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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Trump names white nationalist figure ‘Chief Strategist to the President’ — From the fringes to the Oval Office. — President-elect Donald Trump made a pair of key staff decisions—the first two of the transition—on Sunday night. — Reince Preibus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee …
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New York Times:
Donald Trump Picks Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff and Stephen Bannon as Strategist — WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump on Sunday chose Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee and a loyal campaign adviser, to be his White House chief of staff …
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Trump names Priebus and Bannon as top aides — President-elect Donald Trump made an overture to establishment Republicans on Sunday, tapping Reince Priebus as his chief of staff, but the reassuring gesture was tempered by his decision to name Steve Bannon, an insurgent firebrand, as his chief strategist.
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John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump Names Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff, Steve Bannon as Senior Adviser
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Politico, RT, The New Civil Rights Movement, WCTX-TV and CNN
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
RNC Chair Priebus Is Leading Contender to be Trump's Chief of Staff
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Yahoo:
President-elect Trump names Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus to his senior White House leadership team
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Politico, Balloon Juice, Advocate, CNN and Infowars
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Kellyanne Conway: It's up to Clinton, Obama to calm anti-Trump protesters
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Colin Dwyer / NPR:
Trump Taps Reince Priebus As Chief Of Staff, Steve Bannon As Chief Strategist
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Guardian, Outside the Beltway, The Verge and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump says he's ‘fine’ with legalization of same-sex marriage — Donald Trump said he is “fine with” same-sex marriage but offered few specifics about his plans for the first 100 days of his administration during his first television interview since becoming the president-elect.
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Townhall.com, Vox, Advocate and Joe.My.God.
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CBS News:
Trump talks to “60 Minutes” about same-sex marriage, abortion and the Supreme Court — President-elect Donald Trump said in a wide-ranging interview with “60 Minutes” that his role of appointing a Supreme Court justice is “very important” — and that he plans to appoint pro-life justices.
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Political Wire
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
GOP President-Elect Donald Trump Says Same-Sex Marriage Is ‘Settled’ Law — Republican President-elect Donald Trump said he's “fine” with same-sex marriage as the law of the land, calling the issue “settled” by the Supreme Court. — The comments - in his first television interview since winning …
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The Daily Caller
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Trump ‘fine’ with Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling
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RedState and The New Civil Rights Movement
CBS News:
President-elect Trump says how many immigrants he'll deport — Donald Trump will appear in his first extensive post-election interview Sunday on “60 Minutes” at 7 p.m. ET/PT — President-elect Donald Trump's hard-line immigration stance was a central part of his campaign message in 2016 …
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Roque Planas / The Huffington Post:
Trump Says He'll Immediately Deport Or Imprison Up To 3 Million Undocumented Immigrants
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Daily Kos
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Ryan: ‘We are not planning on erecting a deportation force’
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Washington Post and Mashable
leonrussellrecords.com:
LEON RUSSELL'S WIFE RELEASES STATEMENT ON PASSING OF ROCK AND ROLL LEGEND — Leon Russell, born Claude Russell Bridges, who sang, wrote and produced some of rock ‘n’ roll's top records, passed away Sunday, Nov. 13 at the age of 74. — Leon's wife, Jan Bridges, released the following statement:
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Jon Pareles / New York Times:
Leon Russell, Hit Maker and Musicians' Musician, Dies at 74
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Power Line, NPR and ABC News
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Democrats Screwed Up — We geniuses in the news media spent only the last month telling you how Donald Trump was losing this election. We spent the last year telling you how the Republican Party was unraveling. — And here we are, with the Democrats in tatters.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Viking Pundit
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Ryan Plans to Phase Out Medicare in 2017 — With all the other things we've discussed so far today, I wanted to return to one critical one. It's not about mights or maybes or fears of what's to come. It's about what's coming just after President-Elect Trump's inauguration.
The Times of Israel:
In bizarre ‘birther’ twist, claims Trump is Pakistani — Report says president-elect was born as Dawood Ibrahim Khan in Waziristan before being adopted by American family — After years leading the false charge that President Barack Obama was born outside of the United States …
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Jihad Watch
Fria Tider:
Swedish TV chef brutally beaten by “Muslim men” because he “looked like Mr. Trump” — Anders Vendel, a famous chef, restaurant owner and TV star from Malmö, Sweden, was savagely beaten by three “Muslim” men because they thought he looked like “Mr. Trump”, Sydsvenskan reports.
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The Geller Report, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Gateway Pundit
Melanie Eversley / USA Today:
Post-election spate of hate crimes worse than post-9/11, experts say — What may seem like a dramatic rise in the number of hate harassment and hate incidents happening across the country in the wake of Tuesday's general election is not in anyone's imagination, experts say.
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Metro.co.uk, New Century Times and Media Matters for America
Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:
I want to share some thoughts on Facebook and the election. — Our goal is to give every person a voice. We believe deeply in people. Assuming that people understand what is important in their lives and that they can express those views has driven not only our community, but democracy overall.
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