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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Trump Wanted a Bigger Tax Cut for the Rich, Ivanka Went Elsewhere
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Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Joint Committee on Taxation: 60 percent of households will get at least $100 tax cut
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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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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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Jill Disis / CNNMoney:
Read Matt Lauer's full apology — Watch how Matt Lauer covered sexual harassment — Matt Lauer has apologized after he was fired from NBC News. — An employee at the network filed a complaint earlier this week against the former “Today” show anchor about “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.”
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Anna Palmer / Politico:
TAX BILL clears key hurdle, problems linger …
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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 — 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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David Smith / The Guardian:
Donald Trump attacks Theresa May over her criticism of his far-right retweets
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Brendan Cox / The Guardian:
By retweeting Britain First, Trump offends a decency he cannot understand
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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
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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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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?
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Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North Korea has shown us its new missile, and it's scarier than we thought
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
McConnell: Trump doing ‘a great job’ handling North Korea
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's behavior raises questions of competency
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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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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.
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Jeet Heer / New Republic:
Resign Right Now — Representative Kathleen Rice walked …
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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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Brianna Sacks / BuzzFeed:
Roy Moore Just Blamed His Sexual Misconduct Allegations On Lesbians, Gays, And Socialists — Speaking from a church pulpit in Alabama, the Republican Senate candidate said the “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...socialists” are behind the “malicious” allegations against him.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Moore says lesbians, gays, socialists behind sexual misconduct allegations
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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.
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Matthew Chapman / Shareblue Media:
Roy Moore recently argued that women aren't morally suited for public office
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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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Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
Political humorist identified as Roger Stone's link to WikiLeaks: Sources
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