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George Hunter / Detroit News:
Second ex-staffer accuses Conyers of sexual harassment  —  A former staffer of U.S. Rep. John Conyers said the veteran lawmaker made unwanted sexual advances toward her, including inappropriate touching, adding to allegations by other unnamed former employees that have prompted a congressional investigation.
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S.A. Miller / Washington Times:
Rep. Raul M. Grijalva quietly arranged a “severance package” in 2015 for one of his top staffers who threatened a lawsuit claiming the Arizona Democrat was frequently drunk and created a hostile workplace environment, revealing yet another way that lawmakers can use taxpayer dollars to hide their misbehavior on Capitol Hill.
BuzzFeed:
Former Congresswoman Who Oversaw Complaints Against Members Says She Didn't Sign Off On Any Sexual Harassment Settlements  —  Former Michigan Rep. Candice Miller said she rejected settlement payments for harassment allegations, including one that sounds strikingly similar to the 2016 complaint against Rep. John Conyers.
Anna Palmer / Politico:
PELOSI and SCHUMER pull out of W.H. meeting after Trump tweet …
Marwa Eltagouri / Washington Post:
James O'Keefe tweeted about his ‘confrontation’ with a Post reporter.  Here's what really happened.  —  The Washington Post on Monday published a report about a woman who falsely claimed Roy Moore sexually assaulted her as a teenager — and who appeared to work with Project Veritas …
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Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
How James O'Keefe Made Himself Irrelevant  —  The conservative provocateur James O'Keefe's latest stunt is possibly his biggest backfire: He attempted to sting The Washington Post with a fake Roy Moore accuser, but found himself stung, as the Post exposed the scheme in a detailed report on Monday night.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Reality scores a win over the perverse drive to discredit honest reporting  —  (Dalton Bennett/The Washington Post)  —  In the right-wing campaign to discredit the truth, every day brings a new low.  —  I don't mean Roy Moore's campaign for U.S. Senate, though that certainly has been at the center, lately, of the broader crusade.
Project Veritas:
BREAKING: Undercover Video Exposes Washington Post's Hidden Agenda
Jerry Iannelli / Miami New Times:
Rick Scott Consultant Denies He Used Ice Penis to Hump Mannequin … Joshua Cooper, a Tallahassee political consultant paid more than $500,000 by Florida Gov. Rick Scott to dig up dirt on Scott's enemies over the years, swears the photo above was simply a snapshot taken at an unfortunate angle.
Talking Points Memo:
Senate GOP Hold-Outs Moving To ‘Yes’ On Tax Bill After Promises From Trump, Leadership  —  The Republican senators who have been the most critical of their party's tax overhaul plan came out of a lunch meeting with President Trump Tuesday sounding more like yes votes, telling reporters …
Discussion: Associated Press and Balloon Juice
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Wall Street Journal:
Mike Flynn's Promotion of Nuclear-Plant Project Went Deep Into the White House  —  Project backers drafted memos for President Trump and Flynn allies continued to push the plan after the Trump security adviser was ousted  —  Private-sector backers of a controversial Middle East nuclear plan worked …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Schumer, Pelosi cancel meeting with Trump after Twitter attack  —  House and Senate Democratic leaders on Tuesday abruptly withdrew from a scheduled White House meeting about averting a government shutdown after President Donald Trump publicly slammed them and cast doubt on the negotiations.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump, next to empty chairs, tears into Dems for skipping meeting
Discussion: Political Wire and The Last Refuge
Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Here's the deal with Elizabeth Warren's Native American heritage  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)From “Lyin' Ted” Cruz and “Lil' Marco” Rubio to “Crooked Hillary” Clinton, Donald Trump has consistently conjured up demeaning nicknames for his campaign foes.  —  Which brings us to Elizabeth Warren.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Navajo Nation delegate rips Trump: Code talkers aren't ‘pawns to advance a personal grudge’
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and RedState
Change Research:
Moore Opens Up 49-44 Lead in Alabama; Just 9% of Trump Voters Believe Allegations Against Moore  —  Alabama Republican Roy Moore has reopened a 49-44 lead over Democrat Doug Jones in the race for U.S. Senate.  In Change Research's third poll since the sexual misconduct allegations against Moore …
Edmund DeMarche / Fox News:
Roy Moore campaign staff push, shove Fox News camera crew at rally  —  Campaign staffers for Senate candidate Roy Moore late Monday night got into a scuffle with two Fox News camera crews prior to a rally in the town of Henagar, Ala.  —  Organizers told the media that Moore was expected …
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Tillerson fends off ‘redesign’ critics  —  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday dismissed mounting criticism of his plan to restructure the State Department, insisting “there is no hollowing out” of the agency but that it can be run more efficiently and with less funding.
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Mother Jones, Vox and CNN
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Bari Weiss / New York Times:
The Limits of ‘Believe All Women’  —  Ever since Eve gave Adam that forbidden fruit, demonizing and disbelieving women has been the planet-wide policy.  You don't need to reach back to the Pleistocene to see the truth of that.  —  “You're just a child,” Roy Moore is accused of saying …
Discussion: Splinter
Sam Thielman / Talking Points Memo:
Mulvaney Tells CFPB Staff He's In Charge After Another English Email  —  Mick Mulvaney, in his battle with Leandra English over the acting directorship of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, asked staff to forward “additional communications from her ... in any form” to the Wall Street watchdog's general counsel.
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Politico:
Breaking News: Court rules for Trump on CFPB
Matthew Shaer / New York Times:
How Far Will Sean Hannity Go?  —  The Fox News host is willing to defend Trump at all costs — and is reaching more than 13 million people a day.  —  When he finally went to bed early in the morning on Oct. 2, Sean Hannity had a good sense, as he typically does, of how he would structure that night's Fox News Channel broadcast.
CBS News:
Uzbekistan incident raises suspicions of Russian involvement in Cuba attacks  —  A newly revealed incident reported by a USAID officer who is based at the American embassy in Uzbekistan is raising suspicions Russia may have been involved and could have had a hand in bizarre attacks targeting U.S. diplomats …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Odds Are, Russia Owns Trump  —  Three months ago, The Washington Post reported that even as Donald Trump ran for president, he pursued plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.  The next day, The New York Times published excerpts from emails between Felix Sater, a felon with ties to Russian organized crime …
Discussion: Scripting News
Bloomberg:
Manafort Bankers, Associates Summoned to Talk to Manhattan D.A.  —  Investigators want to know how Manafort used money from loans  —  Ex-Trump campaign chairman already charged in separate probe  —  Manhattan prosecutors investigating Paul Manafort's New York business activities …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
Sebastian Gorka is working at the Heritage Foundation as a lecturer and consultant … Sebastian Gorka is working with the conservative Heritage Foundation.  As an independent contractor though, the former deputy assistant to President Trump won't enjoy all the perks of a full-time employee.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Chinese investors sue McAuliffe, Rodham over green-car investments  —  Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe and former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's brother Anthony Rodham are facing a $17 million fraud lawsuit from Chinese investors in Greentech Automotive …
Thomas Burr / Salt Lake Tribune:
Trump will shrink Bears Ears during Utah visit Monday and five tribes promise to sue him that same day  —  Washington  • President Donald Trump will fly into Utah on Monday to announce that he'll shrink the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Libyan Convicted of Terrorism in Benghazi Attacks but Acquitted of Murder  —  WASHINGTON — A former militia leader from Libya was convicted on Tuesday of terrorism charges arising from the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed a United States ambassador and three other Americans.
Discussion: Axios
Noah Kulwin / VICE News:
YouTube kills ads on 50,000 channels as advertisers flee over disturbing child content  —  For the second time in less than a year, major advertisers are fleeing YouTube after finding their ads were paired with offensive content — this time, directed at children.
Star Tribune:
Franken's apology fails the full candor test  —  He seems to be saying, 'I'm sorry for what you think I did.'  —  U.S. Sen. Al Franken broke his self-imposed silence over the weekend, submitting to a series of media interviews on the sexual misconduct allegations against him, professing his shame and embarrassment.
Adwdigital / Archdiocese of Washington:
Archdiocese of Washington Challenges Metro System's Advertising Guidelines  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today (November 28, 2017) the Archdiocese of Washington filed a legal action in federal court challenging the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's (WMATA) advertising guidelines …
Steven Greenhouse / The Guardian:
America is in crisis.  The Republican tax plan will make that worse  —  The plan would comfort the already very comfortable and further afflict many of the afflicted - all while causing the national debt to soar  —  hen Donald Trump was sworn in as president last January, the nation faced several domestic crises.
 
 
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
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Neil Vigdor / Greenwich Time:
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
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Associated Press:
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New York Times:
What the Tax Bill Would Look Like for 25,000 Middle-Class Families
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D.C. McAllister / The Federalist:
Why It's Justified To Vote For A Morally Questionable Politician
Discussion: Mediaite
Natisha Lance / WXIA-TV:
Woman feels she was profiled after being mistaken for human trafficking victim on Delta flight
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Anita Singh / Telegraph:
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