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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces one or more new accusations of sexual misconduct.
Senate Democrats are investigating a new allegation against Kavanaugh dating to the 1983-84 academic year, when Kavanaugh was a college freshman, according to a New Yorker story published late Sunday evening.

Republican senators will give Christine Blasey Ford a chance to be heard. But some have already admitted that they are unlikely to believe her.
Ford, a psychologist, has agreed to testify Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee to detail her allegation that Trump’s Supreme Court nominee sexually assaulted her decades ago while they were both in high school.

Lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford have reached an agreement with the Senate Judiciary Committee, She will testify before the panel on Thursday, according to reports Saturday evening. This ended days of public negotiations between Ford and the panel over the timing her testimony.

Republican Senate candidate Rep. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota said the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh were “absurd,” dismissing the claim because it involved teenagers who had been drinking and only attempted—not completed—rape.

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If you wanted to summarize Friday’s Texas Senate debate between Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in just one exchange, it would probably be the last one.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

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For the first time since Christine Blasey Ford came forward with sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump on Friday openly suggested that Ford’s account may not be credible—a clear end to the uncharacteristically measured response Trump had initially taken after Ford’s detailed account was published in the Washington Post Sunday—because Ford did not report the incident when it allegedly occurred more than 30 years ago when Ford and

Floodwaters from Hurricane Florence are starting to recede, but they’re still making a fetid mess of North Carolina’s coastal plain, with its dense assemblage of rivers, confined hog and chicken farms, and hog-manure “lagoons.”
In the new episode of Bite podcast, we plunge into the muck of post-Florence in eastern North Carolina.

Democrat Lucy McBath, once considered a long shot in Georgia’s traditionally deep-red sixth congressional district, is in full media blitz. A black woman with a liberal platform focused on gun safety, she’s on the opposite end of the spectrum as incumbent Karen Handel, who has been endorsed by the NRA and is staunchly anti-choice.