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3:40 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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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 …
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
TIME:
U.S. Intelligence Report Identifies Russians Who Gave DNC Emails to Wikileaks
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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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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.
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 …
Nicole Lopez-Alvar / WSVN-TV:
TSA: Unconfirmed active shooter at FLL; Broward Sheriff confirms 5 dead, 8 hurt at earlier shooting
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Facebook Hires Campbell Brown to Lead News Partnerships Team  —  Facebook is turning to a former television news journalist to help smooth over its strained ties to the news media, which views it as both a vital partner and a potentially devastating opponent.
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Campbell Brown / Facebook:
I have some exciting news to share.  This month I will be joining Facebook to lead its News Partnerships team.  This is a different role for me, but one where I will be tapping my newsroom experience to help news organizations and journalists work more closely and more effectively with Facebook.
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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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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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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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
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
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.
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 …
Gwynne Hogan / DNAinfo New York:
Sex Attacks Up 62 Percent in Greenpoint as Most Cases Remain Unsolved  —  GREENPOINT — There has been a 62 percent jump in sex attacks reported in Greenpoint over the last year with the majority not resulting in arrests, police statistics show.  —  In 2016, the NYPD was told about 13 rapes …
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Magazine
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.
Belinda Cleary / Daily Mail:
Millennials are entitled, narcissistic and lazy - but it's not their fault: Expert claims ‘every child wins a prize’ and social media has left Gen Y unable to deal with the real world  —  Leadership consultant Simon Sinek has been told that millennials - people born after 1982 - are 'entitled …
 
 
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Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Trump's education nominee and her family members are major donors to the senators who will vote on her confirmation
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
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Meg Anderson / NPR:
Bernie Sanders Says Trump Won Because Democrats Are Out Of Touch
Discussion: Political Wire
Mary Katharine Ham / The Federalist:
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Jason Furman / Blog Daily Listings RSS:
Eight Years of Labor Market Progress and the Employment Situation in December
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Lyda Longa / Daytona Beach News-Journal:
Children whose parents found dead on I-4 were watching movie in running car
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Alex Lockie / Business Insider:
The most expensive F-35 variant has hit another major snag that could take years to fix
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Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com:
Warren announces she's running for re-election
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
Bryan Bender / Politico:
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Disney said Disney+ Q4 ARPU in the US and Canada, down 1% QoQ to $7.70, was affected partly by new wholesale arrangements with some distributors

The Hollywood Reporter:
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