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Tipsheet: Kavanaugh confirmation faces fresh uncertainties

 
 
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Kavanaugh confirmation faces fresh uncertainties
BY LYDIA WHEELER, JORDAIN CARNEY AND ALEXANDER BOLTON
 
The confirmation process for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is headed into another week of uncertainty after Senate GOP leaders on Friday afternoon delayed a vote to end debate on his nomination.
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How Flake came to secure Kavanaugh delay
BY ALEXANDER BOLTON, JORDAIN CARNEY AND LYDIA WHEELER 
 
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) on Friday secured an FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, delaying his Supreme Court nomination for a week. Here's how Flake reached his decision and forced the delay.
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McConnell says Kavanaugh nomination moving forward as Trump approves FBI probe
BY JORDAIN CARNEY
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Friday that the Senate is moving forward with Brett Kavanaugh's nomination, even as President Trump agreed to GOP leaders' request for the FBI to reopen its background check into the Supreme Court nominee.
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Lawyer for Kavanaugh accuser: FBI probe should not have 'artificial' limits
BY JORDAIN CARNEY
Debra Katz, a lawyer for Christine Blasey Ford, said Friday that "artificial limits" should not be placed on the FBI as it reopens its background investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. 
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Trump and son signal support for McCarthy as next Speaker
BY SCOTT WONG
At a private fundraiser at his namesake hotel, President Trump on Thursday night appeared to back Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to be the next Speaker, several attendees told The Hill.
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Senate GOP guards its majority as Dems spend big
BY REID WILSON AND LISA HAGEN
Six weeks before Election Day, Republicans who once hoped to bolster their narrow majority in the Senate are now retrenching in hopes of holding on, buffeted by a worsening national environment and big-spending Democrats exercising their financial advantages.
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House cancels October votes, heads home to campaign
BY MELANIE ZANONA
House Republicans announced Friday they were canceling all votes for October and leaving for home, recessing with two weeks left on their October schedule to provide candidates with more time to campaign before the midterm elections.
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Top consumer bureau official blasts colleague over blog posts dismissing racism
BY SYLVAN LANE
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official in charge of fair lending is pulling her support for a top agency aide over blog posts he wrote that dismissed hate crimes and used racial slurs.
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Trump signs spending bill, preventing shutdown
BY NIV ELIS
President Trump on Friday signed an $854 billion spending package that will avert a shutdown by keeping the federal government open into the new fiscal year, which begins Monday.
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CNN founder Ted Turner: Network 'sticking with politics a little too much'
BY JOHN BOWDEN
CNN founder Ted Turner says his former network now focuses "too much" on politics, and that he wishes the company would strive for more "balanced" programming between politics and other news.
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Burden is on Avenatti to show proof, or face consequences
BY ALAN DERSHOWITZ
OPINION | Now that the Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to send Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the floor of the Senate and to allow a week of further investigation, there is no excuse for not thoroughly, fully investigating this charge along with others.
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Four legal takeaways from a sad day for the Supreme Court
BY KIMBERLY WEHLE
OPINION | It was difficult to watch a terrified Christine Blasey Ford recount the sexual assault she allegedly experienced as a 15-year-old girl. It was difficult to watch Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s emotional, sometimes vitriolic defense of his reputation. Perhaps most of all, it was difficult to watch the Senate in its utter brokenness, unable to dignify a process that should be as close to sacred as anything under our Constitution.
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The New York Times: How the F.B.I. Will Investigate the Kavanaugh Accusations
By Adam Goldman and Rebecca R. Ruiz
The renewed F.B.I. background check of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh over allegations of sexual assault will be relatively limited, relying on voluntary interviews and document production.
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The Washington Post: Theodore McCarrick, Washington’s disgraced ex-cardinal, moves to church housing in Kansas
By Chico Harlan and Julie Zauzmer
Theodore McCarrick, the first cardinal in U.S. history to resign because of sexual abuse allegations, will remain in church housing. But he’ll be a long way from Washington, where he served as archbishop and as a frequent friend of those in power from 2001 to 2006 and remained a globe-trotting church diplomat long after.
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The Wall Street Journal: Mexico Pushes to Keep Canada in Nafta
By William Mauldin and Santiago Pérez
 
Mexico’s president-elect said he will push to keep Canada in the North American Free Trade Agreement, as Mexican officials scrambled to try to broker a last-minute deal between Washington and Ottawa.
 
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CNN: Indonesia tsunami and earthquake kill 384, leave hundreds injured
By Nicole Chavez and Mochammad Andri
 
 
Rescue workers are hunting for survivors after a powerful earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and triggered a tsunami, killing at least 384 people.
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The Associated Press: What comes next in Facebook’s major data breach
By Matt O’Brien and Mae Anderson
For users, Facebook’s revelation of a data breach that gave attackers access to 50 million accounts raises an important question: What happens next?
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