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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
What The Hell Is Happening With These Alabama Polls? — Somebody's going to be wrong in Alabama. — We've already urged caution when interpreting polls of Alabama's special election to the U.S. Senate, which will be held on Tuesday. Some of that is because of the media's usual tendency …
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Andy Metzger / WBUR:
Baker Backing Democrat Jones In Alabama Senate Race — Gov. Charlie Baker supports the Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Alabama against Roy Moore, the controversial Republican who has been dogged by multiple accounts that he made sexual advances towards teenage women well into his adult years.
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Political Wire, CANNONFIRE and Balloon Juice
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
‘How is my daughter a pervert?’: Alabama dad's plain-spoken rebuke of Roy Moore strikes a nerve — Perhaps it was the man's strong but plain-spoken rebuke outside a Roy Moore rally on the campaign's final night, condemning the candidate's past comments lambasting homosexuality.
David French / National Review:
The Comprehensive Case against Roy Moore
The Comprehensive Case against Roy Moore
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NBC News, The Federalist, Cosmopolitan, The Week and CNN
Evan Siegel / The Daily Beast:
Alabama Special Election Results: Roy Moore vs. Doug Jones
Alabama Special Election Results: Roy Moore vs. Doug Jones
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ABC News
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Secret super PAC backing Jones in Alabama exposed
Secret super PAC backing Jones in Alabama exposed
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Jeremy Gray / al.com:
Condoleezza Rice: Alabama Senate election one of history's most significant
Condoleezza Rice: Alabama Senate election one of history's most significant
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Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
Doug Jones and Sir Charles Urge Alabamians to Break With History
Doug Jones and Sir Charles Urge Alabamians to Break With History
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Mediaite and The Week, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
Alabama Senate Race, Unlikely Nail-Biter, Races to Finish Line
Alabama Senate Race, Unlikely Nail-Biter, Races to Finish Line
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump lawyers want second special counsel appointed now — President Trump's legal team believes Attorney General Jeff Session's Justice Department and the FBI — more than special counsel Robert Mueller himself — are to blame for what they see as a witch hunt.
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Talking Points Memo, Political Wire and The Week
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Inside Trump's legal team: Trying to protect the president from Mueller's ‘killers’ … Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and his team of a dozen-plus lawyers and investigators have proven stealthy in their wide-ranging Russia probe. They have surprised the White House with one indictment after another …
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Roll Call
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Will the Senate Still Protect Robert Mueller From Donald Trump's Ax? … Remember the first round of gossip about whether President Trump would fire special prosecutor Robert Mueller, back during the summer? Republican senators were quick to say what a grave error this would be.
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CNN, Hullabaloo, Salon and Washington Post
Peter Holley / Washington Post:
‘Brothers in arms’: The long friendship between Mueller and Comey
‘Brothers in arms’: The long friendship between Mueller and Comey
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RedState
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Justice Department won't disclose details on Mueller ethics waiver
Justice Department won't disclose details on Mueller ethics waiver
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Raw Story
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Speaker at Moore event says he accidentally went with Moore to a brothel with child prostitutes — Roy Moore, who is running for U.S. Senate in Tuesday's special election, is facing multiple allegations of child sex abuse. He has largely avoided the campaign trail since these allegations first surfaced.
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New Republic and The Root
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Roy Moore Emerges From Hiding for Election Eve Rally, and Good Lord, Was It Weird — Have you ever traveled down a dirt path in rural southeast Alabama in December and arrived at a barn in the woods to find Steve Bannon, Representative Louie Gohmert, Sheriff David Clarke, Roy and Kayla Moore …
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The Guardian, Taylor Marsh and Daily Kos
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Roy Moore's Wife: We're Not Anti-Semitic, ‘One of Our Attorneys Is a Jew’
Roy Moore's Wife: We're Not Anti-Semitic, ‘One of Our Attorneys Is a Jew’
Dave Lawler / Axios:
Moore, Bannon go after establishment, media, accusers on election eve
Moore, Bannon go after establishment, media, accusers on election eve
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Politico, Political Insider, RedState, The Week and Mediaite
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
MeToo spotlight increasingly pointed at past Trump conduct — NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump sailed past a raft of allegations of sexual misconduct in last year's presidential election. — Now the national #MeToo spotlight is turning back to Trump and his past conduct.
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
Sarah Sanders Completely Rattled as Jim Acosta and WH Reporters Grill Her On Fake News Claims
Sarah Sanders Completely Rattled as Jim Acosta and WH Reporters Grill Her On Fake News Claims
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New York Times, Axios, Talking Points Memo and The Daily Beast
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Tawdry Tales Depict a Texas Congressman's Frat House on the Hill — WASHINGTON — When Lauren Greene, a former communications director for Representative Blake Farenthold, sued him claiming sexual harassment, among her complaints was that he “disclosed that a female lobbyist had propositioned him for ‘a threesome.’”
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Washington Post, Politico and Houston Chronicle
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Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Amid sexual harassment controversy, U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold faces tough re-election
Amid sexual harassment controversy, U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold faces tough re-election
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The Week and Off the Kuff
Fox News:
Wife of demoted DOJ official worked for firm behind anti-Trump dossier — EXCLUSIVE: A senior Justice Department official demoted last week for concealing his meetings with the men behind the anti-Trump “dossier” had even closer ties to Fusion GPS, the firm responsible for the incendiary document …
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San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee dead at 65 — San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee died early Tuesday morning at age 65, his office said. — The sudden news came in an email from the office at 2:23 a.m. It read: “It is with profound sadness and terrible grief that we confirm that Mayor Edwin M. Lee passed away …
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Bloomberg:
NFL Harassment Suit Alleges Groping by Top Executive, Ex-Players — Former employee says ex-producer sent several nude photos — NFL Network says employees suspended pending investigation — A former executive producer at the National Football League's TV network and ex-players including Marshall Faulk …
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Zephyr Teachout / New York Times:
I'm Not Convinced Franken Should Quit — I care passionately about #MeToo. Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted. Too many women's careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse. In politics, where I have worked much of my adult life, this behavior is rampant.
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Governor Arne Carlson and The Daily Caller
YouTube:
Jimmy Kimmel Returns with Baby Billy After Heart Surgery … Jimmy's baby Billy had his second open heart surgery last week so Jimmy had guest hosts fill in for him while he was out. Thankfully the surgery was a success and Jimmy returned to the show tonight with Billy in tow to show everyone how well he is doing.
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Emily Yahr / Washington Post:
Jimmy Kimmel holds his baby son, post-heart surgery, in emotional health-care monologue
Jimmy Kimmel holds his baby son, post-heart surgery, in emotional health-care monologue
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Splinter
CNN:
How a Democrat could win in Alabama, in charts — (CNN)It hasn't happened in more than a decade, but it might just happen on Tuesday. — The last time a Democrat won a major statewide election in Alabama was in 2006, when Jim Folsom Jr., a former Alabama governor, won the lieutenant governorship …
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Suspect in Times Square Bombing Leaves Trail of Mystery — On the surface, Akayed Ullah seemed to be an ordinary member of a Bangladeshi enclave in Brooklyn. He often prayed at a mosque in an unassuming brownstone in the Kensington section of the borough, where a few thousand of his countrymen reside.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Former top spy rethinks: Maybe we shouldn't have attacked a new president — “Mr. Trump continues to exhibit paranoia about American intelligence agencies,” wrote the “Never Trump” conservative Max Boot in the New York Times a week or so before the president took office.
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