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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Report: Trump team wants Romney to apologize — Fox News is reporting that Donald Trump — 's transition team wants Mitt Romney to publicly apologize for railing against the president-elect during the campaign. — According to Mediaite, a transition official told Fox's Ed Henry …
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J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
REPORT: Mitt Romney May Be Forced to Publicly Apologize to Trump in Exchange For Sec of State Bid
Wall Street Journal:
Rudy Giuliani Lobbies to Be Secretary of State
Rudy Giuliani Lobbies to Be Secretary of State
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The Guardian, Politico and Instapundit
Kate O'Keeffe / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Allies Raise Doubts About Mitt Romney Leading State Department
Trump Allies Raise Doubts About Mitt Romney Leading State Department
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ABC News, CBS New York, The Guardian, The Gateway Pundit and The Hill
Lawrence Lessig / Washington Post:
The Constitution lets the electoral college choose the winner. They should choose Clinton. — Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Harvard Law School and the author of “Republic, Lost: Version 2.0.” In 2015, he was a candidate in the Democratic presidential primary.
James Rosen / miamiherald:
Since his election win, Trump has talked to Putin more than any other world leader — WASHINGTON — In the scarcely two weeks since Donald Trump's surprise victory over Hillary Clinton, he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have spoken at least twice by phone. — Their aides have had additional contacts.
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Russia tells U.S. to get out of the way in Syria — If the U.S. won't fight terrorists in Syria, it should stop getting in the way, said Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry. — Konashenkov was responding to the U.S. State Department's calls to other countries …
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New York Times and Sputnik International
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / Washington Post:
First U.S. service member killed in Syria fighting the Islamic State
First U.S. service member killed in Syria fighting the Islamic State
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The Daily Caller and NPR
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Electoral College must reject Trump unless he sells his business, top lawyers for Bush and Obama say — Ethics lawyers for the last two presidents are in agreement. — Members of the Electoral College should not make Donald Trump the next president unless he sells his companies and puts …
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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say — The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton …
Anita Gates / New York Times:
Florence Henderson, Upbeat Mom of ‘The Brady Bunch,’ Dies at 82 — Florence Henderson, who began her career as an ingénue soprano in stage musicals in the 1950s but made a more lasting impression on television, as the perky 1970s sitcom mom on “The Brady Bunch,” died Thursday. She was 82.
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NPR:
‘Brady Bunch’ Mom Florence Henderson Has Died
‘Brady Bunch’ Mom Florence Henderson Has Died
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CNN, CBS Los Angeles, ABC News, Althouse, CBS New York, NBC News, New Urban Legends, Fox 59 and theGrio
Ruairí Arrieta-Kenna / Politico:
Steve Bannon's First Pick For President — Steve Bannon thought he had found his perfect presidential candidate. This person was “an outsider,” someone who was “not part of the political establishment,” “not for sale,” with “an ‘America First’ foreign policy approach” and “a ‘Drain the Swamp’ mentality about Washington, DC.”
New York Times:
Donald Trump and the Lawsuit Presidency — Donald Trump will take office as president facing a tsunami of litigation over his business practices and personal behavior. He may have settled the fraud suits involving Trump University, but at least 75 other lawsuits are underway against him or his companies, according to USA Today.
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Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Trump Tower security may take over 2 floors — and cost millions — More On: — The Secret Service is in negotiations with the Trump Organization to take over two vacant floors in the gilded 68-story Fifth Avenue tower, law enforcement sources told The Post.
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RedState, Law News, Political Wire, The Hill, The New Civil Rights Movement and Oliver Willis
Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Pence reportedly takes lead on Carrier negotiations — is mainly handling the Trump administration's negotiations to keep a Carrier air conditioning plant in Indianapolis, according to a Friday report from CNBC. — Carrier announced earlier this year it would move the factory to Monterrey …
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Cory Bennett / Politico:
Trump inspires scramble on spying powers — Tech and civil liberties advocates are imploring the Obama administration to rein in the government's massive surveillance apparatus before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, fearful he will carry out his campaign promises to register Muslims …
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Political Wire and CANNONFIRE
Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Trump Stock In Dakota Access Oil Pipeline Raises Questions — WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump holds stock in the company building the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline, and pipeline opponents warn that Trump's investments could affect any decision he makes on the $3.8 billion project as president.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump taps K.T. McFarland to be deputy national security adviser — Donald Trump has selected K.T. McFarland to be his deputy national security adviser, a transition aide confirmed. — McFarland, a Fox News analyst, served as an official in the Reagan White House.
Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
In Scotland, Trump Built a Wall. Then He Sent Residents the Bill. — BALMEDIE, Scotland — President-elect Donald J. Trump has already built a wall — not on the border with Mexico, but on the border of his exclusive golf course in northeastern Scotland, blocking the sea view of local residents who refused to sell their homes.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
A Battle to Change Medicare Is Brewing, Whether Trump Wants It or Not — WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump once declared that campaigning for “substantial” changes to Medicare would be a political death wish. — But with Election Day behind them, emboldened House Republicans say they will move forward …
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Mother Jones and Talking Points Memo
Kelly J. Baker / New York Times:
White-Collar Supremacy — Tallahassee, Fla. — Richard B. Spencer is one of the main figures of the alt-right movement, a former doctoral student from Duke whose movement supports the creation of “an ethno-state” for white Europeans and “peaceful ethnic cleansing.”
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