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11:50 PM ET, January 5, 2017

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CNN:
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 …
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Former CIA director James Woolsey has split with Trump, ‘effective immediately’  —  Former CIA director James Woolsey will no longer serve as a senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, Woolsey's spokesman said in a statement provided to reporters on Thursday.
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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NBC News:
Top Russians Celebrated When Trump Won, Intel Report Says: Source  —  Inside the Russian Hacking Report That President Obama Received Thursday 1:29  —  A senior U.S. intelligence official with direct knowledge confirmed to NBC News that the report on Russian hacking delivered …
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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Emanuella Grinberg / CNN:
4 arrested in beating broadcast on Facebook Live
CNN:
Chicago torture: Teens stream abuse of special needs man on Facebook Live
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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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Former CIA director Woolsey splits from Trump's transition team  —  Former CIA director Jim Woolsey on Thursday announced that he would no longer serve as a senior adviser for President-elect Donald Trump, providing limited reasoning for his seemingly abrupt departure.
Discussion: ABC News
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Former CIA director splits with Trump team
Discussion: RedState
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 …
The Daily Beast:
Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump Tangled Over Hair, ‘P*ssy’  —  Just days after the departure of host Megyn Kelly from Fox News, the network replaced one of its few Trump skeptics with Tucker Carlson, an unabashed booster of the president-elect.  —  But Carlson—who recently compared …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Greta Van Susteren to join MSNBC
Washington Post:
House Republicans revive obscure rule that could allow them to slash the pay of individual federal workers to $1  —  House Republicans this week reinstated an arcane procedural rule that enables lawmakers to reach deep into the budget and slash the pay of an individual federal worker …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Debts Are Widely Held on Wall Street, Creating New Potential Conflicts  —  More than 150 financial institutions hold debts connected to president-elect, analysis shows  —  The debts of President-elect Donald Trump and his businesses are scattered across Wall Street banks …
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Trump said he had $315 million in debt. He left out $1.5 billion.
Discussion: Common Dreams and alan.com
CNN:
FBI: DNC rebuffed request to examine computer servers  —  Clapper: Russia hacks a multi-faceted campaign  —  Washington (CNN)The Democratic National Committee “rebuffed” a request from the FBI to examine its computer services after it was allegedly hacked by Russia during the 2016 election …
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Chrissie.Thompsonfink / Cincinnati.com:
Trump makes calls against Kasich's pick for Ohio GOP chair  —  COLUMBUS - On Friday, President-elect Donald Trump and Gov. John Kasich will face off in their latest battle for the hearts and minds of Ohio Republicans — and Trump himself on Thursday entered the fray.
Discussion: Politico
Daniel Bush / PBS NewsHour:
‘Grow up, Donald... Time to be an adult,’ Biden says in PBS NewsHour interview  —  Vice President Joe Biden urged Donald Trump to “grow up” on Thursday, criticizing the incoming president's attacks on the U.S. intelligence community and his grasp of health care policy, which is now up for debate …
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ABC News:
Transcript for Obama Receives Classified Russian Hacking Report, Intel Officials Mum in Capitol Hill Testimony
Discussion: Politico and Wall Street Journal
Drew Altman / New York Times:
The Health Care Plan Trump Voters Really Want  —  This week Republicans in Congress began their effort to repeal and potentially replace the Affordable Care Act.  But after listening to working-class supporters of Donald J. Trump — people who are enrolled in the very health care marketplaces created …
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Meg Wagner / New York Daily News:
President-elect Donald Trump calls Chuck Schumer ‘clown,’ blasts Obamacare in typo-filled tweets
New York Times:
Dan Coats Expected to Be Named Intelligence Director  —  Retired Senator Dan Coats of Indiana is expected to be named director of national intelligence.  —  Trump Toyota tweet has Republicans and allies divided over import tariffs.  —  Anti-Trump lawyers have one more Hail Mary to stop a President Donald J. Trump.
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump expected to name ex-senator Dan Coats as director of national intelligence
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democratic lawmakers considering challenge to Trump's Electoral College victory  —  Several House Democrats are weighing a formal challenge to Donald Trump's election on Friday, when Congress meets in joint session to certify Trump's Electoral College victory.
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump's Twitter feed traumatizes Washington  —  Donald Trump's unique, chaos theory of presidential communications is upending Washington, leaving lawmakers, government officials and lobbyists aghast that they are beholden to a single leader's whims, not to mention the uncertainty about his true thoughts and intentions.
Discussion: Political Wire
Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:
Trump's Systematic Attack on U.S. Institutions  —  There is no T-E-A-M in “I.”  —  This was the obvious lesson as Donald Trump sold out House Republicans this week.  GOP members had sought to quietly defang an anti-corruption watchdog office.  After angry constituents phoned House offices …
Discussion: The Guardian
 
 
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CBS Chicago:
Obama Calls Facebook Torture Video ‘Despicable’, But Optimistic About Race Relations In U.S.
Discussion: TheBlaze and The Daily Caller
John Bresnahan / Politico:
House GOP, Trump team hatch border wall plan
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Maddow asks if Trump will send her ‘to a camp’
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Melissa Healy / Los Angeles Times:
Less shrinkage: This is your aging brain on the Mediterranean diet
Discussion: Infowars and Instapundit
Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Seven Tests That Can Keep Republicans from Screwing Up
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Post
 Earlier Items: 
Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Former Bush operative Matthew Dowd mulls challenging Cruz for Senate
Discussion: RedState
Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Washington Post:
How nostalgia for white Christian America drove so many Americans to vote for Trump
Kristine Guerra / Washington Post:
A teacher and his husband were found dead in August. Police say they had sexually abused 8 boys.
Discussion: IJR
Jessica Sidman / Washingtonian:
The Cheapest Cocktail at the Trump Hotel Is Now $24
Discussion: New York Magazine
Astead W. Herndon / BostonGlobe.com:
Katherine Clark to skip Trump's inauguration in protest
Discussion: The Hill, Daily Kos and Raw Story
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Two contractors allege getting stiffed for work on Trump's D.C. hotel
Discussion: DCist, The Week and Talking Points Memo
 

 
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Sony buys ~$320M of shares in Japanese media powerhouse Kadokawa, which owns FromSoftware, taking its stake to ~10% and becoming Kadokawa's top shareholder

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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
In a federal suit, two filmmakers and a photographers group challenge the constitutionality of fees and permits required for commercial work in national parks
 
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