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Variety:
Matt Lauer Accused of Sexual Harassment by Multiple Women (EXCLUSIVE) — As the co-host of NBC's “Today,” Matt Lauer once gave a colleague a sex toy as a present. It included an explicit note about how he wanted to use it on her, which left her mortified.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
NBC Fires Matt Lauer Over Sexual Misconduct Allegations — NBC has fired its leading morning news anchor Matt Lauer over sexual harassment allegations, the network's president for news said in a memo to staff on Wednesday. — “On Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague …
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TMZ.com:
Matt Lauer Caught on Video Telling Meredith Vieira, ‘Keep Bending Over, Nice View’ (UPDATE) — Matt Lauer creepily whispered to Meredith Vieira ... “Keep bending over like that. It's a nice view” — and it happened on set, while cameras were rolling. — This all went down in October 2006 …
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Matt Lauer allegedly sexually assaulted staffer during Olympics
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TMZ.com:
Katie Couric in 2012 said Matt Lauer Pinched Me on the Ass a Lot
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Kate Coyne / People.com:
Ann Curry Is ‘Still Processing’ Matt Lauer Firing News: ‘We Need to Make Our Workplaces Safe’
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CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Jared Kushner met with special counsel about Flynn — Washington (CNN)Jared Kushner met earlier this month with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team as part of the investigation into Russia's meddling in the election, according to two people familiar with the meeting.
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CNN:
Special counsel delays grand jury testimony amid signs of Flynn deal talks — Flynn lawyers cut off talks with Trump team — (CNN)Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team has postponed an anticipated grand jury testimony linked to his investigation into Michael Flynn amid growing indications of possible plea deal discussions.
Angie Andresen / Minnesota Public Radio:
STATEMENT FROM MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO REGARDING GARRISON KEILLOR AND A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION — ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) is terminating its contracts with Garrison Keillor and his private media companies after recently learning of allegations of his inappropriate behavior with an individual who worked with him.
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Garrison Keillor / Washington Post:
Al Franken should resign? That's absurd. — My friend Pastor B.D. Christensen said something so good Sunday morning that I woke up and wrote it down: “[something something] . . . about making peace with the mistakes of the past [blah blah blah] and learning from them.
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Jeff Baenen / Associated Press:
Garrison Keillor fired over alleged ‘improper behavior’ — MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Garrison Keillor, the former host of “A Prairie Home Companion,” said Wednesday he has been fired by Minnesota Public Radio over allegations of improper behavior. — Keillor told The Associated Press of his firing in an email.
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Tim Nelson / mprnews.org:
MPR cuts ties with Keillor over inappropriate conduct
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Washington Post:
Trump veers past guardrails, feeling impervious to the uproar he causes — The Debrief: An occasional series offering reporters' insights — President Trump walks across the South Lawn of the White House to board Marine One on Nov. 29, 2017, as he heads to Missouri to pitch the Republican tax plan.
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Editorials / New York Daily News:
Donald Trump is a madman: The President's Wednesday Twitter spasm confirms what many Americans have long suspected — After his latest spasm of deranged tweets, only those completely under his spell can deny what growing numbers of Americans have long suspected: The President of the United States is profoundly unstable.
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Dan Merica / CNN:
White House defends anti-Muslim Trump tweets, says it doesn't matter if videos are real
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's behavior raises questions of competency
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Dan Vergano / BuzzFeed:
Trump's Counselor Kellyanne Conway Is Now His Opioids Czar — Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced pollster Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, will lead White House initiatives against the opioid overdose epidemic. — Reporting From Washington, DC
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Eric Boehlert / Shareblue Media:
Kellyanne Conway officially under investigation for endorsing alleged pedophile
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Washington Post:
In Alabama Senate race, Trump thinks he will be fine either way
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Paul Gattis / al.com:
Roy Moore leads Doug Jones in another new Senate poll
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AARP:
Senate Bill: Millions of Older Americans Could See Higher Tax Bills — The Senate Finance Committee (SFC) recently passed its tax reform proposal — the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.” This bill, like the House-passed tax legislation, warrants the attention of older Americans.
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
The Senate's tax bill is a sweeping change to every part of federal health care
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:
Trump's Tax Promises Undercut by CEO Plans to Reward Investors — Corporate leaders say tax cut proceeds will go to shareholders — President has said corporate tax cut will boost hiring, wages — Major companies including Cisco Systems Inc., Pfizer Inc. and Coca-Cola Co. say they'll turn …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Two new reports suggest Trump has come unhinged. The truth is worse.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Meet the man who deactivated Trump's Twitter account — s Twitter tries to figure out how to lock down the parts of its platform that enable harassment, as well as the spread of misleading information and illicit content, there have been a number of moments that highlight how the service …
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Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed:
This Is The Man Who Deactivated The President's Twitter Account
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Brandy Zadrozny / The Daily Beast:
Trump Bragged: ‘Nothing in the World Like First-Rate P**sy’ … In a previously unreported comment to the now-defunct Maximum Golf magazine, Donald Trump singled out a “young socialite” at his club at Mar-a-Lago by telling a reporter, “there is nothing in the world like first-rate pussy.”
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CNN:
New York radio personality was Roger Stone's WikiLeaks contact — (CNN)President Trump's longtime associate Roger Stone was in contact with a New York radio personality who had conversations with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during the 2016 campaign season, according to sources familiar with the situation.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Russia Investigators Subpoena a Comedian. No, Seriously.
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Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo:
People Are Getting Robocalls About Their “Derogatory” Trump Posts — Brett Vanderbrook was driving for Uber last week when he got a call from an unfamiliar number. He let it go to voicemail and when he listened to it later, he got a shock: It was a recorded message telling him to stop making …
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Senate GOP campaign arm stole donor data from House Republicans — Former NRCC aides used their old passwords to break into a database of highly valuable information on contributors. — Staffers for Senate Republicans' campaign arm seized information on more than 200,000 donors …
Mary Schlangenstein / Bloomberg:
American Air Accidentally Gave Too Many Pilots Christmas Off — Carrier is offering premium pay for pilots to work on days off — Union files grievance on airline's proposed staffing solution — American Airlines Group Inc. is rushing to resolve a scheduling fault that gave time off …
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Addy Baird / ThinkProgress:
Textbook co-authored by Roy Moore in 2011 says women shouldn't run for office — Alabama Republican Senate Candidate Roy Moore co-authored a study course, published in 2011 and recently obtained by ThinkProgress, that instructs students that women should not be permitted to run for elected office.
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