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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Exclusive: Kushner didn't disclose personal email account to Senate intel committee  —  Washington (CNN)In his closed interview with the staff of the Senate intelligence committee, White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner did not share the existence of his personal email account …
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New York Times:
Trump Could Save More Than $1 Billion Under His New Tax Plan  —  Highlighted areas show what parts of President Trump's 2005 tax return could have been affected by the new tax plan.  —  President Trump could cut his tax bills by more than $1.1 billion, including saving tens of millions …
Andrea Peterson / Politico:
White House launches probe of private email accounts  —  The White House has launched an internal probe of private email use, pulling batches of emails on the White House server to and from private accounts of senior aides, according to four officials familiar with the matter.
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Has Trump had his ‘heckuva job’ moment with Puerto Rico?  —  THE TAKE with ABC News' Rick Klein  —  The first two storms, it appears, were only wind-ups to the presidential moment that presents itself now.  The crisis in Puerto Rico figures to define President Trump's responses to this remarkable string of powerful storms.
New York Times:
Fight Erupts to Shield Tax Breaks Threatened by G.O.P. Overhaul
New York Times:
Private Emails, Private Jets and Mr. Trump's Idea of Public Service
Discussion: Washington Post
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:   Make America Gipper Again
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:   How Republicans Ditched Tax Reform for Tax Cuts
Heather Long / Washington Post:
9 ways Trump's tax plan is a gift to the rich, including himself
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Price took military jets to Europe, Asia for over $500K  —  The White House approved the use of military aircraft for multi-national trips by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to Africa and Europe this spring, and to Asia in the summer, at a cost of more than $500,000 to taxpayers.
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Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
Tom Price Wanted To Reopen His Department's Executive Dining Room, Sources Say  —  The executive dining room was used as an event and meeting space during the Obama years.  —  Tom Price, the Health and Human Services secretary currently under fire for his private jet travel …
Discussion: Salon
New York Times:
Chastened, Tom Price Tries to Deflect Anger Over Chartered Flights
Twitter:
Russian Interference in 2016 US Election, Bots, & Misinformation  —  Earlier this summer we outlined some of our work to combat bots and networks of manipulation on Twitter.  Since then, we have received a number of questions about how malicious bots and misinformation networks on Twitter …
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CNNMoney:
Exclusive: Fake black activist accounts linked to Russian government  —  Fake black activist accounts linked to Russia  —  A social media campaign calling itself “Blacktivist” and linked to the Russian government used both Facebook and Twitter in an apparent attempt to amplify racial tensions during …
Jessica Schneider / CNN:
DOJ demands Facebook information from ‘anti-administration activists’  —  Washington (CNN)Trump administration lawyers are demanding the private account information of potentially thousands of Facebook users in three separate search warrants served on the social media giant, according to court documents obtained by CNN.
CBS News:
Mark Warner calls Twitter presentation to Intel panel “deeply disappointing”
Discussion: Mediaite and IJR, more at Mediagazer »
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Roy Moore Failed to Disclose Massive Amount of Income on His Senate Ethics Form … Roy Moore, the controversial Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Alabama, neglected to disclose as much as $150,000 in income to federal ethics officials, according to a Daily Beast review of public records.
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Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:
The Lawlessness of Roy Moore  —  Both sides of my family hail from Alabama: my mother's people from the coal mining country of Walker County in the north and the tiny burg of Union Springs farther south; my dad's, from a speck of a cotton-mill town just east of Montgomery.
Discussion: Townhall.com, CNBC and New York Times
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:   Roy Moore opposed the appointment of an ‘admitted homosexual’ to an ambassadorship in 2006
WND:
Jihad on our faith  —  Judge Roy Moore is the chairman …
Discussion: Raw Story
CBS News:
Jeff Flake says Republicans should speak out on Roy Moore's past comments
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Ronald J. Hansen / Arizona Republic:
Rep. Kyrsten Sinema enters Senate race, hoping to unseat Jeff Flake  —  U.S. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema is running for the Senate seat held by Jeff Flake, ending months of speculation about her political future and giving Democrats a top-tier fundraiser with experience on Capitol Hill.
Discussion: Politico and Shareblue
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:   Bernie backers give Dem incumbents a pass in 2018
Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
Racial slurs written on doors of five black cadet candidates at Air Force Academy Preparatory School  —  Five black cadet candidates found racial slurs written on the message boards on their doors at the U.S. Air Force Academy Preparatory School this week, leading school officials to denounce racism and launch an investigation.
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Stephen Losey / Air Force Times:
Racial slurs written on dorm room boards of black Air Force Academy cadet candidates
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Zinke took $12,000 charter flight home in oil executive's plane, documents show  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke chartered a flight from Las Vegas to near his home in Montana this summer aboard a plane owned by oil-and-gas executives, internal documents show.
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Beyond the daily drama and Twitter battles, Trump begins to alter American life  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even without delivering on his biggest campaign promises, President Donald Trump has begun to reshape American life in ways big and small.  —  Over his first nine months …
Steven Malanga / City Journal:
Bench the NFL  —  The league enjoys an antitrust exemption from Washington that should have been revoked years ago.  —  Politics and law  —  Many sports fans know that Major League Baseball has a unique exemption from the nation's antitrust laws, thanks to a 1922 Supreme Court decision …
Discussion: Instapundit
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Treasury Removes Paper at Odds With Mnuchin's Take on Corporate-Tax Cut's Winners  —  WASHINGTON—The Treasury Department has taken down a 2012 economic analysis that contradicts Secretary Steven Mnuchin's argument that workers would benefit the most from a corporate income tax cut.
Discussion: The Week and Axios
Lili Anolik / Vanity Fair:
The Kate McKinnon Report … If journalists played it straight with movie stars, they'd call it an interrogation not an interview.  It'd be conducted at a police station—some grimy, windowless room at the back, cramped and full of the hot stink of fear and funk.
Discussion: Splinter
CBS Boston:
Librarian Rejects Books Donated By Melania Trump, Rips Dr. Seuss  —  CAMBRIDGE - The librarian at the Cambridgeport Elementary School is saying no thanks to a shipment of books from First Lady Melania Trump.  —  One school from each state was chosen by the White House to receive ten Dr. Seuss books as part of National Read a Book Day.
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
‘Miracles really do happen’: Rep. Steve Scalise returns to Congress 15 weeks after he was shot  —  For the past 15 weeks, every gathering of House Republican leaders has had one thing in common — an empty chair, marking the absence of Majority Whip Steve Scalise.
Scott Allen / Washington Post:
A kid walked into a GameStop wearing a Kaepernick jersey.  Two NFL players bought him an Xbox.  —  Saundra Watts was getting her makeup done in the Dulles 28 Centre in Sterling on Tuesday, killing time while her dog was groomed at Petco, when her 10-year-old grandson, Jaden, came running into the store.
Discussion: Unfogged, WREG-TV and USA Today
Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Democrats need to put forward a tax plan too  —  Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of N.Y. and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speak to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 28.  (Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press)  —  Goaded by President Trump …
Discussion: The Week
 
 
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Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times:
A Legal Industry Built on Private School Sex Abuse
New York Times:
Trump Administration Is Pressed to Step Up Hurricane Recovery in Puerto Rico
Thomas Mulier / Bloomberg:
New ‘KJU’ Shower Gel Not Named After Kim Jong Un, Insists Unilever
Discussion: Mashable
ABC News:
Sens. Susan Collins and Heidi Heitkamp talk bipartisanship
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Detroit Free Press:
Snyder backs state police director amid backlash over FB post condemning NFL protests
Discussion: The Root and The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Yet Another Major Russia Story Falls Apart. Is Skepticism Permissible Yet?
Jake Gibson / Fox News:
DOJ files suit against company for allegedly not hiring Americans
Scott Malone / Reuters:
Education Secretary DeVos faces largely silent protest at Harvard speech
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Pence sent lawyer to meet with Mueller over the summer
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: World going to hell in a handbasket as nation comes apart at seams
Discussion: Opinion Today
Adam Jentleson / Politico:
The Myth of Mitch McConnell, Political Super-Genius
Discussion: Washington Post
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
There Is No GOP Establishment or Base. Just Massive Resistance.
Discussion: NBC News and Washington Monthly
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Prime Video users will be able to watch local PBS stations and PBS Kids for free in coming months, and two new free PBS channels with ads starting November 26

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

 
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