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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
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Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
Trump's Pick For HHS Signals He Is Dead Serious About Repealing Obamacare
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Cortney O'Brien / Townhall.com:
Trump Picks Very Vocal Obamacare Critic For HHS Secretary
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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
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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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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Trump to launch ‘thank you’ tour with Thursday rally in Cincinnati — Donald Trump's presidential transition is looking more and more like Donald Trump's campaign — now complete with a massive rally in the Rust Belt. — The president-elect has been firing off daily broadsides on Twitter …
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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David Wright / CNN:
Trump: Burn the flag, go to jail
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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 — 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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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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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Trump Won In A Landslide.
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: What Will The Recounts Show?
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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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CNN:
Fires force evacuations in Gatlinburg, TN; 100 homes affected in blaze
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Tegna / WBIR-TV:
Wildfires forcing evacuations in Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge
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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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Jay Panandiker / The Lantern:
From the archives: Ohio State attacker featured in ‘Humans of Ohio State’ — On Monday afternoon, the Ohio State Department of Public Safety released the name of the suspect involved in the violent incident near Watts Hall — Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a third-year in logistics management.
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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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Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Trump's likely homeland security pick let an inmate die of thirst in his jail — More than a dozen inmates have died under Sheriff David Clarke's watch. — In the earning morning hours of April 24, Milwaukee County corrections officers entered 38-year-old Terrill Thomas' jail cell to find him unconscious.
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