NEWSMAX — Facebook Inc. said it discovered a security breach earlier this week that affected almost 50 million accounts, the latest in a series of missteps that are undermining confidence in the company's social network and business model.... (more)

THE HILL — Video released this week shows construction underway in El Paso, Texas, for a portion of a U.S.-Mexico border wall. The video published by the El Paso Times shows construction beginning to replace existing fencing with a wall in Chihuahuita, El Paso's oldest neighborhood.... (more)

ABC — An Orange County judge on Thursday ruled that SB54, California's so-called "sanctuary state" law, is unconstitutional. The Superior Court judge said the law violates the rights of charter cities. The ruling comes in response to a challenge from Huntington Beach officials. The city opposed the controversial law, arguing it infringes on local governments' authority. The judge agreed, saying cities must be allowed to police themselves.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Tom Hanks in makeup and costume as Fred Rogers, the beloved children's television show host, appeared for the first time on Thursday, with the Oscar winner wearing the signature Mr. Rogers red sweater, along with a dress shirt and tie, tan slacks, and sneakers.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump and his aides spent much of Thursday glued to the TV watching Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and accuser Christine Blasey Ford testify in a stormy Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, with the president believing the nominee survived the decades-old allegations of sexual misconduct and binge drinking.... (more)

YOUTUBE — Senator Lindsey Graham accuses Democrats of an 'unethical sham,' says Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has nothing to apologize for, urges fellow Republicans to vote to confirm Kavanaugh.... (more)

YOUTUBE — Judge Brett Kavanaugh responds to allegations... (more)

YOUTUBE — At the start of Thursday's hearing over her sexual assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford told the Senate Judiciary Committee that she was "here today not because I want to be. I am terrified. I am here because I believe it is my civic duty."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — CNN host Don Lemon said Sen. Ted Cruz, by becoming a public official, had "signed up for" harassment by antifa activists and likened attacking lawmakers in any and every public space to the civil rights movement. In a segment late Tuesday evening with fellow CNN host Chris Cuomo, who joined Cruz opponent Rep. Beto O'Rourke in decrying the attack on Mr. Cruz and wife Heidi at a D.C. restaurant, Mr. Lemon said the activists from Smash Racism DC had no choice.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — The push to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been dogged by one scandal after another. It was supposed to be an easy confirmation process because he knew what to say and how to say it to the liberals. He told them abortion and gay rights were "settled law." But he offered the left a target-rich environment that has tainted not only his reputation but his Catholic education and the conservative movement.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump told the United Nations on Tuesday that the U.S. is guided by patriotism instead of globalism, rejecting the authority of world bodies such as the International Criminal Court, the World Trade Organization and a U.N. migration initiative even as he praised the U.N. itself as a force for peace. In the most in-your-face defense yet of his "America First" agenda, a defiant Mr. Trump stood before U.N. delegates who sneered openly at him and told them that the U.S. will never submit to international controls as long as he is in charge.... (more)

ART MOORE — In his address Tuesday to the United Nations, President Trump called for the "restoration of democracy" in Venezuela and used the once prosperous nation's demise as an illustration of why every country on earth "should resist socialism and the misery that it brings to everyone."... (more)

PAUL BEDARD — That was fast. Media mogul Mark Levin's Sunday Fox News show has surged to No. 1 on cable news in just seven months. New ratings showed that the popular conservative lawyer and commentator didn't just win his 10 p.m. slot on Sunday, but according to Adweek's TVNewser it had the biggest audience of any cable news show last weekend, one in which there was intense interest by viewers in the Brett Kavanaugh nomination.... (more)

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is no longer fiction. We are living it right now. Google techies planned to massage Internet searches to emphasize correct thinking. A member of the so-called deep state, in an anonymous op-ed, brags that its "resistance" is undermining an elected president. The FBI, CIA, DOJ, and NSC were all weaponized in 2016 to ensure that the proper president would be elected -- the choice adjudicated by properly progressive ideology. Wearing a wire is now redefined as simply flipping on an iPhone and recording your boss, boy- or girlfriend, or co-workers.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — The Republican party is enjoying its highest favorability rating in seven years, according to a Gallup poll released on Monday. Almost half of those surveyed in the poll, 45 percent, said they view the GOP positively, the most since January 2011, when 47 percent had a positive view of the party. Democrats, meanwhile, are one point behind at 44 percent favorability. Both parties have a 52 percent unfavorable rating.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Republicans announced plans to hold a committee vote Friday morning on Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, signaling confidence they'll be able to speed the process after Thursday's showdown hearing involving the woman accusing him of sexual assault as a teenager.... (more)

DAILY CALLER — Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz was chased out of a DC restaurant by protesters on Monday night, according to video posted on Twitter. Two videos were posted by "Smash Racism DC" and they show a large group of protesters chanting "We believe survivors" in reference to sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at Sen. Cruz and his wife, Heidi Cruz.... (more)

ART MOORE — Planned Parenthood convinced a hotel in Austin, Texas, to cancel a screening of a new movie about convicted abortionist Kermit Gosnell, according to the film's producers. The movie, "Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer," which opens in theaters Oct. 12, was to be screened Saturday night in the Hyatt Hotel in the Texas capital at the same time Planned Parenthood hosts a $400 a plate gala dinner headlined by Cecille Richards, the organization's former CEO.... (more)

VALERIE RICHARDSON — The Health and Human Services Department has undertaken its most aggressive action on fetal-tissue sales to date, terminating a contract with a supplier and launching an audit after an outcry from the pro-life movement. The department announced late Monday that it would conduct the audit into "all acquisitions involving human fetal tissue" after cancelling a contract with Advanced Bioscience Resources to purchase aborted fetal tissue for research.... (more)

CBS-PHILADEPHIA — Bill Cosby learned his fate inside a Montgomery County courtroom on Tuesday. The 81-year-old actor and comedian has been sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison for sexually assaulting a former Temple University employee at his home in 2004.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Professors at Yale University have roiled the immigration debate with a new study calculating there are between 16 million and 30 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. -- as much as three times more than most demographers figure. The professors' model looked at estimates of how many people came illegally, and how many people likely left, and concluded there are a lot more people who arrived than the 11 million suggested by traditional estimates. The model says the most likely figure is double that, at about 22 million.... (more)

MATT C. ABBOTT — For the second time this year, Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich has unceremoniously removed a pastor with a reputation for Catholic orthodoxy. First, it was Father C. Frank Phillips of St. John Cantius Church (click here if you're not already familiar with what transpired in that situation).... (more)

VOX — It looks like Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will stay in his post until at least Thursday, when he's set to meet with President Donald Trump. Monday was a wild day in Washington, as different news reports gave rise to speculation that Rosenstein had resigned or even been fired. It started when Axios reported on Monday morning that Rosenstein offered to resign in a conversation with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. Others, like the Washington Post and CNN, reported the same.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Rod Rosenstein is even a weasel when repudiating his weasel moves. Here (with my italics) is the deputy attorney general's non-denial denial of a New York Times report Friday that he brainstormed about ousting President Trump in May 2017:... (more)

THE WRAP — Actor James Woods was locked out of his Twitter account on Sunday for a tweet from July that the site said was in violation of its rules. According to the Associated Press, Woods was suspended for a July tweet of a satirical meme that encouraged men not to vote in this November's midterm elections.... (more)