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9:20 AM ET, October 11, 2017

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People.com:
Harvey Weinstein's Wife Georgina Chapman Is Leaving Him: ‘My Heart Breaks for All the Women Who Have Suffered’  —  Harvey Weinstein's wife, Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman, is leaving him — as more women continue to step forward to accuse the movie mogul of decades of sexual harassment and assault.
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TMZ.com:
Harvey Weinstein Flying to Europe Tonight for Sex Addiction Rehab  —  EXCLUSIVE DETAILS  —  Harvey Weinstein is boarding a private jet Tuesday night, bound for a rehab center in Europe for sex addiction ... sources connected with the former mogul tell TMZ.
Discussion: Instapundit, Mercury News and Gothamist
Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
Ronan Farrow Says He Was Threatened Personally With a Lawsuit by Harvey Weinstein  —  When asked on MSNBC why he went to The New Yorker with the story, Farrow replied: “You would have to ask NBC and NBC executives about the details.”  —  Ronan Farrow told Rachel Maddow on Tuesday …
HuffPost:
Sources: NBC Let Ronan Farrow's Weinstein Scoop Slip Away  —  NBC had concerns related to the story's sourcing, HuffPost has learned.  —  NEW YORK Ronan Farrow's investigation into Harvey Weinstein's long history of alleged sexual misconduct was in NBC's hands as recently as August …
Page Six:
A ‘defiant’ Harvey Weinstein said he's already planning a comeback  —  Harvey Weinstein has been accused of rape, in the latest bombshell from the New Yorker.  The investigation uncovered shocking audio of Weinstein coercing a female model during an NYPD sting.
New York Times:
Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Others Say Weinstein Harassed Them
Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
NYPD Was Ready to Arrest Harvey Weinstein in 2015 After Model Said She Was Groped
Jake Tapper / CNN:
‘Email prankster’ reaches Harvey Weinstein, Lisa Bloom
Tina Brown / New York Times:
What Harvey and Trump have in common
NBC News:
Trump Wanted Tenfold Increase in Nuclear Arsenal, Surprising Military  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he wanted what amounted to a nearly tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during a gathering this past summer of the nation's highest ranking national security leaders …
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Elizabeth Preza / Raw Story:
GOP official imagines Kelly and Mattis discussed tackling Trump if he ‘lunges for the nuclear football’: report  —  New York Magazine contributing editor Gabriel Sherman on Tuesday reported on a remarkable conversation he had with a senior Republican official, who described imagined conversations …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Inside Bannon's plans for a GOP civil war  —  Establishment Republicans are getting squeezed to death from within.  In what should be nirvana — all-party control of Washington — they instead are jammed daily between a president who routinely ridicules them for ineptitude — and Steve Bannon …
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Mitch McConnell Goes to the Mattresses for Trump's Judicial Nominees  —  The Senate majority leader takes charge of the confirmation process.  —  The Republican drive to confirm federal judges has gained momentum from a series of actions by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Discussion: Power Line
Sophie Tatum / CNN:
Hogan Gidley joining White House as deputy press secretary  —  (CNN)Hogan Gidley, a former press secretary for Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign, will start as the deputy White House press secretary on Wednesday.  —  Gidley will serve under White House press secretary Sarah Sanders — who is Huckabee's daughter.
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Bannon vented about Pence VP pick before joining campaign: report
Ali Watkins / Politico:
Carter Page says he won't testify before Senate Intelligence panel in Russia probe  —  Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, informed the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that he will not be cooperating with any requests to appear before the panel …
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CNN:
Carter Page says he will plead the Fifth to Senate Russia investigators
Discussion: AOL
New York Times:
How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets  —  It was a case of spies watching spies watching spies: Israeli intelligence officers looked on in real time as Russian government hackers searched computers around the world for the code names of American intelligence programs.
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:   Israel hacked Kaspersky, then tipped the NSA that its tools had been breached
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
'He's better than this,' says Thomas Barrack, Trump's loyal whisperer  —  NEW YORK — Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a billionaire who is one of President Trump's oldest friends, had spent weeks trying to smooth the way for a May presidential meeting in Saudi Arabia with Gulf leaders.  —  All initially went well.
Los Angeles Times:
New disclosure shows a casino guard alerted hotel to gunman before Vegas massacre began.  So why did it take so long to stop him?  —  Police say gunman Stephen Paddock shot a security guard before opening fire on concertgoers.  —  Before the Las Vegas massacre began, a wounded Mandalay Bay …
Discussion: Townhall.com, NPR, IJR and neo-neocon
Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Suspected of Hacking U.S.-South Korean War Plans  —  Secrets stolen last year include plans detailing how to eliminate the Pyongyang leadership  —  Suspected North Korean hackers stole sensitive military secrets, including a joint U.S.-South Korean plan detailing how to eliminate …
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NBC News:   Experts: North Korea Targeted U.S. Electric Power Companies
Austin Bay / The New York Observer:
Trump's North Korea Threat-Theater Is Working
Discussion: Washington Post and FOX 61
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Olivia Solon / The Guardian:
Mark Zuckerberg ‘tours’ flooded Puerto Rico in bizarre virtual reality promo
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mashable
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Pledge to Impeach Trump, a Key Donor Demands of Democrats  —  One of the Democratic Party's most prominent financial backers is demanding that lawmakers and candidates on the left support removing President Trump from office, putting pressure on Democrats to make Mr. Trump's ouster a defining issue in the 2018 midterm elections.
Discussion: CNN
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Kansas Tried a Tax Plan Similar to Trump's.  It Failed.  —  WICHITA, Kan. — In December 2014, the University of Kansas agreed to pay David Beaty $800,000 a year, plus incentives, to be the football program's head coach, but with an interesting structure: More than two-thirds of that pay …
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
House GOP delays vote on children's health care funding to negotiate with Dems  —  Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health have agreed to return to negotiations with Democrats on a bill to continue funding for the popular Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Discussion: The Federalist
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The real fix for gerrymandering is proportional representation  —  It's time to consider radical solutions.  —  The furor over the Supreme Court case considering limits on gerrymandering has reminded me of a conference I attended years ago.  This was a meeting mostly composed …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Zinke: If We Take Down Confederate Statues, ‘Indians’ Will Complain About Union Ones  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says that the Trump Administration will not remove Confederate monuments from federal lands out of consideration for the feelings of “native Indians.”  —  “Where do you start and where do you stop?”
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Associated Press:
Indiana Officials Vague About Reasons for Withholding Pence Emails
Cory Bennett / Politico:
Senate Democrats worry Russia could jeopardize reelection bids
Sophia Tesfaye / Salon:
Trump's Benghazi? Ambush of U.S. soldiers in Niger goes unnoticed
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The Dalai Lama speaks on Trump and ‘America first’
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Bannon putting Senate majority at risk in 2018, Republicans warn
Discussion: Politico
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Twitter reverses decision, will allow Blackburn to promote Senate ad
 Earlier Items: 
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court dismisses case against Trump's expired travel ban
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Randall Lane / Forbes:
Trump Unfiltered: The Full Transcript Of The President's Interview With Forbes
Discussion: Shareblue and ThinkProgress
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Puerto Rico's Health Care Is in Dire Condition, Three Weeks After Maria
Discussion: Vox, baker and New York Magazine
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The share of women in newsrooms has increased barely 1 percentage point since 2001, ASNE data shows
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Democratic Member Isn't Sure If Trump Voter Fraud Panel Will Ever Meet Again
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Trump ‘likely obstructed justice’ in Comey firing, could be impeached, Brookings Institution says
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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