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Leak reveals Rex Tillerson is director of Bahamas-based US-Russian oil company — Rex Tillerson, the businessman nominated by Donald Trump to be the next US secretary of state, is the long-time director of a US-Russian oil firm based in the tax haven of the Bahamas, leaked documents show.
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Poll Finds Americans Believe Trump Will Bring Change but Are Divided Over What Kind
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ExxonMobil helped defeat Russia sanctions bill
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Pa. electors get police protection: ‘This is stupid’ — Facing a wave of calls, Pennsylvania electors sounding unshakable — President-elect Donald Trump during a “thank you” rally in Alabama tonight. — President-elect Donald Trump — HARRISBURG — Thousands of emails land in their inboxes every day.
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A new poll shows 52% of Republicans actually think Trump won the popular vote — Amid the speculation on whether the electoral college will refuse to make Donald Trump president, many Trump opponents are pinning their hopes on one glaring fact: Hillary Clinton's sizable win in the popular vote.
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Five things to watch when the Electoral College votes Monday
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Trump's Electoral College Victory Ranks 46th in 58 Elections
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Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 2.8 million. Most Republicans are convinced he won.
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Donald Trump: The Russian Poodle — In 1972, President Richard Nixon's White House dispatched burglars to bug Democratic Party offices. That Watergate burglary and related “dirty tricks,” such as releasing mice at a Democratic press conference and paying a woman to strip naked and shout …
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White nationalists target Jews in small Montana town — A call to action in the Daily Stormer describes Jews as a “vicious, evil race of hate-filled psychopaths.” — A white-supremacist call to action to “troll” Jewish people in Whitefish, Montana—home of white nationalist Richard Spencer's mother …
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White supremacist website calls for action in Montana — A white supremacist website called The Daily Stormer has posted a call to “TAKE ACTION” against Jewish people in Whitefish, providing personal contact information and urging a “troll storm” against them.
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Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress Famous for Her Glamour (and Her Marriages), Dies at 99 — Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian actress whose self-parodying glamour and revolving-door marriages to millionaires put a luster of American celebrity on a long but only modestly successful career in movies and television, died on Sunday in Los Angeles.
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McCain: Russian election-related hacks threaten to ‘destroy democracy’ — Washington (CNN)Sen. John McCain said Russian election-related hacks threaten to “destroy democracy” and faulted the American response as “totally paralyzed.” — McCain, the Arizona Republican who chairs …
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Bipartisan Letter Seeks Single Inquiry Into Russian Hacking Claims
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‘This Week’ Transcript 12-18-16: Donna Brazile — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ on December 18, 2016 and it will be updated. — MARTHA RADDATZ, ABC HOST: Let's take that straight to Donna Brazile, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, which took the brunt of Russia's cyber hack.
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DNC Chair Contradicts Obama: Russian Hackers Came After Us ‘Until End of Election’
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Dem boss demands bipartisan congressional investigation into Russian hacks
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On New York's Fifth Avenue, Trump's White House North — NEW YORK — The world's power address du jour is a sheath of soaring black glass on Fifth Avenue, at the entrance to which a cop in combat armor — his fingers on an assault rifle — took a moment the other day to tell a tourist where to find the city's best pizza.


Trump holds off record session with reporters — held an off-the-record conversation with reporters on Sunday evening. — While the topics of conversation were not reported, the meeting was confirmed in a presidential pool report. It's been more than 140 days since Trump has held a press conference.
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Michigan unemployment agency made 20,000 false fraud accusations - report — Automated system erroneously accused claimants in 93% of cases, state review finds: 'It's balancing the books on the backs of the poorest,' lawyer says — A Michigan government agency wrongly accused individuals …


Polar Bears' Path to Decline Runs Through Alaskan Village — The bears that come here are climate refugees, on land because the sea ice they rely on for hunting seals is receding. — KAKTOVIK, Alaska — Come fall, polar bears are everywhere around this Arctic village, dozing on sand spits …
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Reince Priebus on war of words with White House over Russia — This is a rush transcript from “Fox News Sunday,” December 18, 2016. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. — CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: I'm Chris Wallace. — With the Electoral College set to meet tomorrow …
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