Breitbart aims to discredit Roy Moore's accusers  —  Steve Bannon has sent two of Breitbart News' top reporters, Matt Boyle and Aaron Klein, to Alabama.  Their mission: to discredit the Washington Post's reporting on Roy Moore's alleged sexual misconduct with teenagers.

News photographer who protested White House restrictions on access gets revenge with revealing shot of Trump  —  MANILA — The fight over access between reporters and any White House can sometimes seem more like an exercise in First Amendment theory than practical reality …

The Lineman Got $63 an Hour.  The Utility Was Billed $319 an Hour.  —  SAN JUAN — The small energy outfit from Montana that won a $300 million contract to help rebuild Puerto Rico's tattered power grid had few employees of its own, so it did what the Puerto Rican authorities could have done: It turned to Florida for workers.

We Are All Implicated in the Post-Weinstein Reckoning … The anger window is open.  For decades, centuries, it was closed: Something bad happened to you, you shoved it down, you maybe told someone but probably didn't get much satisfaction — emotional or practical — from the confession.

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.

Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core  —  A serial leak of the agency's cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide.  —  WASHINGTON — Jake Williams awoke last April in an Orlando …

Did dossier trigger the Trump-Russia probe?  —  The FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump-Russia affair shortly after receiving the first installment of an anti-Trump dossier from a former British spy working for the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Pricing access to the Trump White House: the strange case of the Times social media policy  —  Follow these events with me.  Then I will share my view of what is going on here.  —  On Sep. 17, Glenn Thrush, White House reporter for the New York Times, posted this on Twitter:

Biden Book Looks Back at the Path He Didn't Take (But Still Could)  —  In 2015, days after a New York Times column kicked into overdrive speculation about a Joe Biden presidential run, an aide delivered to the vice president a fresh draft of a speech announcing his intention to run.

What Mueller's org chart reveals about his Russia probe  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller has not publicly uttered a single word about the direction of his high-stakes Russia probe.  —  But the way he's assigned the 17 federal prosecutors on his team — pieced together by POLITICO …

Liz Smith, Longtime Queen of Tabloid Gossip Columns, Dies at 94  —  Liz Smith, the longtime queen of New York's tabloid gossip columns, who for more than three decades chronicled little triumphs and trespasses in the soap-opera lives of the rich, the famous and the merely beautiful, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan.

Yes.  It's an Entire Culture of Sanctioned Sexual Abuse.  —  Yesterday I wrote that Roy Moore's behavior was in keeping with hardcore conservative evangelical culture of sanctioned patriarchal sexual abuse.  I have also stated that the release of the Access Hollywood tape almost certainly …

'They Want to Know If Trump's Crazy'  —  Subscribe to The Global POLITICO on Apple Podcasts here.  Subscribe via Stitcher here.  —  “They want to know if he's crazy,” said Suzanne DiMaggio, “or if this is just an act.”  —  “They” is North Korean officials.  And “he” is Donald Trump.