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It looks like Republican Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) will get his wish.

The Senate Judiciary Committee said Friday afternoon that it will ask the White House to request an FBI probe into the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, therefore delaying the vote on his confirmation, per HuffPost's Ryan J. Reilly. The committee said it would allow up to a week for the FBI to conduct its supplemental background investigation.

The move came after Flake, a key swing vote in the confirmation process... Читать дальше...

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) took America on a wild ride as he maybe didn't, then definitely did, then sort of didn't support Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation. It's a story perhaps best told through the senator's da Vinci-esque facial expressions.

A powerful earthquake triggered a 10-foot-tall tsunami off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday morning, CBS News reports.

When Christine Blasey Ford decided to speak out, others did, too.

Calls to the National Sexual Assault Hotline saw a 201 percent spike Thursday while Ford gave an emotional testimony relaying her alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network spokeswoman Sara McGovern told CNN.

Numbers have been increasing over the past week, McGovern said, with a 57 percent uptick last weekend. Ford said last week she'd be willing to testify... Читать дальше...

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) has slightly changed his tune on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation, and some strong-willed women may be responsible.

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's high school friend, Mark Judge, is willing to cooperate with a law enforcement investigation that operates "confidentially," The Associated Press reported Friday.

A light show projected on the facade of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. | (EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOV)

While senators were crowding in back rooms, whispering behind palms, and staging "high drama" machinations, President Trump was meeting with Chilean President Sebastián Piñera. When he emerged from his summit, his plans for the Supreme Court had been thrown out of whack.

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) sure made his "yes" dramatic. Even as he voted Friday to advance Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he unexpectedly called for a delay in the full Senate vote until after there's an FBI investigation. The only problem is, it's not clear just how much leverage Flake has.

After Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) voted to recommend Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh but called for a one-week delay of the full Senate vote on his confirmation, conservatives unleashed fury over his last-minute complication.

Allegations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh may have drawn the ire of feminists. But in the misogynistic world of "incels," the embattled Supreme Court nominee has a different reputation.

All passengers and crew aboard a flight that crashed in the Pacific Ocean survived the incident after being forced to swim for their lives, CNN reports.

Another day, another Facebook leak.

This time around, a network attack has exposed nearly 50 million users' private data, Facebook told The New York Times on Friday. Hackers apparently found a coding flaw that allowed them to take over user accounts before Facebook noticed the breach earlier this week. It has since patched the issue and on Friday logged 90 million users out of their accounts in a security measure.

This incident seems to be on par with Facebook's last big infiltration, at least in terms of numbers. Читать дальше...

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday voted 11-10 along party lines to recommend Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation. But a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court is hardly assured, thanks to GOP Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.).

Never tweet, the wisdom goes — but it's too late for Matt Schlapp.

During the Brett Kavanaugh Senate hearings Thursday, Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, retweeted a picture of Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), writing, "Look at this photo conservative voters in WV, ND, IN, FL, MO, MT, MI, TN, AZ, NV." The picture was taken as Democratic senators questioned Kavanaugh on allegations that he groped and tried to rape Christine Blasey Ford when he was in high school.

This week's question: Volkswagen has announced that it will stop production of its iconic Beetle car in 2019, 80 years after the curvy automobile first hit the streets. In seven words or fewer, please come up with a pithy headline for an obituary of VW's much-loved Bug.

Brett Kavanaugh's alma mater thinks the Senate should take a little more time investigating these sexual assault allegations.

One potential swing voter is a "no" on confirming Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh — and he's likely bringing three other mystery voters with him.

The Earth is already ruined, so why bother trying to save it?

The Trump administration released a report characterizing climate change as a lost cause, arguing that aggressive steps to curb rising global temperatures aren't necessary since they won't halt catastrophic damage anyway, The Washington Post reported Friday. An environmental impact statement for a decision to freeze fuel efficiency standards predicted that we are currently on track for a 7-degree increase in average global temperatures by the end of the century. Читать дальше...

Some people think Brett Kavanaugh was telling the truth during his Thursday Senate hearing. Others believe his accuser Christine Blasey Ford. For those who can't decide, Fox News' Geraldo Rivera has a solution.

Democrats marched out of a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting in protest Friday, calling the entire process "unfair."

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines Friday morning to move ahead with a vote on embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The committee vote is scheduled for Friday afternoon; if the panel advances his nomination, as it is expected to do along party lines, a full Senate vote is expected to be held in the coming days.

When Republican Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) announced Friday he would vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, the backlash was immediate.

Republican Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) announced Friday morning that he would vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Flake, who is not running for re-election and has been an outspoken critic of President Trump, had been seen as one of the few Republican lawmakers who might be willing to buck the president and disrupt Kavanaugh's path to confirmation.

The White House is coming out in full force to defend Brett Kavanaugh the morning after Thursday's historic Senate hearing.