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Actress Carrie Fisher is in critical condition after a ‘cardiac episode’ on flight from London to L.A. — Actress Carrie Fisher, shown in 2007, was taken to a hospital Friday after a “cardiac episode” on a flight from London to Los Angeles. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
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Carrie Fisher, 60, suffers heart attack on transatlantic flight where fellow passengers resorted to giving the star CPR — The 60-year-old was rushed to hospital immediately after landing and is said to be in critical condition — Carrie Fisher suffered a massive heart attack on board …
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Rockettes Union Calls Boycotting Inauguration ‘Invalid’ — BroadwayWorld has obtained and confirmed the authenticity of an email sent from the American Guild of Variety Artists to what appears to be Rockettes in its membership as a response to the announcement that some Rockettes …
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Pressure grows on Mormon choir over Trump inauguration — Thousands of people are backing a petition urging the Mormon Tabernacle Choir not to perform at President-elect Donald Trump — 's inauguration. — The Change.org petition has accumulated more than 6,500 signatures since it was created Thursday.
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EXCLUSIVE! The Rockettes Are Performing At Donald Trump's Inauguration — And The Dancers …
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Radio City Rockettes ‘Appalled’ Over Trump Inauguration Command Performance
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Rockettes Parent Company Says Inauguration Participation Is ‘Voluntary’
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Rockette goes on Instagram rant over Trump inauguration gig
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On Paladino's ‘wish list’ for 2017: Obama dead of mad cow disease — When Artvoice asked Buffalo developer and School Board member Carl Paladino what he wanted to see happen in 2017, he didn't filter his responses — and the controversial, crude answers are causing a firestorm on social media.
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WHAT DO WE WANT FOR 2017? We have a Lot of Different Opinions — THE QUESTIONS WE POSED: — 1. What would you most like to happen in 2017? — 2. What would you like to see go away in 2017? — 3. Who would you like to see run for mayor of Buffalo in next year's election?


Trump team: NY co-chair's remarks about Obamas ‘reprehensible’
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Trump ‘friend’ and N.Y. campaign co-chair says he wants Obama dead of ‘mad cow disease’ in 2017
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U.S. Abstains as U.N. Security Council Votes to Condemn Israeli Settlements — UNITED NATIONS — Defying extraordinary pressure from President-elect Donald J. Trump and furious lobbying by Israel, the Obama administration on Friday allowed the United Nations Security Council to adopt …
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ISRAEL ACCUSES OBAMA OF ANTI-ISRAELI ‘SHAMEFUL MOVE’ AT UN
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Dem senators back Trump on UN Israel veto
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North Carolina is no longer classified as a democracy — In 2005, in the midst of a career of traveling around the world to help set up elections in some of the most challenging places on earth - Afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, Lebanon, South Africa, Sudan and Yemen, among others - my Danish colleague …
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Trump seemed to call for more nuclear weapons. His aides say he didn't mean it. He says he did. — Donald Trump often talks about trying to keep America's adversaries scrambling to sort out his true intentions by being deliberately vague — and sometimes contradictory — in his public comments.
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Trump shares letter from Putin: ‘His thoughts are so correct’
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Was Barack Obama Bad for Democrats? — President Obama will be remembered as a thoughtful and dignified president who led a scrupulously honest administration that achieved major changes. — People argue over whether his impatience with politicians and Republican intransigence denied …
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Putin to Democratic Party: You lost, get over it — MOSCOW — Russia's President Vladimir Putin has a message for the White House and Democratic leaders who accuse him of stealing their victory: Don't be sore losers. — That was how Putin answered a question Friday about whether Russia interfered …

Trump's driver's license casts doubt on height claims — Donald Trump and his doctor claim he's 6-foot-3, but his New York driver's license says he's actually an inch shorter. — A copy of Trump's license, obtained by POLITICO through an open-records request, lists the president-elect at 6-foot-2.


How the Obama Coalition Crumbled, Leaving an Opening for Trump — It is entirely possible, as many have argued, that Hillary Clinton would be the president-elect of the United States if the F.B.I. director, James Comey, had not sent a letter to Congress about her emails in the last weeks of the campaign.
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Trump Names Jason Greenblatt Representative for International Negotiations — Trump Organization's chief legal officer advised campaign on U.S.-Israel relations — President-elect Donald Trump has named Jason D. Greenblatt, the Trump Organization's chief legal officer …
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Why Did Planned Parenthood Supporters Vote Trump? — A series of maddening focus groups suggest Clinton made it easier for voters to reconcile themselves to Trump. — Shortly before the election, Politico and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health surveyed voters on health care policy.
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GOP Wants Trump to Trim ACA Benefits, Say Congress Aides — Trump White House could limit insurance benefit requirments — Essential health benefits cover drugs, mental care, wellness — Facing a years-long wait before they can fully implement a planned repeal of Obamacare …
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The Democrats Turn on Obama — The rising stars of the Democratic Party have been airing criticisms of President Obama lately, covering them with only the thinnest of veils. The Wall Street Journal reports: … Obama is truly the great uniter. First he united the Arabs and Israelis …
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A new solution for Trump and his team of billionaires: Ignore the law — Trump lieutenant Newt Gingrich this week proposed an elegant solution for all the conflicts of interest swirling around the president-elect and his team of billionaires: Ignore the law.
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Radio's Diane Rehm, A Mainstay Of Civil Discourse, Signs Off — Diane Rehm is wrapping up a public radio career spanning more than four decades and thousands of episodes. Her talk show has originated at Washington, D.C.'s WAMU and is heard by nearly 3 million people across the country weekly on NPR stations.
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