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New York Times:
Trump Campaign Adviser Met With Russian Officials in 2016  —  WASHINGTON — Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump presidential campaign, met Russian government officials during a July 2016 trip he took to Moscow, according to testimony he gave on Thursday to the House Intelligence Committee.
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Washington Post:
Longtime Trump bodyguard to face questions about 2013 Moscow trip  —  One of President Trump's most trusted confidants, a security chief who served as his sounding board for two decades, will face questions from congressional investigators next week about Trump's 2013 trip to Moscow, according to people familiar with their plans.
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Political Wire
Associated Press:
Inside story: How Russians hacked the Democrats' emails  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — It was just before noon in Moscow on March 10, 2016, when the first volley of malicious messages hit the Hillary Clinton campaign.  —  The first 29 phishing emails were almost all misfires.
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Memo Reveals Details of Hillary Clinton-DNC Deal  —  WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee struck a deal with Hillary Clinton in 2015 that gave her campaign input on some party hiring and spending decisions, but required they be related only to preparations for the general election, according to a memo obtained by NBC News.
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
President Trump doesn't know if he'd fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions  —  President Trump is hammering the Justice Department over a lack of an investigation into Democrats and isn't ruling out firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions if the department doesn't take action against Hillary Clinton.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Corker knocks Trump over ‘totally inappropriate’ Justice Department remarks
Discussion: Political Wire
John Solomon / The Hill:
Trump: I'll be proven innocent if Mueller treats ‘everything fairly’  —  says that he is confident he'll be proven innocent in the Russia election meddling investigation if special counsel Robert Mueller treats “everything fairly.”  —  “Well I hope he's treating everything fairly …
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Bloomberg:
Cyprus Gave Manafort's Bank Records to Mueller Team, Sources Say
Discussion: The Hill and Eschaton
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Conservative Republicans demand Mueller recuse himself over uranium deal
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Paul Manafort plans to file motion to suppress evidence ‘improperly obtained’ by search warrant or subpoena
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump administration releases report finding ‘no convincing alternative explanation’ for climate change  —  The Trump administration released a dire scientific report Friday detailing the growing threats of climate change.  The report stands in stark contrast to the administration's efforts …
Discussion: New York Times, The Slot and KRON4.com
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
U.S. Report Says Humans Cause Climate Change, Contradicting Top Trump Officials  —  WASHINGTON — Directly contradicting much of the Trump administration's position on climate change, 13 federal agencies unveiled an exhaustive scientific report on Friday that says humans are the dominant cause …
Steven E. Koonin / Wall Street Journal:
A Deceptive New Report on Climate
Discussion: Hit & Run, The Daily Caller and NPR
NBC News:
Papadopoulos Repeatedly Represented Trump Campaign, Record Shows  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has downplayed the role of foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos during the 2016 presidential campaign.  But the public record shows that Papadopoulos, who attempted to set …
New York Times:
Police Building Case to Arrest Harvey Weinstein in Sexual Assault Case  —  The police in New York on Friday said that they are investigating the claims of an actress who said Harvey Weinstein sexually attacked her seven years ago, and that they have developed a strong criminal case against him.
Discussion: Associated Press, Jezebel and IJR
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Rebecca Keegan / Vanity Fair:
Paz de la Huerta Says Harvey Weinstein Raped Her Twice.  Will That Bring Him to Justice?  —  Why police may now have a case.  —  In the fall of 2010, actress Paz de la Huerta was at her highest point professionally.  Raised in SoHo and on the Lower East Side by a father descended …
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Bots stoke racial strife in Virginia governor's race  —  Twitter bots are swarming into the Virginia governor's race and promoting chatter about a racially charged Democratic ad days before Election Day, according to a report commissioned by allies of Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam's campaign.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The Democratic Party Is Finding a Way to F*ck This Up
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
How one word from Elizabeth Warren exposed the massive split in the Democratic Party
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Republican Tax Plan Is Political Suicide  —  It is a testament to the power of self-delusion that Republicans have convinced themselves that their political self-interest demands that they pass a deeply unpopular tax-cut plan.  The House has designed a proposal that not only violates Senate budget rules …
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Conservatives hit GOP tax bill for nixing adoption credit
CBS News:
Source who is being examined by special counsel: “It's every man for himself”  —  Less than a week after two top former Trump campaign officials were indicted and another adviser to the campaign had already pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, the pressure on others under scrutiny appears to be growing.
Discussion: Raw Story
David Horsey / Los Angeles Times:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the right mouthpiece for a truth-twisting president  —  Top of the Ticket cartoon ((David Horsey / Los Angeles Times)) … Donald Trump is lucky to have Sarah Huckabee Sanders as his chief spokesperson.  —  I wouldn't have said that when she first got the job.
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Addy Baird / ThinkProgress:   There are many good reasons to criticize Sarah Huckabee Sanders. This isn't one of them.
Daniel C. Drabik / The Harvard Crimson:
The Secret Harvard Fellowship of Sean Spicer  —  “Welcome everyone, just a reminder, our class today will be off the record.”  —  “Good morning, welcome to this invite-only breakfast, this event will be off the record.”  —  “Today's private forum will be off the record.”  —  “This lunch is off the record.”
Hamilton Nolan / New York Times:
A Billionaire Destroyed His Newsrooms Out of Spite  —  Reporters, for all their flaws, tend to understand what's happening in their own newsrooms.  It's their job to try to see things clearly.  Often, what they see in their workplaces is low salaries, inept management and poor communication …
Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
House Tax-Cut Plan Hurtles Toward Senate Roadblock  —  ‘Byrd Rule’ would require changes to meet deficit target  —  Senate Republicans to release their version of bill next week  —  The draft House tax plan is going nowhere in the Senate as written.  —  The legislation to enact $1.41 trillion worth …
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Politico:
Conservatives push to repeal Obamacare mandate in tax package
Discussion: Politicus USA
Lizzie O'Leary / thecut:
The Things I Shrugged Off Then Horrify Me Now  —  What do you do when the big bank CEO calls your hotel room at 11 p.m.?  —  We were at the same resort for a conference.  We were friendly but why did he need to know what I was doing at that hour?  How did he even get my room number?
CNN:
Bowe Bergdahl receives dishonorable discharge, avoids jail time  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Fort Bragg, North Carolina (CNN)[Breaking news update, posted at 11:48 a.m.]  —  US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has received a dishonorable discharge but will avoid prison time for desertion and misbehavior …
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Alexandra Glorioso / Politico:
Six women accuse Florida Senate budget chair Latvala of groping, sexual harassment  —  TALLAHASSEE — Six women who work in Florida's Capitol say the state Senate's powerful budget chairman, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Latvala, has inappropriately touched them without their consent …
Discussion: Ledger, Tampa Bay Times and Raw Story
Hazel Cills / Jezebel:
Former ‘Male Feminist’ Columnist Faces Multiple Allegations of Assault  —  On October 6, Helen Donahue, who previously worked as a social media editor for Vice and also wrote for the website, posted photos of bruises on her upper body, neck, and face to Twitter. “sux men in media hate women …
Associated Press:
Female lawmakers allege harassment by colleagues in House  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, Republican Rep. Mary Bono endured the increasingly suggestive comments from a fellow lawmaker in the House.  But when the congressman approached her on the House floor and told her he'd been thinking about her in the shower, she'd had enough.
Jessie Singer / BuzzFeed:
We Should Ban Cars From Big Cities.  Seriously.  —  6,000 Americans were killed by cars while walking city streets last year.  As terrorists embrace this deadly power, car-free cities make even more sense.  —  In the coming days, politicians will try to convince you that what happened …
 
 
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
One of US soldiers killed in Niger may have been kidnapped: report
Eric Kelderman / Associated Press:
Republican Tax Proposal Gets Failing Grade From Higher-Ed Groups
Discussion: Daily Kos
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Big Reveal: The Story of How 470,000 Documents from Osama Bin Laden's Compound Finally Got Into the Open
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
House fight with Fusion GPS flares up again in Trump dossier probe
Discussion: ABC News
Washington Post:
Protected status no longer justified for Central Americans and Haitians in U.S., State Dept. says
Deanna Hackney / CNN:
Lawsuit claims teacher taped special-needs woman's mouth shut
Dr. Harry Wilson / Roanoke College:
RC Poll: Northam and Gillespie deadlocked; Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General races also tied
 Earlier Items: 
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
How Bill de Blasio Overcame the Haters
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Republicans should admit to themselves they mostly don't want big change
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Person Who Deleted Trump's Twitter Account Said to Be Contractor
The Daily Beast:
Trump Offered Corey Lewandowski a New Job. Corey Turned It Down Because It Was ‘Chump Change.’
Discussion: Bloomberg and Talking Points Memo
Alexander Nazaryan / Newsweek:
Trump is leading the most corrupt administration in U.S. history, one of first-class kleptocrats
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 

 
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
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Ellen Huet / Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing the Trump administration for regulating AI; policy analysts suspect Trump will dismantle or reshape the US AI Safety Institute
 
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