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Everyone Knew Roy Moore Dated High School Girls, Says Former Colleague — And they thought it was “weird,” according to former deputy district attorney. — A former prosecutor who worked in Alabama with GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore in the early 1980s told CNN on Saturday that it was …
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Moore backers stand by their man — BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Roy Moore's supporters are shocked and angry. But it's not Moore they're upset with, after four women came forward to say that Moore pursued relationships with them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s.
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Trump dominates the GOP base. Party leaders live with the consequences. — The Republican Party has been plunged into ever more turmoil, thanks to the outcome of the off-year election in Virginia, the results of contests elsewhere around the country and an allegation of sexual misconduct against Roy Moore …
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Former Moore colleague: ‘Common knowledge’ that he dated high school girls
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Democrat: Effort to delay Alabama Senate election like a ‘dictatorship’
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Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, Excess of Democracy, The Gateway Pundit and New York Times

GOP fears Roy Moore will cost them a Senate seat
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Politico, Political Wire and New York Magazine

Why Roy Moore supporters are standing by him, in their own words
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New York Times


After a Disciplined Week in Asia, Trump Unloads on Critics — HANOI, Vietnam — For the last week on the road, President Trump had been measured, disciplined and studiously scripted as he picked his way through the geopolitical minefields of Asia. — Then came the weekend.
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Trump's chief of staff: ‘I do not follow the tweets’ — Hours after President Trump provoked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Twitter, suggesting he is “short and fat,” the White House chief of staff said he tells aides not to react to Trump's comments on social media.
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Trump: When will ‘haters and fools’ realize relationship with Russia is good
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Trump Is Rapidly Reshaping the Judiciary. Here's How. — WASHINGTON — In the weeks before Donald J. Trump took office, lawyers joining his administration gathered at a law firm near the Capitol, where Donald F. McGahn II, the soon-to-be White House counsel, filled a white board …
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Trump Nominee for Federal Judgeship Has Never Tried a Case — A 36-year-old lawyer who has never tried a case and who was unanimously deemed “not qualified” by the American Bar Association has been approved for a lifetime federal district judgeship by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Is There Nothing Republicans Can't Screw Up? — If you'd told me last year that complete Republican control of Congress and the White House would lead to nothing getting done, I would have laughed at you. Of course, last year I would have laughed at the idea of complete Republican control of government …


Polish Nationalist Youth March Draws Thousands in Capital — Crowd of mostly young people carries banners that read ‘Europe Will Be White’ and ‘Clean Blood’ — WARSAW—Tens of thousands of Poles marched across downtown Warsaw on Saturday, in an independence-day procession organized …
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Booman Tribune, New York Magazine and Al Jazeera English

Can My Children Be Friends With White People? — My oldest son, wrestling with a 4-year-old's happy struggles, is trying to clarify how many people can be his best friend. “My best friends are you and Mama and my brother and ...” But even a child's joy is not immune to this ominous political period.
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twitchy.com and The Gateway Pundit


Brady guarantees state and local deductions won't be eliminated — Rep. Kevin Brady, chairman of the Ways and Means committee, was unequivocal when asked on “Fox News Sunday” whether he could guarantee that deductions for state and local taxes would not be eliminated in the final tax plan: “I can,” he said.
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Politico


Ellis Island immigration center shuts down, Nov. 12, 1954 — On this day in 1954, the federal government shut down the Ellis Island immigrant reception station in New York Harbor. — From 1892 to 1924, the facility processed some 12 million immigrants. Nowadays, some 40 percent of Americans …
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US embassy hires security firm of former Russian spy who worked with Putin — The US embassy in Moscow is to be guarded by a company owned by a former head of KGB counter-intelligence who worked with British double agent Kim Philby and young Vladimir Putin, after cuts to US staff demanded by Russia.
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CIA: Director ‘stands by’ Russian interference assessment
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Trump, Putin issue joint statement on fighting ISIS in Syria
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CIA director stands by intel community assessment Russia meddled in election
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