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Moira Donegan / thecut:
I Started the Media Men List My name is Moira Donegan. — In October, I created a Google spreadsheet called “Shitty Media Men” that collected a range of rumors and allegations of sexual misconduct, much of it violent, by men in magazines and publishing. The anonymous, crowdsourced document …
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New York Times, The Guardian, Mashable, ThinkProgress, Splinter and Deadline, more at Mediagazer »
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Jaclyn Peiser / New York Times:
A Feminist Twitter Campaign Targets Harper's Magazine and Katie Roiphe — It started with a tweet on Tuesday afternoon. By the next morning, five writers were said to have pulled stories planned for future issues of Harper's Magazine — an effort to pressure the magazine not to reveal …
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Washington Post, Splinter, Fast Company, Mashable, thecut, No More Mister Nice Blog and bradford-delong.com, more at Mediagazer »
KMOV-TV:
Blackmail alleged as Governor Greitens admits to extramarital affair — ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) — Governor Eric Greitens on Wednesday night confirmed to News 4 he had an extramarital affair, an admission a months-long News 4 investigation prompted. — In a recording obtained by News 4 …
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Jason Hancock / Kansas City Star:
Gov. Greitens admits to extramarital affair, denies threatening to blackmail the woman
Gov. Greitens admits to extramarital affair, denies threatening to blackmail the woman
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Balloon Juice
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Mueller adds veteran cyber prosecutor to special-counsel team — Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has added a veteran cyber prosecutor to his team, filling what has long been a gap in expertise and potentially signaling a recent focus on computer crimes.
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Wall Street Journal, Politico, Washington Monthly, Raw Story, Hullabaloo, The Gateway Pundit and Axios
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Bradley P. Moss / Politico:
This Is How Trump's Lawyers Are Probably Prepping Him for the Mueller Showdown — As reports emerge that special counsel Robert Mueller is looking to put President Donald Trump in the interview chair, you're probably wondering how the president's legal team can and should prepare him for that meeting if it happens.
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The Daily Beast, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Post
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
GOP may skip budget, kneecapping 2018 ambitions — Republican leaders are considering skipping passage of a GOP budget this year — a blow to the party's weakened fiscal hawks that would squash all 2018 efforts to revamp entitlements or repeal Obamacare. — White House and Hill GOP leaders discussed …
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New York Magazine, ABC News, Breitbart and Shareblue Media
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Trump's secret plan to scrap Obamacare
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Democrats to invite sex misconduct victims to Trump's State of the Union — WASHINGTON — Some Democratic House members are planning to invite victims of sexual assault to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address later this month to highlight the issue, according to an aide …
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Washington Free Beacon, Raw Story, Business Insider, thecut and Shareblue Media
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Democratic leaders face internal mutiny over Dreamers deal — Liberals are worried that a DACA deal will give conservatives too much. — Democratic leaders are facing a potential revolt within their ranks as they edge toward a deal with Republicans that would protect Dreamers from deportation …
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David Byler / Weekly Standard:
The Republican Civil War Heads to Arizona — New poll shows Arpaio and McSally in a tight race. — On Tuesday, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, jumped into the race for Arizona's now-open Senate seat. Arpaio is, to put it mildly, controversial.
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Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Republicans Have 4 Convicted Criminals Running For Congress In 2018
Republicans Have 4 Convicted Criminals Running For Congress In 2018
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twitchy.com, ThinkProgress, The Hill, Notes and KNXV
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Arpaio: Congress should examine presidential birth certificates
Arpaio: Congress should examine presidential birth certificates
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Washington Examiner, ThinkProgress, RedState and Splinter
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Top Fox News D.C. Reporter James Rosen Left Network After Harassment Claims — On the Friday before Christmas, Fox News confirmed that its chief Washington correspondent, James Rosen, had left the network. He had worked there for 18 years and had become something of a legend.
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Washington Examiner, NBC News, IJR, Raw Story, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, AOL, RedState, Mediaite, twitchy.com and TVNewser, more at Mediagazer »
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Rep. Darrell Issa to retire, handing Democrats another big pick-up opportunity in California — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa will retire at the end of his term, he announced Wednesday. — Issa, one of the wealthiest members of Congress …
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Nick Penzenstadler / USA Today:
Trump sold $35M in real estate in 2017, mostly to secretive buyers — President Trump's companies sold more than $35 million in real estate in 2017, mostly to secretive shell companies that obscure buyers' identities, continuing a dramatic shift in his customers' behavior that began during the election, a USA TODAY review found.
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Axios
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
The Crime Is Worse Than The Coverup — On multiple occasions in 2016, and perhaps stretching back into the previous year, Donald Trump's presidential campaign fielded solicitations from Russian spies and cutouts offering up stolen Democratic Party emails and other assistance in the election.
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Vox, The Guardian, Booman Tribune, Washington Post, Shareblue Media, The Mahablog and New York Magazine
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Seeks to Change Rules on Bank Lending to the Poor — Regulators plan to revamp rules governing banks under the Community Reinvestment Act — The Trump administration plans to unveil a major revision to decades-old banking rules that mandate lending to poor borrowers.
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The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Trump's Netherlands ambassador was asked to name a person ‘burned’ because of Islam. He couldn't. — Peter Hoekstra, the newly minted U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, held his first conference with the Dutch media at his new residence in the Hague Wednesday. — It did not go well.
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Politico, The Intercept, Splinter and Raw Story
Harriet Sinclair / Newsweek:
DONALD TRUMP'S SPIRITUAL ADVISER PAULA WHITE SUGGESTS PEOPLE SEND HER THEIR JANUARY SALARY OR FACE CONSEQUENCES FROM GOD — Donald Trump's spiritual adviser has suggested that people send her money in order to transform their lives, or face divine consequences.
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The Daily Caller
Julia Marsh / Page Six:
Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner call off divorce — Say it ain't so, Huma. — Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her jailed sext-a-holic hubby Anthony Weiner have withdrawn their pending divorce case, The Post has learned. — Abedin was scheduled to appear in Manhattan Supreme Court Wednesday afternoon …
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New York Daily News, Hot Air, IJR, Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon, The Gateway Pundit, thecut, RedState, Washington Post and The Daily Caller
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Post reporter Joel Achenbach suspended for 90 days for ‘inappropriate workplace conduct’ — The Washington Post suspended reporter Joel Achenbach on Wednesday for what it called “inappropriate workplace conduct” involving current and former female colleagues.
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New York Times, The Hill and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Elliot Spagat / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: 7-Eleven probe opens new front on immigration — LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. immigration agents descended on dozens of 7-Eleven stores before dawn Wednesday to open employment audits and interview workers in what officials described as the largest operation against an employer under Donald Trump's presidency.
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Washington Post, The Root, Splinter, The Daily Caller, Breitbart and Axios
AJ Dellinger / International Business Times:
Project Veritas Twitter Video: Company Responds To Allegations It Can Share Trump's Deleted, Direct Messages — Project Veritas, the controversial investigative publication founded by James O'Keefe and best known for posting edited undercover video footage that is sometimes doctored …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Gateway Pundit and Project Veritas
Liz Mair / The Daily Beast:
No, Mr. President, Earmarks Were Horrible, Keep Them Dead and Buried … When President Trump suggested to a bipartisan group of lawmakers this week that “maybe all of you should start thinking about going back to a form of earmarks,” his remarks were met with a roomful of laughs.
WREG-TV:
Navy veteran's mother denied visa to attend his funeral — BLYTHEVILLE, Ark. — He proudly served his country, but when it came time to bury him, a Navy veteran's father said the government wouldn't grant his son's mother a visa to attend his funeral. — Ngoc Truong, a four-year Navy veteran …
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Raw Story
PRRI:
Diversity, Division, Discrimination: The State of Young America | MTV/PRRI Report — I. Perceptions of Discrimination, Personal Experience with Bias, and Concerns about Safety — Experiences with bias and discrimination are relatively common among young people age 15-24.
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Washington Post
Heather Wilhelm / National Review:
Goodbye, Boring Candidates — Hello, Boring Hysteria — On the rise of celebrity candidates and of the over-the-top public reaction they provoke — t was a ceremony fit for the gods. " That was the Washington Post's Dana Milbank, way back in August of 2008, describing Barack Obama's …
John Sexton / Hot Air:
Steven Pinker: Here's How Political Correctness Winds Up Creating Its Own Antagonists — This is a week old so forgive me if you've seen it already but I just came across it today. In this clip, Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker makes the case that political correctness actually winds …
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Google's New ‘Fact-Checker’ Is Partisan Garbage — The tech giant is dishonestly manipulating perceptions about conservative sites before people even read them. — In the midst of the “fake news” hysteria last year, Google launched a project to help curate reliable information for its readers …
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Power Line, The Daily Caller, NewsBusters, Breitbart and The Resurgent
Andy Koval / FOX59:
New layoffs at Carrier factory year after Trump deal … INDIANAPOLIS — A new round of layoffs is taking effect at the Carrier Corp. factory in Indianapolis a little more than a year after President Donald Trump touted a deal that save some of the plant's jobs.
Wesley Morgan / Politico:
Military investigating shooting in newly leaked Afghan combat video — U.S. commanders have launched an investigation into video footage that appears to show an American service member firing into the cab of a civilian truck as the two vehicles pass on a road in Afghanistan …
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