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6:35 PM ET, December 10, 2017

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Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed:
Roy Moore Was Nowhere To Be Found On The Last Weekend Of The Alabama Senate Race  —  Roy Moore at a rare public campaign event  —  Roy Moore's evangelicalism is his calling card, but on the Sunday before the special election that could send him to the Senate, he skipped church.
Discussion: VICE News and ABC News
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Alexandra Jaffe / VICE News:
Trump should resign over sexual harassment allegations, Booker says  —  MONTGOMERY, Ala. — New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker called on President Donald Trump to resign Saturday night over the allegations of sexual harassment that have dogged him since the presidential campaign.
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.
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
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Shelby: My state of Alabama ‘deserves better’ than Moore
Ellie Smith / ABC News:
Roy Moore win would ‘harken us back to days of segregation’: Alabama congresswoman
Kim Chandler / Associated Press:
Most Alabama GOP leaders say they are voting for Roy Moore
New York Times:
Alabama, Despite History of Unruly Politics, Has ‘Never Seen Anything Like This’
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
The Trump-Russia Probe Is About to Get Uglier  —  Unpleasant facts are spilling out.  Republicans don't want to know them.  —  Here are two certainties about the Trump-Russia investigation.  It won't end soon.  It will get uglier.  —  A new shoe drops almost daily in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe.
Discussion: CNN
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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
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Roy Moore in 2011: Getting rid of amendments after 10th would ‘eliminate many problems’  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore appeared on a conspiracy-driven radio show twice in 2011, where he told the hosts in an interview that getting rid …
Discussion: Politico
Emily Tillett / CBS News:
Nikki Haley on Trump accusers: Women who accuse anyone “should be heard” and “dealt with”  —  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Sunday, in light of a growing number of probes into sexual misconduct against lawmakers, that “the time has come” to start bringing “a conscience” …
Discussion: FOX6Now.com, CBS New York and KTLA
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David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Trump UN Ambassador Nikki Haley Wishes Jewish Host Jake Tapper A ‘Merry Christmas’
Discussion: RedState
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 …
Lara Witt / Everyday Feminism:
10 Things Every Intersectional Feminist Should Ask On a First Date  —  As a queer femme of color, I keep close relationships with people who go beyond allyship; they're true accomplices in the fight against white supremacy, queerphobia, and misogyny.  If you're not going to support marginalized folks …
Discussion: Power Line
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: Eschaton and AOL
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Republicans step up defense of ‘not qualified’ judicial nominees  —  Senate Republicans have declared war on the American Bar Association.  —  Since 1953, the venerable legal organization has played a critical, behind-the-scenes role in assessing judicial nominees and their fitness to serve on the bench.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Baker and the Empire  —  There are fine constitutional lawyers who can argue back and forth about the Masterpiece Cakeshop case the Supreme Court heard last week, which will determine whether a Christian baker can decline to make a same-sex couple's wedding cake.
New York Times:
Protests in Lebanon Near U.S. Embassy After Trump's Jerusalem Decision  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanese Army forces on Sunday fired tear gas and water cannons into crowds that had gathered near the United States Embassy to protest President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
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Taryn Tarrant-Cornish / Daily Express:
Horror as ‘20 masked men attack synagogue with petrol bombs’
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
 
 
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
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New York Times:
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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
Peter Wehner / New York Times:
Why I Can No Longer Call Myself an Evangelical Republican
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
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Emily Yoffe / Politico:
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