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11:40 AM ET, October 11, 2017

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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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Politico:
Trump suggests challenging NBC's broadcast license  —  His tweet follows a story by NBC News Wednesday that the president calls ‘pure fiction, made up to demean.’  —  President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested that NBC's broadcast license should be pulled as punishment after NBC News published …
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 …
Discussion: 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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Kate Maltby / CNN:
Harvey Weinstein and his enablers  —  Colbert: Dinosaurs knew better than Weinstein  — She says the cynical politicization of the Weinstein case deflects the outrage away from its target: sexual exploitation of women by men in power  —  Kate Maltby is a regular broadcaster and columnist …
Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
Ronan Farrow Says He Was Threatened Personally With a Lawsuit by Harvey Weinstein
Page Six:   A ‘defiant’ Harvey Weinstein said he's already planning a comeback
HuffPost:
Sources: NBC Let Ronan Farrow's Weinstein Scoop Slip Away
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Ken Starr praises Mueller's Trump-Russia probe … Ken Starr, the former independent counsel in the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals during the Clinton administration praised Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday, calling his handling of the Russia probe aggressive and professional.
Discussion: RedState
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Cory Bennett / Politico:
Senate Democrats worry Russia could jeopardize reelection bids
Discussion: JustOneMinute
CNN:
Carter Page says he will plead the Fifth to Senate Russia investigators
Discussion: AOL
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
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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.
Discussion: Vox
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.
Discussion: Business Insider, CNBC and ABC News
Deena Zaru / CNN:
Eminem unleashes on Trump: The 11 fiercest lines  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  " to a “racist grandpa” in an explosive 4.5-minute freestyle rap.  —  The Detroit rapper challenged his fans at the BET Hip Hop Awards to “decide who you like more” — Eminem or Trump.
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YouTube:
Eminem Rips Donald Trump In BET Hip Hop Awards Freestyle Cypher
Discussion: Vox
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
What Bob Corker Really Fears  —  It doesn't matter all that much that Bob Corker and Donald Trump are insulting each other via Twitter.  Sooner or later, Trump insults almost everyone.  What matters is that Corker, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a confidant …
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Israel hacked Kaspersky, then tipped the NSA that its tools had been breached
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: Political Wire
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 …
Discussion: New York Times and Politicus USA
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.
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
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 …
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 …
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.
 
 
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
For Republicans, ‘Failure Is Not an Option’ on Tax Cuts
Discussion: Washington Post
Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg:
Uber Pushed the Limits of the Law. Now Comes the Reckoning
Washington Times:
ESPN host compares Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to a slave owner
Dylan Scott / Vox:
How Trump set up Obamacare to fail
Donna Borak / CNNMoney:
Inspector general launches second review of Steven Mnuchin's travels
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The Dalai Lama speaks on Trump and ‘America first’
 Earlier Items: 
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
House GOP delays vote on children's health care funding to negotiate with Dems
Discussion: The Federalist
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Zinke: If We Take Down Confederate Statues, ‘Indians’ Will Complain About Union Ones
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Twitter reverses decision, will allow Blackburn to promote Senate ad
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Kansas Tried a Tax Plan Similar to Trump's. It Failed.
Randall Lane / Forbes:
Trump Unfiltered: The Full Transcript Of The President's Interview With Forbes
Discussion: Shareblue Media and ThinkProgress
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Puerto Rico's Health Care Is in Dire Condition, Three Weeks After Maria
Discussion: Vox, New York Magazine and baker
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The share of women in newsrooms has increased barely 1 percentage point since 2001, ASNE data shows
 

 
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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

Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Filing: Trump Media lost $19.2M in Q3, while revenue fell 5.6% YoY to just $1.01M; DJT jumped 18.6% before closing down 1.16% on November 5

 
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