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Donald Trump's media summit was a ‘f—ing firing squad’ — More On: — President-elect Donald Trump exploded at media bigs in an off-the-record Trump Tower powow on Monday, sources told The Post. — “It was like a f—ing firing squad,” said one source.
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Report: Trump meeting with media a ‘f—ing firing squad’ — raged at anchors and executives from America's five largest television networks during an off-the-record meeting Monday, according to a new report. — Two sources described the hour-long meeting at New York City's Trump Tower in catastrophic terms to The New York Post.
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Protecting Donald Trump costs New York City more than $1 million a day — Protecting President-elect Donald Trump and his family is costing New York City more than $1 million a day, according to three city officials. — And those costs won't necessarily drop significantly once he moves to the White House.
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Trump asks for media ‘reset,’ but lashes out at execs — President-elect Donald Trump on Monday told a group of about 25 television executives and anchors that he wants a “cordial” and “productive” relationship with the media, according to one source in the room, but he still aired …
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After meeting, Gabbard vows to work with Trump
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Pat McCrory Lost the North Carolina Governorship. Now He's Trying to Steal It. — North Carolina Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, champion of the country's most notorious anti-LGBTQ law, lost his bid for re-election on Nov. 8—at last count, by 7,448 votes. Yet nearly two weeks later, McCrory still refuses to concede.
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Legislature could revisit election laws in wake of McCrory complaints, Moore says — N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore said Monday that the legislature could revisit voter ID requirements and other election laws in the wake of complaints filed with help from Gov. Pat McCrory's campaign.
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McCrory campaign request on election complaint review rejected - for now
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Kanye West Hospitalized After Tour Canceled: Sources — Kanye Cancels Tour After Trump/Race Rant 2:12 — Kanye West was under observation at a Los Angeles area hospital late Monday after the remaining dates of his national tour were abruptly canceled, multiple authorities familiar with the case told NBC News.
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‘Hail Trump!’: White Nationalists Salute the President Elect — “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!” — That's how Richard B. Spencer saluted more than 200 attendees on Saturday, gathered at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., for the annual conference …
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Cashing in BIGLY in Argentina! — Over the weekend, there were a flurry of stories about how Donald Trump and his family are already using the presidency to leverage his overseas businesses as well as his new DC hotel. Well, now there's more. This time in Argentina. — Here's the background.
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Macri: Trump is a man who pushes through his own ideas
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Trump, on YouTube, Pledges to Create Jobs — WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump on Monday released a two-and-a-half-minute infomercial-style video, turning to social media to deliver a direct-to-camera message in which he vowed to create jobs, renegotiate trade agreements …
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Trump announces executive actions for Day One
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Howard Dean calls Steve Bannon ‘a Nazi’ — Dean: Something funny was going on with Trump — (CNN)Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean called President-elect Donald Trump's chief strategist pick Steve Bannon “a Nazi.” — In an interview with Canada's CTV News, Dean, who is running …
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The Trouble With Keith Ellison — He's a bad hombre. — In the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump and a Republican Congress, Minnesota representative Keith Ellison has emerged as a leading contender to chair the Democratic National Committee. Ellison resides on the far-left fringe of the Democratic party.
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Venezuela's Nemesis Is a Hardware Salesman at a Home Depot in Alabama — His site tracks black-market exchange of the bolivar, swaying the price of everything — HOOVER, Ala.—Public Enemy No. 1 of Venezuela's revolutionary government is Gustavo Díaz, a Home Depot Inc. employee in central Alabama.
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With a Meeting, Trump Renewed a British Wind Farm Fight — LONDON — When President-elect Donald J. Trump met with the British politician Nigel Farage in recent days, he encouraged Mr. Farage and his entourage to oppose the kind of offshore wind farms that Mr. Trump believes will mar …
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Kobach took plan for Department of Homeland Security into Trump meeting — Secretary of state photographed holding written plan for federal agency — A written plan for the Department of Homeland Security brought by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach into his meeting with President-elect Donald …


Let's Rebuild our Infrastructure, Not Provide Tax Breaks to Big Corporations and Wall Street — Our infrastructure is collapsing, and the American people know it. Every day, they drive on roads with unforgiving potholes and over bridges that are in disrepair. They wait in traffic jams and ride in overcrowded subways.
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Christie: 'I'm serving the rest of my term' — Gov. Chris Christie said on Monday night that he does not plan to accept a job in President-elect Donald Trump's administration, declaring on his monthly radio show, “I'm serving the rest of my term.” — The remarks by the governor …
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Police, citing ‘ongoing riot,’ use water cannons on Dakota Access protesters in freezing weather — Tensions over the Dakota Access oil pipeline flared again Sunday when North Dakota law enforcement used water cannons to disperse a group of about 400 protesters trying to move past …
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Multiple children killed in school bus crash on Talley Road — Last patient just extricated from bus by #ChattFire here at school bus crash on Talley Rd. EMS is transporting. pic.twitter.com/0GhrSSy0Wc — Chattanooga FireDept (@ChattFireDept) November 21, 2016
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Most Students Don't Know When News Is Fake, Stanford Study Finds — Teens absorb social media news without considering the source; parents can teach research skills and skepticism — Preteens and teens may appear dazzlingly fluent, flitting among social-media sites, uploading selfies and texting friends.
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Trump's toughest transition test: the Trump Organization — Of all the issues facing the president-elect and his brain trust, the question of how to avoid conflicts of interest with his global business may be the thorniest. — It's already raising real questions — over diplomats who opted …
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Tsunami hits Japan after strong quake, nuclear plant briefly disrupted — A powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan on Tuesday, briefly disrupting cooling functions at a nuclear plant and generating a tsunami that hit the same region devastated by a massive quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011.
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The Hail Mary pass that could deny Donald Trump the presidency: It's up to you, electors — The election of our next President is not over. On Nov. 8, voters chose electors who will on Dec. 19 meet in their respective states to vote for President. — Our Founding Fathers created …
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