Friday's Headlines: Senate Republicans express confidence ahead of key vote on Kavanaugh
'Grow up': Orrin Hatch waves off female protesters demanding to speak with him; Kavanaugh: I said things I 'should not have said' in Senate testimony; 'Stain on the process': FBI...
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Republicans argued that an FBI report on sexual misconduct allegations exonerated Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh as they prepared to hold a procedural vote on his nomination today.
Video of the incident ricocheted around social media on Thursday, the latest in a string of videos to capture the heated emotions around the Kavanaugh nomination.
In an op-ed he wrote for the Wall Street Journal, Brett M. Kavanaugh tacitly acknowledges the questions being raised about his conduct and emotions as he seeks confirmation to the Supreme Court.
The FBI interviewed nine people for its report, and Republicans cited its findings to declare that the claims of misconduct remained uncorroborated. Democrats asserted that what was more important was what the agents did not pursue.
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Jair Bolsonaro, who says he "loves" President Trump, has suggested that "a gay son is the result of a lack of beatings" and that women — because they get pregnant — deserve less pay than men.
Nadia Murad, an Iraqi Yazidi who was kidnapped and raped by Islamic State militants, has become an outspoken activist on sexual slavery and human trafficking. Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist, has treated thousands of victims of gang rape at his hospital.
GOP groups are making a last-ditch effort to prop up Trump ally Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who is locked in a tight race against popular former Democratic governor Phil Bredesen.
Many in Kabul and Washington believe Erik Prince, brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Trump campaign contributor, has a willing audience in the president, who is known to be frustrated with the slow progress of his Afghanistan strategy.
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The journalist, who writes for The Post's Global Opinions section and has criticized the Saudi leadership, has not been heard from since he entered the Saudi Consulate on Tuesday afternoon to obtain documents for his upcoming wedding, according to friends.
Two Spanish speakers in a grocery store in Colorado were confronted by a woman ordering them to speak English, police said. Then another woman stepped in to help.
The North Carolina preacher, known for his fight against racism and poverty, was being arrested as his name was announced among the winners of the $625,000 MacArthur "genius" grants.
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