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4:00 PM 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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Caroline Cunningham / Washingtonian:
Actually, Mr. Trump, Washington's Dress Shops Are Not All Sold Out  —  On Sunday night, President-elect Donald Trump gave a “heated” late-night interview to the New York Times' Patrick Healy following Meryl Streep's speech at the Golden Globes.  “We are going to have an unbelievable …
Discussion: Washington Post
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
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:   Conway: What's In Trump's Heart More Important Than What He Says (VIDEO)
Emily Heil / Washington Post:
Donald Trump says D.C.'s dress shops are sold out of inauguration gowns. Wrong!
Daily Mail:
Trump fires back at Meryl Streep and calls her 'one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood …
Ashley Feinberg / Gizmodo:
Trump Just Dismissed the People in Charge of Maintaining Our Nuclear Arsenal  —  Between the Trump transition team's infighting, incompetence, and high-profile resignations, any decisions that signaled even a modicum of stability for the country would come as a relief at this point.
Discussion: Shakesville, The Week and Raw Story
Peter Hockaday / San Francisco Chronicle:
Historic Pioneer Cabin Tree toppled in California storm  —  The historic Pioneer Cabin Tree, a former “drive-through” giant sequoia in Calaveras Big Trees State Park in Calaveras County, was felled in California's weekend storms.  —  The tree was hollowed out in the 1880s to allow tourists …
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Reuters:
Jared Kushner to be named Trump senior adviser: media  —  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will appoint his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to the position of senior adviser to the president, media outlets reported on Monday, a potentially thorny choice in the face of anti-nepotism law.
Discussion: NBC News, New York Times and AOL
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Kushner to be named ‘senior adviser’ to Trump: report
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and RedState
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 …
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Discussion: Washington Monthly
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Former Obama staffers launching anti-Trump site called ‘Crooked Media’  —  Three former staffers to President Obama are launching an anti-Donald Trump  —  media site called “Crooked Media.”  —  Tommy Vietor, Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett, who served as spokespeople and speechwriters for Obama …
Discussion: Heat Street
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
The ‘Keepin’ it 1600' Guys Launch Crooked Media to Counter Trump
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
A Dairy Queen owner unleashed a racist tirade against a customer.  He no longer has a business.  —  The Dairy Queen owner shouting the n-word at Deianeira Ford told her he could say whatever he wanted at his fast-food restaurant — that any accusations and complaints she uttered would fall on deaf ears.
Discussion: Mediaite, TheBlaze and grubstreet
Barack Obama / Science:
The irreversible momentum of clean energy  —  Private-sector incentives help drive decoupling of emissions and economic growth.  —  The release of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) due to human activity is increasing global average surface air temperatures …
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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Jonathan Petre / Daily Mail:
They Kant be serious!  PC students demand white philosophers including Plato and Descartes …
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Rand Paul rolling out ObamaCare replacement this week  —  (R-Ky.) is pledging to roll out an ObamaCare replacement bill this week as GOP lawmakers rush to nix the healthcare law.  —  The Kentucky senator argued Monday that the law must be replaced with “real market reforms.”
Military Times:
The Obama era is over.  Here's how the military rates his legacy  —  President Barack Obama will step down after eight years as commander in chief with one of the most influential tenures leading the U.S. military, but not necessarily the political support of service members.
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Kellyanne Conway unplugged  —  NEW YORK — Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway's life has come full circle.  —  The little girl from Atco, N.J., raised in a collaborative effort by her mother, a grandmother and two aunts, all living under the same roof, now has her mother living in her home …
Discussion: TheBlaze and Instapundit
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.
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Democrats demand black lawmakers testify at Sessions hearing  —  Democratic senators are pushing to let Congressional Black Caucus members testify at the confirmation hearing for Jeff Sessions as attorney general this week — heightening the issue of race in what's already expected to be a contentious nomination battle.
New York Times:
Marches and Identity Politics Are Futile  —  Angie Morelli, a small business owner in Las Vegas and a student at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, is a Marine Corps veteran and a former delegate for Bernie Sanders at the Democratic convention.  —  I have been an activist for years.
The Guardian:
We were ethics lawyers for Bush and Obama.  Trump's cabinet hearings must be delayed  —  The Senate plans to hold confirmation hearings before all nominees' financial disclosure reports and ethics agreements are finalized.  That's a dangerous move  —  s the former White House ethics counsels …
Discussion: Raw Story
Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
A Window Into a Depraved Culture  —  The Chicago torture video provides a close-up look at gang-centered criminal mayhem.  —  Public safety  —  Cities  —  Anti-police activists and the mainstream media are incensed at the suggestion that the Black Lives Matter movement could have influenced …
Discussion: Power Line and Instapundit
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Fiat Chrysler says Trump had nothing to do with its jobs announcement  —  The company says it has already invested $9.6 billion in the U.S. and created 25,000 jobs since 2009.  —  On Sunday, FCA US, the parent company of Fiat and Chrysler, announced that it will spend $1 billion to expand plants …
 
 
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Laura Barron-Lopez / The Huffington Post:
Senate Democrats To Hold Late-Night Talkathon Against Obamacare Repeal
Discussion: Hot Air, Daily Kos and The Week
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
It's time to retire the tainted term ‘fake news’
Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC:
Alibaba job boom: Jack Ma chats with Trump about how to create 1 million US jobs over 5 years
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump planning to give Cabinet unusually wide latitude
Discussion: Associated Press
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Iran: U.S. Surrendered More Than $10 Billion in Gold, Cash, Assets
Discussion: The Geller Report
 Earlier Items: 
Medea Benjamin / The Guardian:
America dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. What a bloody end to Obama's reign
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Donald P. Moynihan / New York Times:
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Obamacare repeal's doomsday scenario
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The Hill:
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