| No Images? Click here  Friday, October 12TRUMP WON’T STOP ARMS SALES OVER MISSING JOURNALIST President Donald Trump said he doesn’t “like” that Saudi Arabia may be involved in the reported assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but he certainly won’t stop U.S. arms sales to the kingdom on the back of one journalist. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]TURKEY OFFICIALS: THERE’S RECORDINGS OF THE MURDER The Turkish government told U.S. officials it has audio and video recordings that prove Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul this month. [The Washington Post]POWELL OUT OF U.N. RUNNING Dina Powell, a Goldman Sachs executive and former Trump administration official, has reportedly removed her name from consideration to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. [HuffPost]MICHAEL’S AFTERMATH These photos show the catastrophic wind damage from Hurricane Michael. [HuffPost]GEORGIA VOTER PURGE IS MAJORITY BLACK Georgia knew its purge of voter rolls was discriminatory, with 70 percent of the people potentially erased from the register coming from black communities. But the state stuck with it anyway. [HuffPost]DEMS SIGN OFF ON 15 TRUMP JUDGES Democrats agreed to expedite votes on 15 of Trump’s nominees to lifetime federal court seats so vulnerable members could spend time campaigning before the November midterm elections. [HuffPost] WASHINGTON STATE OUTLAWS EXECUTION Washington state’s Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty is unconstitutional and converted all pending death sentences to life imprisonment. [HuffPost]TIMES FLUBBED TRUMP RUSSIA REPORT An in-depth exploration of the Trump Organization’s possible communications with a Russian bank in The New Yorker sheds light on a flawed a New York Times report on the suspected collusion published days before the 2016 election. [HuffPost]KANYE’S ‘MINSTREL SHOW’ Here are all of the wild things Kanye West said to Trump at the White House. Don Lemon later slammed Trump for “exploiting” West, saying, “What I saw was a minstrel show today.” Celebrities also unloaded on Ye over his bonkers Oval Office sit-down. [HuffPost]SHERIFF USES INMATES TO MOCK KAEPERNICK The Union County Sheriff’s Office in Arkansas posed 18 inmates in Nike T-shirts for their mugshots. Columnist Shaun King tweeted the photos after a source told him the mugshots were meant to mock Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL player whose protests of police brutality landed him an ad campaign with Nike. [HuffPost]ADELSON RETURNS THE FAVOR Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is pumping tens of millions of dollars into Republican Party coffers in an 11th-hour push to save their congressional majorities. The revelation comes a day after a report that the Trump administration recently assisted Adelson in his quest to build a casino in Japan. [Politico]BANNON DID SPEAK ABOUT CITIZENSHIP QUESTION The Justice Department acknowledged that Steve Bannon, formerly Trump’s top adviser, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions discussed the idea of adding a citizenship question on the 2020 census with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. Ross previously denied that the Trump administration had discussed the question with his department. [HuffPost]DRC HIT BY SURGE IN EBOLA CASES A surge of 27 additional Ebola cases in five days in the Democratic Republic of Congo has left global health leaders increasingly concerned that the deadly outbreak could spread beyond their reach. [HuffPost]
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