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Tegna / WCNC-TV:
Cooper extends lead over McCrory in recount … DURHAM, N.C. - Democratic challenger Roy Cooper's lead over incumbent Governor Pat McCrory has grown, according to partial recount results released by the Durham County Board of Elections. — After recounting 52,833 ballots …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Pat McCrory Concedes In North Carolina Governor's Race
Pat McCrory Concedes In North Carolina Governor's Race
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Raleigh News & Observer and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
McCrory concedes in North Carolina
Evan McMullin / New York Times:
Trump's Threat to the Constitution — WASHINGTON — On July 7, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump, met privately with House Republicans near the Capitol. I was present as chief policy director of the House Republican Conference.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump's Agents of Idiocracy — Last week when Donald Trump began his so-called Thank You Tour in Cincinnati, he had yet another opportunity to be magnanimous and conciliatory, to step beyond the division and acrimony of his campaign and into the unity and healing necessary to be president of a strained nation.
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Elana Schor / Politico:
Democrats to give Trump Cabinet picks the Garland treatment — Senate Democrats are preparing to put Donald Trump's Cabinet picks through a grinding confirmation process, weighing delay tactics that could eat up weeks of the Senate calendar and hamper his first 100 days in office.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
In an anti-recount filing, Trump's lawyers say the election was ‘not tainted by fraud or mistake’ — Three leading Republicans were asked over the weekend whether or not they agreed with Donald Trump's tweeted assertion that millions of voters had cast illegal ballots (part of Trump's effort to rebut his popular vote loss).
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Michael Flynn's tweet wasn't actually about #PizzaGate, but his son is now defending the baseless conspiracy theory — This post has been updated. — There are so many fake tales floating around about the 2016 election that they appear to be getting confused for one another.
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Man Motivated by ‘Pizzagate’ Conspiracy Theory Arrested in Washington Gunfire
Man Motivated by ‘Pizzagate’ Conspiracy Theory Arrested in Washington Gunfire
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Politico:
Incoming national security adviser's son spreads fake news about D.C. pizza shop
Incoming national security adviser's son spreads fake news about D.C. pizza shop
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Washington Post:
D.C. Police detain suspect with an assault rifle at Comet Ping Pong restaurant
D.C. Police detain suspect with an assault rifle at Comet Ping Pong restaurant
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David Wright / CNN:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner plan move to DC — Kushner is expected to play a significant role in the new Trump administration, while Ivanka Trump may take a lead role in managing her father's sprawling business interests — (CNN)Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner …
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Neetzan Zimmerman / The Hill:
Ivanka Trump to meet with Al Gore
Ivanka Trump to meet with Al Gore
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Trump Chooses Ben Carson to Lead HUD — Ben Carson, who took Donald J. Trump on a tour of blighted neighborhoods in Detroit during the presidential campaign, including his boyhood home, has been chosen by Mr. Trump to oversee one of the government's main efforts to lift American cities …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Ben Carson: From Trump friend to enemy to ally to outsider to Cabinet member
Ben Carson: From Trump friend to enemy to ally to outsider to Cabinet member
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump picks Ben Carson to be HUD secretary
Trump picks Ben Carson to be HUD secretary
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David Wright / CNN:
Trump taps Ben Carson for HUD secretary
Trump taps Ben Carson for HUD secretary
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Business Wire:
Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics Partners Respond to the Statement from the Department of the Army — DALLAS & NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (NYSE: ETP) and Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. (NYSE: SXL) announced that the Administration's statement today …
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Naomi Klein / The Nation:
The Lesson from Standing Rock: Organizing and Resistance Can Win
The Lesson from Standing Rock: Organizing and Resistance Can Win
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The Daily Caller, ABC News and AOL
U.S. Army / army.mil:
Army will not grant easement for Dakota Access Pipeline crossing
Army will not grant easement for Dakota Access Pipeline crossing
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump's Taiwan phone call was long planned, say people who were involved — Donald Trump's protocol-breaking telephone call with Taiwan's leader was an intentionally provocative move that establishes the incoming president as a break with the past, according to interviews with people involved in the planning.
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What the Taiwan Call Means
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Rogue electors brief Clinton camp on anti-Trump plan — Advocates of the long-shot bid to turn the Electoral College against Donald Trump have been in contact with close allies of Hillary Clinton, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions, but the Clinton camp …
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Dante Chinni / NBC News:
Democrats' Popular Vote Advantage Is Growing But That May Not Equal Election Wins
Democrats' Popular Vote Advantage Is Growing But That May Not Equal Election Wins
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alicublog and Media Matters for America
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
GOP wagers Americans don't care about Trump's conflicts — Republicans see the same ethically challenged complications lurking in Donald Trump's business portfolio that Democrats are squawking about. They just think Americans don't care about these entanglements anymore.
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump's pollster says he ran a ‘post-ideological’ campaign — THE BIG IDEA: — CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Donald Trump won more because of strength than ideology. — The shouting match between top advisers to the president-elect and Hillary Clinton's senior staff overshadowed several …
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New York Post:
The disclosure that could end Eric Schneiderman's career — State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's witch hunt against supposed “climate-science deniers” became an even more embarrassing debacle late last month — and just might wind up ending his career.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Tillerson, Stavridis join secretary of state field — President-elect Donald Trump is expected to meet this week with several new contenders for the secretary of state position, including ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson and retired Navy Adm. James G. Stavridis, according to a source close to the transition.
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