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U.S. Officials: Putin Personally Involved in U.S. Election Hack — Vladimir Putin personally involved in US election hack, intelligence officials say 2:36 — U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved …
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EXCLUSIVE: Ex-British ambassador who is now a WikiLeaks operative claims Russia did NOT provide Clinton emails - they were handed over to him at a D.C. park by an intermediary for ‘disgusted’ Democratic whistleblowers — Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and associate of Julian Assange …
Ed Klein / Townhall.com:
Comey to Trump: The Russians Didn't Influence the Election
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Kathy Frankovic / YouGov US Opinion Center News:
Americans and Trump part ways over Russia
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Tina Nguyen / Vanity Fair:
Trump Grill Could Be the Worst Restaurant in America — And it reveals everything you need to know about our next president. — Halfway through a recent late lunch at the Trump Grill—the clubby steakhouse in the lobby of Trump Tower that has recently become famous through …
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New York Times:
Trump Questions Russia's Election Meddling on Twitter — Inaccurately — President-elect Donald J. Trump was back on Twitter on Thursday morning, questioning Russia's involvement in the election; targeting an old nemesis, the magazine editor Graydon Carter; and defending his business interests.
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
North Carolina G.O.P. Moves to Curb Power of New Democratic Governor — RALEIGH, N.C. — Republicans in the North Carolina legislature on Wednesday took the highly unusual step of moving to strip power from the incoming Democratic governor after a bitter election that extended years of fierce ideological battles in the state.
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Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Shenanigans Alert: NC GOP-Led Legislature Calls 2d Special Session, Considers Bill to Change Power over Election Rules
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Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Griping about the popular vote? Get over it. — What an outrage: On Sunday, the National Football League awarded the Tennessee Titans a win over the Denver Broncos because they scored more points, even though the Broncos got more total yards than the Titans.
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Mark Moore / New York Post:
Electors are being harassed, threatened in bid to stop Trump
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Anthony L. Fisher / Hit & Run:
Why ‘Hamilton Electors,’ Who Would Make Hillary Clinton President, Are as Dead as Their Namesake
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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 — She made it all up — and now she's under arrest. — The Muslim college student who claimed she was harassed on the subway by three men who shouted “Donald Trump,” …
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Murray Weiss / DNAinfo New York:
Woman Made Up Tale of Anti-Muslim Attack by Men Shouting ‘Trump’: Sources
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Fake news is a convenient scapegoat, but the big 2016 problem was the real news — You can't blame Macedonian teens for disastrously email-centric coverage. — Speaking in early December at a ceremony to honor Harry Reid's retirement from the US Senate, Hillary Clinton took aim at a target …
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Critics bash Trump children's presence at tech meeting — 's adult children attended a Wednesday meeting the president-elect convened with top Silicon Valley executives, prompting backlash from critics with questions about conflicts of interests. — The meeting was meant as an olive branch …
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Nancy Scola / Politico:
Source: Twitter cut out of Trump tech meeting over failed emoji deal
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Pew Research Center:
Americans Name the 10 Most Significant Historic Events of Their Lifetimes — 9/11, Obama election and the tech revolution among those with greatest impact on the country — Shared experiences define what it means to be an American. The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were such a unifying event for modern Americans.
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Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Ivanka Trump to get office in WH space reserved for first lady: report — A spokesperson for President-elect Donald Trump — is pushing back on a report that Ivanka Trump will get an office in the space typically reserved for the first lady. — “This is false.
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Democrats open to replacing Obamacare — Senate Democrats will never vote to repeal Obamacare. But once the deed is done, a surprising number of them say they're open to helping Republicans replace it. — “If it makes sense, I think there'll be a lot of Democrats who would be for it,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.).
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Samantha Michaels / Mother Jones:
“Prevent Tragedy Before It's Too Late”: Read the Statement 1,200 Scholars Just Released About Trump — Concerned by the hateful rhetoric that has accompanied President-elect Donald Trump's transition to the White House, a group of 1,200 historians and other scholars have put …
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CBS News:
Do Americans think Donald Trump will be a good president? — With the inauguration a little over a month away, just over a third of Americans (34 percent) think President-elect Trump will be a good or very good president, and another 23 percent think he will be average.
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Washington Times and Political Wire
Vivian Yee / New York Times:
To Combat Trump, Democrats Ready a G.O.P. Tactic: Lawsuits — One attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, is already investigating Donald J. Trump over possible violations of New York State law at his charity foundation. — Another, Maura Healey of Massachusetts, has joined Mr. Schneiderman …
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Jack McElroy / Knoxville News-Sentinel:
Story of Santa Claus with dying child can't be verified — Last Sunday, the News Sentinel published the story of a Campbell County Santa Claus actor, Eric Schmitt-Matzen, who said a terminally ill child had died in his arms. — Immediately, the story went viral.
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
His appointments are wrecking balls and swamp creatures, and his supporters won't care. This is what white populism looks like. — You don't have to look carefully to see the pattern in President-elect Donald Trump's picks for his Cabinet. To run the government, he has picked men and women …
Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg:
Stolen Yahoo Data Includes Government Employee Information — FBI, CIA, NSA, White House workers among hacking victims — Former intelligence officers say leak could aid foreign spies — More than 150,000 U.S. government and military employees are among the victims of Yahoo! …
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
FCC chairman to step down, handing GOP a majority — U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler plans to step down on Jan. 20, he said on Thursday, a move expected to hand Republicans a 2-1 majority on the panel when Donald Trump takes office as president.
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