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Rebecca Traister / thecut:
Why the Harvey Weinstein Sexual-Harassment Allegations Didn't Come Out Until Now — I have been having conversations about Harvey Weinstein's history of sexual harassment for more than 17 years. — The conversations started when I was a young editorial assistant at Talk, the magazine he financed …
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EXCLUSIVE: Hillary supporter Harvey Weinstein thinks a ‘right wing conspiracy out to get me’ is reason he has been revealed as serial sexual harasser — Harvey Weinstein believes the revelations of inappropriate sexual behaviour against him are part of a right-wing ‘conspiracy’ to take him down
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Bari Weiss / New York Times:
Will Liberals Give Weinstein the O'Reilly Treatment? — I'll never forget the one time I laid eyes on Harvey Weinstein outside the pages of Vanity Fair. It was at a movie premiere in Manhattan in 2014. My sister and I got up before the film started for a pre-emptive bathroom run.
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Late-Night Comedy Shows Avoid Harvey Weinstein Allegations... for Now
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Harvey Weinstein, Milo Yiannopoulos, and the era of unleashing
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Harvey Weinstein and that ‘different time’ when hostile workplaces were totally okay
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Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Lisa Bloom, Harvey Weinstein's Adviser, Criticizes His Behavior Toward Women
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Hollywood's Loud Silence on Harvey Weinstein's Sexual Harassment Allegations
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BuzzFeed:
Jeff Sessions Just Issued New Guidance On Protecting “Religious Liberty” — The attorney general issued the guidance Friday. Critics have feared the policy may provide a loophole for discrimination. — Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructed federal agencies and attorneys on Friday …
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Washington Post:
Civil liberties groups decry Sessions's guidance on religious freedom — Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued sweeping guidance to executive branch agencies Friday on the Justice Department's interpretation of how the government should respect religious freedom, triggering an immediate backlash …
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Trump just officially made it easier for employers to stop covering birth control
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NBC News:
Investigators Probing Whether Others Were in Las Vegas Gunman's Suite — Investigators are trying to determine whether someone else was in the Las Vegas gunman's hotel room when he was registered there, senior law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation told NBC News.
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CNN:
Las Vegas shooter took 20 cruises, some to foreign ports — Las Vegas (CNN)In addition to his frequent forays into casinos and gun shops, Las Vegas strip killer Stephen Paddock took 20 cruises, many of them in Europe and the Middle East, investigators have learned. — New video shows concertgoers fleeing scene 02:57
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Euan McKirdy / CNN:
Official: Las Vegas shooter tried to buy tracer rounds before massacre
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Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue:
Watch: Sarah Huckabee Sanders callously laughs at women who will lose their birth control — Donald Trump has utterly failed to deliver on his threat to repeal Obamacare and harm the millions of men and women who have health care because of it. So he's going to punish women directly instead.
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump is treating a potential war like a reality show cliffhanger — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump hosted his top military brass and their spouses for dinner at the White House on Thursday night. The group posed for a photo. Then this exchange with reporters happened:
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: 'You'll find out' what ‘calm before the storm’ means
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Stephen Young / Dallas Observer:
Meet the Dallas Bartender Who Kicked Milo Yiannopoulos and Some Neo-Nazis Out of Her Bar … One night last spring, infamous right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and Dallas' homegrown white nationalist, Richard Spencer, walked into a karaoke bar on Abrams Road in Lake Highlands.
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Martin Longman / Washington Monthly:
Bannon and Breitbart's Nazi Ties
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: CIA director Pompeo considered to replace Tillerson — Trump advisers and allies are floating the idea of replacing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, age 53 — someone who's already around the table in the Situation Room, and could make the switch without chaos.
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Foreign Policy:
The FBI's New U.S. Terrorist Threat: ‘Black Identity Extremists’ — Law enforcement calls it a violent movement. Critics call it racist. — As white supremacists prepared to descend on Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, the FBI warned about a new movement that was violent, growing, and racially motivated.
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Trump Dossier Author Is in Talks With Senate Intel Committee — WASHINGTON — Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence operative who authored a 35-page dossier alleging that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, has been in talks with the Senate Intelligence Committee about speaking …
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Did Russia Hack the 2016 Vote Tally? This Senator Says We Don't Know for Sure
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Senate ‘Russia Probe’ Is Not Investigating Russia
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
AIM will shut down after 20 years — It's a sad moment: AIM, AOL's long-running instant messenger service that was core to many people's first social experiences on the internet, will shut down once and for all on December 15th. AOL announced the shutdown today, acknowledging that people …
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Michael Albers / AOL INSTANT MESSENGER:
One Last Away Message
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BuzzFeed:
US Intelligence Unit Accused Of Illegally Spying On Americans' Financial Records — The Treasury Department's Office of Intelligence and Analysis has been illegally rifling through and filing away the private financial records of US citizens, Treasury employees alleged.
Brady Dennis / Washington Post:
EPA inspector general now investigating Pruitt's use of military, private flights — The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general on Friday acknowledged plans to expand its inquiry into Administrator Scott Pruitt's travel habits, marking the latest Trump Cabinet member to face scrutiny …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Nearly six dozen charter and military flights by Cabinet members, mapped
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
U.S. lost jobs last month for the first time in 7 years — Every sitting president gets a sneak peek at U.S. job numbers the day before the official report is released. It's just a perk of the job. So when Donald Trump started tweeting yesterday about how impressed he was with the stock market …
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Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
Rex Tillerson at the Breaking Point — Will Donald Trump let the Secretary of State do his job? — One afternoon in late September, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called a meeting of the six countries that came together in 2015 to limit Iran's nuclear-weapons program.
Associated Press:
AP-NORC Poll: Just 24 percent say US heading right direction — https://apnews.com/f7d770542f334a218398 b2f9b2ae1102 — Link copied! — WASHINGTON (AP) — Just 24 percent of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction after a tumultuous stretch for President Donald Trump …
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Karen Berkowitz / Chicago Tribune:
Highland Park deli co-owner to leave family business after Vegas shooting tweet sparks outrage — Max's Deli in Highland Park has ousted co-owner Greg Morelli over a controversial tweet that was posted Monday after the mass shootings in Las Vegas. — Deli co-owner Joey Morelli released …
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Roy Moore in 2009: ‘Only thing I know that the Islamic faith has done in this country is 9/11’ — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Republican nominee for US Senate in Alabama Roy Moore said in a 2009 speech that the only thing that Muslims had done in the United States was the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Tyisha Fernandes / WSB-TV:
Students given homework assignment to create mascot for Nazi party — GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - Parents are concerned after they say middle school students were asked to create a mascot for the Nazi party as part of a homework assignment. — The assignment was given to sixth grade students at Shiloh Middle School in Snellville.
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Paul Lewis / The Guardian:
‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia — Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster
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Shakesville
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
How an Oval Office meeting led to a Trump tweet that changed U.S. policy toward Venezuela — (Photo by Cristian Hernandez/EPA-EFE) (Cristian Hernandez/EPA-EFE) — President Trump's decision to suddenly announce a major change in U.S. policy toward Venezuela in February began …
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