memeorandum: Horror as ‘20 masked men attack synagogue with petrol bombs’ (Taryn Tarrant-Cornish/Daily Express)

11:10 AM ET, December 10, 2017

Top Items:

Amy Davidson Sorkin / New Yorker:

Donald Trump, Roy Moore, and the Degradation of the G.O.P. — In less than a year, the President, with help from the Alabama Senate candidate, has so damaged the Party that it may never recover. — When Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House spokeswoman, was explaining last week …

Louis Nelson / Politico:

Shelby: My state of Alabama ‘deserves better’ than Moore — Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby said Sunday that his home state “deserves better” than to be represented by Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the state's Supreme Court who has been accused of sexual misconduct …

Discussion: CNN

New York Times:

Alabama, Despite History of Unruly Politics, Has ‘Never Seen Anything Like This’ — MONTGOMERY, Ala. — “I don't think you can compare this one with anything,” said Bill Baxley, 76, whose first foray into Alabama state politics was as attorney general nearly five decades ago.

Discussion: Washington Post, Politico, Denver Post and Weekly Standard

Brian Lyman / The Montgomery Advertiser:

Days before election, Roy Moore disappears from campaign trail — Things seem to be going Roy Moore's way. President Trump endorsed him. The Republican National Committee is back to supporting him. And Moore, who has been accused of sexual contact with women when they were underaged …

Discussion: Raw Story

Washington Post:
Bitter Senate race tests Alabama's image in the country — and at home

Discussion: ABC News

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump to cut robocall for Moore

Discussion: The Daily Beast, ThinkProgress, RedState, KTLA and Axios

Dan Balz / Washington Post:
In Alabama, no good outcomes for the Republican Party

Discussion: Politico and The Daily Beast

Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:

Op-Ed The campaign to delegitimize the Russia probe is well under way — Sean Hannity interviews Former White House strategist Steve Bannon on the set of Fox News Channel's Hannity in New York on Oct. 9. (Craig Ruttle / Associated Press) — Some of President Trump's biggest fans …

Gregg Jarrett / Fox News:

Robert Mueller and his politically biased team of prosecutors need to go — Special Counsel Robert Mueller has sabotaged his own investigation of Russian meddling into the 2016 election. He has only himself to blame for ruining what could have been a credible probe.

Discussion: The Guardian

New York Times:

Protests in Lebanon Near U.S. Embassy After Trump's Jerusalem Decision — BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese Army forces on Sunday fired tear gas and water cannons into crowds that had gathered near the United States Embassy to protest President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Discussion: CNN and The Daily Caller

Taryn Tarrant-Cornish / Daily Express:

Horror as ‘20 masked men attack synagogue with petrol bombs’ — A SYNAGOGUE was attacked by around 20 masked men while hosting a youth party in Gothenburg, Sweden, local media have reported. — Police arrived at the scene, where Jewish students had taken refuge in the basement.

Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Burning objects thrown at synagogue in Sweden: reports

Discussion: Fox News, The Week, CNN, Raw Story and Voice of Europe

Fox News:

Lindsey Vonn suffers back injury in World Cup race after Trump comments — American skiing star Lindsey Vonn has withdrawn from her Sunday events at the World Cup in Switzerland after suffering a back injury during a super-G race on Saturday. — The injury occurred two days …

Discussion: IJR, USA Today, Althouse and Raw Story

Haley Britzky / Axios:

More women plan to run for Congress than ever before — As of December 7 there were 369 women running or planning to run for Congress in 2018, according to Rutgers University's Center for American Women and Politics, which would biggest group of women House candidates ever.

Discussion: Political Wire

Damian Paletta / Washington Post:

As tax plan gained steam, GOP lost focus on the middle class — The GOP tax plan on the cusp of becoming law diverges wildly from the promises President Trump and top advisers said they would deliver for the middle class — an evolution that shows how traditional Republican orthodoxy swamped …

Discussion: Political Wire and AOL

Daniel J. Gross / Spartanburg Herald-Journal:

Serial killer Todd Kohlhepp claims to have more victims — Convicted serial killer Todd Kohlhepp, in a letter to the Herald-Journal, said he has more victims who have not been discovered. — The FBI has a pending investigation, but a spokesman would not comment further on the matter.

Discussion: FOX6Now.com and NBC News

Foreign Policy:

White House Names Trump Loyalist to Iran Policy Job at State Department — The Trump administration's pick for the Iran post will likely back a more aggressive stance. — The Trump administration plans to install a political appointee at the State Department to a key position managing policy …

Foreign Policy: U.S. Diplomat's Resignation Signals Wider Exodus From State Department

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

Roadkill on Capitol Hill — WASHINGTON — Alan Simpson was appalled by the injustice of it all. — Back in 1991, during the incendiary Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings, the salty Republican senator from Wyoming was very concerned at the idea that a woman would wait many years …

Brandon Carter / The Hill:

Trump watches up to eight hours of TV per day: report — spends at least four hours a day watching television, according to a new report. — People close to Trump told The New York Times that Trump spends at least that much time in front of a TV each day, and sometimes spends as many as eight hours watching television.