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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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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
'There's more to come from this creep': MSNBC panel disturbed by Roy Moore's remarks to Sean Hannity — MSNBC's “Morning Joe” addressed the continuing fallout from revelations of Roy Moore's decades-old sexual relationships with teenage girls — and the Republican Party's response.
David Atkins / Washington Monthly:
Yes. It's an Entire Culture of Sanctioned Sexual Abuse.
Yes. It's an Entire Culture of Sanctioned Sexual Abuse.
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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 Believes Democrats Will Take Back the House and Senate
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New York Times, FiveThirtyEight and USA Today
Aaron Klein / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE - Mother of Roy Moore Accuser: Washington Post Reporters Convinced My Daughter to Go Public
EXCLUSIVE - Mother of Roy Moore Accuser: Washington Post Reporters Convinced My Daughter to Go Public
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Baltimore Sun, Weekly Standard, USA Today, New York Times, The Reality-Based Community, The Guardian, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller, Alabama Political Reporter, Religion News Service, Washington Monthly, Above the Law, The Last Tradition, American Thinker, Patterico's Pontifications, The Hill, Mediaite, Hullabaloo, Power Line, WTVR-TV, MTmofo and NBC News
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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Talking Points Memo, Towleroad and Joe.My.God.
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 and 1A
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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Mashable and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
In Asia, Trump briefly baffled by group handshake — MANILA, Philippines (AP) — President Donald Trump is known for his long, at times aggressive, handshakes with world leaders. But at an international summit in the Philippines on Monday, he struggled briefly with a different kind of handshake.
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Politico, The Gateway Pundit and Los Angeles Times
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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Bloomberg, Toronto Star, The Guardian, NPR, bizpacreview.com, The Gateway Pundit and RT
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
House Republicans' big TAX REFORM moment …
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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ABC News, Political Wire and The Root
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 …
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Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
Associated Press:
Biden on 2020: 'Not sure it's the appropriate thing' to do — Former Vice President Joe Biden said he is uncertain about a run for president in 2020, but indicated he's looking for fresh blood to lead the Democratic Party back to the White House. — “I've done it a long time,” said Biden …
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Axios, Weekly Standard and Political Wire
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Mike Memoli / NBC News:
Biden Book Looks Back at the Path He Didn't Take (But Still Could)
Biden Book Looks Back at the Path He Didn't Take (But Still Could)
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NBC News
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
Biden 2020? It's Not as Crazy as It Sounds
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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Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight and Raw Story
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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 …
George Skelton / Associated Press:
Capitol Journal In high-tax California, a vote to scrap deductions could be the kiss of death for endangered House Republicans — Rep. Darrell Issa speaks during a town hall meeting in Oceanside in March. — Capitol Journal — Some of America's most important political races …
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Poll: Nearly half of white Southerners feel like they're under attack — Nearly half of white Americans living in the South feel like they're under attack, a new Winthrop University poll found. — Forty-six percent of white Southerners said they agree or strongly agree that white people …
Alec Tyson / Pew Research Center:
Americans generally positive about NAFTA, but most Republicans say it benefits Mexico more than U.S. — As Mexico prepares to host the fifth round of negotiations over the 23-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), most Americans (56%) say that the pact is good for the United States …
GQ:
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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The Hill, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and Fox News Insider
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.