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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein's Accusers Tell Their Stories  —  Multiple women share harrowing accounts of sexual assault and harassment by the film executive.  —  1.  —  Since the establishment of the first studios a century ago, there have been few movie executives …
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Chris Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Jessica Chastain on Harvey Weinstein Claims: “I Was Warned From the Beginning”  —  The Oscar nominee joins a list of high-profile actresses who have shared statements regarding the Weinstein Co. co-founder who was ousted from his own company on Sunday.  —  Jessica Chastain has been engaged …
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Fashion designer Donna Karan comes to Harvey Weinstein's DEFENSE suggesting his victims may have been ‘asking for it’ by the way they dress calling the shamed mogul and his wife ‘wonderful people’  — Donna Karan, 69, defended Harvey Weinstein, 65, during a red carpet interview …
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
George Clooney Speaks Out on Harvey Weinstein: 'It's Disturbing on a Whole Lot of Levels' … Academy Award winner George Clooney, who got his big-screen breakthrough with help from Harvey Weinstein in the 1996 has become the latest—and most high-profile—member of Hollywood to speak …
Lena Dunham / New York Times:
Harvey Weinstein and the Silence of the Men  —  I went to Hollywood when I was 23.  I had made a low-budget film, won an award at a prestigious festival, scored an agent and made a TV deal all within six months.  It was a fairy tale most people will never experience, and I knew …
Mark Oppenheimer / Tablet Magazine:   Harvey Weinstein, Philip Roth, and Jewish Perverts
New York Times:
The Times's Executive Editor Responds to Questions About Earlier Weinstein Reporting
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
A ‘pressure cooker’: Trump's frustration and fury rupture alliances, threaten agenda  —  Frustrated by his Cabinet and angry that he has not received enough credit for his handling of three successive hurricanes, President Trump is now lashing out, rupturing alliances and imperiling his legislative agenda …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Corker Told the Truth About Trump.  Now He Should Act on It.  —  Over the past few months, the country has been in a foul sort of trance.  Among people who work in politics, Republicans as well as Democrats, it is conventional wisdom that President Trump is staggeringly ill-informed, erratic, reckless and dishonest.
The Daily Beast:
Stephen Miller Stayed in the Shadows to Kill His Boss' Deal … The White House on Sunday night appeared to scuttle a deal on so-called Dreamers—undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children—when it released a series of largely conservative policies that it wanted included in the final package.
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
White House aides lean on delays and distraction to manage Trump  —  As White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus mused to associates that telling President Donald Trump no was usually not an effective strategy.  Telling him “next week” was often the better idea.
New York Times:
Read Excerpts From Senator Bob Corker's Interview With The Times
Wall Street Journal:
The Truth About Trump and Corker
Discussion: Raw Story
Charlie Cook / National Journal:   Trump's Feud With Corker Takes Him To a Darker Place
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
If Trump doesn't deal on DACA, some Democrats threaten a government shutdown
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump proposes ‘IQ tests’ face-off with Tillerson after secretary of state calls him a ‘moron’  —  President Trump proposed an “IQ tests” face-off with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after the nation's top diplomat reportedly called the president a “moron” and disparaged his grasp on foreign policy.
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Amid a Widening Rift, John Kelly Has a Mar-a-Lago Strategy to Contain Trump  —  “He doesn't love this job,” says a person close to him.  And it may get harder at the president's winter White House.  But Kelly has a plan.  —  Donald Trump can't bear for people to think he's not calling his own shots …
Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump boasts of a higher IQ than Tillerson
Lee Chi-dong / Yonhap News Agency:
Trumps mulls DMZ tour next month: source
Erik Schelzig / Associated Press:
Twitter shuts down Blackburn campaign announcement video  —  https://apnews.com/0d8828bd7d204b40af61 172628d0a7f6  —  Link copied!  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn's Senate campaign announcement ad has been blocked by Twitter over a statement …
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
How Trump is planning to gut Obamacare by executive order  —  The president could use association health plans to badly damage the law's markets.  —  With a repeal bill off the table, the Trump administration has drafted an executive order that could blow a huge hole in the Affordable Care Act …
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Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Trump Approval Dips in Every State, Though Deep Pockets of Support Remain  —  A comprehensive survey of more than 470,000 Americans finds Trump's approval has fallen in every state since taking office.  —  Morning Consult illustration / Getty Images  — A majority of voters in 25 states …
Discussion: CNBC and Political Wire
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Virginia Is for Haters  —  Why is America the only wealthy nation that doesn't guarantee essential health care for all?  (We've made a lot of progress under Obamacare, but not enough, and the Trump administration is doing its best to kill it.)  Why do we have much higher poverty than our economic peers …
Discussion: CNN and FiveThirtyEight
KCBD Digital / KCBD-TV:
TTU police officer shot, killed at TTPD headquarters; suspect in custody, lockdown lifted  —  By KCBD Digital  —  Live video from KCBD News is available on your computer, tablet and smartphone during all local newscasts.  When KCBD News is not airing a live newscast, you will see replays of the most recent newscasts.
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
New revelations: Las Vegas gunman shot security guard before opening fire on concertgoers, police say  —  The gunman who attacked a country music concert in Las Vegas shot a security guard in the hotel before beginning his assault on the concertgoers, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Monday …
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Michael Smith to Sit Out Tonight's ‘SC6’ After Jemele Hill Suspension  —  He'll return tomorrow, TheWrap has learned  —  Forget Jemele Hill, even Michael Smith won't be anchoring ESPN's “SC6” tonight, which is the 6 o'clock edition of “SportsCenter.”  —  The male anchor's decision was a …
CNN:
Inside Steve Bannon's war against Mitch McConnell  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)The next step in Steve Bannon's scorched-earth war against Republican incumbents is an attempt to cut off money to those aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Washington Post:
President Trump has made 1,318 false or misleading claims over 263 days  —  Five months before unveiling his tax plan, President Trump claimed that it “is the biggest tax cut in history.  This is bigger than Reagan. ...  This is actually bigger than Reagan tax cuts.”
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
EPA chief: I'd ‘do away with’ wind, solar tax credits  —  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt  —  said on Monday that the federal tax credits for the wind and solar power industries should be eliminated.  —  Pruitt told a crowd at a Kentucky Farm Bureau event …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Democrats see path to Senate majority in 2018  —  Something remarkable is happening in the halls of the Capitol: talk of a serious fight for the Senate majority next year.  —  Senate Democrats, once all but resigned to staying in the minority until at least 2020, say the door to retaking …
 
 
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Sophie Tatum / CNN:
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J.J. Gallagher / ABC News:
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist:
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