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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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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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The Hill, Washington Free Beacon and Breitbart
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
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, Associated Press, 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
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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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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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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Toronto Star, The Guardian, NPR, bizpacreview.com, The Gateway Pundit and RT
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
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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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
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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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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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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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.
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 …
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 …
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Pennsylvania's elections tell us how worried Republicans nationwide should be … YORK, Pa. — A convicted felon-turned-environmental activist registered as a Democrat but running as a Republican defeated the black female Democratic incumbent in York's mayoral race on Election Day last week.