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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 …
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twitchy.com
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.
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Instapundit, IJR, 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 …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
DCCC to donate all Harvey Weinstein donations to women's group
DCCC to donate all Harvey Weinstein donations to women's group
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The Hill, New York Times, The Daily Caller and IJR
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
New York Times:
Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Others Say Weinstein Harassed Them
Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Others Say Weinstein Harassed Them
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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, Reuters, Business Insider, CANNONFIRE, Raw Story, Democrats.com, Political Wire and Washington Monthly
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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, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Hill, The Rush Limbaugh Show, Political Wire, RedState and BuzzFeed
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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
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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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, The Daily Caller and BBC
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
What Bob Corker Really Fears
What Bob Corker Really Fears
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Washington Free Beacon, FOX2now.com, CNBC, Foreign Policy, Business Insider and CNN
Austin Bay / The New York Observer:
Trump's North Korea Threat-Theater Is Working
Trump's North Korea Threat-Theater Is Working
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Washington Post and FOX 61
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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Political Wire
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.
Erin Mershon / STAT:
An old-school pharmacy hand-delivers drugs to Congress, a little-known perk for the powerful — ASHINGTON — If House Speaker Paul Ryan comes down with the flu this winter, he and his security detail won't be screeching off toward the closest CVS for his Tamiflu.
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 …
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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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
USA Today:
VA conceals shoddy care and health workers' mistakes — Behind the walls of the nation's oldest veterans' hospital, the reports were grim. — Medical experts from the Department of Veterans Affairs blamed one botched surgery after another on a lone podiatrist.
Hollie McKay / Fox News:
Iran's secret sites linked to nuclear weapons development revealed — EXCLUSIVE - President Donald Trump is expected this week to “decertify” the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known simply as the Iran deal, declaring that the agreement reached in 2015 by the U.S. and five …
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Sophia Tesfaye / Salon:
Trump's Benghazi? Ambush of U.S. soldiers in Niger goes unnoticed — Four dead Americans. — It's been five years since terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012, leaving four Americans dead. Last week, as CIA officers disguised in wigs and mustaches testified …
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Politicus USA and New York Times