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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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Eleanor McManus / CNN:
I'm writing this to make sure other young women won't stay silent like I did  —  Mark Halperin apologizes after sexual harassment claims  — Eleanor McManus: When I was just out of college, in a private informational meeting with Mark Halperin, he tried to kiss me and attempted a bit more
Mike Allen / Axios:
Post-Halperin, female media exec calls out “the screamers”  —  A well-known female veteran of the media business emailed me as new revelations were posted about Mark Halperin: … There's clearly a lot of screaming in tech, as well as in media and movies.  —  The excuse many men gave …
The Daily Beast:
Two More Women Accuse Mark Halperin of Sexual Misconduct
Helena Horton / Telegraph:
British newspaper received mystery call minutes before JFK assassination  —  A British newspaper received a mystery call minutes before the assassination of John F Kennedy.  —  This is one of the most astonishing revelations from the JFK files, released on Thursday.
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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.
Matt Pearce / Associated Press:
Thousands of JFK assassination documents are released, though Trump orders some to be kept secret for now
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump bowing to CIA on JFK files is a reminder of how the presidency changes people
Discussion: Hit & Run, LewRockwell and Mediaite
Elana Schor / Politico:
GOP winds down Russia probes with Trump collusion unanswered  —  Republican lawmakers say they're approaching the end of their investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election even though the most politically explosive issue — whether associates of President Donald Trump colluded …
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Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:   Facebook Steps Up Efforts to Sway Lawmakers
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Ryan: FBI will hand over documents related to Trump-Russia dossier
Discussion: Palmer Report
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Conway confirms Trump wanted FBI informant's gag order lifted  —  Washington (CNN)In response to reporting that President Donald Trump personally pressed for an informant's gag order to be lifted, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said Friday that he wanted the informant to be free to speak out.
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Coming Russia Bombshells  —  A judge may order Fusion GPS to give House investigators its bank records.  —  The confirmation this week that Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid an opposition-research firm for a “dossier” on Donald Trump is bombshell news.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Mark Cuban's Not Done Trolling Donald Trump
Foreign Policy:
State Department Scraps Sanctions Office  —  The Trump administration is three weeks late on Russia sanctions.  But it's killed the office that coordinates them.  —  The State Department shuttered an office that oversees sanctions policy, even as the Donald Trump administration faces criticism …
Discussion: Palmer Report
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Tillerson eliminates key State Department sanctions office: report
Discussion: Raw Story
Lloyd Grove / Vanity Fair:
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
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Car drives into immigration protesters outside GOP lawmaker's office
Discussion: RedState
Washington Post:
Gillespie's ads are poisonous to Virginia and the nation  —  (Pete Marovich/For The Washington Post)  —  SINCE 2001, when he was convicted of a sex offense and served a brief prison term, and early this year, when he was convicted on child-pornography charges, Virginia resident John Bowen …
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The Attempted Remaking of Michael Grimm  —  Steve Bannon looked at a convicted felon — and saw a populist.  —  It was Friday, which meant it was Michael Grimm's cheat day.  —  The muscle mass he carried during his time as a Marine, an undercover FBI agent, and even as a congressman has …
Discussion: Political Wire
Samantha Liss / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Amazon gains wholesale pharmacy licenses in multiple states  —  Throughout the past year, and without much fanfare, Amazon.com Inc. has gained approval to become a wholesale distributor from a number of state pharmaceutical boards, according to a review of public records.
Christina Baker Kline / Slate:
George H.W. Bush Groped Me, Too  —  It was during an April 2014 photo op, and later I was asked to “be discreet.”  —  In April of 2014, I was invited to Houston as a guest author for the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy fundraiser, along with two well-known male authors …
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
How Congress plays by different rules on sexual harassment and misconduct  —  Briony Whitehouse was a 19-year-old intern in 2003 when she boarded an elevator in the Russell Senate Office Building with a Republican senator, who she said groped her until the doors reopened.
Discussion: ABC News
Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
I Agree With Jonah Goldberg About Roy Moore and I Want Roy Moore to Win  —  I really do not have a lot to add to what Jonah Goldberg has written about Roy Moore.  Well, I should add that I endorsed Moore in the runoff and want him to win.  Other than that...
David Bauder / Associated Press:
12 hours v. 20 minutes: Fox's uneven sex harassment coverage  —  https://apnews.com/5d83428f09ea495d9b14 a8bd887f7645  —  Link copied!  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Bill O'Reilly and Harvey Weinstein are the celebrity faces of sexual harassment in 2017.  But on Fox News Channel, O'Reilly's former home …
Katie Zavadski / The Daily Beast:
Russia's Troll Factory Made ‘Hillary Clinton’ Sex Tape, Ex-Worker Claims … A Russian-government-backed “troll factory” hired a black man and a Hillary Clinton look-alike to make a sex tape, according to the first former employee of the factory's American division to go on the record.
Discussion: Raw Story
Radley Balko / Washington Post:
Mississippi judge resigns after barring mother from seeing newborn because of unpaid court fees  —  Even in the annals of “oppressive things done to poor people due to unpaid court fees,” this story seems particularly monstrous.  It comes via a press release from the MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi.
Discussion: The Clarion Ledger and Raw Story
New York Times:
Spain's Lawmakers Vote to Seize Control of Catalonia  —  BARCELONA, Spain — In a major escalation of Spain's territorial conflict, Catalan lawmakers approved the region's independence on Friday, a move that was quickly countered by a vote in the Spanish Senate authorizing the government …
 
 
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De Blasio donor's shocking testimony: $100K bought me the mayor
Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Are United Against Trump, Divided on Everything Else
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World's witnessing a new Gilded Age as billionaires' wealth swells to $6tn
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Incoming Florida Senate Democratic leader apologizes for affair with lobbyist
New York Times:
U.S. Soldiers Were Separated From Unit in Niger Ambush, Officials Say
Discussion: Business Insider and Snopes.com
Rlitt / Lawfare:
The (Ir)relevance of the Trump “Dossier”
Discussion: Business Insider
 

 
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