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Washington Post:
Trump picks Congressman Tom Price as health and human services secretary … President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), an orthopedic surgeon who has been one of Capitol Hill's fiercest critics of President Obama's health care law, to be secretary of health and human services …
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
By picking Tom Price to lead HHS, Trump shows he's absolutely serious about dismantling Obamacare — Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Health and Human Services secretary, already has a plan for how to abolish Obamacare. — The Washington Post reported late Monday …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Announces He'll Nominate GOP Rep. Tom Price To Head HHS — Donald Trump's transition team on Tuesday morning announced that the President-elect will nominate Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. — “Chairman Price, a renowned physician …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Rep. Tom Price officially tapped to lead Health and Human Services — Rep. Tom Price is President-elect Donald Trump's choice to serve as the next secretary of Health and Human Services, the real estate mogul's transition team announced in an email early Tuesday morning.
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Tamar Hallerman / Political Insider:
Sources: Tom Price close to being named top health official in Donald Trump's cabinet
Sources: Tom Price close to being named top health official in Donald Trump's cabinet
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Tom Price, Obamacare Critic, Is Said to Be Trump's Choice for Health Secretary
Tom Price, Obamacare Critic, Is Said to Be Trump's Choice for Health Secretary
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Trump Won In A Landslide. — Donald Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway — perhaps seeking to push back on the increasing attention to Hillary Clinton's widening lead in the national popular vote — has been touting her boss's margin of victory in the Electoral College.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Why I Support An Election Audit, Even Though It's Unlikely To Change The Outcome
Why I Support An Election Audit, Even Though It's Unlikely To Change The Outcome
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Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
Pennsylvania State Department says Stein missed recount deadline
Pennsylvania State Department says Stein missed recount deadline
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Stein moves for Pennsylvania recount
Stein moves for Pennsylvania recount
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New York Times:
Challenging the Boss in Public? For Kellyanne Conway, It's Part of the Job — WASHINGTON — Kellyanne Conway, one of President-elect Donald J. Trump's senior advisers, was about to board a flight back to New York on Monday morning when she caught a glimpse of the headline crawling across television screens in the terminal.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Conway plays the outside game — Kellyanne Conway's Sunday broadsides against Mitt Romney have exacerbated an increasingly strained relationship with Donald Trump and his senior advisers, including son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to more than a half-dozen sources involved in the transition efforts.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump keeps eye on Romney for State Dept. despite scorn from some loyalists
Trump keeps eye on Romney for State Dept. despite scorn from some loyalists
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NBC News:
1 Suspect Dead, 9 in Hospital After Ohio State Car-and-Knife Attack — Officials: Attack appears to be planned 2:46 — An Ohio State University student plowed into a campus crowd with a car, then jumped out and started stabbing people with a butcher knife before being shot dead by police Monday morning, officials said.
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Jay Panandiker / The Lantern:
From the archives: Ohio State attacker featured in ‘Humans of Ohio State’
From the archives: Ohio State attacker featured in ‘Humans of Ohio State’
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Associated Press:
TERRORISM SUSPECTED IN CAR-AND-KNIFE ATTACK AT OHIO STATE
TERRORISM SUSPECTED IN CAR-AND-KNIFE ATTACK AT OHIO STATE
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Trump's DC Hotel Is Weeks Away From Violating Its Government Lease — The President-elect's Trump International Hotel will present an immediate conflict of interest when he is sworn into office on January 20. — The 2013 lease the Trump Organization signed with the federal government …
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GovExec.com:
GSA's Trump Hotel Lease Debacle — As the clock ticks down towards President-elect Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration, the window is rapidly closing on the General Services Administration's opportunity to extricate itself from the Trump Organization's lease of the historic Post Office Pavilion.
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The Week and Talking Points Memo
Associated Press:
US investigating leak related to Petraeus case — David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP) (Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) — The Defense Department is conducting a leaks investigation related to the sex scandal that led to the resignation …
Noah Michelson / The Huffington Post:
Dear Trump Supporter Who Sent Me Hate Mail For Being A ‘Stupid Jewish Faggot’ — As scary as it is to know that people like you exist, I refuse to be afraid of you. — Editorial Director, The Huffington Post Voices — I returned to work on Sunday to find three envelopes from you on my desk.
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Raw Story
TMZ.com:
Melania Trump — Threatens Suit Over False Barron ‘Autism’ Video ... And Says Rosie O'Donnell Made it Worse — Melania Trump — Threatens Suit Over False Barron ‘Autism’ Video And Says Rosie Made it Worse — EXCLUSIVE — Melania Trump has hired a famous lawyer who is now threatening …
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Issa declared winner after reelection battle — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) was announced the winner of his reelection race by a razor-thin margin after nearly three weeks of the results being too close to call. — Issa fended off Marine Col. Doug Applegate (D), a political newcomer …
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Sarah Larimer / Washington Post:
This airline passenger's pro-Trump rant was caught on video. Now he's banned from Delta. — The video, shot aboard a Delta flight earlier this month, shows a man in a ball cap standing in the aisle of an airplane. — “We got some Hillary b— on here?” the man shouts. — “Come on, baby!” he continues.
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The Definitive Source:
Writing about the ‘alt-right’ — Recent developments have put the so-called “alt-right” movement in the news. They highlight the need for clarity around use of the term and around some related terms, such as “white nationalism” and “white supremacism.”
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
AP: Avoid using ‘alt-right’ without context
AP: Avoid using ‘alt-right’ without context
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Cathy Young / The Hill:
‘Fake news’ isn't the problem — mainstream news with an agenda is — “Fake news” has been a big news story for the past week. Hoaxes and fabrications hatched by clickbait-hungry websites — or, some reports say, by the Kremlin propaganda machine—have been blamed for Donald Trump — 's election victory.
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Tegna / WBIR-TV:
Wildfires forcing evacuations in Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge … GATLINBURG - 11 PM UPDATE: Motorists fleeing wildfires in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge packed roads in and out of the towns Monday night as flames and choking smoke driven by wind swept across the area.
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