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10:50 AM 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
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
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
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
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 …
Elaina Plott / Washingtonian:
Roy Moore's Communications Director Resigns  —  John Rogers confirms he's left the Alabama Senate candidate's campaign.  —  John Rogers has resigned as communications director from Roy Moore's Senate campaign, according to a source familiar with the matter.  —  Reached by phone on Wednesday, Rogers confirmed his resignation.
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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.
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.
New York Times:
Trump Organization Will Walk Away From Its Struggling SoHo Hotel in New York  —  The announcement came on his television show, “The Apprentice.”  Donald J. Trump would open his second luxury hotel in New York, a “work of art” in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan that would become “an awe-inspiring masterpiece.”
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
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
Derek Robertson / Politico:
How Donald Trump Ruined Thanksgiving  —  A new study finds that after last year's scorched-earth presidential campaign, Americans could barely stand to look each other in the eye.  —  In the 10 months since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has been accused of torching everything …
Discussion: The Hill
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
The First Thanksgiving Was Nothing Like What You Were Taught  —  Most Americans were taught a cartoonish version of the first Thanksgiving, but the history of the Pilgrims and Indians was far more complex—and harrowing.  —  Whether we realize it or not, we all have an image …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
WaPo columnist: Sanders humiliates the media daily  —  A Washington Post columnist said White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders humiliates the media on a daily basis.  —  In a column published Tuesday, opinion writer Kathleen Parker referenced Sanders asking reporters earlier …
Discussion: Washington Post
CNBC:
Jamie Dimon says he would bet on Trump being a one-term president  — Dimon has described himself as “barely” a Democrat, but has been more active on range of business and economic issues.  —  Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, on Wednesday said he expects to see a new U.S. president …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Ken Klippenstein / The Daily Beast:
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Discussion: Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Annys Shin / Washington Post:
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Aída Chávez / The Intercept:
The Young Turks and Reporter Abruptly Part Ways Following Sexual Assault Allegations
Jason Marks / WAVY-TV:
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