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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations of Sexual Misconduct  —  Six women accuse the C.E.O. of harassment and intimidation, and dozens more describe abuse at his company.  —  For more than twenty years, Leslie Moonves has been one of the most powerful media executives in America.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Russian Hackers Appear to Shift Focus to U.S. Power Grid  —  WASHINGTON — State-sponsored Russian hackers appear far more interested this year in demonstrating that they can disrupt the American electric utility grid than the midterm elections, according to United States intelligence officials and technology company executives.
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Trump chairs election security meeting but gives no new orders to repel Russian interference  —  President Trump chaired a meeting Friday of his most senior national security advisers to discuss the administration's effort to safeguard November's elections from Russian interference …
Discussion: Political Wire
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Trump admin has no central strategy for election security, and no one's in charge
Discussion: New York Times
Ari Honarvar / The Nation:
A 6-Year-Old Girl Was Sexually Abused in an Immigrant-Detention Center  —  Separated from her mother by Trump's zero-tolerance policy, the child was forced to sign a statement confirming that she understood it was her responsibility to stay away from her abuser.
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Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Trump's ex-lawyer: Giuliani hurt Trump's case by flip-flopping on Cohen  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, substantially weakened his case against Michael Cohen by going back and forth as to whether Cohen could tell federal prosecutors the truth, said Jay Goldberg …
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Maria Butina is just the tip of the Russia iceberg  —  By day, he ran a travel agency.  Off hours, Jacob Golos worked for the Soviet Union.  Unlike some of his fictional successors, he did not pretend to be a native.  But from the time of its founding in 1927 until his death in 1943 …
Julie Zauzmer / Washington Post:
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, facing sexual abuse reports, resigns from the College of Cardinals  —  Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington and longtime globe-trotting diplomat of the Catholic Church, resigned his position as a cardinal, the Vatican announced Saturday.
Discussion: Axios and vaticannews.va
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Associated Press:   After decades of silence, nuns talk about abuse by priests
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
The Case for a Trump-Russia Conspiracy Just Got a Little Stronger  —  If proven true, the president's alleged role in the Trump Tower meeting could help prosecutors make judgments about his “character, truthfulness, and culpability.”  —  CNN's bombshell scoop Thursday night shined …
Discussion: CNBC, CNN and Daily Wire
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Devin Nunes, Washington's Public Enemy No. 1  —  What did the FBI do in the 2016 campaign?  The head of the House inquiry on what he has found—and questions still unanswered.  —  Tulare, Calif.  —  It's 105 degrees as I stand with Rep. Devin Nunes on his family's dairy farm.
Walter Kirn / Harper's:
Illiberal Values  —  Coming of age in the Seventies as a Midwesterner, a Mormon, and a resident of a town of about five hundred people, I didn't get to meet a lot of outspoken liberals, but those I did meet made strong impressions on me.  I was too young to understand the intricacies of their politics …
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
‘A different level of intensity’: Collins and Murkowski find pressure over Supreme Court lacks emotional pleas on health care  —  Last year's Republican effort to repeal Obamacare might seem quite similar to this summer's battle over the nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Washington Post:
Venting about press, Trump has repeatedly sought to ban reporters over questions  —  President Trump has sought repeatedly to punish journalists for the way they ask him questions, directing White House staff to ban those reporters from covering official events or to revoke their press credentials …
Discussion: Raw Story, AOL, POLITICUSUSA and Mediaite
Dan Diamond / Politico:
HHS official who spread conspiracy theories forced out  —  Ximena Barreto — a Donald Trump political appointee who used social media to spread conspiracy theories about a supposed pizza shop sex ring and made other inflammatory remarks — was escorted from Health and Human Services Department …
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Sanctions on Russia's Rusal could be lifted, Mnuchin says  —  Pompeo hearing gets heated over what Trump told Putin  —  (CNN)The Trump administration is looking into lifting sanctions against a major Russian aluminum company founded by one of Vladimir Putin's closest allies.
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Reuters:   Putin says Trump can ‘be my guest’ in Moscow, White House welcomes idea
Josh Meyer / Politico:
Accused Russian agent met with suspected Kremlin spy  —  Mariia Butina's attorney insists the get-together was nothing more than one dinner with a prominent Russian official.  —  Accused Russian sleeper agent Mariia Butina met in January with the head of a Russian government-affiliated cultural center …
Discussion: Raw Story
Kim Brooks / New York Times:
Motherhood in the Age of Fear  —  Women are being harassed and even arrested for making perfectly rational parenting decisions.  —  CHICAGO — I was on my way home from dropping my kids off at preschool when a police officer called to ask if I was aware there was an outstanding warrant for my arrest.
TYT Investigates / TYT Network:
Giuliani, Bolton Repeatedly Met With Group Formerly Designated a Cult-Like Terror Organization  —  Rudy Giuliani speaks during a memorial in NYC on September 24, 2013, for members of Iranian dissident group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK).  MEK says that 52 of its members were killed on September 1, 2013, in Iraq.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Lauren Meier / Axios:
Special counsel releases witness list for Manafort trial  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller has filed his witness list, which includes 35 individuals who could testify against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in his upcoming trial.  —  Flashback: Earlier this week …
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Talking Points Memo:
Mueller Unveils Witness List For Manafort Trial Starting Next Week
Discussion: Bustle
Lili Bayer / Politico:
Viktor Orbán: Commission is EU elite ‘failure’  —  The European Commission is a symbol of the EU elite's failure, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his annual speech to party supporters.  —  Speaking in the Romanian town of Băile Tunad …
Discussion: Index and One America News Network
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
‘They Spit When I Walked in the Street’: The ‘New Anti-Semitism’ in France  —  PARIS — The solemn boulevards and quiet side streets of the 17th Arrondissement in Paris suggest Jewish life in France is vibrant: There is a new profusion of kosher groceries and restaurants, and about 15 synagogues, up from only a handful two decades ago.
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
As Affordable Housing Crisis Grows, HUD Sits on the Sidelines  —  WASHINGTON — The country is in the grips of an escalating housing affordability crisis.  Millions of low-income Americans are paying 70 percent or more of their incomes for shelter, while rents continue to rise and construction …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Precinct Data Shows Rich, White Neighborhoods Flipping Democratic in 2016.  Will It Last?  —  Republicans have been the party of the rich and Democrats the party of the poor for about as long as political scientists have collected data on American elections.  —  That might not be quite so true anymore, at least among white voters.
Mike Elk / Payday Report:
Help a Freelance Labor Reporter Afford Summer Vacation in Appalachia  —  Right-wing publications have mocked me in the past for raising money for vacations.  However, as a freelance labor reporter, I don't have paid vacation days.  If I don't work, I don't get paid.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump administration fails to comply with court order, keeps kids locked up  —  The Post reports: … We have no doubt that the DHS employees working to reunite families have given their all and are committed to fulfilling the judge's order.  It is the political appointees who conducted …
Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
Bill Clinton Heckled By Angry Prostitutes In Amsterdam  —  Bill Clinton was heckled by activists at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam on Friday while he was giving a speech.  —  Walking down the center aisle with red umbrellas, protesters demanded the decriminalization …
Discussion: Breitbart, Joe.My.God. and PinkNews
 
 
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Kenneth Lovett / New York Daily News:
Dilan seeking to toss Salazar off Democratic primary ballot over residency questions
Discussion: Crooked Timber
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Midterms likely to be most expensive ever as TV ads pass billion-dollar mark
Paul Crookston / Washington Free Beacon:
Anti-Kavanaugh Campaign Makes Extensive Use of ‘Dark Money’ Donations
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:
As Carr Fire Kills 2 in California, Firefighters Reflect on a Job Now ‘Twice as Violent’
Discussion: NPR and Balloon Juice
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Sheldon Silver, Ex-New York Assembly Speaker, Gets 7-Year Prison Sentence
Discussion: Gothamist
Deirdre Fernandes / BostonGlobe.com:
Harvard denies discriminating against Asian-Americans
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Wills Robinson / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Surveillance footage shows one of President Obama's senior officials following …
Discussion: Clayton Cramer and Daily Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Kira Davis / RedState:
CA Police Chief: We've Arrested the Same Person 83 Times
Discussion: Instapundit
Claudia Lauer / Associated Press:
Philadelphia to further limit cooperation with ICE
Discussion: Axios
Monica Burton / Eater:
The No-Tipping Point  —  Inside the twisted minds of deliberately bad tippers
John Harwood / CNBC:
This is the cost of President Trump's ‘America first’ policy
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