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| A stark divide and raw emotion dominated the Kavanaugh-Ford hearing. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, gave different accounts to lawmakers. President Trump called the judge's testimony "powerful" and called for the Senate to vote. | | |
- What comes next? Senate Republicans, seething that they had been forced to delay to hear from Dr. Ford, said they will move forward with a committee vote this morning.
- Americans were transfixed by the hearing. From a Texas student union to the New York Stock Exchange, many across the nation halted their daily routines to tune in to the two testimonies.
- A potential key to many questions was absent. Cast as both an enabler of a hard-partying culture and a troubled but gifted pal, Mr. Kavanaugh's high-school friend Mark Judge came up repeatedly.
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| The SEC is looking to force Elon Musk out of Tesla. U.S. securities regulators allege the CEO misled shareholders when he tweeted he had funding for a corporate buyout. The legal threat raises the specter of a once unfathomable exit that would potentially have dire consequences for the electric-car company. | |
| Despite a missed deadline, Nafta isn't dead yet. Although the Trump administration may push a draft of a Mexico-only deal as early as today, a likely outcome will be additional fudging of the deadline and procedures—and more talks with Canada over the coming weeks, possibly months. | |
| Conservatives in the U.K. will meet. Tensions between Prime Minister Theresa May and her former top diplomat, Boris Johnson, could dominate the Conservative Party's four-day conference this Sunday, as Mr. Johnson leads a last-minute push to get Mrs. May to change course on Brexit. | |
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| Millennials are outsourcing life to housing startups. From cleaning to socializing, thousands are part of a growing phenomenon that tech and real-estate companies hope to cash in on: co-living. The Journal's Christopher Mims writes that it translates to roommates in smaller living quarters, plus amenities like cleaning services and shared social calendars. | |
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| Russia's foreign minister called for the U.N. to ease North Korea sanctions. Sergei Lavrov called current sanctions unacceptable as a form of "collective punishment" after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said it was critical for all nations to strictly enforce them. | |
| Petrobras is paying $853.2 million to settle corruption allegations. The investigation—known as Operation Car Wash—of Brazil's state-controlled oil producer came to a close, ending a yearslong probe that has loomed over Petrobras and Brazil since 2014. | |
| Aluminum makers' profits are suffering. Sanctions against a Russian aluminum giant have pushed up prices for aluminum's key ingredient, alumina, eating into the profits of U.S. producers despite Trump administration tariffs aimed at boosting their profits. | | |
| A Jeff Bezos startup will supply engines for Boeing-Lockheed. Blue Origin, the space-transportation company run by the Amazon founder, won a contract to provide engines for a potential rival's next-generation rocket, further roiling a tumultuous industry. | |
| New laws aim to make work hours more predictable. Some local governments are weighing how employee hours are set in an attempt to give shift workers more predictability and stability. New laws require some retail, fast-food and hospitality workers to set schedules as much as two weeks in advance. | |
| The luxury hotels America's wealthy call home. Extended-stay hotels are associated with bland décor and suburban office park locations, but the industry has seen the advent of upscale extended stay brands with many features that appeal to wealthy tenants. | | |
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| What's in a word? For the Fed, a lot. According to the Journal's James Mackintosh, the central bank's removal of "accommodative" from the Fed's statement was interpreted as a sign that the Fed is approaching the end of its cycle of interest-rate hikes—but the real story is about rising uncertainty. | | |
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| Germany welcomes Turkey's Erdogan with gritted teeth. Berlin's security services are taking no chances with its controversial guest. Even before President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's plane descended—through airspace closed to private aircraft—the protests had begun. | | via BBC | |
| Around 250 Ryanair flights are canceled across Europe amid strikes. Pilots and cabin crew are seeking better pay and conditions at the budget airline. The 24-hour walkout began Friday morning by what the carrier called "a tiny minority of cabin crew" in Spain, Belgium, Holland, Portugal, Italy and Germany. | | via Financial Times | |
| Newly discovered 26,000-pound dinosaur was largest land animal. The recently discovered fossil of a new dinosaur species in South Africa revealed a relative of the brontosaurus that was about double the size of a large African elephant. | | via CNN | |
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| Israel, PLO Sign Deal Granting Autonomy to Palestinians "Israeli Prime Minister [Yitzhak] Rabin and PLO chief [Yasser] Arafat signed the agreement ending Israel's military occupation of West Bank cities," the Journal reported one day later. "We want you as good neighbors," Rabin told Arafat at a White House ceremony. "Enough killing of innocent people," Arafat said. The two leaders called on Syria and Lebanon to join the Mideast peace process. President [Bill] Clinton declared that Jews and Arabs "are writing a new history for their ancient lands." President Trump recently said he backs a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shifted focus toward Iran as a threat to Israel's survival, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Israel and the U.S. of undermining efforts to achieve peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. | | |
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