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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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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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NBC News:
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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Daily Mail:
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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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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Will Doran / Raleigh News & Observer:
Roy Cooper to legislature: Go home — Responding to the General Assembly's effort to limit his power before he takes office Jan. 1, Gov.-elect Roy Cooper said it's time for lawmakers to go home. — “Major changes in the way state government operates should be done deliberately …
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Cooper threatens to sue over North Carolina GOP ‘power grab’
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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 …
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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,” …
Stephen Miller / Heat Street:
What Yasmin Seweid's Pretty Little Lies Reveal About ‘Fake News’ Media Hypocrisy — Since Donald Trump's election night victory and at the direction of Hillary Clinton campaign operatives, social media users have been scolded and warned over the scourge of “fake news” from supposedly respected …
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Adam Mosseri / Facebook:
News Feed FYI: Addressing Hoaxes and Fake News — A few weeks ago we previewed some of the things we're working on to address the issue of fake news and hoaxes. We're committed to doing our part and today we'd like to share some updates we're testing and starting to roll out.
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Daniel Halper / New York Post:
Celebrities beg electors to be ‘heroes’ and vote against Trump — More On: — Celebrities are teaming up to beg Republicans in the Electoral College to vote against President-elect Donald Trump, pledging their “respect” for potential “heroes.” — A slew of other has-been and B …
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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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BBC:
EgyptAir crash: Explosives found on victims, say investigators — Traces of explosives have been found on victims of the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean in May, Egyptian investigators say. — A criminal investigation would now begin into the crash of the Airbus A320, the civil aviation ministry said.
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Jamie Schram / New York Post:
Traces of explosives found on bodies in EgyptAir crash
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The White House:
The 2017 Economic Report of the President — Summary: The 2017 Economic Report of the President reviews the economic record of the Obama Administration, focusing on how policies have promoted inclusive growth. — When he took office in early 2009, President Obama was faced with the daunting task …
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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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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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Blake Seitz / Washington Free Beacon:
The 7 Most Insane Andrew Sullivan Quotes About Obama From That New Republic Interview — In the days after the U.S. presidential election, the New Republic convened “five leading historians and political observers” to discuss President Obama's threatened legacy.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate Dems rolling out bill to force Trump to shed conflicts of interest — A group of Senate Democrats will introduce legislation requiring President-elect Donald Trump — to divest any financial assets that pose a conflict of interest and place the money into a blind trust.
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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.
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.
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
RNC E-Mail Was, In Fact, Hacked By Russians — Despite party denials, evidence shows breach of party server — Despite vehement denials from Republican Party officials, there is evidence that the GOP's e-mail system was breached by the same Russian hackers responsible for ransacking …
Joshua Miller / BostonGlobe.com:
It's official: Marijuana is legal in Massachusetts — It was 1911. The New England Watch and Ward Society (née the New England Society for the Suppression of Vice) was battling against drugs and other “special evils.” And in April of that year, the group's leaders successfully petitioned …
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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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