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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
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RedState, The Last Refuge, Daily Wire, twitchy.com and Washington Free Beacon
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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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Harvey Weinstein, Milo Yiannopoulos, and the era of unleashing
Harvey Weinstein, Milo Yiannopoulos, and the era of unleashing
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Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Lisa Bloom, Harvey Weinstein's Adviser, Criticizes His Behavior Toward Women
Lisa Bloom, Harvey Weinstein's Adviser, Criticizes His Behavior Toward Women
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Harvey Weinstein and that ‘different time’ when hostile workplaces were totally okay
Harvey Weinstein and that ‘different time’ when hostile workplaces were totally okay
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Hollywood's Loud Silence on Harvey Weinstein's Sexual Harassment Allegations
Hollywood's Loud Silence on Harvey Weinstein's Sexual Harassment Allegations
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Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Harvey Weinstein Speaks: My Apology Is Sincere, But I'm Still Suing NY Times
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Democrats, Seeking to Disavow Weinstein, Plan to Give His Donations to Charity
Democrats, Seeking to Disavow Weinstein, Plan to Give His Donations to Charity
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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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ACLU:
ACLU Filing Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration Contraceptive Coverage Rule
ACLU Filing Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration Contraceptive Coverage Rule
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Washington Post:
Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate
Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate
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Brianna Ehley / Politico:
Trump rolls back Obamacare birth control mandate
Trump rolls back Obamacare birth control mandate
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Weekly Standard, Vox, The Root, Common Dreams and Washington Post
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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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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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Senate ‘Russia Probe’ Is Not Investigating Russia
Exclusive: Senate ‘Russia Probe’ Is Not Investigating Russia
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
10 reasons to stay calm about those Russia Facebook ads
10 reasons to stay calm about those Russia Facebook ads
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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.
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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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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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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democrats look to wreak havoc in GOP primaries
Democrats look to wreak havoc in GOP primaries
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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.
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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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Euan McKirdy / CNN:
Official: Las Vegas shooter tried to buy tracer rounds before massacre
Official: Las Vegas shooter tried to buy tracer rounds before massacre
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New York Times, Q13 FOX News, Conservative News Today, FOX6Now.com and Townhall.com
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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Michael Albers / AOL INSTANT MESSENGER:
One Last Away Message
One Last Away Message
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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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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Sessions outlines broad exemptions for religious freedom
Sessions outlines broad exemptions for religious freedom
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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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Chicagoist, Raw Story and IJR
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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.
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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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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Timothy Egan / New York Times:
The Cancer in the Constitution
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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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
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