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Alison Smale / New York Times:
Austria's Far Right Signs a Cooperation Pact With Putin's Party — BERLIN — The leader of the Austrian far-right Freedom Party has signed what he called a cooperation agreement with Russia's ruling party and recently met with Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, the designated national security adviser …
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Trump's Sons Might Be the Ones to Sink Him — Plus, his national security advisor met with an Austrian far-right leader. — The Center For Public Integrity, which is probably hiring at a frenzied pace at the moment, would like you all to sing along. — Gimme the beat, boys …
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Washington Monthly, Little Green Footballs and Mother Jones
Nick Baumann / The Huffington Post:
Trump National Security Adviser Met With Leader Of Party Founded By Nazis
Trump National Security Adviser Met With Leader Of Party Founded By Nazis
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Carrie Levine / Center for Public Integrity:
Donald Trump's sons behind nonprofit selling access to president-elect
Donald Trump's sons behind nonprofit selling access to president-elect
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New York Times:
A Historic Number of Electors Defected, and Most Were Supposed to Vote for Clinton — The Electoral College on Monday voted for Donald J. Trump to win the presidency. Seven electors, the most ever, voted for someone other than their party's nominee. — Of 306 electors pledged to vote for Donald J. Trump
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
How Liberals Got the Electoral College Wrong — They never should have promoted it as democracy's savior. — A strange thing happened in the weeks between the presidential election and Monday's meetings of the electors who have now anointed Donald Trump as our 45th president …
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New York Times:
Time to End the Electoral College
Time to End the Electoral College
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Heidi M. Przybyla / USA Today:
Lawyer: ‘Appalled’ by FBI warrant that shook Clinton — WASHINGTON — The FBI warrant that shook Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign in its final two weeks has been unsealed, and the lawyer who requested it says it offers “nothing at all” to merit the agency's actions leading up to the Nov. 8 election.
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Jack Date / ABC News:
Search Warrant Related to Clinton Emails Unsealed
Search Warrant Related to Clinton Emails Unsealed
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists — To die-hard fans, Apple Inc.'s Macintosh sometimes seems like an afterthought these days. — Mac upgrades, once a frequent ritual, are few and far between. The Mac Pro, Apple's marquee computer, hasn't been refreshed since 2013.
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Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Exclusive: Families of Orlando nightclub shooting victims sue Facebook, Twitter and Google — Mourners embrace outside the wake for Pulse shooting victim Javier Jorge Reyes in Orlando, Florida, U.S. June 15, 2016 (Reuters) — Families of the victims of the Orlando gay nightclub shooting …
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Wisconsin's red realignment — Eight years ago, Wisconsin Democrats were in the catbird seat; they held the Governor's office, the majority in both chambers of the state legislature, two U.S. Senate seats, five of the state's eight congressional seats and handed Barack Obama a rousing victory in the presidential election.
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Stuart Rothenberg / Washington Post:
Can Republican senators get to 60 seats in 2018?
Can Republican senators get to 60 seats in 2018?
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Hot Air
Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:
Obama Said to Use 1953 Law to Block Drilling in Arctic, Atlantic — Obscure statute would grant permanent protection to areas — Restrictions on new oil leases may provoke legal challenge — President Barack Obama is preparing to block the sale of new offshore drilling rights …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Schumer fires video unit staff — Incoming Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer cleaned house last week in the Senate Democrats' internal video department, firing nearly all its employees amid plans to revamp the unit with a new digital operation aimed at creating viral social media content.
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Foreign Policy:
Russia Missing from Trump's Top Defense Priorities, According to DoD Memo — Meanwhile, Pentagon brass say Moscow is the No. 1 threat to the United States. — A Pentagon memo outlining the incoming Trump administration's top “defense priorities” identifies defeating the Islamic State …
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Daily Kos and Politicus USA
Kate Scanlon / TheBlaze:
Lena Dunham: 'I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had' — Actress Lena Dunham announced during the most recent episode of her podcast “Women of the Hour” that she wishes she had undergone an abortion in order to combat “stigma around this issue.” — Dunham said that …
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Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair:
Inside the Desperate, Year-Long Hunt to Find Donald Trump's Rumored Apprentice Outtakes — Throughout the election, both the media and the Clinton camp were obsessed by outtakes from the reality show, amid allegations of hair-raising things said by the now president-elect.
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Wild cards add drama to Trump's West Wing picks — Donald Trump's transition team is planning to announce a number of key senior White House staff appointments imminently, but — perhaps befitting a president-elect who grew his fame on reality television — there is suspense around a few big names and positions.
Ed White / Associated Press:
Emergency Managers Charged Over Flint's Lead-Tainted Water — FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's attorney general filed more criminal charges Tuesday in the investigation of lead-tainted water in Flint, targeting two former state-appointed emergency managers who were running the troubled city …
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John Sharp / al.com:
Mobile official apologizes for Christmas tree at Trump rally removed from public park — President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, in Mobile, Ala. In the background is a large cedar tree that was cut down at Public Safety Memorial Park …
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Poll: Dems more likely to unfriend people due to political posts — Democratic voters are almost three times as likely to have “blocked, unfriended, or stopped following someone on social media” after Donald Trump — 's victory, according to a study released Monday.
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump team asks State Dept. what it spends on international environmental efforts — Donald Trump's presidential transition team has asked State Department officials to disclose how much money it provides each year to international environmental groups. It's the latest example …
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Dan Hopkins / FiveThirtyEight:
Voters Really Did Switch To Trump At The Last Minute — Donald Trump's somewhat surprising win has forced many political analysts to wonder: Were we wrong all along in thinking Hillary Clinton had the upper hand, or was late-breaking movement to Trump part of the reason why polling averages missed his upset Electoral College victory?
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Salon, Washington Post, Politico and TheBlaze
Matthew Cole / The Intercept:
TRUMP'S PICK FOR INTERIOR SECRETARY WAS CAUGHT IN “PATTERN OF FRAUD” AT SEAL TEAM 6 — A Montana lawmaker tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be secretary of the interior committed travel fraud when he was a member of the elite Navy SEAL Team 6, according to three former unit leaders and a military consultant.
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Mother Jones and Raw Story
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Democrats Had a Knife, and the G.O.P. Had a Gun — President Obama and Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina don't agree on many policy questions. But they have found themselves facing a similar political situation this year. And their very different reactions capture the deep — and alarming …
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Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Twitter will hand over data on the user who sent a seizure-inducing tweet to a journalist — Four days ago, an unidentified Twitter user tweeted a seizure-inducing animation at Newsweek and Vanity Fair writer Kurt Eichenwald, who has epilepsy. Now, Eichenwald has taken the first step toward identifying the user.
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Ian Lovett / Wall Street Journal:
Baptist Figure Faces Backlash Over His Criticism of Donald Trump — Some churches consider withholding donations to Russell Moore's policy organization — During the presidential race, Russell Moore, the public face of the Southern Baptist denomination, emerged as one of the most persistent …
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