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2:30 PM ET, October 15, 2017

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BuzzFeed:
Trump Given A Subpoena For All Documents Relating To Assault Allegations  —  A woman who said Donald Trump groped her has subpoenaed his campaign for documents about “any woman alleging that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately.”  Trump has denied her accusations and is fighting the subpoena.
BBC:
Harvey Weinstein: Woody Allen ‘sad’ for producer over sexual assault allegations  —  Woody Allen has said he is “sad” for Harvey Weinstein as the producer faces numerous allegations of sexual assault.  —  The filmmaker said he had heard rumours but not “these horror stories” …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood's Oldest Horror Story  —  In her autobiography, “Child Star,” Shirley Temple described going with her mother to see her new bosses at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after leaving Fox.  —  Louis B. Mayer spirited away Gertrude Temple.  The curly-haired superstar …
Discussion: Althouse and The Last Tradition
Andrew R. Chow / New York Times:
Woody Allen Warns of ‘Witch Hunt’ After Weinstein Allegations  —  In an interview with the BBC published early Sunday, the director Woody Allen addressed the wave of allegations against Harvey Weinstein, calling it “tragic for the poor women” but also warning against a “witch hunt atmosphere.”
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Clinton: We made a person who committed sexual assault president
Discussion: Channel 4 News and Washington Post
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Goes After NYT Reporter By Name In Latest Round Of Morning Tweets  —  President Donald Trump on Sunday attacked a New York Times reporter by name for not mentioning enough of what Trump cited as his own accomplishments in an article evaluating whether the President is working to fulfill his campaign promises.
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Hullabaloo and IJR
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Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
President Trump ‘went rogue’ on Iran deal, health care: Pelosi  —  The Democratic leader of the House of Representatives said President Donald Trump “went rogue” with his decisions on ending Obamacare subsidies, changing birth control coverage mandates and decertifying the Iran nuclear deal.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Promise the Moon? Easy for Trump. But Now Comes the Reckoning.
Discussion: AOL and Mediaite
Jacqueline Klimas / Politico:
Collins and Pelosi disappointed that Trump ended Obamacare subsidies
Discussion: ABC News
Jacqueline Klimas / Politico:   Iranian foreign minister: ‘Nobody else will trust’ U.S. if it pulls out of Iran deal
Washington Post:
The drug industry's triumph over the DEA  —  Amid a targeted lobbying effort, Congress weakened the DEA's ability to go after drug distributors, even as opioid-related deaths continue to rise, a Washington Post and ‘60 Minutes’ investigation finds.  —  In April 2016, at the height …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Axios
Christina Anderson / New York Times:
‘Allah’ Is Found on Viking Funeral Clothes  —  ENKOPING, Sweden — The discovery of Arabic characters that spell “Allah” and “Ali” on Viking funeral costumes in boat graves in Sweden has raised questions about the influence of Islam in Scandinavia.  —  The grave where the costumes …
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Why I Went to North Korea  —  Since my five-day visit to North Korea recently, I've encountered pushback from critics who ask, “Why go?” … Frankly, these are legitimate arguments.  So let's seize the moment for an honest discussion — and, in the process, let me offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse of reporting there.
Discussion: Political Wire and Axios
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CBS News:
Nation Tracker: Americans feel tax reform plans would favor wealthy
Discussion: Politico and Vox
New York Post:
Shrinks take to streets to demand ‘narcissistic’ Trump's ouster … They're not nuts about Trump.  —  Some 125 psychologists and other mental health professionals marched along lower Broadway Saturday to demand that President Trump be thrown out of office, based on a constitutional clause allowing presidents …
Discussion: RedState, Raw Story and twitchy.com
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Psychologists march through NY to call for Trump's removal
Discussion: RedState
Mary Orlin / Mercury News:
Six more wineries destroyed by Wine Country fires, bringing total to 16  —  Updated 4:13 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6: Six more wineries were confirmed destroyed Friday, as a sixth day dawned with fires still burning throughout Northern California.  —  Paras Vineyard, Roy Estate, Pulido-Walker's Estate Vineyard …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump governs by disruption — and overloads all the circuits  —  Nine months into his first term, President Trump is perfecting a style of leadership commensurate with his campaign promise to disrupt business as usual in Washington.  Call it governing by cattle prod.
Discussion: Politico
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F.H. Buckley / New York Post:   Behind Trump's latest moves: A return to constitutional government
Timothy Meads / Townhall.com:
A “Terrified” Paul Krugman Wakes Each Morning in a “State of Existential Dread”  —  New York Times Keynesian economics columnist Paul Krugman as has been having a hard time ever since Donald J. Trump was elected President in November 2016.  —  However, the “conscience of liberalism” …
Mike Allen / Axios:
A truce of necessity  —  We've learned that after months of frosty distance, President Trump picked up the phone yesterday and called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — ahead of a week when they absolutely have to work together on a budget, or risk losing tax reform.
Discussion: RedState and Politico
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Have dirt that could impeach Trump?  Larry Flynt will pay you $10 million.  —  Larry Flynt's ad in the Sunday edition of The Washington Post is hard to miss.  —  For one, it takes up a full page.  And there are no pictures — just bold, all-caps text dominating the top third of the page:
Discussion: Business Insider
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Kellyanne Conway is a terrifyingly quotable Pennywise the Clown in SNL's biting sketch
Tim Alberta / Politico:
Donald Trump and the Dawn of the Evangelical-Nationalist Alliance
Los Angeles Times:
California Senate leader Kevin de León tells several Democrats he will challenge Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Discussion: Axios
New York Times:
Somalia Truck Bombings Kill Over 200, Officials Say
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
Wary of Hackers, States Move to Upgrade Voting Systems
Discussion: AOL, Hullabaloo and Political Wire
 Earlier Items: 
John Bowden / The Hill:
Gingrich: ‘The alligators are really unhappy’ that Trump is ‘draining the swamp’
Discussion: Political Wire
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Trump's great call on UNESCO
Discussion: National Review
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump voter fraud commission researcher arrested on child pornography charges
Discussion: AOL and Raw Story
 

 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

 
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