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Ike Swetlitz / STAT:
One-on-one with Trump's doctor: Hecklers, house calls, and why Obamacare must be shut down — NEW YORK — On a frigid December afternoon, Dr. Harold Bornstein was talking about his most famous patient, President-elect Donald Trump. — He hadn't spoken with Trump since the election …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's doctor: ‘If something happens to him, then it happens to him’ — Donald Trump's campaign and its supporters spent a good portion of the 2016 campaign arguing that Hillary Clinton was secretly very ill and not up to the task of being president.
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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Trump's doctor on health: ‘If something happens to him, then it happens to him’
Trump's doctor on health: ‘If something happens to him, then it happens to him’
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Jim Newell / Slate:
How fitting for the 2016 election to end with the dashed hopes and incompetence of liberals. — Few people in the galaxy aren't in need of a nice, long holiday after the deaths, the elections, and the deaths by election that have characterized 2016. These past 12 months have been taxing.
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Daily Mail:
Final tally shows Trump lost popular vote by 2.8 million …
Final tally shows Trump lost popular vote by 2.8 million …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Bill O'Reilly rose to the defense of white privilege in America's presidential voting process
Bill O'Reilly rose to the defense of white privilege in America's presidential voting process
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NPR:
Gingrich Says Trump Must Address Business Conflicts Soon, Urges Monitoring — 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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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Gingrich: Trump doesn't want to ‘drain the swamp’ anymore — Former Speaker Newt Gingrich said in a new interview that Donald Trump — has taken a different tone as president-elect and may be leaving behind his campaign promise to “drain the swamp.” — Gingrich told NPR's “Morning Edition” …
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 …
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
REPORT: Passengers on Delta Flight Disputing Adam Saleh's Story About Phone Call — Someone else on the same Delta flight as YouTube prankster/hoaxer Adam Saleh told a reporter Wednesday that those on the plane say he did not make a phone call to his mother, supposedly the reason Saleh was booted from the flight.
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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
FBI director under pressure to explain Clinton bombshell — 's surprise loss in the presidential election, FBI Director James Comey is under pressure to justify the bombshell announcement that rocked the final days of the campaign. — Democrats, still smarting from the Nov. 8 loss …
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CBS News:
Tunisian man identified as new suspect in Berlin Christmas market attack — A new suspect in the deadly terror attack on a Christmas market in Berlin has been identified. — Law enforcement sources told CBS News that police are searching for Anis Amri, a native of Tunisia.
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Conservatives target red-state Democrats to speed Trump's nominations — The prospect of brutal confirmation hearings has Republicans targeting red-state Democrats in hopes of softening opposition to some of Donald Trump's most conservative Cabinet nominees — from Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions.
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Ali Rogin / ABC News:
Schumer Says Trump's Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Plan ‘Sounded Good to Me’ — Incoming Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer says he likes the sound of President-elect Donald Trump's proposal of a major infrastructure plan, as long as it meets certain Democratic criteria. — “We think it should be large.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Schumer: Trump's trillion dollar infrastructure plan sounds good to me
Schumer: Trump's trillion dollar infrastructure plan sounds good to me
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Russ Choma / Mother Jones:
Corey Lewandowski Opens Lobbying Shop to Cash in on Trump. Here's What He Once Said About Lobbyists. — In February, Corey Lewandowksi, who was then Donald Trump's campaign manager, was interviewed by Trump's future campaign chairman (and now senior White House adviser) Stephen Bannon about the role lobbyists play in Washington.
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Lewandowski to open political consulting firm
Lewandowski to open political consulting firm
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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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Tim Alberta / National Review:
Conservatism in the Era of Trump — Where does the Right go from here? — Mick Mulvaney's friends in the House Freedom Caucus couldn't believe what they were hearing. — It was the Monday night following Election Day, and lawmakers were trickling back into Washington to resume their congressional duties.
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Murray Weiss / DNAinfo New York:
Mysterious Manhattan Military Flyover Was Trump Rescue Exercise: Sources — MANHATTAN — A military airplane and two huge helicopters doing loops over Midtown last week were conducting an “emergency relocation” planning mission in case they needed to extract President-elect Donald Trump during …
Ed West / Coffee House:
Germany is facing a ticking time bomb of rage — I've learned that it's best not to say anything about a terrorist atrocity on social media, especially not if it confirms one's political prejudices. It just looks crass, or it has when I've done it. Try not to say anything profound either …
Chris Kirkham / Wall Street Journal:
Percentage of Young Americans Living With Parents Rises to 75-Year High — Household formations by millennials lag behind other economic recoveries; high rents, mortgage standards cited — Almost 40% of young Americans were living with their parents, siblings or other relatives in 2015 …
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Sean Illing / Vox:
Why the white working class feels like they've lost it all, according to a political scientist — “They're consumed by nostalgia.” — Justin Gest, author of The New Minority — The white working-class voter is a subject of excessive interest these days.
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump Calls Berlin Tragedy ‘an Attack on Humanity,’ Appears to Double Down on Muslim Ban — President-elect Donald Trump called the deadly truck attack in Berlin an “attack on humanity” that's “gotta be stopped,” he told reporters at his property in Florida today.
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Ben Guarino / Washington Post:
Man's conviction in failure to disclose HIV-positive status to sexual partners overturned by Mo. appeals court — A year and a half ago, a former student-athlete named Michael L. Johnson was found guilty of, among other crimes, infecting a sexual partner with HIV.
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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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Red-state Dems getting high-profile Senate perches — Red-state Senate Democrats are getting high-profile committee roles next year as the party heads toward a tough 2018 campaign cycle. — Sen. Joe Manchin — (D-W.Va.) is joining the Appropriations and the Intelligence committees …
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