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5:50 PM ET, October 6, 2017

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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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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
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.
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Late-Night Comedy Shows Avoid Harvey Weinstein Allegations... for Now … “Experts say it's unlikely that any self-respecting network will ever hire him.”  - Jimmy Fallon  —  “I mean, it is nice to know that while liberals and conservatives disagree on a lot of things …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Harvey Weinstein, Milo Yiannopoulos, and the era of unleashing
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Lisa Bloom, Harvey Weinstein's Adviser, Criticizes His Behavior Toward Women
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Hollywood's Loud Silence on Harvey Weinstein's Sexual Harassment Allegations
CNNMoney:
New York Times wants Weinstein to release accusers from NDAs
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 …
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Trump just officially made it easier for employers to stop covering birth control
Washington Post:
Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Courts Thwart Administration's Effort to Rescind Obama-Era Environmental Regulations
Discussion: Federal Register
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Sessions outlines broad exemptions for religious freedom
Discussion: Refinery29
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
Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue:
Watch: Sarah Huckabee Sanders callously laughs at women who will lose their birth control  —  For the Trump administration to block women's access to birth control is bad enough.  To laugh at those women is exceptionally cruel.  —  Donald Trump has utterly failed to deliver on his threat …
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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:
Discussion: Vox, The Daily Caller, The Root and WTVR-TV
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: 'You'll find out' what ‘calm before the storm’ means
Discussion: Politico
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
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.
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.
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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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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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
The Democrats' Gerrymandering Obsession
Discussion: Liberal Values
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democrats look to wreak havoc in GOP primaries
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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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
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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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
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
 
 
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Nearly six dozen charter and military flights by Cabinet members, mapped
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Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal:
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ICE:
Statement from ICE Acting Director Tom Homan on California Sanctuary Law
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
How an Oval Office meeting led to a Trump tweet that changed U.S. policy toward Venezuela
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How Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Whiteness Power
Sam J. / twitchy.com:
BAKE THE CAKE?! Gay coffee shop owner refuses service to Christians, kicks them out (video)
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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
Weekly Standard:
Getting to No  —  Donald Trump was frustrated.
Bloomberg:
Inside the Saudi King's 1,500-Person Entourage in Moscow
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Bloomberg:
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