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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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Cortney O'Brien / Townhall.com:
Trump Picks Very Vocal Obamacare Critic For HHS Secretary
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Trump picks Congressman Tom Price as health and human services secretary
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Rep. Tom Price officially tapped to lead Health and Human Services
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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 …
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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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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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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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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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 …
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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CNN:
Fires force evacuations in Gatlinburg, TN; 100 homes affected in blaze — (CNN)Fanned by strong winds and the Southeast's worst drought in nearly a decade, at least 14 fires burned in and around Gatlinburg, Tennessee, forcing evacuations from the popular tourist gateway and nearby communities.
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Tegna / WBIR-TV:
Wildfires forcing evacuations in Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge
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Brian Ross / ABC News:
Officials Investigating Anti-US Facebook Rant Believed Linked to OSU Attacker — Authorities are investigating an anti-U.S. rant posted on Facebook just minutes before the Ohio State University attack today that is believed to be linked to suspect Abdul Razak Ali Artan, sources told ABC News.
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Jay Panandiker / The Lantern:
From the archives: Ohio State attacker featured in ‘Humans of Ohio State’
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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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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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Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Column Fidel Castro died as he lived — praised by useful idiots — Within half an hour of the Cuban government's announcement Saturday of the death of the 90-year-old revolutionary leader, cheers were heard in Miami's Little Havana. — Fidel Castro died as he lived: to the sound of useful idiots making allowances for his crimes.
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Fidel Castro Bet On The Wrong Horse And Died A Failure
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Amazon Said to Plan Premium Alexa Speaker With Large Screen — Company may release higher-end device early next year — New speaker targets kitchens; to cost more than Echo gadgets — Amazon.com Inc. is developing a premium Echo-like speaker with a screen, a sign the world's largest online retailer …
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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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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Donald Trump Flips Out Yet Again — I still wake up each morning thinking it can't really be true that Donald Trump will be president of the United States in less than eight weeks. I mean, he's...he's—he's a willfully ignorant crackpot. He's a ridiculous game show host.
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Yahoo:
Emma Morano, last person alive born in 1800s, turns 117 — Rome (AFP) - An alert and chatty Italian woman, Emma Morano, on Tuesday celebrates her 117th birthday as the last known person alive who was born in the 19th century. — Born November 29, 1899, she is the world's oldest living person …
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