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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McConnell: ‘I believe the women’ accusing Roy Moore — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Monday that Alabama Senate GOP candidate Roy Moore should leave the race, saying he believes the women who have accused Moore of sexual misconduct. — “I think he should step aside …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
McConnell Calls for Roy Moore to Drop Out of Senate Race — WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, said Monday that Roy S. Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, “should step aside” and that he believes the women who have accused Mr. Moore of sexual misconduct when they were teenagers.
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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 …
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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 Zurawik / Baltimore Sun:
How Sinclair compromised the news on an Alabama station it owns to support Roy Moore — I have been writing a lot lately about the way Sinclair Broadcast Group has become a leading player in the right-wing echo chamber that includes Fox News and Breitbart. — This is a dangerous development …
Associated Press:
Moore threatens lawsuit over story that threatens campaign
Moore threatens lawsuit over story that threatens campaign
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NBC News, Bangor Daily News, Daily Kos, RedState and Joe.My.God.
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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Associated Press:
The Latest: Alabama governor says Dec. 12 election on track
The Latest: Alabama governor says Dec. 12 election on track
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on allegations against Roy Moore: ‘I believe the women, yes’
Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on allegations against Roy Moore: ‘I believe the women, yes’
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Axios, Washington Monthly and Politico
Eli Watkins / CNN:
McConnell on Moore: ‘I believe the women,’ Moore should go
McConnell on Moore: ‘I believe the women,’ Moore should go
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Washington Post, Washington Monthly, New Republic and IJR
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.
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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
In Asia, Trump briefly baffled by group handshake
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Politico, The Gateway Pundit and Los Angeles Times
Aric Jenkins / TIME:
Woman Says George H.W. Bush Groped Her When She Was 16: ‘I Was a Child’ — Roslyn Corrigan was sixteen years old when she got a chance to meet George H.W. Bush, excited to be introduced to a former president having grown up dreaming of going into politics. — But Corrigan was crushed …
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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.
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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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GQ:
Colin Kaepernick Is GQ's 2017 Citizen of the Year
Colin Kaepernick Is GQ's 2017 Citizen of the Year
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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 …
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Axios and Political Wire
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Keurig CEO: Tweet regarding ‘Hannity’ created an ‘unacceptable situation’ — Ring up any social-media expert, and you'll get the same advice: Engage with people on Twitter and Facebook and etc. — Over the weekend, Keurig Green Mountain, that mainstay of water-cooler proximity, did just that.
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Tom McKay / Gizmodo:
Angry Sean Hannity Fans Are Smashing Keurigs on Twitter Because 2017 Is Dumb as Heck
Angry Sean Hannity Fans Are Smashing Keurigs on Twitter Because 2017 Is Dumb as Heck
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Media Matters for America and Joe.My.God.
Nikki Ekstein / Bloomberg:
Coming Soon to Washington: An Anti-Trump Hotel for Liberals — Expect counter-cultural art, progressive fireside chats, and craft materials for your next great protest poster. — The first thing you'll see when you walk into Eaton Workshop, a hotel opening in late spring 2018 in Washington …
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New Jersey Online:
Menendez trial in turmoil as jurors admit hearing explosive comments — Gallery: The trial of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. — NJ Advance Media for NJ.com — NEWARK — Seven of the 16 jurors and alternates in the trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez raised their hands …
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump personally asked Xi Jinping to help resolve case of UCLA basketball players arrested in China — MANILA — President Trump personally asked his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to help resolve the case of three UCLA men's basketball players who were arrested for shoplifting while in Hangzhou …
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Axios, The Daily Caller, Press Enterprise, Deadspin, CBS Los Angeles and The Root
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
FBI: Hate crimes on the rise in the US — Hate crimes increased in the U.S. last year, according to new data released by the FBI. — There were 6,121 hate crimes reported in 2016, according to the FBI's data, an increase from the around 5,800 incidents reported in 2015.
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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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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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Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
George Papadopoulos told a senior Trump adviser he had an ‘interesting message’ from Russia — a day after learning of Clinton ‘dirt’ — George Papadopoulos told Stephen Miller, a senior Trump campaign policy adviser, that he had received “interesting messages” from Moscow …
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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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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 …
Brandon Moseley / Alabama Political Reporter:
GOP chair warns Republican office-holders against supporting write-in candidates — Sunday, Republican Party Chairman Terry Lathan told the Alabama Political Reporter that she has not even heard of any GOP elected official or candidate that is even considering running as a write-in candidate …
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