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6:40 PM ET, September 9, 2018

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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
As Leslie Moonves Negotiates His Exit from CBS, Women Raise New Assault and Harassment Claims  —  Members of the board of the CBS Corporation are negotiating with the company's chairman and C.E.O., Leslie Moonves, about his departure.  Sources familiar with the board's activities …
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
CEO Leslie Moonves will leave CBS without severance package; separate deal will reshape CBS board, sources say  —  Bowing to pressure brought on by a sexual harassment scandal, CBS Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Leslie Moonves is expected to resign late Sunday, according to two people familiar …
William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:
Les Moonves Admits to Unwanted Kissing of His Doctor 19 Years Ago  —  Another wrinkle emerges in Moonves's negotiated exit from CBS, and within one of the more head-spinning #MeToo storylines yet.  —  BY - WILLIAM D. COHANSeptember 9, 2018,  —  The career arc of Les Moonves …
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Leslie Moonves Poised to Depart CBS as New Sexual Assault Allegations Surface in New Yorker Report
Discussion: Mediaite
CBS News:
Bob Woodward: “People better wake up to what's going on” in the Oval Office  —  Watergate journalist Bob Woodward made headlines once again this past week, with his new book about the Trump White House, entitled “Fear.”  This morning, in his first TV interview, Woodward paints a picture …
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Jamilah King / Mother Jones:
Trump Almost Sent a Tweet That Could Have Signaled War With North Korea  —  Bob Woodward reveals just how close the president came to a major provocation.
Roger Kimball / Spectator USA:
Whining Serena Williams is tennis's Hillary Clinton … No one expected Naomi Osaka to win the US Open yesterday.  Everyone favoured her opponent.  The crowd was solidly with Serena Williams, as were the bookies.  But the 20-year-old Japanese-Haitian, who became the first player representing Japan …
Discussion: twitchy.com
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Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Serena Williams Got What She Deserved  —  Serena Williams isn't a victim of anything except for being Serena Williams.  —  While Serena Williams was melting down during the U.S. Open women's final against Naomi Osaka on Saturday night, I was at a minor league baseball playoff game.
Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
It's shameful what US Open did to Naomi Osaka
Discussion: Daily Wire, Althouse and The Atlantic
Sally Jenkins / Washington Post:
At U.S. Open, power of Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka is overshadowed by an umpire's power play
New York Times:
Dirty Politics in New York  —  A last-minute mailer from Democrats wrongly describing Cynthia Nixon as anti-Semitic is a disgrace.  —  The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher.  It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.
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New York Times:
A Delayed Bridge Opening and an ‘Inappropriate’ Mailer Puts Cuomo on the Defensive  —  ALBANY, N.Y. — It must have seemed like such a fine idea.  —  On Friday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, was standing alongside his mother, Matilda, and Hillary Clinton celebrating “the grand opening” …
Axios:
Omarosa claims White House staffers had hashtag to discuss 25th Amendment  —  Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman claimed on MSNBC Sunday that she and other members of the Trump administration texted each other the hashtag “#tfa,” referring to the 25th Amendment, “more than 100 times” …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Breitbart
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Crispian Balmer / Reuters:
U.S. President Trump facing a ‘coup’: Bannon
Discussion: Axios
Politico:   At-risk House Republicans say no to new tax bill
Emily Birnbaum / The Hill:
Three Miami Dolphins players protest during national anthem  —  Three Miami Dolphins players protested during the national anthem before their season opener against Tennessee on Sunday.  —  Wide receivers Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson knelt during the anthem while defensive end Robert Quinn raised …
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Adam Schefter / ESPN:
NFL not expected to implement new national anthem policy this season
Vinnie Longobardo / Washington Press:
A new ethics complaint could have just put the fate of Brett Kavanaugh in Merrick Garland's hands  —  After watching Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testify under oath during his confirmation hearings about his knowledge of stolen Democratic emails when he was a White House lawyer …
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Washington Post:   Kavanaugh hearings didn't alter nominee's Supreme Court trajectory
Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:
North Korea stresses economy, not nukes, on 70th anniversary  —  PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea held a major military parade and revived its iconic mass games to celebrate its 70th anniversary on Sunday, but in keeping with leader Kim Jong Un's new policies the emphasis was firmly …
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Josh Smith / Reuters:
North Korea military parade features floats and flowers, not missiles
Michael Burke / The Hill:   Pence ‘more than willing’ to sit down with Mueller
Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
Trump campaign members were ‘fully aware’ of efforts to set Putin meeting: Papadopoulos  —  George Papadopoulos, the one-time foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump who became swept up in the special counsel investigation, says members of the Trump campaign team were “fully aware” …
Washington Post:
Florence strengthens to hurricane and poses extreme threat to Southeast and Mid-Atlantic  —  Florence is, again, a hurricane and is predicted to rapidly intensify to an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm by Tuesday as it starts to close in on the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic coast.
Discussion: CBS Chicago, NPR and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
C.I.A. Drone Mission, Curtailed by Obama, Is Expanded in Africa Under Trump  —  DIRKOU, Niger — The C.I.A. is poised to conduct secret drone strikes against Qaeda and Islamic State insurgents from a newly expanded air base deep in the Sahara, making aggressive use of powers that were scaled …
Discussion: Axios
Geoffrey Kabaservice / Politico:
Liberals Don't Know Much About Conservative History  —  And both sides suffer for it.  —  The growing tendency of late for liberals and conservatives to regard each other as not just opponents, but enemies, has been one of the most alarming in an alarming era.
Ben Jacobs / The Guardian:
Cory Booker places staff in Iowa ahead of potential 2020 White House run  —  According to multiple sources, Cory Booker has placed four staffers on the ground in Iowa, helping Democratic candidates, as he moves to position himself for a potential presidential bid.
Discussion: Political Wire and twitchy.com
 
 
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Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
Despite Trump tweet, Ford says it won't make hatchback in US
Courtenay Brown / Axios:
Ex-Bloomberg campaign manager sees hard path for independents in 2020
Discussion: Political Wire
Maria Kiselyova / Reuters:
U.S. energy secretary to visit Moscow September 11-13: Russian media
emptywheel:
Brett Kavanaugh Thinks Using Stolen Emails Is Acceptable Behavior
Bernd Hüppauf / Salon:
A witch hunt or a quest for justice: An insider's perspective on disgraced academic Avital Ronell
Thom Geier / The Wrap:
Miss America Contestant Slams Trump During Pageant: ‘He Has Caused a Lot of Division’
Discussion: Daily Wire
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Pence plays role of Trump's most ardent defender in wake of Times op-ed, Woodward book
Discussion: Breitbart
 Earlier Items: 
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Sergei Skripal and the Russian disinformation game
Politico:
The growing GOP fears
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Vox and Outside the Beltway
Christian Davenport / Washington Post:
Sen. Ben Sasse said he thinks about leaving the GOP ‘every morning’
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
The Times & The Sunday Times:
Warsaw ghetto vandal to speak at Momentum's Corbyn festival
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Trump to provide written answers under oath in Summer Zervos defamation lawsuit
Discussion: Reuters, CNN, Bustle, AOL and Raw Story
Kim Kelly / Teen Vogue:
What is anarchism?  —  Anarchism is a radical, revolutionary …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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