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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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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 …
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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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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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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 …
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Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
Ronan Farrow Says He Was Threatened Personally With a Lawsuit by Harvey Weinstein
Ronan Farrow Says He Was Threatened Personally With a Lawsuit by Harvey Weinstein
HuffPost:
Sources: NBC Let Ronan Farrow's Weinstein Scoop Slip Away
Sources: NBC Let Ronan Farrow's Weinstein Scoop Slip Away
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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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The Daily Caller, Mediaite and IndieWire
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.
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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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Cory Bennett / Politico:
Senate Democrats worry Russia could jeopardize reelection bids
Senate Democrats worry Russia could jeopardize reelection bids
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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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Mike Allen / Axios:
Inside Bannon's plans for a GOP civil war
Inside Bannon's plans for a GOP civil war
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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
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.
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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.
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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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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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Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Suspected of Hacking U.S.-South Korean War Plans
North Korea Suspected of Hacking U.S.-South Korean War Plans
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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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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
Israel hacked Kaspersky, then tipped the NSA that its tools had been breached
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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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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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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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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 …
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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.