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11:45 AM ET, January 9, 2017

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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Donald Trump Says He's Not Surprised by Meryl Streep's Golden Globes Speech  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump dismissed Meryl Streep as “a Hillary lover” early Monday morning after the actress, in a speech at the Golden Globes award ceremony, denounced him as a bully who disrespected and humiliated others.
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New York Times:
Meryl Streep's Golden Globes Speech  —  Turning attention away from her and toward Donald J. Trump, Meryl Streep used her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes to call out the president-elect for mocking a disabled New York Times reporter in 2015, and warned that a free press would need to be defended.
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
Kellyanne Conway: I Wish Meryl Streep Was As Concerned About Disabled Boy Tortured On Facebook Live  —  Senior Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway responds to Meryl Streep's diatribe against Donald Trump at the Golden Globes:  —  KELLYANNE CONWAY: I'm glad Meryl Streep has such a passion …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Conway Suggests Streep Misused Globes Platform  —  The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST):  —  A top aide to Donald Trump says actress Meryl Streep should have supported the president-elect instead of denouncing him from the stage of the Golden Globes.
Discussion: Politico, Washington Post and Mediaite
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Conway: What's In Trump's Heart More Important Than What He Says (VIDEO)  —  Top Donald Trump aide Kellyanne Conway on Monday morning defended Trump's 2015 campaign appearance during which he appeared to mock a disabled reporter.  —  Conway criticized members of the media for focusing …
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Top Trump aide deflects Russia hacking questions
Discussion: IJR and AOL
Sen. Mitch McConnell / Fox News:
Senate Majority Leader McConnell: ObamaCare failed Americans.  Now it's time for relief  —  By nearly any measure, ObamaCare has failed: It didn't lower costs, it didn't increase choice, middle-class families continue to lose health plans they were promised they could keep, and Americans continue to call for ObamaCare's repeal.
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Obamacare repeal's doomsday scenario  —  Hospital and health plan leaders talk in almost apocalyptic terms about what might lie ahead if Republicans abolish Obamacare without a blueprint for its replacement.  —  Their doomsday scenario: Millions of people could lose their health care coverage …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Camilla Turner / Telegraph:
University students demand philosophers such as Plato and Kant are removed from syllabus because they are white  —  They are the said to be the founding fathers of Western philosophy, whose ideas underpin civilised society.  —  But students at a prestigious London university are demanding …
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
White Hot Rage of the Left [With Pedagogical Comment by John]
Jonathan Petre / Daily Mail:
They Kant be serious!  PC students demand white philosophers including Plato and Descartes …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama retools his political operation for post-Trump  —  Barack Obama doesn't want his post-presidency to be all about Donald Trump, but he knows some of it's going to have to be.  —  Trump's win upended his plans for life after leaving office, and people who've been talking to him say he's …
Orlando Sentinel:
Orlando police officer killed, and massive manhunt underway for suspect  —  A flag-covered coffin being loaded into the back of a van at Orlando Regional Medical Center.  Courtesy @orlandopolice.  —  Privacy Policy  —  An Orlando police officer was shot and killed this morning on Princeton Street …
Discussion: Townhall.com, IJR and Associated Press
Brenda Goh / Reuters:
Chinese state tabloid warns Trump, end one China policy and China will take revenge  —  State-run Chinese tabloid Global Times sounded a warning to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday only hours after Taiwan's president transited Houston, saying that China would seek to “take revenge” should Trump renege on the one-China policy.
Andrew Rice / New York Magazine:
Jared Kushner's Rise to Unimaginable Power  —  Jared Kushner is more like his father-in-law than anyone imagines.  —  Until very recently, and to all outward appearances, Jared Kushner was just another socially striving young businessman with inoffensively Bloombergian political values.
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
The ‘Keepin’ it 1600' Guys Launch Crooked Media to Counter Trump  —  With Donald Trump about to enter the White House, they just don't feel like “keepin' it 1600” anymore.  —  Just before Christmas, former Obama administration staffers Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett and Tommy Vietor recorded …
Donald P. Moynihan / New York Times:
Who's Really Placing Limits on Free Speech?  —  MADISON, Wis. — At least three times in the past six months, state legislators have threatened to cut the budget of the University of Wisconsin at Madison for teaching about homosexuality, gender and race.  As a faculty member who focuses …
Discussion: Althouse
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton made a rare appearance at ‘The Color Purple’ — and got three standing ovations  —  Hillary Clinton made a rare public appearance at the Broadway musical “The Color Purple” on Sunday — and received three standing ovations.  —  Photos from the scene showed people gawking at Clinton and snapping photos.
Discussion: The Week and The Daily Caller
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Arrests Volkswagen Executive on Conspiracy Charge in Emissions Scandal  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Volkswagen executive in Florida, accusing him of playing a central role in a broad conspiracy to keep United States regulators from discovering that diesel vehicles …
The Hill:
What Trump can accomplish on day one  —  Judging by his campaign promises, Donald Trump  —  will be a busy man on his first day in the Oval Office.  —  Trump has pledged to take sweeping, unilateral actions on Jan. 20 to roll back President Obama's policies and set the course for his administration.
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Kushner to be named ‘senior adviser’ to Trump: report  —  Lawyers have etched out a plan for President-elect Donald Trump  —  's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to serve in the new administration, according to a report.  —  Mike Allen said in his inaugural Axios AM e-letter early Monday that Kushner will serve as senior adviser.
Discussion: RedState
Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
Someone is trying to take down the Drudge Report — and it's a mystery who's behind it  —  The Drudge Report, the highly trafficked conservative news website, has been knocked offline for extended periods of time over the course of the last two weeks, succumbing to large distributed denial of service attacks …
Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed:
A Jewish Couple Say They Received A Racist Note After Hanging A Black Lives Matter Flag  —  A Maryland family said they woke up Saturday to find an anti-Semitic note on their car, just days after they hung a Black Lives Matter flag on their window. … Jewish couple Sonya and Mikey Franklin …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 
 
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Yahoo:
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