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GOP warns time running out for Kavanaugh’s accuser to talk

By Alan Fram, Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

With Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination dangling in the balance, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said his panel still planned a Monday morning hearing that Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford were invited to attend.

US Senate staff targeted by state-backed hackers, senator says

By Frank Bajak, Raphael Satter, Associated Press

Senator Ron Wyden says in a letter to Senate leaders that "at least one major technology company" has warned an unspecified number of senators and aides that their personal accounts were targeted by foreign government hackers.

Frustration mounts as Carolina residents wait to go home

By Claire Galofaro, Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press

Exhaustion and frustration are building in the Carolinas as thousands of people wait to go home days after Hurricane Florence unleashed epic floods blamed for nearly three dozen deaths, including two women who drowned when a sheriff's van taking them…

Grassley sends new offer to Kavanaugh’s accuser

By Associated Press

The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is offering in a letter to lawyers for Brett Kavanaugh's accuser to have his panel's investigators interview her wherever she wants.

Doctor testifies that the order of Laquan McDonald’s 16 gunshot wounds cannot be determined

By Don Babwin, Associated Press

Dr. Ponni Arunkumar, Cook County's chief medical examiner, testified about each gunshot wound as jurors viewed autopsy photos of them.

3 injured, suspect dead in shooting at business in Wisconsin

By Todd Richmond, Associated Press

The suspected shooter was also injured critically during the late-morning shooting at WTS Paradigm in Middleton, Wisconsin.

India bans instant divorce by Muslim men

By Ashok Sharma, Associated Press

The government decision came after it failed to get approval from Parliament a year after the court ruled that the practice of allowing men to divorce by simply uttering the Arabic word for divorce — "talaq" — three times violated…

Woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart released from prison

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press

Wanda Barzee, 72, left the Utah state prison in the Salt Lake City suburb of Draper.

WATCH: Trump says ‘we’ll have to make a decision’ if Kavanaugh accuser credible

President Donald Trump said "we'll have to make a decision" if Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's sexual-assault accuser "makes a credible showing" before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Thousands back home in north Syria after Russia-Turkey deal

By Associated Press

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that some 7,000 people have returned to their towns and villages since Monday when Russia and Turkey announced the deal.