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How Top NBC Executives Quashed The Bombshell Harvey Weinstein Story — Reporter Ronan Farrow ultimately took the piece to The New Yorker after facing months of opposition at his home network. — In mid-August, Ronan Farrow, an NBC News contributor, had secured an interview with a woman …
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Weinstein and Our Culture of Enablers — Of all of the dismaying and disgusting details of the Harvey Weinstein saga, none is more depressing than this: It has so few heroes. — There is a storybook villain, Mr. Weinstein, whose repulsive face turns out to be the spitting image of his putrescent soul.
Erica Werner / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Steve Bannon had ties to Harvey Weinstein — https://www.apnews.com/8633ead481194326 8ad652d762dcd5e9 — Link copied! — WASHINGTON (AP) — The multiplying tentacles of the Harvey Weinstein sex abuse scandal have touched a former president, a former presidential candidate and now a former presidential adviser.
Cara Buckley / New York Times:
Rose McGowan Suspended From Twitter After Ben Affleck Tweet
Rose McGowan Suspended From Twitter After Ben Affleck Tweet
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Megan Twohey / New York Times:
Weinstein Company Was Aware of Payoffs in 2015
Weinstein Company Was Aware of Payoffs in 2015
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Piers Morgan / Daily Mail:
PIERS MORGAN: Spare me Hollywood's hypocritical horror over Harvey Weinstein …
PIERS MORGAN: Spare me Hollywood's hypocritical horror over Harvey Weinstein …
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump's Justice Department moves on Harvey Weinstein and orders FBI to open probe …
EXCLUSIVE: Trump's Justice Department moves on Harvey Weinstein and orders FBI to open probe …
TMZ.com:
Harvey Weinstein Jets off to Arizona Rehab
Harvey Weinstein Jets off to Arizona Rehab
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Léa Seydoux / The Guardian:
‘I had to defend myself’: the night Harvey Weinstein jumped on me
‘I had to defend myself’: the night Harvey Weinstein jumped on me
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Exclusive: Clinton ‘sick,’ ‘shocked’ and ‘appalled’ by Weinstein allegations
Exclusive: Clinton ‘sick,’ ‘shocked’ and ‘appalled’ by Weinstein allegations
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Shell-shocked Harvey Weinstein breaks silence after wife leaves him
Shell-shocked Harvey Weinstein breaks silence after wife leaves him
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump warns Puerto Rico: ‘We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders . . . forever!’ — President Trump served notice Thursday that he may pull back federal relief workers from Puerto Rico, effectively threatening to abandon the U.S. territory amid …
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The Latest: Trump says Puerto Rico can't get aid ‘forever’ — The Latest on federal aid for hurricane=ravaged Puerto Rico (all times local): — President Donald Trump is criticizing hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico and says the government can't keep federal aid there “forever.”
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“I Hate Everyone in the White House!”: Trump Seethes as Advisers Fear the President Is “Unraveling” — In recent days, I've spoken with a half dozen prominent Republicans and Trump advisers, and they all describe a White House in crisis as advisers struggle to contain a president that seems …
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Fed up with Congress, Trump whacks Obamacare with his pen — President Donald Trump is trying to do with the stroke of a pen what Republicans in Congress could not — bring about the end of the Obamacare markets. — Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday directing …
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Trump to sign order to eliminate ACA insurance rules, undermine marketplaces
Louise Radnofsky / Wall Street Journal:
In Start to Unwinding the Health Law, Trump to Ease Insurance Rules
In Start to Unwinding the Health Law, Trump to Ease Insurance Rules
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump just issued a direct threat to the free and independent media — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has said a lot of bad things about the media since he started running for president two-plus years ago. He's suggested that the press doesn't really like America.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump: ‘Disgusting’ that press able to write whatever it wants
Trump: ‘Disgusting’ that press able to write whatever it wants
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump pushes to challenge media network licenses
Trump pushes to challenge media network licenses
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Eliza Barclay / Vox:
Everything that's been reported about deaths in Puerto Rico is at odds with the official count — We took a look at the numbers, and they didn't add up. — Death tolls are the primary way we understand the impact of a disaster. And for nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico …
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Ray Sanchez / CNN:
Puerto Rico's hurricane death toll rises to 45
Puerto Rico's hurricane death toll rises to 45
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
‘He threw a fit’: Trump's anger over Iran deal forced aides to scramble for a compromise — President Trump was livid. Why, he asked his advisers in mid-July, should he go along with what he considered the failed Obama-era policy toward Iran and prop up an international nuclear deal he sees as disastrous?
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
President's lawyers may offer Mueller a meeting with Trump — Donald Trump's lawyers are open to having the president sit down for an interview with Robert Mueller, according to a senior White House official, as part of a wider posture of cooperation with the special counsel's Russia probe.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds won't confirm Comey assurances to Trump on Russia probe
Feds won't confirm Comey assurances to Trump on Russia probe
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Tim Bontemps / Washington Post:
Pro sports teams were once reliable patrons of Trump's hotels. Not anymore. — Until recently, the Trump SoHo hotel served as a kind of luxe clubhouse for NBA teams visiting New York. — At least 12 teams — more than a third of the league — had stayed there since it opened in 2010.
Nicholas Pugliese / NorthJersey.com:
Menendez trial: Judge raises serious doubts about government's case — The judge overseeing U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez's federal corruption trial raised serious doubts Wednesday whether a legal theory that prosecutors have relied on to prove their case is still allowed in the wake …
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CNN:
Prosecution rests in Menendez corruption trial
Prosecution rests in Menendez corruption trial
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The Daily Beast:
Russia Probe Now Investigating Cambridge Analytica, Trump's ‘Psychographic’ Data Gurus … A data firm backed by some of Donald Trump's closest allies is now facing scrutiny as part of an investigation into possible collusion between the president's team and Russian operatives, The Daily Beast has learned.
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Colum Lynch / Foreign Policy:
U.S. to Pull Out of UNESCO, Again — Worried about past dues and what it calls an anti-Israel bias, Washington is bailing on the group it helped found. — The United States plans to formally withdraw from UNESCO, the U.N.'s Paris-based cultural, scientific and educational organization …
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Behold Our Betters — To be a normal American is to constantly be scolded, to be lectured, to be treated as a morally bankrupt simpleton in need of the guidance and direction provided by an urban elite ruling class notable for its empty academic credentials, its track record of incompetence …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Limbaugh: Trump's comments on NFL ‘starting to make me nervous’ — Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday voiced concerns about President Trump's comments on NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem to protest racial injustice, saying Trump should not have the power …
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George Prayias / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
It's NFL Owners' Job — Not the President's — to Control Their Employees
It's NFL Owners' Job — Not the President's — to Control Their Employees
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