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9:40 AM ET, October 15, 2017

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Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
Violence.  Threats.  Begging.  Harvey Weinstein's 30-year pattern of abuse in Hollywood.  —  In 1984, Harvey Weinstein was 32 years old and making one of his first real feature films, on location outside of Scranton, Pa. It was a comedy called “Playing for Keeps,” featuring a not-yet-famous Marisa Tomei …
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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
TMZ.com:
Courtney Love Warned Actresses in 2005 to Stay Clear of Harvey Weinstein (UPDATE)  —  Courtney Love — Warned Actresses in 2005 Stay Clear of Weinstein  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  11:45 AM PT — Courtney has responded to our story, saying ... “Although I wasn't one of his victims …
BuzzFeed:
Watching Harvey Weinstein Fall, Trump's Accusers Feel Frustrated  —  “When he won, I felt like I lost.”  —  For all the women who have cheered as accusations against the producer Harvey Weinstein force a public conversation about sexual misconduct, one small group of women has watched with frustration.
Discussion: Liberal Values, Raw Story and Fox News
Sarah Polley / New York Times:
The Men You Meet Making Movies
Discussion: IndieWire
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Harvey Weinstein Ousted From Motion Picture Academy
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.
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Bannon hits GOP senators who failed to defend Trump over Corker feud
Discussion: CNN, Axios and Politico
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: Axios
F.H. Buckley / New York Post:
Behind Trump's latest moves: A return to constitutional government  —  MORE FROM: … Do you remember how glum Barak Obama looked after last year's election?  It wasn't because he liked Hillary Clinton.  Instead, he was mourning for the last four years of his administration.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:   Trump governs by disruption — and overloads all the circuits
John Bowden / The Hill:
Gingrich: ‘The alligators are really unhappy’ that Trump is ‘draining the swamp’  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the Washington, D.C. establishment is enraged with President Trump because he is following through on his promise to “drain the swamp.”  —  “Donald Trump
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
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:
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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 …
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” …
Mara Siegler / Page Six:
George Lopez booed off stage after Trump jokes flop at gala … Comic George Lopez was booed off stage at a gala for juvenile diabetes in Denver last week, over an anti-Donald Trump routine that fell flat with the crowd.  —  We're told the flap began when Trump backer and Liberty Media CEO …
Discussion: IJR and twitchy.com
 
 
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
Wary of Hackers, States Move to Upgrade Voting Systems
Discussion: Political Wire and Hullabaloo
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Why I Went to North Korea
Discussion: Political Wire and Axios
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: Raw Story
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Clinton: We made a person who committed sexual assault president
Discussion: Channel 4 News and Washington Post
 Earlier Items: 
Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times:
At Koch donor summit, Mike Pence promises tax reform, and Ted Cruz warns of midterm ‘bloodbath’ if Congress fails
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Alana Goodman / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea Clinton runs from questions about handing back Harvey Weinstein's tainted …
Discussion: IJR
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
An intern at the Trump campaign data firm, Cambridge Analytica, appears to have left sensitive …
Discussion: Politico
Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
Birth of a White Supremacist