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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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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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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Emails between Clinton and top aide, but little else, spurred FBI to resume controversial probe — The FBI told a federal judge that it needed to search a computer to resume its investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server because agents had found correspondence …
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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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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
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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Tom DiChristopher / CNBC:
Obama invokes 1953 law to indefinitely block drilling in Arctic and Atlantic oceans — President Barack Obama on Tuesday moved to indefinitely block drilling in vast swaths of U.S. waters. — The president had been expected to take the action by invoking a provision in a 1953 law …
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United States-Canada Joint Arctic Leaders' Statement
United States-Canada Joint Arctic Leaders' Statement
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Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:
Obama Said to Use 1953 Law to Block Drilling in Arctic, Atlantic
Obama Said to Use 1953 Law to Block Drilling in Arctic, Atlantic
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Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
President Obama bans oil drilling in large areas of Atlantic and Arctic oceans
President Obama bans oil drilling in large areas of Atlantic and Arctic oceans
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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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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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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump transition seeks distance from conservation fundraiser
Trump transition seeks distance from conservation fundraiser
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ABC News
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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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
How Liberals Got the Electoral College Wrong
How Liberals Got the Electoral College Wrong
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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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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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Christina Cauterucci / Slate:
Poll: Women Should Be Punished for Abortions, Say 39 Percent of Trump Voters — In an online survey, 39 percent of 2,000 self-identified Donald Trump voters reported that they thought women should be punished for seeking abortions if the procedure is ever banned in the U.S. A full 60 percent …
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S Bonn / Glover Park Group:
GPG Survey of Trump Voters, December 2016
GPG Survey of Trump Voters, December 2016
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Politico, Mediaite, Daily Kos and New York Times
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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Benjamin Freed / Washingtonian:
Luxury Travel Group Gives Trump's DC Hotel a Brutal Review — Before the Trump International Hotel opened, Donald Trump liked to brag that the business he and his family built inside the Old Post Office would be “one of the great hotels of the world.” — But according to a year-end list …
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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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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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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
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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Annals of Internal Medicine:
The Scientific Basis of Guideline Recommendations on Sugar Intake: A Systematic Review FREE — Jennifer Erickson, RD (*); Behnam Sadeghirad, PharmD, MPH (*); Lyubov Lytvyn, MSc; Joanne Slavin, PhD, RD; Bradley C. Johnston, PhD … Abstract — Background:
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Veronica Rocha / Los Angeles Times:
Flight controller accidentally sends jet on course toward Mt. Wilson after LAX takeoff — In this Nov. 27 photo, a plane takes off at Los Angeles International Airport. On Tuesday, the Federal Aviation Administration said it is investigating another plane that flew north instead of south.
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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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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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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Occupy Democrats, The Guardian, Politicus USA, RT, Washington Free Beacon and Daily Kos
Brian Fung / Washington Post:
Tech companies ‘profit from ISIS,’ allege families of Orlando shooting victims in federal lawsuit — In June, a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a horrific spate of violence at a gay nightclub in Orlando. Now, the families of some of the victims are suing Google …
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Russian Cyberforgers Steal Millions a Day With Fake Sites — SAN FRANCISCO — In a twist on the peddling of fake news to real people, researchers say a Russian cyberforgery ring has created more than half a million fake internet users and 250,000 fake websites to trick advertisers …
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