TOP STORIES
INSIDE THE FIGHT TO TAKE BACK MOSUL “Iraqi government forces, with air and ground support from the U.S.-led coalition, launched an offensive on Monday to drive Islamic State from the northern city of Mosul, the militants’ last major stronghold in the country.” Check out maps of theattack strategy. [Reuters]
ALL THINGS 2016, EVEN THOUGH WE ALL WISH THIS WAS OVER ALREADY Donald Trump dug into claims that the election and media is rigged against him. The Washington Post takes a look at his “echo chamber of conspiracies, grievances and vitriol.” Politico examines why the last days of the election feel like years to the Clinton camp in light of the WikiLeaks scandals. This is what the polls are saying in light of recent events. And here’s a list of the women who have accused Trump of sexual assault. [Sam Levine, HuffPost]
BUT AT LEAST WE’RE LANDING ON MARS Because that’s where we want to be after this November. [Reuters]
AN ALEPPO AIRSTRIKE KILLED 14 MEMBERS OF THE SAME FAMILY Including two 6-week-olds and six children under the age of 8. [Reuters]
TYSON GAY’S TEENAGE DAUGHTER KILLED IN SHOOTING Trinity Gay, 15, was fatally shot while in a car outside a Kentucky restaurant. [Nina Golgowski, HuffPost]
A GOP OFFICE IN NORTH CAROLINA WAS FIREBOMBED And spray-painted with a swastika. [Marina Fang, HuffPost]
‘IS SHEP SMITH THE FUTURE OF FOX NEWS?’ Inside what could be the shift to the center at Fox. [Ryan Grim, HuffPost]
THE OCTOBER ‘SURPRISES’ THAT WOULD HAVE AWAITED ANY OTHER GOP CANDIDATE A look back to a more innocent time. [Howard Fineman, Jason Linkins and Lauren Weber, HuffPost]
WHAT’S BREWING
LOOKS LIKE ‘SEX IN THE CITY 3’ IS HAPPENING Thank goodness, because all those trailers for Sarah Jessica Parker’s new show “Divorce” made us long for the Carrie Bradshaw of old. [HuffPost]
WHY IT’S A PROBLEM A JOURNALIST IS FACING CHARGES FOR REPORTING ON THE DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE “According to Erickson, a woman who appeared at a protest carrying a microphone emblazoned with the name Democracy Now! and trailing a video crew; who can be heard in the resulting video report identifying herself to a security guard as a reporter; and who then broadcast the video on the daily news program she has hosted for 20 years is not actually a journalist.” [The Nation]
THE ACCOUNTANT RECONCILED SOME CHANGE AT THE BOX OFFICE THIS WEEKEND $24.7 million to be exact. [Reuters]
‘THE WALKING DEAD’ IS ALREADY RENEWED FOR SEASON 8 And we don’t even know who died at the hands of Negan yet. [Variety]
‘THE QUIET TRAGEDY OF MELANIA TRUMP’ Have you read her lawyer’s ask for a retraction of the People report? [Vanity Fair]
BEFORE YOU GO
~ The Financial Times is reporting Trump’s son-in-law had a meeting about a Trump media network post-election.
~ We and the rest of the internet cannot deal with these Harry Potterboudoir photos.
~ Peter Thiel decided now was a good time to donate over a million dollars to the Trump campaign.
~ Breaking down the essential nature of social media in ISIS’s war.
~ The Beyhive took it too far this weekend when Beyonce cut her ear during a performance.
~ The side hustle is real: Many Americans are juggling multiple jobs.
~ This North Carolina neighborhood decorated for Christmas so their dying neighbor could see it all one last time.
~ One family’s struggle with microcephaly.
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