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Shouting match erupts between Clinton and Trump aides — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The raw, lingering emotion of the 2016 presidential campaign erupted into a shouting match here Thursday as top strategists of Hillary Clinton's campaign accused their Republican counterparts of fueling and legitimizing racism to elect Donald Trump.
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Campaign operatives blast Jeff Zucker over CNN coverage at Harvard event — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — CNN President Jeff Zucker was jeered and heckled by Republican presidential campaign operatives at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics' campaign managers conference on Wednesday evening …
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Vox and Media Matters for America

Clinton, Trump Aides Angrily Clash at Election Forum
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Quote of the Day: There's No Such Thing as Facts Anymore
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Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. James Mattis for secretary of defense — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis to be secretary of defense, according to people familiar with the decision, nominating a former senior military officer who led operations across …
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Trump's Breezy Calls to World Leaders Leave Diplomats Aghast — WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump inherited a complicated world when he won the election last month. And that was before a series of freewheeling phone calls with foreign leaders that has unnerved diplomats at home and abroad.
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Political Wire and Taylor Marsh


The Carrier deal shows a big problem with Trump's approach to the presidency — This week, Donald Trump has been trumpeting an announcement by Carrier, which makes furnaces and air conditioners, that the company will be keeping about 800 jobs in the United States instead of moving them to Mexico.
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Trump Cheered for Carrier Deal Even as Other Jobs Are Trimmed
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An expert breaks down Trump's Carrier deal: ‘Ineffective’ and ‘very costly’
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GOP in talks about helping insurers after ObamaCare repeal — Congressional Republicans are talking to health insurers about ways to prevent a collapse of the insurance market once they pass an ObamaCare repeal bill. — Republicans are planning to pass repeal legislation as soon as January …
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Talking Points Memo and Politicus USA
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Obamacare RIP: Republicans Finally Have a Plan
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ADL: Newly uncovered remarks by Keith Ellison are ‘disturbing and disqualifying’ — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) says it has new doubts about Keith Ellison as the next chairman of the Democratic National Party. In a press release published Thursday the ADL cited new information in the form …
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A Trump Surrogate Drops the Mic: 'There's No Such Thing as Facts' — Finally, Scottie Nell Hughes spells it out for us. — Is there such a thing as truth? The past 18 months posed this seemingly absurd question. It's not whether something Donald Trump says is true, but about whether anyone even cares.
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How Journalists Are Rethinking Their Role Under A Trump Presidency
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Trump to announce ‘almost all’ Cabinet picks next week — President-elect Donald Trump suggested he will reveal “almost all” of his remaining Cabinet choices next week. — Trump announced his nominee for defense secretary, retired Marine Gen. James Mattis, at a thank-you rally Thursday in Cincinnati.
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White House: Obama supports registering women for military draft — WASHINGTON — President Obama supports requiring women to register for Selective Service when they turn 18 — becoming the first president to endorse universal draft registration since Jimmy Carter.
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White House Announces Support for Requiring Women to Register for Military Draft
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Trump's complex stock portfolio could create yet more conflicts — President-elect Donald Trump has disclosed owning millions of dollars of stock in companies with business pending before the U.S. government and whose value could rise as a result of his policies.
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Goldman's Gary Cohn to Meet With Trump's Team This Weekend — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. President Gary Cohn is scheduled to meet with President-elect Donald Trump's transition team this weekend amid growing speculation the longtime banker is seeking to leave Wall Street for a government job, according to people with knowledge of matter.
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Political Wire


Donald Trump Promises to Usher In New ‘Industrial Revolution’ in Ohio Rally — President-elect vows sweeping changes to trade policy, national security, infrastructure, military spending and immigration — CINCINNATI, Ohio—President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday said his administration …
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Reports of a Facebook fake news detector are apparently a plugin — Update: The feature appears to be an implementation of the Chrome plugin B.S. Detector, which some users took as a test by Facebook itself. We'll continue to investigate but for now it looks like this is not a Facebook feature.
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Jewish Business News, New York Magazine and Reuters


Trump Is Back in His Tower, as Chris Christie's Hopes for R.N.C. Job Dim — President-elect Donald J. Trump is back at Trump Tower as his team takes shape. — He will meet with Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, a Democrat who seems interested in a job in Mr. Trump's cabinet, perhaps as the secretary of agriculture.
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Will Ivanka Trump's China-Made Clothing Line Survive Her Dad's Trade War? — President-elect threatens trade war to regain factory jobs — His daughter's brand depends on availability of cheap labor — If President-elect Donald Trump needs an object lesson on the difficulty …
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Oliver Willis

Russia accuses Ukraine of sabotaging Trump — A top Russian official is accusing the Ukrainian government of undermining Donald Trump's presidential campaign by trashing him on social media and disseminating dirt on one of his close associates. — A spokeswoman for Russia's Foreign Ministry …
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The ultimate symbol of Trump Derangement Syndrome? — We may have found the perfect example of the madness gripping progressives and even some conservatives in the wake of Donald Trump's election as president. If I were a screenwriter, I could not come up with a more emblematic scene …
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The Propaganda About Russian Propaganda — In late October, I received an e-mail from “The PropOrNot Team,” which described itself as a “newly-formed independent team of computer scientists, statisticians, national security professionals, journalists and political activists …
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