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8:40 AM ET, November 9, 2017

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CNN:
Flynn worries about son in special counsel probe  —  Washington (CNN)Former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn has expressed concern about the potential legal exposure of his son, Michael Flynn Jr., who, like his father, is under scrutiny by special counsel Robert Mueller …
Discussion: Weekly Standard, AOL, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker calls for Mueller to be fired in speech on House floor … In a speech on the House floor Wednesday, Rep. Matt Gaetz  —  (R-Fla.) called for special counsel Robert Mueller to resign or be fired over his “indisputable conflicts of interest.”  —  “We are at risk of a coup d'état …
CNN:
Academic at heart of Clinton ‘dirt’ claim vanishes, leaving trail of questions  —  Poll: Americans concerned about Russia probe  —  (CNN)Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese academic suspected of being a link between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, was once a regular on the foreign policy circuit, attending conferences the world over.
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
GOP election drubbing scrambles tax reform outlook  —  Top Republicans in Congress had an urgent message to lawmakers after the party's drubbing in Tuesday's elections: Pass tax reform or we're toast in 2018.  —  “I think it simply means we've got to deliver,” Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday.
Discussion: ABC News
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan erases any doubt: 'We're with Trump'  —  House Speaker Paul D. Ryan's M.O. with President Trump has been to deflect questions about his controversies and focus on the GOP agenda.  All the while, Ryan has reserved some plausible deniability, sending some signals that he's not quite all-in on Trumpism, or Trump himself.
Washington Post:
Top GOP senator says election losses could complicate tax reform
Discussion: Politico, The Week and Daily Kos
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Rand Paul's neighbors rip media ‘landscaping dispute’ reports  —  The Bowling Green, Ky. neighbor who allegedly sucker attack Sen. Rand Paul last weekend, causing six broken ribs, was aggressively anti-Trump and anti-GOP in his social media, calling for the impeachment of the president …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Rand Paul retweets stories casting doubt on ‘landscaping dispute’ reports
Amanda House / Breitbart:
Exclusive: Rand Paul's Neighbors Say Reports Blaming Savage Assault on ‘Landscaping Dispute’ Are Fake News
New York Times:
Suburbs Rebel Against Trump, Threatening Republicans in Congress  —  RICHMOND, Va. — The American suburbs appear to be in revolt against President Trump after a muscular coalition of college-educated voters and racial and ethnic minorities on Tuesday dealt the Republican Party a thumping rejection …
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Associated Press:
Democratic wins: Start of anti-Trump surge or ‘not so fast?’
Discussion: Politico
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:   2016 is looking like the new normal … If you wanted to predict …
Dave Lawler / Axios:
Trump to Chinese leaders: I don't blame you for taking advantage of us  —  On Thursday morning (local time) in Beijing, President Trump repeated something he has told rallies across the U.S.: China is taking advantage of us, and I don't blame them for it.  —  Trump made remarks to that effect …
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Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Trump sees ‘great chemistry’ with Xi as key to North Korea, trade balance
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed:
InfoWars Has Republished More Than 1,000 Articles From RT Without Permission  —  The conspiracy site also copied content from many other mainstream publications.  —  Over the past three years, conspiracy site InfoWars has copied more than 1,000 articles produced by Russian state-sponsored broadcaster RT …
Financial Times:
US regulators demand CNN sale to approve AT&T-Time Warner deal … AT&T has been told by the US Department of Justice that it needs to sell CNN, Time Warner's cable news channel, to get its $84.5bn acquisition of the media company approved, according to three people with direct knowledge of the negotiations.
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New York Times:
U.S. Said to Seek Sale of CNN or DirecTV in AT&T-Time Warner Deal
National Enquirer:
HIV Charlie Sheen Raped 13-Year-Old Corey Haim — Shocking Claim  —  Dying child star named monster who assaulted him on ‘Lucas’ film set!  —  HIV-infected Charlie Sheen is finally being unmasked by The National ENQUIRER as a twisted child molester — the ruthless adult rapist …
Rich Lowry / Politico:
There Is No ‘Without Trump’  —  Ed Gillespie went from potential vindicator of Trumpism to cuckservative in the space of a couple of hours.  —  The Virginia Republican, campaigning in a treacherous political environment defined by an unpopular president of his own party, ran the only race he reasonably could.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP faces wrenching call: Running with or away from Trump
Discussion: ABC News and The Hill
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
‘Canary in the coal mine’: Republicans fear Democratic wins mean more losses to come  —  Virginia republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie pauses in his concession speech Tuesday night in Richmond, Va. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)  —  A wave of Democratic victories ignited …
Discussion: Political Wire
Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
Twitter Verifies Charlottesville Rally Boss Jason Kessler, Who Called Slain Protester's Death ‘Payback Time’ … On Tuesday, Twitter gave its preferred status, a verified check mark, to Jason Kessler, the creator of the white supremacist Charlottesville rally in August that left one dead.
Megan Cerullo / New York Daily News:
Palm Springs City Council now entirely queer after election of transgender, bisexual women  —  The Palm Springs, Calif., City Council is entirely LGBT or queer after two new members were elected to the council Tuesday.  —  Lisa Middleton made history Tuesday as the first openly transgender candidate elected …
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Jesse Marx / Desert Sun:
Palm Springs election: Transgender candidate makes history in California
Travis Andersen / BostonGlobe.com:
Heather Unruh says Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted her son  —  Fighting back tears, former Channel 5 anchor Heather Unruh told reporters on Wednesday that actor Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted her teenage son during an encounter last year at a Nantucket bar.
John Harwood / CNBC:
Gary Cohn: Trickle-down is good for the economy  — Gary Cohn says, “I don't believe that we've set out to create a tax cut for the wealthy.  If someone's getting a tax cut, I'm not upset that they're getting a tax cut.”  —  Gary Cohn, 57, was in some ways an unlikely choice for Donald Trump's White House.
Kevin O'Leary / American Prospect:
Could Alabama Be Next?  —  Jeronimo Nisa /The Decatur Daily via AP  —  Candidate Doug Jones chats with constituents before a Democratic Senate candidate forum at the Princess Theatre in Decatur, Alabama  —  The hill country of northern Alabama holds one of the keys to next month's special election …
Ed Klein / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton is in ‘secret negotiations’ with ex-British spy Christopher Steele to buy SECOND ‘dirty dossier’ on Trump's romantic englements with Russian women, claims Clinton author  — Ed Klein, author of four books on the Clintons, claims Hillary's minions are in secret talks …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Is the National Anthem Racist?  —  There are several possible answers to this question:  —  1) Of course, because everything is racist.  —  2) It's anyone's guess.  The word “racist” has no meaning.  —  3) Don't be stupid.  —  “Yes” isn't really on the list.
New York Times:
After Night of Drinking, F.B.I. Supervisor Wakes to Find a Woman Stole His Gun  —  WASHINGTON — An F.B.I. counterterrorism supervisor is under internal investigation after a woman stole his gun following a night of heavy drinking in a North Carolina hotel, according to documents and government officials.
ESPN:
OTL: Jerry Jones threatens to sue NFL if Roger Goodell's contract extension is approved  —  Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has threatened to sue the National Football League if a contract extension for commissioner Roger Goodell is approved by the league's compensation committee, sources told Outside the Lines.
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
The Promising Crisis in Saudi Arabia  —  Purging rivals is often a bad sign.  But in this case it may show an impatience to reform.  —  We've seen this before.  A rising leader arrests his political rivals on corruption charges to clear his path to power.  Usually this kind of thing doesn't work out well for U.S. interests.
Discussion: CNBC, New York Times, CNN, Foreign Policy and NPR
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
The New Washington Drama: Treasury Secretary Versus Treasury Secretary  —  WASHINGTON — It is an unwritten rule that if a former Treasury secretary has nothing nice to say about one of his successors he does not say anything at all.  But in the nation's capital these days, the rules of political comity are meant to be broken.
Discussion: Political Wire
Maine.gov:
Governor LePage Issues Statement on Medicaid Expansion  —  Contact: Julie Rabinowitz, Press Secretary, 207-287-2531  —  AUGUSTA - Governor Paul R. LePage has issued a statement in response to Mainers approving a referendum that will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars to give …
Paul Egan / Detroit Free Press:
Michigan Senate OKs concealed pistol carry in schools, churches, day care centers … LANSING — The Michigan Senate approved legislation Wednesday allowing the concealed carry of handguns in places that have traditionally been off limits to guns, such as schools, churches, day care centers, bars and stadiums.
Discussion: TheBlaze and RT
Gregg Re / Fox News:
More layoffs planned at Carrier plant Trump promised to save  —  Carrier Corp., the HVAC manufacturer that had planned to move its operations to Mexico before President Trump staged a much-heralded intervention, said Tuesday it is gearing up for yet another round of layoffs.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:
Chris Hurst, Whose Girlfriend Was Fatally Shot on Air, Defeats N.R.A.-Backed Opponent
Discussion: Axios
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Fox News hires former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Fusion GPS co-founder strikes deal to talk about Trump dossier
Discussion: Axios, RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McCain opposes Trump nominee over torture memos
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Bloomberg:
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