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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:
Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Trump just officially made it easier for employers to stop covering birth control
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Sessions outlines broad exemptions for religious freedom
Discussion: Refinery29
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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Daily Mail:
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
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Late-Night Comedy Shows Avoid Harvey Weinstein Allegations... for Now
Rebecca Traister / thecut:
Why the Harvey Weinstein Sexual-Harassment Allegations Didn't Come Out Until Now
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Harvey Weinstein and that ‘different time’ when hostile workplaces were totally okay
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.
Discussion: Business Insider and Raw Story
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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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: 'You'll find out' what ‘calm before the storm’ means … President Trump on Friday kept the public wondering about his cryptic warning regarding a “calm before the storm.”  —  “You'll find out,” Trump told reporters at the White House when asked what he meant by his comment.
Discussion: RedState and Politico
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:
Discussion: Vox, The Daily Caller, The Root and WTVR-TV
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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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Harvey Weinstein, Milo Yiannopoulos, and the era of unleashing
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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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.
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.
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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Elana Schor / Politico:
Grassley concerned about FBI use of Trump ‘dossier’ in Russia investigation  —  Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley on Friday asked the FBI to explain how foreign intelligence sharing has affected its use of an unverified dossier containing salacious allegations about President Donald Trump for its Russia investigation.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:   Trump Dossier Author Is in Talks With Senate Intel Committee
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.
Discussion: Hit & Run and The Week
Jenny Beth Martin / The Hill:
Trump should show no mercy in terminating IRS's John Koskinen  —  BY JENNY BETH MARTIN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 10/05/17 04:40 PM EDT THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL  —  The swamp grows.  —  It's so far beyond time for President Trump …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Nearly six dozen charter and military flights by Cabinet members, mapped  —  About a half-dozen members of President Trump's Cabinet, past and present, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on charter jets, military planes and other government aircraft for travel that often could have been undertaken …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mother Jones
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Brady Dennis / Washington Post:
EPA inspector general now investigating Pruitt's use of military, private flights
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Most Puerto Ricans still lack power  —  More than two weeks after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, the island is still far from recovered.  Fewer than 1 in 8 Puerto Ricans have electricity, and roughly half of the island is still without drinking water.
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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 …
Discussion: The Guardian
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 …
Discussion: Chicagoist, Raw Story and IJR
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.
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
Discussion: Shakesville
Sam J. / twitchy.com:
BAKE THE CAKE?!  Gay coffee shop owner refuses service to Christians, kicks them out (video)  —  What happened to bake the cake?  Civil rights for these folks?  —  Or does that not count in this situation? … From theliberator.news: … So much tolerance for Christians, eh? … Bingo.
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
 
 
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Kurt Wagner / Recode:
About 150 of the political ads Facebook sold to Russia showed up on Instagram
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Anne Blythe / Raleigh News & Observer:
Rev. Barber tells Gov. Cooper he's not invited to NAACP conference
Discussion: Daily Kos
Kenneth Lovett / New York Daily News:
N.Y. assemblyman wants probe of DA Vance dropping case against Trump kids
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
H.R. McMaster installs new head of NSC intelligence
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Group to play Trump ‘Access Hollywood’ tape on 12-hour loop near WH
Discussion: Mashable and The Daily Caller
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
U.S. lost jobs last month for the first time in 7 years
Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal:
Behind Tesla's Production Delays: Parts of Model 3 Were Being Made by Hand
Discussion: Mashable and The Verge
 Earlier Items: 
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
How an Oval Office meeting led to a Trump tweet that changed U.S. policy toward Venezuela
Discussion: AOL and Business Insider
Thomas Chatterton Williams / New York Times:
How Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Whiteness Power
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Democrats doubling down on campaign against Paul Ryan
Discussion: Political Wire
John DiStaso / WMUR:
In surprise announcement, Shea-Porter says she won't seek re-election in 2018
Discussion: Daily Kos
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Roy Moore in 2009: ‘Only thing I know that the Islamic faith has done in this country is 9/11’
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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