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The Huffington Post:
The Subpoena That Rocked The Election Is Legal Garbage, Experts Say — The warrant assumes that the mere existence of emails from or to Hillary Clinton is probable cause that a crime occurred. — National Reporter, The Huffington Post Senior Enterprise Editor, The Huffington Post Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post
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Washington Post, New York Magazine, Hullabaloo, Gothamist and Opinion Today
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Heidi M. Przybyla / USA Today:
Lawyer: ‘Appalled’ by FBI warrant that shook Clinton
Lawyer: ‘Appalled’ by FBI warrant that shook Clinton
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Daily Kos, Politicus USA and Occupy Democrats
Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Unsealed Search Warrant in Hillary Clinton Email Probe Reveals Little New
Unsealed Search Warrant in Hillary Clinton Email Probe Reveals Little New
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Political Wire
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Emails between Clinton and top aide, but little else, spurred FBI to resume controversial probe
Emails between Clinton and top aide, but little else, spurred FBI to resume controversial probe
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New York Times, The Week, New York Magazine and Balloon Juice
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Clinton allies rip into FBI after search warrant unsealed
Clinton allies rip into FBI after search warrant unsealed
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ABC News, Bipartisan Report, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Washington Free Beacon, Raw Story, Hot Air and TheBlaze
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
Daily Mail:
Berlin's most wanted: Police hunt ‘armed and dangerous’ Tunisian asylum seeker, 23, after his ID is found under lorry driver's seat at scene of Christmas market massacre — ID belonging to Anis Amri, 23, who was born in Tataouine, Tunisia, in 1992, found in killer truck's footwell
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New York Times:
A Cruel Test for Germany, and Europe — The populist right has wasted no time waiting for facts to emerge about the identity of the attacker in Berlin or a motive to slam Chancellor Angela Merkel for her humane asylum policy and to push its xenophobic agenda.
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Fox News, Salon, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Times of Israel, The Sun, The Daily Caller and RT
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Access to Donald Trump, for $500,000: Pitfalls for Presidents' Families — The invitation made an extraordinary offer: Donors willing to write a check for $500,000 to $1 million would be granted access to Donald J. Trump the day after he is sworn in as president, along with the opportunity …
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Daily Kos
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Offer of access to Trump and family at fundraiser is pulled back, but ties remain
Offer of access to Trump and family at fundraiser is pulled back, but ties remain
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Trump's Sons Might Be the Ones to Sink Him
Trump's Sons Might Be the Ones to Sink Him
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Talking Points Memo, Booman Tribune and Foreign Policy
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Obama Bans Drilling in Parts of the Atlantic and the Arctic — President Obama announced on Tuesday what he called a permanent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling along wide areas of the Arctic and the Atlantic Seaboard as he tried to nail down an environmental legacy that cannot quickly be reversed by Donald J. Trump.
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twitchy.com, The FADER and The Week
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Tom DiChristopher / CNBC:
Obama invokes 1953 law to indefinitely block drilling in Arctic and Atlantic oceans
Obama invokes 1953 law to indefinitely block drilling in Arctic and Atlantic oceans
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Zero Hedge, Engadget, Independent Journal Review and nrdc.org
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump team discussing ‘half-blind’ trust for conflicts of interest — Donald Trump's aides are considering a business arrangement that critics say would allow him or his appointees to sidestep conflict-of-interest laws governing the incoming administration and large investments in private-sector business.
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Political Wire and The Week
Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
Texas officially kicking Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid — Texas health officials on Tuesday delivered a final legal notice to nix the funding Planned Parenthood receives through the Medicaid program. — After more than a year of delays, Texas is officially kicking Planned Parenthood out of the state's Medicaid program.
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Austin Chronicle, Off the Kuff, New York Magazine, Jezebel, RedState and Refinery29
Ariel Zilber / Daily Mail:
Metallica singer James Hetfield says he moved out of San Francisco because he was ‘sick of the elitist attitudes’ and 'showing up with a deer on the bumper doesn't fly in Marin County' — James Hetfield, the co-founder and lead singer for the successful heavy metal band Metallica …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Jolene Almendarez / The Ithaca Voice:
Man accused of Ithaca homicide: ‘I shot and killed Donald Trump purposely, intentionally and very proudly’ — ITHACA, N.Y. — An Ithaca man accused of killing a UPS driver from Candor said in court Monday afternoon that not only did he believe he shot and killed Donald Trump …
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The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Media Matters for America:
Bill O'Reilly: “Abolishing The Electoral College” Is “All About Race” — BILL O'REILLY: Abolishing the Electoral College, that is the subject of tonight's Talking Points Memo. After Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, the left in America is demanding that the Electoral College system put into place in 1787 be scrapped.
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Latest from Crooks and Liars and New York Magazine
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
New questions complicate Ellison's bid for DNC chair — Opponents of Rep. Keith Ellison's bid to be the next Democratic National Committee chairman are raising new questions about the Minnesota Democrat's past to make the case that he's unfit to be the party's next leader.
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Hot Air
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Researchers race to copy Obamacare data for fear it will vanish — The White House is encouraging researchers to copy government data on Obamacare out of concern that President-elect Donald Trump might hit the delete key when he takes office. — Spooked by Trump's rhetoric and pledge to repeal Obamacare …
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Political Wire
NPR:
Gingrich Says Trump Must Address Business Conflicts Soon, Urges Monitors — Donald Trump should deal with how to handle his business holdings before he takes office, says former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, an adviser to the president-elect. But Gingrich says it would be “an absurdity” to put Trump's holdings in a blind trust.
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Politico, Political Wire, Common Dreams, The New Americana and Outside the Beltway
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Trump posse browbeats Hill Republicans — In early December, Rep. Bill Flores made what seemed like an obvious observation to a roomful of conservatives at a conference in Washington. Some of Donald Trump's proposals, the Texas Republican cautioned, “are not going to line …
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Raw Story and TheBlaze, more at Mediagazer »
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Congress: Obama AdminFired Top Scientist to Advance Climate Change Plans — A new congressional investigation has determined that the Obama administration fired a top scientist and intimidated staff at the Department of Energy in order to further its climate change agenda …
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The Geller Report and The Gateway Pundit
Fox News:
Tomi Lahren: ‘Unloving and intolerant left’ still hasn't accepted Trump's win — “The Blaze” commentator Tomi Lahren told Fox News' “The O'Reilly Factor” Tuesday that many liberal Americans “fail to understand that Donald Trump will be our 45th president, that he will be inaugurated on January 20.”
Theda Skocpol / New York Times:
Trump Is Going After Health Care. Will Democrats Push Back? — Where should Democrats head after their recent electoral rout? As it happens, coming fights about federally subsidized health insurance offer the party a golden opportunity to engage people far beyond its urban strongholds …
Libby Hill / Los Angeles Times:
Tom Arnold claims he has footage of Donald Trump saying ‘every dirty, every offensive, racist thing ever’ — Actor Tom Arnold is making waves with recent claims that he has outtakes from “The Apprentice” that feature President-elect Donald Trump using inflammatory language.
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The Guardian and Mother Jones
Julia Fioretti / Reuters:
EU accuses Facebook of misleading it in WhatsApp takeover probe — The European Commission has charged Facebook Inc (FB.O) with providing misleading information during its takeover of the online messaging service WhatsApp, opening the company to a possible fine of 1 percent of its turnover.
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New York Times
Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Manchin on WV opioid abuse: ‘We need to declare a war on drugs’ — Manchin: opioid pills prescribed 'like M&M's' — Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin called for a new “war on drugs” Tuesday to combat the opioid crisis striking his state of West Virginia, eagerly adopting …
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New York Magazine, Raw Story, Common Dreams and Balloon Juice
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
This Deep Sea Fisherman Posts His Discoveries on Twitter and OH MY GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE — Roman Fedortsov is a deep sea fisherman in Russia. And he's been taking photos of OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT? — Seriously, I just took a quick three-minute scroll through Fedortsov's Twitter page …
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Mashable, AOL and Independent Journal Review
Henry Bodkin / Telegraph:
Sex will be just for special occasions in the future as robots will satisfy everyday needs — Sex between married couples will increasingly be saved for special occasions as robots step in to satisfy everyday needs, experts have predicted. — Use of artificial intelligence (AI) …
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New York Post