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Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
TV Reporter Says Harvey Weinstein Masturbated In Front Of Her  —  The new revelation, which allegedly took place a decade ago, comes after an explosive New York Times report said Weinstein had previously settled eight sexual harassment claims.  —  Harvey Weinstein once trapped a woman …
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Sandra Gonzalez / CNN:
How Hollywood has reacted to Weinstein allegations  —  NYT: Weinstein accused of sexual harassment  —  (CNN)More than a day after The New York Times published a blistering report detailing numerous accusations of sexual harassment against prolific film producer Harvey Weinstein …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
DNC takes heat for giving Weinstein money to political groups
Associated Press:
Expressing empathy remains a challenge for Trump  —  https://apnews.com/918d780c0a0949668dc1 2a4af3532af3  —  Link copied!  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — As the death toll from the shooting in Las Vegas rapidly rose, White House officials urged President Donald Trump to show restraint in his response: No speculative tweets, please.
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Franco Ordoñez / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Leadership fears Trump staff undermining president on Dreamers  —  WASHINGTON  —  Congressional leaders fear President Donald Trump's staff are exploiting the president's busy schedule to push their own agenda and undermine his pledge to protect Dreamers.  —  According to four political …
Discussion: Political Wire
CNN:   Tillerson chaos lays bare Kelly's struggle to manage White House
TMZ.com:
Nelly — Arrested for Rape  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  9:25 AM PT — Nelly's lawyer tells TMZ, “Nelly is the victim of a completely fabricated allegation.  Our initial investigation, clearly establishes the allegation is devoid of credibility and is motivated by greed and vindictiveness.
Discussion: The Root, IJR and The FADER
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Maher nails why only white people get away with gun violence: If you can't see it 'you're probably racist'  —  Bill Maher couldn't help but note that the way Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock is being treated differently than other terrorists that have attacked Americans in the past.
Doug Sosnik / Washington Post:
Trump is on track to win reelection  —  Doug Sosnik, a Democratic political strategist, was a senior adviser to President Bill Clinton from 1994 to 2000.  —  More than half of Americans don't think Donald Trump is fit to serve as president, yet he has a clear path to winning reelection.
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
The Supreme Court's Gerrymandering Case and Strategies for Winning Justice Kennedy's Vote  —  The secret to advocacy before the contemporary Supreme Court is no secret: it's all about pandering to Justice Anthony Kennedy.  With the other eight Justices evenly split between liberals and conservatives …
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Eric McGhee / Washington Post:
The Supreme Court discussed my research on gerrymandering. There were some misconceptions.
Discussion: CNN and Modern Democracy
Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue:
Watch: Sarah Huckabee Sanders callously laughs at women who will lose their birth control
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump phones Schumer for help on health care, worrying GOP  —  President Trump telephoned Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer on Friday in an effort to revive health-care legislation, Republican sources said.  —  Trump was seeking “a path forward on health care,” a GOP source said.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Shifting attitudes among Democrats have big implications for 2020  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks during a health-care rally at the 2017 Convention of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee on Sept. 22 in San Francisco.  Sanders is pushing his Medicare for All bill in the Senate.
Discussion: Political Wire
Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
Ivana Trump speculates Ivanka could run for president  —  The mother of Ivanka Trump is speculating her daughter could run for president someday.  —  President Trump's daughter, who is also an adviser to the president, has never run for office.  —  “Maybe in fifteen years,” …
Discussion: RedState and The Week
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:   In book, Ivana Trump relives divorce from future president
Jonathan Dienst / NBC New York:
ISIS Sympathizers Planned to ‘Create the Next 9/11’ With Attacks on Concerts, Subways & Times Square: Feds  —  One of the suspects allegedly told an undercover agent posing as ISIS sympathizer that “NY Needs to fall.”  —  Three men living outside the U.S. planned to attack concerts …
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Debt Alone Won't Crush Puerto Rico.  Depopulation Is the Curse.  —  Erasing the island's bond obligations would not be sufficient, if migration continues.  —  “They owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street,” Donald Trump told Geraldo Rivera.  “We're going to have to wipe that out.
Discussion: Instapundit
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Michael Tackett / New York Times:   An Exodus From Puerto Rico Could Remake Florida Politics
NHC Webmaster / NHC Atlantic Wallet 1:
Hurricane Nate Public Advisory  —  U.S. Watch/Warning Local Products  —  BULLETIN Hurricane Nate Intermediate Advisory Number 12A NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL162017 700 AM CDT Sat Oct 07 2017  —  ...NOAA AND AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT FIND THAT NATE …
The Guardian:
Natural History Museum crash: man arrested after car hits pedestrians  —  Police investigate possible motive after several people were injured as car mounts pavement near one of London's busiest museums  —  Several people have been injured and a man has been arrested after a car struck pedestrians outside …
Discussion: The Week
Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
Rex Tillerson at the Breaking Point  —  Will Donald Trump let the Secretary of State do his job?  —  One afternoon in late September, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called a meeting of the six countries that came together in 2015 to limit Iran's nuclear-weapons program.
The Daily Beast:
A Steve Bannon Ally at the Broadcasting Board of Governors Believes There's a Massive Pro-Cuba Conspiracy at Foot … An ally of former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is convinced that high-level officials at a U.S. government media arm are in league with the Castro regime in Cuba …
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Hadas Gold / CNNMoney:
Bannon ally wants to turn government media agency into ‘legacy’ for former Trump adviser
Discussion: Raw Story
CBS News:
How Facebook ads helped elect Trump  —  Trump campaign digital director Brad Parscale says Donald Trump won election on Facebook with highly targeted ads — and infrastructure was a key issue  —  President Donald Trump talked on Twitter, but Facebook was the crucial tool that helped elect him …
 
 
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Todd Richmond / Associated Press:
University of Wisconsin approves protest punishment policy
Discussion: The Root
Yahoo:
64 hours in October: How one weekend blew up the rules of American politics
Discussion: Last Men and OverMen
Foreign Policy:
Congress Is Dropping the Ball on Trump's Obstruction of Justice
Discussion: Politico and The Guardian
Jennifer Weiner / New York Times:
The Flagrant Sexual Hypocrisy of Conservative Men
Discussion: WNYC News and The Federalist
Meredith Wadman / Science:
Disturbing allegations of sexual harassment in Antarctica leveled at noted scientist
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Confronts China Over Suspected Cyberattack as Fugitive Guo Wengui Appears in Washington
Discussion: CNBC
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Lauren Rosenblatt / Los Angeles Times:
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin used military planes without adequate justification, inspector general finds
Donald J. Trump / The White House:
President Donald J. Trump Proclaims October 9, 2017, as Columbus Day
Discussion: Raw Story
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
GOP Baseball Suspect Committed ‘Act Of Terrorism’ ‘Fueled By Rage Against Republican Legislators’
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Back on the trail, Biden's message rankles the left
Jenny Beth Martin / The Hill:
Trump should show no mercy in terminating IRS's John Koskinen
Associated Press:
AP-NORC Poll: Just 24 percent say US heading right direction
Discussion: Axios, Eschaton and The Guardian