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11:45 PM ET, October 12, 2017

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Paul Demko / Politico:
Trump will scrap critical Obamacare subsidy  —  President Donald Trump will cut off subsidy payments to insurers selling Obamacare coverage in its most aggressive move yet to undermine the health law, the White House announced Thursday night.  —  “Based on guidance from the Department of Justice …
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Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
Trump's New Executive Order Makes It Easier to Buy Insurance Outside of Obamacare
TMZ.com:
Harvey Weinstein's Contract Allowed for Sexual Harassment  —  Harvey Weinstein may have been fired illegally by The Weinstein Company, a company that wrote a contract that said Weinstein could get sued over and over for sexual harassment and as long as he shelled out money, that was good enough for the Company.
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Alex Wagner / The Atlantic:
Will Harvey Weinstein Finally Kill the Old Boys' Network?
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Oops: Rick Perry just called Puerto Rico a ‘country’  —  A new poll shows that 55 percent of Americans think the Trump administration hasn't done enough to help Puerto Rico, and that 52 percent believe Trump doesn't even care about the U.S. territory's problems after Hurricane Maria.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Bianca DiJulio / The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria: The Public's Knowledge and Views of Its Impact and the Response
Discussion: Politico, Axios and Political Wire
Amanda Becker / Reuters:
White House ‘committed’ to Puerto Rico relief after Trump criticism
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Daily Kos
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Exclusive: Sources say California Senate leader to challenge Sen. Dianne Feinstein  —  Kevin de Leon asserts DACA is constitutional  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)California Democratic state Senate president Kevin de León intends to enter California's 2018 Senate race …
Andrew Beaton / Wall Street Journal:
Roger Goodell Has a Secret Defender on Twitter: His Wife  —  When media outlets wrote about the NFL commissioner, an anonymous tweeter hit back  —  When National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell is under attack, as he so often is these days, @forargument is there to fight back.
Tony Cook / Indianapolis Star:
As Trump slams media, an Indiana lawmaker has drafted a bill to license journalists  —  An Indiana lawmaker has drafted a bill that would require professional journalists to be licensed by state police.  —  Rep. Jim Lucas had the measure drawn up earlier this year and said he may file …
Discussion: Raw Story and FOX59
Matthew Diebel / USA Today:
Yellowstone supervolcano may blow sooner than thought — and could wipe out life on the planet  —  Scientists working in and around Yellowstone National Park say that the supervolcano sitting under the tourist attraction may blow sooner than thought, an eruption that could wipe out life on the planet.
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Where's Zinke?  The interior secretary's special flag offers clues  —  At the Interior Department's headquarters in downtown Washington, Secretary Ryan Zinke has revived an arcane military ritual that no one can remember ever happening in the federal government.
Discussion: Raw Story
Amanda Erickson / Washington Post:
Inside American Caitlan Coleman's five-year ordeal as a Taliban prisoner  —  It must have felt like such an exciting time: Caitlan Coleman and her husband, Joshua Boyle, were embarking on a six-month adventure through Central Asia.  —  But their exuberant trip ended in a nightmare …
Discussion: Business Insider
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Doree Shafrir / BuzzFeed:
What To Do With “Shitty Media Men”?  —  A document circulating late Wednesday named and shamed dozens of men in media for bad behavior toward women.  —  On Wednesday afternoon, I received an email from a friend, a woman writer, that had been forwarded from another woman, also a writer.
Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
California Journal They survived six hours in a pool as a wildfire burned their neighborhood to the ground  —  (Video by Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)  —  Jan Pascoe and her husband, John, were trapped.  The world was on fire, and Jan was hyperventilating from fear.
Robert M. Heffington / American Military News:
Exclusive: Former West Point professor's letter exposes corruption, cheating and failing standards [Full letter]  —  The following letter was written by retired LTC Robert M. Heffington as an open letter.  Heffington was an assistant professor at West Point for several years, until this past August.
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CNN:
Roger Stone faces subpoena threat over Assange contact  —  Who is Roger Stone?  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)The leaders of the House intelligence committee are warning that President Donald Trump associate Roger Stone will be slapped with a subpoena Friday if he does not reveal the name …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Jack Shafer / Politico:
I've Normalized Trump  —  On Wednesday, Baby Donald threw a one-two punch at the press that sent it on a quick trip to the mat, stunned and bleeding.  In a tweet, responding to an NBC News story he insisted was inaccurate, the president called for the revocation of the network's broadcast licenses.
Associated Press:
Dangerous sound?  What Americans heard in Cuba attacks  —  https://apnews.com/88bb914f8b284088bce4 8e54f6736d84  —  Link copied!  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — It sounds sort of like a mass of crickets.  A high-pitched whine, but from what?  It seems to undulate, even writhe.
Discussion: Gizmodo and IJR
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
We're About to Fall Behind the Great Depression  —  Since the first rumblings of the financial crisis, in 2007, people have comforted themselves by looking back to the Great Depression and thinking about how much worse things could be.  It's true, too.  Our modern economic crisis has been far less severe than the Depression.
Discussion: Eschaton
Washington Post:
Killer wildfires continue to menace California's wine country, with 24 dead and hundreds missing  —  SANTA ROSA, Calif. — The winds that have fanned Northern California's wine-country wildfires were calmer Thursday, giving firefighters a badly needed break from the “red flag” …
Bloomberg:
Trump Rethinks State-Local Tax Issue Over Middle-Class Concerns  —  N.Y.'s King calls proposal to end SALT ‘biggest obstacle’  —  Repealing deduction would generate $1.3 trillion for cuts  —  Months after the White House proposed ending a tax break for people in high-tax states …
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Trump administration hints at enforcing ObamaCare mandate  —  The Trump administration is hinting that it will continue to enforce the ObamaCare mandate requiring Americans to have health insurance coverage.  —  An administration document obtained by The Hill that accompanies an executive order signed …
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The White House:
President Donald J. Trump is Taking Action to Improve Access, Increase Choices, and Lower Costs for Healthcare
Discussion: Washington Post and TheBlaze
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
White restaurant manager enslaved black man for years, federal prosecutors say  —  A white restaurant manager accused of enslaving and abusing a mentally disabled black man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in South Carolina on a charge of forced labor.
Discussion: KTLA, The Root, grubstreet and Eater
 
 
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump's pick for NOAA chief causes a storm
Lorraine Woellert / Politico:
Mnuchin won't fill No. 2 Treasury post as Brooks opts out of the running
Discussion: Political Wire
Nicole Gaudiano / USA Today:
Ethics investigators suggest Rep. Chris Collins may have engaged in insider trading
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Joe.My.God.
Lauren Wolfe / Foreign Policy:
The Trump Administration Wants Refugees to Fit In or Stay Out
New York Times:
Kim Davis, Once Jailed in America, Campaigns Against Gay Marriage in Romania
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and lc.org
Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
Jake Tapper: ‘Torches in the Street’ Had Obama Threatened Fox News' License
Discussion: CNN
 Earlier Items: 
Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney:
Jane Fonda: I knew about Weinstein, and I'm ‘ashamed’ I didn't say anything
Matt Philbin / NewsBusters:
Hollywood Homicide: 108 Automatic Weapons Blaze Away in Four Top Movies
Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Jeff Bezos Screws Over Workers At Amazon. Now He Wants To Do The Same At The Washington Post.
Discussion: Splinter
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Kelly makes surprise appearance at briefing: 'I'm not quitting today'
Discussion: The Atlantic, Axios and ABC News
New York Times:
Rose McGowan's Twitter Account Locked After Posts About Weinstein
 

 
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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
The US Senate passes the TikTok divestment bill by a margin of 79-18; the legislation now heads to President Biden, who has committed to sign it into law

Chris Morris / Fortune:
Taylor Swift's new album smashed streaming records; Spotify says it had 300M+ streams on launch day and became 2024's most-streamed album within just 12 hours

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Spotify Q1: revenue up 20% YoY to €3.6B, MAUs up 19% to 615M, vs. 617.9M est., subscribers up 14% to 239M, and a €168M operating income; SPOT closes up 11.41%

 
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