| No Images? Click here  Tuesday, October 16RIYADH TO ‘ADMIT THEY KILLED JOURNALIST’ Multiple reports claim that the Saudis are preparing to acknowledge that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and that he died as the result of an interrogation gone wrong. Riyadh will reportedly claim they planned to rendition the dissident out of Turkey and back to the Kingdom. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Saudi Arabia Tuesday for crisis talks with King Salman. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]TRUMP GIVES COVER TO SAUDIS OVER ALLEGED ASSASSINATION President Donald Trump is lining up with conservatives who have urged the U.S. not to risk a serious rupture with the Saudis over the murder of a journalist. He even offered the Kingdom cover Monday, floating the theory that “rogue killers” were responsible for the journalist's disappearance. [HuffPost]GOP TAX CUTS JUICE U.S. DEFICIT The U.S. government closed the 2018 fiscal year $779 billion in the red, its highest deficit in six years. The shortfall is due to the Republican-led tax cuts eating into revenues. [HuffPost]MICROSOFT CO-FOUNDER DIES Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft and owner of the Seattle Seahawks, has died of complications from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 65. [HuffPost]STORMY DANIELS’ DEFAMATION CASE DISMISSED A federal judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by Stormy Daniels against Donald Trump and ordered the porn star to pay the president’s legal fees. [HuffPost]TRUMP RENEGES ON WARREN DONATION Trump said in July that he would donate $1 million to any charity selected by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) if she took a DNA test proving she had a Native American ancestor. She did that. Then Trump denied ever making the offer. [HuffPost] SINKING REPUBLICAN TRIES RACISM Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) is battling for re-election in San Diego after being indicted on charges of using campaign funds for personal expenses. So to survive, he’s slinging racist attacks against his Democratic opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar. [HuffPost]WOMEN’S GROUPS SILENT ON HILLARY CLAIM Major women’s advocacy groups have been notably silent on Hillary Clinton’s comments that the affair between her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky was not an abuse of power. [HuffPost]TUCKER GOES HUNGRY Fox News host Tucker Carlson said he can’t eat in most Washington, D.C., restaurants anymore because people keep yelling insults at him. [HuffPost]STATE SENATOR COMPARED MICHELLE OBAMA TO ‘CHIMP’ Republican Karin Housley, a state senator running to represent Minnesota in the U.S. Senate, compared then-first lady Michelle Obama to a “chimp” in 2009. [HuffPost]DON JR. ACCUSES BETO OF FAKING ETHNICITY Donald Trump Jr. attacked the heritage of Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas), tweeting that the Democratic challenger to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is “an Irish guy pretending to be Hispanic.” [HuffPost]GOP CANDIDATE ADMITS SWASTIKA MISTAKE Republican Senate candidate John James of Michigan admitted a “terrible error” by inadvertently showing a swastika in his campaign’s first TV ad of the general election. [AP]
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