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12:00 PM ET, November 23, 2017

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Washington Post:
Congressman told woman he would report her to Capitol Police if she exposed his secret sex life  —  (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Associated Press)  —  Rep. Joe Barton, who apologized Wednesday for a lewd photo of him that circulated on the Internet, told a woman to whom he had sent sexually explicit photos …
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Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
U.S. Rep. Joe Barton apologizes for graphic online photo  —  Texas Congressman Joe Barton released a statement Wednesday apologizing for a graphic nude photo of him that circulated on social media earlier this week.  He announced his re-election bid earlier this month.
Howard Blum / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: What Trump Really Told Kislyak After Comey Was Canned  —  During a May 10 meeting in the Oval Office, the president betrayed his intelligence community by leaking the content of a classified, and highly sensitive, Israeli intelligence operation to two high-ranking Russian envoys, Sergey Kislyak and Sergey Lavrov.
HuffPost:
Two More Women Accuse Sen. Al Franken Of Inappropriate Touching  —  One woman told HuffPost that Franken had grabbed her backside at an event honoring women.  —  Two more women have told HuffPost that Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) touched their butts in separate incidents.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Two More Women Accuse Franken
Discussion: AOL and Balloon Juice
John Bowden / The Hill:
Two additional woman accuse Franken of groping
Discussion: RedState
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
A Russian Journalist Explains How the Kremlin Instructed Him to Cover the 2016 Election  —  On a recent Saturday in November, Dimitri Skorobutov, a former editor at Russia's largest state media company, sat in a bar in Maastricht, a college town in the Netherlands, with journalists from around …
Discussion: Raw Story
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Exclusive: Manafort flight records show deeper Kremlin ties than previously known  —  WASHINGTON  —  Political guru Paul Manafort took at least 18 trips to Moscow and was in frequent contact with Vladimir Putin's allies for nearly a decade as a consultant in Russia and Ukraine for oligarchs and pro-Kremlin parties.
Rachel M. Cohen / The Intercept:
A Baltimore Detective Set to Testify Against His Own Department Was Gunned Down.  So Police Barricaded the Community.  —  Last Wednesday, Detective Sean Suiter, along with an as-yet-unnamed partner, were in the West Baltimore neighborhood of Harlem Park.  Suiter's usual partner in the homicide unit …
Discussion: Baltimore Sun and Eschaton
KHOU-TV:
Woman accused of mailing explosives to Gov. Abbott, Pres. Obama  —  Court documents say Gov. Abbott opened the package, but it failed to explode because he didn't open it correctly.  If opened correctly, says “it could've caused severe burns and death.”  —  Author: KHOU.com , KHOU
Discussion: RedState and Raw Story
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Thanksgiving is Trump's 100th day at a Trump property as president  —  Thanksgiving Day will mark the 100th day President Trump has spent at one of his properties since taking office.  —  The Trump family is spending Thanksgiving weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
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New York Times:
Trump Organization Will Walk Away From Its Struggling SoHo Hotel in New York
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Thanksgiving Gratitude for a Father's Lesson  —  Many years ago, I committed an offense for which famous men are now being publicly, and rightly, shamed.  I patted an office secretary on her behind.  I won't offer the usual lame defense that I didn't know my advance was unwanted or that social attitudes were different back then.
NBC 10 Philadelphia:
Livid Over Temporary Protective Status Change for Immigrants, Kenney Says Trump Is a ‘Bully’ and ‘Punk’  —  Kenney questioned Trump's upbringing saying “his family didn't do a good job raising that guy.”  —  Si quieres leer esta historia en español haz clic aquí.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Politico
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Tens of thousands with outstanding warrants purged from background check database for gun purchases  —  Handguns for sale at a gun shop in Merrimack, N.H. (Dominick Reuter/AFP/Getty Images)  —  Tens of thousands of people wanted by law enforcement officials have been removed this year …
Discussion: VICE News
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Eric Beech / Reuters:
Jeff Sessions orders review of gun background check system
Discussion: Axios
Fox News:
Abortion rates in US hit historic low, CDC report finds  —  Abortion rates in the United States have fallen to a historic low, according to the latest data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  —  The CDC report, which was released on Wednesday, found …
Discussion: LifeNews.com
Derek Robertson / Politico:
How Donald Trump Ruined Thanksgiving  —  In the 10 months since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has been accused of torching everything from America's stature on the global stage to the country's most treasured political norms.  He “ruined the eclipse,” noted one observer; he …
Discussion: The Hill
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Mike Flynn business partner Bijan Kian now subject of Mueller probe  —  WASHINGTON — A former business associate of Michael Flynn has become a subject of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation for his role in the failure of Flynn's former lobbying firm to disclose its work on behalf …
Jessica Rosenworcel / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed I'm on the FCC.  Please stop us from killing net neutrality  —  FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, center, alongside Chairman Ajit Pai, left, and commissioner Brendan Carr, right, during their confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on July 19.  (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
Discussion: Common Dreams
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘American mercenaries are torturing’ Saudi elite rounded up by new crown prince - and billionaire Prince Alwaleed was hung upside down ‘just to send a message’  — Source in Saudi Arabia says American private security contractors are carrying out'interrogations' on princes and billionaires arrested in crackdown
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Kimberly Kindy / Washington Post:
Ethics lawyer says Conyers mistreated her during her years on Capitol Hill  —  A high-profile Washington lawyer specializing in congressional ethics said Wednesday that Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) harassed and verbally abused her when she worked for him on Capitol Hill in the 1990s …
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Ethics lawyer: Conyers summoned me to his office while wearing underwear
Discussion: RedState and TheBlaze
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
States Warn of Budget Crunch Under Republican Tax Plan  —  WASHINGTON — Since getting crushed by the recession a decade ago, the state of Oregon has been on an economic upswing.  The jobless rate has dipped below 4 percent from a high of 12 percent in 2009, home values are up and people are flocking to the state.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Heather Long / Washington Post:
House Republicans have a little-known plan to raise taxes on teachers by $2 billion  —  Every year, Brooke Richardson, who teaches English as a second language to mostly low-income Hispanic students in Atlanta, turns to her own pocketbook to help her students.
 
 
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Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Danny Masterson's Publicist Suggested A Woman Can't Be Raped By A Man She's In A Relationship With
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John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
The First Thanksgiving Was Nothing Like What You Were Taught
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Fighting Gay Rights and Abortion With the First Amendment
Discussion: National Review
CNBC:
Jamie Dimon says he would bet on Trump being a one-term president
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
WaPo Reporter Goes Rogue, Gives Strategy Briefing to Secret Dem Donor Conference
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 Earlier Items: 
Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Alabama Senate hopeful Doug Jones defended man with ties to KKK, Holocaust deniers
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
WaPo columnist: Sanders humiliates the media daily
Discussion: Washington Post
Ken Klippenstein / The Daily Beast:
Accused Nazi War Criminal Is a ‘Lifelong Republican’ Who Gave Thousands to GOP
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Annys Shin / Washington Post:
Anita Hill and her 1991 congressional defenders to Joe Biden: You were part of the problem
Discussion: Common Dreams and Axios
Aída Chávez / The Intercept:
The Young Turks and Reporter Abruptly Part Ways Following Sexual Assault Allegations
Jason Marks / WAVY-TV:
Mom charged after putting recording device in daughter's backpack
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