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David Palmer / The Cullman Times:
Ed Henry on Moore accusations: I'm not buying it  —  State Rep. Ed Henry lashed out at Roy Moore's accusers and Republicans who said the U.S. Senate candidate should back out of the special election in an interview Thursday evening with The Times.  —  Henry, R-Hartselle …
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
I Don't Blame Roy Moore Voters For Sticking With Him  —  Up front, here is what I think Roy Moore should do.  If he continues to deny the allegations, he should hold a press conference and tell people he wants to clear his name.  In the interests of helping the President and avoiding a Democrat …
Emily McFarlan Miller / Religion News Service:
Conservatives defend Roy Moore — invoking Joseph, Mary and the Ten Commandments  —  RNS) — Conservative Christian supporters of Roy Moore are defending the U.S. Senate candidate against allegations of molesting a teenager decades ago — and one of them used the biblical story of Mary …
The Daily Beast:
Senate GOP Campaign Arm Severs Financial Ties To Roy Moore … A day after explosive allegations of sexual assault surfaced against Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore, the Republican Party's senate campaign arm has severed financial ties with the embattled former state supreme court justice.
Max Boot / USA Today:
Roy Moore response shows GOP deserves to die: Max Boot  —  This is the sorry culmination of two trends that have disfigured the conservative movement: contempt for the facts and desire to win at all costs.  —  You may have thought that Republicans had sunk as low as they could possibly …
Nancy French / Washington Post:
What it's like to watch men like Roy Moore as a conservative and as a sex abuse survivor  —  I used to admire men like Roy Moore, because I loved everything about church — the off-key a cappella rendition of “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” the typos in the bulletin, the ladies who smelled …
Decision Desk HQ:
Opinion-Savvy/DDHQ #ALSen Poll: Roy Moore 46.4%, Doug Jones 46%  —  With the special election just weeks away, Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones are essentially tied in the latest Opinion-Savvy poll of likely Alabama voters.  In the previous survey, Moore lead Jones by 5.7%.
National Review:
Roy Moore Should Drop Out
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed:
Poll Shows Alabama Race Tied After Allegations Against Roy Moore
Josh Moon / Alabama Political Reporter:   There is no bottom for Roy Moore Republicans
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Alabama GOP lawmaker: Roy Moore accusers should be prosecuted for not coming forward sooner
Discussion: New York Times
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
This is what 44 seconds of GOP senators not responding to questions about Roy Moore sounds like
David Wright / CNN:
Moore's brother denies charges, compares persecution to Jesus
Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Probes Flynn's Role in Alleged Plan to Deliver Cleric to Turkey  —  Under alleged plan, ex-Trump adviser and his son were to be paid millions to forcibly remove Fethullah Gulen from U.S. and deliver him to Turkish custody  —  WASHINGTON—Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating …
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Mueller Probing Pre-Election Flynn Meeting with Pro-Russia Congressman  —  WASHINGTON — Investigators for Special Counsel Robert Mueller are questioning witnesses about an alleged September 2016 meeting between Mike Flynn, who later briefly served as President Donald Trump's national security adviser …
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Devin Nunes attended a breakfast with Michael Flynn and Turkey's foreign minister just before the inauguration  — Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, attended a breakfast meeting at which Michael Flynn and Turkey's foreign minister were also present.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ellen Page:
“You should f**k her to make her realize she's gay.”  He said this about me during a cast and crew “meet and greet” before we began filming, X Men: The Last Stand.  I was eighteen years old.  He looked at a woman standing next to me, ten years my senior, pointed to me and said: “You should f**k her to make her realize she's gay.”
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Trump judge nominee, 36, who has never tried a case, wins approval of Senate panel  —  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley discusses his panel's plans to move forward on President Trump's judicial nominees.  (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)
New York Times:
Louis C.K. Responds to Accusations: ‘These Stories Are True’  —  Louis C.K. on Friday released a statement in response to a report published Thursday in The New York Times about several women who stepped forward to discuss experiences with him in which he committed acts of sexual misconduct.
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Louis C.K.'s Powerful Army of Celebrity Enablers
Chloe Melas / CNN:
Louis C.K.: ‘These stories are true’
Discussion: CNNMoney and IJR, more at Mediagazer »
Matt Zoller Seitz / Vulture:
Louis C.K. Is Done
Discussion: Washington Post, Slate and thecut
Wall Street Journal:
Data Firm's WikiLeaks Outreach Came as It Joined Trump Campaign  —  Cambridge Analytica said it reached out to Julian Assange to share Hillary Clinton-related emails in ‘early June 2016,’ when the company had already started working for the campaign  —  The chief executive …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
CBS News:
Aly Raisman says she was sexually abused by U.S. national team doctor  —  In an interview with 60 Minutes, the Olympic gold medalist says she spoke with FBI investigators after the Rio games  —  One of America's biggest Olympic stars has come forward to accuse the former U.S. women's gymnastics team doctor of sexual abuse.
Discussion: NPR, WTVR-TV, NBC News and The Big Lead
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ESPN:
Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman says she was abused by Larry Nassar
Discussion: Townhall.com, Towleroad and Jezebel
Brian Ross / ABC News:
Trump adviser claims he lied to FBI out of loyalty to Trump: Source  —  George Papadopoulos, the Trump foreign policy aide who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, initially misled agents out of what he claimed was loyalty to President Donald Trump, according to a person with direct knowledge of the investigation.
The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon Advised Mark Cuban to Run in 2020 as a Democrat … As he publicly flirts with a run for the presidency in 2020, Mark Cuban has also privately been in touch with potential allies and strategists to plot out a campaign.  —  The Dallas Mavericks owner confirmed that he has corresponded …
Mary Ann Georgantopoulos / BuzzFeed:
This Writer Says Rolling Stone Founder Jann Wenner Offered Him Work In Exchange For Sex  —  Ben Ryan says the offer was made in the publisher's Upper West Side townhouse on Aug. 11, 2005.  “There was that moment where it's like time stood still,” he recalled.  “But that's not me.  I would never do that.”
Jessica Toonkel / Reuters:
Exclusive: Rupert Murdoch twice discussed CNN with AT&T CEO - sources  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch telephoned AT&T Inc (T.N) Chief Executive Randall Stephenson twice in the last six months and talked about cable network CNN, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters on Friday.
CNN:
Power being restored after new outage in San Juan  —  Mom can't afford apartment after leaving PR  —  San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN)Power was gradually returning to San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Thursday after a massive outage struck the city.  —  The problem was with a failure …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Spicer's election-night memories cause anxiety in GOP  —  When former White House press secretary Sean Spicer bragged in an election-night retrospective this week about his central role at Trump Tower that night, some of his former colleagues did something very Spicer-like: They flipped out.
Discussion: Raw Story
Sen. Bernie Sanders / Politico:
How to Fix the Democratic Party  —  Donald Trump's presidency represents an unprecedented crisis for our country.  His campaign, and now his White House, seek to divide us using racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia and xenophobia.  His economic agenda is the agenda of the billionaire class.
Discussion: Common Dreams
 
 
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