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1:05 PM ET, December 10, 2017

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Amy Davidson Sorkin / New Yorker:
Donald Trump, Roy Moore, and the Degradation of the G.O.P.  —  In less than a year, the President, with help from the Alabama Senate candidate, has so damaged the Party that it may never recover.  —  When Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House spokeswoman, was explaining last week …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Shelby: My state of Alabama ‘deserves better’ than Moore  —  Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby said Sunday that his home state “deserves better” than to be represented by Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the state's Supreme Court who has been accused of sexual misconduct …
Discussion: Washington Post
Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Alabama Sen. Shelby: 'I couldn't vote for Roy Moore'  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Sen. Richard Shelby says he wants a Republican elected to the Senate on Tuesday to represent Alabama, but that he didn't vote for GOP candidate Roy Moore in the special election.
Discussion: New York Times
Kim Chandler / Associated Press:
Most Alabama GOP leaders say they are voting for Roy Moore
Discussion: New York Magazine
Brian Lyman / The Montgomery Advertiser:
Days before election, Roy Moore disappears from campaign trail
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Bitter Senate race tests Alabama's image in the country — and at home
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
The Guardian:
A battle for public opinion: Trump goes to war over Mueller and Russia  —  In recent days, the rightwing media and Trump loyalists have been scrambling to discredit the special counsel and smear his Russia inquiry as a liberal plot … llegitimate and corrupt.  Using the FBI as a political weapon and America's secret police.
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Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed The campaign to delegitimize the Russia probe is well under way  —  Sean Hannity interviews Former White House strategist Steve Bannon on the set of Fox News Channel's Hannity in New York on Oct. 9.  (Craig Ruttle / Associated Press)  —  Some of President Trump's biggest fans …
Gregg Jarrett / Fox News:
Robert Mueller and his politically biased team of prosecutors need to go  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller has sabotaged his own investigation of Russian meddling into the 2016 election.  He has only himself to blame for ruining what could have been a credible probe.
Fox News:
Lindsey Vonn suffers back injury in World Cup race after Trump comments  —  American skiing star Lindsey Vonn has withdrawn from her Sunday events at the World Cup in Switzerland after suffering a back injury during a super-G race on Saturday.  —  The injury occurred two days …
Discussion: IJR, USA Today, Althouse and Raw Story
Taryn Tarrant-Cornish / Daily Express:
Horror as ‘20 masked men attack synagogue with petrol bombs’  —  A SYNAGOGUE was attacked by around 20 masked men while hosting a youth party in Gothenburg, Sweden, local media have reported.  —  Police arrived at the scene, where Jewish students had taken refuge in the basement.
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New York Times:
Protests in Lebanon Near U.S. Embassy After Trump's Jerusalem Decision
Discussion: CNN and The Daily Caller
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Burning objects thrown at synagogue in Sweden: reports
Emily Yoffe / Politico:
Why the #MeToo Moment Should Be Ready for a Backlash  —  In the final five years of his presidency Barack Obama's administration undertook a worthy and bold challenge: The elimination of sexual assault on campuses.  In fact, Obama's team had a much more ambitious goal in mind.
Discussion: Refinery29
Peter Wehner / New York Times:
Why I Can No Longer Call Myself an Evangelical Republican  —  There are times in life when the institutional ground underneath you begins to crumble — and with it, longstanding attachments.  Such is the case for me when it comes to the Republican Party and evangelicalism.
Haley Britzky / Axios:
More women plan to run for Congress than ever before  —  As of December 7 there were 369 women running or planning to run for Congress in 2018, according to Rutgers University's Center for American Women and Politics, which would biggest group of women House candidates ever.
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Under Trump, E.P.A. Has Slowed Actions Against Polluters, and Put Limits on Enforcement Officers  —  EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio — The highway billboard at the entrance to town still displays a giant campaign photograph of President Trump, who handily won the election across industrial Ohio.
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
As tax plan gained steam, GOP lost focus on the middle class  —  The GOP tax plan on the cusp of becoming law diverges wildly from the promises President Trump and top advisers said they would deliver for the middle class — an evolution that shows how traditional Republican orthodoxy swamped …
Discussion: Political Wire and AOL
Foreign Policy:
White House Names Trump Loyalist to Iran Policy Job at State Department  —  The Trump administration's pick for the Iran post will likely back a more aggressive stance.  —  The Trump administration plans to install a political appointee at the State Department to a key position managing policy …
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Foreign Policy:
U.S. Diplomat's Resignation Signals Wider Exodus From State Department
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Jack V. Date / ABC News:
Manafort and Gates discussed ‘press strategy’ after he left Trump's campaign, emails reveal
Discussion: Raw Story and Associated Press
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Roadkill on Capitol Hill
Daniel J. Gross / Spartanburg Herald-Journal:
Serial killer Todd Kohlhepp claims to have more victims
Discussion: FOX6Now.com and NBC News
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Did the DOJ Misuse the Steele Dossier — to Spy on the Trump Campaign?
HuffPost:
Sadly, Trump Is Winning
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Watch: Fox complains women reporting rape will make Christmas parties less “festive”
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
 Earlier Items: 
David Ng / Los Angeles Times:
CAA agent accused of offering sex in exchange for access to directors and a Hollywood star
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Tax Plans May Give Your Co-Worker a Better Deal Than You
Lisa Kleypas / Washington Post:
Hillary, please don't reject romance novels — you are a romance novel heroine
Discussion: IJR and Instapundit