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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
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.
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Aaron Klein / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE - Mother of Roy Moore Accuser: Washington Post Reporters Convinced My Daughter to Go Public — Birmingham, ALABAMA — The mother of Leigh Corfman, who says that Alabama Senatorial Candidate Roy Moore tried to engage in a sexual encounter with her when she was 14 …
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David Atkins / Washington Monthly:
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 …
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The Hill and Mother Jones
Clare Foran / The Atlantic:
Keith Ellison Believes Democrats Will Take Back the House and Senate — Keith Ellison has a prediction. The deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee believes that Democrats will win back not just the House of Representatives in 2018, but the Senate as well.
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NBC News:
GOP Senate Candidate Roy Moore Threatens to Sue Washington Post
GOP Senate Candidate Roy Moore Threatens to Sue Washington Post
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Alabama Polls: Judge Roy Moore Maintains Double Digit Lead Over Democrat Doug Jones …
Exclusive — Alabama Polls: Judge Roy Moore Maintains Double Digit Lead Over Democrat Doug Jones …
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Change Research, The Last Tradition, Power Line, al.com, The Gateway Pundit and Politico
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Moore seeks to refocus campaign on conservative religious values amid firestorm
Moore seeks to refocus campaign on conservative religious values amid firestorm
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New York Magazine
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
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 …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
House Republicans' big TAX REFORM moment — TRUMP TEASES a Wednesday trade announcement — MNUCHIN and IVANKA to NJ to sell tax reform — DEMS smell opportunity in the South — GREG KELLY gets married — DRIVING THE DAY — Good Monday morning. With the Roy Moore controversy continuing to rage …
Reuters:
Philippines' Duterte sings love song for Trump: ‘You are the light’
Philippines' Duterte sings love song for Trump: ‘You are the light’
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
In Asia, Trump briefly baffled by group handshake
In Asia, Trump briefly baffled by group handshake
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Politico
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump teases Wednesday trade announcement at the White House
Trump teases Wednesday trade announcement at the White House
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Political Wire and ABC News
Frances Robles / New York Times:
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.
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Whitefish draws scrutiny over money charged to Puerto Rico: report
Whitefish draws scrutiny over money charged to Puerto Rico: report
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RedState
Mike Memoli / NBC News:
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.
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Associated Press:
Biden on 2020: 'Not sure it's the appropriate thing' to do
Biden on 2020: 'Not sure it's the appropriate thing' to do
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Weekly Standard, Axios and Political Wire
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
Biden 2020? It's Not as Crazy as It Sounds
The Daily Beast:
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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AOL and New York Magazine
Rebecca Traister / thecut:
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.
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Unfogged
New York Times:
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 …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
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.
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
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:
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Balloon Juice
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
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 …
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
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.
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