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10:50 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 …
Discussion: The Week and Politico
Washington Post:
White House privately doubts Saudi account of journalist's killing  —  President Trump and his aides have begun to privately express doubts about Saudi Arabia's explanation for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi even as the administration stands publicly in support of the oil-rich monarchy, according to U.S. officials.
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: POLITICUSUSA, ThinkProgress and CNN
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 …
New York Times:   This is the front line of Saudi Arabia's invisible war
Vivian Nereim / Bloomberg:
Saudis Shocked by Official Flip-Flop on Khashoggi
Rula Jebreal / Newsweek:
Jamal Khashoggi Secret Interview: The Saudi Journalist's Views of Islam, America and the …
Discussion: Sputnik International
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:   Mohammed bin Salman could bring his kingdom crumbling down
Jamal Khashoggi / Agence France-Presse:
Donald Trump says he finds Saudi explanation of Khashoggi death ‘credible’
Orhan Coskun / Reuters:
Investigators likely to discover what happened to Khashoggi body ‘before long’: Turkish official
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Guardian
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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Lucas Aulbach / Courier-Journal:
Man dumps Mitch McConnell's to-go box on Bardstown Road, witness says
Discussion: The Tennessean
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
President campaigns for former foe at Nevada rally  —  ELKO, Nev. — Before Donald Trump's improbable victory nearly two years ago, Dean Heller, this state's Republican senator, told reporters that “I vehemently oppose” the GOP's presidential nominee and returned a donation Trump made to his campaign.
Discussion: bradenton, Politico and The Daily Beast
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Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Biden rallies union for Democrats in tight Nevada races
Discussion: Breitbart and Politico
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
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.
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.
David Siders / Politico:
Sanders hints at reckoning with Warren over 2020 ambitions  —  The two progressive icons are on a collision course.  —  BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Bernie Sanders says he speaks with Elizabeth Warren nearly every day — just not about 2020.  —  But with the two progressive behemoths on a collision course …
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
The Daily Beast:
Convicted Ex-Trump Adviser George Papadopoulos Fights to Become the Next Big Fox News Star  —  Asked if aides and those close to Trump see Papadopoulos as an ongoing liability, one White House official replied that they see him generally as a ‘clown trying to make a buck.’
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
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
Christine Stapleton / Palm Beach Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Mar-a-Lago member Lana Marks headed to South Africa post?  —  President Donald Trump is said to be ready to nominate couture handbag designer and Palm Beach resident Lana Marks to become ambassador to South Africa, making her the fourth member of the Mar-a-Lago Club that the president has tapped for an ambassadorship.
Discussion: Mediaite
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
Dana Schuster / New York Post:
Anthony Scaramucci spills about Trump in tell-all book … It was less than six months before the 2016 election and Donald Trump was aboard his private jet, en route to a campaign rally in Albuquerque, NM — but politics were the farthest thing on his mind.  —  In front of him on a table …
Washington Post:
Senate and House GOP super PACs post big sums in September, new filings show  —  Republican super PACs aligned with leadership in the House and Senate raised an enormous sum of $63 million in September, as the groups stepped up their fundraising and spending efforts in the final two months …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Trump says US will pull out of intermediate range nuke pact  —  President Donald Trump said Saturday he will pull the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty because Russia has violated the agreement, but he provided no details on the violations.
Discussion: Politico and WCCO | CBS Minnesota
 
 
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Bloomberg:
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Haley demands UN punish Cuba, Bolivia after ‘mob scene’ at US event for Cuban political prisoners
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Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Sanders, Harris set to criss-cross Iowa
Discussion: Washington Post and Breitbart
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
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Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Hullabaloo and rbc.ru
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
FBI Acknowledges Using Multiple Informants In Investigation Of Trump Campaign Aide
Newt Gingrich / Fox News:
The caravan is an attack on America — Stop the caravan now
Discussion: Power Line and CNN
Donald J. Mihalek / The Hill:
Attacks on public figures are growing
Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
As U.S. fertility rates collapse, finger-pointing and blame follow
Bre Payton / The Federalist:
Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema Attacked ‘Bullshit’ Stay-At-Home Moms For ‘Leeching Off Their Husbands’