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9:35 PM ET, December 8, 2017

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CNN:
Exclusive: Email shows effort to give Trump campaign WikiLeaks documents  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Candidate Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and others in the Trump Organization received an email in September 2016 offering a decryption key and website address …
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Washington Post:
Email pointed Trump campaign to WikiLeaks documents that were already public … A 2016 email sent to President Trump and top aides pointed the campaign to hacked documents from the Democratic National Committee that had already been made public by the group WikiLeaks a day earlier.
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
CNN Botches Major ‘Bombshell’ Alleging Contacts Between Don Jr. And WikiLeaks
Discussion: Mediaite and IJR
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
What if Mueller catches Trump — and it isn't enough?
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jake Sherman / Politico:
Female aides fretted Franks wanted to have sex to impregnate them  —  Arizona Rep. Trent Franks allegedly made unwanted advances toward female staffers in his office and retaliated against one who rebuffed him, according to House GOP sources with knowledge of a complaint against him.
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Ex-aide: Franks offered $5m to carry his child  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Arizona Rep. Trent Franks' resignation (all times EST):  —  A former aide to Republican Rep. Trent Franks has told The Associated Press the congressman repeatedly pressed her to carry his child …
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Prominent appeals court Judge Alex Kozinski accused of sexual misconduct  —  Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, pictured in 2003.  Six women — all former clerks or externs in the 9th Circuit — alleged to The Washington Post in recent weeks that Kozinski …
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Maura Dolan / Los Angeles Times:   9th Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski is accused by former clerks of making sexual comments
Fox News:
Roy Moore accuser admits she wrote part of yearbook inscription attributed to Alabama Senate candidate  —  One of the women who accused Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore of making advances on her when she was a teen and he a local prosecutor admitted Friday to writing part of the yearbook inscription she offered as proof.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Roy Moore accuser Beverly Young Nelson ‘scared to go anywhere’ since her sexual assault allegation
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox News issues correction on Roy Moore accuser yearbook ‘forgery’ headline
John Haltiwanger / Newsweek:
ROY MOORE: LAST TIME AMERICA WAS ‘GREAT’ WAS DURING ‘SLAVERY’
John Nolte / Breitbart:
Bombshell: Roy Moore Accuser Beverly Nelson Admits She Forged Yearbook
New York Times:
F.B.I. Warned Hope Hicks About Emails From Russian Operatives  —  WASHINGTON — F.B.I. officials warned one of President Trump's top advisers, Hope Hicks, earlier this year about repeated attempts by Russian operatives to make contact with her during the presidential transition, according to people familiar with the events.
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Ex-Fox News anchor claims Trump tried to kiss her  —  Former Fox News anchor Juliet Huddy said President Donald Trump tried to kiss her in an elevator around the time he married First Lady Melania.  —  Huddy, who left Fox News after allegedly receiving a settlement after she made a complaint …
Discussion: RedState, Politico, TheBlaze and Mediaite
Stephanie Akin / Roll Call:
Exclusive: Taxpayers Paid $220K to Settle Case Involving Rep. Alcee Hastings  —  The Treasury Department paid $220,000 in a previously undisclosed agreement to settle a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment that involved Florida Democrat Alcee L. Hastings, according to documents obtained by Roll Call.
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
CBS News:
Mesa Police shooting: Daniel Shaver seen crawling, begging in disturbing video  —  MESA — Police in Mesa, Arizona released disturbing body camera video on Thursday hours after a former officer was acquitted of a murder charge in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The G.O.P. Is Rotting  —  A lot of good, honorable Republicans used to believe there was a safe middle ground.  You didn't have to tie yourself hip to hip with Donald Trump, but you didn't have to go all the way to the other extreme and commit political suicide like the dissident Jeff Flake, either.
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Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
Roy Moore is the last straw, you can now call me a Democrat
Discussion: AOL
The Daily Beast:
Cadet Run Out of West Point After Accusing Army's Star Quarterback of Rape … Madeline Lewis was born to go to West Point.  She says her parents brought her home from the hospital wearing a onesie with “West Point” emblazoned across the chest.  For several Halloweens in a row, she dressed up as a West Point Cheerleader.
Washington Post:
Trump calls Romney ‘a great man,’ but works to undermine him and block Senate run  —  Before Ronna Romney McDaniel took over as Republican National Committee chairwoman earlier this year, President Trump had a request: Would she be willing to stop using her middle name publicly?
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Allies Urge Harder Line as Mueller Probe Heats Up  —  President's legal team had predicted investigation would clear Trump by year's end  —  A Russia investigation that Donald Trump's legal team predicted would clear the president by year's end looks to stretch into 2018 …
Washington Post:
Dina Powell, deputy national security adviser, to depart Trump White House … Deputy national security adviser Dina Powell, a driving force behind the Trump administration's Middle East policy, plans to leave the White House as part of an anticipated wave of departures following President Trump's …
New York Times:
Official Toll in Puerto Rico: 62.  Actual Deaths May Be 1,052.  —  Homes were flattened.  Power was knocked out.  And all across Puerto Rico, bodies began showing up at morgues.  —  Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico with great fury but the government there has reported …
Discussion: Latino USA and The Daily Caller
National Geographic:
Lack of sea ice is making it more difficult for polar bears to find food.  —  When photographer Paul Nicklen and filmmakers from conservation group Sea Legacy arrived in the Baffin Islands, they came across a heartbreaking sight: a starving polar bear on its deathbed.  —  Nicklen is no stranger to bears.
Discussion: Mashable, Common Dreams and AOL
New York Times:
Lobbyists Ask for Votes.  Some Lawmakers Want Much More.  —  Vanessa Alarid was a lobbyist in New Mexico when she asked a lawmaker over drinks one night if she could count on his support for a bill that appeared to be coming down to a single vote.  —  “You can have my vote if you have sex with me …
Bella DePaulo / Washington Post:
I study liars.  I've never seen one like President Trump.  —  He tells far more lies, and far more cruel ones, than ordinary people do.  —  President Trump speaks at the White House on Wednesday.  (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)  —  I spent the first two decades of my career …
Discussion: Politicus USA
Mark Arsenault / BostonGlobe.com:
Media, including Globe, walk fine line in the age of ‘MeToo’  —  In the two months since uncovering explosive accusations of sexual misconduct against filmmaker Harvey Weinstein, the media have maintained a starring role in the spiraling sexual harassment scandal that has brought down dozens of powerful men.
Discussion: NewBostonPost
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Mark Arsenault / BostonGlobe.com:   WBUR places Tom Ashbrook on leave over unspecified allegations
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Trump will not speak publicly at opening of Mississippi's Civil Rights Museum  —  President Donald Trump will participate in a separate private event at the new Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Mississippi, on Saturday morning, rather than in the public ceremony.
Discussion: Shareblue Media and WGNO
Melanie Mason / Los Angeles Times:
Assemblyman Matt Dababneh to resign following sexual misconduct allegations  —  Assemblyman Matt Dababneh (D-Woodland Hills) faces accusations of sexual misconduct.  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)  —  Assemblyman Matt Dababneh said Friday he is resigning from office at the end of the month …
Discussion: KTLA and Townhall.com
Ashley Balcerzak / Center for Public Integrity:
Mystery money floods Alabama in Senate race's final days  —  Super PACs backing both Roy Moore and Doug Jones are exploiting legal loopholes that allow them to hide their donors  —  Alabama Senate candidates Roy Moore, left, and Doug Jones, right.  —  likes
Discussion: Weekly Standard, al.com and TVNewser
Kathryn Rossetter / Hollywood Reporter:
New Dustin Hoffman Accuser Claims Harassment and Physical Violation on Broadway (Guest Column)  —  Kathryn Rossetter performed eight times a week with the star in ‘Death of a Salesman’ — but, she writes, a dream job soon became “a horrific, demoralizing and abusive experience at the hands (literally) of one of my acting idols.”
 
 
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Associated Press:
Supreme Court blocks for now DACA case document disclosure
Discussion: Politico
Geoff Ziezulewicz / Navy Times:
Sailor staged racist vandalism, Navy says
Discussion: Power Line and The Daily Caller
Detroit News:
Most of Detroit to go 11 months without rep in Congress
Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Bernie Sanders' wife's land deal still under FBI probe; witness recently questioned
Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Trump admin scraps Obama-era proposal requiring airlines to disclose bag fees
Discussion: The Verge and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
The one best idea for ending sexual harassment
 Earlier Items: 
BostonGlobe.com:
Former state senator Brian Joyce indicted on federal charges
Discussion: The Hill
Jim Garamone DoD / U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Officials Announce First DoD-Wide Audit, Call for Budget Certainty
Discussion: NPR and National Review
Lanny J. Davis / The Hill:
Lanny Davis: DoJ is not Trump's law firm
Discussion: Reuters and Vox
Brendan O'Connor / Splinter:
How Did a White Supremacist Get a Job as an Equal Employment Officer?
Miranda Green / CNN:
Obama invokes Nazi Germany in warning about today's politics
Discussion: The Daily Beast and theGrio
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Senator's Shaky Obamacare Deal Poses Challenge for Tax Plan
Discussion: Common Dreams and BloombergQuint
 

 
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New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

 
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