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7:50 AM ET, October 16, 2017

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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Kaepernick to file grievance against NFL owners for collusion: report  —  NFL free agent Colin Kaepernick has filed a grievance against NFL owners accusing them of collusion in keeping him out of the league, ABC News reported.  —  Kaepernick and his attorneys accuse NFL teams of displaying …
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Mike Florio / ProFootballTalk:
Colin Kaepernick files collusion grievance against NFL
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Dean Schabner / ABC News:
Former 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick files grievance against NFL over alleged collusion
Discussion: The Guardian
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.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump accuser subpoenas campaign for documents on other allegations: report
Discussion: RedState
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The Danger of President Pence  —  Trump's critics yearn for his exit.  But Mike Pence, the corporate right's inside man, poses his own risks.  —  On September 14th, the right-wing pundit Ann Coulter, who last year published a book titled “In Trump We Trust,” expressed what a growing number of Americans …
New York Times:
For Weinstein, a Brush With the Police, Then No Charges  —  For decades the film producer Harvey Weinstein succeeded in hiding from public view complaint after complaint of sexual misconduct against him.  But on the evening of March 28, 2015, at a rendezvous at the TriBeCa Grand …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
“Green” Energy Fails Every Test  —  Liberals will tell you that Minnesota is one of the nation's leaders in “green” energy, so its experience represents a good test: can green energy fulfill the extravagant promises made by its backers?  —  The answer is a resounding No …
Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
Jimmy Kimmel on losing Republican viewers of his late-night comedy show: ‘Not good riddance, but riddance’  —  Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel said he would perform the same emotionally-charged monologues about healthcare and gun violence “again in a heartbeat,” despite a drastic reduction in Republican viewership of his show.
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Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Aiding Transgender Case, Sessions Defies His Image on Civil Rights  —  In an unusual move, the attorney general has sent a federal hate crimes lawyer to Iowa to help prosecute a man charged with murdering a transgender high school student.  —  October 15, 2017
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump privately predicts he will appoint four justices  —  They swear he's not joking.  Sources who've spoken to the president about the Supreme Court say he tells them he thinks he'll have appointed four justices by the end of his first term.  —  “It's all about the numbers for him,” one source said.
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Dem lawmaker: One Republican is considering articles of impeachment against Trump  —  (D-Tenn.) in an interview on Sunday said at least one Republican is considering supporting articles of impeachment against President Trump.  —  “I have one Republican that has said he is looking at it …
Discussion: Raw Story
David French / National Review:
It's Past Time to Rethink Modern Sexual Morality  —  A morality based only on consent results in sexual oppression.  —  Last week, as the grotesque Harvey Weinstein sexual-assault scandal burst into public view, I was struck by this tweet, from my friend Andrew Walker:
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Nafta Threat  —  Ending the pact would be the worst economic blunder since Nixon.  —  Donald Trump is threatening again to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement if Canada and Mexico don't agree to his ultimatums.  If this is a negotiating tactic of making extreme demands …
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Florida's Senate race shaping up as a clash of titans  —  Three-term Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson is bracing for the reelection fight of his career against GOP Gov. Rick Scott and his untold millions.  —  Sen. Bill Nelson went to Democratic leader Chuck Schumer this summer with an urgent plea.
Discussion: miamiherald
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Russian trolls were schooled on ‘House of Cards’ … The Russians who worked for a notorious St. Petersburg “troll factory” that was part of Vladimir Putin's campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election were required to watch the “House of Cards” television series to help them craft messages to …
San Francisco Chronicle:
California burns: Where's the president?  —  As raging wildfires devour the lives, homes and dreams of Californians in an unprecedented scale, one voice has been conspicuously mute through day after day of crisis: President Trump.  —  This is not a man who is reticent to let Americans know what is foremost on his mind.
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Health Care Back on Congress's Front Burner  —  Trump's move to stop subsidy payments ratchets up pressure for a bipartisan deal  —  WASHINGTON—The Senate this week will grapple with President Donald Trump's decision to stop making subsidy payments to health insurers …
Discussion: Politico
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Kellyanne Conway is a terrifyingly quotable Pennywise the Clown in SNL's biting sketch  —  “Saturday Night Live” may have found its most uncharitable caricature of someone in President Trump's orbit this weekend, featuring Kellyanne Conway as the scary clown from Stephen King's recently revitalized film “It.”
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YouTube:   Kellywise - SNL  —  Anderson Cooper (Alex Moffat) …
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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Matt Friedman / Politico:
Menendez faces critical moment in bribery trial
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Not on the Ballot, but Dominating the Virginia Governor's Race: Trump
Bloomberg:
Facebook Is Looking for Employees With National Security Clearances
Washington Post:
Austria turns sharply to the right in an election shaped entirely by immigration
Discussion: Axios
Bruce Japsen / Forbes:
Hospitals Brace For Unpaid Patient Bills After Trump Ends Obamacare Subsidies
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Two Obama holdovers are sowing the seeds for another subprime collapse
Discussion: Power Line
 Earlier Items: 
Nicholas Vinocur / Politico:
Macron: ‘I told Trump not to tear up Iran deal’
Discussion: Washington Post
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Kelly tries to get empty administration jobs filled fast
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
USA Today:
Trump campaign spends more than $1 million on legal fees in last quarter
Discussion: Last Men and OverMen
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
FCC commissioner: Media licenses won't be revoked over Trump
Discussion: RedState
Qasim Rashid / The Independent:
How the teachings of Islam could help us prevent more sexual abuse scandals
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
Mogadishu Truck Bombings Are Deadliest Attack in Decades
Discussion: New York Magazine and NPR
 

 
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