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BuzzFeed:
Watching Harvey Weinstein Fall, Trump's Accusers Feel Frustrated — “When he won, I felt like I lost.” — For all the women who have cheered as accusations against the producer Harvey Weinstein force a public conversation about sexual misconduct, one small group of women has watched with frustration.
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Claudia Rosenbaum / BuzzFeed:
Lisa Bloom Knows She Made “A Colossal Mistake” In Harvey Weinstein — The celebrity attorney and champion of women's rights spoke about her earlier decision to represent Harvey Weinstein, and her response to the sex assault scandal: “I definitely failed on this one.”
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NBC News:
Manafort Had $60 Million Relationship With a Russian Oligarch — LONDON — Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, has much stronger financial ties to a Russian oligarch than have been previously reported. — An NBC News investigation reveals that $26 million changed hands …
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Business Insider and Booman Tribune
Victoria McGrane GLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Trump health care attacks worry GOP — WASHINGTON — President Trump lit a fuse this week that will blow a hole in the Affordable Care Act, but the collateral damage could very well include fellow Republicans. — In his latest attack on the health care law, Trump moved Thursday night …
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Los Angeles Times, New York Times, NPR, Shareblue Media, Daily Kos and Vox
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Trump Faithfully Executes Obamacare; Media, Democrats Go Nuts
Trump Faithfully Executes Obamacare; Media, Democrats Go Nuts
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Power Line, neo-neocon and New York Times
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Democrats Are Launching A Legal Fight To Save Obamacare's Subsidy Payments
Democrats Are Launching A Legal Fight To Save Obamacare's Subsidy Payments
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RedState
Daily Mail:
‘I will destroy you’: Weinstein told Bond Girl Eva Green that she would never work again when she fought him off in a Paris hotel room as more women reveal how they were groped by the mogul — Harvey Weinsein allegedly sexually harassed French star Eva Green during a meeting at his suite in Paris.
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Variety, New York Times, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com, The Guardian, Hollywood Reporter and KLOS-FM
John Harwood / CNBC:
Trump's missteps are giving Democrats a better shot at winning back the House — Donald Trump has been battling both parties and remains historically unpopular for a president this early in his tenure. — Analysis suggests that Democrats may stand a better chance in midterm elections than previously thought.
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David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
House: Ratings Changes in 12 Districts as Democrats Gain Momentum — President Trump and GOP control of Congress have sparked a 2018 Democratic candidate bonanza. Don't call it “recruitment:” for the most part, these aspirants decided to take the plunge on their own.
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Political Wire, New York Magazine and Business Insider
Taylor Link / Salon:
The 25 conservatives actually worth following on Twitter — Liberals in shock over the the 2016 election were prescribed a heavy dose of reality. “Get out of your bubble,” the doctors note illegibly read. — It was a hard truth for the American left. They found out the U.S. was not as progressive as originally thought.
Hollywood Reporter:
Bob Weinstein Gets Emotional on “Depraved” Harvey, Saving the Company and His “Waking Nightmare” (Exclusive) — The Weinstein Co. exec insists he had no idea about “the type of predator that he was” and is sickened by Harvey's seeming lack of remorse. “I want him to get the justice that he deserves.”
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neo-neocon, Refinery29 and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Erin Allday / San Francisco Chronicle:
Wine Country fire: Huddled in pool amid blaze, wife dies in husband's arms — As fire raged all around them and smoke choked their lungs, Carmen and Armando Berriz had no choice but to cling to one another while immersed in a swimming pool behind their rented house on the north edge of Santa Rosa.
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New York Times
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Gabe Meline / KQED Arts:
Guy Fieri Brings Barbecue Smoker to Santa Rosa Fire Evacuation Center
Guy Fieri Brings Barbecue Smoker to Santa Rosa Fire Evacuation Center
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IJR, abc7news.com and Eater
Jackson Diehl / Washington Post:
Bob Corker on Trump's biggest problem: The ‘castration’ of Rex Tillerson — So is Donald Trump really leading the country toward World War III? — That is the warning that lingers from the broadside delivered by Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) during his Twitter war with Trump.
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Corker unloads on Trump for trying to ‘castrate’ Tillerson
Corker unloads on Trump for trying to ‘castrate’ Tillerson
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ABC News
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Bannon promises ‘season of war’ against McConnell, GOP establishment — Steve Bannon taunted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday and vowed to challenge any Senate Republican who doesn't publicly condemn attacks on President Donald Trump. — “Yeah, Mitch, the donors are not happy.
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Fox News Insider and Washington Monthly
CNN:
Trump silent as questions remain over deadly Niger ambush — US soldier possibly taken alive, killed by ISIS — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Military officials have acknowledged that the incident is under investigation and that security procedures are being reviewed
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ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller and IJR
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
An intern at the Trump campaign data firm, Cambridge Analytica, left sensitive voter targeting tools online for nearly a year — An intern at the data mining and analysis firm Cambridge Analytica left online for nearly a year what appears to be programming instructions for the voter targeting tools …
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Politico
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Sinister figures lurk around our careless president — (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) — With eyes wide open, Mike Pence eagerly auditioned for the role as Donald Trump's poodle. Now comfortably leashed, he deserves the degradations that he seems too sycophantic to recognize as such.
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National Review
GOV.UK:
Declaration by the Heads of State and Government of France, Germany and the United Kingdom … Part of: … Joint statement from Prime Minister Theresa May, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Emmanuel Macron following President Trump's statement on the US' Iran Strategy.
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Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
Birth of a White Supremacist — Mike Enoch's transformation from leftist contrarian to nationalist shock jock. — This summer, after a loose coalition of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and Confederate apologists announced that they would hold a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia …