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11:45 AM ET, November 13, 2017

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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
'There's more to come from this creep': MSNBC panel disturbed by Roy Moore's remarks to Sean Hannity  —  MSNBC's “Morning Joe” addressed the continuing fallout from revelations of Roy Moore's decades-old sexual relationships with teenage girls — and the Republican Party's response.
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Paul Gattis / al.com:
Roy Moore says he will file lawsuit against The Washington Post  —  Gallery: Roy Moore wins GOP Senate runoff  —  Senate candidate Roy Moore said in a speech Sunday night that he intended to file a lawsuit against The Washington Post regarding the story it published Thursday in which he was accused …
Associated Press:
Moore threatens lawsuit over story that threatens campaign  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Alabama Republican Roy Moore says a lawsuit will be filed over the newspaper report carrying allegations that he had sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl four decades ago and that neither Democrats nor Republicans …
Discussion: RedState, Daily Kos and Joe.My.God.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Ignore the spin.  Trump and the GOP have made a devil's bargain with Roy Moore.  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  Top White House officials have now made President Trump's position on Roy Moore absolutely clear: Trump does not believe that the allegations that Moore initiated sexual contact with a 14-year-old …
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.
Susannah Cullinane / CNN:
Moore threatens to sue Washington Post over report
Discussion: TVNewser, IJR and The Daily Caller
Clare Foran / The Atlantic:
Keith Ellison Believes Democrats Will Take Back the House and Senate
David Atkins / Washington Monthly:
Yes. It's an Entire Culture of Sanctioned Sexual Abuse.
Discussion: The Hill and Mother Jones
Aaron Klein / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE - Mother of Roy Moore Accuser: Washington Post Reporters Convinced My Daughter to Go Public
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 …
Discussion: Mashable and Mediaite
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
In Asia, Trump briefly baffled by group handshake
Bloomberg:
Trump Bonds With Duterte Over Their Dislike of Obama, Avoids Human Rights
Discussion: IJR
Louis Nelson / Politico:   Trump struggles with group handshake at Asean meeting
GQ:
Colin Kaepernick Will Not Be Silenced  —  He's been vilified by millions and locked out of the NFL—all because he took a knee to protest police brutality.  But Colin Kaepernick's determined stand puts him in rare company in sports history: Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson—athletes who risked everything to make a difference.
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Elaina Plott / The Daily Beast:
No One Knows What Omarosa Is Doing in the White House—Even Omarosa … It's nearly 9 a.m. in the West Wing lobby.  The room is quiet save for two staff assistants whispering about weekend plans, and me, waiting on an over-firm red sofa to meet with Omarosa Manigault.
Discussion: Raw Story
Aric Jenkins / TIME:
Woman Says George H.W. Bush Groped Her When She Was 16: ‘I Was a Child’  —  Roslyn Corrigan was sixteen years old when she got a chance to meet George H.W. Bush, excited to be introduced to a former president having grown up dreaming of going into politics.  —  But Corrigan was crushed …
The Daily Beast:
Green Beret Discovered SEALs' Illicit Cash.  Then He Was Killed. … Logan Melgar hadn't had a drink on June 4.  —  The Green Beret sergeant's dry day became a key to unraveling the narrative spun by the elite Navy commandos whom military investigators now suspect killed him, officials familiar with the case said.
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.
Discussion: Unfogged
Washington Post:
Trump picks Alex Azar to lead the Health and Human Services Department  —  President Trump has tapped Alex Azar, a former pharmaceutical executive and a top health official during the George W. Bush administration, to lead the Health and Human Services Department.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Tom McKay / Gizmodo:
Angry Sean Hannity Fans Are Smashing Keurigs on Twitter Because 2017 Is Dumb as Heck  —  Numerous advertisers pulled out from Sean Hannity's Fox News show this week after Hannity urged his viewers to treat claims Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore sexually molested minors decades ago with entirely too much skepticism.
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Kansas City Star:
‘One of the most secretive, dark states’: What is Kansas trying to hide?  —  The statement was simple.  Factual.  —  A Kansas spokesperson was acknowledging that the state highway department didn't have the money to rebuild a dangerous stretch of Interstate 70 that had been the scene …
Discussion: Axios
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
What Mueller's org chart reveals about his Russia probe  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller has not publicly uttered a single word about the direction of his high-stakes Russia probe.  —  But the way he's assigned the 17 federal prosecutors on his team — pieced together by POLITICO …
George Skelton / Associated Press:
Capitol Journal In high-tax California, a vote to scrap deductions could be the kiss of death for endangered House Republicans  —  Rep. Darrell Issa speaks during a town hall meeting in Oceanside in March.  —  Capitol Journal  —  Some of America's most important political races …
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 …
 
 
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Melissa Jeltsen / HuffPost:
Texas Church Is Transformed Into Poignant Memorial For Mass Shooting Victims
Discussion: CNN, Faithwire, The Daily Caller and IJR
New York Times:
Despite Recent Wins for Democrats, Gerrymanders Dim Hopes for 2018
Discussion: Political Wire
Rick Noack / Washington Post:
How Poland became a breeding ground for Europe's far right
Discussion: CNN
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
‘Way too little, way too late’: Facebook's factcheckers say effort is failing
Daily Mail:
I called a trans boy a girl by mistake... and it may cost me my job as a teacher: Maths tutor suspended …
Discussion: MelaniePhillips.com and IJR
Sophie Weiner / Popular Mechanics:
Bill Gates Is Buying Land in Arizona to Build a “Smart City”
Discussion: CityLab and The Daily Caller
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Cuomo, a Master of the $50,000 Fund-Raiser, Bypasses Small Donors
Jacob B. / twitchy.com:
LOLOLOL! George Takei identifies who's really to blame for his sexual assault allegations
Discussion: IJR
 Earlier Items: 
Alec Tyson / Pew Research Center:
Americans generally positive about NAFTA, but most Republicans say it benefits Mexico more than U.S.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
She Warned of ‘Peer-to-Peer Misinformation.’ Congress Listened.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Did dossier trigger the Trump-Russia probe?
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
'They Want to Know If Trump's Crazy'
Discussion: ABC News and Washington Post
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Pennsylvania's elections tell us how worried Republicans nationwide should be
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Poll: Nearly half of white Southerners feel like they're under attack
 

 
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