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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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
National Review:
Roy Moore Should Drop Out  —  The Washington Post published allegations on Thursday that, when he was in his 30s, Alabama Republican Roy Moore dated teenage girls, including a 14-year-old he touched sexually.  —  The accusations are very old, going back to the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed:
Poll Shows Alabama Race Tied After Allegations Against Roy Moore  —  Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore.  —  Scott Olson / Getty Images  —  A new poll shows the Senate race in Alabama is now too close to call, following an accusation that Republican nominee Roy Moore pursued …
New York Times:   Republicans Try to Block Moore's Path as Candidate Denies Sexual Misconduct
David Wright / CNN:
Moore's brother denies charges, compares persecution to Jesus
Josh Moon / Alabama Political Reporter:   There is no bottom for Roy Moore Republicans
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Alabama GOP lawmaker: Roy Moore accusers should be prosecuted for not coming forward sooner
Discussion: New York Times
Sophie Tatum / CNN:
Roy Moore calls allegations against him ‘completely false’
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
This is what 44 seconds of GOP senators not responding to questions about Roy Moore sounds like
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 …
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Devin Nunes attended a breakfast with Michael Flynn and Turkey's foreign minister just before the inauguration
Discussion: 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.”
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)
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’
Discussion: CNNMoney and IJR, more at Mediagazer »
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Louis C.K.'s Powerful Army of Celebrity Enablers
Matt Zoller Seitz / Vulture:
Louis C.K. Is Done
Discussion: Washington Post, Slate and thecut
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 …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
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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Tribuna:
Hope Solo: “Sepp Blatter grabbed my ass. Can I talk about that?”
Discussion: USA Today, Deadspin and Mashable
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.
Discussion: NPR, WTVR-TV, NBC News and The Big Lead
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ESPN:
Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman says she was abused by Larry Nassar
Discussion: Townhall.com, Towleroad and Jezebel
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.
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 …
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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