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LOUIS CK<\/strong>. The latest Hollywood creep to be hit with disgusting sexual assault allegations<\/a>.<\/p>\n SCIENTOLOGY<\/strong>. Trump wants to pull its tax-exempt status<\/a>.<\/p>\n ALY RAISMAN<\/strong>. Olympic gymnast says she was sexually assaulted by team coach<\/a>: \u201cAly Raisman, a six-time Olympic medalist and two-time national team captain, said she was sexually abused by former Michigan State and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, according to CBS\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d Nassar already faces 22 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and could receive a sentence of life in prison.\u201d<\/p>\n IT WAS VERY TRIPPY<\/strong>. Rosie O\u2019Donnell opens up about Trump\u2019s hostility toward her<\/a>.<\/p>\n STEVE BANNON<\/strong>. Compares the Roy Moore allegations to pussygate, says it proves the media is the opposition party.\u00a0\u201cThe Bezos-Amazon-Washington Post that dropped that dime on Donald Trump, is the same Bezos-Amazon-Washington Post that dropped the dime this afternoon on Judge Roy Moore. Now is that a coincidence? That\u2019s what I mean when I say opposition party, right? It\u2019s purely part of the apparatus of the Democratic Party. They don\u2019t make any bones about it. By the way, I don\u2019t mind it. I\u2019ll call<\/a> them out every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n RAINBOW RAILROAD<\/strong>. Meet the Canadian fighting Chechnya\u2019s gay purge<\/a>: \u201cPowell is the executive director of\u00a0Rainbow Railroad<\/a>, an organization that helps evacuate LGBTQ refugees from countries where they face persecution. The organization has teamed with the\u00a0Russian LGBT Network<\/a>, which is helping relocate Chechen refugees to safehouses in Russia. The refugees say they were kidnapped and tortured by the Chechen government and live<\/a> in secrecy with nowhere to go.<\/p>\n CORPORATE EQUALITY INDEX<\/strong>. 609 companies earn perfect scores in Human Rights Campaign\u2019s annual index<\/a>.<\/p>\n SONG DEBUT OF THE DAY<\/strong>. Taylor Swift \u201cNew Year\u2019s Day\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n KATHY GRIFFIN<\/strong>. On Stockard Channing and inequality in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n WORLD RECORD OF THE DAY<\/strong>. Real Life Iron Man<\/p>\n<\/p>\n SURVIVAL VIDEO OF THE DAY<\/strong>. This GoPro.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n FRIDAY FLASH<\/strong>. Dillon Powell.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post Louis CK, Aly Raisman, Emmanuel Macron, Steve Bannon, Taylor Swift, George Papadopoulos, Lava: HOT LINKS<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"George](\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/papadopoulos.png?resize=195%2C195\")
GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS<\/strong>. I lied to FBI out of loyalty to Trump<\/a>: \u2018Trump had publicly denied that there had been any contact between his campaign and Russian officials, and Papadopoulos did not want to contradict the official line, the source said. \u201cIt\u2019s all fake news,\u201d Trump said of any alleged connections in January. \u201cIt\u2019s phony stuff. It didn\u2019t happen.\u201d Papadopoulos met with the FBI agents investigating those alleged ties shortly thereafter, and he later acknowledged that he lied during that meeting about the timing of certain contacts.\u2019<\/p>\n![\"macron](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/macron_trump.jpeg?resize=195%2C195\")
EMMANUEL MACRON<\/strong>. French president says tweeting \u201cnot compatible\u201d with being president<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s not compatible with the kind of distance you need to govern and to preside,\u201d Macron said. \u201cTo be president, you need some distance from events, from the permanent flows of news and reactions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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