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Doree Shafrir / BuzzFeed:
What To Do With “Shitty Media Men”? — A document circulating late Wednesday named and shamed dozens of men in media for bad behavior toward women. — On Wednesday afternoon, I received an email from a friend, a woman writer, that had been forwarded from another woman, also a writer.
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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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Cara Buckley / New York Times:
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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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Harvey Weinstein's wife is leaning on Huma Abedin — MORE FROM: … Harvey Weinstein's estranged wife, Georgina Chapman, is leaning on fellow scorned spouse Huma Abedin after announcing that she is leaving the movie mogul. — A well-placed source tells Page Six that Marchesa co-founder Chapman reached …
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Twitter Suspends Rose McGowan's Account After Weinstein Tweets (UPDATED) — Rose McGowan, the actress and director who has been leading the charge against Harvey Weinstein amidst his ever-growing sexual assault scandal, had her Twitter account temporarily suspended early Thursday.
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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.
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Anna Livsey / The Guardian:
Rose McGowan suspended from Twitter after Ben Affleck tweets
Rose McGowan suspended from Twitter after Ben Affleck tweets
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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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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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Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
How Men Like Harvey Weinstein Implicate Their Victims in Their Acts
How Men Like Harvey Weinstein Implicate Their Victims in Their Acts
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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 will sign an executive order on Thursday directing an overhaul …
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CBS News:
Trump signs health care executive order — live updates
Trump signs health care executive order — live updates
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Trump to sign order to eliminate ACA insurance rules, undermine marketplaces
Trump to sign order to eliminate ACA insurance rules, undermine marketplaces
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Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
The Health 202: Trump's executive order has a history. And the government says it's not all great.
The Health 202: Trump's executive order has a history. And the government says it's not all great.
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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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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New York Times:
Mr. Trump Alone Can Order a Nuclear Strike. Congress Can Change That.
Mr. Trump Alone Can Order a Nuclear Strike. Congress Can Change That.
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“I Hate Everyone in the White House!”: Trump Seethes as Advisers Fear the President Is “Unraveling”
“I Hate Everyone in the White House!”: Trump Seethes as Advisers Fear the President Is “Unraveling”
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Heather Nauert / US Department of State:
The United States Withdraws From UNESCO — Press Statement — Department Spokesperson — Washington, DC — On October 12, 2017, the Department of State notified UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova of the U.S. decision to withdraw from the organization and to seek to establish a permanent observer mission to UNESCO.
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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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Kristen Jordan Shamus / USA Today:
Bernie Sanders to deliver opening-night speech at Women's Convention … The first national women's convention in four decades is poised to kick off in Detroit. Detroit Free Press — DETROIT — The Women's Convention will feel the Bern later this month, when Bernie Sanders will address …
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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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Axios:
Exclusive interview with Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg — Live at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., Mike Allen interviews Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg in the wake of new revelations about Russia's use of the tech giant in its influence campaign during the 2016 election.
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Adam Goldman / New York Times:
American Woman and Family Held for 5 Years in Afghanistan Freed From Militants — WASHINGTON — An American woman and her Canadian husband who were held hostage by militants in Afghanistan for five years have been freed along with their young children, President Trump said on Thursday …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Rethinks State-Local Tax Issue Over Middle-Class Concerns — N.Y.'s King calls proposal to end SALT ‘biggest obstacle’ — Repealing deduction would generate $1.3 trillion for cuts — Months after the White House proposed ending a tax break for people in high-tax states …
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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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Charlie Moore / Daily Mail:
Starving homeless woman eats a CAT in front of shocked crowd as Venezuela's economic crisis continues — Conditions in socialist Venezuela are so diabolical that people are forced to eat cats in the street. — A stomach-churning video shows a homeless woman sitting on the roadside …
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.
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