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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, Foreign Policy, Talking Points Memo, Bloomberg and Mother Jones
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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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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Business Insider, Daily Kos and The Week
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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Raw Story and No More Mister Nice Blog
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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Occupy Democrats
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Yep, Comey's Decision Was Just as Bad As You Thought
Yep, Comey's Decision Was Just as Bad As You Thought
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jack Date / ABC News:
Search Warrant Related to Clinton Emails Unsealed
Search Warrant Related to Clinton Emails Unsealed
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Associated Press and Hot Air
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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The Daily Caller, The Verge, RT, LGBTQ Nation, Heat Street, The Right Scoop, Gizmodo, Clayton Cramer, Mashable and twitchy.com
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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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Hot Air
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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
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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The Root
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Brady Dennis / Washington Post:
Four more officials charged with felonies in Flint water crisis
Four more officials charged with felonies in Flint water crisis
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Mother Jones and The Week
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Sons Offer Top Nonprofit Donors Access to President — Donald Trump's adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric Trump, are offering access to the next president on Inauguration weekend in exchange for $1 million contributions to their nonprofit, according to a copy of an invitation viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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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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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Politicus USA, Mediaite, NBC News, Heat Street, CNBC, Jezebel, New York Magazine, alan.com, The Week, Political Wire, Occupy Democrats and Politico
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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Washington Free Beacon, Daily Kos and Politicus USA
New York Times:
Germany Releases Berlin Attack Suspect as ISIS Claims Involvement — BERLIN — German officials on Tuesday released the chief suspect in the gruesome terrorist attack against a Christmas market in Berlin, launching a nationwide search for an attacker that the Islamic State claimed had acted on the terror group's behalf.
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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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New York Times, Common Dreams, Daily Kos, Morning Consult, Hot Air, The Daily Caller and New York Magazine
Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
The head of Trump's inauguration explains what's going on with Andrea Bocelli — Donald Trump did not ask his friend Andrea Bocelli to perform at his inauguration, the chairman of the Presidential Inaugural Committee said Tuesday in response to reports that the singer turned the president-elect down.
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Page Six, BizPac Review, AOL and Washington Free Beacon
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
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.
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Business Insider
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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Patterico's Pontifications, Victory Girls Blog, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com, The Right Scoop, Hot Air and LifeNews.com
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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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Priorities USA positions itself as center of gravity for the left in the Trump era — The super PAC that poured nearly $200 million into trying to elect Hillary Clinton president is remaking itself as a permanent center of opposition to the impending Trump administration …
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Political Wire
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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Washington Free Beacon and twitchy.com
Mirror.co.uk:
Russian diplomat 'found dead from gunshot wounds hours after ambassador's death' — WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Petr Polshikov was reportedly discovered with a bullet wound to his head at his flat in Moscow's Balaklavsky Prospekt
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JustOneMinute and Vox Popoli
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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Jezebel, New York Magazine and Hullabaloo
Vanessa Londino / SoundCloud:
SoundCloud — In this episode, stories of reproductive choice. We hear from a woman with no children, a mother of ten children, and everything in between! — Ms. Dunham, you lack wisdom, maturity, compassion, and perspective. I've observed this in you for some time.
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RedState, Page Six, New York Magazine and Mediaite
Stephen Mayer / KATU-TV:
Video of Oregon City High School students hurling racial epithets surfaces on social media — Screenshot of Snapchat video via Twitter (KATU News) — The Oregon City School District is dealing with yet another racially-charged controversy that has gained traction on social media.
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The Root, Atlanta Black Star and Raw Story
Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
A Tangerine Wig and a Tightrope Walk: Alec Baldwin as Donald J. Trump — It takes seven minutes. — A dusting of Clinique Stay-Matte powder in honey. A hand-stitched wig. Eyebrows glued up into tiny peaks. The rest is left to Alec Baldwin: the puckered lips, a studied lumbering gait …
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Mediaite, Business Insider, The Week and CNN