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11:55 AM ET, November 7, 2017

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NBC News:
Carter Page Coordinated Russia Trip With Top Trump Campaign Officials  —  WASHINGTON — Former Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page, who has come under scrutiny in the investigation of Russian election interference, told a House committee that he sought permission for a July 2016 trip to Moscow …
Discussion: Axios, RedState, JustOneMinute, CNN and Politico
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Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Carter Page's testimony is filled with bombshells — and supports key portions of the Steele dossier  — The House Intelligence Committee released a transcript of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page's testimony before the panel last week.  — Some of the testimony supports details contained …
U.S. House of Representatives Permanent …:
Carter Page hearing transcript released  —  f t # e  —  The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has released the transcript of the committee's hearing with Carter Page.  You can access the transcript here.
Discussion: Washington Post and Balloon Juice
Washington Post:
Trump adviser sent email describing ‘private conversation’ with Russian official  —  Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to President Trump's campaign whose visit to Moscow during the election has drawn scrutiny, sent an email to fellow Trump aides during his trip describing “a private conversation” …
Discussion: The Hill, ABC News and The Week
Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
Harvey Weinstein's Army of Spies  —  In the fall of 2016, Harvey Weinstein set out to suppress allegations that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women.  He began to hire private security agencies to collect information on the women and the journalists trying to expose the allegations.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Report Details Weinstein's Covert Attempt to Halt Publication of Accusations  —  The disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein used a web of private detectives, lawyers and even undercover former Mossad agents in a failed effort to stop The New York Times and The New Yorker from publishing …
The Intercept:
CIA Director Met Advocate of Disputed DNC Hack Theory — at Trump's Request  —  CIA Director Mike Pompeo met late last month with a former U.S. intelligence official who has become an advocate for a disputed theory that the theft of the Democratic National Committee's emails during …
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
The Case Of Wilbur Ross' Phantom $2 Billion  —  Fresh off a tour through Thailand, Laos and China, United States Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross Jr. picked up the phone on a Sunday afternoon in October to discuss something deeply personal: how much money he has.
Adam Roberts / KHBS:
Man who shot Texas church gunman shares his story  —  HIDE TRANSCRIPT SHOW TRANSCRIPT  —  SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas —  Stephen Willeford shot and chased the man who killed 26 people in a Texas church on Sunday.  He spoke to 40/29 News in an exclusive sit-down interview on Monday.
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Rich Lowry / New York Post:
The heroes of Sutherland Springs
Discussion: Power Line and IJR
Mike James / USA Today:
The man who took down the Texas church gunman
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Texas Gov. Abbot: Gunman was denied gun permit
Discussion: New York Times, Politico and ABC News
New York Times:
What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings?  International Comparisons Suggest an Answer  —  mass  —  shooters … mass  —  shooters … 100  —  mass  —  shooters … 80  —  60  —  40 … The New York Times |  Source: Adam Lankford, The University of Alabama (shooters); Small Arms Survey (guns).
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
How to Reduce Shootings  —  It has happened yet again …
Discussion: Mediaite
Alex Yablon / The Trace:
The Military Is Reporting Almost No Domestic Abusers to the Main Gun Background Check Database  —  A year before committing Sunday's mass shooting at a tight-knit church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Devin Kelley walked into a sporting goods store and bought a Ruger assault-style rifle …
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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
The Air Force says it failed to follow procedures, allowing Texas church shooter to obtain firearms
James Bridle:
Something is wrong on the internet  —  I'm James Bridle.  I'm a writer and artist concerned with technology and culture.  I usually write on my own blog, but frankly I don't want what I'm talking about here anywhere near my own site.  Please be advised: this essay describes disturbing things …
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Offshore cash helped fund Steve Bannon's attacks on Hillary Clinton  —  Robert Mercer, whose spending assisted Donald Trump's election win, used tax haven of Bermuda to avoid US taxes  —  Eighteen months before guiding Donald Trump to election victory, Steve Bannon delivered the opening shot …
Discussion: Axios and Mediaite
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Democrat walks out of moment of silence for Texas massacre victims  —  A junior Democratic congressman walked out of a moment of silence Monday night for victims of this weekend's mass shooting at a Texas church.  —  In a video posted to Facebook Monday evening, California Rep. Ted Lieu …
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Heather Caygle / Politico:   GOP shrugs off gun control after latest mass shooting
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Trump Aide Frantically Scrambles to Scrub Russia From Bio … Former Donald Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo is determined to prove that he did not work for Vladimir Putin, and he's using every tool at his disposal to do so—from a congressional ethics complaint, to a defamation lawsuit, to a surreptitious Wikipedia edit campaign.
Discussion: Raw Story
Marina Fang / HuffPost:
Russian Lawyer Who Met With Donald Trump Jr. Claims He Offered A Quid Pro Quo  —  “Looking ahead, if we come to power, we can return to this issue and think what to do about it,” Trump Jr. said during the June 2016 meeting, according to Natalia Veselnitskaya.
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Syria Joins Paris Climate Accord, Leaving Only U.S. Opposed  —  WASHINGTON — Then there was one.  —  Syria announced during United Nations climate talks on Tuesday that it would sign the Paris agreement on climate change.  The move, which comes on the heels of Nicaragua signing the accord last month …
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Who wins biggest in the GOP tax plan?  The lazy rich.  —  (Jennifer S. Altman/For the Washington Post)  —  The Republican tax bill is often described as being weighted toward “the rich.”  But that's not the full story.  —  It's actually weighted toward the loafer, the freeloader …
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John Harwood / CNBC:
GOP tax plan would increase federal deficits substantially, new analysis shows
Discussion: Daily Kos and Politico
CNN:
26 teenage girls found dead at sea  —  (CNN)Italian authorities have launched an investigation into the cause of death of 26 teenage girls whose bodies were recovered in the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday.  —  The girls, aged 14-18, are believed to have been migrants from Niger and Nigeria …
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Trump's ‘loyal lieutenant’ to testify on 2013 Russia visit  —  NEW YORK - When senior White House officials wanted to know what mood the president was in before a meeting, they used to look for guidance from Keith Schiller, a man with a hangdog face who sat in a small, shared office off the Oval.
New York Times:
Is Landscaping Drama at the Root of Rand Paul's Assault?  —  WASHINGTON — The violent altercation last week that left Senator Rand Paul nursing bruised lungs and broken ribs began over a landscaping dispute between the senator and his longtime next-door neighbor, according to neighbors …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
What's really at stake in Tuesday's elections  —  Neglected races in New Jersey, Washington, and Maine have huge implications.  —  National media coverage of Tuesday's elections has focused fairly overwhelmingly on the governor's race in Virginia, which seems to be close and features …
Discussion: ABC News
 
 
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Kristina Cohen:
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
DHS ends protected immigration status for Nicaraguans, but Hondurans get extension
Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Hey Google, stop using Twitter in search results to spread fake news
Discussion: The Guardian and The Atlantic
Andrew Browne / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Allies Fear Trump Will Pull a Nixon in China
Discussion: Just Security and New York Times
John Binder / Breitbart:
Trump's DHS Nominee: Europe Should Not Block Third-World Migration
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Associated Press:
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