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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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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 …
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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.
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Instapundit and Gothamist
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.
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 …
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 …
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Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
NYPD Was Ready to Arrest Harvey Weinstein in 2015 After Model Said She Was Groped
NYPD Was Ready to Arrest Harvey Weinstein in 2015 After Model Said She Was Groped
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The Rush Limbaugh Show and Splinter
Heather Graham / Variety:
Harvey Weinstein Implied I Had to Have Sex With Him for Movie Role (EXCLUSIVE)
Harvey Weinstein Implied I Had to Have Sex With Him for Movie Role (EXCLUSIVE)
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Mediaite, The Daily Caller and IndieWire
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Matt Damon Denies Trying To Kill 2004 NYT Harvey Weinstein Story: “If There Was Ever An Event …
Matt Damon Denies Trying To Kill 2004 NYT Harvey Weinstein Story: “If There Was Ever An Event …
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Shareblue, Fox News, IJR, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon, Mediaite, AOL, IndieWire and Eduwonk
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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Breitbart, The Rush Limbaugh Show, No More Mister Nice Blog and Political Wire
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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.
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Power Line
Sophie Tatum / CNN:
Hogan Gidley joining White House as deputy press secretary
Hogan Gidley joining White House as deputy press secretary
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Washington Free Beacon
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Bannon vented about Pence VP pick before joining campaign: report
Bannon vented about Pence VP pick before joining campaign: report
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RedState, BuzzFeed, The Guardian, IJR and Political Wire
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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The Daily Caller, Business Insider, CANNONFIRE, Raw Story, Political Wire and Washington Monthly
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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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Washington Post, Daily Wire, Security Affairs, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, CANNONFIRE, Axios and Political Wire, more at Techmeme »
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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 …
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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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CNN, The Guardian, Digital Chosunilbo, BBC, The Daily Caller and Gizmodo
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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.
Jessica Guynn / USA Today:
Mark Zuckerberg apologizes for tone-deaf virtual tour of hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg apologized after a live-streamed virtual trip to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico to promote Facebook's Spaces app drew sharp criticism on social media.
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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.
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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 …
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Washington Post, Hullabaloo and The Intercept
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).
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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 …