| No Images? Click here  Tuesday, September 25KAVANAUGH: ‘I’M NOT GOING ANYWHERE’ In a Fox News interview, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh said he’s “not going anywhere” and continued to deny the sexual assault allegations against him. The nominee also trotted out a novel defense: He was a virgin in high school and for “many years thereafter,” so couldn’t have possibly attempted to sexually assault anyone. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]GOP KNEW OF SECOND KAVANAUGH ACCUSER LAST WEEK Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee knew last week that more sexual misconduct allegations were coming against Kavanaugh — so tried to speed up his confirmation. [HuffPost]AVENATTI: THIRD ACCUSER TO GO PUBLIC Attorney Michael Avenatti said a new Kavanaugh accuser who was “both” a witness and a victim of Trump’s SCOTUS pick will come forward in the next 48 hours. [HuffPost]ROSENSTEIN HOLDS ON FOR NOW Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will meet with President Donald Trump later this week amid mounting speculation about his future and what his exit from the Justice Department would mean for special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe. [HuffPost]PROSECUTORS WANT 10-YEAR SENTENCE FOR COSBY Prosecutors asked the judge to impose the maximum sentence of five to 10 years in state prison ahead of Bill Cosby’s two-day sentencing hearing for sexually assaulting Andrea Constand. [HuffPost]WORLD WARY OF TRUMP’S U.N. ADDRESS Trump is expected to use his second U.N. address to emphasize his administration's push to distance itself from international alliances and pacts. [CNN]INSTAGRAM CO-FOUNDERS EXIT Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger resigned as chief executive officer and chief technical officer of the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook. [Reuters] CRUZ CHASED OUT OF RESTAURANT Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was heckled out of a Washington restaurant by activists opposed to Kavanaugh’s nomination. [HuffPost]JUDGE RESTORES PROTECTION FOR YELLOWSTONE BEARS A federal judge restored endangered species protection to some 700 grizzly bears living in or around Yellowstone National Park just days before Wyoming and Idaho were set to allow the hunting of nearly two dozen of the animals. [HuffPost]TRUMP: NO PUERTO RICO STATEHOOD Trump said he would not support Puerto Rico’s efforts to obtain statehood if San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, a sharp critic of the Trump government’s hurricane response, continued to hold office in the U.S. territory. [HuffPost]BACHMANN: GOD WORKING THROUGH TRUMP Michele Bachmann thinks she knows why everything Trump touches has “turned to gold” — because God is working through the thrice-married accused sexual predator. [HuffPost]DEM CANDIDATE DIES April Freeman, the Democratic candidate in Florida’s 17th Congressional District, has died unexpectedly, her husband announced. [HuffPost]BEIJING: TRUMP IS BULLYING US Beijing warned it cannot proceed with trade talks while Washington puts “a knife to China’s neck” — a day after both sides slapped fresh tariffs on each other’s goods. [Reuters]
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