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Luke Harding / The Guardian:
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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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Poll Finds Americans Believe Trump Will Bring Change but Are Divided Over What Kind
Poll Finds Americans Believe Trump Will Bring Change but Are Divided Over What Kind
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Elana Schor / Politico:
ExxonMobil helped defeat Russia sanctions bill
ExxonMobil helped defeat Russia sanctions bill
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
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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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
The Anti-Trump Electoral College Effort Is Only The Beginning — Although the hopes for #HamiltonElectors to upend Monday's electoral college vote for president likely will not materialize, the move is likely only the first step in an effort to undermine Trump's presidency before it begins.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Five things to watch when the Electoral College votes Monday
Five things to watch when the Electoral College votes Monday
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Raw Story, The Daily Caller and Vox
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
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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Carimah Townes / ThinkProgress:
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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Keila Szpaller / Missoulian:
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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Cyra Master / The Hill:
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.
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
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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New York Times:
Trump's Electoral College Victory Ranks 46th in 58 Elections — Members of the Electoral College will meet Monday to cast their votes for president. President-elect Donald J. Trump has claimed he won the electoral vote in a “landslide,” but he ranks below most presidents in the electoral vote and popular vote margins.
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Washington Post:
A new poll shows 52% of Republicans actually think Trump won the popular vote
A new poll shows 52% of Republicans actually think Trump won the popular vote
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 2.8 million. Most Republicans are convinced he won.
Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 2.8 million. Most Republicans are convinced he won.
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Jaweed Kaleem / Los Angeles Times:
Election officials focus on whether voter ID laws contributed to Hillary Clinton's defeat — Delia Anderson, a 77-year-old Milwaukee resident, did not vote on election day because she did not have the correct photo ID card. — Starting with John F. Kennedy's victory over Richard Nixon in 1960 …
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Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
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.
Eric Bradner / CNN:
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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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Bipartisan Letter Seeks Single Inquiry Into Russian Hacking Claims
Bipartisan Letter Seeks Single Inquiry Into Russian Hacking Claims
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Fox News:
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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ABC News:
‘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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Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
DNC Chair Contradicts Obama: Russian Hackers Came After Us ‘Until End of Election’
DNC Chair Contradicts Obama: Russian Hackers Came After Us ‘Until End of Election’
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Dem boss demands bipartisan congressional investigation into Russian hacks
Dem boss demands bipartisan congressional investigation into Russian hacks
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