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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.


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.


PIERS MORGAN: Spare me Hollywood's hypocritical horror over Harvey Weinstein …
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‘I had to defend myself’: the night Harvey Weinstein jumped on me
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Shell-shocked Harvey Weinstein breaks silence after wife leaves him
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump's Justice Department moves on Harvey Weinstein and orders FBI to open probe …

Harvey Weinstein Jets off to Arizona Rehab
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Weinstein Company Was Aware of Payoffs in 2015
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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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Trump unleashes himself from would-be handlers, lashing out mornings, nights and weekends — President Donald Trump and his chief of staff John Kelly at a briefing with senior military leaders at the White House on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. (Andrew Harrer / Getty Images)
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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.


In Start to Unwinding the Health Law, Trump to Ease Insurance Rules
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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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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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Puerto Rico's hurricane death toll rises to 45
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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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Feds won't confirm Comey assurances to Trump on Russia probe
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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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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.


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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Prosecution rests in Menendez corruption trial
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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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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 …


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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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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It's NFL Owners' Job — Not the President's — to Control Their Employees
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