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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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HuffPost:
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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:
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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Associated Press:
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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Adam Goldman / New York Times:
American Woman and Family Held for 5 Years in Afghanistan Freed From Militants
American Woman and Family Held for 5 Years in Afghanistan Freed From Militants
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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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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 …
Robert M. Heffington / American Military News:
Exclusive: Former West Point professor's letter exposes corruption, cheating and failing standards [Full letter] — The following letter was written by retired LTC Robert M. Heffington as an open letter. Heffington was an assistant professor at West Point for several years, until this past August.
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