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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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New York Times:
Decades of Sexual Harassment Accusations Against Harvey Weinstein  —  Two decades ago, the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein invited Ashley Judd to the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for what the young actress expected to be a business breakfast meeting.  Instead, he had her sent up to his room …
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Harvey Weinstein gives first interview after shocking sex harassment claims
Melissa Mackenzie / The American Spectator:
A great moment in Sleazeland.
Discussion: New York Times and The Atlantic
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Harvey Weinstein to Sue N.Y. Times, Says His Attorney
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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NBC News:
Tillerson Summoned to White House Amid Presidential Fury  —  WASHINGTON — John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, abruptly scrapped plans to travel with President Donald Trump on Wednesday so he could try to contain his boss's fury and manage the fallout from new revelations …
Andrea Peterson / Politico:
John Kelly's personal cellphone was compromised, White House believes  —  White House officials believe that chief of staff John Kelly's personal cellphone was compromised, potentially as long ago as December, according to three U.S. government officials.  —  The discovery raises concerns …
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream  —  In August, after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville ended in murder, Steve Bannon insisted that “there's no room in American society” for neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates, and the KKK.
Weekly Standard:
Getting to No  —  Donald Trump was frustrated.  Five days earlier, on July 12, 2017, the president had decided for the second time in his young administration that he would certify to Congress Iran's compliance with the nuclear deal he'd promised as a candidate to dismantle.
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Washington Post:
Trump plans to declare that Iran nuclear deal is not in the national interest
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Inside Tim Murphy's reign of terror  —  Rep. Tim Murphy, a staunch anti-abortion advocate, thought he could withstand the media furor that engulfed him after reports that he'd encouraged his extramarital lover to end her apparent pregnancy.  —  He was wrong.
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Tim Murphy resigns from Congress
CNN:
Exclusive: Mueller's team met with Russia dossier author  —  Washington (CNN)Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators met this past summer with the former British spy whose dossier on alleged Russian efforts to aid the Trump campaign spawned months of investigations that have hobbled …
Euan McKirdy / CNN:
Official: Las Vegas shooter tried to buy tracer rounds before massacre  —  (CNN)Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock tried to buy tracer ammunition at a gun show in the Phoenix area in recent weeks, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation tells CNN.
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New York Times:
Las Vegas Shooting: Coroner Identifies Gunman's Victims
Discussion: Raw Story
David Montero / Los Angeles Times:   For second time in two years, his fiancee texts: ‘Active shooter.’ And so began a night of hell in Vegas
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Seven Flights for $800,000: Mnuchin's Travel on Military Jets  —  WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has flown on military aircraft seven times since March at a cost of more than $800,000, including a $15,000 round-trip flight to New York to meet with President Trump at Trump Tower …
Washington Post:
Russian government hackers used antivirus software to steal U.S. cyber capabilities  —  Russian government hackers lifted details of U.S. cyber capabilities from a National Security Agency employee who was running Russian antivirus software on his computer, according to several individuals familiar with the matter.
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Wall Street Journal:
Russian Hackers Stole NSA Data on U.S. Cyber Defense
Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney:
Exclusive: Russian-linked group sold merchandise online  —  “Young, gifted and black.”  “Melanin and muscles.”  “Our sons matter.”  The slogans on the clothing that a group called “Blacktivist” offered for sale through Facebook were supposed to look like they came from American Black Lives Matter activists.
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Bloomberg:
Inside the Saudi King's 1,500-Person Entourage in Moscow  —  Saudi officials booked two entire luxury hotels and brought their own carpets and hotel staff with King Salman bin Abdulaziz on his historic visit.  —  , and  —  Evgenia Pismennaya  —  Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz brought 1,500 people …
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Trump Administration Set to Roll Back Birth Control Mandate  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is poised to roll back the federal requirement for employers to include birth control coverage in their health insurance plans, vastly expanding exemptions for those that cite moral or religious objections.
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
The Cancer in the Constitution  —  One of the great disconnects of our history is how a nation birthed on the premise that all men are created equal could enshrine an entire race of people as three-fifths of a human being.  We tried to fix that, through our bloodiest war and a series of amendments that followed.
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Cut Russia Out of April Report on Election Influence  —  The drafting of the report sparked internal debate over how much information to disclose about Russian influence campaigns on the social network  —  Facebook Inc. FB 1.67% cut references to Russia from a public report in April …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
That's Disturbing  —  At 6:10 PM this evening President Trump began a meeting with top military leaders and gave a short prepared statement to pool reporters at the White House.  It was quite an aggressive statement but not terribly different from other things we've heard from the President.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump, during photo shoot, talks of ‘calm before the storm’
New York Times:
How Long Until We Debate Real Gun Laws?  —  After the slaughter in Las Vegas, Republican leaders in Washington tried to stifle the public's demands for action with the same technique they've deployed after mass shootings in the past: offering up pious exhortations not to “politicize” …
Discussion: Daily Kos and NBC News
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Dallas Morning News:
Small-town Texas company that invented ‘bump stock’ is in the spotlight after Las Vegas shooting
Discussion: CBS Los Angeles
John Bowden / The Hill:
GOP rep suggests conspiracy theory about Charlottesville violence  —  A GOP lawmaker floated a conspiracy theory about August's fatal rally in Charlottesville, Va., in a new interview, proposing without evidence that billionaire Democratic donor George Soros could have been involved in organizing the white supremacist event.
Discussion: National Review
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
As ACA enrollment nears, administration keeps cutting federal support of the law  —  For months, officials in Republican-controlled Iowa had sought federal permission to revitalize their ailing health-insurance marketplace.  Then President Trump read about the request in a newspaper story …
Discussion: baker, The Week and Politicus USA
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:   Trump told HHS to deny request to fix Iowa ObamaCare market: report
New York Times:
For Republican Leaders in Congress, the Headaches Keep Mounting  —  WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in Congress are under intensifying attack from all sides of their own party, battered by voters from the right and left, spurned by frustrated donors and even threatened by the Trump White House …
 
 
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Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The GOP Tax Plan Inches Forward
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
How Immigration Foiled Hillary
John Harwood / CNBC:
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Trump supporters eager to ‘drain the swamp’ help fill Republican Party coffers
Jason Le Miere / Newsweek:
TRUMP SAID ‘DESPICABLE’ RACIST COMMENTS ABOUT BLACKS, JEWS IN TAPED ‘APPRENTICE’ MEETINGS, CLAIMS FORMER PRODUCER
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Street Artist Targets Jimmy Kimmel
Julia Fair / USA Today:
Secret Service spent $137K on golf carts to protect Trump at New Jersey, Florida clubs
 

 
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