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New York Times:
White House Envisions Tillerson Ouster From State Dept., to Be Replaced by Pompeo, Within Weeks  —  WASHINGTON — The White House has developed a plan to force out Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, whose relationship with President Trump has been strained, and replace him with Mike Pompeo …
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Madeleine K. Albright / Washington Post:   The national security emergency we're not talking about
MJ Lee / CNN:
Army veteran says Franken groped her during USO tour in 2003  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)An Army veteran says Sen. Al Franken groped her in December 2003, telling CNN that while she was deployed in Kuwait, the Minnesota Democrat cupped her breast during a photo op.
New York Times:
It Started as a Tax Cut.  Now It Could Change American Life.  —  The tax plan has been marketed by President Trump and Republican leaders as a straightforward if enormous rebate for the masses, a $1.5 trillion package of cuts to spur hiring and economic growth.
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Tracey Longo / fa-mag.com:
Rubio: Offset Tax Cuts By Reducing Social Security, Medicare Benefits  —  Tax reform is only one piece of the overall puzzle needed to revitalize the American economy, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told a group of Washington, D.C., lobbyists and policy analysts this morning at a Politico Playbook …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Ahead of Vote, Promised Treasury Analysis of Tax Bill Proves Elusive  —  WASHINGTON — In pitching the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul, Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, has said repeatedly that the plan will pay for itself through a surge of economic growth and that over 100 people in Treasury are …
Wall Street Journal:
The Rubio-Schumer Amendment  —  Florida's Republican tries …
Discussion: National Review
AARP:
Senate Bill: Millions of Older Americans Could See Higher Tax Bills
Discussion: The Hill, Politicus USA and The Week
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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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 …
Anna Palmer / Politico:
TAX BILL clears key hurdle, problems linger …
Mike Allen / Axios:
The White House expects Trump to get even more outrageous  —  Exhausted by the Trump presidency?  Brace yourself: White House officials expect Trump to be even more outrageous and cocksure in coming months.  —  What we're hearing: Officials tell us Trump seems more self-assured …
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Washington Post:
Trump veers past guardrails, feeling impervious to the uproar he causes
David Smith / The Guardian:
Donald Trump attacks Theresa May over her criticism of his far-right retweets
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
How Hateful Are the Democrats? This Hateful
Discussion: Vox
Washington Post:
Woman's effort to infiltrate The Washington Post dated back months … The failed effort by conservative activists to plant a false story about Senate candidate Roy Moore in The Washington Post was part of a months-long campaign to infiltrate The Post and other media outlets in Washington and New York …
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Kendall Taggart / BuzzFeed:
Here Are Some Of Project Veritas's Funders
CBS Detroit:
John Conyers Hospitalized For Stress-Related Illness Amid Sex Scandal  —  DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - Congressman John Conyers has been hospitalized for a stress-related illness.  —  Family spokesperson Sam Riddle confirmed Thursday morning that the 88-year-old Conyers is seeking treatment at a local hospital.
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WDIV-TV:
Rep. John Conyers hospitalized in Detroit area  —  Conyers returned to Michigan this week amid sexual harassment claims  —  DETROIT - Rep. John Conyers is hospitalized in the Detroit area.  —  That's according to Conyers' office which confirmed the congressman is hospitalized but did not say why or at which hospital.
Detroit News:
Conyers hospitalized for stress amid harassment claims
Discussion: USA Today and Talking Points Memo
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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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:   Mueller's Prosecutors Are Said to Have Interviewed Jared Kushner on Russia Meeting
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.”
Jenny Lumet / Hollywood Reporter:
Writer Jenny Lumet: Russell Simmons Sexually Violated Me (Guest Column)  —  The screenwriter of ‘Rachel Getting Married’ and ‘The Mummy’ (and the daughter of filmmaker Sidney Lumet) details a terrifying encounter with the legendary music producer, who says he is stepping down from his businesses in the wake of the new claims.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Scarborough: Trump allies told me he has dementia  —  MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on Thursday that people close to President Trump told him during the campaign that Trump has “early stages of dementia.”  —  During MSNBC's “Morning Joe,” Scarborough said Trump is “completely detached from reality.”
Discussion: RedState
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
‘Art of the Deal’ co-author: Trump ‘losing his grip on reality’
Discussion: RedState
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The case for normalizing impeachment  —  Impeaching an unfit president has consequences.  But leaving one in office could be worse.  —  In recent months, I have grown obsessed with a seemingly simple question: Does the American political system have a remedy if we elect the wrong person to be president?
Discussion: New York Times, CNN and Balloon Juice
Tully Borland / The Federalist:
Why Alabamians Should Vote For Roy Moore  —  I have a 14-year-old daughter.  If I caught Roy Moore doing what was alleged, for starters I would kick him where it counts.  That said, I don't think it's wrong to vote for Moore.  —  I am going to argue for the very unpopular, even shocking …
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.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Matthew Chapman / Shareblue Media:
Roy Moore recently argued that women aren't morally suited for public office
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Damon Root / Hit & Run:
Trump Administration Lawyer Pummeled by Sotomayor and Gorsuch in Cellphone Tracking Case  —  Fans of the Fourth Amendment got a rare treat today at the U.S. Supreme Court.  During oral arguments, both the liberal and conservative sides of the bench delivered a thorough pummeling …
 
 
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Richard Fausset / New York Times:
Black Voters Could Sway an Alabama Senate Race Rocked by Scandal
Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
House 2018: Less Than a Year Out, Race for Control Is a Coin Flip
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Naked Politics
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
McAuliffe ‘seriously’ considering 2020 run
Discussion: Political Wire
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North Korea has shown us its new missile, and it's scarier than we thought
Matt Bruenig / New York Times:
What if Everyone Benefited When Stocks Soared?
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Trump wrongly says he won't benefit from GOP tax plan
Brianna Sacks / BuzzFeed:
Roy Moore Just Blamed His Sexual Misconduct Allegations On Lesbians, Gays, And Socialists
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Hill
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
We're All Part of Trump's Show
Discussion: Mother Jones and Shareblue Media
 Earlier Items: 
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Our political foundation is rotting away
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
An 11th-Hour Raid by the Wealthiest Baby Boomers
CBS News:
DOJ shuts down question from CBS News about affirmative action
Bloomberg:
Bitcoin's Wild Ride: A Rally, a Rout and Outages on the Exchanges
Hadas Gold / CNNMoney:
Charlie Rose staffers, in limbo, told they will be paid through the end of December
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Meet the man who deactivated Trump's Twitter account
Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo:
People Are Getting Robocalls About Their “Derogatory” Trump Posts
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Magazine
 

 
From Mediagazer:

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View
 
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