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U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana:
Donnelly Announces He Will Oppose Nomination of Tom Price for HHS Secretary, Cites Medicare Privatization — Senator has been staunch supporter of Medicare and vocal opponent of efforts to end Medicare as we know it — Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly announced …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How Many People Just Voted Themselves Out of Health Care? (Updated) (Updated again) (And again) — My original update was right! Screwed up dates. So it's back to around 5 1/2 million Trump chumps. — As Greg Sargent points out, the choice of Tom Price for HHS probably means the death of Obamacare.
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Raw Story
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
By picking Tom Price to lead HHS, Trump shows he's absolutely serious about dismantling Obamacare
By picking Tom Price to lead HHS, Trump shows he's absolutely serious about dismantling Obamacare
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Here's how Trump's HHS pick wants to replace Obamacare
Here's how Trump's HHS pick wants to replace Obamacare
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Townhall.com and Instapundit
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Obamacare is probably toast. And a lot of poor, white Trump voters will get hurt by it.
Obamacare is probably toast. And a lot of poor, white Trump voters will get hurt by it.
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The Huffington Post, Balloon Juice and CBS Miami
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Dem senator: I'll ‘beat the hell out of you’ for burning flag — (D-W.Va.) lashed out at flag burning on Tuesday after President-elect Donald Trump — raised the issue. — “It's a First Amendment right, but you do it in front of me, I'm going to beat the hell out of you,” Manchin said, according to a Roll Call reporter.
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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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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell pushes back at Trump on flag-burning comments — (R-Ky.) is taking issue with President-elect Donald Trump — 's suggestion that flag burners go to jail or lose their citizenship. — “The Supreme Court has held that that activity is a protected First Amendment right,” McConnell told reporters on Tuesday.
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Political Wire
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
McMullin: All Americans must stand up to Trump
McMullin: All Americans must stand up to Trump
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Bloomberg, CNN, USA Today, New York Times, Washington Post and RedState
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:
Steven Mnuchin Is Donald Trump's Expected Choice for Treasury Secretary — WASHINGTON — Steven Terner Mnuchin, a financier with deep roots on Wall Street and in Hollywood but no government experience, is expected to be named Donald J. Trump's Treasury secretary as soon as Wednesday, sources close to the transition say.
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Political Wire and Business Insider
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Ben Brody / Bloomberg:
Treasury Contender Allison: Meeting Trump ‘Like a Job Interview’
Treasury Contender Allison: Meeting Trump ‘Like a Job Interview’
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New York Times
Susan Page / USA Today:
Gingrich calls Trump tweet about vote fraud a big mistake — WASHINGTON — Former House speaker Newt Gingrich calls Donald Trump a potentially transformative president. But he shouldn't have sent out that tweet alleging election fraud. — In an interview Tuesday with Capital Download …
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, Mediaite and The Week
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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WATE-TV:
‘Fire everywhere,’ guests trapped inside Gatlinburg Park Vista hotel
‘Fire everywhere,’ guests trapped inside Gatlinburg Park Vista hotel
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WATE-TV:
How to help: Smoky Mountain fire evacuees
How to help: Smoky Mountain fire evacuees
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Southern Poverty Law Center:
Ten Days After: Harassment and Intimidation in the Aftermath of the Election — Just a week before the November 8th election, attackers set a church in Greenville, Mississippi, on fire. The historically black church was targeted in what authorities believe was an act of voter intimidation …
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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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Hot Air, Washington Post, Jezebel, Daily Kos and The Week
AJ Vicens / Mother Jones:
The Republican Governor of North Carolina Has Finally Run Out of Options — The North Carolina State Board of Elections on Monday night dismissed the bulk of Republican Gov. Pat McCrory's ballot challenges in the disputed governor's race. Their ruling, along with a vote difference …
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Raleigh News & Observer, WCNC-TV, Daily Kos, LGBT Weekly and Balloon Juice
Yahoo! News:
Ohio State attacker may have self-radicalized, officials say — WASHINGTON/COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - A Somali immigrant who injured 11 people at Ohio State University in a vehicle and stabbing attack before he was shot dead may have followed the same path to self-radicalization as militants in a number of …
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Questions and Observations, The Gateway Pundit and The Great American Movement
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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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The Independent:
Concerns have been raised by protestors on social media, who claim that people are arriving at the Standing Rock demonstration for the “cultural experience” and treating it like Burning Man festival. — Protestor Alicia Smith wrote on Facebook: “On my way back from the camps.
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Christopher Mele / New York Times:
Veterans to Serve as ‘Human Shields’ for Dakota Pipeline Protesters
Veterans to Serve as ‘Human Shields’ for Dakota Pipeline Protesters
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CBS News, North Dakota Office …, The Daily Caller, Death and Taxes, Los Angeles Times and Jezebel
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Future of the American Center — Over the past few decades, party loyalty has been the defining feature of national politics. Especially in the House but even in the Senate, members deferred to their party leaders. Congress as a whole deferred to the presidency.
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New York Magazine and electionlawblog.org
Alice Miranda Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Republicans block program to register 2 million Illinois voters — A vote to override the governor's veto narrowly failed. — On Tuesday, the Illinois General Assembly narrowly voted to uphold the governor's veto of a bill that would have automatically registered two million voters across the state.
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Chicago Sun Times
JJ Gallagher / ABC News:
‘GMA’ Exclusive: Husband of Sherri Papini Speaks Out About His Family's Ordeal — The husband of a Sherri Papini, a California mom who went missing for three weeks after allegedly being kidnapped while out for a jog, is speaking out about his family's ordeal in an exclusive statement to “Good Morning America.”
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Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
BET founder says Trump is not a racist, and stocks are right to rally post-election — Democratic media mogul Bob Johnson, who met with President-elect Donald Trump earlier this month, told CNBC on Tuesday the post-election rally in the stock market has been a reaction to having a businessman in the White House.
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