• Trump accepts Nikki Haley’s resignation as UN ambassador (Fox News)

• Trump apologizes to Kavanaugh on behalf of the nation (Chicago Sun-Times)

• Kavanaugh hires team of four women as his law clerks, first Supreme Court justice to do so (Fox News)

• Alaska GOP considering whether to throw Murkowski out of GOP for opposing Kavanaugh (The Daily Wire)

• Minnesota educator on paid vacation after tweeting “kill Kavanaugh” (Star Tribune)

• Trump: No plans to fire Rosenstein (CNS News)

• FBI’s smoking gun: Redactions protected political embarrassment, not “national security” (The Hill)

• King Corn wins again: Trump to allow year-round sales of high-ethanol gasoline (The Washington Times)

• Putin invites Kim Jong-un to meeting in Russia (National Review)

• This is what we know about the dirtbag arrested for allegedly trying to poison Mattis (We Are The Mighty)

• Hurricane Michael eyeing Florida’s Gulf Coast (CBS News)

• Humor: Dems: “We may have lost the SCOTUS seat, but at least we kept our dignity” (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: Rejecting second-wave feminism (Institute for Family Studies)

• Policy: Stopping “catastrophic” global warming is impossible, UN report shows, so what’s the point? (Investor’s Business Daily)

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