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Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont, U.S. officials say — A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials.
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Mikael Thalen / Infowars:
Washington Post Stirs Fear After False Report of Power Grid Hack by Russia
Burlington Free Press:
Russia penetrated Burlington Electric utility company computer
Russia penetrated Burlington Electric utility company computer
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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Obama: I won't leave on Jan 20 — President Obama used his final weekly address in 2016 to make it plainer than ever that he won't retire quietly once Donald Trump is sworn in as president. — Couching his address to the nation as assurance that he will remain committed to defending the …
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Chris Enloe / TheBlaze:
Watch: Obama has no plans to leave your life after he vacates the White House on Jan. 20 — President Barack Obama used the final weekly address of his presidency to ensure the American people that despite leaving the White House in less than three weeks, he will remain vigilant …
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Why the Left Secretly Loves Trump — Forget all the wailing and gnashing of teeth by the left. That's just for show. Remember that the left was never very enthusiastic about Hillary Clinton, and are not sorry to have seen her lose. Trump's victory, however, provides the left with something …
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L.V. Anderson / Slate:
2016 Was the Year White Liberals Realized How Unjust, Racist, and Sexist America Is — The sense of disillusionment white American liberals woke up with on Nov. 9 was powerful enough to taint the entire year with a sense of doom. So many illusions were shattered by the election of Donald Trump …
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Jeff Sessions Omits Decades Of Records For His AG Confirmation Hearing — He once argued that doing this is a felony. — WASHINGTON President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, is withholding decades' worth of records from his career ahead of his Senate …
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Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump tweets: Happy new year to my enemies who ‘lost so badly’ — on Saturday tweeted out a taunting New Year's greeting to those who opposed him. — “Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!”
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Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump tweets Happy New Year to his ‘many enemies’ who ‘lost so badly’
Trump tweets Happy New Year to his ‘many enemies’ who ‘lost so badly’
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David Ingram / Yahoo:
New York opens subway line dreamed up in 1920s — NEW YORK (Reuters) - While more than a million people ring in the new year with their eyes on a glittering ball high above Times Square, a select group of construction workers and city officials will toast 2017 underground on the inaugural ride of a subway line a century in the making.
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump leaves press pool behind to golf — ditched his protective press pool on Saturday to play golf, leaving behind the group of journalists responsible for documenting the president-elect's movements at all times, according to The Associated Press. — Stephanie Grisham …
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Palin calls for Trump to leave UN — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said this week that President-elect Donald Trump — should withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations. — During an interview with the “Breitbart Daily News” radio show on Thursday, Palin outlined two ways that the country could extricate itself from the U.N.
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Matthew Wisner / Fox Business:
Alan Dershowitz: If Keith Ellison is Appointed DNC Chair, I Will Resign My Membership — As the debate continues over the Obama administration's handling of the U.N. resolution condemning Israeli settlements, there are signs it is causing a divide within the Democratic Party.
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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Dershowitz: I'll leave Democratic Party if Ellison becomes DNC chair
Dershowitz: I'll leave Democratic Party if Ellison becomes DNC chair
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BBC:
Merkel: Islamist terror is ‘greatest threat’ to Germany — Islamist terrorism is the biggest challenge facing Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said in her New Year message. — Referring to the deadly truck attack in Berlin by a Tunisian asylum seeker, she said it was “sickening” …
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Conservative radio host caught in lie that Mormon Tabernacle Choir sang at Obama Inauguration — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Conservative radio host Ben Ferguson, asserted that the woman that quit the Mormon Tabernacle Choir because she refused to sing for President-elect Donald Trump …
Nate Thayer / Variety:
KKK Leaders Allege Producers Paid Them to Fake Scenes in Canceled A&E Documentary (EXCLUSIVE) — A&E to conduct investigation to probe what happened during production — The subjects of a TV documentary series about the Ku Klux Klan abruptly canceled last week by A&E allege to Variety …
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Marina Lopes / Washington Post:
Venezuelans are fleeing to Brazil for medical care, overwhelming its hospitals and morgues — BOA VISTA, Brazil — As throngs of Venezuelans trek to Brazil in search of food and medicine, hospitals along Brazil's sparsely populated northern border are struggling to pick up the pieces of Venezuela's failing health-care system.
Shawn Annarelli / Centre Daily Times:
‘The only good cop is a dead cop,’ he said — Suspected cop killer Jason Robison is still at large and considered dangerous, according to police. — Authorities said Trooper Landon Weaver was shot and killed by Robison at about 6:30 p.m. Friday when the officer investigated a …
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Jon Hurdle / New York Times:
Cosby Lawyers Ask Judge to Change Trial Location — Lawyers for Bill Cosby asked a Pennsylvania judge on Friday to change the location or jury pool for his coming criminal trial on sexual assault charges, arguing that intense publicity surrounding the case has tainted any prospective jury …
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James Risen / New York Times:
If Donald Trump Targets Journalists, Thank Obama — WASHINGTON — If Donald J. Trump decides as president to throw a whistle-blower in jail for trying to talk to a reporter, or gets the F.B.I. to spy on a journalist, he will have one man to thank for bequeathing him such expansive power: Barack Obama.
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