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David Palmer / The Cullman Times:
Ed Henry on Moore accusations: I'm not buying it — State Rep. Ed Henry lashed out at Roy Moore's accusers and Republicans who said the U.S. Senate candidate should back out of the special election in an interview Thursday evening with The Times. — Henry, R-Hartselle …
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
I Don't Blame Roy Moore Voters For Sticking With Him — Up front, here is what I think Roy Moore should do. If he continues to deny the allegations, he should hold a press conference and tell people he wants to clear his name. In the interests of helping the President and avoiding a Democrat …
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New Republic and Media Matters for America
The Daily Beast:
Senate GOP Campaign Arm Severs Financial Ties To Roy Moore … A day after explosive allegations of sexual assault surfaced against Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore, the Republican Party's senate campaign arm has severed financial ties with the embattled former state supreme court justice.
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Max Boot / USA Today:
Roy Moore response shows GOP deserves to die: Max Boot — This is the sorry culmination of two trends that have disfigured the conservative movement: contempt for the facts and desire to win at all costs. — You may have thought that Republicans had sunk as low as they could possibly …
Emily McFarlan Miller / Religion News Service:
Conservatives defend Roy Moore — invoking Joseph, Mary and the Ten Commandments — RNS) — Conservative Christian supporters of Roy Moore are defending the U.S. Senate candidate against allegations of molesting a teenager decades ago — and one of them used the biblical story of Mary …
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New York Times:
Republicans Try to Block Moore's Path as Candidate Denies Sexual Misconduct — WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans scrambled on Friday to find a way to block Roy S. Moore's path to the Senate, exploring extraordinary measures to rid themselves of their own Senate nominee in Alabama …
Nancy French / Washington Post:
What it's like to watch men like Roy Moore as a conservative and as a sex abuse survivor — I used to admire men like Roy Moore, because I loved everything about church — the off-key a cappella rendition of “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” the typos in the bulletin, the ladies who smelled …
Decision Desk HQ:
Opinion-Savvy/DDHQ #ALSen Poll: Roy Moore 46.4%, Doug Jones 46% — With the special election just weeks away, Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones are essentially tied in the latest Opinion-Savvy poll of likely Alabama voters. In the previous survey, Moore lead Jones by 5.7%.
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Washington Monthly, Shareblue Media, The Daily Caller, Axios and Daily Kos
Allan Smith / Business Insider:
In a bizarre interview with Sean Hannity, Roy Moore says he didn't ‘generally’ …
In a bizarre interview with Sean Hannity, Roy Moore says he didn't ‘generally’ …
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Weekly Standard, Vox, CNN, Politico and The Daily Caller
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Denying Allegations, Moore Tells Hannity He Did ‘Not Generally’ Pursue Teens
Denying Allegations, Moore Tells Hannity He Did ‘Not Generally’ Pursue Teens
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RedState, Weekly Standard, ThinkProgress and Mother Jones
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Bannon Says Moore Story Seeks to 'Destroy a Man's Life'
Bannon Says Moore Story Seeks to 'Destroy a Man's Life'
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Raw Story
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Key Takeaways From Steve Bannon's Interview With The Times
Key Takeaways From Steve Bannon's Interview With The Times
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CBS News, Washington Post, Business Insider, Media Matters for America, The Daily Caller, IJR, ThinkProgress, Politico, CNN, Daily Kos, Townhall.com, AOL and The Gateway Pundit
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Moore defiant as Senate Republicans sever ties
Moore defiant as Senate Republicans sever ties
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Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Probes Flynn's Role in Alleged Plan to Deliver Cleric to Turkey — Under alleged plan, ex-Trump adviser and his son were to be paid millions to forcibly remove Fethullah Gulen from U.S. and deliver him to Turkish custody — WASHINGTON—Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating …
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Mueller Probing Pre-Election Flynn Meeting with Pro-Russia Congressman — WASHINGTON — Investigators for Special Counsel Robert Mueller are questioning witnesses about an alleged September 2016 meeting between Mike Flynn, who later briefly served as President Donald Trump's national security adviser …
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Talking Points Memo, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, IJR and Raw Story
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Devin Nunes attended a breakfast with Michael Flynn and Turkey's foreign minister just before the inauguration — Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, attended a breakfast meeting at which Michael Flynn and Turkey's foreign minister were also present.
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Raw Story
Ellen Page:
“You should f**k her to make her realize she's gay.” He said this about me during a cast and crew “meet and greet” before we began filming, X Men: The Last Stand. I was eighteen years old. He looked at a woman standing next to me, ten years my senior, pointed to me and said: “You should f**k her to make her realize she's gay.”
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The Guardian, IndieWire, Decider, NBC News, AOL, Deadline and Los Angeles Blade
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Trump judge nominee, 36, who has never tried a case, wins approval of Senate panel — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley discusses his panel's plans to move forward on President Trump's judicial nominees. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)
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Wall Street Journal:
Data Firm's WikiLeaks Outreach Came as It Joined Trump Campaign — Cambridge Analytica said it reached out to Julian Assange to share Hillary Clinton-related emails in ‘early June 2016,’ when the company had already started working for the campaign — The chief executive …
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
New York Times:
Louis C.K. Responds to Accusations: ‘These Stories Are True’ — Louis C.K. on Friday released a statement in response to a report published Thursday in The New York Times about several women who stepped forward to discuss experiences with him in which he committed acts of sexual misconduct.
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Chloe Melas / CNN:
Louis C.K.: ‘These stories are true’
Louis C.K.: ‘These stories are true’
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Brian Ross / ABC News:
Trump adviser claims he lied to FBI out of loyalty to Trump: Source — George Papadopoulos, the Trump foreign policy aide who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, initially misled agents out of what he claimed was loyalty to President Donald Trump, according to a person with direct knowledge of the investigation.
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Business Insider, Towleroad, Shareblue Media, Axios, AOL, Raw Story and IJR
Mary Ann Georgantopoulos / BuzzFeed:
This Writer Says Rolling Stone Founder Jann Wenner Offered Him Work In Exchange For Sex — Ben Ryan says the offer was made in the publisher's Upper West Side townhouse on Aug. 11, 2005. “There was that moment where it's like time stood still,” he recalled. “But that's not me. I would never do that.”
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The Hill, RedState and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »
David Conn / The Guardian:
Hope Solo accuses Sepp Blatter of sexual assault at awards ceremony — The former Fifa president Sepp Blatter has been accused by Hope Solo, the USA women's football team goalkeeper, of having sexually assaulted her at Fifa's Ballon d'Or awards ceremony in January 2013.
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The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon Advised Mark Cuban to Run in 2020 as a Democrat … As he publicly flirts with a run for the presidency in 2020, Mark Cuban has also privately been in touch with potential allies and strategists to plot out a campaign. — The Dallas Mavericks owner confirmed that he has corresponded …
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CNBC, Axios, IJR, Business Insider, CBS Pittsburgh, AOL, RedState and New York Magazine
CNN:
Power being restored after new outage in San Juan — Mom can't afford apartment after leaving PR — San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN)Power was gradually returning to San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Thursday after a massive outage struck the city. — The problem was with a failure …
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CBS News:
Aly Raisman says she was sexually abused by U.S. national team doctor — In an interview with 60 Minutes, the Olympic gold medalist says she spoke with FBI investigators after the Rio games — One of America's biggest Olympic stars has come forward to accuse the former U.S. women's gymnastics team doctor of sexual abuse.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Spicer's election-night memories cause anxiety in GOP — When former White House press secretary Sean Spicer bragged in an election-night retrospective this week about his central role at Trump Tower that night, some of his former colleagues did something very Spicer-like: They flipped out.
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Raw Story