• Hurricane Florence makes landfall as a Category 1 (Fox News)

• With Hurricane Florence bearing down, political ads on the Weather Channel go up (The Resurgent)

• Despicable and desperate: Dianne Feinstein sics feds on Kavanaugh for high school-era incident (The Washington Times)

• Republicans thwart Democratic request for Kavanaugh documents, schedule confirmation vote (National Review)

• Congress reaches deal to fund government through Dec. 7, preventing shutdown (The Hill)

• Feds collect record individual income taxes through August; still run $898B deficit (CNS News)

• Democrats will impose massive tax hikes if they win Congress (Washington Examiner)

• John Kerry slammed for “shameful” shadow diplomacy after admitting to meetings with Iran (Fox News)

• State Department: U.S. sanctions have cost Russian government “tens of billions” of dollars (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Paul Manafort will plead guilty, forfeit many assets in special counsel probe (ABC News)

• ObamaCare is still failing at it’s ostensible objective: 29 million still uninsured (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Controversial Democratic socialist Julia Salazar unseats 16-year incumbent in NY state senate primary (Townhall)

• California gives new meaning to “nanny state” with proposed regulations on kids’ meals (Washington Examiner)

• Humor: 50.7 million children now detained in Trump’s facilities — they’re known as public schools (ScrappleFace)

• Policy: Kerry should be prosecuted for illegal Iran meetings (Investor’s Business Daily)

• Policy: Confronting the governance crisis in the Middle East (American Enterprise Institute)

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