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Republicans have no good options on Brett Kavanaugh; The Fix: GOP seems to have votes to move forward with Kavanaugh

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Trump says alleged assault by Kavanaugh is 'hard for me to imagine' The president's defense of his Supreme Court nominee came as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said he was still attempting to get testimony from Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teens. Ford has said she wants the FBI to investigate her allegation. By John Wagner and Seung Min Kim  •  Read more » The Fix | Analysis Republicans have no good options on Brett Kavanaugh Christine Blasey Ford's accusation against the Supreme Court nominee has pushed the GOP into a corner in a way few things could. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   The Fix: GOP seems to have votes to move forward with Kavanaugh All the key swing votes sounds inclined to move forward, even if Christine Blasey Ford doesn't testify. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   The Daily 202: Senate Republicans are playing hardball with accuser in push to swiftly confirm Kavanaugh Republicans say they plan to go ahead with a new hearing whether Christine Blasey Ford is there or not, a take-it-or-leave-it gambit that risks backfiring politically. By James Hohmann  •  Read more »   Mark Cuban to donate $10 million to women's groups after probe of Dallas Mavericks Cuban, one of the NBA's most well-known and outspoken owners, will not be suspended after an investigation into what a Sports Illustrated investigation described as "a corporate culture rife with misogyny and predatory sexual behavior." By Tim Bontemps  •  Read more »   Chevy Chase is 74, sober and ready to work. The problem? Nobody wants to work with him. The man who revolutionized television in the 1970s with SNL, who made some of the best comedies of the 1980s and who as recently as 2012 earned raves for his turn on "Community" wonders why he can't get a break. He has a few theories. By Geoff Edgers  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT At CIA's 'Russia House,' growing alarm about election interference When President Trump visited the agency on his second day in office, he stood several floors below the point of origin for an investigation that would define his first 18 months in office. This article is adapted from Post reporter Greg Miller's forthcoming book, "The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy." By Greg Miller  •  Read more »   'I don't have an attorney general': Trump escalates his attacks on Jeff Sessions In an interview with Hill.TV, President Trump offered a scathing review of the attorney general. By John Wagner and Matt Zapotosky  •  Read more »   Two mental-health patients in sheriff's van drown in S.C. floodwaters Deputies made it out of the van, but two women in the back were killed, pushing Florence's death toll to nearly 40 people. By Avi Selk  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Analysis Poland used to be okay with Trump. Then, he posted a photo. What could have been a peaceful moment between President Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda immediately took an awkward turn. By Rick Noack  •  Read more »   The Army is trying to find criminal conduct among immigrant recruits, email shows Critics say the request appears to be retribution for the lawsuits that helped overturn dozens of dismissals and was intended to legitimize a process beset with problems. By Alex Horton  •  Read more »   Trump says he found inspiration for border wall at memorial for Flight 93 victims The president said in an interview the walls that are part of the memorial are "beautiful" and "perfect." By John Wagner  •  Read more »   A German roofer working on a cathedral found a message in bottle. It was written by his grandfather. The 1930 letter is from a much darker chapter of Germany's past, but it hoped for "better times soon to come." By Luisa Beck  •  Read more »   Nearly half of cellphone calls will be scams by 2019, report says An Arkansas-based firm predicts an explosion of spam calls, marking a leap from 3.7 percentage of total calls in 2017 to a projected 44.6 percentage by early 2019. By Hamza Shaban  •  Read more »

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