudi anti-terror financing meeting after Khashoggi disappearance  —  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has decided to take part in an anti-terror finance meeting with Saudi security officials and their Middle Eastern counterparts in Riyadh later this month …
Discussion: Axios, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
Reuters:
As Khashoggi crisis grows, Saudi king asserts authority, checks son's power: sources  —  DUBAI (Reuters) - So grave is the fallout from the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi that King Salman has felt compelled to intervene, five sources with links to the Saudi royal family said.
Discussion: Raw Story
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro Accuses Kushner of Orchestrating Khashoggi Killing  —  Without evidence, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), a member of the House intelligence committee, said Jared Kushner might have passed a “hit list” to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman resulting …
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Khashoggi's alleged murder says as much about America as Saudi Arabia  —  The apparent barbaric killing of Jamal Khashoggi tells us something important about Saudi Arabia.  But it also tells us something important about the United States.  —  First, Saudi Arabia.
Jonathan Schanzer / The Atlantic:
The Experts Were Wrong About the Middle East
NBC News:
Trump's closing argument is full of conspiracy theories and brute force. And it just might work.
Ian Pannell / ABC News:
Pompeo listened to an alleged recording of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi: Turkish Source
New York Post:   Why the Saudis despised Jamal Khashoggi
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
As we mourn a colleague, Trump celebrates violence against a journalist
Haley Britzky / Axios:
Top Democrats want fundamental changes in U.S.-Saudi relationship
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Trump praises Gianforte for assault on Guardian reporter: 'He's my guy'
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Praises Republican Criminal for Attacking Journalist
Annie Karni / Politico:
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Hillary?  —  She's not going away—and Democrats aren't sure what to do about it.  —  In recent months, some reporters who cover the Trump White House have received phone calls from the last person they would expect: Hillary Clinton.
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New York Times:   In 2020, Democrats Expect a Female Front-Runner. Or Three.
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Georgia Is Using Amateur Handwriting Analysis to Disenfranchise Minority Voters  —  The scourge of “signature mismatch” laws strikes again.  —  Say you live in Georgia.  You're eager to vote in this year's election—a tight race between Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Trump acolyte Brian Kemp …
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APM Reports:
Georgia purged an estimated 107,000 people largely for not voting, an APM Reports investigation shows  —  A handful of states, most of them led by Republicans, are using someone's decision not to vote as the trigger for removing them from the rolls.  No state has been more aggressive …
Discussion: Axios, POLITICUSUSA and Joe.My.God.
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:   107,000 purged from Georgia voter rolls for not voting in past elections: report
Katie Benner / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Rank-and-File Tell of Discontent Over Sessions's Approach  —  WASHINGTON — During his 20 months in office, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has swept in perhaps the most dramatic political shift in memory at the Justice Department, from the civil rights-centered agenda of the Obama era …
Discussion: The Week, Law & Crime and Raw Story
Kathryn Dunn Tenpas / Brookings:
Record-setting White House staff turnover continues with news of Counsel's departure  —  With the recent departure of White House Counsel, Don McGahn (and premature announcement of his successor, Pat Cipollone), turnover within the most senior level of White House staff members bumped up to 83 percent.
Discussion: Axios and Washington Post
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:   Obama's First National Security Adviser Now Works for the Saudis
Tarpley Hitt / The Daily Beast:   EPA on U.N. Climate-Change Report: 'What Report? Haven't Heard of It'
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Haley breaks with Trump: ‘In America, our political opponents are not evil’  —  Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley insisted Thursday night that “in America, our political opponents are not evil,” a shark rhetorical break from her boss, President Donald Trump …
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump considering Richard Grenell for U.N. ambassador
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Uh Oh: Woman Claims “Unwanted” Sexual Advance By Senate Dem In “Late 1980s”  —  Shall we go by the old rules or the new rules?  Rep. Jim Renacci's (R-OH) Senate campaign has highlighted a claim by an anonymous woman that incumbent Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) might have sexually harassed or assaulted her in the late 1980s.
Discussion: Roll Call and Cincinnati.com
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The Guardian:
I pulled a 1,500-year-old sword out of a lake  —  People are saying I am the queen of Sweden because of the legend of King Arthur  —  Every summer, my parents, my six-year-old brother and I go to stay in a cabin by a lake called Vidöstern in Tånnö in southern Sweden, not far from where we live.
Discussion: Maggie's Farm
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Schumer blasts GOP on health care, says Senate election races now ‘neck and neck’  —  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday that Democrats are running “neck and neck” for the majority in the Senate, telling MSNBC that Republicans have handed the minority party a “gift” …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:   Senate GOP confident they will increase their majority in November
Ylan Mui / CNBC:
Kamala Harris and other prominent Democrats want to repeal Trump's tax cuts and replace them with cash payouts for the poor and working class  — With midterm elections 2½ weeks away and the 2020 presidential race around the corner, prominent Democrats are embracing an ambitious idea …
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Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Harris rolls out bill to create new middle class tax credit
Discussion: twitchy.com
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Mueller report PSA: Prepare for disappointment  —  And be forewarned that the special counsel's findings may never be made public.  —  President Donald Trump's critics have spent the past 17 months anticipating what some expect will be among the most thrilling events of their lives …
Discussion: emptywheel and USA Today
Joe Concha / The Hill:
CNN's Acosta sends private message to former Melania Trump aide: ‘F— you’  —  CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta sent a direct message to a Twitter follower that read “F— you” after being mocked on the social media platform on Thursday night.
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Alan Fram / Associated Press:
AP-NORC Poll: Just 1 in 4 thinks Kavanaugh told entire truth  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Just 1 in 4 people thinks Brett Kavanaugh was completely honest when as a Supreme Court nominee he gave sworn testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee last month, with Republicans and Democrats holding …
Discussion: Law & Crime
Tom Perkins / Detroit Metro Times:
Detroit judge tosses ‘gardening while black’ case brought by three white women  —  Throughout 2017 and early 2018, three white women called police dozens of times, making increasingly serious allegations against Marc Peeples, a black man.  —  Peeples was building a community garden …
Discussion: gofundme.com, The Root and Raw Story
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A President Who Believes He Is Entitled to His Own Facts  —  WASHINGTON — He accepts less-than-credible denials from autocratic heads of state about nefarious acts.  He disputes the existence of man-made climate change and insists that photographic evidence of the crowd at his inauguration is fake, part of a media plot to harm him.
BuzzFeed News:
Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Calling For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story  —  “There is no truth in their story about Apple.  They need to do the right thing.”  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook, in an interview with BuzzFeed News, went on the record for the first time to deny allegations …
Del Quentin Wilber / Los Angeles Times:
Fentanyl smuggled from China is killing thousands of Americans  —  The Zheng drug trafficking organization was hardly clandestine.  The Shanghai-based network sold synthetic narcotics, including deadly fentanyl, on websites posted in 35 languages, from Arabic and English to Icelandic and Uzbek.
 
 
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HBO's ‘Veep’ gag and new Joe Donnelly political ad are basically the same
Discussion: IndieWire, The Federalist and Mediaite
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Fake intern who recorded McCaskill campaign had access to voter info, campaign says
Discussion: twitchy.com