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4:20 PM ET, October 14, 2017

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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.”
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Hillary Clinton calls Trump ‘sexual assaulter’ in BBC interview, but says Bill's behavior ‘in the past’
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Politico
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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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Trump Faithfully Executes Obamacare; Media, Democrats Go Nuts
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Democrats Are Launching A Legal Fight To Save Obamacare's Subsidy Payments
Discussion: RedState
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
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David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
House: Ratings Changes in 12 Districts as Democrats Gain Momentum
Sarah Polley / New York Times:
The Men You Meet Making Movies  —  One day, when I was 19 years old, I was in the middle of a photo shoot for a Miramax film when I was suddenly told it was time to leave.  I was wearing a little black dress, showing a lot of cleavage, lying seductively on my side and looking slyly at the camera.
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Mayim Bialik / New York Times:
Being a Feminist in Harvey Weinstein's World
Discussion: Mashable
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.”
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.
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.
Discussion: New York Times
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Gabe Meline / KQED Arts:
Guy Fieri Brings Barbecue Smoker to Santa Rosa Fire Evacuation Center
Discussion: IJR, abc7news.com and Eater
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
Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller and IJR
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
Discussion: ABC News
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump's Iran announcement backfires
Discussion: Politico and RedState
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.
Discussion: National Review
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 …
Karen Nelson / Sun Herald:
Why did Biloxi pull ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ from the 8th grade lesson plan?  —  BILOXI  —  The Biloxi School District got complaints about the wording in “To Kill A Mockingbird” — an American classic being taught in 8th grade English Language Arts classes — and pulled it from the curriculum.
 
 
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Soumya Karlamangla / Los Angeles Times:
California declares state of emergency over deadly hepatitis A outbreak
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Sarah Jaffe / New Republic:
Bernie Sanders Isn't Winning Local Elections for the Left
Yahoo:
FBI document cache sheds light on inner workings of Russia's U.S. news (and propaganda) network
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Moves Ratchet Up Pressure on Congress
GOV.UK:
Declaration by the Heads of State and Government of France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Frank Pingue / Reuters:
NFL not seeking mandate for players to stand during anthem
Discussion: IJR
Farah Stockman / New York Times:
Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her. Then Her Job Moved to Mexico.
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Mnuchin Says Estate Tax Repeal Will Help ‘Rich People’ Most
Discussion: The Hill
 Earlier Items: 
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Cruz warns GOP could face ‘Watergate-level blowout’ in midterms if it fails on taxes, health-care
Discussion: Political Wire
Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
Texas Democrats Hesitant to Embrace Gay Candidate for Governor
William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:
Gary Cohn Can't Quit Trump. Literally. He's Tried More Than Once.
The White House:
President Donald J. Trump Proclaims October 15 through October 21, 2017, as National Character Counts Week
Discussion: RedState
John D. Sutter / CNN:
Desperate Puerto Ricans are drinking water from a hazardous-waste site
Discussion: AOL and The Root
Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Trump says he spoke to US Virgin Islands' ‘president’ — which is him
Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair:
Donald Trump's Fake Renoir: The Untold Story
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