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9:40 AM ET, November 7, 2017

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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 …
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  —  MORE FROM: … Before the Texas church shooter encountered any police officers, he was run off a highway and dead.  —  He had been shot and chased by two private citizens who took it upon themselves to respond to a heinous crime when no one with a badge was anywhere to be found.
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Dem walks out of moment of silence for Texas shooting: 'I can't do this again'  —  Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) says he walked out of a moment of silence on the House floor for victims of the mass shooting in Texas, saying he “will not be silent” after yet another massacre.
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump says ‘hundreds more’ might have died in Texas shooting if gun laws were tougher
Heather Caygle / Politico:
GOP shrugs off gun control after latest mass shooting
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
Yes, President Trump, it's a guns situation
Discussion: Telegraph, Daily Kos, NPR and New York Times
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Texas Gov. Abbot: Gunman was denied gun permit
Discussion: Politico, New York Times and ABC News
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.
Discussion: Raw Story, Political Wire, Mediaite and CNBC
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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” …
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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: Balloon Juice
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
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
The indefensible Republican response to the Texas mass shooting
Discussion: Vox and Bangor Daily News
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 …
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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Megan Doylestaff / Press Herald:   York County casino, Medicaid expansion at stake as Maine heads to the polls today
Associated Press:
Voters in New Jersey and Virginia elect new governors
Discussion: Politico
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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New York Times:
Texas Gunman Broke Child's Skull and Assaulted Wife in Troubled Life
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
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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Associated Press:
The Latest: US-South Korea discuss nuclear submarines  —  The Latest on President Donald Trump's trip to Asia (all times local):  —  South Korea's presidential office says U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have agreed to open “working-level” …
Discussion: ABC News and Axios
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Associated Press:
In Seoul, Trump calls for North Korea to make a deal
Discussion: The Week and CNN
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
A toned-down Trump prods China, Russia to do more to combat North Korean nuclear threat
Discussion: ABC News and CNBC
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 …
John Harwood / CNBC:
GOP tax plan would increase federal deficits substantially, new analysis shows  — The Tax Policy Center released an analysis of the House GOP tax bill, but then the think tank pulled its study after it found an error in its analysis.  — A second report shows that the House GOP bill …
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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 …
Paul Farrell / Heavy.com:
Michael Arega: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know  —  A Dallas man has been arrested in Washington D.C. after allegedly traveling to the capital to “kill all white police.”  Michael Arega was arrested at around 4 p.m. on November 6 at Lafayette Park, directly in front of the White House.
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Harriet Sinclair / Newsweek:
PAPA JOHNS TELLS NAZIS 'DON'T BUY OUR PIZZA' AFTER CHAIN IS CLAIMED AS OFFICIAL PIE OF ALT-RIGHT  —  Papa Johns has told racists not to eat its food, after a neo-Nazi website claimed the pizza chain was the official pie of the alt-right.  —  The Daily Stormer posted a picture of a swastika pizza …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Anniversary of the Apocalypse  —  In the terror-struck and vertiginous days after Donald Trump's election a year ago, as I tried to make sense of America's new reality, I called people who lived, or had lived, under authoritarianism to ask what to expect.  I wasn't looking for concrete predictions …
Discussion: Esquire
 
 
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Andrew Browne / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Allies Fear Trump Will Pull a Nixon in China
Discussion: New York Times
John Binder / Breitbart:
Trump's DHS Nominee: Europe Should Not Block Third-World Migration
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
There's a Serious Hole in Donna Brazile's New Book
Annie Karni / Politico:
Trump's ‘loyal lieutenant’ to testify on 2013 Russia visit
Discussion: The Week
Marc Lynch / Washington Post:
What Saudi Arabia's purge means for the Middle East
Discussion: CNN, New Yorker, Just Security and Vox
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
Look for Republicans to Backtrack on Taxes
Discussion: CNN
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Saudi Money Fuels the Tech Industry. It's Time to Ask Why.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Axios
 Earlier Items: 
Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
President Is Losing Support in ‘Trump Counties,’ a WSJ/NBC News Poll Finds
Mike McIntire / New York Times:
From Utah, Secretive Help for a Russian Oligarch and His Jet
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Crossing the Trump Rubicon
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Johnny Depp Hit With Foreclosure On Homes By Ex-Biz Managers For $5M Loan
Discussion: The Daily Caller and TMZ.com
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
ObamaCare signups surge in early days to set new record
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

Karen Weise / New York Times:
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending

 
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