Kavanaugh’s accuser: I feared he might “inadvertently kill” me

Palo Alto professor speaks out on Trump’s SCOTUS pick No Images? Click here   By Paul Vale     Monday, September 17  KAVANAUGH ACCUSER: I THOUGHT HE MIGHT KILL ME The woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempting to sexually assault her in a confidential letter to members of Congress has come forward. Christine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University, told The Washington Post that she had feared Kavanaugh “might inadvertently kill” her as he held her down and groped her while they were both high school students around 1982. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook] GOP SENATOR: DELAY SCOTUS VOTE Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) is the first Republican on the Senate judiciary committee to suggest the panel delay moving forward with Kavanaugh’s confirmation, amid the sexual assault allegations. GOP moderate Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) later told CNN she was open to the idea of a delay. [HuffPost] ASSANGE ASKED RUSSIA FOR VISA AFTER CABLEGATE A trove of WikiLeaks emails, chat logs, financial records, secretly recorded footage and other documents leaked to The Associated Press reveals Julian Assange wrote to the Russian consulate in London in 2010 hoping to get a visa. [AP] 15 DEAD FROM FLORENCE Volunteer rescuers are going door to door in search of residents who refused to flee the rapidly rising waters in Lumberton, North Carolina. The death toll rose to at least 15 from Florence, which crashed into the state as a hurricane Friday, bringing record rainfall. The heavy rains caused a slope to collapse at a coal-ash landfill at a closed power station near the coast. [HuffPost] CLINTON: DEMOCRACY ‘IN CRISIS’ WITH TRUMP Hillary Clinton slammed the Trump administration, saying her former opponent had done “so many despicable things that it can be hard to keep track.” Writing in The Atlantic, Clinton warned that “right now, our democracy is in crisis.” [HuffPost] FINANCE CHIEF: I WAS WRONG TO SPEAK OUT ON TRUMP JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said he regretted saying that he was “smarter” than Trump and could beat him in an election. “I shouldn’t have said it. It also proves I would not be a good politician,” Dimon said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week.” [HuffPost] THE CONTAGION SPREADS TO DEMOCRACY Ten years after the financial crisis, the catastrophic blow to public faith in American institutions has spread to democracy itself. [HuffPost]           NFL CORNERBACK QUITS DURING GAME Two-time NFL Pro Bowler Vontae Davis of the Buffalo Bills walked off the field in the middle of a game, changed into his street clothes and left the stadium. The cornerback later announced that he was ending his professional career. “Today on the field, reality hit me fast and hard: I shouldn’t be out there anymore.” [HuffPost] TYPHOON BATTERS HONG KONG The world’s most powerful storm this year battered Hong Kong, collapsing bamboo scaffolding, tearing the corner off a building and slamming the waterfront with nearly 13-foot surges. Typhoon Mangkhut’s winds reached roughly 106 mph as the storm barreled westward into China’s Guangdong Province. [HuffPost] 40 MISSING IN PHILIPPINES LANDSLIDE At least 40 people, mostly gold miners, have been trapped in a landslide in the Philippines, with seven bodies already dug out by rescuers. [AP] SOON -YI SPILLS ON WOODY ALLEN Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of actress Mia Farrow, opened up about her childhood and her romance with Woody Allen in a New York magazine profile. [HuffPost] ‘POISONED’ RUSSIAN ACTIVIST TREATED IN GERMANY Pussy Riot’s Pyotr Verzilov is being treated in Berlin after falling severely ill, with fellow activists saying he was poisoned. [AP] CONWAY’S HUSBAND SLAMS TRUMP… AGAIN The husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has slammed Trump again on Twitter, blasting his “ceaseless, shameless, witless prevarication on virtually all topics.” [HuffPost]       This sweet pup can’t stop licking rescuers after being saved from flooding in North Carolina. Peter Donat, the actor who played Agent Fox Mulder’s father on “The X-Files” has died. He was 90. California’s not playing when it comes to protecting the environment. The state plans to send up its “own damn satellite” to track pollution causing climate change, Gov. Jerry Brown announced. Utilities have a problem: The public wants 100-percent renewable energy, and soon. And they don’t want to transition. Kenyan Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge set a new marathon world record, winning the Berlin race in 2 hours, 1 minute and 39 seconds. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne Benioff are buying Time magazine for $190 million from Meredith Corp. Just an alligator casually strolling through the Myrtle Beach-area during Florence. Yes — blind people read books. They, write them too. The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency defended Trump’s roundly criticized denial of the death toll in Puerto Rico from last year’s Hurricane Maria, saying “the numbers are all over the place.” Serena Williams is standing by her assertion that she did not receive coaching during her U.S. Open tennis final against Naomi Osaka, an accusation leveled at her by umpire Carlos Ramos. Alarmed by the possibility of a bad or “no-deal” Brexit, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for a second referendum on the contentious subject of the U.K.’s departure from the European Union. A video has gone viral of a North Carolina pastor and two members of his church rescuing cats and dogs left behind in the flooding of Jacksonville, North Carolina. Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore said he believes Trump either wrote or directed one of his staffers to write the anonymous Op-Ed in The New York Times that described a “resistance” effort within his administration. Here’s what Tish James’ win in New York says about progressive power. George Bush is stumping for GOP candidates — but not Ted Cruz. And this is what the Emmy Awards looked like 20 years ago. And love this newsletter? Share it with a friend!      HuffPost is now a part of Oath and a part of Verizon. On May 25, 2018 we introduced a new Oath Privacy Policy which will explain how your data is used and shared. Learn More. 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