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7:40 AM ET, November 13, 2017

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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Breitbart aims to discredit Roy Moore's accusers  —  Steve Bannon has sent two of Breitbart News' top reporters, Matt Boyle and Aaron Klein, to Alabama.  Their mission: to discredit the Washington Post's reporting on Roy Moore's alleged sexual misconduct with teenagers.
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Aaron Klein / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE - Mother of Roy Moore Accuser: Washington Post Reporters Convinced My Daughter to Go Public  —  Birmingham, ALABAMA — The mother of Leigh Corfman, who says that Alabama Senatorial Candidate Roy Moore tried to engage in a sexual encounter with her when she was 14 …
David Atkins / Washington Monthly:
Yes.  It's an Entire Culture of Sanctioned Sexual Abuse.  —  Yesterday I wrote that Roy Moore's behavior was in keeping with hardcore conservative evangelical culture of sanctioned patriarchal sexual abuse.  I have also stated that the release of the Access Hollywood tape almost certainly …
Discussion: The Hill and Mother Jones
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Trump Officials Urge Caution on Judging Roy Moore as Senators Pull Support
Aaron Klein / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE - Mother of Roy Moore Accuser Contradicts Key Detail of Daughter's Sexual Misconduct Story
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
House Republicans' big TAX REFORM moment — TRUMP TEASES a Wednesday trade announcement — MNUCHIN and IVANKA to NJ to sell tax reform — DEMS smell opportunity in the South — GREG KELLY gets married  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Good Monday morning.  With the Roy Moore controversy continuing to rage …
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
News photographer who protested White House restrictions on access gets revenge with revealing shot of Trump  —  MANILA — The fight over access between reporters and any White House can sometimes seem more like an exercise in First Amendment theory than practical reality …
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
In Asia, Trump briefly baffled by group handshake  —  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — President Donald Trump is known for his long, at times aggressive, handshakes with world leaders.  But at an international summit in the Philippines on Monday, he struggled briefly with a different kind of handshake.
Frances Robles / New York Times:
The Lineman Got $63 an Hour.  The Utility Was Billed $319 an Hour.  —  SAN JUAN — The small energy outfit from Montana that won a $300 million contract to help rebuild Puerto Rico's tattered power grid had few employees of its own, so it did what the Puerto Rican authorities could have done: It turned to Florida for workers.
Discussion: Raw Story and ThinkProgress
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Whitefish draws scrutiny over money charged to Puerto Rico: report  —  The Montana energy company that was awarded a contract to repair Puerto Rico's power grid in the wake of Hurricane Maria is facing scrutiny over the amount of money it has charged the island's state-run utility, according to a report from The New York Times.
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core  —  A serial leak of the agency's cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide.  —  WASHINGTON — Jake Williams awoke last April in an Orlando …
Rebecca Traister / thecut:
We Are All Implicated in the Post-Weinstein Reckoning … The anger window is open.  For decades, centuries, it was closed: Something bad happened to you, you shoved it down, you maybe told someone but probably didn't get much satisfaction — emotional or practical — from the confession.
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
Pricing access to the Trump White House: the strange case of the Times social media policy  —  Follow these events with me.  Then I will share my view of what is going on here.  —  On Sep. 17, Glenn Thrush, White House reporter for the New York Times, posted this on Twitter:
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Mike Memoli / NBC News:
Biden Book Looks Back at the Path He Didn't Take (But Still Could)  —  In 2015, days after a New York Times column kicked into overdrive speculation about a Joe Biden presidential run, an aide delivered to the vice president a fresh draft of a speech announcing his intention to run.
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Liz Smith, Longtime Queen of Tabloid Gossip Columns, Dies at 94  —  Liz Smith, the longtime queen of New York's tabloid gossip columns, who for more than three decades chronicled little triumphs and trespasses in the soap-opera lives of the rich, the famous and the merely beautiful, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan.
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Trump clarifies Putin comments: 'I'm with our agencies' on election meddling … President Trump clarified his comments Sunday on whether he believes Russia meddled in the U.S. 2016 presidential election, saying, “I believe in our intel agencies.”  —  Trump had told reporters on Air Force …
Discussion: The Atlantic
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump on Russia sanctions: ‘Having Russia in a friendly posture’ is an asset
Discussion: Shareblue Media and RedState
 
 
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Pennsylvania's elections tell us how worried Republicans nationwide should be
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Poll: Nearly half of white Southerners feel like they're under attack
CBS News:
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
The Myth of the Idle Rich
Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Army lifts ban on waivers for recruits with history of some mental health issues
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Josh Kimbrell / RedState:
Since When Did Chuck Todd Give a Dang About the Deficit?
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
How the ex-DNC chair ruined Clinton's chance at 2020
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Instapundit
Claudia Goldin / New York Times:
How to Win the Battle of the Sexes Over Pay (Hint: It Isn't Simple.)
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Joi-Marie McKenzie / ABC News:
Carrie Underwood suffers broken wrist after ‘hard fall,’ rep says
Scott Shane / New York Times:
In ‘Watershed Moment,’ YouTube Blocks Extremist Cleric's Message
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Tom Perez: ‘I am not talking about impeachment’
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bannon Put a Target on His Back. McConnell's Answer: ‘Ha-Ha.’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 

 
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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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