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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
'I don't want to sit on your lap,' she thought. But, she alleges, Mark Halperin insisted. — Dianna Goldberg was a young researcher at ABC News in 1994 when she asked a colleague, Mark Halperin, for some information about a story. He readily agreed to help her and asked her to come to his office.
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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 …
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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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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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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.
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Axios
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In Hill interviews, top Dems denied knowledge of payments to firm behind Trump dossier — (CNN)Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta and former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz both privately denied to congressional Russia investigators …
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com, The Gateway Pundit, VICE News, Talking Points Memo and IJR
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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 …
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The Very Busy, Very Unproductive Life of Leon Wieseltier — New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier is the egghead boy toy of such glamorous powers as Barbra Streisand, Shirley MacLaine, and Tipper Gore. But has he abandoned the life of the mind to be the life of the party?
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Clio Chang / Splinter:
Leon Wieseltier Was Always Hiding in Plain Sight
Leon Wieseltier Was Always Hiding in Plain Sight
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Washington Post, Politico and The American Conservative
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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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Washington Monthly, Political Wire and New York Magazine
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Trump Declares the Opioid Crisis a ‘Public Health Emergency’
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Sarah Karlin-Smith / Politico:
Trump vows to ‘liberate’ Americans from ‘scourge of drug addiction’
Trump vows to ‘liberate’ Americans from ‘scourge of drug addiction’
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Weekly Standard, USA Today, Vox, The Hill, ABC News, Axios and New York Magazine
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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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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Ben Sasse On Alabama Senate Race: “It Feels Like This Party That I'm A Part Of Has Gone Post-Constitutional”
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Daily Kos
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Sasse: Alabama Senate race looks ‘crappy to me’
Sasse: Alabama Senate race looks ‘crappy to me’
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RedState, Washington Free Beacon and Mediaite
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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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Washington Free Beacon, IJR and Mediaite
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Anna North / Vox:
Why Harvey Weinstein is disgraced but Donald Trump is president
Why Harvey Weinstein is disgraced but Donald Trump is president
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Splinter, Hullabaloo and twitchy.com
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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 …
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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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Russia ‘Collusion’ Story Is Blowing Up Like the Hindenburg
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Power Line
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
White House Claims That Mueller Probe ‘Getting Closer To Conclusion’
White House Claims That Mueller Probe ‘Getting Closer To Conclusion’
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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IJR
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10-Year-Old Immigrant Is Detained After Agents Stop Her on Way to Surgery — A 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has been detained by federal immigration authorities in Texas after she passed through a Border Patrol checkpoint on her way to a hospital to undergo emergency gall bladder surgery.
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‘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.
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AOL, Raw Story and Shakesville
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.”
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GOP lawmaker spars with CNN reporter over Charlottesville conspiracy theories — (R-Ariz.) on Wednesday doubled down on his conspiracy theory that Democratic mega-donor George Soros could have been involved in organizing an August white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., saying “proof will be coming.”
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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 …
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Trump DOJ settles lawsuits over Tea Party targeting by Obama IRS — The Trump administration, after years of litigation, has settled lawsuits with Tea Party and other conservative groups who say they were unfairly targeted by the IRS under the Obama administration.
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The Daily Caller, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, RedState, The Hill, The Daily Signal, MichelleMalkin.com and neo-neocon
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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.
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IJR
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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 …
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Washington Post and Political Wire