| No Images? Click here  Wednesday, September 26GOP SCHEDULES FRIDAY SCOTUS VOTE The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a vote Friday on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court — the day after Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford will testify about her allegation he sexually assaulted her when they were teens. Republican committee leaders have hired a female sex-crimes prosecutor as outside counsel to question the accuser. [AP] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]KAVANAUGH CLASSMATES: PROBE THE CLAIMS Several former classmates of Kavanaugh, who just months ago endorsed his nomination, have now called for the Yale alumnus to be investigated over allegations of sexual misconduct. [HuffPost]ACCUSER ‘HAS CORROBORATION’ According to USA Today, attorneys for Blasey have sworn and signed declarations from four people who corroborate her claims of sexual assault. [USA Today]COSBY JAILED Bill Cosby, the disgraced comedian accused of sexually assaulting dozens of women over his decades-long career, was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004. [HuffPost]FOX NEWS HOST BLAMES ASSAULT SURVIVORS Fox News host Tucker Carlson has slammed sexual assault survivors who don’t report their assailants, labeling them as “part of the problem.” [HuffPost]CHINA REJECTS U.S. DOCKING REQUEST China has denied a request for a U.S. warship to visit Hong Kong, amid rising tension between Beijing and Washington over trade. [Reuters] TRUMP SLAMS IRAN AT U.N. One year after threatening North Korea before the General Assembly, Donald Trump used his second U.N. address to attack Iran. [HuffPost]MACRON READY TO LEAD THE WORLD French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a strong rebuke of Trump’s isolationist message at the U.N., signaling that Paris is ready to take up the mantle of global leadership abdicated by Washington. [CNN]WHO: OUTBREAK OUT OF CONTROL The World Health Organization warned that the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, already the seventh-largest in history, is on the verge of spinning out of control. [HuffPost]SHAREHOLDERS DEMAND GUNMAKER ACT RESPONSIBLY Shareholders of Smith & Wesson, the largest U.S. firearms manufacturer, voted in favor of the gunmaker publishing a report documenting violent events associated with its products and examining the reputational and financial risks it could face from shootings. [HuffPost]TRUMP STILL NOT GETTING HIS WALL Unable to make either Mexico or Congress pay for his promised border wall, Trump is on track to renege on his first and most prominent campaign promise yet again. [HuffPost]KILLER CLAIMS BOYFRIEND MADE HER CUT OUT UNBORN BABY A North Dakota woman convicted of killing her pregnant neighbor by cutting out the unborn fetus told a court that she did so because her partner pressured her to “produce a baby.” [HuffPost]
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