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7:45 AM 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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Ian Pannell / ABC News:
Pompeo listened to an alleged recording of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi: Turkish Source  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has heard an alleged audio recording of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi's murder inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, according to a senior Turkish official.
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.
NBC News:
Exclusive: Twitter pulls down bot network that pushed pro-Saudi talking points about disappeared journalist  —  Twitter became aware of some of the bots on Thursday when NBC News presented the company with evidence of coordinated activity.  —  Twitter suspended a network of suspected Twitter bots …
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.
Discussion: Breitbart, LifeZette and The Nation
Jonathan Schanzer / The Atlantic:
The Experts Were Wrong About the Middle East  —  The killing of Jamal Khashoggi has upended Washington's policy debates, as many reverse long-held views.  —  “I know what I'm going to do: I'm going to sanction the hell out of Saudi Arabia.”  —  That's what Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said last week …
Discussion: New York Times and Politico
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Trump praises Gianforte for assault on Guardian reporter: 'He's my guy'  —  President's comments at Montana rally in praise of violence against US journalist come amid international outcry over Khashoggi  —  Play Video  —  Donald Trump has praised Greg Gianforte, the Congress member from Montana …
Washington Post:
How the current crown prince changed Saudi Arabia — for the worse
Discussion: Middle East Eye
New York Post:
Why the Saudis despised Jamal Khashoggi
Discussion: Hürriyet Daily News
Henry Foy / Financial Times:
Vladimir Putin uses speech to herald end of US hegemony
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
What did U.S. spy agencies know about threats on Khashoggi — and when?
NBC News:   U.S. intel officials: Inconceivable Saudi prince had no link to Khashoggi death
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Karen Attiah, Jamal Khashoggi's Editor, on the Writer and His Work
Discussion: The Hill and The Week
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.
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CNN:
Bolton and Kelly get into heated shouting match sparking resignation fears
Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Ambassador of Mexico says he doesn't know of deal with Trump to stop migrant caravan
Discussion: New York Times and Politico
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.
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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Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
Interior Dept. probe faults Zinke for travels with wife
Ari Natter / Bloomberg:
Interior Department Says Inspector General Can Keep Her Job After All
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Fake intern who recorded McCaskill campaign had access to voter info, campaign says  —  A conservative activist with Project Veritas posed as an intern with U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill's campaign and had access to voter information, according to a stack of documents McCaskill's lawyer delivered …
Discussion: twitchy.com
CNN:
How Trump frames the 2018 election choice: “Democrats create mobs.  Republicans create jobs”  —  From CNN's Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak  —  President Trump, at his rally in Missoula, Montana, framed the midterms as “an election of Kavanaugh, the caravan, law and order, and common sense.
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Washington Post:
At Montana rally, Trump praises congressman for assaulting reporter
Discussion: HuffPost
Indianapolis Star:
HBO's ‘Veep’ gag and new Joe Donnelly political ad are basically the same  —  Dwight Adams, dwight.adams@indystar.com  —  Many Hoosiers who saw the latest Joe Donnelly ad entitled “Axe” may have viewed it and thought, “well, there's a fella who likes to chop his own wood!”
Discussion: IndieWire, The Federalist and Mediaite
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Paul Manafort is spending A LOT of time with Robert Mueller these days  —  (CNN)Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and special counsel Robert Mueller have been spending a whole lot of time together of late, according to CNN's Katelyn Polantz and Evan Perez.  The duo write:
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Richard Thornburgh / USA Today:
Let Mueller finish Russia investigation, it's most consequential in 30 years
Discussion: Politico and Sputnik International
New York Post:
Twitter has a huge Louis Farrakhan problem  —  Apparently, saying Jews are termites isn't offensive.  At least, not offensive enough for Twitter to ban Louis Farrakhan for it.  —  The Nation of Islam leader's history of blatant anti-Semitism goes back decades.
Discussion: Algemeiner.com and BuzzFeed News
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Texas Dems ask noncitizens to register to vote, send applications with citizenship box pre-checked  —  The Texas Democratic Party asked non-citizens to register to vote, sending out applications to immigrants with the box citizenship already checked “Yes,” according to new complaints filed …
Rachael Bade / Politico:
How Republicans could (barely) hang on to the House  —  Unlikely?  Definitely.  Impossible?  No.  —  Just about every poll predicts it won't happen: Suburban voters are too fed up with Donald Trump, and Democrats too awash in cash, for Nancy Pelosi's party not to seize the House on Nov. 6.
Discussion: The Week
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
House sets Rosenstein interview next week
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
Nicholas Hautman / Us Weekly:
Rihanna Declined Super Bowl LIII Halftime Show Offer in Support of Colin Kaepernick … Rihanna stands with Kap.  The “Work” singer declined an offer to headline the Super Bowl LIII Halftime Show because she “supports Colin Kaepernick,” a source tells Us Weekly exclusively.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
A Defector From Conservatism With a Clear Vision of Trump's Rise  —  When Max Boot was a young conservative apparatchik on the make, the key moment in his career occurred when he got a meeting with Robert Bartley, editor of The Wall Street Journal editorial page, one of the movement's most prestigious and influential organs.
Burlington Free Press:
Burlington police chief reacts to Madelyn Ellen Linsenmeir obituary: ‘I have a problem’  —  Burlington police Chief Brandon del Pozo posted this to his Facebook account on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018.  —  I have a problem with this obituary.  —  Born here in Burlington, Madelyn was the 30-year old mother of a toddler.
Tom Scocca / Hmm Daily:
Your Real Biological Clock Is You're Going to Die  —  In April, in a small town on a small island in a small string of islands trailing down from the main part of Japan, the world's then-oldest person died.  Nabi Tajima was 117 years old—the last surviving human being born in the 19th century.
Theodore R. Johnson / Politico:
How 2018 Became the ‘Year of the Black Progressive’  —  White Democrats are becoming more liberal; black Democrats aren't.  That fact is driving black candidates to win by executing a savvy strategy.  —  It's too soon to award the moniker, but 2018 may well be remembered as the political …
Discussion: BuzzFeed News
CNN:
Beto O'Rourke takes questions at CNN town hall … Transfer your debt and pay no interest until 2020  —  Getting approved for 1 of these cards means you have excellent credit  —  7 cards that generate serious amounts of cash back  —  5 cards charging 0% interest until 2020
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Trump Adviser Jason Miller Sues Will Menaker of ‘Chapo Trap House’ Over Tweet  —  First, he sued Gizmodo Media and a reporter over a claim he gave an abortion pill to a stripper.  Now he is suing the reporter's boyfriend over a tweet.  —  Jason Miller, a former senior campaign aide to Donald Trump …
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform:
New Emails and Photo Show President Intervened Directly in Decision Not to Sell FBI HQ Property to Potential Trump Hotel Competitors  —  Top House Democrats Seek More Information On Whether Trump's Actions Served His Personal Financial Interests  —  Washington, D.C. (Oct. 18, 2018)—Today …
Discussion: NPR
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HuffPost:
Trump Closely Involved In Killing FBI's Move Out Of Washington, Emails Show
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.
 
 
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Joshua Rhett Miller / New York Post:
Ex-teacher pleads guilty to sex with 14-year-old student
Discussion: Breitbart
The Daily Beast:
NYPD Arrests First Proud Boy for Manhattan Fight With Antifa
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
PolitiFact is forced to retract a story claiming Claire McCaskill didn't say what she definitely said
Discussion: twitchy.com
DW.COM:
Court in Finland finds pro-Kremlin trolls guilty of harassing journalist
Barnini Chakraborty / Fox News:
FBI agents raid San Juan government offices as part of investigation into fraud, corruption
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Amanda Macias / CNBC:
Putin says Russia will deploy hypersonic missiles in ‘coming months,’ surpassing US and China
Discussion: Yahoo and Shakesville
George Joseph / The Appeal:
In Alabama, Black People Are 4 Times More Likely Than White People To Be Arrested For Marijuana Possession
Fran Brennan / NTK Network:
Cory Booker: Canada Is More American Than America
Discussion: Daily Wire
 Earlier Items: 
U.S. Department of Justice:
Former FBI Agent Sentenced for Leaking Classified Information
Discussion: Jamie Dupree - AJC
MarketWatch:
Amazon's Jeff Bezos ranks No. 1 among S&P 500 CEOs in political spending
Wesleyan Media Project:
Huge Advertising Advantages for Democrats in 2018
Tori Truscheit / Slate:
The Rage of All Women  —  “Man-hating dyke” is the worst thing you can call a lesbian.
Discussion: twitchy.com
Edward Wong / WRAL-TV:
Uighur Americans Speak Against China's Internment Camps. Their Relatives Disappear
Tim Johnson / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Three secretaries of state are refereeing the election while running in the field
Max Brantley / Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times:
The slime gets deep in the race for 2nd District UPDATE
Liz Mair / The Daily Beast:
Dear God, Hillary Clinton. Please, Just Go.
Discussion: Townhall