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People.com:
Harvey Weinstein's Wife Georgina Chapman Is Leaving Him: ‘My Heart Breaks for All the Women Who Have Suffered’  —  Harvey Weinstein's wife, Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman, is leaving him — as more women continue to step forward to accuse the movie mogul of decades of sexual harassment and assault.
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New York Times:
Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Others Say Weinstein Harassed Them  —  “This way of treating women ends now,” Ms. Paltrow said as she and other actresses accused the producer of casting-couch abuses.  —  When Gwyneth Paltrow was 22 years old, she got a role that would take her from actress to star …
TMZ.com:
Harvey Weinstein Flying to Europe Tonight for Sex Addiction Rehab  —  EXCLUSIVE DETAILS  —  Harvey Weinstein is boarding a private jet Tuesday night, bound for a rehab center in Europe for sex addiction ... sources connected with the former mogul tell TMZ.
Discussion: Instapundit and Gothamist
Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
Ronan Farrow Says He Was Threatened Personally With a Lawsuit by Harvey Weinstein  —  When asked on MSNBC why he went to The New Yorker with the story, Farrow replied: “You would have to ask NBC and NBC executives about the details.”  —  Ronan Farrow told Rachel Maddow on Tuesday …
Page Six:
A ‘defiant’ Harvey Weinstein said he's already planning a comeback  —  Harvey Weinstein has been accused of rape, in the latest bombshell from the New Yorker.  The investigation uncovered shocking audio of Weinstein coercing a female model during an NYPD sting.
HuffPost:
Sources: NBC Let Ronan Farrow's Weinstein Scoop Slip Away
Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein's Accusers Tell Their Stories
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Matt Damon Denies Trying To Kill 2004 NYT Harvey Weinstein Story: “If There Was Ever An Event …
Jake Tapper / CNN:
‘Email prankster’ reaches Harvey Weinstein, Lisa Bloom
Tina Brown / New York Times:
What Harvey and Trump have in common
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Hillary Clinton condemns longtime Democratic donor Harvey Weinstein
Axios:
Obama “disgusted” by reports of sexual assault by Weinstein
Discussion: Politico
NBC News:
Trump Wanted Tenfold Increase in Nuclear Arsenal, Surprising Military  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he wanted what amounted to a nearly tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during a gathering this past summer of the nation's highest ranking national security leaders …
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Elizabeth Preza / Raw Story:
GOP official imagines Kelly and Mattis discussed tackling Trump if he ‘lunges for the nuclear football’: report  —  New York Magazine contributing editor Gabriel Sherman on Tuesday reported on a remarkable conversation he had with a senior Republican official, who described imagined conversations …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump challenges Tillerson to an ‘IQ test.’ The White House claims it was ‘a joke.’
Discussion: The Atlantic, ABC News, NPR and Mashable
New York Times:
How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets  —  It was a case of spies watching spies watching spies: Israeli intelligence officers looked on in real time as Russian government hackers searched computers around the world for the code names of American intelligence programs.
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Israel hacked Kaspersky, then tipped the NSA that its tools had been breached  —  In 2015, Israeli government hackers saw something suspicious in the computers of a Moscow-based cybersecurity firm: hacking tools that could only have come from the National Security Agency.
Ali Watkins / Politico:
Carter Page says he won't testify before Senate Intelligence panel in Russia probe  —  Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, informed the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that he will not be cooperating with any requests to appear before the panel …
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CNN:
Nunes signs off on new subpoenas to firm behind Trump-Russia dossier  —  (CNN)The chairman of the House intelligence committee has issued subpoenas to the partners who run Fusion GPS, the research firm that produced the dossier of memos on alleged Russian efforts to aid the Trump campaign, according to sources briefed on the matter.
Discussion: ABC News, Raw Story and AOL
Eric Beech / Reuters:
Trump's ex-adviser Carter Page will not testify in Russia probe: Politico
Discussion: Democrats.com
Mike Allen / Axios:
Inside Bannon's plans for a GOP civil war  —  Establishment Republicans are getting squeezed to death from within.  In what should be nirvana — all-party control of Washington — they instead are jammed daily between a president who routinely ridicules them for ineptitude — and Steve Bannon …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Mitch McConnell Goes to the Mattresses for Trump's Judicial Nominees
Discussion: Power Line
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   Bannon putting Senate majority at risk in 2018, Republicans warn
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Bannon vented about Pence VP pick before joining campaign: report
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Olivia Solon / The Guardian:
Mark Zuckerberg ‘tours’ flooded Puerto Rico in bizarre virtual reality promo
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mashable
Los Angeles Times:
New disclosure shows a casino guard alerted hotel to gunman before Vegas massacre began.  So why did it take so long to stop him?  —  Police say gunman Stephen Paddock shot a security guard before opening fire on concertgoers.  —  Before the Las Vegas massacre began, a wounded Mandalay Bay …
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
'He's better than this,' says Thomas Barrack, Trump's loyal whisperer  —  NEW YORK — Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a billionaire who is one of President Trump's oldest friends, had spent weeks trying to smooth the way for a May presidential meeting in Saudi Arabia with Gulf leaders.  —  All initially went well.
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Trump ‘likely obstructed justice’ in Comey firing, could be impeached, Brookings Institution says  — President Donald Trump “likely obstructed justice” when he fired FBI Director James Comey and could face impeachment, according to an analysis from the Brookings Institution.
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Barry H. Berke / Brookings Institution:
Presidential obstruction of justice: The case of Donald J. Trump
Discussion: TheStreet and Political Wire
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Zinke: If We Take Down Confederate Statues, ‘Indians’ Will Complain About Union Ones  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says that the Trump Administration will not remove Confederate monuments from federal lands out of consideration for the feelings of “native Indians.”  —  “Where do you start and where do you stop?”
Discussion: Raw Story
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Kansas Tried a Tax Plan Similar to Trump's.  It Failed.  —  WICHITA, Kan. — In December 2014, the University of Kansas agreed to pay David Beaty $800,000 a year, plus incentives, to be the football program's head coach, but with an interesting structure: More than two-thirds of that pay …
 
 
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Cato Institute:
Economic Freedom of the World
Discussion: EconLog
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court dismisses case against Trump's expired travel ban
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Ben Affleck:
I am saddened and angry that a man who I worked with used …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Randall Lane / Forbes:
Trump Unfiltered: The Full Transcript Of The President's Interview With Forbes
Discussion: Shareblue and ThinkProgress
CNN:
Las Vegas shooter fired ‘incendiary’ rounds at fuel tank
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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Frances Robles / New York Times:
Puerto Rico's Health Care Is in Dire Condition, Three Weeks After Maria
Discussion: baker and New York Magazine
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The share of women in newsrooms has increased barely 1 percentage point since 2001, ASNE data shows
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Democratic Member Isn't Sure If Trump Voter Fraud Panel Will Ever Meet Again
 

 
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