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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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New York Times:
Buck Up, Democrats, and Fight Like Republicans — On Monday, members of the Electoral College will vote in Donald J. Trump as president. Though he lost the election by nearly three million votes and almost daily generates headlines about new scandals, the Democratic Party is doing little to stop him.
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New York Magazine, Scripting News, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Althouse and Politico
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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Mediaite, Power Line, RedState, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, twitchy.com and Hot Air
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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Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
Agency Has Ruled Trump Will Be In Violation of Washington Hotel Lease, Democrats Say
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Political Wire
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Federal Agency Warns Trump He Must Give Up DC Hotel Before Inauguration
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ThinkProgress and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
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 Sana'a, 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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Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Trump wasn't happy with his State Department finalists. Then he heard a new name. — Donald Trump sat in his office at Trump Tower on Dec. 2 facing the most important choice of his transition to the presidency, and his indecision had set off a war among his top aides.
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Talking Points Memo, Politico and GreatAgain
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump recruits army of chief executives to battle with the system in Washington
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Political Wire
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
GOP Leaders Ignored Repeated Requests To Go Further In Condemning Russia's Hacking — The Speaker, Majority Leader and RNC Chair each turned down calls for help from their Democratic counterparts. — In mid-October, as the presidential campaign turned daily over the release of hacked emails …
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New York Times:
Democratic House Candidates Were Also Targets of Russian Hacking
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Washington Monthly, alan.com and Mother Jones
New York Times:
The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.
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Joe Uchill / The Hill:
Typo led to Podesta email hack: report
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Washington Post, AOL, Liberal Values, RedState and The Daily Caller
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 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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ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
Daniel Lippman / 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 — By JAKE SHERMAN (sherman@politico.com; @JakeSherman) and ANNA PALMER (anna@politico.com; @apalmerdc) with DANIEL LIPPMAN …
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Mediaite
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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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TheBlaze, The Gateway Pundit and The Last Tradition
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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 …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Hot Air
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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Political Wire
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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BizPac Review, New York Times, New Urban Legends, Mashable, Scared Monkeys, Jezebel, AOL, The Week, NBC News, The Big Lead, Refinery29, FOX2now.com and Deadline
Jason Kurtz / CNN:
NFL great Brown on meeting Trump: ‘I fell in love with him’ — Jim Brown on Trump: He has “my admiration” — (CNN)NFL legend Jim Brown stopped by Trump Tower Tuesday for a meeting pegged as a discussion about issues facing the African-American community, saying he “fell in love” with President-elect Donald Trump.
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Townhall.com, Washington Post, twitchy.com, TheBlaze, Baltimore Sun, The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite
Alexis McAdams / Fox 59:
Indiana town without a police department after every Bunker Hill officer quits — INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - An entire Indiana town has no police officers after every single one walked off the job. The officers blame the Bunker Hill Town Council for the situation.
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AOL and The Daily Caller
CNN:
Philippines President Duterte admits killing suspects — (CNN)Controversial Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted killing suspected criminals during his time as mayor of Davao City. — “In Davao, I used to do it personally. Just to show the guys that, if I can do it, why can't you?”
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Washington Post, Jezebel and New York Magazine
David Shepardson / Reuters:
U.S. Energy Department balks at Trump request for names on climate change — The U.S. Energy Department said on Tuesday it will not comply with a request from President-elect Donald Trump's Energy Department transition team for the names of people who have worked on climate change …
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