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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 …
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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 …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McConnell: ‘I believe the women’ accusing Roy Moore
McConnell: ‘I believe the women’ accusing Roy Moore
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Political Wire
Susannah Cullinane / CNN:
Moore threatens to sue Washington Post over report
Moore threatens to sue Washington Post over report
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TVNewser, IJR and The Daily Caller
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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American Thinker, New York Times and Washington Free Beacon
David Zurawik / Baltimore Sun:
How Sinclair compromised the news on an Alabama station it owns to support Roy Moore
How Sinclair compromised the news on an Alabama station it owns to support Roy Moore
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
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
Bloomberg:
Trump Bonds With Duterte Over Their Dislike of Obama, Avoids Human Rights
Trump Bonds With Duterte Over Their Dislike of Obama, Avoids Human Rights
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IJR
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, BillMoyers.com, The Root, NPR, bizpacreview.com, RT and The Gateway Pundit
Dan Merica / CNN:
White House says Trump, Duterte ‘briefly’ discussed human rights but Philippine spokesman says they didn't
White House says Trump, Duterte ‘briefly’ discussed human rights but Philippine spokesman says they didn't
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Shareblue Media, IJR and Balloon Juice
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump struggles with group handshake at Asean meeting
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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CBS San Francisco, twitchy.com and IJR
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
GQ names Kaepernick ‘Citizen of the Year’
GQ names Kaepernick ‘Citizen of the Year’
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GQ, Axios, The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
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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Raw Story
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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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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The Daily Caller, New York's PIX11, 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
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
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.
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Nikki Ekstein / Bloomberg:
Coming Soon to Washington: An Anti-Trump Hotel for Liberals
Coming Soon to Washington: An Anti-Trump Hotel for Liberals
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Washingtonian
Washington Post:
Trump picks Alex Azar to lead the Health and Human Services Department — President Trump has tapped Alex Azar, a former pharmaceutical executive and a top health official during the George W. Bush administration, to lead the Health and Human Services Department.
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Rachel Roubein / The Hill:
Trump nominating Azar as next HHS secretary
Trump nominating Azar as next HHS secretary
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ThinkProgress, Vox, ABC News, Axios, Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller
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 …
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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.