NEWS SUMMARY AT THIS HOUR-SATURDAY 9/29/2018

                                   (EDITING, UPDATES, EXPANSION UNTIL 815AM)

There's going to be a delay in the final Senate vote on confirming Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

President Trump has gone along with the desire of Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake, one of his most outspoken critics, for an FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh.

Trump tweeted last evening that this is the seventh FBI investigation of Judge Kavanaugh and that Kavanaugh:

"someday will be recognized as a truly great Justice of the United States Supreme Court"

Yesterday, President Trump signed an 854 billion dollar spending plan.  It provides a full year budget for health, education and defense programs until the end of next year but other programs will only be taken care of until December 7th.

Over 380 are now reported dead on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi following an earthquake and a resulting tsunami.  The quake measured 7.7 .  Waves up to ten feet high hit a coastal city.   Hundreds of injuries are also reported.

A stabbing attack injured three people in the town square of Ravensburg, Germany Friday.  Police arrested a teenage suspect identified as a migrant.

The anti-mass immigration Alternative for Germany Party has come under attack in recent weeks by major party politicians as a "Nazi" party with Chancellor Angela Merkel ruling out any coalition governments with the AfD in German states following upcoming elections.

Polling data is now showing AfD as the second most popular party in Germany with 18 percent support.

Now there's word that Jews are organizing inside the AfD.  A "Juden in der AfD" or "Jews in the AfD" group will hold its inaugural meeting on October 7th.   The news was posted Thursday on the party's Facebook page as reported by "Breitbart".

One Jewish supporter says the AfD takes seriously visible anti-Semitism in Germany by Muslims. 

Former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson isn't ruling out a leadership challenge to Prime Minister Theresa May.    The Conservative Party conference will be getting underway tomorrow in Birmingham, England.

Johnson said that May's Brexit plan would be a "political and economic disaster" for the United Kingdom.  Supporters of Brexit call May's plan a sellout of the country to European Union control that contradicts the will of the voters who approved Brexit in a referendum.

When badgered four times by BBC political reporter Laura Kuenssberg to rule out a leadership challenge, Johnson said:

"My job is to speak up for what I believe in"

Speakers will appear at a rally in Birmingham tomorrow on behalf of the "Leave Means Leave" movement from both the Labor and Conservative parties, along with "Mr. Brexit" Nigel Farage.

An F-35 jet has crashed.  The Marine Corps F-35B went down in South Carolina.  The pilot ejected safely and there were no injuries.    The F-35 is the most advanced fighter used by the US military and the most expensive weapons system of its kind.   An investigation into the cause of the crash is underway.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the more advanced S-300 air defense system is already being delivered to Syria.

Russia is deploying the system to prevent another shoot down incident like the one earlier this month that killed 15 members of the Russian military.   Syrian air defenses shot the plane down with Russia saying an Israeli plane staging an air attack on Syria used its plane as a decoy.

Marty Balin, one of the founding members of the 1960's "Jefferson Airplane" band and its 1970's successor "Jefferson Starship", has died at the age of 76 in Tampa, Florida.

"Jefferson Airplane" was groundbreaking San Francisco psychedelic band.

Balin recently filed a lawsuit over his treatment at a New York City hospital for a heart condition, claiming he was left 'totally disabled' by it.