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Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
A lead Republican in the fight to repeal Obamacare said Monday night that he wanted to work in a step by step manner to repeal Obamcare once a replacement was “available to the American people ” — Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is the chairman of the Senate's HELP Committee and has been a leading voice …
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
5 GOP Senators Propose Delay On O'Care Repeal To Work Out Replacement — After publicly airing some of their grievances with the GOP's current strategy of repealing Obamacare without a replacement plan, a handful of Republican senators put their concerns in legislative writing.
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Bloomberg:
Breakaway Senate Republicans Push to Delay Obamacare Repeal — More support for ‘repeal and replace’ to happen simultaneously — Republicans increasingly open to delaying repeal of tax hikes — A breakaway group of five moderate Senate Republicans pushed Monday to delay …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP leaders vow to plow ahead with Obamacare repeal
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Today in Obamacare: I used to think Obamacare repeal was for sure. 2 things changed my mind.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Rand Paul rolling out ObamaCare replacement this week
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Laura Barron-Lopez / The Huffington Post:
Senate Democrats To Hold Late-Night Talkathon Against Obamacare Repeal
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New York Times:
Obama Watchdog in Congress Has New Target in Trump Era: Postal Reform — An Obama watchdog has changed his tune now that a Republican will be in the White House. — President-elect Donald J. Trump, after an intelligence report concluded that Russia tried to help him get elected, is going after ... Meryl Streep.
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Diana Pearl / People.com:
D.C. Dress Shops Dispute Trump's Claim That They Are ‘Sold-Out’ for Inauguration: 'There's Never Been Less Demand'
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Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Sessions failed to disclose oil interests as required, ethics experts say — Attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions did not disclose his ownership of oil interests on land in Alabama as required by federal ethics rules, according to an examination of state records and independent ethics lawyers who reviewed the documents.
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Grace Watkins / Politico:
Trump Pick Monica Crowley Plagiarized Parts of Her Ph.D. Dissertation — Monica Crowley, President-Elect Donald J. Trump's pick for a top National Security Council job, plagiarized numerous passages in her Ph.D. dissertation, Politico Magazine has found. — An examination of the dissertation …
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Alyssa Rosenberg / Washington Post:
The Trump team's embarrassing defense of fraudulence — President-elect Donald Trump's ability to inhabit his own private, convenient reality is a firmly established part of his style right now. And one of the many insidious things about his coming presidency is his attempt to force the rest …
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Farah Stockman / New York Times:
Women's March on Washington Opens Contentious Dialogues About Race — Many thousands of women are expected to converge on the nation's capital for the Women's March on Washington the day after Donald J. Trump's inauguration. Jennifer Willis no longer plans to be one of them.
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Ryan Mac / Forbes:
A Troll Outside Trump Tower Is Helping To Pick Your Next Government — An internet troll, who was once called “the most hated man on the internet” and is banned from Twitter, is recommending candidates to serve in the Trump administration. — Charles “Chuck” Johnson …
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Liam Quinn / Daily Mail:
Shocked waitress is left a racist note by white couple who 'don't tip black people' even after they admitted she gave them ‘great service’ — A waitress who served a white couple at a Virginia restaurant was left a racist message instead of a tip. — The waitress, Kelly Carter …
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Mike Carter-Conneen / WJLA-TV:
Waitress undeterred by racist note left on bill at restaurant — There's outrage in Ashburn after a couple of customers left a local restaurant without tipping their waitress. Instead, they left her a racially-charged message on the bill. — “Great service don't tip black people.”
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.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House defends Meryl Streep's anti-Trump speech — President Obama's top spokesman on Monday defended actress Meryl Streep's Golden Globes speech that criticized President-elect Donald Trump — “She clearly was delivering a thoughtful, carefully considered message that she believes in deeply …
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CNN:
Kerry apologizes for State Department discrimination against LGBT employees — Fallout from UN resolution on Israel continues — (CNN)The State Department on Monday formally apologized for what it describes as decades of discrimination against LGBT employees and job applicants …
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Oren Dorell / USA Today:
ExxonMobil and Iran did business under Secretary of State nominee Tillerson — The transactions included $53.2 million in sales to Iran over three years. — ExxonMobil did business with Iran, Syria and Sudan through a European subsidiary while President-elect Donald Trump's nominee …
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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 …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump advisers to begin tax talks with Speaker Ryan — One of the biggest Republican projects of the year — tax reform — will begin Monday evening at the Capitol, with several top advisers to President-elect Donald Trump scheduled to hold a lengthy meeting with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan and his team …
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Dakota Smith / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. needs to borrow millions to cover legal payouts, city report says — Brendon Glenn lived near the Venice boardwalk and often spent days skateboarding at the skate park before he was shot and killed during an altercation with Los Angeles police. The L.A. City Council settled lawsuits brought by his relatives over the killing.
Michael Wolff / Newsweek:
The Trump establishment's cultural significance, explained — U.S. DONALD TRUMP — If all his other cultural blasphemies did not finish off Donald Trump, his grab-them-by-the-pussy line, in the overwhelming opinion of the liberal media, would. That it did not might suggest …
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