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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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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
Late-Night Comedy Shows Avoid Harvey Weinstein Allegations... for Now
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Bari Weiss / New York Times:
Will Liberals Give Weinstein the O'Reilly Treatment?
Will Liberals Give Weinstein the O'Reilly Treatment?
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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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New York Times, Slate and Washington Post
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 …
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Trump just officially made it easier for employers to stop covering birth control
Trump just officially made it easier for employers to stop covering birth control
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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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CNN:
Las Vegas shooter took 20 cruises, some to foreign ports
Las Vegas shooter took 20 cruises, some to foreign ports
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Geller Report, The Daily Caller and Daily Wire
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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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
Bannon and Breitbart's Nazi Ties
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Elana Schor / Politico:
Grassley concerned about FBI use of Trump ‘dossier’ in Russia investigation — Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley on Friday asked the FBI to explain how foreign intelligence sharing has affected its use of an unverified dossier containing salacious allegations about President Donald Trump for its Russia investigation.
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Did Russia Hack the 2016 Vote Tally? This Senator Says We Don't Know for Sure
Did Russia Hack the 2016 Vote Tally? This Senator Says We Don't Know for Sure
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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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Raw Story, Business Insider and CNN
Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue:
Watch: Sarah Huckabee Sanders callously laughs at women who will lose their birth control — Donald Trump has utterly failed to deliver on his threat to repeal Obamacare and harm the millions of men and women who have health care because of it. So he's going to punish women directly instead.
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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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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Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
Rex Tillerson at the Breaking Point — Will Donald Trump let the Secretary of State do his job? — One afternoon in late September, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called a meeting of the six countries that came together in 2015 to limit Iran's nuclear-weapons program.
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Business Insider and Raw Story
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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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: 'You'll find out' what ‘calm before the storm’ means
Trump: 'You'll find out' what ‘calm before the storm’ means
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Politico
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:
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.
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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Brady Dennis / Washington Post:
EPA inspector general now investigating Pruitt's use of military, private flights — The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general on Friday acknowledged plans to expand its inquiry into Administrator Scott Pruitt's travel habits, marking the latest Trump Cabinet member to face scrutiny …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Nearly six dozen charter and military flights by Cabinet members, mapped
Nearly six dozen charter and military flights by Cabinet members, mapped
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Raw Story and Mother Jones
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
H.R. McMaster installs new head of NSC intelligence — National Security Adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster has appointed Mike Barry to oversee the intelligence community on the National Security Council, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the decision.
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Politico and The Daily Caller
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
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 …
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The Guardian
Jenny Beth Martin / The Hill:
Trump should show no mercy in terminating IRS's John Koskinen — BY JENNY BETH MARTIN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 10/05/17 04:40 PM EDT THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL — The swamp grows. — It's so far beyond time for President Trump …