Kavanaugh

• Kavanaugh Ally Did Online Searches for Christine Ford Before She Was Revealed As Accuser: Report by Noor Al-Sibai (AlterNet)
• Christine Blasey Ford Weighs the Risks and Rewards of Testifying by Elaina Plott (The Atlantic)
• Republicans Give Christine Blasey Ford One More Day to Negotiate Testimony by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• GOP aide working on Kavanaugh confirmation resigns amid past harassment claim by Marianne Levine, Burgess Everett (Politico)
• Grooming Brett Kavanaugh by Lucian K. Truscott IV (Salon)
• Christine Blasey Ford Given One More Day to Decide Whether to Testify Before the Senate by Kenzie Bryant (Vanity Fair)
• Fresh deadline for Brett Kavanaugh accuser adds to supreme court drama by Julian Borger (The Guardian)
• Aide for GOP involved in Kavanaugh nomination resigns after past sexual harassment allegation surfaces by Jacqueline Thomsen (The Hill)
• Spokesman for GOP on Kavanaugh Nomination Resigns Amid Questions of Past Harassment Claims by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• Lawyers For Christine Blasey Ford Say She Will Testify Before Senate Committee by Gabriela Saldivia (NPR)
• Kavanaugh accuser accepts Senate Judiciary Committee’s request to testify by Burgess Everett, Elana Schor (Politico)
• Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford Agrees to Testify by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• Trump galvanized a movement of women. Kavanaugh is testing it. by Alexander Burns, Elizabeth Dias, and  Susan Chira (The Washington Post)
• ‘Incredibly frustrated’: Inside the GOP effort to save Kavanaugh amid assault allegation by Seung Min Kim and Josh Dawsey (The Washington Post)
• Christine Blasey Ford moves closer to deal with Senate Republicans to testify against Kavanaugh by Seung Min Kim, Sean Sullivan and Emma Browne (Washington Post)
• Tentative Deal Reached for Kavanaugh Accuser to Testify on Thursday by Nicholas Fandos, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, and Julie Hirschfeld Davis (NY Times)

Other News

• Trump Vows to “Get Rid” of “Lingering Stench” at Justice Department and FBI by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• The Russia Investigations: Rod Rosenstein On The Razor’s Edge by Philip Ewing (NPR)
• China scraps trade talks with US after latest round of Trump tariffs by Mary Tyler March (The Hill)
• Ex-White House official revises statement to Mueller after Flynn guilty plea: report by John Bowden (The Hill)
• White House Drafts Antitrust Order to Investigate Google and Facebook’s Business Practices by Ben Brody, Jennifer Jacobs (TIME)
• White House draft order directs probes into tech giants: Bloomberg (Reuters)
• Trump administration to seeks to limit access to U.S. for immigrants who use or are likely to use public assistance by Nick Miroff (The Washington Post)
• FBI group defends agents amid Trump’s attacks by Tal Axelrod (The Hill)

Kavanaugh

• Trump: Kavanaugh accuser should have filed charges if assault ‘was as bad as she says’ by Ramsen Shamon (Politico)
• Trump questions Kavanaugh’s accuser, says opponents want to ‘destroy’ nominee by Doina Chiacu, Lawrence Hurley (Reuters)
• Brett Kavanaugh: Trump says allegation of sexual assault made by Christine Ford could not have been ‘as bad as she says’ by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
• Trump raises doubts about Kavanaugh accuser by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
• Poll: 4 in 10 Americans want Senate to reject Kavanaugh by John Bowden (The Hill)
• Kavanaugh and Trump are part of a larger crisis of elite accountability in America by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
• Ed Whelan, a top conservative activist, thinks he knows who really assaulted Christine Ford by Jane Coaston (Vox)
• Trump Suggests Kavanaugh Accuser Is Lying About Sexual Assault Allegations by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Trump Attacks Kavanaugh Accuser By Name Amid Negotiations For Hearing by Brian Naylor, Deirdre Walsh (NPR)
• Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford negotiates appearance before Senate Judiciary Committee by Rachel Leah (Salon)
• Trump tweets: Dr. Ford must provide documentation of her assault by Zack Ford (ThinkProgress)
• Three Teen Girls Penned a Powerful Letter to Brett Kavanaugh’s Accuser Christine Blasey Ford by Elly Belle (Teen Vogue)
• Trump says allegation of sexual assault made by Christine Ford could not have been ‘as bad as she says’ by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
• Opinion: An ugly new twist in the Kavanaugh saga raises very unpleasant questions by Greg Sargent (Washington Post)
• Analysis: Trump’s ‘restraint’ on Christine Blasey Ford was always oversold. by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
• The Kavanaugh Confirmation Process Is Getting Even Uglier by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
• Opinion: The Brett Kavanaugh case shows we still blame women for the sins of men by Rebecca Solnit (The Guardian)
• ‘The president had to step in’: White House shifts strategy on Kavanaugh defense by Christopher Cadelago, Andrew Restuccia (Politco)
• Opinion: The Supreme Court was America’s least damaged institution — until now by George F. Will (Washington Post)
• President Trump’s Tweets Show Why Most Sex Assault Victims Never File Police Reports, Advocates Say by Katie Reilly (TIME)
• #WhyIDidntReport: sexual assault victims react to Trump’s attack on Ford by Sam Wolfson (Guardian)
• Senate panel chairman threatens Kavanaugh vote on Monday if accuser doesn’t respond by 10 P.M. by John Wagner, Seung Min Kim, and Sean Sullivan (The Washington Post)
• PR firm helped Whelan stoke half-baked Kavanaugh alibi by Eliana Johnson (Politico)
• Kavanaugh May Be Getting More Unpopular by Janie Valencia, Perry Bacon Jr. (FiveThirtyEight)
• Ben Carson appears to tie allegation against Kavanaugh to socialist plot by Justin Wise (The Hill)
• Opinion: Trump Reveals Himself, Again by Jamil Smith (RollingStone)

Mueller Investigation / Cohen

• Michael Cohen Says He Is Providing ‘Critical Information’ to Robert Mueller’s Russia Probe by Michael Balsamo (TIME)
• Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen giving ‘critical information’ to Russia investigation by Jon Sharman (Independent)
• Trump slows release of Russia probe documents by Kyle Cheney (Politico)
• Trump delays release of Russia probe documents (Reuters)
• Michael Cohen provided “critical information” to Mueller probe without cooperation agreement: Davis by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
• Michael Cohen flips on Trump by Melanie Schmitz (ThinkProgress)
• Trump Delays Releasing Russia Probe Documents After U.S. Allies Raised Concerns by AP (TIME)
• Court grapples with case that could impact release of Mueller report by Josh Gerstein (Politico)

Immigration / Border / Migrant Children

• Authorities can deny visa, green card applications without giving applicants chance to fix errors by Kavitha Surana (Salon)
• A record number of migrant children are being detained at the border now by Rachel Leah (Salon)
• Ice arrests more than 40 people trying to sponsor migrant children by Erin Durkin (The Guardian)

Rosenstein

• Rod Rosenstein discussed removing Trump under 25th amendment – report by Tom McCarthy (The Guardian)
• Rosenstein wanted to wear wire on Trump, NYT says by John Bowden, Morgan Chalfant (The Hill)
• Rosenstein Denies That He Discussed Recording Trump, Invoking 25th Amendment by Carrie Johnson, Philip Ewing (NPR)
• DOJ’s Rosenstein, allies deny he considered secretly recording Trump by Kyle Cheney (Politico)
• Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein Denies That He Suggested Secretly Recording President Trump by AP (TIME)
• McCabe memo says Rosenstein considered secretly recording Trump by Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky (The Washington Post)

Other News

• FEMA Stopped Paying for Hotels for Displaced Puerto Ricans. Now Some Are Homeless. by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman (Mother Jones)
• Trump administration imposes sanctions on China for buying Russian fighter jets and missiles (Independent)
• Russia’s 2016 Twitter Campaign Was Strongly Pro-Gun, With Echoes Of The NRA by Tim Mak (NPR)
• US embassy in London, snubbed by Trump, opens doors to visitors by Esther Addley (The Guardian)
• Someone Put Trump’s Hollywood Star Behind Bars by Drew Schwartz (VICE)
• At Missouri Rally, Trump Vows to Eliminate ‘Lingering Stench’ at the Justice Department by Julie Hirschfeld Davis (NY Times)
• Trump Administration Proposes Weakening Rules Governing Organ Transplant Centers by Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle, and Charles Ornstein (ProPublica)

Analysis

• Trump Town: Tracking White House Staffers, Cabinet Members and Political Appointees Across the Government by Derek Kravitz, Al Shaw, Claire Perlman (ProPublica)
• Trump Administration Proposing Yet Another Massive Tax Windfall For the Rich by Robert Reich (AlterNet)
• Conservatives divided over Kavanaugh allegations, mostly along gender lines by James Hohman (Washington Post)
• The line between Trump and Fox News isn’t blurry. It barely exists. by Philip Bump (Washington Post)

Opinion

• Why Hasn’t Trump’s Refugee Policy Repelled His Christian Supporters? by Conor Friedersdorf (Independent)
• Another Case of Vanishing Latino Children by David Leonhardt (NY Times)

Kavanaugh

• Sen. Claire McCaskill: ‘I Will Vote No On Judge Kavanaugh’ by Scott Neuman (NPR)
• Kavanaugh Accuser’s Classmate: ‘That It Happened Or Not, I Have No Idea’ by Domenico Montanaro (NPR)
• Brett Kavanaugh Could Make the Midterms a Landmark Election for Women by Ronald Brownstein (The Atlantic)
• Trump says Kavanaugh is victim following assault accusation by Brendan Skwire (Salon)
• Kavanaugh’s confirmation on track as deadline looms for accuser by Burgess Everett, Elana Schor (Politico)
• Accuser of Trump’s court nominee sets conditions for testifying by Lawrence Hurley, Richard Cowan (Reuters)
• Mazie Hirono’s blunt style makes her a favorite for liberals looking for a fighter by Sean Sullivan (The Washington Post)
• Millions of women understand Christine Blasey Ford’s decades of silence by Petula Dvorak (The Washington Post)
• How strong does the evidence against Kavanaugh need to be? by Kate Shaw (The NY Times)
• Harvard Law students call on school to reconsider Kavanaugh teaching post by Justin Wise (The Hill)
• Trump weighs in on scheduled Kavanaugh public hearing, slams Sessions once more by Stephanie Francis Ward (ABA Journal)
• Evangelical Leaders Are Frustrated at G.O.P. Caution on Kavanaugh Allegation by Jeremy W. Peters and Elizabeth Dias (NY Times)
• ‘No accident’ Brett Kavanaugh’s female law clerks ‘looked like models’, Yale professor told students by Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Jessica Glenza (The Guardian)
• Kavanaugh Accuser Open To Testifying About Sexual Assault Allegations by Deirdre Walsh, Kelsey Snell (NPR)
• Kavanaugh accuser willing to testify if terms ‘ensure her safety’ by Lauren Gambino, Erin Durkin (The Guardian)
• Kavanaugh accuser requests Senate hearing be pushed back (The Guardian)
• More Than 50 Protestors Opposing Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Have Been Arrested by AP (TIME)
• Creepy stories from Kavanaugh’s Yale days further taint SCOTUS nominee’s public image by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
• Christine Ford ‘will testify next week’ against Brett Kavanaugh if senators provide ‘fair terms and ensure her safety by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)

Mueller Investigation / Cohen

• Michael Cohen Reportedly Questioned for Hours by Mueller on Trump’s Russia Ties by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
• Cohen questioned for hours in Mueller probe about Trump’s dealings with Russia: report by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
• Mueller has been questioning Michael Cohen on Trump’s Russia ties by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
• Trump walks back his plan to declassify Russia probe documents by Devin Barrett (Washington Post)

Immigration / Border / Migrant Children

• Trump urges Republicans to ‘get tough’ on border wall spending by Susan Heavey (Reuters)
• Trump demands a border wall but many Republican lawmakers aren’t convinced by Erica Werner, Josh Dawsey, Seung Min Kim (The Washington Post)
• Trump admin moves $260M from cancer research, HIV/AIDS and other programs to cover custody of immigrant children costs by Tal Kopan (CNN)
• ICE is arresting the sponsors of undocumented children by Rebekah Entralgo (ThinkProgress)
• Trump’s HHS diverting funds from NIH, CDC to pay for increased number of migrant children by Avery Anapol (The Hill)

Other News

• Trump urged Spain to ‘build a wall’ across Sahara, says minister (BBC)
• North Korea’s Kim wants another Trump summit to speed denuclearization: South’s Moon by Hyonhee Shin, Joyce Lee (Reuters)
• Here’s What One of Trump’s First Resource Management Plans Looks Like by Tay Wiles (Mother Jones)
• Trump blames OPEC for rising oil prices, says U.S. ‘will remember’ by Rebecca Morin (Politico)
• Ex-aides in Hill sexual harassment scandals tell Congress: Finalize a misconduct deal
  by Elana Schor (Politico)
• ‘Treating protest as terrorism’: US plans crackdown on Keystone XL activists by Will Parrish and Sam Levin (Guardian)
• Trump hails economy and tells workers: ‘start looking’ if you want a better job by Erin Durkin (The Guardian)
• Trump Officials ‘Did Not Want’ Census Survey To Ask About Sexual Orientation by Hansi Lo Wang (NPR)
• U.S. blacklists Russian entities tied to election meddling by Matthew Choi (Politico)
• Trump adds more Russians who interfered in the 2016 election to a sanctions list by Alex Ward (Vox)

Opinion

• Ben Carson is running HUD like a safety school for G.O.P. dropouts by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
• Brett Kavanaugh Could Make the Midterms a Landmark Election for Women by Ronald Brownstein (Atlantic)
• Mob misogyny is nothing new. I have the death threats to prove it. by Susanna daunt Walters (Washington Post)

Kavanaugh

• Watch: Anita Hill Explains Why Brett Kavanaugh Has ‘Burden of Persuasion’ in Sexual Assault Allegation by Matthew Chapman (AlterNet)
• Christine Blasey Ford: Kavanaugh accuser ‘faces death threats’ (BBC)
• Kavanaugh Accuser Faces Death Threats Ahead Of Senate Hearing by Willa Frej (Huffington Post)
• Trump defends court nominee Kavanaugh, wants to hear from accuser by Roberta Rampton (Reuters)
• Opposition to Kavanaugh grows, support at historic low: Reuters/Ipsos poll by Maria Caspani (Reuters)
• Kavanaugh’s Defenders Keep Changing Their Story by Luke Darby (GQ)
• GOP presses Kavanaugh vote with accuser’s testimony in doubt by Elana Schor, Burgess Everett (Politico)
• Trump tried to explain why he won’t ask FBI to investigate Kavanaugh. It made no sense. by Aaron Rupar (ThinkProgress)
• Analysis: Debunking 5 Viral Rumors About Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s Accuser by Kevin Roose (NY Times)
• Sen. McCaskill says will vote against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh by Lisa Lambert (Reuters)
• McCaskill to vote no on Kavanaugh confirmation by Burgess Everett (Politico)
• GoFundMe to support Kavanaugh’s accuser surpasses goal in several hours and is still going strong by Nicole Gallucci (Mashable)
• The Kavanaugh confirmation fight: A major battle in the Republican War on Women by Jared Yates Sexton (Salon)
• Kavanaugh is this generation’s Clarence Thomas, so how will the senate respond? by Lucian K. Truscott IV (Salon)
• Opinion: Christine Blasey Ford Has No Reason To Lie. Brett Kavanaugh Has Many. by Richard North Patterson (Huffington Post)
• President Trump Is Defending Kavanaugh the Same Way He Defended Himself and Other Men by Ryan Teague beck with (TIME)
• Grassley sets Friday deadline to hear back from Kavanaugh accuser by Daniella Diaz, Manu Raju, Sophie Tatum, and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN
• Kavanaugh’s supporters and his accusers are at an impasse over her testimony by Peter Baker and Nicholas Fandos (The NY Times)
• Trump claim that FBI can’t probe Kavanaugh allegations is wrong, ex-officials say by Josh Gerstein (Politico)

Russia Investigation / Sessions / Comey / Mueller / FBI Documents

• Trump on Sessions: ‘I don’t have an attorney general’ (BBC)
• Trump Is So Sad About Sessions: “I Don’t Have an Attorney General” by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Trump: I should have fired Comey ‘the day I won the primaries’ by Rebecca Morin (Politico)
• Trump renews attack on Sessions: ‘I don’t have an Attorney General’ by Hugh T. Gerguson (Politico)
• Trump’s big dump of classified FBI documents: More fuel for right-wing conspiracy theory by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
• The Apprentice’ book excerpt: At CIA’s ‘Russia House,’ growing alarm about 2016 election interference by Greg Miller (Washington Post)
• Trump Attacks Sessions and F.B.I., Citing Conspiracy Theories by Michael D. Shear and Eileen Sullivan (NY Times)

Other News

• Meet the Trump administration’s newest hire: a lobbyist for pro-Russian separatists by Casey Michel (ThinkProgress)
• Everything You Need to Know About Tom Arnold’s Hunt for the Trump Tapes (VICE)
• North Korea leader offers to dismantle nuclear test site — but only after U.S. acts by Simon Denyer and Anne Gearan (Washington Post)
• Trump Has Put the U.S. and China on the Cusp of a New Cold War by Mark Landler (NY Times)
• Trump Visited Rain-Drenched North Carolina and It Went About as Well as You’d Expect by Nathalie Baptiste (Mother Jones)
• President Trump Travels to Storm-Ravaged Carolinas to Survey Hurricane Florence Damage by AP (TIME)
• Sessions Is Poised to Make It Vastly Harder for Asylum-Seekers to Get Out of Detention by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
• Donald Trump urged Spain to ‘build the wall’ – across the Sahara by Sam Jones (The Guardian)
• North and South Korea just signed a major agreement. It may be bad news for Trump. by Alex Ward (Vox)
• Trump attacks Sessions and F.B.I., citing conspiracy theories by Michael D. Shear and Eileen Sullivan (The NY Times)
• Supreme Court denies emergency stay regarding secrecy of donors to political nonprofits by Stephanie Frances Ward (ABA Journal)

Analysis

• Analysis: Poland used to be okay with Trump. Then, he posted a photo. by Rick Noack (Washington Post)
• Republicans ‘duck and cover’ on pre-existing conditions by Adam Cancryn (Politico)

Kavanaugh

• Kavanaugh Backer Says Sexual Assault Allegation Could Have Been Just “Rough Horseplay” by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Battle For The Senate: Candidates In Key Races Respond To Kavanaugh Allegations by Jessica Taylor (NPR)
• Democrats Want FBI To Investigate Kavanaugh Allegations. It Likely Won’t by Tamara Keith (NPR)
• Kavanaugh accuser has not yet agreed to attend hearing by Elana Schor, Burgess Everett, Eliana Johnson (Politico)
• Trump says FBI should not probe allegations against top court pick (Reuters)
• Brett Kavanaugh Could Widen the Midterms’ Gender Gap by Dick Polman (The Atlantic)
• Why the GOP Is Better Off Pulling Kavanaugh’s Nomination by Emily Bazelton, David Plotz (Slate)
• Republicans have been discussing how to withdraw Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination: Michael Steele by Bob Brigham (Salon)
• Exclusive: Bush reaffirms support for Kavanaugh by Daniel Lippman (Politico)
• Take Direct Action to Stop Brett Kavanaugh by NationAction (The Nation)
• Trump: Kavanaugh ‘is not a man that deserves this’ (Politico)
• The Kavanaugh assault allegations are a reminder that Democrats were smart to push out Al Franken by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
• Lindsey Graham’s bizarre defense of not making Mark Judge testify by Aaron Blake (The Washington Post)
• Christine Blasey Ford wants F.B.I. to investigate Kavanaugh before she testifies by Peter Baker, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, and Nicholas Fandos (The NY Times)
• Analysis: A former sex-crimes prosecutor analyzed Ford’s allegations against Kavanaugh. Here’s her take. by Deanna Paul (Washington Post)
• Kavanaugh’s accuser thought her life would be upended. She was right. by Elise Viebeck (Washington Post)
• Trump Focuses on Kavanaugh’s Resume, Family — Not Accuser by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
• Kavanaugh Accuser Rejects Proposal for Monday Senate Judiciary Hearing by Niels Lesniewski (Roll Call)
• Mark Judge, Possible Witness to Alleged Brett Kavanaugh Sexual Assault, Does Not Want to Testify by Niels Lesniewski (Roll Call)
• Accusations Draw New Attention to Kavanaugh’s Remarks About Drinking by Matt Stevens (NY Times)
• Opinion: Why America Needs to Hear Brett Kavanaugh’s Accuser by Editorial Board (NY Times)
• Here Are 5 of the Most Appalling Far-Right Reactions to the Brett Kavanaugh Accusations by Alex Henderson (AlterNet)
• Republicans Reject Kavanaugh Accuser’s Request To Delay Hearing For FBI Investigation by Kelsey Snell, Scott Detrow (NPR)
• Kavanaugh accuser has reportedly received death threats and is in hiding by Rebekah Entralgo (ThinkProgress)
• Brett Kavanaugh accuser will not testify in public until FBI properly investigates her claims, says lawyer by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
• Christine Blasey Ford wants an FBI investigation before she’ll testify about Kavanaugh by Ella Nilsen (Vox)

China

• Chinese Respond to Trump’s Response to Chinese Response to Trump’s Trade War by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)
• Trump accuses China of using trade to target election, threatens retaliation (Reuters)
• China Sets Tariffs On $60 Billion In U.S. Goods, Retaliating Against U.S. Duties by Anthony Kuhn, Avie Schneider (NPR)
• China to retaliate with tariffs on $60B more of U.S. goods by Sabrina Rodriguez (Politico)
• Consumers will increasingly feel pain from Trump’s trade war. Here’s why. by Jim Tankersley and Alan Rappeport (The NY Times)

Mueller Investigation / Manafort

• Trump declassifies select Russia documents in apparent attempt to discredit Robert Mueller’s probe by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
• Why Manafort’s Flip May Matter More Than 25 Russian Indictments by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux (FiveThirtyEight)
• Trump’s decision to declassify key Russia documents is troubling. This is why. by Melanie Schmitz (ThinkProgress)

Other News

• Donald Trump Jr. Tried to Start a Fight with Anderson Cooper and Immediately Lost by Luke Darby (GQ)
• Trump puts HHS in charge of defense against biological threats by Sarah Owermohle (Politico)
• Porn star Daniels’ tell-all Trump book full of salacious details: newspaper by Bernie Woodall (Reuters)
• Trump says ‘seems to me’ Syria shot down Russian plane (Reuters)
• FEMA Postpones Test Of Presidential Emergency Alert System by Sara Bobltz (Huffington Post)
• Trump’s Space Force Would Cost $13 Billion In First 5 Years: Air Force Memo by Dominique Mosbergen (Huffington Post)
• Trump’s insecurity and ‘bullshit’ hush money: key takeaways from Stormy Daniels’ book by Tom McCarthy (The Guardian)
• Trump’s tough line on Iran risks backlash at U.N. by Nahal Toosi, David Herszenhorn, and Matthew Karnitschnig (Politico)
• Poland suggests ‘Fort Trump’ as U.S. weighs military base by Jeff Mason (Reuters)
• Trump Administration Eases Regulation Of Methane Leaks On Public Lands by Jennifer Ludden (NPR)

Analysis

• Trump Is Making American Diplomacy White Again by Uzra Zeya (Politico)

Kavanaugh

• Brett Kavanaugh: Calls mount for Supreme Court vote delay (BBC)
• Americans Didn’t Believe Anita Hill. How Will They Respond To Kavanaugh’s Accuser? by Janie Valencia (FiveThirtyEight)
• Kavanaugh Accuser Willing To Testify If Asked by Scott Horsley (NPR)
• Brett Kavanaugh’s Accuser Has Come Forward and Is Willing to Testify in Front of the Senate by Luke Darby (GQ)
• White House Stands by Kavanaugh as Accuser Says She’s Willing to Testify by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
• Confirmation in turmoil as Kavanaugh accuser agrees to testify by Elana Schor, Rebecca Morin (Politico)
• Kavanaugh says he’d testify in Congress about sexual assault allegations by Rebecca Morin (Politico)
• Judicial Crisis Network to launch $1.5M pro-Kavanaugh ad campaign by Burgess Everett (Politico)
• Schumer: FBI should reopen Kavanaugh background check – ABC (Reuters)
• Alumnae Of Christine Blasey Ford’s High School Circulate Letter Of Support by Amanda Terkel, Arthur Delaney (Huffington Post)
• Kavanaugh and His Accuser Say They Are Both Willing to Testify About Sexual Assault Allegation by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
• Opinion: Do we really ‘believe women’? How the Kavanaugh accusation will put a slogan to the test. by Monica Hesse (Washington Post)
• Here’s why the allegation against Kavanaugh is credible: He’s smeared and attacked women before by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
• The list of Republicans who have called on the Senate to delay Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote by Addy Baird (ThinkProgress)
• The allegations against Brett Kavanaugh are about the present, not just the past by Ezra Klein (Vox)
• Brett Kavanaugh and the Revealing Logic of ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ by Megan Garber (Atlantic)
• The Growing Partisan Split Over Sexual-Misconduct Allegations by Peter Beinart (Atlantic)
• I do not know this woman’: Trump allies rally to Kavanaugh’s defense by By Josh Gerstein, Andrew Restuccia, and Daniel Lippman (Politico)
• Trump Believes There Is a ‘Conspiracy’ to Torpedo the Kavanaugh Nomination by Asawin Suebsaeng,
  Gideon Resnick, and Sam Stein (Daily Beast)
• Kellyanne Conway speaks out on Kavanaugh’s accuser: ‘She should be heard’ by Ellen Cranley (Business Insider)
•  All Senate Judiciary Democrats Formally Ask for Delay to Kavanaugh Vote by Jason Dick (Roll Call)
• Trump, White House Will Let Senators Resolve Kavanaugh Fracas by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
• Brett Kavanaugh Gave a Speech About Binge Drinking in Law School by Pema Levy (Mother Jones)
• Republicans Aren’t Going to Let Brett Kavanaugh’s Sexual Assault Allegation Slow Them Down by Jay Willis (GQ)
• Kavanaugh Allegations Recall 1991’s Supreme Court Scandal, With Key Differences by Nina Totenberg (NPR)
• Trump says FBI does not need to investigate sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh by Emily Shugerman (Independent)

Mueller Investigation  / Declassification of FBI Documents

• President Trump Claims His Favorability Would Be Much Higher if Not for the Mueller Probe: Here Are 5 Reasons Why That Isn’t True by Alex Henderson (AlterNet)
• Key Senate Republicans Express Support for Mueller Probe by Andrew Kragie (The Atlantic)
• Michael Flynn Will Finally Be Sentenced by Natasha Bertrand (The Atlantic)
• Trump Orders Declassification Of FBI Documents Sought By House Republicans by Martina Stewart (NPR)
• Trump orders declassification of surveillance application, release of Comey texts by Kyle Cheney, Josh Gerstein, Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
• Trump Orders Declassification of Cherry-Picked Documents Aimed at Discrediting the Russia Investigation by Elliot Hannon (Slate)

China

• Trump Set to Impose More Tariffs on China by Jim Tankersly (NY Times)
• US slaps tariffs on $200bn of China goods as trade war escalates (Al Jazeera)
• Trump Sets Tariffs On $200 Billion In Imports From China by Avie Schneider (NPR)

Other News

• Trump’s Space Force struggling to launch by Bryan Bender, Jacqueline Klimas (Politico)
• Trump Loses Altitude in Ohio Ahead of Midterms by Steven Shepard, Tyler Fisher (Politico)
• Hillary Clinton Slams Trump Admin’s ‘Despicable’ Acts: ‘Our Democracy Is In Crisis’ by Nick Visser (Huffington Post)
• Trump administration revokes visas of Palestinian mission ambassador’s family by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
• Trump Administration Cuts Refugee Limit to Lowest Level on Record for Second Year in a Row by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
• Donald Trump Jr. Mocked Kavanaugh’s Accuser. It’s Not the First Time He Thought Sexual Assault Was Funny. by Jackie Flynn Mogensen (Mother Jones)
• Trump to visit hurricane-stricken North Carolina, death toll at 33 by Ernest Scheyder, Patrick Rucker (Reuters)

Opinion

• Here’s the science behind the Brexit vote and Trump’s rise by Michele Gelfand (Guardian)

Kavanaugh

• Kennedy says Kavanaugh vote will continue as planned on Thursday by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
• Brett Kavanaugh Accuser Goes Public: ‘I Thought He Might Inadvertently Kill Me’ by Hayley Miller (Huffington Post)
• “He Was Trying To Attack Me.” Kavanaugh Accuser Details Sexual Assault Allegations to Washington Post by Julie Lurie (Mother Jones)
• Feinstein Calls for Kavanaugh Hearings To Stop While FBI Investigates Sexual Assault by James West (Mother Jones)
• Brett Kavanaugh ‘sexual assault victim’ speaks out (BBC)
• Senate Republicans Pump the Brakes on Supreme Court Vote As Trump Prepares to Go After Kavanaugh’s Accuser by Elizabeth Preza (AlterNet)
• Kavanaugh faces his #MeToo test to reach Supreme Court by Eliana Johnson (Politico)
• Analysis: Three Ways Kavanaugh Nomination Could Play Out After Accuser Speaks by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
• Delay the Kavanaugh Vote by David From (Atlantic)
• The Subtext of Kavanaugh’s Nomination Bursts Into the Open by Garrett Epps (The Atlantic)
• GOP senator: Hold off on Kavanaugh vote until accuser is heard by Sean Sullivan, Seung Min Kim and Felicia Sonmez (Washington Post)
• Brett Kavanaugh’s Nomination in Turmoil as Accuser Comes Forward by Sheryl Gay Stolberg (New York Times)
• Two Republican senators urge committee to hear out Kavanaugh accuser before vote by Kate Sullivan (CNN)
• Analysis: Echoes of Anita Hill in allegations against Kavanaugh by by Joan Biskupic (CNN)
• What Happens To Brett Kavanaugh’s Nomination Now by Perry Bacon Jr (FiveThirtyEight)
• Read: Christine Blasey Ford’s letter detailing sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh by Li Zhou (Vox)

Hurricane Florence / Puerto Rico / FEMA

• FEMA Boss Backs Trump’s Puerto Rico Death Denials: “I Don’t Know Why the Studies Were Done.” by Julia Lurie (Mother Jones)
• FEMA chief on Puerto Rico death toll: ‘It’s hard to tell what’s accurate and what’s not’ by Michael Burke (The Hill)
• FEMA Will Test an Emergency System That Lets President Trump Send You Text Alerts by Alix Langone (TIME)
• Trump administration will send a message to all US phones on Thursday by Zamira Rahim (Independent)
• Trump gets pass from Congress on Puerto Rico deaths by Danny Vinik (Politico)

Mueller Investigation / Manafort

• ‘Impeachment is hell’: Manafort deal increases pressure on Trump by David Taylor (The Guardian)
• Trump revisits charge that ‘Mueller Witch Hunt’ is ‘illegal’ by Megan Keller (The Hill)

Other News

• AGs ask for Trump’s communications with foreign officials about DC hotel by Avery Anapol (The Hill)
• Report: President Trump Moving Forward With His Plans to Impose China Tariffs by AP (TIME)
• Trump administration planning further trade war escalations with China by Danielle McLean (ThinkProgress)
• US ‘serial killer’ border agent arrested in Texas (BBC)
• Trump praises Fox News show as ‘MANADATORY watching’ to understand government corruption, ‘Russian hoax’ by Michael Burke (The Hill)
• Michael Moore Thinks Donald Trump Or ‘One Of His Minions’ Wrote Anonymous NYT Op-Ed by Hayley Miller (Huffington Post)
• U.S. State Department revokes PLO ambassador family visas: envoy by Yara Bayoumy (Reuters)
• China may reject new trade talks if more tariffs imposed by Howard Schneider, Wall Street Journal (Reuters)

Opinion

• Trump’s foreign policy has devolved into chaos by Jackson Deihl (Washington Post)
• Not Deranged. Determined! In the midterm elections, the resistance will finally have a chance to push back against Trump. by Charles M. Blow (NY Times)
• American Democracy Is in Crisis by Hillary Rodham Clinton (The Atlantic)
• All of Our Fears About Trump Are Coming True by Paul Waldman (The American Prospect)
• Trump’s Treatment of Women, Not Russia, Will Bring Him Down by Jill Filipovic (VICE)

Hurricane Florence / Puerto Rico / FEMA

• As Hurricane Florence death toll grows, Maria remains on Trump’s mind by Quint Forget (Politico)
• Donald Trump Can’t Stop Attacking Puerto Rico’s Death Toll by Cling Hendler (Mother Jones)
• FEMA to Test Presidential Alert Wireless Emergency System by De Elizabeth (Teen Vogue)
• As Florence Death Toll Rises, Trump Doubles Down on Questioning Puerto Rico Count by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• Hurricane Florence: Trump declares North Carolina a ‘major disaster’ as fears grow about massive flooding yet to come by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
• FEMA to test system allowing Trump to send emergency alerts by Morgan Gstalter (The Hill)
• Trump approves North Carolina disaster declaration for Florence by Chris Mills Rodrigo (The Hill)
• FEMA’s testing a new “presidential alerts” system that sends messages to your phone by Emily Stewart (Vox)

Manafort / Mueller Investigation

• The Russia Investigations: What Will Paul Manafort Tell The Feds? by Phlilip Ewing (NPR)
• Trump launches first broadside at Mueller after Manafort plea deal by Quint Forgey (Politico)
• Trump and ‘collusion’: what we know so far about Mueller’s Russia investigation by Tom McCarthy (Guardian)
• ‘It’s not even a close call’: Giuliani is pushing a dubious theory about Paul Manafort’s plea deal that experts say is bogus by Sonam Sheth (Business Insider)
• Ken Starr Says If President Trump Fires Robert Mueller ‘There Would Be Hell To Pay’ by Andy McDonald (Huffington Post)
• Trump launches first broadside at Mueller after Manafort plea deal by Quint Forgey (Politico)

Other News

• Trump, Pompeo accuse Kerry of ‘undermining’ US policy on Iran (Al Jazeera)
• Trump Couldn’t Get Mexico To Pay For His Wall. Now Americans Won’t Pay Either. by S.V Date (Huffington Post)
• Trump administration to send U.S. cellphones a test alert on Thursday by Jason Lange, David Shepardson and David Morgan (Reuters)
• Trump ‘likely’ to announce new China tariffs as early as Monday by David Shepardson (Reuters)
• Borrowing strategy from NRA, activists quietly overturn knife restrictions across U.S. by Todd C. Frankel (Washington Post)
• The Economy Is Humming, but Trump Is Tweeting. Republicans Are Worried. by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns (NY Times)
• Censoring ‘Black-ish’ was a craven move to satisfy Trump’s base by Clay Cane (CNN)
• Border Patrol Agent Arrested in Texas on Suspicion of Being a Serial Killer by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• Trump Set to Announce New Tariffs on $200 Billion in Chinese Goods as Early as Monday by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• Trump is reportedly souring on Defense Secretary Jim Mattis by Emily Stewart (Vox)

Analysis

• As financial crisis shook the nation, Trump’s team saw payoff by Victoria Guida (Politico)

Manafort / Mueller Investigation

• Trump’s Approval Rating Is Down. Mueller’s Is Up. Is There A Connection? by Janie Velencia (FiveThirtyEight)
• Big Questions In Russia Case May Be Answered If FISA Documents Are Unredacted by Philip Ewing (NPR)
• Here Are 5 Reasons Why a Plea Bargain Made Sense for Paul Manafort by Alex Henderson (AlterNet)
• Paul Manafort Tried to Pressure “Obama Jews” to Help His Secret Lobbying Campaign for Ukraine by David Corn (Mother Jones)
• Paul Manafort To Plead Guilty In Agreement To Avert A 2nd Federal Trial by Carrie Johnson (NPR)
• Trump ex-campaign chief Manafort strikes plea deal (BBC)
• Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
• Full text: New charging document in Manafort case (Politico)
• Manafort to cooperate with Mueller as part of plea deal by Josh Gerstein, Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
• Paul Manafort Agrees To Plead Guilty, Cooperate In Mueller Probe by Ryan J. Reilly (Huffington Post)
• Trump ex-campaign head Manafort to cooperate in Russia probe by Nathan Layne, Karen Freifeld (Reuters)
• Paul Manafort’s Cooperation With Mueller Is the Biggest Blow Yet to Trump by Natasha Bertrand (The Atlantic)
• What Paul Manafort Knows by Franklin For (Atlantic)
• Paul Manafort Flips on Trump as Plea Deal Unveiled by Ellis Kim and C. Ryan Barber (National Law Journal)
• Opinion: Paul Manafort has flipped. So what happens now? by Paul Waldman (Washington Post)
• Opinion: Trump cannot use a pardon to stop Manafort’s cooperation by Paul Rosenzweig and Justin Florence (Washington Post)
• Conservative Writer Says Trump Should Start ‘Panicking’ Over Manafort Plea — and Republicans Should Consider Impeachment by Cody Fenwick (AlterNet)
• Robert Mueller Is Winning by Matt Ford (The New Republic)
• Michael Cohen Is the Latest Former Trump Ally to Talk to Mueller by Emily Jane Fox (Vanity Fair)
• Manafort’s Guilty Plea Shows the Slow But Steady Progress of the Russia Investigation by Tessa Berenson (TIME)
• All the Ways Paul Manafort’s Guilty Plea Will Hurt Donald Trump by Jeremy Stahl (Slate)
• Manafort is cooperating with Mueller. 8 legal experts explain what that means for Trump. by Sean Illing (Vox)
• READ: Manafort’s cooperation agreement with Mueller (The Hill)
• Manafort’s surrender shows Mueller probe’s overwhelming force by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
• Manafort’s deal reins in a pardon’s impact by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
• What Trump Doesn’t Get About Defendants Who Flip by Tim Heaphy (Politico)

Kavanaugh

• Brett Kavanaugh Accused Of Attempting To Rape A Woman In High School by Amanda Terkel (Huffington Post)
• GOP defends Kavanaugh against sexual assault allegation by Elana Schor, Burgess Everett (Politico)
• Report: Woman Accused Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh of High School–Era Sexual Misconduct by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
• A woman alleges Brett Kavanaugh held her down and attempted to sexually assault her by Zack Beauchamp (Vox)
• 65 women who knew Brett Kavanaugh in high school defend his character by Tara Golshan (Vox)
• Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh denies sexual misconduct allegation (The Guardian)
• Brett Kavanaugh denies sexual misconduct in high school (BBC)
• Our System Is Too Broken to Assess the Sexual Assault Claim Against Kavanaugh by Dahlia Lithwick (Slate)
• Opinion: I Received Some of Kozinski’s Infamous Gag List Emails. I’m Baffled by Kavanaugh’s Responses to Questions About Them. by Heidi Bond (Slate)

China

• Trump says US under ‘no pressure’ for China trade deal (BBC)
• Trump reportedly wants to push forward with tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods despite new trade talks by Bob Bryan (Business Insider)
• Trump wants $200bn in tariffs on Chinese goods: reports (Al Jazeera)

Other News

• Hurricane Florence To Test FEMA, Trump Administration by Brian Naylor (NPR)
• Trump’s economic boom is only for the rich — and likely won’t help Republicans in midterms by Amanda Marcotte (Salon)
• Donald Trump Reportedly Likes To Print His Most Popular Tweets by Lee Moran (Huffington Post)
• Trump biographer: Trump doesn’t see people who aren’t white as people by Morgan Gstalter (The Hill)
• Trump Skips Usual Fanfare, Privately Signs Election Meddling Order by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
• Asylum-seekers whose children were taken away may get another chance under DOJ settlement by Lorelei Laird (ABA Journal)
• Concession by the Trump Administration Caps Off a Big Legal Victory for Separated Families by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
• State Department Spent $52,700 On Curtains For UN Ambassador Residence by Jenna Amatulli (Huffington Post)

Analysis

• The Russian Hacking of 2016 Was Just a Taste. Here’s What We Could Be In For. by Terrell Jermaine Starr (Mother Jones)
• Interview: Bob Woodward: ‘Too many people are emotionally unhinged about Trump’ by David Smith (The Guardian)

Hurricane Florence / Puerto Rico

• Trump disputes Puerto Rico storm death toll, draws outcry by Doina Chiacu (Reuters)
• Here Are 5 Ways the Trump Administration Has Failed Miserably When It Comes to Hurricane Preparedness by Alex Henderson (AlterNet)
• Trump Says Hurricane Maria Death Toll Was Invented by Democrats to Damage Him Politically by Hannah Levintova (Mother Jones)
• Trump Denies Almost 3,000 Died In Puerto Rico, Falsely Claims Democrats Inflated Data by Brian Naylor (NPR)
• Trump disputes Puerto Rico hurricane death toll (BBC)
• Donald Trump Doesn’t Care About Puerto Rico by Vann R. Newkirk II (The Atlantic)
• Trump pushes conspiracy theory about Puerto Rico death toll by Andrew Restuccia, Matthew Choi (Politico)
• Trump falsely claims Hurricane Maria death toll was made up by Democrats by Amanda Holpuch (The Guardian)
• Trump just invented a cruel conspiracy theory about Hurricane Maria’s death toll by Alexia Fernández Campbell (Vox)
• Trump’s Puerto Rico tweets are the purest expression of his presidency by Zack Beauchamp (Vox)
• Donald Trump Doesn’t Care About Puerto Rico by Vann R. Newkirk (Atlantic)
• Trump smears 3,000 dead Puerto Ricans, calls hurricane Maria death toll a democratic hoax by Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair)
• Trump creates political storm with false claim on Puerto Rico hurricane death toll by Philip Rucker, Robert Costa, and Josh Dawsey (The Washington Post)

Kavanaugh

• Brett Kavanaugh Releases 263 Pages Worth of Non-Answers to Senators’ Written Questions by Matthew Dessem (Slate)
• New Claims About Brett Kavanaugh Reportedly Relate to ‘Possible Sexual Misconduct’ from His High School Days by Cody Fenwick (AlterNet)
• The Many Mysteries of Brett Kavanaugh’s Finances by Stephanie Mencimer (Mother Jones)
• Democrats Refer Kavanaugh Allegations To FBI, Deepening Divide Over His Nomination by Nina Totenberg (NPR)
• Republicans block Democratic bid to subpoena Kavanaugh documents by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
• Senate committee vote on Kavanaugh delayed until next week by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
• Feinstein asks feds to investigate Kavanaugh claims in letter by Burgess Everett, Edward-Isaac Docere (Politico)
• Brett Kavanaugh has a mysterious #MeToo problem by Ian Millhiser (ThinkProgress)
• As Senate panel sets vote on Trump court pick, new controversy arises by Lawrence Hurley, Amanda Becker (Reuters)
• Dianne Feinstein Acknowledges Having A Secret Brett Kavanaugh Document by Igor Bobic, Amanda Terkel, Jennifer Bendery, Paul Blumenthal, Ashley Feinberg (Huffington Post)
• Senator Dianne Feinstein Gave the FBI Information About Brett Kavanaugh by Lisa Mascaro (TIME)
• What we know about the potentially explosive letter Sen. Feinstein sent to the FBI about Brett Kavanaugh by Li Zhou (Vox)
• Senate Democrats refer “information” about Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the FBI by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)

Mueller Investigation

• Read: Kavanaugh’s written answers to more than 1,000 Senate questions by Li Zhou (Vox)
• The Mueller Investigation Is Sending People to Jail—but Not for Collusion by Aaron Maté (The Nation)
• How Trump and Manafort Are Helping Each Other in the Russia Investigation by Natasha Bertrand (The Atlantic)
• Here Are 5 Things You Should Know About Special Counsel Robert Mueller by Alex Henderson (AlterNet)
• Executive Privilege and the Public Interest: Why the President Can’t Block Release of the Mueller Report by Jessica Marsden, Andy Wright (Just Security)
• The big question about Manafort’s plea deal talks with Mueller: will he cooperate? by Andrew Prokop (Vox)

Immigration / Border / Family Separation

• U.S. to reconsider asylum for separated immigrant families by Tom Hals (Reuters)
• Separated parents would get another chance at asylum under settlement proposal by Ted Hesson (Politico)
• Trump Administration Plans to Triple Size of Tent Camp for Migrant Children by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
• US: Arrests of immigrant families crossing US-Mexico border soar (Al Jazeera)
• Number of Detained Migrant Children Reaches Record High by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
• Trump took $169 million from other programs to pay for ICE immigrant detention by Franke Dale (ThinkProgress)

Other News

• New Data Shows How the NRA Used Parkland to End Its Trump Slump by Dave Gilson (Mother Jones)
• The House Is Trying to Sneak These Controversial Changes Into the Farm Bill by Tom Philpott (Mother Jones)
• Paul Ryan Says Republicans Will Take Another Run at Obamacare After the Midterms by Hannah Levintova (Mother Jones)
• Trump’s FEMA chief under investigation over use of official cars by Daniel Lippman, Eliana Johnson (Politico)
• Trump Org Executive: Trump Tried to Have Braille Removed from Trump Tower Elevators by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
• Bob Woodward’s Fear sells more than 750,000 in first day by Alison Flood (The Guardian)
• Trump attacks Dems on farm bill by Emily Birnbaum, Juliegrace Brufke (The Hill)
• Facing a midterm wipeout, Trump’s alternate reality comes crashing down by Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair)
• ‘Even the folks who won don’t seem happy’: Obama mocks Republicans at Ohio rally by Felicia Somnez (The Washington Post)
• U.S. attack on Hague Court is seen as bolstering world’s despots by Matt Apuzzo and Marlise Simons (The NY Times)

Analysis

• “Trump Believes There’s a Coup”: Freaked by the Times Op-Ed, the President Is Seeing Enemies Everywhere by Gabriel Sherman (Vanity Fair)
• Can our independent judiciary survive the politicized criticism leveled against it? by Robert Bell (ABA Journal)

Opinion

• You can’t put America first if you put climate change last by Brian Klaas (Washington Post)