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Kyle Whitmire / al.com:
Don't believe Roy Moore's accusers?  Then listen to Moore  —  Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore leaves after he speaks at a church revival, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, in Jackson, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) (Brynn Anderson)  —  For some it is too much to ask to believe the women.
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Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
Roy Moore Dated ‘Younger Ladies’ For Their ‘Purity,’ His Pastor Friend Says  —  A prominent right-wing preacher who appeared alongside Senate candidate Roy Moore at a campaign rally just days ago said that Moore dated teen girls because of their “purity” and because when he got back from Vietnam …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump on Roy Moore race: We don't need a Democrat in the seat … President Trump on Tuesday appeared to throw his support behind Roy Moore, despite allegations of sexual misconduct lodged against the Republican Alabama Senate candidate.  —  “We don't need a liberal Democrat in the seat,” …
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:   Trump Defends Roy Moore, Citing Candidate's Denial of Allegations
Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
Flip Benham: Roy Moore Pursued Teenagers Because All The Other Women Were Married
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump gives Roy Moore his de facto endorsement
Discussion: ABC News and Joe.My.God.
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Moore campaign rips media, political establishment
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and IJR
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Ivanka Trump and Jeff Sessions take center stage in Doug Jones ad in Alabama
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
‘The View’: Kellyanne Conway ‘Sold Her Soul’ to Defend Roy Moore
Discussion: ABC News and Mother Jones
Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg:
Uber Concealed Cyberattack That Exposed 57 Million People's Data  —  Company paid hackers $100,000 to delete info, keep quiet  —  Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan and another exec ousted  —  Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber Technologies Inc. …
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Uber Newsroom:
2016 Data Security Incident  —  Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmailMore sharing options  —  As Uber's CEO, it's my job to set our course for the future, which begins with building a company that every Uber employee, partner and customer can be proud of.
Paul McLeod / BuzzFeed:
Another Woman Accused Rep. John Conyers Of Sexual Harassment In Court Filings This Year  —  A former scheduler for the Democratic congressman said she faced daily harassment from him, in a suit she later abandoned after a court denied her request to keep it sealed.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Why BuzzFeed teamed with a far-right figure to break the John Conyers scandal  —  Journalism can make for strange bedfellows.  Case in point: BuzzFeed and Mike Cernovich.  —  Cernovich — a controversial far-right figure who has promoted blatantly false conspiracy theories, such as the discredited …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Conyers denies sexual harassment settlements  —  FILE- In this April 4, 2017, file photo, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., speaks during a hearing of the House Judiciary subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington.  Buzzfeed, a news website, is reporting that Conyers settled a complaint …
Paul McLeod / BuzzFeed:
She Said That A Powerful Congressman Harassed Her. Here's Why You Didn't Hear Her Story.
Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
John Lasseter's Pattern of Alleged Misconduct Detailed by Disney/Pixar Insiders  —  One longtime Pixar employee says Lasseter was known for “grabbing, kissing, making comments about physical attributes.”  —  Rashida Jones is still credited as a writer on Toy Story 4, the next installment in the beloved franchise.
Discussion: WHNT-TV, Gizmodo, Mediaite and IndieWire
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Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:
John Lasseter Taking Leave of Absence From Pixar Amid “Missteps”  —  “It's never easy to face your missteps, but it's the only way to learn from them,” the executive stated.  —  Disney Animation head John Lasseter is taking a leave of absence from Pixar after acknowledging “painful” …
Variety:
John Lasseter Takes Leave of Absence From Disney/Pixar, Apologizes for Unwanted Hugs
Discussion: Power Line and AOL
Brian Fung / Washington Post:
FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see and use  —  Federal regulators unveiled a plan Tuesday that would give Internet providers broad powers to determine what websites and online services their customers can see and use, and at what cost.
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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
F.C.C. Announces Plan to Repeal Net Neutrality
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Mashable and Hit & Run
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
The FCC's craven net neutrality vote announcement makes no mention of the 22 million comments filed
Discussion: The Verge, RT and Common Dreams
Eric Schneiderman:
An Open Letter to the FCC:
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Kelly Has Clipped his Wings”: Jared Kushner's Horizons Are Collapsing within the West Wing  —  The West Wing princeling's portfolio had been shrunk largely to the Middle East—but then his Saudi Arabia trip caused problems for the chief of staff.  —  When Donald Trump appointed John Kelly …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and CNN
Wall Street Journal:
Special Counsel Mueller Probes Jared Kushner's Contacts With Foreign Leaders  —  Investigators look into Trump senior adviser's role in talks about U.N.'s resolution condemning Israel  —  WASHINGTON— Robert Mueller's investigators are asking questions about Jared Kushner's interactions …
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
He's a Member of Congress.  The Kremlin Likes Him So Much It Gave Him a Code Name  —  WASHINGTON — For two decades, Representative Dana Rohrabacher has been of value to the Kremlin, so valuable in recent years that the F.B.I. warned him in 2012 that Russia regarded him as an intelligence source worthy of a Kremlin code name.
New Yorker:
Harvey Weinstein's Secret Settlements  —  The mogul used money from his brother and elaborate legal agreements to hide allegations of predation for decades.  —  On April 20, 2015, the Filipina-Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez sat in an office in midtown Manhattan with an eighteen-page legal agreement in front of her.
Elizabeth McLaughlin / ABC News:
Additional remains of Sgt. La David Johnson found in Niger  —  Additional remains of U.S. soldier Sgt. La David Johnson were found on Nov. 12 at the site in Niger where his body was recovered, a U.S. official confirmed to ABC News.  —  Johnson and three other U.S. Army soldiers were killed …
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CNN:
US official: Additional remains of Sgt. La David Johnson found in Niger
Discussion: Associated Press, WTKR-TV and Axios
Media Matters for America:
Breitbart editor-in-chief: The word “rape” now means “any sex that the woman ends up regretting that she had”  —  Alex Marlow: “Rape used to mean something.  We used to all knew what it meant.  And then now we don't know what it means.  And then we don't know what's credible and what's not.”
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Breitbart editor: Rape used to mean something, now it's ‘any sex that the woman ends up regretting’
Justin Baragona / Mediaite:   Breitbart Editor-In-Chief: ‘Rape Used to Mean Something,’ Now It's Just Sex Women Regret
ProPublica:
Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race  —  After ProPublica revealed last year that Facebook advertisers could target housing ads to whites only, the company announced it had built a system to spot and reject discriminatory ads.  We retested and found major omissions.
Megha Mohan / BBC:
Rape and no periods in North Korea's army  —  A former soldier says life as a woman in the world's fourth-largest army was so tough that most soon stopped menstruating.  And rape, she says, was a fact of life for many of those she served with.  —  For almost 10 years Lee So Yeon slept …
Discussion: Fox News, RedState and IJR
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Leading Trump Census pick causes alarm  —  The Trump administration is leaning toward naming Thomas Brunell, a Texas professor with no government experience, to the top operational job at the U.S. Census Bureau, according to two people who have been briefed on the bureau's plans.
Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast:
CEO of HQ, the Hottest App Going: If You Run This Profile, We'll Fire Our Host … Every day, hundreds of thousands of people all over the world fire up their smartphones and log onto HQ, a live trivia app that has attracted enormous online buzz and been called the “Future of TV” in the past week.
Keith Collins / Quartz:
Google collects Android users' locations even when location services are disabled  —  Many people realize that smartphones track their locations.  But what if you actively turn off location services, haven't used any apps, and haven't even inserted a carrier SIM card?
Reuters:
Exclusive - State Dept. revolt: Tillerson accused of violating U.S. law on child soldiers  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of about a dozen U.S. State Department officials have taken the unusual step of formally accusing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of violating a federal law designed …
 
 
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Washington Post:
White House military personnel removed amid investigation into contacts with foreign women during Trump's Asia trip
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
UNSEALED: Fusion GPS Bank Records Show Russia-Related Payments
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Federal court puts stop to Trump's transgender military ban
Discussion: Splinter and The Daily Caller
Katie Zavadski / The Daily Beast:
FBI Investigates Congressman for His Campaign Paying Opponent to Quit
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
Jon Schleuss / L.A. Times Guild:
Private jets and golden parachutes: The L.A. Times Guild asks, ‘Where is the money?’
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Arianna Huffington denies Franken behaved inappropriately in response to new photos
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
ISIS Calls for Assassination of Barron Trump
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Jihad Watch and AOL
Cameron Smith / al.com:
A defiant Roy Moore answers tough questions: ‘I will never give up.’
 Earlier Items: 
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Richard Spencer hosted an event at a Maryland farm. Halfway through, everyone was kicked out.
Discussion: Washington Times and Raw Story
Yascha Mounk / Slate:
The End of German Stability
Scott Huver / Hollywood Reporter:
Sarah Silverman on Hollywood Harassment, Jewish Representation On Screen
Discussion: The Hill, Washington Times and IJR
Zachary Mider / Bloomberg:
House Tax Bill Is Littered With Loopholes for Wall Street's Wealthiest
Discussion: Washington Post
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Trump tax plan is much worse than you thought. A new analysis confirms it.
New York Times:
Trump Halted These Hunt Trophies. Elephant Lovers Will Never Forget It.
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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