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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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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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Trump's doctor on health: ‘If something happens to him, then it happens to him’
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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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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” …

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 …


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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Bill O'Reilly rose to the defense of white privilege in America's presidential voting process
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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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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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Schumer: Trump's trillion dollar infrastructure plan sounds good to me
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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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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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The Arctic could end a year of record-breaking temperatures with a heat wave — Another sign that not all is well in the Arctic. — In a year of record-high temperatures and record-low sea ice, the Arctic appears poised to witness another frightening scenario: temperatures at the North Pole …
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Washington Post, Common Dreams, Mashable and New York Magazine


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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Mother Jones, Instapundit and WCCO | CBS Minnesota


Lewandowski to open political consulting firm — Close confidants of President-elect Trump are establishing a new government relations and political consulting firm in Washington, D.C., the Washington Examiner has learned. — Corey Lewandowski, Trump's first campaign manager …
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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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Black men are nearly three times as likely to die from police use of force, a study shows — (CNN)Gregory Gunn. Alton Sterling. Philando Castile. Terence Crutcher. Those are just a few of the names of black men who were killed in high-profile police shootings in 2016.
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Katie Couric will fill in as co-anchor on NBC's ‘Today’ show in January — Katie Couric, shown last January, was co-anchor of “Today” from 1991 to 2006. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) — Katie Couric is returning to NBC's “Today” show for a weeklong fill-in stint at the morning program's anchor desk next month.
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Walmart to stop selling “Bulletproof: Black Lives Matter” shirts after police protest — The president of the national Fraternal Order of Police, the country's largest police organization, on Tuesday asked Walmart to stop selling t-shirts and sweatshirts which say “Black Lives Matter” and …
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The Daily 202: Why the author of ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ is moving home to Ohio — THE BIG IDEA: — If you haven't read it, the book is a 32-year-old's memoir about his hardscrabble upbringing in the Rust Belt. With his mom battling addiction, and his father absent, his grandparents mainly raised him.
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Los Angeles Times, The Geller Report and New York Magazine


Lawsuit: McDonald's Extra Value Meal too big on price … A McDonald's Extra Value Meal didn't live up to its name at a franchisee's stores in Lake and Cook counties, according to a lawsuit filed by an unhappy customer. — James W. Gertie of Des Plaines is seeking class-action status …
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Talk radio host Glenn Beck and left-wing late night host Samantha Bee are ramping up their efforts to provide “nonpartisan” pushback against the incoming Donald Trump administration. — On Monday's episode of Bee's Full Frontal, she sat down with Beck, and the two supposedly diametrically …
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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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CNN commentator shares video of invasive TSA pat-down which included her dress being lifted up and her genitals getting hit twice — A CNN commentator has shared a video that shows her bursting into tears during an aggressive TSA pat-down in which her dress was lifted up and her genitals were hit.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Independent Journal Review


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 …


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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