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2:30 PM ET, October 10, 2017

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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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New York Times:
Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Others Say Weinstein Harassed Them  —  “This way of treating women ends now,” Ms. Paltrow said as she and other actresses accused the producer of casting-couch abuses.  —  When Gwyneth Paltrow was 22 years old, she got a role that would take her from actress to star …
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 …
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Fashion designer Donna Karan comes to Harvey Weinstein's DEFENSE suggesting his victims …
Mark Oppenheimer / Tablet Magazine:   Harvey Weinstein, Philip Roth, and Jewish Perverts
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Mocks Bob Corker's Height, Escalating Feud with a Key Republican  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump escalated his attack on Senator Bob Corker on Tuesday by ridiculing him for his height, even as advisers worried that the president was further fracturing his relationship …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Trump Claims We Tricked Bob Corker.  Here's the Truth.  —  The Reader Center is a newsroom initiative that is helping The Times build deeper ties with our audience.  —  President Trump claimed today on Twitter today that the Times “set Liddle' Bob Corker up by recording his conversation.”
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.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
'I don't waste a lot of time thinking about it': Rubio downplays Trump attack on Corker  —  Sens. Marco Rubio and Jeff Flake, both of whom have been on the receiving end of some harsh tweets from President Donald Trump, on Monday tried to stay out of Trump's latest Twitter tirade against Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.
New York Times:
Read Excerpts From Senator Bob Corker's Interview With The Times  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, responded to President Trump's tweets on Sunday in a phone interview with Jonathan Martin, a Times political reporter.  —  Following are excerpts from their exchange …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
A ‘pressure cooker’: Trump's frustration and fury rupture alliances, threaten agenda
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
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The bizarre situation where only retiring Republicans will talk about Trump's fitness for office
San Francisco Chronicle:
Wildfire on Highway 121 in Sonoma County, heading toward Napa … Latest developments in the North Bay fires:  —  9 a.m. Small vegetation fire in San Rafael: A vegetation fire less than one acre large started off Professional Center Parkway.  Firefighters stopped forward progress.
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New York Times:
Wildfires Sweep Across Northern California; 13 Are Dead
Discussion: Refinery29
BBC:
North Korea ‘hackers steal US-South Korea war plans’  —  Hackers from North Korea are reported to have stolen a large cache of military documents from South Korea, including a plan to assassinate North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un.  —  Rhee Cheol-hee, a South Korean lawmaker, said the information was from his country's defence ministry.
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Foreign Policy:
Trump Touts Military Option for North Korea That Generals Warn Would Be ‘Horrific’
Washington Post:   President Trump has made 1,318 false or misleading claims over 263 days
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Threatens N.F.L. and Attacks Jemele Hill  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump threatened on Tuesday to use federal tax law to penalize the National Football League over players who kneel in protest during the national anthem as he sought to escalate a political fight that has resonated with his conservative base.
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Christine Wang / CNBC:
NFL owners to consider rule change that would require players to stand for national anthem: Report
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Mensa offers to host IQ test for Trump and Tillerson  —  Bring on the IQ test — Mensa says it's willing to host President Trump and secretary of State Rex Tillerson  —  in a battle of the brains.  —  In an interview with Forbes published Tuesday, Trump suggested he and Tillerson …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump proposes ‘IQ tests’ faceoff with Tillerson after secretary of state calls him a ‘moron’
Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump boasts of a higher IQ than Tillerson
BuzzFeed:
Steve Bannon Privately Slammed Pence VP Pick  —  “This is the price we pay.”  —  Steve Bannon privately slammed the selection of Mike Pence as Donald Trump's running mate a month before taking over the Trump campaign, according to emails obtained by BuzzFeed News.
Discussion: The Guardian
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 …
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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Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
Black man attacked at white nationalist rally in Charlottesville faces felony charge  —  A black man brutally beaten at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville is now facing a felony charge related to the August attack.  —  A local magistrate on Monday issued an arrest warrant …
Discussion: WVIR-TV and VICE News
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WCPO:
Charlottesville magistrate issues warrant for black victim of parking garage beating
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
George Ciccariello-Maher / Washington Post:
Conservatives are the real campus thought police squashing academic freedom  —  Last week, I sent a string of relatively uncontroversial tweets in the aftermath of the Las Vegas massacre, in which I sought to answer a question about mass shootings in the United States: Why are these crimes almost always carried out by white men?
 
 
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Bloomberg:
Google, Facebook, Twitter Scramble to Hold Washington at Bay
Hannah Lawrence / WZTV:
Chattanooga man loses job after sitting during national anthem
Discussion: IJR and Raw Story
Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
How Trump's decision to roll back the Clean Power Plan could affect the environment
Discussion: Axios and Vox
Polly Mosendz / Bloomberg:
Lawsuit Over Las Vegas Shooting Tests Gun Industry's Immunity
Discussion: Business Insider
Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly:
When Your Only Political Strategy Is Division
Lee Drutman / New Republic:
It's the Culture, Stupid
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
EPA chief: I'd ‘do away with’ wind, solar tax credits
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Geoff Ziezulewicz / Navy Times:
‘I now hate my ship’: Surveys reveal disastrous morale on cruiser Shiloh
Discussion: Defense One
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Virginia Is for Haters  —  Why is America the only wealthy nation …
Discussion: CNN and FiveThirtyEight
CNN:
Inside Steve Bannon's war against Mitch McConnell
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Democrats see path to Senate majority in 2018
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