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Michael Bastasch / The Daily Caller:
Obama Blames The Media For Trump's Landslide Win In Rural America — Obama Blames The Media For Not Telling Rural Americans How Awesome He Is — Obama To Muster Organizers, Journos, Pols For Next Generation Of Progressive Leaders — Democrats Freak Out After Trump Does What They Asked Him To Do
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‘NO WAY’: Trump mocks Obama for saying he could have beaten him if he were allowed to run again - and cites job losses, Obamacare and the ISIS terror army as reasons — Trump blasted Obama for claiming he could have mobilized Americans to win a third term in office if he had been the Democratic nominee
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The Last Tradition
Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Obama: I'm going to keep to myself when I leave the White House — President Obama plans to keep a low-profile when he leaves office in January to better reflect on his time as president. — “I have to be quiet for a while. And I don't mean politically, I mean internally. I have to still myself,” Obama said.
DrexelNow:
Response to Professor George Ciccariello-Maher's Tweet — Drexel became aware today of Associate Professor George Ciccariello-Maher's inflammatory tweet, which was posted on his personal Twitter account on Dec. 24, 2016. While the University recognizes the right of its faculty to freely express …
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William Turton / Gizmodo:
Senior Facebook Employee Arrested For Allegedly Soliciting Unprotected Sex From Underage Girl — Dov Katz, the head of computer vision at Oculus VR, was arrested near Seattle on December 21 for allegedly soliciting sex from an underage girl. According to charging records …
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The Times of Israel, The Verge and Vox Popoli
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
NY Attorney General Hinders Trump Plan to Shutter Foundation — Donald Trump's plan to dissolve his eponymous foundation is already running into a roadblock from the New York Attorney General's office, which says the organization can't close while its probe is ongoing.
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Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Israel will share ‘evidence’ of Obama-UN collusion with Trump, ambassador says — Israel's ambassador the United States says his country will share evidence with President-elect Donald Trump — that the Obama administration was behind a United Nations Security Council resolution …
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Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Israel reduces relations with 12 Security Council countries: reports
Israel reduces relations with 12 Security Council countries: reports
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Peter Nickeas / Chicago Tribune:
61 shot, 11 fatally, over Christmas weekend — Police investigated several sites where people were shot and killed in Chicago on Christmas Day. (Armando Sanchez / Chicago Tribune) — Seventeen people have been wounded in shootings since Monday morning, including a 14-year-old girl in critical condition after a shooting in Gresham.
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The Root and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Mucking Out the Justice Department — Of Donald Trump's most prominent allies in the presidential campaign, Jeff Sessions is the last one standing. Newt Gingrich is an outside adviser to Trump and occasional critic. Chris Christie works full-time as governor of New Jersey.
Evan MacDonald / Plain Dealer:
Fight at Beachwood Place mall ends with officers using pepper spray to disperse crowd — Shoppers stand outside the Beachwood Place mall on Monday evening after officers were called to the scene for a disturbance. (Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com) — BEACHWOOD, Ohio — Officers used pepper spray …
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David Paul Kuhn / New York Times:
Sorry, Liberals. Bigotry Didn't Elect Donald Trump. — Donald J. Trump won the white working-class vote over Hillary Clinton by a larger margin than any major-party nominee since World War II. Instead of this considerable achievement inspiring introspection, figures from the heights of journalism …
Abigail Hauslohner / Washington Post:
Muslims in a Bible Belt town hold their breath — It was here, in this midsize college town in the dead center of Tennessee, that a right-wing effort to ban Islamic law found one of its first sponsors. Here, too, a congressman co-sponsored a plan to “defund Muslim ‘refugees’ ” …
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
When One Party Has the Governor's Mansion and the Other Has the Statehouse — RALEIGH, N.C. — With swift and brutal efficiency, North Carolina Republicans welcomed an incoming Democratic governor this month to an elite but hardly desirable club: the handful of governors around the nation …