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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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St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Greitens admits affair but denies related blackmail allegation — Sheena Greitens and her husband Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens are introduced to the crowd during the Inaugural Ball at the State Capital in Jefferson City on Monday, Jan. 10, 2017. Photo by David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens admits extramarital affair but denies reports he blackmailed woman with nude photo
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens admits extramarital affair but denies reports he blackmailed woman with nude photo
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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
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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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, Balloon Juice, Mashable, Splinter, Fast Company, thecut and No More Mister Nice Blog, more at Mediagazer »
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
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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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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Democratic leaders face internal mutiny over Dreamers deal — Democratic leaders are facing a potential revolt within their ranks as they edge toward a deal with Republicans that would protect Dreamers from deportation but also include concessions to conservatives that many Democratic lawmakers say are unacceptable.
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Wolff Eats Its Own — Guess what? Donald Trump is a raving idiot. Every sentient person knows this, and if Michael Wolff is to be believed, so does most everyone in the White House. So why are we talking about Wolff's book “Fire and Fury” as if it's the news sensation of the decade?
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Daniel Henninger / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Proves He's Sane
Trump Proves He's Sane
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New York Magazine, Ethics & Public Policy Center and RealClearPolitics
Christopher Buskirk / Washington Post:
Michael Wolff did Trump a big favor
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
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Trump administration opens door to let states impose Medicaid work requirements — The Trump administration issued guidance to states early Thursday that will allow them to compel people to work or prepare for jobs in order to receive Medicaid for the first time in the half-century history …
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David Harsanyi / New York Post:
The Trump dossier's credibility is collapsing — No sooner did Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, unilaterally release the testimony of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson than liberals and their advocates in the media were claiming victory.
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Sara Carter / Sara A. Carter:
Was the DNC/Clinton campaign-funded dossier used to obtain warrants on Trump team from the secret court?
Was the DNC/Clinton campaign-funded dossier used to obtain warrants on Trump team from the secret court?
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
The Crime Is Worse Than The Coverup
The Crime Is Worse Than The Coverup
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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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Bradley P. Moss / Politico:
This Is How Trump's Lawyers Are Probably Prepping Him for the Mueller Showdown
This Is How Trump's Lawyers Are Probably Prepping Him for the Mueller Showdown
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The Daily Beast, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Post
Los Angeles Times:
Five women accuse actor James Franco of inappropriate or sexually exploitative behavior — It should have been a pure moment of triumph for James Franco. He collected one of Hollywood's top prizes at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, validating an untraditional career in which he's …
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AOL, Mashable, thecut and IndieWire, more at Mediagazer »
Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Republicans Have 4 Convicted Criminals Running For Congress In 2018 — Three of them are bragging about it. — WASHINGTON When Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County sheriff, announced his Senate candidacy on Tuesday, he became the fourth viable Republican 2018 congressional candidate who's been convicted of a crime.
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David Byler / Weekly Standard:
The Republican Civil War Heads to Arizona
The Republican Civil War Heads to Arizona
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Amita Kelly / NPR:
‘Deport Them’: Arpaio Departs From Trump On DACA Recipients
‘Deport Them’: Arpaio Departs From Trump On DACA Recipients
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The Atlantic, RedState, IJR, Notes and The Hill
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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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 …
Joseph Cox / The Daily Beast:
Top U.S. Government Computers Linked to Revenge-Porn Site … Revenge porn, where people share intimate images of others in order to intimidate, harass, or embarrass, is rampant. Now, data obtained by a security analyst and shared with The Daily Beast reveals the behind-the-scenes …
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Gizmodo
Cheri Jacobus / USA Today:
Bannon's brutal ouster from Trump and Breitbart circles should frighten Americans — Conservative institutions have embraced Bannon's political slaughter not for his past sins but because he criticized the president. That's chilling. — Steve Bannon — the loathed architect …
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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
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Sessions tries to impress Trump with moves at Justice. It hasn't worked. — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is trying to find his way back into President Trump's good graces. — For months, Sessions has asked senior White House aides to make sure the president knows what he is doing …
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Politico and Political Wire
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
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.
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Google's New ‘Fact-Checker’ Is Partisan Garbage — In the midst of the “fake news” hysteria last year, Google launched a project to help curate reliable information for its readers by identifying articles and sites that need fact-checking. And this may come as a surprise to some of you …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Conway: Trump ‘discovered’ there doesn't need to be ‘physical wall’ along entire border … “discovered” there doesn't need to be a “physical wall” along the country's entire southern border. — “What's true is that after conferring with the experts who are involved in this process …
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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
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Senate Republicans lobbying Trump to stay in NAFTA — Senate Republicans have strategically revved up their attempt to convince President Trump to not withdraw from NAFTA. Some senators and aides say he may not have understood how popular it was with the caucus until recently, and are encouraging him to focus instead on improving it.
National Review:
The GOP Must Win a Better Deal on DACA — At a partially televised bipartisan meeting about immigration on Tuesday, President Trump demonstrated that he's not, despite the fevered fantasies of the Left, senile; unfortunately, he also demonstrated that he's not necessarily reliable on immigration policy.
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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