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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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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Trump names Rep. Tom Price as next HHS secretary — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), a fierce critic of the Affordable Care Act and a proponent of overhauling the nation's entitlement programs, to lead the department of Health and Human Services.
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Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
Trump's Pick For HHS Signals He Is Dead Serious About Repealing Obamacare — Tom Price might go after Medicare and Medicaid, too — President-elect Donald Trump will name an ultra-conservative surgeon, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), to run the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Picks Tom Price to Lead Health and Human Services
Trump Picks Tom Price to Lead Health and Human Services
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Tom Price, Obamacare Critic, Is Trump's Choice for Health Secretary
Tom Price, Obamacare Critic, Is Trump's Choice for Health Secretary
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Cortney O'Brien / Townhall.com:
Trump Picks Very Vocal Obamacare Critic For HHS Secretary
Trump Picks Very Vocal Obamacare Critic For HHS Secretary
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump's ‘Thank You Tour’ Said to Start in Ohio on Thursday — Aide says the lap through swing states isn't victory tour — Republican credited rallies for win over Hillary Clinton — President-elect Donald Trump will begin a “Thank You Tour” on Thursday in Cincinnati …
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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.
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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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Elaine Chao expected to be Trump's transportation secretary — Former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao is set to be announced later Tuesday as President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Transportation, multiple sources familiar with the decision confirmed Tuesday morning.
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New York Times:
Elaine Chao Is Said to Be Trump's Pick for Transportation Secretary — WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Elaine L. Chao, the former Labor secretary under George W. Bush, to head the Department of Transportation, elevating someone who has been a fixture …
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
Trump to nominate Elaine Chao for transportation post: source
Trump to nominate Elaine Chao for transportation post: source
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump calls for jailing, revoking citizenship of flag-burners — Burning an American flag should be a crime, President-elect Donald Trump wrote on Twitter Tuesday morning, punishable by a forfeiture of U.S. citizenship or a year in jail. — “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag …
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Jamie Satterfield / Knoxville News-Sentinel:
Next Slide — More than 14,000 people had been evacuated from Gatlinburg alone, with hundreds of them seeking refuge in emergency shelters. — Beason and Hensley, who arrived in East Tennessee a month ago from Mississippi and were staying at the Bedrock Motel, said they left …
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‘Fire everywhere,’ guests trapped inside Gatlinburg Park Vista hotel
‘Fire everywhere,’ guests trapped inside Gatlinburg Park Vista hotel
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Tegna / WBIR-TV:
Wildfires forcing evacuations in Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge
Wildfires forcing evacuations in Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge
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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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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Trump's DC Hotel Is Weeks Away From Violating Its Government Lease
Trump's DC Hotel Is Weeks Away From Violating Its Government Lease
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New York Times:
Donald Trump's Lies About the Popular Vote — One big fear in the weeks leading up to the presidential election was that Donald Trump would try to delegitimize the results by claiming rampant voter fraud — a bogus specter he had raised throughout the campaign, particularly as his polling numbers got worse.
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: What Will The Recounts Show?
The Note: What Will The Recounts Show?
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Trump Won In A Landslide.
War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Trump Won In A Landslide.
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CNN:
Students back in class at Ohio State; investigators search for knife attack motive — Investigators search for OSU attack motive — (CNN)Classes resumed Tuesday at Ohio State University, a day after a student's knife attack on campus wounded 11 people. — Abdul Razak Ali Artan …
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Brian Ross / ABC News:
Officials Investigating Anti-US Facebook Rant Believed Linked to OSU Attacker
Officials Investigating Anti-US Facebook Rant Believed Linked to OSU Attacker
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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Amanda Taub / New York Times:
How Stable Are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red’ — WASHINGTON — Yascha Mounk is used to being the most pessimistic person in the room. Mr. Mounk, a lecturer in government at Harvard, has spent the past few years challenging one of the bedrock assumptions of Western politics …
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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 …
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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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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Former Utah Governor Huntsman Considers U.S. Senate Run in 2018 — Decision depends in part on whether Hatch seeks eighth term — Huntsman served Obama administration as ambassador to China — Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman said he's weighing a run for the U.S. Senate in 2018 …
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Southern Poverty Law Center:
The Trump Effect: The Impact of The 2016 Presidential Election on Our Nation's Schools — In the first days after the 2016 presidential election, the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance project administered an online survey to K-12 educators from across the country.
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