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Blake Hounshell / Politico:
Rex Tillerson's 3 a.m. phone call — It was nearly 3 o'clock in the morning when the phone rang in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, an impoverished, war-torn country on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. — Hours earlier, Rex Tillerson, then a young, up-and-coming country manager at Exxon …
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The Huffington Post:
The Humbling Of Mitt Romney, By Donald J. Trump
The Humbling Of Mitt Romney, By Donald J. Trump
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump recruits army of chief executives to battle with the system in Washington
Trump recruits army of chief executives to battle with the system in Washington
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Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Gates, Rice, Baker pushed Tillerson nomination despite ties to ExxonMobil
Gates, Rice, Baker pushed Tillerson nomination despite ties to ExxonMobil
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Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Trump wasn't happy with his State Department finalists. Then he heard a new name.
Trump wasn't happy with his State Department finalists. Then he heard a new name.
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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 …
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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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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump tells Wisconsin: Victory was a surprise
Trump tells Wisconsin: Victory was a surprise
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New York Times:
The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S. — WASHINGTON — When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along some troubling news about its computer network, he was transferred, naturally, to the help desk.
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New York Times:
Democratic House Candidates Were Also Targets of Russian Hacking — WASHINGTON — South Florida has long been a laboratory for some of the nation's roughest politics, with techniques like phantom candidates created by political rivals to siphon off votes from their opponents …
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Joe Uchill / The Hill:
Typo led to Podesta email hack: report
Typo led to Podesta email hack: report
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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” …
Daniel Wagner / BuzzFeed:
Trump Must Give Up Hotel Before Inauguration, Agency Tells Lawmakers — Major development in dispute over Donald Trump's conflicts of interest: The government agency that leases a taxpayer-owned landmark for Trump's Washington hotel has told lawmakers that the president-elect will be in breach …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Don Trump Jr. involved in INTERIOR search — WAYNE BERMAN up for TRADE REP — TRUMP'S TECH SUMMIT — SPOTTED AT DAVID RUBENSTEIN'S PARTY — B'DAY: Kirsten Powers — DRIVING THE DAY — BULLETIN — “BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian activists say aircraft have resumed bombing raids over eastern Aleppo, further threatening cease-fire deal.”
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Agence France-Presse:
IBM unveils plan to hire 25,000 in US on eve of Trump meeting — 12k — US technology giant IBM said Tuesday it would hire 25,000 people in the country over the next four years, a day before President-elect Donald Trump meets with tech industry leaders. — About 6,000 of those hirings …
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Hannah Al-othman / Daily Mail:
IBM to hire 25,000 more workers in the US in the next four years and invest $1billion …
IBM to hire 25,000 more workers in the US in the next four years and invest $1billion …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Divisions deepen inside Trump Tower — Donald Trump's White House-in-waiting is already being roiled by divisions, with the conservative outsiders who helped power his historic victory colliding with a Republican Party establishment muscling its way in. — Insiders paint a picture …
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TMZ.com:
Alan Thicke — Dead at 69 — EXCLUSIVE — 5:50 AM — Robin Thicke posted on Instagram about his father's passing. — TV icon Alan Thicke has died ... TMZ has learned. — We're told Alan had a heart attack while he was playing hockey with his 19-year-old son, Carter.
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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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Tom Lutey / Associated Press:
Zinke and Trump have ‘positive meeting’ in New York Monday — Montana's lone congressman, Ryan Zinke, met with President-elect Donald Trump today in New York City. — Zinke is in the mix for one of a handful of Cabinet positions that include the departments of the Interior and Veterans Affairs, Fox News has reported.
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
POLITICO survey: Ellison no lock for DNC chair — Lingering tensions from the presidential primary are driving the race for Democratic National Committee chairman, impeding early favorite Keith Ellison's bid to consolidate support behind his candidacy and raising fears that the party …
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Noemie Emery / Washington Examiner:
Disgrace under pressure — A month after the surprise election of Donald Trump in November (surprising to noone more than to Trump and Clinton), the losers are still working through the stages of anguish in ways that seem strange to many observers but of which they appear oddly proud.
Noah Browning / Reuters:
Ex-CIA chief says Trump risks blame for an attack if he skips briefings — Former CIA director Leon Panetta said on Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump risked being blamed after any potential attack on the United States if he refused to receive more regular intelligence briefings.
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Sydney Finkelstein / BBC:
Algorithms are making us small-minded — Your life is mapped out for you but, not in the way that you think. How predictive algorithms narrow your perspective - and ultimately your choices. — We live in a world of curation. The internet — aided by algorithms that predict what we search …
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