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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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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 …
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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
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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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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Harvey Weinstein and that ‘different time’ when hostile workplaces were totally okay
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Harvey Weinstein, Milo Yiannopoulos, and the era of unleashing
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Democrats, Seeking to Disavow Weinstein, Plan to Give His Donations to Charity
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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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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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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump, during photo shoot, talks of ‘calm before the storm’
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Trump just officially made it easier for employers to stop covering birth control — The new rules let big companies end contraceptive coverage — and take effect immediately. — The Trump administration is relaxing an Obama-era requirement that nearly all employers offer health insurance …
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Washington Post:
Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
ACLU files lawsuit against Trump administration over roll back of birth control mandate
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Brianna Ehley / Politico:
Trump rolls back Obamacare birth control mandate
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Trump Administration Set to Roll Back Birth Control Mandate
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CNN:
Trump administration deals major blow to Obamacare birth control mandate
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Alison Kodjak / NPR:
Trump Guts Requirement That Employer Health Plans Pay For Birth Control
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Senate ‘Russia Probe’ Is Not Investigating Russia … The Senate Judiciary Committee has demanded documents on Russian meddling from the CIA, interviewed Donald Trump Jr. about his infamous Trump Tower meeting, and subpoenaed Paul Manafort, the president's Kremlin-friendly former campaign chairman.
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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 …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
10 reasons to stay calm about those Russia Facebook ads
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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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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.
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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Joe Concha / The Hill:
NYT conservative Bret Stephens: ‘Repeal the Second Amendment’ — Conservative New York Times columnist Bret Stephens called for a repeal of the Second Amendment in a Thursday op-ed, arguing that while gun ownership shouldn't be outlawed, “it doesn't need a blanket Constitutional protection, either.”
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CNN:
New Orleans, Gulf Coast brace for Tropical Storm Nate — (CNN)New Orleans, and states from Louisiana to Florida, braced Friday as forecasters predicted Tropical Storm Nate would pound the Gulf Coast this weekend as a hurricane. — According to the National Hurricane Center …
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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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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 — Judging by the press coverage of what happened in the Supreme Court Tuesday, Justice Anthony Kennedy may be ready to cast the decisive fifth vote to put constitutional limits on the practice of political gerrymandering.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democrats look to wreak havoc in GOP primaries
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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.
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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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Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Guilty plea expected from Bergdahl; no trial — https://apnews.com/de3304616d1549e69792 c3111d3157ee — Link copied! — WASHINGTON (AP) — Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban for half a decade after abandoning his Afghanistan post …
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Thomas Chatterton Williams / New York Times:
How Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Whiteness Power — BERLIN — In the study of German history, there is the notion of sonderweg, literally the “special path,” down which the German people are fated to wander. In different eras, and depending on who employed it, the term could imply different things.
John DiStaso / WMUR:
In surprise announcement, Shea-Porter says she won't seek re-election in 2018 — Four-term Democrat attributes decision to ‘tug of family’ — HIDE TRANSCRIPT SHOW TRANSCRIPT — MANCHESTER, N.H. — In a surprise announcement Friday, U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter said she will not seek re-election …
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