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HuffPost:
How Top NBC Executives Quashed The Bombshell Harvey Weinstein Story  —  Reporter Ronan Farrow ultimately took the piece to The New Yorker after facing months of opposition at his home network.  —  In mid-August, Ronan Farrow, an NBC News contributor, had secured an interview with a woman …
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Weinstein and Our Culture of Enablers  —  Of all of the dismaying and disgusting details of the Harvey Weinstein saga, none is more depressing than this: It has so few heroes.  —  There is a storybook villain, Mr. Weinstein, whose repulsive face turns out to be the spitting image of his putrescent soul.
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Shell-shocked Harvey Weinstein breaks silence after wife leaves him  —  Embattled movie mogul Harvey Weinstein says of the crisis engulfing him and of his wife, Georgina Chapman, leaving him, “I am profoundly devastated.  I have lost my wife and kids, whom I love more than anything else.”
Erica Werner / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Steve Bannon had ties to Harvey Weinstein
Discussion: Splinter and Mashable
Piers Morgan / Daily Mail:
PIERS MORGAN: Spare me Hollywood's hypocritical horror over Harvey Weinstein …
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Harvey Weinstein's wife is leaning on Huma Abedin
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump's Justice Department moves on Harvey Weinstein and orders FBI to open probe …
Dan Merica / CNN:
Exclusive: Clinton ‘sick,’ ‘shocked’ and ‘appalled’ by Weinstein allegations
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump warns Puerto Rico: ‘We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders . . . forever!’  —  President Trump served notice Thursday that he may pull back federal relief workers from Puerto Rico, effectively threatening to abandon the U.S. territory amid …
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump says Puerto Rico can't get aid ‘forever’
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Washington Post:
Three weeks since Hurricane Maria, much of Puerto Rico still dark, thirsty and frustrated
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Fed up with Congress, Trump whacks Obamacare with his pen  —  President Donald Trump is trying to do with the stroke of a pen what Republicans in Congress could not — bring about the end of the Obamacare markets.  —  Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday directing …
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Trump to sign order to eliminate ACA insurance rules, undermine marketplaces  —  President Trump is due to sign an executive order Thursday morning intended to allow individuals and small businesses to buy a long-disputed type of health insurance that skirts state regulations and Affordable Care Act protections.
Louise Radnofsky / Wall Street Journal:
In Start to Unwinding the Health Law, Trump to Ease Insurance Rules
Discussion: CNBC
New York Times:
Foiled in Congress, Trump Moves on His Own to Undermine Obamacare
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“I Hate Everyone in the White House!”:  Trump Seethes as Advisers Fear the President Is “Unraveling”  —  In recent days, I've spoken with a half dozen prominent Republicans and Trump advisers, and they all describe a White House in crisis as advisers struggle to contain a president that seems …
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
‘He threw a fit’: Trump's anger over Iran deal forced aides to scramble for a compromise  —  President Trump was livid.  Why, he asked his advisers in mid-July, should he go along with what he considered the failed Obama-era policy toward Iran and prop up an international nuclear deal he sees as disastrous?
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Cara Buckley / New York Times:
Rose McGowan Suspended From Twitter After Ben Affleck Tweet  —  The actress Rose McGowan said in an Instagram post overnight that her Twitter account had been temporarily suspended, following a tweet in which she accused the actor Ben Affleck of prior knowledge of Harvey Weinstein's misconduct, including toward her.
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Anna Livsey / The Guardian:
Rose McGowan suspended from Twitter after Ben Affleck tweets
Colum Lynch / Foreign Policy:
U.S. to Pull Out of UNESCO, Again  —  Worried about past dues and what it calls an anti-Israel bias, Washington is bailing on the group it helped found.  —  The United States plans to formally withdraw from UNESCO, the U.N.'s Paris-based cultural, scientific and educational organization …
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump just issued a direct threat to the free and independent media  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has said a lot of bad things about the media since he started running for president two-plus years ago.  He's suggested that the press doesn't really like America.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump: ‘Disgusting’ that press able to write whatever it wants
Discussion: Mediaite
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump pushes to challenge media network licenses
Axios:
Exclusive interview with Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg  —  Live at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., Mike Allen interviews Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg in the wake of new revelations about Russia's use of the tech giant in its influence campaign during the 2016 election.
Discussion: Business Insider
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Axios:
Sandberg: Facebook owes the American people an apology
Eliza Barclay / Vox:
Everything that's been reported about deaths in Puerto Rico is at odds with the official count  —  We took a look at the numbers, and they didn't add up.  —  Death tolls are the primary way we understand the impact of a disaster.  And for nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico …
Discussion: Splinter
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Behold Our Betters  —  To be a normal American is to constantly be scolded, to be lectured, to be treated as a morally bankrupt simpleton in need of the guidance and direction provided by an urban elite ruling class notable for its empty academic credentials, its track record of incompetence …
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
President's lawyers may offer Mueller a meeting with Trump  —  Donald Trump's lawyers are open to having the president sit down for an interview with Robert Mueller, according to a senior White House official, as part of a wider posture of cooperation with the special counsel's Russia probe.
Discussion: RedState and Political Wire
Tim Bontemps / Washington Post:
Pro sports teams were once reliable patrons of Trump's hotels.  Not anymore.  —  Until recently, the Trump SoHo hotel served as a kind of luxe clubhouse for NBA teams visiting New York.  —  At least 12 teams — more than a third of the league — had stayed there since it opened in 2010.
 
 
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Josh Barro / Business Insider:
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Discussion: Washington Post
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
A Plea for a President  —  It is time for Barack Obama to join …
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