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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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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 …
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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 …

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 …
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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 …

Jessica Chastain on Harvey Weinstein Claims: “I Was Warned From the Beginning”
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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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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.”
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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.
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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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Read Excerpts From Senator Bob Corker's Interview With The Times
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Trump's Feud With Corker Takes Him To a Darker Place
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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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Trump Touts Military Option for North Korea That Generals Warn Would Be ‘Horrific’
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US Army chief: ‘No risk-free options’ on North Korea
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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 …
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Trump proposes ‘IQ tests’ faceoff with Tillerson after secretary of state calls him a ‘moron’


Trump boasts of a higher IQ than Tillerson
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Amid a Widening Rift, John Kelly Has a Mar-a-Lago Strategy to Contain Trump
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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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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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NFL owners to consider rule change that would require players to stand for national anthem: Report
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Michael Smith to Sit Out Tonight's ‘SC6’ After Jemele Hill Suspension
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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.


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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The Health 202: Trump has a backdoor way to lift Obamacare regulations
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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 …
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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 …
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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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