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2:25 PM ET, January 5, 2017

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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.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Vicious Hate Crime In Chicago Whitewashed By Press [Updated]  —  This is the Associated Press's innocuous report on a crime that occurred in Chicago on Tuesday, in its entirety: … Note that the AP makes no reference to the races of the people involved, and says it is too soon to tell whether the assault was racially motivated.
Emanuella Grinberg / CNN:
4 arrested in beating broadcast on Facebook Live  —  (CNN)A young woman who broadcast the beating and racial taunting of a man on Facebook Live has been arrested with three others in connection with the gruesome attack, Chicago police said Wednesday.  —  The disturbing 30-minute video shows …
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Pro-Trump narratives converge in one awful attack streamed on Facebook  —  If you believe discrimination against white people is rampant, that Donald Trump supporters face persecution, that Chicago is a war zone, and the media is dishonest, then your entire worldview is likely to be confirmed by one awful story.
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
4 held after Facebook video shows torture of disabled man by group railing against Trump, whites
Frank Main / Chicago Sun Times:   Four charged with videotaped attack on mentally disabled man
New York Times:
4 Questioned After Video Shows Racially Charged Beating in Chicago
Discussion: NBC News and JustOneMinute
CBS Chicago:
Chicago Police Investigate Live-Streamed Torture
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 …
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
GOP revives rule allowing $1 salaries for government employees
Discussion: The Week
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.
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
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Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet:
At Least 50 Trump Electors Were Illegitimately Seated as Electoral College Members  —  More evidence surfaces as calls mount to challenge congressional ratification of Electoral College vote.  —  More than 50 Electoral College members who voted for Donald Trump were ineligible to serve …
Drudge Report:
TUCKER NEW CABLE KING GETS 9 PM FOXNEWS  —  2017 starts off with a BANG! as FOX NEWS executives will announce Tucker Carlson replaces the vacating Megyn Kelly at 9 PM ET, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.  —  The dramatic move caps Carlson's rapid rise at the nation's top-rated cable channel.
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Don't Forget That Megyn Kelly Is a Racial Demagogue  —  The recent flattering coverage of her move to NBC leaves out the ugliest episodes of her work at Fox.  —  Megyn Kelly had a good 2016.  Between her news-making stint as a Fox News debate moderator, a flattering profile in Vanity Fair …
Discussion: RedState, theGrio and The Root
Reuters:
U.S. obtained evidence after election that Russia leaked emails: officials  —  U.S. intelligence agencies obtained what they considered to be conclusive evidence after the November election that Russia provided hacked material from the Democratic National Committee to WikiLeaks through a third party …
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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Five things to watch for in Russia hearings
Discussion: Politico
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Attacks of U.S. Intelligence on Russia Unnerve Lawmakers
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
GOP to defund Planned Parenthood in ObamaCare repeal  —  (R-Wis.) said Thursday that defunding Planned Parenthood will be included as part of a bill to repeal ObamaCare.  —  Ryan said cutting off federal funds to the organization will be included in a “reconciliation” bill that also repeals the core of ObamaCare.
Discussion: RedState
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Planned Parenthood would lose funding as part of Obamacare repeal, Ryan says
Discussion: Common Dreams and The Week
Kelly Cohen / Washington Examiner:
Repeal Obamacare when a replacement is ready
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Larry J. Sabato / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
2017: At the Dawn of the Age of Trump  —  It's already clear that the very strange political year of 2016 is bleeding over into the New Year.  How could it be otherwise?  President-elect Donald Trump, loved and hated by about equal numbers of Americans, continues to ignore or break with convention in a wide variety of areas.
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Indiana Mayor Running for D.N.C. Chairman  —  WASHINGTON — Warning that beleaguered Democrats cannot afford a replay of their contentious presidential primary in the race to lead the Democratic National Committee, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., Pete Buttigieg, entered the contest for party chairman …
Discussion: Political Wire
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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The Hill:
Can a continuous coverage requirement produce a healthy insurance market?
Discussion: Washington Post
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Gingrich to Schumer: Be worried if Trump focuses on you  —  New Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer should take a lesson from the past and brace himself for the full force of a nickname from President-elect Donald Trump, Newt Gingrich said Thursday.  —  In Twitter posts each of the past two days …
Discussion: Political Wire, The Hill and IJR
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Meg Wagner / New York Daily News:
President-elect Donald Trump calls Chuck Schumer ‘clown,’ blasts Obamacare in typo-filled tweets
Discussion: Townhall.com and theGrio
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
With Obamacare, GOP faces the ‘Pottery Barn rule’: You break it, you own it
Discussion: Hot Air, The Root and The Atlantic
Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
President Obama Awards Himself Distinguished Public Service Medal  —  On Wednesday, President Obama added another prestigious medal to his Nobel Prize collection when he had Defense Secretary Ash Carter award him with the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
GOP aims to rein in liberal cities  —  After consolidating power in Washington, D.C. and state capitals under President-elect Donald Trump  —  , Republicans are moving to prevent large cities dominated by Democrats from enacting sweeping liberal agendas.  —  Republican state legislatures …
Discussion: Political Wire
Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
The Media's Favorite ‘Millennial’ Is 55 Years Old  —  Last week, it happened again.  This time it was Forbes, smack dab in the headline.  —  “Millennial Dan Nainan Left Intel To Make His Millions Entertaining Others With Comedy.”  —  Millennial Dan Nainan has been the go-to millennial …
Discussion: Boing Boing
BostonGlobe.com:
Bristol Sheriff offers inmates to build Trump's Mexico wall  —  FALL RIVER — Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson has made a personal offer to President-elect Donald J. Trump: Bristol County inmates will be available to help build Trump's border wall with Mexico.  —  Yes, really.
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Scott Malone / Reuters:
Massachusetts sheriff offers prison inmates to build Trump's wall
Discussion: RedState
 
 
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Florida Attorney General Bondi Said to Have Job Under Trump
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Nathan Bomey / USA Today:
Stanley Black & Decker to open U.S. plant after Trump's ‘border tax’ threat
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Two contractors allege getting stiffed for work on Trump's D.C. hotel
Barack Obama / The White House:
To my fellow Americans  —  President Obama's letter …
Discussion: Business Insider and NPR
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Trump sits for sworn deposition in Trump Tower
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