Top Items:
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 …
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
Deadline, Daily Wire, IndieWire, Mediaite, Splinter, IJR, AOL and TMZ.com, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
Discussion:
CNN, RedState, Shakesville, New York Times, ABC News, Los Angeles Times, TheBlaze, Variety, Business Insider, The Guardian, AOL, Mashable, IndieWire, Splinter, Washington Free Beacon, Gothamist, IJR and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
Discussion:
Fox News, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com, CNN, Daily Wire, Hollywood Reporter, Washington Free Beacon, Washington Post and Mashable
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 …
Chris Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Jessica Chastain on Harvey Weinstein Claims: “I Was Warned From the Beginning”
Jessica Chastain on Harvey Weinstein Claims: “I Was Warned From the Beginning”
Discussion:
New York Post, New York Times, Washington Free Beacon, Daily Wire, Deadline, IJR, EW.com, The Atlantic, twitchy.com and The Guardian
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 …
Discussion:
Bloomberg, CNBC, Washington Post, Fox News Insider, WJHL, Splinter, Deadline, Reuters, IJR, Mediaite, Joe.My.God., Business Insider, Mother Jones and Daily Kos
RELATED:
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.”
Discussion:
Post and Courier, Business Insider, CNN and Mediaite
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
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 …
Discussion:
Business Insider, Talking Points Memo, Politico, Mashable, New York Magazine, ABC News, Splinter, Taylor Marsh and Althouse, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
Read Excerpts From Senator Bob Corker's Interview With The Times
Read Excerpts From Senator Bob Corker's Interview With The Times
Discussion:
ABC News, RedState, Mother Jones, Politico, Talking Points Memo, Axios, CNBC, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Political Wire and Mediaite
Charlie Cook / National Journal:
Trump's Feud With Corker Takes Him To a Darker Place
Trump's Feud With Corker Takes Him To a Darker Place
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo
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.
Discussion:
Digital Chosunilbo, Balloon Juice and Gizmodo
RELATED:
Foreign Policy:
Trump Touts Military Option for North Korea That Generals Warn Would Be ‘Horrific’ — The United States can't rule out military options for North Korea. There's no military solution to North Korea. Diplomacy is our best bet with North Korea. Don't waste time with diplomacy.
Discussion:
Yonhap News Agency, BillMoyers.com, CNBC and Business Insider
Ryan Browne / CNN:
US Army chief: ‘No risk-free options’ on North Korea
US Army chief: ‘No risk-free options’ on North Korea
Discussion:
The Guardian, Business Insider and Just Security
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
RELATED:
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump proposes ‘IQ tests’ faceoff with Tillerson after secretary of state calls him a ‘moron’
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
Trump boasts of a higher IQ than Tillerson
Discussion:
Bloomberg, Vox, Shareblue, The Guardian, The Hill, Politico, Q13 FOX News, Business Insider, Washington Times, CNBC, AOL, IJR, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Amid a Widening Rift, John Kelly Has a Mar-a-Lago Strategy to Contain Trump
Amid a Widening Rift, John Kelly Has a Mar-a-Lago Strategy to Contain Trump
Discussion:
RedState, Washington Post and Shakesville
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.
Discussion:
RedState, ThinkProgress, Shareblue, Vox, CNBC, Talking Points Memo, IJR, Conservative News Today, NPR, Associated Press, Outkick the Coverage, Red Alert Politics and FOX6Now.com
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, Mother Jones, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, srcity.org, Washington Post, Associated Press, CBS San Francisco, KTVU-TV, AOL, New York Times and Telegraph
RELATED:
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.
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 …
Discussion:
Kaiser Health News, ACA Signups, NPR, Business Insider, New York Magazine, The Federalist, Politicus USA, The Daily Caller and Joe.My.God.
RELATED:
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Associated Press:
The Health 202: Trump has a backdoor way to lift Obamacare regulations
The Health 202: Trump has a backdoor way to lift Obamacare regulations
Discussion:
Outside the Beltway, Mercury News, Conservative News Today, The Daily Caller, Washington Times, Politico and Vox
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:
The Daily Caller, CNBC and Political Wire
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 …
RELATED:
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?
Discussion:
The Ticker, The Daily Caller and twitchy.com