WASHINGTON TIMES — Saudi Arabia acknowledged late Friday that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, and claimed that he died in a fist fight. In a statement on Saudi state television, the government said 18 Saudi citizens have been detained pending the outcome of an investigation into the death of Mr. Khashoggi, a prominent government critic and legal U.S. resident.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is flatly denying an ABC News report that said he listened to, and read the transcript of, audio of columnist Jamal Khashoggi being murdered in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul. ABC quoted a "senior Turkish official" for the bombshell story that indirectly confirms that such a tape exists and that a Saudi hit squad killed Mr. Khashoggi.... (more)

JERRY NEWCOMBE — My Irish-American blood recoils whenever I hear the word "Fredericksburg." So many young Irishmen were sent to a needless early death because of the slaughter that occurred in that Virginia city 53 miles south of Washington, D. C., during the American Civil War in December 1862.... (more)

TIMOTHY P. CARNEY — I began attending mass regularly in late 2000 at St. Joseph's on Capitol Hill. The pastor was Fr. Paul Lavin. I didn't know at the time, but in the prior decade, a man had accused Fr. Lavin of molesting him as a boy. A couple of years later, after I had moved to the other side of the Hill and mostly went to another parish, Fr. Lavin was suspended after a second accusation of sexual abuse came out.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republicans will try again to repeal Obamacare if they have the votes to do so after the November midterm elections. "If we had the votes to completely start over, we'd do it," he told Reuters on Wednesday. "But that depends on what happens in a couple weeks... We're not satisfied with the way Obamacare is working."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a new critic of her widely-panned DNA test: an actual descendant of Pocahontas. Debbie White Dove Porreco appeared on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" to discuss findings that the Massachusetts lawmaker may have between 0.09 percent to 1.5 percent American Indian ancestry. The study, which counted Mexican, Colombian, and Peruvian DNA in Ms. Warren's favor, prompted Ms. Porreco to demand an apology.... (more)

BEN SHAPIRO — Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) has been telling a story for years. It's a deeply romantic story about her parents and their young love, fraught with the familial bigotry of an earlier time. Here's how she told it this week in a video she released in preparation for her 2020 run:... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Two Republican candidates for state office in Minnesota have been physically assaulted in recent days, leading prominent Republican lawmakers to caution their Democratic colleagues against employing inflammatory rhetoric.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — President Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. has requested audio and video recordings that reportedly show the horrific death of Saudi Arabian Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Glenn Simpson, co-founder of the opposition research firm that compiled a salacious anti-Trump dossier, on Tuesday invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to testify before a House committee investigating the Justice Department's actions during the 2016 presidential election.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — A federal judge said he was "shocked" to find out that longtime Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills had been granted immunity from the Justice Department during the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton's server.... (more)

CNBC — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could determine whether users can challenge social media companies on free speech grounds. The case, Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, No. 17-702, centers on whether a private operator of a public access television network is considered a state actor, which can be sued for First Amendment violations.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Once considered a posting for politicians trying to revive their fading careers, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations job has become a high-profile springboard to even greater political heights. "She's made it a very glamorous position," President Trump said of outgoing UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, "a more important position."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Honduran government called on 2,000 immigrants Tuesday to give up their trek north and return home, just hours after President Trump threatened to withhold $65 million in U.S. money if the country's leaders don't find a way to head off the caravan. Honduras's foreign ministry, in a statement reported by local news, said the caravan was being politically manipulated in order to make the country look bad, just days after leaders were in Washington promising better cooperation with the Trump administration.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — One of the Senate's leading Republicans joined the mockery of Sen. Elizabeth Warren's claims of Indian ancestry with one of the oldest techniques Tuesday -- oneupmanship. Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, said in an interview that he might be more of an Indian than the Massachusetts Democrat widely dubbed "Pocahantas" and "Fauxcahontas" by President Trump and other Republicans. And he said he'll prove it.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — President Trump continued to mock Senator Elizabeth Warren's claim to Native American ancestry Tuesday, citing the Cherokee Nation's rejection of the Massachusetts lawmaker's use of a DNA test to substantiate her Native American heritage.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Roseanne Barr's eponymous character did die of an opioid overdose. The Tuesday night premiere of the rebooted "Roseanne" spin-off "The Conners" proved actress and comedian Roseanne Barr's claims last month about how she would be killed off on the show.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — This morning, the title of Erik Rush's column for this week captured my attention: "Leftists No Longer Merit Constitutional Protections." I found myself at once agreeing and disagreeing with its implications. Truth to tell, this dialectical quandary is often my state of mind, which is why I have to spend so much time thinking things through. Let me explain.... (more)

BRYAN FISCHER — Above is a screen shot of the Focal Point Facebook page shortly after I posted the daily prayer that I provide for our Facebook followers. You will notice, immediately below the posted prayer, in boldface letters, "Web Site Blocked." The website in question, as you can see right above the "The Web Site Blocked" message, is "pray.afa.net" That is the link to AFA's prayer website, which features a Scripture passage for each day and a fresh prayer formed by using the words of the passage for the day.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — On Friday, just as the movie "Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer" was set to open, Facebook was busy trying to limit its publicity. And talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh was recommending people see it because "the story itself is heart-stopping enough."... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Could it be it's not the Russians tampering with U.S. elections, but Facebook and Google? Maybe the whole Russian thing is just a façade -- a cover for a political coup by the two monoliths of social media and search? Those are the questions being asked around the nation today as Facebook may have reached a bridge too far in what many in independent media circles assert is blacklisting, censorship and the creation of enemies' lists.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Israel's prime minister says he favors appointing an envoy to the Christian world, a sign of Israel's efforts to foster close ties with its Christian allies. Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Sunday at a meeting in Jerusalem of visiting journalists from Christian media, where he was warmly received by reporters. He welcomed the idea suggested by one journalist to appoint such an emissary as "a great idea."... (more)

THE DAILY BEAST — In November 1996, President Clinton visited Manila for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum. Protests raged in the streets, with American flags being burned, so local police closed down many roads, allowing the Secret Service to chart a specific route for the president's motorcade. As the president and members of his cabinet traveled from their hotel to the first venue of the day, "There was intelligence that came in, and we at the last minute decided to change the motorcade route," a former Secret Service agent recalls. "It was determined that al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden had placed a bomb along the route in anticipation of the motorcade coming that way."... (more)

ROBERT KNIGHT — When I was a Los Angeles Times news editor many years ago in Orange County, California, I suggested to my liberal boss that we should have at least one conservative columnist. She looked at me as if I had lobsters crawling out of my ears. The Times' Orange County edition's editorial pages stayed 200-proof liberal.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Well, that didn't go according to plan. After making a big show of taking a DNA test to determine her ancestry, it turns out that Elizabeth Warren has negligible Native American roots. Not only is the Massachusetts Democrat white, she's really, really white, possessing less Native American blood than the average European-American.... (more)