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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Ties Loss to Russian Hacking and Comey Letter — Hillary Clinton on Thursday night attributed her defeat to a convergence of two “unprecedented” events: the release of a letter by James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, shortly before the election, and what she called an …
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Adam Entous / Washington Post:
FBI backs CIA view that Russia intervened to help Trump win election — FBI Director James B. Comey and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. have backed a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election in part to help Donald Trump win the presidency, according to U.S. officials.
Wall Street Journal:
Republican National Committee Security Foiled Russian Hackers — Investigation calls it a less aggressive and much less persistent effort than the hacks of the Democratic National Committee — Russian hackers tried to penetrate the computer networks of the Republican National Committee …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Useful Idiots Galore — On Wednesday an editorial in The Times described Donald Trump as a “useful idiot” serving Russian interests. That may not be exactly right. After all, useful idiots are supposed to be unaware of how they're being used, but Mr. Trump probably knows very well how much he owes to Vladimir Putin.
John Podesta / Washington Post:
Something is deeply broken at the FBI — John Podesta was chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. — The more we learn about the Russian plot to sabotage Hillary Clinton's campaign and elect Donald Trump, and the failure of the FBI to adequately respond, the more shocking it gets.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump has been lying about the Russian hack. He just accidentally admitted it himself. — THE MORNING PLUM: — In recent days, Donald Trump has been spinning a new narrative about CIA charges of Russian interference in our election: The administration did not leak the news of this finding until …
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Obama didn't retaliate against Russia because he thought Clinton would win: report — The Obama administration decided not to retaliate against Russia for interfering in the presidential election because they did not want to start a cyber war and they expected Hillary Clinton — to win, NBC News reported Thursday.
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Scott Detrow / NPR:
Obama On Russian Hacking: ‘We Need To Take Action. And We Will’ — President Obama says the United States will respond to Russian cyber-attacks that the intelligence community has concluded were part of an effort to influence the 2016 presidential election.
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Laura Smith-Spark / CNN:
Russia challenges US to prove campaign hacking claims or shut up
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Barbara Starr / CNN:
US Defense official: Chinese warship stole US underwater drone — (CNN)A US oceanographic vessel Thursday had its underwater drone stolen by a Chinese warship literally right in front of the eyes of the American crew, a US defense official told CNN Friday. — In the latest encounter …
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Phil Stewart / Reuters:
China's Navy seizes American underwater drone in South China Sea — A Chinese Navy warship has seized an underwater drone deployed by an American oceanographic vessel in international waters in the South China Sea, triggering a formal demarche from the United States and a demand for its return …
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Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
Pentagon: Chinese naval ship seized an unmanned U.S. ocean glider in South China Sea
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
U.S. Demands Return of Drone Seized by Chinese Warship
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Craig Jarvis / Raleigh News & Observer:
NC legislators wrap up work on controversial bills — RALEIGH — State legislators wrapped up their work Friday on a pair of controversial bills that would deprive the incoming governor of a substantial part of his power to make appointments, and reshuffle the regulation of lobbyists, ethics complaints and elections.
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Raleigh News & Observer:
Roy Cooper threatens to sue as legislature moves to secure more power
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Power Grab Would Make NC Guv One Of The Weakest In The Country
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David Friedman / Arutz Sheva:
Read Peter Beinart and you'll vote Donald Trump — His reflexive reaction to my involvement in the Trump candidacy lays bare how dangerous the Jewish left is to the State of Israel. — The writer serves as the President of American Friends of Bet El. He is a practicing trial lawyer …
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Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
Trump Chooses Hard-Liner as Ambassador to Israel
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David Friedman / Arutz Sheva:
End the two-state narrative
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Tegna / WFAA-TV:
No record of ‘faithless elector’ Chris Suprun as a 9/11 first responder — Christopher Suprun portrays himself as a hero, but now his alleged decorated past is coming into question. Jason Whitely reports. … DALLAS - The Republican elector who has gotten national attention for refusing …
Jonathan Lemire / WHP:
Trump keeps reveling in election win at Pennsylvania rally — HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump's barnstorming tour across the states that won him the White House continues to feature far more taunts of triumph than notes of healing after a bruising election.
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
‘Nobody Is Getting Fooled!’: Face-Off Between Tucker Carlson, Newsweek Writer Goes Off the Rails — Fox News' Tucker Carlson faced off with Newsweek senior writer Kurt Eichenwald tonight and it didn't take long for things to blow up. — Right off the bat, Carlson made it clear …
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Here's how Republicans plan to repeal Obamacare within weeks of Trump taking office — In the weeks following the presidential election, there's been some debate about whether Republicans would actually go through with repealing Obamacare as opposed to getting cold feet.
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New York Times:
Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy? — Donald J. Trump's election has raised a question that few Americans ever imagined asking: Is our democracy in danger? With the possible exception of the Civil War, American democracy has never collapsed; indeed, no democracy as rich or as established as America's ever has.
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Inmate turns down Obama clemency offer — A federal inmate in Texas has declined President Obama's offer for clemency, USA Today reported Friday. — Arnold Ray Jones applied for the president's clemency program for low-level drug offenders, and was accepted on August 3.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Trump finds an unlikely partner: Chuck Schumer — Hours after Sen. Chuck Schumer delivered a hopeful speech to anxious Democrats gathered at the Javits Center on Election Night, the dealmaker was already recalibrating to his new, less powerful reality. — Schumer was not displaying any signs …
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Ruth Everhart / Washington Post:
Our culture of purity celebrates the Virgin Mary. As a rape victim, that hurts me. — This opinion piece is by the Rev. Ruth Everhart, a pastor and the author of two spiritual memoirs. — Church culture tends to be fixated on sexual purity year-round, but during Advent, I'm tempted to blame it on the Virgin Mary.
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ESPN:
Minnesota players' boycott could affect lead-up to Holiday Bowl — Minnesota football players announced Thursday night that they were boycotting all football activities in the wake of the suspensions this week of 10 teammates. — The school did not specify the reasons for the suspensions in Tuesday's announcement.
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Francis Menton / Manhattan Contrarian:
The Impending Collapse Of The Global Warming Scare — Over the past three decades, the environmental movement has increasingly hitched its wagon to exactly one star as the overwhelming focus of the cause, namely “climate change.” Sure, issues of bona fide pollution like smog and untreated sewage …
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