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Sources: Trump will ask Congress, not Mexico, to pay for border wall — The Trump transition team says he his preference is to fund the border wall through the appropriations process — The move would break a key campaign promise when Trump promised to force Mexico to pay for the wall
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Evan Perez / CNN:
Intel report says US identifies go-betweens who gave emails to WikiLeaks — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has denied that Russia was the source of leaked Democratic emails — Washington (CNN)US intelligence has identified the go-betweens the Russians used to provide stolen emails to WikiLeaks …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump slams media on border wall: Mexico will pay us back — From the very beginning of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised that he would build a wall along America's southern border with Mexico and that the Mexican government, not U.S. taxpayers would pay for it.
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
House GOP, Trump team hatch border wall plan — House Republicans and Donald Trump's team are coalescing around a multi-billion dollar plan to make good on the president-elect's campaign vows to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, according to top Republican lawmakers and aides.
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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Vicente Fox blasts Trump over ‘his racist monument’
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Adam Entous / Washington Post:
U.S. intercepts capture senior Russian officials celebrating Trump win — Senior officials in the Russian government celebrated Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton as a geopolitical win for Moscow, according to U.S. officials who said that American intelligence agencies intercepted communications …
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New York Times:
Donald Trump Casts Intelligence Aside
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Former CIA chief cuts ties with Trump
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Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Former CIA director James Woolsey has split with Trump, ‘effective immediately’
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Mattis clashing with Trump transition team over Pentagon staffing — The honeymoon seems to be ending between retired Gen. James N. Mattis and Donald Trump's transition team amid an increasingly acrimonious dispute over who will get top jobs in the Defense Department — and who gets to make those decisions.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Former CIA director James Woolsey quits Trump transition team — Former CIA director R. James Woolsey Jr., a veteran of four presidential administrations and one of the nation's leading intelligence experts, resigned Thursday from President-elect Donald Trump's transition team …
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Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
President-Elect Donald Trump ‘Prepared to Listen and Understand’ Intel on Russia, Spokesman Says
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Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com:
Warren announces she's running for re-election — WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren announced this morning that she is running for reelection in 2018, seeking a second term as US Senator from Massachusetts. — “I am running for re-election in Massachusetts in 2018,” she wrote in an email to her network of supporters.
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Elizabeth Warren / Elizabeth Warren for Senate:
2018 — Nobody expected 2017 to start this way. This isn't the fight we were expecting to fight. — But this is the fight that's in front of us. And the people of Massachusetts didn't send me to Washington to roll over and play dead while Donald Trump and his team of billionaires …
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New England Journal of Medicine:
Repealing the ACA without a Replacement — The Risks to American Health Care — Health care policy often shifts when the country's leadership changes. That was true when I took office, and it will likely be true with President-elect Donald Trump. I am proud that my administration's work …
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
In Break With Precedent, Obama Envoys Are Denied Extensions Past Inauguration Day — WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump's transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Age of Fake Policy — On Thursday, at a rough estimate, 75,000 Americans were laid off or fired by their employers. Some of those workers will find good new jobs, but many will end up earning less, and some will remain unemployed for months or years. — If that sounds terrible to you …
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Send in the Head Clowns — Democrats have been in power for so long that they've forgotten how to oppose. Their party has been on a roll since 2005 when the botched Social Security reform, the slow bleed of the Iraq war, and Hurricane Katrina sent the Bush administration into a tailspin.
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Daniel Bush / PBS NewsHour:
‘Grow up, Donald... Time to be an adult,’ Biden says in PBS NewsHour interview
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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
President Obama Talks Race Relations, Calls Alleged Hate Crime in Facebook Video ‘Terrible’ — President Obama said “we appear to have seen” a hate crime in the alleged attack on a Chicago man captured on Facebook. — “It's terrible,” the president said about the incident, during an interview with ABC affiliate WLS in Chicago.
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Tom Pepinsky:
Everyday Authoritarianism is Boring and Tolerable — Malaysia is a country that I know well, and whose political system I have studied closely for fifteen years. It is also a country whose political liberalization I have long awaited. Malaysia has a multiparty parliamentary system of government …
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Bryan Bender / Politico:
Bill Perry Is Terrified. Why Aren't You? — At this naked moment in the American experiment, when many people perceive civilization on the verge of blowing up in some metaphorical sense, there is an elderly man in California hoping to seize your attention about another possibility.
New York Times:
Clinton vs. de Blasio for New York Mayor? Unlikely Idea Has People Talking — From political circles in New York City to cocktail parties on Capitol Hill, on right-of-center Facebook pages and among left-of-center donors, two of the biggest untethered threads in New York politics are being drawn together around a single question.
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Ana Swanson / Washington Post:
U.S. added 156,000 jobs in December; unemployment rate ticked up to 4.7 percent — The U.S. economy added 156,000 new jobs in December, according to government data issued Friday, slightly below economists' expectations, though still representing relatively strong growth.
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Tepid Hiring, but Jobs Report Shows Sustained Wage Growth
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Frank Abderholden / Chicago Tribune:
Zion police back woman's account of alleged racial slur by Dairy Queen franchise owner — The Dairy Queen near Sheridan Road on 21st Street in Zion, where a woman's account of the owner using a racial slur toward her and her children has been backed by a Zion police report.
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