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3:15 PM ET, January 6, 2017

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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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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
Jeremy Ashkenas / New York Times:
Was It a 400-Pound, 14-Year-Old Hacker, or Russia?  Here's Some of the Evidence  —  In recent weeks, President-elect Donald J. Trump has taken to Twitter to cast doubt over a United States joint intelligence assessment that Russian intelligence services are responsible for hacking …
TIME:
U.S. Intelligence Report Identifies Russians Who Gave DNC Emails to Wikileaks
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Bloomberg:
FBI Says Democrats Refused Access to Hacked E-Mail Servers
Discussion: Politico
NBC News:
Top Russians Celebrated When Trump Won, Intel Report Says: Source
Adam Entous / Washington Post:
U.S. intercepts capture senior Russian officials celebrating Trump win
Associated Press:
Trump Hours Away From Briefing on Classified Russia Report
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Washington Times
Ashley Collman / Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: Gunman in custody after killing five and injuring six at Florida's Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport  —  A gunman is in custody after a deadly shooting at the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport.  —  Sources tell DailyMail.com that the shooter killed five people and injured six more Friday afternoon.
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Five people killed in shooting at Fort Lauderdale airport, suspect in custody  —  Police said five people were killed in a shooting Friday afternoon at the Fort Lauderdale international airport that also sent several others to the hospital.  —  The suspected shooter is in custody …
CNN:
Fort Lauderdale airport shooting: Suspect in custody, 9 injured  —  Reports: Shots fired at Florida airport  —  (CNN)At least nine people were injured in a shooting at the Fort Lauderdale airport on Friday, a US official familiar with the incident said.  The shooter is in custody, according to the official.
Nicole Lopez-Alvar / WSVN-TV:
TSA: Unconfirmed active shooter at FLL; Broward Sheriff confirms 5 dead, 8 hurt at earlier shooting  —  According to the Broward Sheriff's Office, there are at least five people dead and eight injured after a shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, and TSA is reporting …
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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Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
Leon Panetta: Donald Trump should not be tweeting intelligence criticism
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 …
Discussion: IJR
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
GOP lawmaker removes painting of police as animals from Capitol
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
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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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.
Discussion: Politico
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Corker: Trump still answers cellphone, doesn't screen my calls
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
Justin Miller / American Prospect:
Jeff Sessions Is Public Enemy Number One for Voting-Rights Groups  —  Common Cause, a nonpartisan political advocacy and watchdog group, rarely wades into political nomination battles.  In its nearly half-century of existence, the group has come out in staunch opposition to just a handful …
Discussion: Advocate
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Sherrod Brown will vote against Sessions
Discussion: Daily Kos
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.
Discussion: Morning Consult and CBS Boston
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.
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 …
CNN:
Michelle Obama in final speech: 'I hope I've made you proud'  — In her time at the White House, Mrs. Obama has championed education, fitness, and military families  —  (CNN)Michelle Obama gave her final White House remarks in an emotional speech Friday, thanking her supporters and saying …
Discussion: theGrio, twitchy.com and The Week
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Liam Quinn / Daily Mail:
Now Obama's building a wall! …
 
 
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Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
Scandals Aplenty  —  The media just pretended they didn't exist.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House Democrats fail to muster support to challenge Trump's Electoral College win
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Belinda Cleary / Daily Mail:
Millennials are entitled, narcissistic and lazy …
Meg Anderson / NPR:
Bernie Sanders Says Trump Won Because Democrats Are Out Of Touch
Discussion: Political Wire
Mary Katharine Ham / The Federalist:
Watch The Voting Community Demand Hollywood Try Harder On Their Lame Activist Videos
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Associated Press:
Philadelphia Pizza Deliveryman Shot By Police Gets $4.4M Settlement
Discussion: The Root
Jason Furman / Blog Daily Listings RSS:
Eight Years of Labor Market Progress and the Employment Situation in December
Discussion: Politico, Morning Consult and CNBC
Lyda Longa / Daytona Beach News-Journal:
Children whose parents found dead on I-4 were watching movie in running car
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The most expensive F-35 variant has hit another major snag that could take years to fix
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Tom Pepinsky:
Everyday Authoritarianism is Boring and Tolerable
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Frank Abderholden / Chicago Tribune:
Zion police back woman's account of alleged racial slur by Dairy Queen franchise owner
Discussion: WGN-TV and Raw Story
Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Conservatives ready to support $1 trillion hole in the budget
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