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12:30 PM ET, November 13, 2017

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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.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Ignore the spin.  Trump and the GOP have made a devil's bargain with Roy Moore.  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  Top White House officials have now made President Trump's position on Roy Moore absolutely clear: Trump does not believe that the allegations that Moore initiated sexual contact with a 14-year-old …
Associated Press:
Moore threatens lawsuit over story that threatens campaign  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Alabama Republican Roy Moore says a lawsuit will be filed over the newspaper report carrying allegations that he had sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl four decades ago and that neither Democrats nor Republicans …
Discussion: RedState, Daily Kos and Joe.My.God.
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McConnell: ‘I believe the women’ accusing Roy Moore
Discussion: Political Wire
Paul Gattis / al.com:
Roy Moore says he will file lawsuit against The Washington Post
Clare Foran / The Atlantic:
Keith Ellison Believes Democrats Will Take Back the House and Senate
Susannah Cullinane / CNN:
Moore threatens to sue Washington Post over report
Discussion: TVNewser, IJR and The Daily Caller
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Breitbart aims to discredit Roy Moore's accusers
David Zurawik / Baltimore Sun:
How Sinclair compromised the news on an Alabama station it owns to support Roy Moore
Aaron Klein / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE - Mother of Roy Moore Accuser: Washington Post Reporters Convinced My Daughter to Go Public
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 …
Discussion: Politico, Mashable and Mediaite
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
In Asia, Trump briefly baffled by group handshake
Bloomberg:
Trump Bonds With Duterte Over Their Dislike of Obama, Avoids Human Rights
Discussion: IJR
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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Elaina Plott / The Daily Beast:
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
Kansas City Star:
‘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 …
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
New York Times:
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: Unfogged
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Anti-Trump hotel planned for DC  —  Liberals traveling to Washington, D.C., may soon have a place to stay that's catered to them - an anti-Trump hotel scheduled to open in spring 2018.  —  The Eaton Workshop hotel is billed as “the world's first politically motivated hotel,” according to Bloomberg.
Discussion: RedState and Joe.My.God.
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Nikki Ekstein / Bloomberg:
Coming Soon to Washington: An Anti-Trump Hotel for Liberals
Discussion: Washingtonian
Rachel Roubein / The Hill:
Trump nominating Azar as next HHS secretary  —  President Trump on Monday tapped Alex Azar for secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), a role vacated by Tom Price  —  in late September amid revelations that Price took repeated trips on government and private jets that cost taxpayers more than $1 million.
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Washington Post:
Trump picks Alex Azar to lead the Health and Human Services Department
Discussion: Daily Kos
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 …
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Ali Rogin / ABC News:
10 days after attack, Sen. Rand Paul returning to DC
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Bloomberg:
Here's Where the GOP Tax Plan Stands Right Now
Discussion: Washington Times
Meg Kelly / Washington Post:
All the known times the Trump campaign met with Russians
Discussion: AOL and Fox News Insider
New York Times:
Despite Recent Wins for Democrats, Gerrymanders Dim Hopes for 2018
Discussion: Washington Post
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
‘Way too little, way too late’: Facebook's factcheckers say effort is failing
Daily Mail:
I called a trans boy a girl by mistake... and it may cost me my job as a teacher: Maths tutor suspended …
Discussion: MelaniePhillips.com and IJR
 Earlier Items: 
Sophie Weiner / Popular Mechanics:
Bill Gates Is Buying Land in Arizona to Build a “Smart City”
Discussion: The Daily Caller and CityLab
Jacob B. / twitchy.com:
LOLOLOL! George Takei identifies who's really to blame for his sexual assault allegations
Discussion: IJR
Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
She Warned of ‘Peer-to-Peer Misinformation.’ Congress Listened.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Did dossier trigger the Trump-Russia probe?
Heather Long / Washington Post:
More than 400 millionaires tell Congress: Don't cut our taxes
Discussion: Boing Boing and AOL
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
'They Want to Know If Trump's Crazy'
 

 
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