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12:25 AM ET, January 4, 2017

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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Senate Republicans just introduced an Obamacare repeal plan Democrats can't stop  —  The new Congress was sworn in on Tuesday, and the first thing it did was prepare to repeal Obamacare.  —  Senate Budget Committee Chair Michael Enzi (R-WY) introduced a budget resolution Tuesday that includes …
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Health Affairs Blog:
The Problems With ‘Repeal And Delay’  —  Republican leaders in Congress and the incoming Trump administration have said that they plan to move quickly to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the early weeks of 2017, with a delay in the date of when key aspects of the repeal would become effective until perhaps 2019 or 2020.
Discussion: NPR
New York Times:
Turmoil Overshadows First Day of Republican-Controlled Congress  —  WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled Congress opened the turbulent Trump era in Washington on Tuesday, as the new Senate moved instantly to begin the repeal of President Obama's signature health care law while the House descended …
Bloomberg:
Hill Republicans Try to Temper the Hopes Trump Gave His Supporters
Discussion: Politico
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Megyn Kelly Is Said to Be Leaving Fox News for NBC  —  Megyn Kelly, who arrived at Fox News 12 years ago as a television news neophyte but rose to become one of its two biggest stars, has decided to leave the network to take on a broad new role at NBC News for an undisclosed amount, people briefed on the negotiations said on Tuesday.
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Megyn Kelly's Departure Is a Big Clue About the Future of Fox News  —  Megyn Kelly's decision to jump from Fox News to NBC resolves one of the last unanswered questions of the Roger Ailes scandal: Would she stay or would she go when her contract ended?  With her last show set to air on Friday …
Los Angeles Times:
Mass murderer Charles Manson seriously ill, moved to hospital, sources say  —  Charles Manson and other members of his so-called family were convicted of killing actress Sharon Tate and six other people during a bloody rampage in the Los Angeles area during two August nights in 1969.
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Yashar Ali / New York Magazine:
Bill and Hillary Clinton Will Attend the Trump Inauguration  —  Bill and Hillary Clinton have decided to attend the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, according to two sources with knowledge of their plans.  The Clintons will join former Presidents George W. Bush …
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
George W. Bush to attend Trump's inauguration
Discussion: Politico, The Resurgent and RedState
CNBC:
Omarosa Manigault joining Trump's White House staff to focus on public engagement: AP  —  Omarosa Manigault is getting hired.  —  A memorable contestant in the first season of “The Apprentice,” Manigault is expected to join President-elect Donald Trump's White House staff, according to two people familiar with the decision.
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
SEE IT: Donald Trump appears alongside convicted felon with mobster ties at New Year's Eve party  —  President-elect Donald Trump rang in the new year together with Joseph “Joey No Socks” Cinque — a convicted felon with ties to notorious Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, a recently released video has revealed.
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Brendan Gauthier / Salon:
Donald Trump spends New Year's Eve with convicted felon, Dubai billionaire: “The taxes are coming down”
Discussion: Daily Kos and Post On Politics
Jen Juneau / People.com:
Janet Jackson Welcomes Son Eissa  —  It's a boy!  —  Janet Jackson and husband Wissam Al Mana welcomed their first child, a son, on Tuesday, Jan. 3, her rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.  —  “Janet Jackson and husband Wissam Al Mana are thrilled to welcome their new son Eissa Al Mana into the world …
Marisa M. Kashino / Washingtonian:
Ivanka Trump Will Move into a House in Kalorama  —  Washington Fine Properties co-owner William F.X. Moody tells Washingtonian that Ivanka Trump has completed a deal for a house in DC.  A team of Washington Fine Properties agents represented Trump.  The firm also represented the house's owner in the transaction.
Kaitlin Menza / Marie Claire:
Rockette Management Tells Dancers to “Tolerate Intolerance”  —  In the wake of more inauguration backlash, Madison Square Garden executive chairman James Dolan calls a meeting with the Rockettes to make his stance clear.  —  There's been an unusual amount of turmoil behind the scenes at Radio City Music Hall this Christmas season.
KFTC-TV:
Family: Soldier attacked after Mummers Parade  —  PHILADELPHIA (WTXF) - A soldier's mom is speaking out after a brutal attack on her son.  The serviceman became a target for a violent group after the Mummers parade.  He is now in the hospital with a long recovery ahead of him.  —  “He's such a good kid.
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John Kopp / PhillyVoice:
Investigation continues into mob attack on local serviceman after Mummers Parade
Discussion: IJR
Howard Koplowitz / al.com:
NAACP occupies Jeff Sessions' Mobile office in protest of AG nomination  —  NAACP seeks answers in police-custody death  —  Birmingham NAACP President Bernard Simelton says he has no confidence that Jeff Sessions can be an impartial attorney general.  (Albert Cesare /The Montgomery Advertiser via AP) (AP File Photo)
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
More than 1,100 law school professors nationwide oppose Sessions's nomination as attorney general
Discussion: The Week
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate push for new Russia hacking probe fizzles  —  John McCain and Lindsey Graham are backing off of their push for a select committee on cybersecurity after Russian interference in the election, bowing to the political reality that the Senate Republican Conference largely does not back their idea.
Eugene Scott / CNN:
Schumer: I wish we hadn't triggered ‘nuclear option’  —  Washington (CNN)Sen. Chuck Schumer lamented Tuesday the Democrats' move to diminish the number of senators needed to confirm Cabinet picks from 60 votes to 51, because the new rule now hurts his party.  —  “I argued against it at the time.
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
U.S. Conservatives Outnumber Liberals by Narrowing Margin  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — Many more Americans have considered themselves politically conservative than liberal since the early 1990s.  That remained the case in 2016, when an average of 36% of U.S. adults throughout the year identified themselves as conservative and 25% as liberal.
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Jack Abramoff slams GOP over House ethics changes  —  Jack Abramoff, the disgraced former lobbyist whose felony crimes eventually helped lead to the creation of the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, ripped House Republicans for their move to gut the independent watchdog.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
House GOP reverses course on gutting ethics panel
Aleksandra Sandstrom / Pew Research Center:
Faith on the Hill  —  The religious composition of the 115th Congress  —  The share of U.S. adults who describe themselves as Christians has been declining for decades, but the U.S. Congress is about as Christian today as it was in the early 1960s, according to a new analysis …
CNNMoney:
Ford cancels Mexico plant.  Will create 700 U.S. jobs in ‘vote of confidence’ in Trump  —  Ford CEO: U.S. plant expansion is ‘vote of confidence’ in Trump  —  Ford is canceling plans to build a new plant in Mexico.  It will invest $700 million in Michigan instead, creating 700 new U.S. jobs.
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David Dayen / The Intercept:
Treasury Nominee Steve Mnuchin's Bank Accused of “Widespread Misconduct” in Leaked Memo  —  OneWest Bank, which Donald Trump's nominee for treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, ran from 2009 to 2015, repeatedly broke California's foreclosure laws during that period, according …
Discussion: Politico
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Schumer: Trump ‘really dumb’ for attacking intelligence agencies … New Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer  —  (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump  —  is “being really dumb” by taking on the Intelligence Community and its assessments on Russia's cyber activities.
Discussion: Political Wire and NBC News
Lindy West / The Guardian:
I've left Twitter.  It is unusable for anyone but trolls, robots and dictators  —  deactivated my Twitter account today.  It was more of a spontaneous impulse than a New Year resolution, although it does feel like a juice cleanse, a moulting, a polar-bear plunge, a clean slate …
 
 
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Press Release:
ExxonMobil, Tillerson Reach Agreement to Comply with Conflict of Interest Requirements
Discussion: Politico and TheStreet.com
Fenit Nirappil / Washington Post:
Blue-state lawmakers want to keep Trump off 2020 ballot unless he releases tax returns
Discussion: electionlawblog.org
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Fact-checking John Kerry's speech on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Discussion: Israel
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Congress to Freeze StateDepartment Funds Until U.S. Embassy Moves to Jerusalem
Mike Anderson / KSL-TV:
After declaring ‘public health crisis,’ lawmaker wants to pave way for pornography lawsuits
Rainer Buergin / Bloomberg:
It's the ‘Most Volatile’ Year for Political Risk Since WWII, Eurasia Says
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 Earlier Items: 
Matthew Pratt Guterl / New Republic:
Blue States Must Become Even Bluer
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Ilan Ben Zion / The Times of Israel:
Islamic guards try to boot guide for saying ‘Temple Mount’ on Temple Mount
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The 2018 Senate map just keeps getting better for Republicans
Discussion: IJR
Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:
Americans Eat 554 Million Jack in the Box Tacos a Year, and No One Knows Why
Discussion: AOL
Katie McHugh / Breitbart:
Kicking Money Out of Politics: Trump Boots Koch Brother from Golf Course
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Inside Trump's strategy to remodel the Supreme Court
Discussion: Daily Kos, Hot Air and The Daily Caller
 

 
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Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Letter: The Scott Trust's deal to sell the Observer to Tortoise came despite a last-minute bid from Ecotricity founder Dale Vince to thwart the deal

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
A look at GOP attacks on local news outlets across the US, including the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners' harrassment of LNP reporter Tom Lisi

Michael Schneider / Variety:
Channing Dungey, incoming WBD CEO of US networks, names Brett Paul as COO and Howard Lee as chief creative officer; Dungey is succeeding retiring Kathleen Finch
 
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