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U.S. Officials: Putin Personally Involved in U.S. Election Hack — U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Earnest: Trump may have known Russia behind hacking before Election Day — The White House on Wednesday suggested Donald Trump knew Russia was behind a series of hacks that interfered with the U.S. presidential election when he invited Russia to find Hillary Clinton's missing emails.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election — Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa. So when, a week-and-a-half out, the Service Employees International Union started hearing anxiety out of Michigan, union officials decided to reroute their volunteers …
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Here's the Public Evidence Russia Hacked the DNC - It's Not Enough — There are some good reasons to believe Russians had something to do with the breaches into email accounts belonging to members of the Democratic party, which proved varyingly embarrassing or disruptive for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Trump Feud Over Russia Intel Raises Deeper Concerns, Experts Say
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Nancy Scola / Politico:
Source: Twitter cut out of Trump tech meeting over failed emoji deal — Twitter was told it was “bounced” from Wednesday's meeting between tech executives and President-elect Donald Trump in retribution for refusing during the campaign to allow an emoji version of the hashtag #CrookedHillary …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Lessig: 20 Trump electors could flip — Larry Lessig, a Harvard University constitutional law professor who made a brief run for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, claimed Tuesday that 20 Republican members of the Electoral College are considering voting against Donald Trump …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Colorado elections chief: Rogue electors could face perjury charge — Colorado's election chief is warning that presidential electors who vote for someone other than Hillary Clinton — the state's popular vote winner — could face a perjury charge. — The warning from Secretary of State Wayne Williams …
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Raw Story and ballot-access.org
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Full-page ads turn up the heat on Trump electors
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Fight Donald Trump With Normal Politics, Not Crazy Electoral College Schemes
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CNN:
Did Donald Trump need an apology from Mitt Romney? — Source: Trump told Romney he won't be nominee — (CNN)As President-elect Donald Trump considered Mitt Romney for secretary of state, Trump wanted one thing Romney wouldn't give him: an apology. — Trump was willing to move past Romney's bitter campaign-trail criticism of him.
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Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Trump wasn't happy with his State Department finalists. Then he heard a new name.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump announces McDaniel as his pick for RNC
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Mark Preston / CNN:
Ronna Romney McDaniel tapped to lead RNC
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Murray Weiss / DNAinfo New York:
Woman Made Up Tale of Anti-Muslim Attack by Men Shouting ‘Trump’: Sources — MANHATTAN — An 18-year-old Muslim college student who claimed three men screaming “Donald Trump!” attacked her on a Manhattan subway platform is being charged with filing a false report after admitting she made up the incident, sources told DNAinfo New York.
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Rocco Parascandola / New York Daily News:
Muslim college student who claimed Trump supporters attacked her on the subway under arrest for making story up
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Breitbart:
Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State: — “Rex Tillerson is an excellent choice for Secretary of State. He will bring to the post remarkable and broad international experience; a deep understanding of the global economy; and a belief in America's special role in the world.
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The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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New York Times:
G.O.P. Resistance Builds to John Bolton as State Dept. Deputy — WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump's extended deliberations over assembling a team to run the State Department are reviving some of the same debates that consumed the years of war and strife in the administration of George W. Bush.
Reuters:
Trump team disavows survey seeking names of climate workers — President-elect Donald Trump's transition team on Wednesday disavowed a survey sent to the U.S. Department of Energy that requested the names of people working on climate change in the agency. — “The questionnaire was not authorized …
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Eugene Scott / CNN:
Trump team disavows climate change questionnaire to Energy Department
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Motherboard and Reuters
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle is contender for Trump press secretary — Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle has emerged as a contender to be Donald Trump's White House press secretary, and is expected to have a third meeting with his transition team this week, according to two sources familiar with the meetings.
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama Bars States From Denying Federal Money to Planned Parenthood — WASHINGTON — Mindful of the clock ticking down to a Trump presidency, the Obama administration issued a final rule on Wednesday to bar states from withholding federal family-planning funds from Planned Parenthood affiliates …
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President-Elect Donald J. Trump Announces Travis Kalanick of Uber, Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla, and Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo to Join President's Strategic and Policy Forum — (New York, NY)—President-elect Donald J. Trump today announced that three additional members will join …
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Uber Global:
San Francisco, your Self-Driving Uber is arriving now — In September, we introduced the world's first Self-Driving Ubers to the Steel City. Three months later, we're bringing Volvo XC90s to San Francisco. We're incredibly excited to work with Volvo to pair our state-of-the-art self-driving technology …
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Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Nominees Are Likely to Face Heavy Senate Vetting — Cabinet picks have been named without extensive reviews of their background and financial records, people familiar with the process say — WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump has rapidly assembled a dozen picks for his cabinet …
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Mother Jones
William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:
Huma vs. the “Night Stalkers” — After a stunning election loss, the knives appear to be out in Clintonworld. — “Maybe I'm just pissed off, but I really don't give a s**t about what happens to Huma to be honest with you,” one close adviser to Hillary Clinton told me recently.
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Hot Air, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, The Week and Instapundit
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Trump's national security adviser shared secrets without permission, files show — A secret U.S. military investigation in 2010 determined that Michael T. Flynn, the retired Army general tapped to serve as national security adviser in the Trump White House, “inappropriately shared” …
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Michael Flynn quietly deletes fake news tweet about Hillary Clinton's involvement in sex crimes
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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio resurfaces investigation into Obama citizenship — Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who lost his Maricopa County, Ariz., reelection bid in November, has restarted his investigation into President Obama's citizenship. — Arpaio, a vocal supporter of President-elect Donald Trump
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