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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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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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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 — 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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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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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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Mariam Khan / ABC News:
Bipartisan lawmakers meet to craft fix for ‘Dreamers’
Bipartisan lawmakers meet to craft fix for ‘Dreamers’
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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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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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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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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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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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TMZ.com:
Harvey Weinstein — Attacked at Scottsdale Restaurant — EXCLUSIVE — Harvey Weinstein was attacked Tuesday night at a restaurant ... TMZ has learned. — Weinstein was at Elements restaurant at the Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort in Scottsdale, eating dinner with his sober coach when 2 men sat at a table next to them.
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Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
GOP negotiators say Trump aide Stephen Miller is standing in the way of an immigration deal — WASHINGTON — Here's one thing even Republicans negotiating an immigration deal agree on: Trump aide Stephen Miller is hurting their chances of getting anything done.
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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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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
10 Takeaways From Glenn Simpson's Fusion GPS Senate Testimony
10 Takeaways From Glenn Simpson's Fusion GPS Senate Testimony
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Tamar Lapin / New York Post:
Confused readers are buying the wrong ‘Fire and Fury’ — SEE ALSO — It's “Fire and Fury” fever. — Confused readers are buying a military book in droves all because it has a title similar to Michael Wolff's bombshell “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” according to a new report.
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Decade-old book called ‘Fire and Fury’ hits best-seller list
Decade-old book called ‘Fire and Fury’ hits best-seller list
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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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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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Rasmussen Reports:
Oprah vs. The Donald, and The Winner Is... TV personality Oprah Winfrey is the likely winner over President Trump if the 2020 election were held today, but there are a lot of undecideds. — The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters …
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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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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 …
New Yorker:
Michael Wolff Says That Washington Will Bury Trump — While I was eating breakfast at the Four Seasons in Georgetown on Tuesday morning, a veteran Washington journalist stopped by my table to say hello. “Nice to see you,” Michael Duffy, a former editor at Time, deadpanned, with a grin on his face …
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Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller and New York Magazine
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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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.
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
White House memo: Kelly orders West Wing staff no personal phones, no smart watches — With an eye on bolstering cyber security protocols and cracking down on leaks to the media, Chief of Staff John Kelly issued a memo to staff on Wednesday outlining the administration's new ban …
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Josh Blackman / National Review:
A Ludicrous Ruling That Trump Can't End DACA — The Supreme Court has reversed this judge's DACA decisions before, and it will do so again. — On January 20, 2017, the executive power peacefully transitioned from President Obama to President Trump. At least one judge in San Francisco didn't get the memo.
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Adam K. Raymond / New York Magazine:
Jared Kushner Is Turning His Focus to Prison Reform — Trump senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner has a long list of responsibilities in the White House, including bringing peace to the Middle East and transforming the federal government so it runs “like a great American company.”
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Trump administration ends registry for substance abuse, mental health programs — The federal government has ended a national registry designed to provide information to the public about evidence-based mental health and substance use interventions and programs.
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Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Gillibrand Vows to Block Trump's Likely Choice for U.S. Attorney in Manhattan — Senator Kirsten Gillibrand plans to use a prerogative given to home-state senators to try to block the confirmation of Geoffrey S. Berman if he is nominated by President Trump as the United States attorney in Manhattan, her spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Devin Leonard / Bloomberg:
The Most Awful Transit Center in America Could Get Unimaginably Worse — Think Penn Station is bad? Let's go into the crumbling, disaster-prone tunnels that lie beneath. — To get to New York's Penn Station, every northbound Amtrak passenger makes the last leg of their journey …
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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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