NEWSMAX — The son of former National Security Adviser Susan Rice filed charges against one of his fellow Stanford University students for allegedly assaulting him during a rally for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. John Rice-Cameron, the president of the Stanford College Republicans (SCR), told police Melinda Hernandez physically pushed him during an event the SCR was holding Tuesday to promote support of Kavanaugh, who was confirmed to the nation's highest court last weekend.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — With the Supreme Court nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh completed, GOP senators are quickly pivoting to filling out the rest of the federal courts, eyeing more than 40 district and circuit judges they want to confirm before the end of the year. One top priority is filling the seat left vacant on the powerful D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals when Justice Kavanaugh was elevated.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump, already the most media-accessible president in memory, is talking to journalists almost nonstop as his successes pile up ahead of the midterm elections. Take Tuesday, for example. Mr. Trump opened an Oval Office meeting to the press in late morning to accept the resignation of Nikki Haley as ambassador to the United Nations. Such a high-profile departure ordinarily wouldn't be a positive for the White House, but the president and Mrs. Haley made clear that the separation was friendly. They took questions from journalists for 20 minutes on a variety of subjects.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Rap star and Trump supporter Kanye West was the object of several racial attacks in a CNN segment Tuesday night, in which he was accused of being an illiterate token whom black people don't want to be black. In the segment presided over by a chuckling Don Lemon, CNN commentators Bakari Sellers and Tara Setmayer repeatedly attacked Mr. West, who will meet President Trump at the White House on Thursday, in terms immediately called out as racist -- albeit not on CNN.... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — In 1951, Upton Sinclair, the author of the anti-capitalist screed "The Jungle," who was fresh off two efforts at running for Congress on the Socialist Party ticket, wrote a letter to Norman Thomas, the party's perennial candidate for president.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — With an unassuming air and a black Toyota Tundra he says was "the first new vehicle I've ever purchased," Beto O'Rourke has campaigned thousands of miles across Texas and risen to national prominence on a workaday image that aligns with his politics, but not his personal finances.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Oregon Republican Party filed a complaint Wednesday against Democratic Gov. Kate Brown over multiple allegations that she used public funds for campaign purposes. The complaint cited a Project Veritas sting in which former Brown campaign manager Michael Kolenc alleged he was fired in 2016 because Ms. Brown's chief-of-staff wanted to run the political operation, a violation of state law.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — FBI director Christopher Wray said Wednesday that China trumps Russia as a counterintelligence threat to the U.S. "China in many ways represents the broadest, most complicated, most long-term counterintelligence threat we face," Wray told the Senate Homeland Security Committee. "Russia is in many ways fighting to stay relevant after the fall of the Soviet Union. They're fighting today's fight. China's is fighting tomorrow's fight."... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The surprise resignation of Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has triggered a scramble to find a replacement as the public face of the Trump administration at the world body.... (more)

NEWS BUSTERS — In four weeks, Americans go to the polls for the midterm elections that the news media are casting as a referendum on the Trump presidency. Over the summer, the broadcast networks have continued to pound Donald Trump and his team with the most hostile coverage of a President in TV news history -- 92 percent negative, vs. just eight percent positive.... (more)

BYRON YORK — Not long after a 2017 meeting in which Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein reportedly discussed wearing a wire to secretly record conversations with President Trump, two top officials in the meeting, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and bureau lawyer Lisa Page, went to the office of a third FBI official, general counsel James Baker.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — Many constitutional aims and purposes seem to be forgotten in this era of purely self-serving, factional politics. Among them are the aims and purposes of the "separation of powers." Overacted partisanship means that the distinction of powers makes less and less difference, especially when it comes to relations between Congress and the president. When controlled by different parties, it's taken for granted by most people that those relations will be adversarial. When the same party controls both branches, people expect the two branches to be fellow travelers.... (more)

CLIFF KINCAID — One of the last remaining representatives of the old Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party, liberal Never-Trump Republican Senator Susan Collins, made history by casting the deciding vote for Judge Brett Kavanaugh after getting assurances that he would vote to preserve the pro-abortion ruling Roe v. Wade. The recipient of a Planned Parenthood award, Collins gave Kavanaugh his crucial 50th vote, confirming him as a Justice on the Supreme Court, after calling him a "centrist," not a conservative.... (more)

ROBERT KNIGHT — The hate business may not be what it used to be -- at least on the government level. The Defense Department has become the latest federal agency to sever ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an Alabama-based, hard-left group whose "hate map" is being used against Christian groups. Well, bully for the Pentagon for showing that bully the door.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Women's March leader Linda Sarsour on Friday launched a racial attack against Sen. Susan Collins, saying the Maine Republican was guilty of espousing "white supremacy" with her decision to support the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh.... (more)

ART MOORE — After one of the most divisive Supreme Court nominations in recent history, the U.S. Senate voted 50-to-48 to confirm President Trump's nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.... (more)

SUSAN FERRECHIO — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell condemned and praised a "mob" of activists opposed to just-confirmed Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, telling reporters they terrorized lawmakers while firing up the GOP base.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — In a striking departure from the Obama administration, which sought to downplay the role of Islam in terrorism, the Trump administration is naming "radical Islamist" groups at the "principal terrorist enemies."... (more)

NEWSMAX — Pope Francis has authorized a "thorough study" of Vatican archives into how a prominent American cardinal advanced through church ranks despite allegations that he slept with seminarians and young priests, the Vatican said Saturday.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The world-famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir will be singing the same tune but under a new name. The choir was renamed Friday to strip out the word Mormon in a move aimed at ending shorthand names for the religion that have been used for generations by church members and others.... (more)

USA TODAY — Art prankster Banksy has struck again. A work by the elusive street artist apparently self-destructed in front of startled auction-goers on Friday, moments after being sold for 1.04 million pounds ($1.4 million).... (more)

BRIETBART — Leland Keyser, the "best friend" of Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford, told FBI investigators in recent days that Ford associate Monica McLean had pressured her to change her denial of the alleged assault, which had hurt Ford's credibility.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — A new poll examining the political leanings of the next generation of leaders found 31 percent of millennials identify as "democratic socialist" or "socialist" while 40 percent of men in that age group say the same.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Melania Trump is visiting a national park in Kenya to highlight animal conservation efforts. The U.S. first lady arrived at Nairobi National Park on Friday to learn about steps the east African nation is taking to conserve elephants and rhinos. She'll also go on a quick safari.... (more)

BRIETBART — The Catholic bishops are gathering in Rome for a synod in a moment in which "the Church faces perhaps its gravest crisis since the Protestant Reformation in the form of the worldwide clerical sexual abuse scandals," according to veteran Vatican analyst John L. Allen, Jr.... (more)