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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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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.


Shell-shocked Harvey Weinstein breaks silence after wife leaves him — Embattled movie mogul Harvey Weinstein says of the crisis engulfing him and of his wife, Georgina Chapman, leaving him, “I am profoundly devastated. I have lost my wife and kids, whom I love more than anything else.”


Harvey Weinstein's wife is leaning on Huma Abedin
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‘I had to defend myself’: the night Harvey Weinstein jumped on me
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Weinstein Company Was Aware of Payoffs in 2015
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PIERS MORGAN: Spare me Hollywood's hypocritical horror over Harvey Weinstein …
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Harvey Weinstein Jets off to Arizona Rehab
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump's Justice Department moves on Harvey Weinstein and orders FBI to open probe …

Exclusive: Clinton ‘sick,’ ‘shocked’ and ‘appalled’ by Weinstein allegations
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“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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‘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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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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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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Trump to sign order to eliminate ACA insurance rules, undermine marketplaces — President Trump is due to sign an executive order Thursday morning intended to allow individuals and small businesses to buy a long-disputed type of health insurance that skirts state regulations and Affordable Care Act protections.


Foiled in Congress, Trump Moves on His Own to Undermine Obamacare
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In Start to Unwinding the Health Law, Trump to Ease Insurance Rules
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Rose McGowan Suspended From Twitter After Ben Affleck Tweet — The actress Rose McGowan said in an Instagram post overnight that her Twitter account had been temporarily suspended, following a tweet in which she accused the actor Ben Affleck of prior knowledge of Harvey Weinstein's misconduct, including toward her.
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Rose McGowan suspended from Twitter after Ben Affleck tweets
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Sandberg: Facebook owes the American people an apology — Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told Axios at a live event today that Facebook owes the American people an apology ("Not just an apology, but determination") for their role in enabling Russian interference during the election.
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Exclusive interview with Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg
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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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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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Trump: ‘Disgusting’ that press able to write whatever it wants
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Trump pushes to challenge media network licenses
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Family held captive by Taliban-linked group released — An American woman, her Canadian husband and their three young children have been released after years of being held captive by a network with ties to the Taliban, U.S. and Pakistani officials said Thursday.
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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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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 …


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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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.