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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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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.
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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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Navajo Nation delegate rips Trump: Code talkers aren't ‘pawns to advance a personal grudge’
Discussion: ABC News and RedState
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:   Navajo Nation president calls Trump's ‘Pocahontas’ quip an ethnic slur
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.
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Schumer, Pelosi cancel meeting with Trump after Twitter attack  —  House and Senate Democratic leaders on Tuesday abruptly withdrew from a scheduled White House meeting about averting a government shutdown after President Donald Trump publicly slammed them and cast doubt on the negotiations.
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump to make statement after GOP Senate meeting
Discussion: Axios and ABC News
Associated Press:
The Latest: House warms to tax bill Obama mandate repeal
Discussion: Axios
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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Anna Palmer / Politico:
PELOSI and SCHUMER pull out of W.H. meeting after Trump tweet …
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
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Colleague names Putin's daughter, then withdraws comments
Discussion: The Week and thecut
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.
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
Associated Press:
AP EXCLUSIVE: Big contracts, no storm tarps for Puerto Rico  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — After Hurricane Maria damaged tens of thousands of homes in Puerto Rico, a newly created Florida company with an unproven record won more than $30 million in contracts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders to unveil a $146 billion ‘Marshall Plan’ for Puerto Rico
Discussion: Mother Jones, The Week and CityLab
Mike Allen / Axios:
The Senate tax bill's “seesaw” trap  —  With administration and leadership aides frantically negotiating with holdout senators, the Senate's tax vote scheduled for late this week could lapse into next week.  — That would raise everyone's blood pressure: Everything is fragile.
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Colin Wilhelm / Politico:   Senate committee advances tax plan as GOP continues hunt for floor votes
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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Yonhap News Agency:
N. Korea fires ballistic missile: S. Korea JCS
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
Anita Singh / Telegraph:
Angela Lansbury: attractive women ‘must sometimes take the blame’ for sexual harassment  —  Women must accept some blame for sexual harassment and abuse because they “go out of their way to make themselves attractive” to men, Dame Angela Lansbury has said.  —  While other Hollywood actresses …
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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: Raw Story
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 …
New York Times:
Dismantling the Foreign Service  —  The Foreign Service, our country's irreplaceable asset for understanding and interacting with a complex and dangerous world, is facing perhaps its greatest crisis.  President Trump's draconian budget cuts for the State Department and his dismissive attitude toward …
Star Tribune:
Franken's apology fails the full candor test  —  He seems to be saying, 'I'm sorry for what you think I did.'  —  U.S. Sen. Al Franken broke his self-imposed silence over the weekend, submitting to a series of media interviews on the sexual misconduct allegations against him, professing his shame and embarrassment.
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.
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
Congressman Slept With And Then Sued Allegedly Drug-Addicted Staffer  —  Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green had sex with staffer who he said was a drug addict and then sued her when she threatened to go public with claims she suffered a hostile work environment, saying he “will not be extorted or blackmailed.”
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Joe Scarborough: Trump supporters ‘putting up with him’ despite ‘stupid’ tweets  —  MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said supporters of President Trump he has spoken with aren't happy with “the stupid things in his tweets” but are “putting up with him for now” during a discussion on “Morning Joe” on Tuesday.
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Air Force Failed to Report Dozens of Convicted Service Members to Gun Database  —  A review by the United States Air Force has found several dozen cases where the military failed to report service members convicted of serious crimes to the federal gun background-check databases, Air Force officials said on Tuesday.
Discussion: RedState
 
 
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Liberals' clueless crusade against far-right extremists
Erin Banco / The Intercept:
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Peter Foster / Telegraph:
Exclusive: Britain and the EU agree Brexit divorce bill
Discussion: Axios and Coffee House
D.C. McAllister / The Federalist:
Why It's Justified To Vote For A Morally Questionable Politician
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Natisha Lance / WXIA-TV:
Woman feels she was profiled after being mistaken for human trafficking victim on Delta flight
Discussion: NBC News and Raw Story
Steven Greenhouse / The Guardian:
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Katie Zavadski / The Daily Beast:
Feds Flip Turkish Crook; Did He Rat on Michael Flynn?
Tre'vell Anderson / Los Angeles Times:
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Biggest Tax Scam in History
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Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:
Trump Paid Over $1 Million in Labor Settlement, Documents Reveal
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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”

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
National World, one of the UK's biggest newspaper groups, gets a £56.2M buyout offer from shareholder Media Concierge, a 40% premium to its Nov. 21 stock price

Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The English Premier League ends its content partnership with IMG and plans to bring content production and distribution in-house in 2026

 
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