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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Says Focus on Russian Hacking Is a ‘Political Witch Hunt’ — WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump said in an interview Friday morning that the storm surrounding Russian hacking during the presidential campaign is a political witch hunt being carried out by his adversaries …
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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
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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J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
'Don't You Say That Again': Conway and Cuomo Get Into Transfixing War of Words Over Russia Hacks — In a meaty interview that raged on for the better part of twenty minutes this morning, CNN New Day anchor Chris Cuomo sparred with Kellyanne Conway of the Trump campaign on a wide variety of controversies …
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Jeremy Ashkenas / New York Times:
Was It a 400-Pound, 14-Year-Old Hacker, or Russia? Here's Some of the Evidence
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump slams media on border wall: Mexico will pay us back
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TIME:
U.S. Intelligence Report Identifies Russians Who Gave DNC Emails to Wikileaks
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Associated Press:
Trump Hours Away From Briefing on Classified Russia Report
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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Vicente Fox blasts Trump over ‘his racist monument’
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NBC News:
Top Russians Celebrated When Trump Won, Intel Report Says: Source
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
House GOP, Trump team hatch border wall plan
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump calls Russia hacking allegations a ‘political witch hunt’
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Bloomberg:
Growing GOP Doubts Jeopardize Swift Obamacare Repeal in Senate — Four Republican senators express strong doubts about strategy — McConnell says GOP can act later in year to address gaps — A fourth Republican senator has voiced strong doubts about the party's current strategy …
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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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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 …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Arnold Schwarzenegger Responds to Trump Taunts — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST): — Arnold Schwarzenegger is responding to Donald Trump's taunting on Twitter. The former California governor says the president-elect should work as hard to represent all Americans as he did for TV ratings.
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Corker: Trump still answers cellphone, doesn't screen my calls
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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 …
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker removes painting depicting police as pigs — A House Republican on Friday personally removed a controversial painting that depicts police officers as feral pigs in a hallway connecting to the Capitol. — Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) stripped the painting …
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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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2018 — Nobody expected 2017 to start this way.
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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 …
TMZ.com:
President Obama Builds a Wall for Rental House (PHOTO GALLERY) — President Obama is taking a cue from Donald Trump ... he's building himself a wall. — We got photos of construction at Obama's soon-to-be D.C. rental. You also see construction in the garage. As we reported, it will become an office with a bathroom.
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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.
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.
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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Jason Furman / Blog Daily Listings RSS:
Eight Years of Labor Market Progress and the Employment Situation in December — Employment grew at a solid rate of 156,000 jobs in December as the longest streak of total job growth by far on record continued. Average hourly earnings for private employees increased 2.9 percent in 2016 …
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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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