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5:10 PM ET, October 24, 2017

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Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
Arizona's Jeff Flake announces he will not seek re-election to U.S. Senate … Condemning the nastiness of Republican politics in the era of President Trump, Sen. Jeff Flake on Tuesday announced he will serve out the remainder of his term but will not seek re-election in 2018.
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CNN:
Jeff Flake's full speech announcing he won't run for re-election  —  Mr. President, I rise today to address a matter that has been much on my mind, at a moment when it seems that our democracy is more defined by our discord and our dysfunction than it is by our values and our principles.
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Flake announces retirement as he denounces Trump
Discussion: Vox and Axios
Associated Press:
GOP Sen. Flake says he'll retire, had tangled with Trump
Discussion: Axios and ABC News
Ella Nilsen / Vox:
“None of this is normal”: read the full transcript of Sen. Jeff Flake's blistering retirement speech
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Erica Pandey / Axios:
Sanders criticizes “petty” Flake, Corker
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Small Montana firm lands Puerto Rico's biggest contract to get the power back on  —  For the sprawling effort to restore Puerto Rico's crippled electrical grid, the territory's state-owned utility has turned to a two-year-old company from Montana that had just two full-time employees on the day Hurricane Maria made landfall.
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The Daily Beast:
GOP Leaders Refusing To Pay For Dana Rohrabacher's Travel Over Russia Fears … House Republican leaders have taken the extraordinary step of curtailing Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's (R-CA) ability to conduct official business out of fear that he is too compromised by his ties to Russia.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Ken Klippenstein / The Daily Beast:
$300m Puerto Rico Recovery Contract Awarded to Tiny Utility Company Linked to Major Trump Donor … Puerto Rico has agreed to pay a reported $300 million for the restoration of its power grid to a tiny utility company that is primarily financed by a private-equity firm founded and run by a man …
Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:   Congress: Trump Won't Implement Russia Sanctions—and He Won't Tell Us Why
The Daily Beast:
Russian Propaganda Hosted by Man on Staten Island, New York
Discussion: Last Men and OverMen and PRI
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Protester throws Russian flags at President Donald Trump ahead of Capitol Hill lunch  —  A protester threw a handful of Russian flags at President Donald Trump as he was walking to a lunch with Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill today.  —  The flags didn't appear to hit Trump and footage …
Discussion: Politico and Axios
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Protester throws Russian flags at Trump as he enters GOP lunch
Discussion: Daily Kos
Rachael Bade / Politico:
House GOP opens probe into DOJ's Clinton investigation  —  Two powerful House Republican chairmen announced Tuesday that they would jointly investigate the Justice Department's handling of its 2016 Hillary Clinton investigation — a potential counter-punch to the FBI probe …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
House GOP leaders open probe into FBI's handling of Clinton investigation
Discussion: RedState and Democrats.com
Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
Roy Moore: Supreme Court Gay Marriage Ruling Was ‘Worse’ Than Upholding Slavery In Dred Scott  —  Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore said late last year that the Supreme Court's decision legalizing gay marriage was “even worse” than the notorious 1857 Dred Scott ruling that upheld slavery.
Discussion: Towleroad, BuzzFeed and rubber hose
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Washington Post:
Roy Moore is unfit to serve
Discussion: al.com and Talking Points Memo
Detroit Free Press:
Kid Rock: Of course I'm not running for Senate … CONNECT  —  Mocking people who took the idea seriously, Kid Rock said this morning he's not running for U.S. Senate.  —  “F— no, I'm not running for Senate.  Are you kidding me?”  Rock said on Howard Stern's SiriusXM show.  “Who couldn't figure that out?
New York Times:
Honor the Truth, John Kelly  —  John Kelly, President Trump's chief of staff, is grimly suited to addressing the family of a fallen service member.  Mr. Kelly, a retired four-star general, is the highest-ranking officer to lose a child in Iraq or Afghanistan.  His son Second Lt. Robert Kelly was killed in Afghanistan in 2010.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:   Sarah Huckabee Sanders is wrong about John Kelly
Hollywood Reporter:
Bill O'Reilly Dropped by Talent Agency After $32M Settlement Reveal (Exclusive)  —  The former Fox News anchor's relationship with UTA has been severed following a report last weekend about a massive settlement he paid out.  —  Bill O'Reilly is no longer a client of the talent agency UTA, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Don Lemon / CNN:
Don Lemon's open letter to Trump: ‘Please stop!’  —  (CNN)Dear Mr. President,  —  I've interviewed you multiple times.  —  You've introduced me to your family.  —  You've also criticized me publicly ... both in front of cameras and on Twitter.  —  Calling me “hateful,” “dumb,” a “lightweight.”
Karl Mathiesen / Climate Home:
Jerry Brown: ‘California will sue Trump over climate’  —  Governor says state will use the courts to block the erosion of US climate actions, 'just like the Republicans tried to block Obama's efforts'  —  California governor Jerry Brown said on Tuesday that his state would fight Donald Trump's erosion …
Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Trump-Corker feud explodes ahead of critical Hill visit  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)The ongoing public feud between Sen. Bob Corker and President Donald Trump exploded Tuesday ahead of the President's high-stakes visit to Capitol Hill for tax negotiations …
Pew Research Center:
Political Typology Reveals Deep Fissures on the Right and Left  —  Conservative Republican groups divided on immigration, ‘openness’  —  Nearly a year after Donald Trump was elected president, the Republican coalition is deeply divided on such major issues as immigration …
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and NPR
Joe Schoffstall / Washington Free Beacon:
Hillary Clinton's Top Aides Still Being Paid by Campaign Nearly One Year After Defeat  —  Most have remained by Clinton's side post-election  —  A number of longtime aides to failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are still being paid from her campaign committee nearly …
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
The ‘Never Trump’ Construct  —  The president's fiercest critics still do not grasp that Trump is a symptom, not the cause of the GOP's internal strife.  —  For all the talk of a Civil War in the Republican party over Donald Trump, 90 percent of Republicans ended up voting for him.
Brian Goff / Forbes:
NFL Losing Viewers At Alarming Rate But Faces Limits On Its Response  —  Last year, the NFL lost about a million regular-season viewers versus the 2013 and 2014 seasons.  It represented about a 6% fall-off enough to be easily noticed and maybe even cause a little concern, but it could be written off as a one-year blip.
Cosmopolitan:
Maybe Don't Dress Your Kid Up As Moana This Halloween?  —  It's on you to teach your kid not to be racially insensitive.  —  It's mid-October, which means Halloween is just two weeks away, which means it's way past time to decide on a  —  Halloween costume  —  for your kid.
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Caught in a deadly ambush, U.S. troops in Niger waited an hour for French air power to arrive  —  The U.S. Special Forces team caught in a deadly ambush three weeks ago in Niger did not request help from nearby French forces for about an hour after the firefight began near a village the Americans …
 
 
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Don Gonyea / NPR:
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
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Charles Passy / Wall Street Journal:
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Discussion: IJR, Washington Post and twitchy.com
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
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