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George Hunter / Detroit News:
Second ex-staffer accuses Conyers of sexual harassment  —  A former staffer of U.S. Rep. John Conyers said the veteran lawmaker made unwanted sexual advances toward her, including inappropriate touching, adding to allegations by other unnamed former employees that have prompted a congressional investigation.
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S.A. Miller / Washington Times:
Rep. Raul M. Grijalva quietly arranged a “severance package” in 2015 for one of his top staffers who threatened a lawsuit claiming the Arizona Democrat was frequently drunk and created a hostile workplace environment, revealing yet another way that lawmakers can use taxpayer dollars to hide their misbehavior on Capitol Hill.
Anna Palmer / Politico:
PELOSI and SCHUMER pull out of W.H. meeting after Trump tweet …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Marwa Eltagouri / Washington Post:
James O'Keefe tweeted about his ‘confrontation’ with a Post reporter.  Here's what really happened.  —  The Washington Post on Monday published a report about a woman who falsely claimed Roy Moore sexually assaulted her as a teenager — and who appeared to work with Project Veritas …
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Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
How James O'Keefe Made Himself Irrelevant  —  The conservative provocateur James O'Keefe's latest stunt is possibly his biggest backfire: He attempted to sting The Washington Post with a fake Roy Moore accuser, but found himself stung, as the Post exposed the scheme in a detailed report on Monday night.
Politico:
Breaking News: Court rules for Trump on CFPB  —  A U.S. District Court judge in Washington has ruled in favor of the Trump administration in its bid to install White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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USA Today:
Siding with Trump, judge rules Mick Mulvaney to remain interim CFPB head
Discussion: Daily Kos
Talking Points Memo:
Senate GOP Hold-Outs Moving To ‘Yes’ On Tax Bill After Promises From Trump, Leadership  —  The Republican senators who have been the most critical of their party's tax overhaul plan came out of a lunch meeting with President Trump Tuesday sounding more like yes votes, telling reporters …
Discussion: Associated Press and Balloon Juice
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Colin Wilhelm / Politico:
Senate GOP gets breathing room as tax plan advances
Discussion: IJR
Jerry Iannelli / Miami New Times:
Rick Scott Consultant Denies He Used Ice Penis to Hump Mannequin … Joshua Cooper, a Tallahassee political consultant paid more than $500,000 by Florida Gov. Rick Scott to dig up dirt on Scott's enemies over the years, swears the photo above was simply a snapshot taken at an unfortunate angle.
Change Research:
Moore Opens Up 49-44 Lead in Alabama; Just 9% of Trump Voters Believe Allegations Against Moore  —  Alabama Republican Roy Moore has reopened a 49-44 lead over Democrat Doug Jones in the race for U.S. Senate.  In Change Research's third poll since the sexual misconduct allegations against Moore …
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Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:   Once boldest Moore advocate, Bannon MIA in Alabama race
Elana Schor / Politico:
Schumer, Pelosi clash with Trump over shutdown talks  —  President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders sparred throughout the day Tuesday, complicating already-difficult efforts to avert a government shutdown next week.  —  The fight began early with Trump launching a broadside …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump, next to empty chairs, tears into Dems for skipping meeting
Discussion: Political Wire and The Last Refuge
Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Here's the deal with Elizabeth Warren's Native American heritage  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)From “Lyin' Ted” Cruz and “Lil' Marco” Rubio to “Crooked Hillary” Clinton, Donald Trump has consistently conjured up demeaning nicknames for his campaign foes.  —  Which brings us to Elizabeth Warren.
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Edmund DeMarche / Fox News:
Roy Moore campaign staff push, shove Fox News camera crew at rally  —  Campaign staffers for Senate candidate Roy Moore late Monday night got into a scuffle with two Fox News camera crews prior to a rally in the town of Henagar, Ala.  —  Organizers told the media that Moore was expected …
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Wall Street Journal:
Mike Flynn's Promotion of Nuclear-Plant Project Went Deep Into the White House  —  Project backers drafted memos for President Trump and Flynn allies continued to push the plan after the Trump security adviser was ousted  —  Private-sector backers of a controversial Middle East nuclear plan worked …
Katherine Lam / Fox News:
North Korea fires ballistic missile  —  North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile in the middle of the night local time Wednesday, the first such launch from the rogue regime in more than two months, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News.  —  South Korea's Yonhap News Agency …
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Bari Weiss / New York Times:
The Limits of ‘Believe All Women’  —  Ever since Eve gave Adam that forbidden fruit, demonizing and disbelieving women has been the planet-wide policy.  You don't need to reach back to the Pleistocene to see the truth of that.  —  “You're just a child,” Roy Moore is accused of saying …
Discussion: Splinter
CBS News:
Uzbekistan incident raises suspicions of Russian involvement in Cuba attacks  —  A newly revealed incident reported by a USAID officer who is based at the American embassy in Uzbekistan is raising suspicions Russia may have been involved and could have had a hand in bizarre attacks targeting U.S. diplomats …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Odds Are, Russia Owns Trump  —  Three months ago, The Washington Post reported that even as Donald Trump ran for president, he pursued plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.  The next day, The New York Times published excerpts from emails between Felix Sater, a felon with ties to Russian organized crime …
Discussion: Scripting News
Matthew Shaer / New York Times:
How Far Will Sean Hannity Go?  —  The Fox News host is willing to defend Trump at all costs — and is reaching more than 13 million people a day.  —  When he finally went to bed early in the morning on Oct. 2, Sean Hannity had a good sense, as he typically does, of how he would structure that night's Fox News Channel broadcast.
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Tillerson fends off ‘redesign’ critics  —  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday dismissed mounting criticism of his plan to restructure the State Department, insisting “there is no hollowing out” of the agency but that it can be run more efficiently and with less funding.
Thomas Burr / Salt Lake Tribune:
Trump will shrink Bears Ears during Utah visit Monday and five tribes promise to sue him that same day  —  Washington  • President Donald Trump will fly into Utah on Monday to announce that he'll shrink the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments …
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Daily Caller
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Chinese investors sue McAuliffe, Rodham over green-car investments  —  Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe and former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's brother Anthony Rodham are facing a $17 million fraud lawsuit from Chinese investors in Greentech Automotive …
Bloomberg:
Manafort Bankers, Associates Summoned to Talk to Manhattan D.A.  —  Investigators want to know how Manafort used money from loans  —  Ex-Trump campaign chairman already charged in separate probe  —  Manhattan prosecutors investigating Paul Manafort's New York business activities …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Steven Greenhouse / The Guardian:
America is in crisis.  The Republican tax plan will make that worse  —  The plan would comfort the already very comfortable and further afflict many of the afflicted - all while causing the national debt to soar  —  hen Donald Trump was sworn in as president last January, the nation faced several domestic crises.
Noah Kulwin / VICE News:
YouTube kills ads on 50,000 channels as advertisers flee over disturbing child content  —  For the second time in less than a year, major advertisers are fleeing YouTube after finding their ads were paired with offensive content — this time, directed at children.
 
 
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Jacqueline Klimas / Politico:
Air Force failed to report dozens of criminals to federal database
Discussion: Axios
Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:
Uber Criminal Probe Shines Light on Vanishing Message System
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Foreign Policy:
This Beijing-Linked Billionaire Is Funding Policy Research at Washington's Most Influential Institutions
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Paul on alleged attacker: I haven't talked to him in 10 years
Discussion: RedState
Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Selling New Merchandise Made in China and Bangladesh
Discussion: Mediaite
Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
Sebastian Gorka is working at the Heritage Foundation as a lecturer and consultant
Neil Vigdor / Greenwich Time:
Lamont testing the waters for governor
Discussion: Political Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Anna M. Tinsley / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
In wake of nude photo, Tarrant County Republicans urge Barton to drop re-election bid
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Joe Scarborough: Trump supporters ‘putting up with him’ despite ‘stupid’ tweets
Damon Linker / The Week:
Liberals' clueless crusade against far-right extremists
Associated Press:
AP EXCLUSIVE: Big contracts, no storm tarps for Puerto Rico
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
What the Tax Bill Would Look Like for 25,000 Middle-Class Families
Discussion: New York Magazine
Anita Singh / Telegraph:
Angela Lansbury: attractive women ‘must sometimes take the blame’ for sexual harassment
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

 
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