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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Five women accuse journalist and ‘Game Change’ co-author Mark Halperin of sexual harassment  —  Veteran journalist Mark Halperin sexually harassed women while he was in a powerful position at ABC News, according to five women who shared their previously undisclosed accounts with CNN and others …
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The Daily Beast:
Two More Women Accuse Mark Halperin of Sexual Misconduct … The morning after five women accused veteran journalist Mark Halperin of sexual harassment while he was in a powerful position at ABC News, two more women came forward with their own allegations.  —  Those initial five accusers …
Kate Stanhope / Hollywood Reporter:
HBO Drops Trump Election Miniseries Amid Mark Halperin Sexual Harassment Claims  —  The project, announced in March, was set to be directed by Jay Roach and produced by Tom Hanks.  —  HBO is dropping its planned miniseries about the 2016 presidential election after journalist and author Mark Halperin …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
'I don't want to sit on your lap,' she said. But, she alleges, Mark Halperin insisted.
Discussion: Variety, Mediaite and IJR
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Molly Boigon / WGBH News:
Juliette Kayyem: Mueller Will Deliver On Russia Investigation Before Thanksgiving  —  National security expert Juliette Kayyem is predicting news from Robert Mueller's Russia investigation will be announced within the next month.  —  “I think it is safe to say that before Thanksgiving …
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
Paul Ryan Says FBI Plans to Provide Documents Related to Russia Dossier
Discussion: The Daily Caller and IJR
NBC News:
Release of JFK Assassination File Is Delayed as Deadline Looms  —  The U.S. government was in danger Thursday of missing the deadline to release a trove of previously classified records from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, adding an unexpected twist to a saga already rife with rumors and conspiracies.
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump blocks release of some JFK assassination records  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday delayed the release of some documents relating to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, while allowing the National Archives to post 2,800 other pages that had yet to be made public.
Discussion: Axios
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Trump: “Really great advertising” will keep kids off drugs  —  President Trump declared a “nationwide public-health emergency” on the opioid crisis today from the White House.  Although the declaration doesn't open up new funds (which some estimate would exceed $9.3 billion), Trump argued that …
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Declares the Opioid Crisis a ‘Public Health Emergency’
Dallas Morning News:
John Cornyn betrays himself and his party with embrace of Roy Moore  —  Sen. John Cornyn's endorsement this week of Roy Moore for the U.S. Senate from Alabama is a new low not just for the former jurist and ex-Texas attorney general, but for the party he claims to love.
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Hot Air:
Ben Sasse On Alabama Senate Race: “It Feels Like This Party That I'm A Part Of Has Gone Post-Constitutional”
Discussion: Daily Kos
Michael Panter:
Like a lot of men, I've had a sinking feeling when I see how many friends have posted using the #MeToo tag.  I've also read suggestions on how men can play a role, and sadly I've had several ex-partners who were victims.  One is well-known, but hasn't shared her story (so neither will I).
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
EXCLUSIVE: O'Reilly ‘Commencing Legal Action’ Against NJ Pol Accusing Him of Harassment
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Lisa Bloom Has ‘Files’ on Rose McGowan's Sexual History: Inside Her Scorched Earth Crusade for Harvey Weinstein … Ronan Farrow was stunned and disgusted early this year when famed feminist lawyer Lisa Bloom phoned him, in the midst of his investigation for NBC News of widespread allegations …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Republicans Have Developed a Theory of Alt-Collusion to Defend Trump From Mueller  —  Having apparently decided that defending the Trump campaign against charges of collusion with Russian cyberattacks is an impossible task, the Republican Party has decided to go on offense.
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Conrad Black / LifeZette:
Russia ‘Collusion’ Story Is Blowing Up Like the Hindenburg
Discussion: Power Line
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
White House Claims That Mueller Probe ‘Getting Closer To Conclusion’
Discussion: Shakesville
Rlitt / Lawfare:
The (Ir)relevance of the Trump “Dossier”  —  Much has been made this week of reports that the Clinton campaign paid for the so-called “dossier” about Trump that was compiled by a former British intelligence agent.  One important point is sometimes lost in the discussion.
Vanity Fair:
Selma Blair and Rachel McAdams Share Their Stories of James Toback's Sexual Harassment  —  Both women encountered the director early in their careers.  Both describe remarkably similar experiences of his targeting and humiliation of young actresses.  —  A week after The New York Times …
Frank Bajak / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Georgia election server wiped after suit filed  —  https://apnews.com/877ee1015f1c43f1965f 63538b035d3f  —  Link copied!  —  A computer server crucial to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials was quietly wiped clean by its custodians just after the suit was filed, The Associated Press has learned.
Twitter:
Announcement: RT and Sputnik Advertising  —  Twitter has made the policy decision to off-board advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, effective immediately.  This decision was based on the retrospective work we've been doing around the 2016 U.S. election …
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
The Midterms and Mueller  —  By now it's become pretty obvious that while many Republican members of Congress may be privately cheering for Sens. Bob Corker and Jeff Flake, they aren't going to follow their lead and publicly break with the president or their party.  —  Politics is not all that complicated.
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Trump Spending $1.75 Million on Presidential Furniture, Redecorations  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration is spending $1.75 million on furniture for the White House and offices tied to it, according to government records.  —  That includes $17,000 for custom rugs …
Discussion: AOL, IJR and Joe.My.God.
Cindy Boren / Washington Post:
Mark Cuban foresaw an NFL ‘implosion’ of greed.  Now, he says, it's ‘accelerating.’  —  A little over three years ago, Mark Cuban created a stir when he predicted that an NFL “implosion” was only 10 years away because “pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.  And [it's] getting hoggy.”
Eleanor Ainge Roy / The Guardian:
Scott Brown: more complaints surface over behaviour of US ambassador to New Zealand  —  Ambassador said to have been ‘culturally insensitive’ at party in Samoa and is alleged by one woman to have stared at her breasts … It was a balmy 32 degrees when the US ambassador to New Zealand …
Discussion: IJR
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
‘I hope someone truly shoots you’: online conspiracy theorists harass Vegas victims  —  Those who lived to describe the mass shooting face flood of abuse on social media accusing them of being actors, as hoax claims flourish on YouTube  —  Braden Matejka survived a bullet to the head in the Las Vegas massacre.
Discussion: AOL, Raw Story and Shakesville
Hollie McKay / Fox News:
Waiter: MLB catcher Bruce Maxwell made up story about service refusal over anthem protest  —  Oakland A's catcher Bruce Maxwell, 26, claimed this week that a waiter in his Alabama hometown of Huntsville refused him service after identifying him as the MLB player who took the knee during …
Washington Times:
Sessions threatened to quit over Chinese dissident  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions went to the mat recently against pro-China officials within the Trump administration to prevent the forcible return of a dissident businessman to China.  —  According to a person familiar with the issue …
Discussion: The Hill and IJR
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump associate Cohen sold four NY buildings for cash to mysterious buyers  —  WASHINGTON  —  Donald Trump's long time business lawyer Michael Cohen may be best known for his aggressive campaign television defenses of the real estate mogul, his role in an abortive effort to build a Trump Tower …
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Victoria Balara / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Positive views of NFL down 18 points since 2013  —  The National Football League is taking some hits these days.  A new Fox News Poll finds that since 2013, the league's favorable rating has dropped 18 points.  —  Today, 46 percent of voters have a positive view of the N.F.L. while 41 percent view it negatively.
Discussion: IJR
Jason Bailey / Flavorwire:
Here's Alec Baldwin Rage-Tweeting Sexist Nonsense at a Female TV Critic  —  “Why don't you let prosecutors and real journalists investigate such cases and you stick to divorces and plastic surgery.”  —  First, some background: James Toback is a B-list writer/director who's managed to maintain …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Todd Spangler / Variety:
BuzzFeed News Parts Ways With Three Entertainment Staffers After Identifying ‘Holes’ in Harvey Weinstein Coverage  —  BuzzFeed News is changing its approach to covering the entertainment biz — after top editors perceived that the site trailed on coverage of the Harvey Weinstein scandal …
 
 
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Clio Chang / Splinter:
Leon Wieseltier Was Always Hiding in Plain Sight
Justice News:
Founder and Owner of Pharmaceutical Company Insys Arrested and Charged with Racketeering
Discussion: Mother Jones, NPR and STAT
Nick Roll / Inside Higher Ed:
New Graduation Requirement: Patriotism
Discussion: TheBlaze
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Senate Democrats have a plan that would cut child poverty nearly in half
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker spars with CNN reporter over Charlottesville conspiracy theories
Alexia Fernández Campbell / Vox:
Nurses returning from Puerto Rico accuse the federal government of leaving people to die
Discussion: Politico and Earther
 Earlier Items: 
CNN:
Trump pick for top environmental post once wrote Texas would be ‘better off’ as an independent republic
Discussion: Raw Story
Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
Tom Perez Says ‘Electoral College Is Not a Creation of the Constitution’ (It Is.)
Discussion: The American Mirror and IJR
Adam Duvernay / delawareonline:
Police: Delaware City man spies on ‘Muslims’ who were not Muslims
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Rick Noack / Washington Post:
Anne Frank's diary was read in Italian stadiums. Some fans turned their backs and sang in protest.
Discussion: Deadspin and The Local
Alex Finley / Politico:
The Recruitables: Why Trump's Team Was Easy Prey for Putin
Discussion: Raw Story