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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 …
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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 seventeen years. — The conversations started when I was a young editorial assistant at Talk …
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New York Times:
Statement From Harvey Weinstein
Statement From Harvey Weinstein
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Harvey Weinstein gives first interview after shocking sex harassment claims
Harvey Weinstein gives first interview after shocking sex harassment claims
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Brent Lang / Variety:
Is Harvey Weinstein Done in Hollywood?
Is Harvey Weinstein Done in Hollywood?
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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.
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 …
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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 …
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Victoria Guida / Politico:
Treasury inspector general finds no wrongdoing in Mnuchin plane travel
Treasury inspector general finds no wrongdoing in Mnuchin plane travel
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Julia Horowitz / CNNMoney:
The 7 trips Steven Mnuchin took on government planes for $811,800
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.
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Tim Murphy resigns from Congress
Tim Murphy resigns from Congress
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CNN:
Stoking Islamophobia and secession in Texas — from an office in Russia — (CNN)On May 21 2016, a handful of people turned out to protest the opening of a library at an Islamic Center in Houston, Texas. Two held up a banner proclaiming #WhiteLivesMatter. A counter-protest began across the street …
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney:
Exclusive: Russian-linked group sold merchandise online
Washington Post:
Trump plans to declare that Iran nuclear deal is not in the national interest — President Trump is expected to announce next week that he will “decertify” the international nuclear deal with Iran, saying it is not in the national interest of the United States and kicking the issue to a reluctant Congress …
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Henry C. Jackson / Politico:
45 After Dark: Phone Trouble edition
45 After Dark: Phone Trouble edition
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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 …
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Wall Street Journal:
Russian Hackers Stole NSA Data on U.S. Cyber Defense — The breach, considered the most serious in years, could enable Russia to evade NSA surveillance and more easily infiltrate U.S. networks — WASHINGTON—Hackers working for the Russian government stole details of how the U.S. penetrates …
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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.
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump, during photo shoot, talks of ‘calm before the storm’
Trump, during photo shoot, talks of ‘calm before the storm’
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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.
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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” …
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Jason Le Miere / Newsweek:
TRUMP SAID ‘DESPICABLE’ RACIST COMMENTS ABOUT BLACKS, JEWS IN TAPED ‘APPRENTICE’ MEETINGS, CLAIMS FORMER PRODUCER — A former producer on The Apprentice has said President Donald Trump made “unfathomably despicable” racist comments while on the set of the show.
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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 …
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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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.
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Elspeth Reeve / VICE News:
Congressman suggests Charlottesville was George Soros-backed conspiracy
Congressman suggests Charlottesville was George Soros-backed conspiracy
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
FEMA removes statistics about drinking water access and electricity in Puerto Rico from website — As of Wednesday, half of Puerto Ricans had access to drinking water and 5 percent of the island had electricity, according to statistics published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency …
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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 …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump told HHS to deny request to fix Iowa ObamaCare market: report