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5:40 PM ET, October 20, 2018

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New York Times:
Saudis' Image Makers: A Troll Army and a Twitter Insider  —  Each morning, Jamal Khashoggi would check his phone to discover what fresh hell had been unleashed while he was sleeping.  —  He would see the work of an army of Twitter trolls, ordered to attack him and other influential Saudis who had criticized the kingdom's leaders.
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New York Times:
Saudi Explanation of Jamal Khashoggi's Killing Fails to Squelch Skepticism  —  Saudi Arabia's acknowledgment that its agents had strangled the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul was met with a flood of international skepticism on Saturday …
New York Times:
Trump, Breaking With U.S. Intelligence, Appears to Accept Saudi Explanation of Journalist's Death  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump broke with his own intelligence agencies on Friday, appearing to accept Saudi Arabia's explanation that the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed by accident during a fistfight …
Washington Post:
The Saudi explanation for Jamal Khashoggi's death is a fable.  Still Trump plays along.  —  SAUDI ARABIA now has acknowledged that it lied to the world for 17 days about what happened to journalist Jamal Khashoggi when he entered its consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
Corey Stewart says Khashoggi was a “mystery guy” and his death not worth clashing with Saudis  —  Corey A. Stewart's impulse to utter provocative and evidence-free slurs reached even new heights Friday night after the Republican nominee for Senate from Virginia disparaged slain Saudi Arabian …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and CNN
New York Times:
This is the front line of Saudi Arabia's invisible war  —  A BATTLEWAGON ROARS through the gates of a beach villa on Yemen's Red Sea coast, a luxury property with a 20-foot chandelier and indoor pool, now repurposed as a busy field hospital.  Young fighters, drenched in the sweat of the battle …
Associated Press:
Turkish reaction: we won't allow “cover-up” in Saudi killing  —  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey will “never allow a cover-up” of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, a senior official in Turkey's ruling party said Saturday after Saudi Arabia announced hours earlier …
Discussion: Splinter, Reuters and Washington Post
Vivian Nereim / Bloomberg:
Saudis Shocked by Official Flip-Flop on Khashoggi
Discussion: Hit & Run, Raw Story and New York Times
Orhan Coskun / Reuters:
Investigators likely to discover what happened to Khashoggi body ‘before long’: Turkish official
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Guardian
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:   Mohammed bin Salman could bring his kingdom crumbling down
Hassan Hassan / The Atlantic:   What's Missing From the Saudis' Khashoggi Story
Kareem Fahim / Washington Post:
Circumstances of Jamal Khashoggi's death will not be ‘covered up,’ Turkish official says
Discussion: The Guardian and Political Wire
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
Saudi claims that Khashoggi died in a ‘brawl’ draw immediate skepticism
Jamal Khashoggi / Agence France-Presse:
Donald Trump says he finds Saudi explanation of Khashoggi death ‘credible’
Discussion: Press Association and The Guardian
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
More Insulting Lies From Saudi Arabia
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
TMZ.com:
Senator Mitch McConnell Confronted at Restaurant by Angry Customers  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, was confronted Friday night by some angry diners who loudly berated him for his politics.  —  The Kentucky Senator was eating dinner with his wife at Havana Rumba in Louisville, when 4 men confronted Mitch.
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Diners confront Mitch McConnell at restaurant, get told to ‘leave him alone’ by others
Discussion: LifeZette
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
G.O.P. Candidates Struggling in Key Battlegrounds, With House at Stake  —  ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Republican leaders are increasingly worried that their candidates for governor and Senate are in political trouble across Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and other states that the party prizes …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
HuffPost:
Rep. Steve King Goes Full White Nationalist In Interview With Austrian Site  —  A shocking interview with a far-right propaganda site offers the clearest look yet at the congressman's racist ideology.  —  Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) visited Austria in August and gave an extensive interview …
Allison Kite / Kansas City Star:
Missouri GOP sent 10,000 voters false absentee voting information  —  The Missouri Republican Party sent mailers to 10,000 voters across the state with false information about when their absentee ballots are due, the party's executive director acknowledged Friday.
Ted Enamorado / Washington Post:
Georgia's ‘exact match’ law could disenfranchise 909,540 eligible voters, my research finds  —  Recently, there's been an uproar about Georgia's approach to voter registration.  The state's “exact match” law, passed last year, requires that citizens' names on their government-issued IDs must precisely match …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Guardian
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Early voting hints at huge turnout  —  More than 4.3 million Americans have already cast their ballots in the midterm elections, and early signs point to a huge increase in turnout from the last midterm elections in 2014, when overall voter participation hit a 70-year low.
Shira Tarlo / Salon:
Analysis: Brian Kemp has purged over 300,000 voters from Georgia rolls  —  Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is accused of seeking to suppress the black vote ahead of his big election  —  Georgia has removed over 300,000 voters from the state's voter rolls over the past two years …
Discussion: The Guardian and Greg Palast
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CNN:   Georgia county tosses out hundreds of minority absentee ballots
Donald J. Mihalek / The Hill:
Attacks on public figures are growing  —  Recently, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner boarded a flight from D.C. to New York.  This type of flight is termed a shuttle flight due to its quick and direct link between D.C. and New York.  Business people, power brokers and decision makers who need …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
FBI Acknowledges Using Multiple Informants In Investigation Of Trump Campaign Aide  — The Justice Department revealed Friday that it used multiple informants to obtain information against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.  — In court filings, government officials …
New York Times:
Disinformation Spreads on WhatsApp Ahead of Brazilian Election  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past few months, the 120 million Brazilians who use WhatsApp, the smartphone messaging application that is owned by Facebook, have been deluged with political messages.
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Adam Satariano / New York Times:
Facebook Ads From Unknown Backer Take Aim at Brexit Plan
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Did Michael Flynn Have a Back Channel to Email Hackers During the Campaign?  —  The alliance between the Trump campaign and Russia had many nodes of contact.  One of the least known, but potentially most significant, is the work that ran through Republican operative Peter W. Smith.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Hullabaloo and rbc.ru
John Bowden / The Hill:
GOP women's group backs Dem candidates in Michigan  —  A Michigan Republican women's PAC is backing two Democratic candidates in November over their Trump-supporting opponents, pointing to President Trump's rhetoric and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings as key reasons for the move.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:   For President Trump, it's 2016 all over again
 
 
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