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8:50 AM ET, October 23, 2017

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NBC News:
Mueller Now Investigating Democratic Lobbyist Tony Podesta  —  WASHINGTON — Tony Podesta and the Podesta Group are now the subjects of a federal investigation being led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, three sources with knowledge of the matter told NBC News.
Arizona Republic:
Montini: John McCain mocks Donald Trump's deferment ‘bone spurs’ (without naming him)  —  Sen. John McCain doesn't have to speak President Donald Trump's name to excoriate him.  —  He doesn't exactly call the president a draft dodger.  But... in a way... he does.
Discussion: The Guardian, NBC News, AOL and twitchy.com
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Brandon Conradis / The Hill:
McCain appears to take swipe at Trump's ‘bone spur’ Vietnam deferment … (R-Ariz.) took what appeared to be a swipe at President Trump during an interview about the Vietnam War on Sunday, criticizing how upper-income Americans were able to obtain a draft deferment for having a “bone spur.”
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
McCain hits Trump where it hurts, attacking ‘bone spur’ deferments in Vietnam
Discussion: ABC News
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Is tone of Trump-Russia probe changing?  —  Have you noticed?  In recent public comments, the lawmakers investigating the Trump-Russia affair, along with some of the commentators who dissect its every development, seem to be focusing more on the facts of Russia's attempts to interfere …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Hopes Dim for Congressional Russia Inquiries as Parties Clash
Discussion: Axios
Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:   House Panel to Interview Trump Campaign Digital Director Brad Parscale
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump's Boogeymen?  Women!  —  Donald Trump has a particular taste for the degradation of racial, ethnic and religious minorities and women — and God forbid those identities should overlap — as a way a playing out his personal sense of racial, sexist, and patriarchal entitlement.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Let's not staff a White House with generals ever again
Discussion: RedState and Scripting News
Tommy Christopher / IJR:   Here Are the 20 Lies Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly Told in Just 4 Minutes
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Democrats' early money haul stuns GOP  —  Democratic candidates are reporting historic early fundraising totals, alarming GOP strategists and raising the prospect that 2018 could feature the most expansive House battlefield in years.  —  Animated by opposition to President Donald Trump …
The Hill:
FBI watched, then acted as Russian spy moved closer to Hillary Clinton  —  was beginning her job as President Obama's chief diplomat, federal agents observed as multiple arms of Vladimir Putin's machine unleashed an influence campaign designed to win access to the new secretary of State, her husband Bill Clinton
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
The great dealmaker?  Lawmakers find Trump to be an untrustworthy negotiator.  —  President Trump campaigned as one of the world's greatest dealmakers, but after nine months of struggling to broker agreements, lawmakers in both parties increasingly consider him an untrustworthy …
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson has ‘nothing to say’ to Trump after controversial condolence call  —  Nineteen days after her husband's death and two days after his wrenching burial, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson said she has “nothing to say” to President Trump, whose condolence call pulled …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Marcus Weisgerber / Defense One:
EXCLUSIVE: US Preparing to Put Nuclear Bombers Back on 24-Hour Alert  —  If the order comes, the B-52s will return to a ready-to-fly posture not seen since the Cold War.  —  BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. — The U.S. Air Force is preparing to put nuclear-armed bombers back on 24-hour ready alert …
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Listen to ‘The Daily’: Bill O'Reilly Goes on the Record  —  “It's horrible what I went through, horrible what my family went through,” Bill O'Reilly said of the sexual harassment allegations that cost him his job at Fox News.  —  Mr. O'Reilly spoke on the record to my colleagues Emily Steel …
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Jay Nordlinger / National Review:
Why Is Bill Browder Banned from America?  —  Vladimir Putin keeps putting William Browder on Interpol's wanted list, or trying to.  As far as I'm concerned, these attempts are the equivalent of medals of freedom.  —  Remember who Browder is: He is the financier whose lawyer was Sergei Magnitsky …
Discussion: NPR and Palmer Report
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Turning Tables in Magnitsky Case, Russia Accuses a Nemesis of Murder
Discussion: National Review
GQ:
Chris Christie's Last Fight  —  This wasn't how he figured it would end.  A year after being steamrolled by Donald Trump, Chris Christie is hobbling out of office as the most unpopular governor in the history of New Jersey—a casualty of scandal and hubris, and a guy freed up to quietly pursue the toughest job of his life.
Michael H. Schill / New York Times:
The Misguided Student Crusade Against ‘Fascism’  —  This month, a handful of student protesters at the University of Oregon blocked me from delivering my state-of-the-university speech, one of my jobs as president.  I had planned to announce a $50 million gift that would fund several new programs.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Million dollar bracket in the works for GOP tax plan  —  The Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee — engaged in a high-pressure, high-stakes tax policy rewrite — are currently exploring not cutting the income tax rate for people who earn $1 million or more per year.
David Weigel / Washington Post:
National Democrats are jittery about Va. governor's race  —  Republican Ed Gillespie and Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam (D) at a debate last month in Washington.  The two are competing in the Virginia governor's race Nov. 7.  (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post)  —  LAS VEGAS — The Democratic …
 
 
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Ted Cruz / New York Times:
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Sanders to run as an independent in 2018
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
E.P.A. Cancels Talk on Climate Change by Agency Scientists
Discussion: New York Magazine
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
During a State of the Union panel discussion on the firestorm begun …
New York Times:
A Newly Assertive C.I.A. Expands Its Taliban Hunt in Afghanistan
Discussion: Just Security and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
‘I Was Willing to Do Everything’: Mothers Defend Sons Accused of Sexual Assault
New York Times:
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Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal:
Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China
Discussion: Mashable, The Verge and rbc.ru
 Earlier Items: 
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
Harvey Weinstein and the Impunity of Powerful Men
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Trump shamefully ignores “nightmare” HIV crisis brewing in rural America
Ken Stern / New York Post:
Former NPR CEO opens up about liberal media bias
Discussion: Power Line
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Montana GOP official: I ‘would have shot’ reporter assaulted by Gianforte
Discussion: Raw Story
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Japan Election Vindicates Shinzo Abe as His Party Wins Big
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Axios
Michael Tackett / New York Times:
A Presidential Bellwether Is Still Waiting to Start Winning Under Trump
Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
Tom Hanks: 'If you're concerned about what's going on today, read history'
Discussion: Raw Story and IJR