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Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Attacks of U.S. Intelligence on Russia Unnerve Lawmakers — President-elect increases criticism of agencies on Twitter, cites Wikileaks editor Julian Assange over Russian involvement — WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump's increasingly heated attacks against U.S. intelligence agencies …
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Shareblue, Mother Jones, The Hugh Hewitt Show, Political Wire, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, Politicus USA and New York Times
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Trump in 2010: WikiLeaks ‘disgraceful,’ there ‘should be like death penalty or something’ — Trump called WikiLeaks “disgraceful” and suggested there be a “death penalty” for their actions during a 2010 interview. — His 2010 comments are in sharp contrast to his decision Wednesday morning …
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
To Julian Assange: I apologize. — Please watch Sean Hannity's interview with Julian Assange (Wikileaks). — Exposing the truth re: the Left having been oh-so-guilty of atrocious actions and attitudes of which they've falsely accused others. The media collusion that hid what many on the Left have been supporting is shocking.
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Little Green Footballs, Mother Jones, Mediaite, The Hill, Business Insider, RedState, The Resurgent, TheBlaze and IJR
Lindsey McPherson / Roll Call:
Ryan Bucks Trump, Says Congress Will Not Raise Tariffs
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Outside the Beltway and Joe.My.God.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Cotton responds to Trump: I have more faith in intel officers than Assange
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Washington Post, Joe.My.God., No More Mister Nice Blog, RedState, Washington Free Beacon and Politico
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Even when Trump shows backbone, his haters refuse to give him any credit
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The Hill, ABC News, NBC News, Eclectablog and Balloon Juice
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Ryan calls Assange a ‘sycophant for Russia’
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CNBC, New York Times, TheBlaze, Washington Times, The Guardian, The Point, Joe.My.God. and Fox News Insider
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Trump plans executive actions for ObamaCare repeal — House Republicans are planning to get an ObamaCare repeal bill on President Trump's desk by Feb. 20, according to two Republican lawmakers. — The date was put forward by incoming House Budget Committee Chairman Diane Black
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, The Mahablog, Townhall.com, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Daily Kos
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Trump's “if you like your insurance, you can keep it” moment — One of Trump's top advisers just made repealing Obamacare much, much harder. — On Monday, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway was on Morning Joe and was asked about Obamacare. Her recitation of her boss's position likely filled congressional Republicans with dread.
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Washington Post and Business Insider
CNN:
Obama tells Democrats: 'Don't rescue' Republicans on ‘Trumpcare’ — This is likely Obama's last visit to Congress, and it comes as Republicans push to overturn his signature legislative accomplishment — Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama delivered a mandate to Democrats on Wednesday: “Don't rescue” Republicans on Obamacare.
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Repealing Obamacare Could Be Trump's First Lesson in the Glacial Pace of Congress
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CNN, Politico, Campaign for America's Future, CBS Miami, Talking Points Memo, Politicus USA and ACASignups.net
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Manchin says he won't attend Obama's Capitol Hill meeting
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The Daily Caller and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
How to Stop a Trump Supreme Court Nominee — President-elect Donald Trump will soon announce his nominee to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. Once he does, we'll know within just a few hours whether there is any chance that the Senate will reject his choice.
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Althouse, NBC News, Rewire, SCOTUSblog and Politico
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Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
McConnell: Americans ‘will not tolerate’ Dems blocking SCOTUS nominee … said Wednesday that Republicans will not accept any Democratic efforts to block a Supreme Court nominee chosen by President-elect Trump. — “Apparently there's yet a new standard now to not confirm a Supreme Court nominee at all,” McConnell said.
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Political Wire, Politicus USA and The Week
Bridget Bowman / Roll Call:
Schumer Prepared to Hold Supreme Court Seat Open
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CNN, Daily Kos, The Resurgent and Betsy's Page
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Schumer Says Democrats Willing To Keep Supreme Court Seat Empty
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Schumer regrets Dems triggering ‘nuclear option’
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Politico, neo-neocon, alan.com, Talking Points Memo and Hot Air
CRFB Papers and Blog Posts:
The Cost of Full Repeal of the Affordable Care Act — According to our latest estimates, repealing the ACA in its entirety would cost roughly $350 billion through 2027 under conventional scoring and $150 billion using dynamic scoring. — In this paper, we offer rough estimates for a variety of full and partial repeal options.
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CNNMoney, AOL, The Ring of Fire Network, CNBC and Talking Points Memo
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Jonathan Oosting / Detroit News:
Snyder fights for Medicaid plan in Obamacare repeal
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Los Angeles Times and FiveThirtyEight
Mary Cornatzer / Raleigh News & Observer:
Gov. Roy Cooper wants to expand Medicaid
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Raleigh/Durham Business … and Talking Points Memo
Ali Watkins / BuzzFeed:
The FBI Never Asked For Access To Hacked Computer Servers — The Democratic National Committee tells BuzzFeed News that the bureau “never requested access” to the servers the White House and intelligence community say were hacked by Russia. — WASHINGTON — The FBI did not examine the servers …
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Political Wire, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Net Politics and USA Today
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Darren Sands / BuzzFeed:
Omarosa Angers Black Republicans With Invite-Only Meeting — WASHINGTON — Black Republicans are figuring out how to respond to an invite-only meeting taking place Wednesday between senior staff of President-elect Donald Trump's transition and mostly Democratic-leaning civil rights groups and clergy.
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Raw Story
Lisa Chavarria / WFLD:
Chicago Police: 4 in custody after man tied up, tortured on Facebook Live — FOX 32 NEWS - Investigators are looking into a Facebook Live video shot on the West Side that shows a group of people holding a young man hostage. — Chicago police told FOX 32 that four people are currently in custody.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
California Hires Eric Holder as Legal Bulwark Against Donald Trump — LOS ANGELES — Girding for four years of potential battles with President-elect Donald J. Trump, Democratic leaders of the California Legislature announced Wednesday that they had hired Eric H. Holder Jr. …
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Los Angeles Times, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, Talking Points Memo, Infowars, The Democratic Daily and theGrio
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Tom George / KTNV:
Man captures neighbor's racist rant on camera — LAS VEGAS (KTNV) - A Facebook video shot by a Las Vegas man has been shared thousands of times on social media, showing his neighbor going off on a racist rant. — The video all stemmed from an argument between Dexter Manawat and his next door neighbor over cleaning up leaves.
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Hullabaloo, Raw Story and The Root
Will Kirby / Daily Express:
US sends troops to RUSSIAN BORDER as NATO becomes anxious of 'Vladimir Putin's aggression' — US SPECIAL Forces have been sent to Lithuania to bolster Western forces amid increasing tensions with ‘aggressive’ Russia. — GETTY — Fears of Russian aggression had led the US to deploy troops on the country's European border
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Liberty Unyielding
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Mark Hodge / The Sun:
WAR GAMES US sends special forces to RUSSIAN BORDER as Nato is poised to strike back against …
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The Geller Report, neo-neocon and Vox Popoli
ama-assn.org:
AMA Letter to Congressional Leaders on Reform of Health Care System — CHICAGO - The American Medical Association (AMA) released the following letter today to congressional leadership from Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President James L. Madara, M.D., concerning legislative efforts to reform the health care system.
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Rachel Stockman / Mediaite:
Exclusive: Fox News Actually Offered Megyn Kelly $100 Million Package to Stay — Mediaite has learned that Fox News offered Megyn Kelly even more than has generally been reported, a whopping $100 million package to stay put at the network and continue hosting her highly-rated prime time cable news show.
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Jack Brammer / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Abortion ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy put on fast track in Kentucky Senate — FRANKFORT — Women would not be allowed to get an abortion in Kentucky if they are more than 20 weeks pregnant under a controversial bill filed Tuesday on the first day of the state's 2017 law-making session.
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New York Magazine and Common Dreams
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Tom Loftus / Courier-Journal:
Ky's GOP era starts with abortion, right-to-work
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Rewire, Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
WSJ editor Gerard Baker defends ‘lie’ comments from ‘Meet the Press’ appearance — In a editorial published Wednesday, Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker defended his hesitance to characterize untrue statements made by President-elect Donald Trump as “lies,” which drew ire from some journalists …
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Wall Street Journal and Mediaite
New York Times:
Dylann Roof, Addressing Court, Offers No Apology or Explanation for Massacre — CHARLESTON, S.C. — Sometime in the six weeks after he killed nine people at this city's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Dylann S. Roof wrote in a journal that he had “not shed a tear for the innocent people I killed.”
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