| No Images? Click here  Good morning. I hope you’re enjoying HuffPost’s Morning Email. Unfortunately, there won’t be an edition for the next few days, but your favorite daily brief will return on Tuesday, Sept. 25. Here's today's news...Tuesday, September 18KAVANAUGH, HIS ACCUSER TO TESTIFY Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the professor who has accused him of sexual assault, will publicly testify on Monday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) announced. “Anyone who comes forward as Dr. Ford has done deserves to be heard,” Grassley said in a statement, promising to give the allegations a “full airing.” [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]FORD’S CLASSMATES OFFER BACKING A group of women who went to Ford’s high school are circulating a letter to show support for the woman who says Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teens. [HuffPost]TRUMP DISMISSES CLAIMS: KAVANAUGH ‘ONE OF THE FINEST PEOPLE’ President Donald Trump backed his Supreme Court pick despite the allegations, dismissing a reporter’s inquiry about whether Kavanaugh had offered to withdraw his nomination as a “ridiculous question.” He called his Kavanaugh “one of the finest people that I’ve ever known” and said “he is somebody very special,” according to a press pool report. [HuffPost]RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER SYRIA Russia said one of its aircraft with 15 people on board disappeared over Syria’s Mediterranean coast. The jet reportedly went off radar as it was returning to a Russian base near the city of Lattakia. Moscow said the plane disappeared as four Israeli fighter jets were attacking targets in the area. [AP]TRUMP TO DECLASSIFY SECRET FISA DOCUMENTS Trump has intervened in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, ordering the declassification of portions of a secret application for surveillance of a member of his campaign, as well as the release of text messages exchanged by FBI employees involved in investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. [HuffPost]SENATE PASSES OPIOID BILL Republicans and Democrats joined forces to speed legislation combating the misuse of opioids and other addictive drugs through the Senate — a rare show of unity against a growing and deadly health care crisis. [AP] ALL THE EMMY WINNERS Kristen Bell, Kate McKinnon and John Legend opened the Emmys with a diversity musical. During the show, director Glenn Weiss proposed to his girlfriend Jan Svendsen, Tracee Ellis Ross carried off the most over-the-top look and comedian Emily Heller trolled the photographers in a most genius way. Here are all the looks from the show and the complete list of 2018 Emmy winners. [HuffPost]CNN HOST SLAMS TRUMP JR. ON FLOODING Anderson Cooper tore into Donald Trump Jr. after the president’s son claimed the CNN anchor was faking the depths of North Carolina floodwaters to make his father look bad. “I didn’t see him down in North Carolina in the last few days helping out, lending a hand, but I’m sure he was busy doing something important besides just tweeting lies,” Cooper said. [HuffPost]TRUMP CUTS REFUGEES QUOTA The Trump administration is cutting the number of refugees allowed into the U.S. next year to 30,000. The announcement comes despite calls from global humanitarian groups that this year’s cap of 45,000 was too low. [AP]BRITISH CAVE DIVER SUES MUSK The British cave diver who helped save a trapped Thai soccer team has sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk for calling him a “child rapist” and “pedo guy.” [HuffPost]FLORENCE IS THE TRAIN WRECK FORECASTER WARNED ABOUT Days after landfall, the remnant of Florence continues to pummel flood-scarred communities in North Carolina. This is the slow-motion train wreck forecasters warned about. [HuffPost]DRUDGE SHARES SMEAR PIECE ON WRONG PERSON Conservative website Drudge Report shared an article that attempted to smear the credibility of the woman accusing Kavanaugh of sexual assault. But the hit piece targeted the wrong person. [HuffPost]
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