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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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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 …
Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein's Accusers Tell Their Stories  —  Multiple women share harrowing accounts of sexual assault and harassment by the film executive.  —  1.  —  Since the establishment of the first studios a century ago, there have been few movie executives …
Heather Graham / Variety:
Harvey Weinstein Implied I Had to Have Sex With Him for Movie Role (EXCLUSIVE)  —  Heather's Most Recent Stories  —  Following the publication on Tuesday morning of two more exposes detailing sexual assault and harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein, actress Heather Graham recalls indirectly …
Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
Ronan Farrow Says He Was Threatened Personally With a Lawsuit by Harvey Weinstein
Jake Tapper / CNN:
‘Email prankster’ reaches Harvey Weinstein, Lisa Bloom
Tina Brown / New York Times:
What Harvey and Trump have in common
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Hillary Clinton condemns longtime Democratic donor Harvey Weinstein
Axios:
Obama “disgusted” by reports of sexual assault by Weinstein
Discussion: Politico
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:   Jake Tapper: ‘Morally Bankrupt’ to Condemn One Sexual Harasser But Not Another Because of Politics
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
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump challenges Tillerson to an ‘IQ test.’ The White House claims it was ‘a joke.’
Discussion: NPR, Mashable and ABC News
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  —  In 2015, Israeli government hackers saw something suspicious in the computers of a Moscow-based cybersecurity firm: hacking tools that could only have come from the National Security Agency.
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:
Nunes signs off on new subpoenas to firm behind Trump-Russia dossier  —  (CNN)The chairman of the House intelligence committee has issued subpoenas to the partners who run Fusion GPS, the research firm that produced the dossier of memos on alleged Russian efforts to aid the Trump campaign, according to sources briefed on the matter.
Discussion: Raw Story and AOL
Eric Beech / Reuters:
Trump's ex-adviser Carter Page will not testify in Russia probe: Politico
Discussion: Democrats.com
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
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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
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Trump ‘likely obstructed justice’ in Comey firing, could be impeached, Brookings Institution says  — President Donald Trump “likely obstructed justice” when he fired FBI Director James Comey and could face impeachment, according to an analysis from the Brookings Institution.
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Barry H. Berke / Brookings Institution:
Presidential obstruction of justice: The case of Donald J. Trump
Discussion: TheStreet and Political Wire
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
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 …
Chris De Luca / Chicago Sun Times:
Ditka on America's race issues: ‘No oppression in the last 100 years’  —  Sign-Up for our News & Politics Newsletter … Former Bears coach Mike Ditka appeared on Westwood One's Monday Night Football pregame show with Jim Gray before the Vikings-Bears game.
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.
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court dismisses case against Trump's expired travel ban  —  In the one-paragraph order, the court said that because President Trump's executive order “expired by its own terms” on Sept. 24, “the appeal no longer presents a ‘live case or controversy.’” (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Kevin Seifert / ESPN:
Roger Goodell sends letter to NFL teams, wants players to stand during anthem  —  The NFL has developed a plan to “move past” its ongoing debate about player protests during the national anthem and could enact it next week, commissioner Roger Goodell wrote Tuesday in a letter to all 32 teams.
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Puerto Rico's Health Care Is in Dire Condition, Three Weeks After Maria  —  CAGUAS, P.R. — Harry Figueroa, a teacher who went a week without the oxygen that helped him breathe, died here last week at 58.  His body went unrefrigerated for so long that the funeral director could not embalm his badly decomposed corpse.
Discussion: baker and New York Magazine
 
 
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Cato Institute:
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Bannon putting Senate majority at risk in 2018, Republicans warn
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Randall Lane / Forbes:
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Discussion: ThinkProgress and Shareblue
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Bannon vented about Pence VP pick before joining campaign: report
CNN:
Las Vegas shooter fired ‘incendiary’ rounds at fuel tank
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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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Erin Heffernan / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
ST. LOUIS COUNTY • The signs at Lone Elk Park read: “Absolutely do not approach the elk!”
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