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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005  —  Donald Trump bragged in vulgar terms about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women during a 2005 conversation caught on a hot microphone — saying that “when you're a star, they let you do it” — according to a video obtained by The Washington Post.
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Mark Green / fox13now.com:
Congressman Jason Chaffetz withdraws his endorsement of Donald Trump  —  SALT LAKE CITY — Congressman Jason Chaffetz said he is withdrawing his support for Donald Trump Friday after a video surfaced showing the Republican candidate for president making vulgar remarks in 2005 about touching and kissing women without their consent.
The Salt Lake / Salt Lake Tribune:
After explicit Trump video leaks, Huntsman says he should drop out  —  One week after explaining why he planned to vote for Donald Trump, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman said it is time for the Republican nominee to drop out of the race and allow vice presidential nominee Mike Pence to represent the party.
Jake Sherman / Politico:
Ryan ‘sickened’ by Trump, joint appearance scrapped  —  Paul Ryan said Friday night that he was “sickened” by Donald Trump's lewd comments about women, and announced that the GOP nominee would no longer campaign with him in Wisconsin on Saturday.  —  The speaker did not, however …
Discussion: Political Wire
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
How the shocking hot mic tape of Donald Trump was exposed  —  WARNING: This story contains graphic language.  —  The videotape of Donald Trump that is shaking up the presidential election sat forgotten on a shelf at NBC's “Access Hollywood” until just a few days ago.
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Tried to Fire Nancy O'Dell After She Rejected His Sexual Advances  —  Less than two years after a female journalist supposedly rebuffed Donald Trump's sexual advances—as heard on newly discovered video—he allegedly tried to have her fired from one of his beauty pageants.
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and TMZ.com
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Trump on Hot Mic: 'When You're a Star ... You Can Do Anything' to Women  —  Trump on Video Making Lewd Remarks About Women 0:54  —  Editor's note: This story contains graphic language that some may find offensive.  —  A decade before Donald Trump became the Republican nominee for president …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
A caller had a lewd tape of Donald Trump.  Then the race to break the story was on.  —  Reporter David Fahrenthold got a phone call around 11 a.m. Friday from a source with a tip about Donald Trump.  The source asked: Would Fahrenthold be interested in seeing some previously unaired video of Trump?
The Huffington Post:
Mike Pence's Team Boots Reporters After Audio Emerges Of Trump Saying He Can Grab Women ‘By The P***y’  —  The journalists had been promised they could cover the nominee's departure from a Toledo restaurant.  —  Senior Enterprise Editor, The Huffington Post
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
SundayReview  —  JILL HARTH'S first concern with Donald Trump's hands wasn't that they were small.  It's that they were everywhere.  —  Harth and her longtime boyfriend were in meetings with Trump to forge a business partnership.  “He was relentless,” Harth recalled in an interview …
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:   Pence refuses to respond on Trump's comments
Jenna Portnoy / Washington Post:
Republican Rep. Barbara Comstock of Virginia urges Trump to drop out of race
Discussion: Politico
CNN:
Trump bragged on hot mic about being able to grope women
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump caught on tape making crude, sexually aggressive comments about women
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
WikiLeaks Appears To Release Hillary Clinton's Paid Speech Transcripts  —  Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Images  —  Excerpts from Hillary Clinton's closed-door paid speeches, including to financial firms, appeared to be made public for the first time on Friday when WikiLeaks published hundreds …
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The Intercept:
Excerpts of Hillary Clinton's Paid Speeches to Goldman Sachs Finally Leaked  —  Excerpts of Hillary Clinton's remarks during paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, and other groups were leaked online Friday afternoon by WikiLeaks.  Clinton, who was paid upwards …
Jaclyn Tran / ODNI Newsroom Feed:
Joint DHS and ODNI Election Security Statement  —  The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations.  The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails …
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
U.S. government officially accuses Russia of hacking campaign to interfere with elections
Discussion: CNBC, Joe.My.God. and The Week
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Obama administration publicly blames Russia for DNC hack
Discussion: RedState
Steven A. Holmes / CNN:
Reality Check: Donald Trump and the Central Park 5  —  Washington (CNN)Few people in New York City — and, perhaps, the country — who followed the news in 1989 could forget the “Central Park Jogger” rape case.  —  The brutal crime shook the city.  A 28-year-old banker who had been jogging …
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New York Daily News:
Donald Trump: Central Park Five settlement is a ‘disgrace’
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Still Considers Exonerated Central Park 5 Guilty: ‘They Admitted They Were’
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Joseph Guyler Delva / Reuters:
Death toll soars to 572 in Haiti from Hurricane Matthew: local officials  —  The number of people killed by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti rose to at least 572 on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, as information trickled in from remote areas that were cut off by the storm, officials said.
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:   Trump suggests illegal immigrants will vote as parties clash over voter access
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Prominent Evangelicals Still Backing Trump After Lewd Video  —  CLEVELAND — A tape of Donald Trump making extremely crude remarks about women is putting evangelical leaders who endorsed him in a tougher spot than almost anyone else in the Republican Party — and on Friday …
Discussion: alan.com
Kurt Eichenwald / Newsweek:
How Donald Trump supporters attack journalists  —  THE SCOOP DONALD TRUMP EPILEPSY  —  Shortly after I wrote an article for Newsweek about how Donald Trump's business interests could undermine national security should he be elected president, one of his supporters assaulted me.
Discussion: alan.com, Mediaite and The Week
Chicago Tribune:
Citing beating of officer, Chicago's top cop says police are ‘second-guessing themselves’  —  A Chicago police officer did not use her gun to defend herself for fear of backlash, Superintendent Eddie Johnson said.  Oct. 6, 2016.  (Photo: Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune; CBS Chicago)
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Paul Sperry / New York Post:
FBI agents are ready to revolt over the cozy Clinton probe  —  MORE FROM:  —  Veteran FBI agents say FBI Director James Comey has permanently damaged the bureau's reputation for uncompromising investigations with his “cowardly” whitewash of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's mishandling …
Discussion: The Point and Law News
 
 
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Ben Carson Spokesman On Trump Video: “Hey, The Flesh Can Be Weak, My Man”
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Ashe Schow / Washington Examiner:
University president rejects ‘zero tolerance’ policy for speech
Ashley Lisenby / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Politics or pizza? Trump sign at Imo's store causing buzz in left-leaning Tower Grove South
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
How to Rebuild the Republican Party
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Michele Steele / ESPN:
NWHL player Harrison Browne comes out as a transgender man
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