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8:05 AM ET, November 16, 2017

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Washington Post:
Two more women describe unwanted overtures by Roy Moore at Alabama mall  —  Kayla McLaughlin, left, and Gena Richardson worked together at Sears in the late 1970s.  The pair is seen in this image from 1977.  Richardson says Roy Moore, then in his 30s, visited her at Sears and that Moore later called her school to ask her out.
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Anna Claire Vollers / al.com:
New Roy Moore accuser: 'He didn't pinch it; he grabbed it'  —  A Gadsden woman says Roy Moore groped her while she was in his law office on legal business with her mother in 1991.  Moore was married at that time.  —  In the past week, Moore has been accused by five other women of a range …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
GOP leaders weigh drastic plan to save Alabama Senate seat  —  Republican leaders are exploring a dramatic remedy to salvage the Alabama Senate seat as fresh polling shows Roy Moore's prospects fading fast.  —  With less than four weeks until the special election and no sign …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
NRSC poll: Moore trails Jones by 12  —  Republican Roy Moore is trailing Democrat Doug Jones by 12 points in the Alabama special Senate election, according to a poll conducted by the National Republican Senatorial Committee after five women accused Moore of pursuing them as teenagers.
Rich Lowry / Politico:
Roy Moore Is Pure Steve Bannon  —  Roy Moore is the Steve Bannon project in a nutshell.  —  For the former Trump operative, the Alabama Senate candidate's tattered credibility is a feature, not a bug.  If Moore had well-considered political and legal views, good judgment and a sterling reputation …
Discussion: RedState
Kent Faulk / al.com:
AL.com: We will not be silenced or slowed by Roy Moore's threat  —  Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore has threatened to file a lawsuit against AL.com based on its reporting about him.  He claims the media organization has falsely reported information and has attempted to orchestrate a …
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Senate Republicans look to Trump to restore order amid Alabama upheaval
William S. Brewbaker III / New York Times:   Roy Moore and the Sorry State of Evangelical Politics
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Bannon not backing down on Moore because he believes denials
Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal:
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson Opposes GOP Senate Tax Package  —  Wisconsin Republican says plan unfairly benefits corporations over other businesses, says he finds bill's process ‘offensive’  —  WASHINGTON—Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) said he opposes the Senate Republican tax package …
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Trump to allow imports of African elephant trophies  —  The Trump administration is reversing an Obama administration ban on bringing to the United States the heads of elephants killed in two African countries.  —  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) said it has determined …
Discussion: Politicus USA
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Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
Trump admin. to reverse ban on elephant trophies from Africa
Discussion: VICE News, Gizmodo and Mother Jones
Wayne Pacelle:   Interior Department to allow imports of elephant and lion trophies from Africa, reversing Obama policies
Luke Harding / The Guardian:
How Trump walked into Putin's web  —  oscow, summer 1991.  Mikhail Gorbachev is in power.  Official relations with the west have softened, but the KGB still assumes all western embassy workers are spooks.  The KGB agents assigned to them are easy to spot.  They have a method.
Discussion: Raw Story
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CNN:
Fusion GPS co-founder: Steele didn't pay sources for dossier on Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:   ‘Dossier’ author Christopher Steele: Trump's hotel and land deals with Russians need to be examined
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Christopher Steele believes his dossier on Trump-Russia is 70-90% accurate
Catherine Lucey / Associated Press:
Ivanka Trump says child tax credit ‘not a pet project’  —  BAYVILLE, N.J. (AP) — Yes, it turns out, there is something that chafes at the unflappable Ivanka Trump.  —  The presidential daughter and adviser, in a “full-blown sprint” as she sells the Republican tax overhaul plan and juggles …
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Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
A notorious far-right blogger may have provoked WikiLeaks' outreach to Donald Trump Jr.  — Far-right blogger Charles Johnson may have played a role in WikiLeaks' eventual outreach to Donald Trump Jr.  — Trump Jr.'s exchanges with WikiLeaks over the course of 10 months have come under scrutiny …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
What Donald Trump's UCLA tweet reveals about him  —  Washington (CNN)Think about this: You've just spent nearly two weeks halfway around the world.  You've spent most of the last 24 hours on a plane.  Your body clock is somewhere between 12-14 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time.  You are 71 years old.
New York Times:
Koch Brothers Said to Back Time Inc. Deal Talks With Meredith  —  Time Inc. is said to be in talks to sell itself to the Meredith Corporation, in a deal backed by Charles G. and David H. Koch, the billionaire brothers known for supporting conservative causes.
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Nick Penzenstadler / USA Today:
Taxpayers pay legal bill to protect Trump business profits
Discussion: The Atlantic
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
The IRS Is Building a Safe to Hold Trump's Tax Returns  —  Before John Koskinen became the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in 2013, he was a successful corporate turnaround artist, a specialist in fixing large and distressed organizations.  That's why President Barack Obama asked …
Discussion: The Hill
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Hope Hicks may hold the keys to Mueller's Russia puzzle  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is preparing to interview the woman who's seen it all: Hope Hicks.  —  She's been part of Donald Trump's inner circle for years, first at Trump Tower and then as an omnipresent gatekeeper …
Robert E. Rubin / Washington Post:
The Republican tax plan's five worst dangers  —  (Michael Reynolds/Reynold/Epa-Efe/Rex/ Shutterstock)  —  Robert E. Rubin, a co-chairman emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, was U.S. treasury secretary from 1995 to 1999.  —  The deficit-funded tax cuts advancing through Congress …
Discussion: Issues
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
The GOP tax plan will be a massive political nightmare for Republicans
Vivian Gornick / New Republic:
Little House, Small Government  —  How Laura Ingalls Wilder's frontier vision of freedom and survival lives on in Trump's America.  —  Laura Ingalls Wilder, who wrote the “Little House on the Prairie” books, lived a good two decades of her 90 years in a covered wagon going west.
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
At Least My Generation Will Have Our Revenge On The Millennials  —  With all the awful things happening now - the discord, the anger, the stupidity - at least those of my generation can rest easy knowing that the Millennials are going to suffer after we're gone.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
 
 
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John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Republican Governors Seek to Avoid 2018 Election Damage From Trump, Moore
Discussion: Political Wire
Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
Feinstein Presses Insiders on Trump-Russia Dealings
Travis Rieder / NBC News:
Science proves kids are bad for Earth. Morality suggests we stop having them.
Discussion: NewsBusters and The Resurgent
New York Times:
Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs
Discussion: NPR and Jezebel
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Two GOP senators oppose Trump's EPA chemical safety nominee
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Alex Ritman / Hollywood Reporter:
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GOP strategists worry incumbents aren't ready for a blue wave
James Bovard / The Hill:
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Three Former Colleagues Sue Secretary Of Commerce Wilbur Ross
CBS News:
Democrats grab Albuquerque mayoral seat back from GOP in blowout
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