10 things you need to know today: October 14, 2016

Trump says his accusers are lying, Michelle Obama denounces Trump's lewd remarks, and more

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1. Trump calls groping allegations 'pure fiction'

Donald Trump on Thursday forcefully denied allegations by several women that he groped or forcibly kissed them, saying the claims were part of a conspiracy orchestrated by the Hillary Clinton campaign to derail his presidential bid. "They're pure fiction and they're outright lies," Trump said. Trump's lawyers sent The New York Times a letter demanding that it retract an article in which one accuser said Trump groped her on an airplane 30 years ago, and another said he forcibly kissed her outside a Trump Tower elevator in Manhattan in 2005. A Times attorney responded with a letter saying, "Trump has bragged about his non-consensual sexual touching of women," so he can't blame the Times for his reputation, because he created it himself.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.