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2:25 PM ET, November 13, 2017

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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McConnell: ‘I believe the women’ accusing Roy Moore  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Monday that Alabama Senate GOP candidate Roy Moore should leave the race, saying he believes the women who have accused Moore of sexual misconduct.  —  “I think he should step aside …
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David Zurawik / Baltimore Sun:
How Sinclair compromised the news on an Alabama station it owns to support Roy Moore  —  I have been writing a lot lately about the way Sinclair Broadcast Group has become a leading player in the right-wing echo chamber that includes Fox News and Breitbart.  —  This is a dangerous development …
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 …
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.
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on allegations against Roy Moore: ‘I believe the women, yes’
Discussion: Axios, Washington Monthly and Politico
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:   BREITBART'S COMING EXPLOITATION OF THE BELIEVE WOMEN MOVEMENT
Paul Gattis / al.com:
Roy Moore says he will file lawsuit against The Washington Post
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 …
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
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: Politico, Mashable and Mediaite
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
In Asia, Trump briefly baffled by group handshake
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 and Political Wire
Nikki Ekstein / Bloomberg:
Coming Soon to Washington: An Anti-Trump Hotel for Liberals  —  Expect counter-cultural art, progressive fireside chats, and craft materials for your next great protest poster.  —  The first thing you'll see when you walk into Eaton Workshop, a hotel opening in late spring 2018 in Washington …
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Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Anti-Trump hotel planned for DC
Discussion: RedState and Joe.My.God.
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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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 …
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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.
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump personally asked Xi Jinping to help resolve case of UCLA basketball players arrested in China  —  MANILA — President Trump personally asked his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to help resolve the case of three UCLA men's basketball players who were arrested for shoplifting while in Hangzhou …
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
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
'They Want to Know If Trump's Crazy'  —  Subscribe to The Global POLITICO on Apple Podcasts here.  Subscribe via Stitcher here.  —  “They want to know if he's crazy,” said Suzanne DiMaggio, “or if this is just an act.”  —  “They” is North Korean officials.  And “he” is Donald Trump.
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Korean Soldier Shot by Own Troops as He Defects to the South
Discussion: Reuters, CNN and TheBlaze
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Poll: Nearly half of white Southerners feel like they're under attack  —  Nearly half of white Americans living in the South feel like they're under attack, a new Winthrop University poll found.  —  Forty-six percent of white Southerners said they agree or strongly agree that white people …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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 …
Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:
Bill Clinton: A Reckoning … The most remarkable thing about the current tide of sexual assault and harassment accusations is not their number.  If every woman in America started talking about the things that happen during the course of an ordinary female life, it would never end.
Discussion: Power Line
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Did dossier trigger the Trump-Russia probe?  —  The FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump-Russia affair shortly after receiving the first installment of an anti-Trump dossier from a former British spy working for the Hillary Clinton campaign.
 
 
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New Mexico congressional candidate arrested on stalking charge
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democrats smell opportunity in the South after Virginia rout
Discussion: Political Wire
Frank Rich / New York Magazine:
After Trump Will Be Another Trump — and This One Could Be More Dangerous
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court takes case on free speech rights of antiabortion counseling centers
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Meg Kelly / Washington Post:
All the known times the Trump campaign met with Russians
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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
‘Way too little, way too late’: Facebook's factcheckers say effort is failing
Discussion: Mashable and Gizmodo
Sophie Weiner / Popular Mechanics:
Bill Gates Is Buying Land in Arizona to Build a “Smart City”
Discussion: CityLab and The Daily Caller
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Surveillance Cameras Made by China Are Hanging All Over the U.S.
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