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Bloomberg:
Russia Says It Was in Contact With Trump's Team During Campaign — Russia said it was in contact with President-elect Donald Trump's team during the U.S. election campaign, despite repeated denials by the Republican candidate's advisers that any links existed.
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Moscow had contacts with Trump team during campaign, Russian diplomat says — MOSCOW — Russian government officials had contacts with members of Donald Trump's campaign team, a senior Russian diplomat said Thursday, in a disclosure that could reopen scrutiny over the Kremlin's role …
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John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
Secretary Of Education Ben Carson? Here's A List Of Potential Trump Cabinet Picks — President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has put together a who's who shortlist of Trump surrogates and advisers to take top positions in his administration next year, ranging from former …
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Democrats face a power outage in Washington — and an identity crisis — The biggest stain on Barack Obama's political legacy may turn out to be the decimation of the Democratic Party on his watch. — The 2016 election has brought a moment of reckoning — and a new era to the party.
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
President Obama's Long History of Insulting Donald Trump — Barack Obama and Donald Trump had never been introduced before their meeting at the White House today, but that hasn't stopped the pair from trading insults for years. — The president and the president-elect are expected to put …
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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
4 threats to the media under President Trump
4 threats to the media under President Trump
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Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Transition Team Planning First Months in Office
Donald Trump Transition Team Planning First Months in Office
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Kathleen Hennessey / Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump arrives in DC for meeting with Obama
The Latest: Trump arrives in DC for meeting with Obama
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Stacy St. Clair / Chicago Tribune:
5 arrested after largely peaceful anti-Trump protests downtown — Warning: contains graphic language. Thousands of protesters angry over Donald Trump's election victory massed outside Trump Tower in Chicago on Nov. 9, 2016 before taking to downtown streets in an angry show of opposition to the president-elect.
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
‘People Have to Die’: Anti-Trump Protester Calls For Violence on CNN
‘People Have to Die’: Anti-Trump Protester Calls For Violence on CNN
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New York Times:
‘Not Our President’: Protests Spread After Donald Trump's Election
‘Not Our President’: Protests Spread After Donald Trump's Election
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Caleb Howe / RedState:
“People Have to Die”: Anti-Trump Protests Start Ugly and Get Worse
“People Have to Die”: Anti-Trump Protests Start Ugly and Get Worse
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Aaron Sorkin / Vanity Fair:
Read the Letter Aaron Sorkin Wrote His Daughter After Donald Trump Was Elected President — The Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Social Network and mastermind behind The West Wing reacts to Donald Trump being elected the 45th president of the United States in a moving letter written …
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Erick-Woods Erickson / New York Times:
Erick Erickson: Eating Crow on Donald Trump — Atlanta — Donald J. Trump will be the next president of the United States. I got it absolutely wrong. I have been writing since February that he would not win. The great paradox of this election for me is that I never saw …
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Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
Chris Christie: Donald Trump and I haven't discussed a potential Cabinet role
Chris Christie: Donald Trump and I haven't discussed a potential Cabinet role
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Bloomberg:
Trump's Data Team Saw a Different America—and They Were Right — The president-elect's analysts picked up disturbances others weren't seeing—the beginning of the storm that would deliver Trump to the White House. — Subscribe Reprints — Nobody saw it coming. Not the media.
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Barbara Sprunt / NPR:
Here Is What Donald Trump Wants To Do In His First 100 Days — At the end of October, Donald Trump spoke in Gettysburg, Pa., and released a plan for his first 100 days in office. — The plan (below) outlines three main areas of focus: cleaning up Washington, including by imposing term limits on Congress …
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
How Gary Johnson and Jill Stein helped elect Donald Trump — Washington (CNN)Neither Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson nor the Green Party's Jill Stein managed to make a dent in the Electoral College, but they did post a significant enough showing in several states arguably to help elect Donald Trump.
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Los Angeles Times:
Anti-Trump protesters shut down 101 Freeway in L.A., burn Trump's head in effigy — Thousands of people poured into the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday night, and hundreds of them later spilled onto the 101 Freeway, shutting down traffic as they forcefully denounced President-elect Donald J. Trump.
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Reihan Salam / Slate:
Trump Unbound — The president-elect owes hardly anyone. The number of people who'll be able to rein him in is vanishingly small. — Once Donald Trump takes office, he will be the most widely loathed president in modern American history. Yet he will also have far more room to maneuver than any of his recent predecessors.
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Kate Kelly / CNBC:
Donald Trump advisors consider Jamie Dimon for treasury secretary: Sources — Trump team considers Dimon for Treasury -Sources — CNBC's Kate Kelly discusses reports that the Trump campaign is considering appointing JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon as Treasury Secretary.
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Donald J. Trump / greatagain.gov:
Meet The President Elect — Donald J. Trump is the very definition of an American success story, continually setting the standards of excellence for real estate, sports and entertainment. In New York City and around the world, the Trump signature is synonymous with the most prestigious addresses in the world.
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Fox News:
Gingrich: ‘Never Trump’ Republicans ‘whiny, sniveling negative cowards’ — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich slammed Republicans who refused to back Donald Trump during the general election as “whiny, sniveling negative cowards” Wednesday night, less than 24 hours after Trump was elected president.
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Facebook and Twitter Contend With Their Role in Trump's Victory — Former employees of both companies are grappling with Facebook's and Twitter's role as a news filter. — America just endured its first presidential election in which the majority of the electorate got its news from social media.
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
National recall after Newsweek misfires with Clinton cover … A national recall went out Wednesday for the special “Madame President” issue of Newsweek that was prematurely shipped to stores and newsstands across the country. — At the same time, the publisher of the magazine will rush the …
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Cogan Schneier / Politico:
Trump poised to erase Obama policies — Prepare for an imperial presidency. — Donald Trump has pledged to “reform the entire regulatory code,” to “cancel immediately all illegal and overreaching executive orders,” and to place a “temporary moratorium on new agency regulations that are not compelled by Congress or public safety.”
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Megan Burks / KPBS Public Media:
San Diego State Investigates Robbery Incident As Hate Crime — Campus police at San Diego State University are looking for two suspects who allegedly made comments about President-elect Donald Trump and Muslims before stealing a student's belongings and possibly her car.
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