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A Fifth Woman Accuses Senate Candidate Roy Moore of Sexual Misconduct — WASHINGTON — A fifth woman accused Roy S. Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, on Monday of making sexual or romantic advances toward her when she was a teenager, as senior Republicans in Washington called …
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50 pastors sign letter of support for Roy Moore — Kayla Moore, wife of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, shared a letter on Facebook indicating support from more than 50 Alabama pastors. — Moore's wife Kayla posted the letter to her Facebook page Sunday after days of controversy surrounding …
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Woman Says Roy Moore Tried to Rape Her When She Was 16 and Signed Her Yearbook … A woman on Monday accused Roy Moore of attempting to rape her when she was 16. — Beverly Young Nelson is the fifth woman to accuse the Alabama Republican candidate for Senate of sexual misconduct and the first woman to accuse him of attempted rape.
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Senate GOP campaign chair: Moore should be expelled if elected — Senate Republicans escalated their calls for embattled Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore to leave the race — with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell saying he believes the women who have accused Moore of sexual misconduct …
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Roy Moore is an embarrassment. Doug Jones deserves to win. — But for the bomb, the four would be in their 60s, probably grandmothers. Three were 14 and one was 11 in 1963 when the blast killed them in the 16th Street Baptist Church, which is four blocks from the law office of Doug Jones, who then was 9.
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New Roy Moore accuser to disclose sexual assault allegations, Gloria Allred says

McConnell, Senate GOP campaign chief repudiate Roy Moore's candidacy following allegations …
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BREITBART'S COMING EXPLOITATION OF THE BELIEVE WOMEN MOVEMENT
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Text of Beverly Young Nelson's Accusation Against Roy Moore
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Ignore the spin. Trump and the GOP have made a devil's bargain with Roy Moore.
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NRSC Chairman Cory Gardner Statement on Alabama's Special Senate Election
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The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks — Just before the stroke of midnight on September 20, 2016, at the height of last year's presidential election, the WikiLeaks Twitter account sent a private direct message to Donald Trump Jr., the Republican nominee's oldest son and campaign surrogate.
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Trump Jr. corresponded with WikiLeaks ahead of election — WikiLeaks sent Donald Trump Jr. a series of Twitter direct messages between September of last year and this past summer, with the president's son responding to a few of the messages sent ahead of November's election, the Atlantic's Julia Ioffe reports.
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Trump Judicial Pick Did Not Disclose He Is Married to a White House Lawyer — WASHINGTON — One of President Trump's most controversial judicial nominees did not disclose on publicly available congressional documents that he is married to a senior lawyer in the White House Counsel's Office.
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News photographer who protested White House restrictions on access gets revenge with revealing shot of Trump
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Woman Says George H.W. Bush Groped Her When She Was 16: ‘I Was a Child’ — Roslyn Corrigan was sixteen years old when she got a chance to meet George H.W. Bush, excited to be introduced to a former president having grown up dreaming of going into politics. — But Corrigan was crushed …
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No One Knows What Omarosa Is Doing in the White House—Even Omarosa … It's nearly 9 a.m. in the West Wing lobby. The room is quiet save for two staff assistants whispering about weekend plans, and me, waiting on an over-firm red sofa to meet with Omarosa Manigault.
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Menendez trial in turmoil as jurors admit hearing explosive comments — Gallery: The trial of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. — NJ Advance Media for NJ.com — NEWARK — Seven of the 16 jurors and alternates in the trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez raised their hands …
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Menendez jury deadlocks, judge orders them to keep trying to reach a verdict
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Menendez jurors tell judge they're deadlocked
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Colin Kaepernick Will Not Be Silenced — He's been vilified by millions and locked out of the NFL—all because he took a knee to protest police brutality. But Colin Kaepernick's determined stand puts him in rare company in sports history: Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson—athletes who risked everything to make a difference.
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Colin Kaepernick Is GQ's 2017 Citizen of the Year
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Amazon to Adapt J.R.R. Tolkien's Globally Renowned Fantasy Novels, The Lord of the Rings, for Television with a Multi Season Production Commitment — Television adaptation, exploring new storylines preceding J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring, slated to debut exclusively on Prime Video
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Amazon Sets ‘The Lord of the Rings’ TV Series In Mega Deal With Multi-Season Commitment
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Keurig CEO: Tweet regarding ‘Hannity’ created an ‘unacceptable situation’ — Ring up any social-media expert, and you'll get the same advice: Engage with people on Twitter and Facebook and etc. — Over the weekend, Keurig Green Mountain, that mainstay of water-cooler proximity, did just that.
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‘Transracial’ man born white feels like he is Filipino … TAMPA, Fla. — Riding in a flamboyant purple vehicle, Ja Du shows up to a coffee shop to open up about his new identity. — Ja Du, born a white male named Adam, now considers himself a Filipino. Turns out the purple ride …


James Woods Named by Actress Elizabeth Perkins at #MeToo Rally … Elizabeth Perkins called out the actor James Woods on Sunday, holding a sign bearing the words “James Woods #MeToo” as she joined a Los Angeles march designed to raise awareness of sexual assault and sexual harassment, and to demonstrate solidarity with the victims.
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Trump picks Alex Azar to lead the Health and Human Services Department — President Trump has tapped Alex Azar, a former pharmaceutical executive and a top health official during the George W. Bush administration, to lead the Health and Human Services Department.
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‘One of the most secretive, dark states’: What is Kansas trying to hide? — The statement was simple. Factual. — A Kansas spokesperson was acknowledging that the state highway department didn't have the money to rebuild a dangerous stretch of Interstate 70 that had been the scene …
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Owners have their own nuclear option for dealing with Jerry Jones — When it comes to the lingering dispute regarding the Roger Goodell contract extension, much has been written and said about the potential nuclear option possessed by Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.
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Bill Clinton: A Reckoning — The most remarkable thing about the current tide of sexual assault and harassment accusations is not their number. If every woman in America started talking about the things that happen during the course of an ordinary female life, it would never end.
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Green Beret Discovered SEALs' Illicit Cash. Then He Was Killed. … Logan Melgar hadn't had a drink on June 4. — The Green Beret sergeant's dry day became a key to unraveling the narrative spun by the elite Navy commandos whom military investigators now suspect killed him, officials familiar with the case said.
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Trump personally asked Xi Jinping to help resolve case of UCLA basketball players arrested in China — MANILA — President Trump personally asked his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to help resolve the case of three UCLA men's basketball players who were arrested for shoplifting while in Hangzhou …
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FBI seeks Senate documents, signaling possible probe into sale of fetal tissue — The FBI has asked the Senate for unredacted documents it obtained from abortion providers, signaling agents may be investigating whether Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers illegally sold fetal tissue …
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