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Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him — (CNN)Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump …
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BuzzFeed:
These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia — A dossier, compiled by a person who has claimed to be a former British intelligence official, allege Russia has compromising information on Trump. The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors.
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Julian Borger / The Guardian:
FBI chief given dossier by John McCain alleging secret Trump-Russia contacts — Senator John McCain passed documents to the FBI director, James Comey, last month alleging secret contacts between the Trump campaign and Moscow and that Russian intelligence had personally compromising material on the president-elect himself.
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Lawfare:
About that Explosive Trump Story: Take a Deep Breath — This afternoon, CNN reported that President Barack Obama and President-Elect Donald Trump had been briefed by the intelligence community on the existence of a cache of memos alleging communication between the Trump campaign and Russian officials …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Yikes: Intel chiefs told Trump Russia claims to have compromising personal and financial information on him; Update: CNN video added; Update: Memos leaked to BuzzFeed — Quite a bombshell from Jake Tapper and CNN. It suuuure is interesting that this is dropping the night …
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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Intelligence chiefs briefed Trump and Obama on unconfirmed claims Russia has compromising information on president-elect — A classified report delivered to President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump last week included a section summarizing allegations that Russian intelligence services …
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Power Line
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
Michael Cohen: ‘It Is Fake News Meant to Malign Mr. Trump’
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Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
Read the letter Coretta Scott King wrote opposing Sessions's 1986 federal nomination — The widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. urged Congress to block the 1986 nomination of Jeff Sessions for federal judge, saying that allowing him to join the federal bench would …
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Letter Written By MLK's Widow That Blasted Jeff Sessions Is Missing
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Where Sessions broke with Trump
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New York Times:
Hearing Highlights: Sessions Questioned on Links to Xenophobia
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Corey Booker, No Longer ‘Mr. Bipartisan’
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Andrea Ruth / RedState:
The Left Has Lost its Mind: Cory Booker to Testify Against Sessions
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New York Times:
Trump Pushes Republicans for Immediate Repeal of Obama Health Law — President-elect Donald J. Trump pressed Republicans on Tuesday to move forward with the immediate repeal of the Affordable Care Act and to replace it very quickly thereafter, saying, “We have to get to business.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
In a new interview, Trump reveals he has no idea what's going on with Obamacare — Calls for quick replacement of the ACA with ... something. — In a puzzling interview with Maggie Haberman and Margot Sanger-Katz of the New York Times, Donald Trump weighed-in on the legislative mechanics …
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Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump's trouble: Obama won't go away — WASHINGTON — With an unpredictable foe in the White House, the national party in disarray and even more congressional losses looming in 2018, Democrats are begging Barack Obama to keep himself in the headlines after he leaves office. — He's eager to deliver.
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CNN:
Obama says goodbye — Watch CNN Films' premiere of its documentary …
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Tré Goins-Phillips / TheBlaze:
Obama staffers can't find work in Trump's DC: ‘There are no jobs’
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New York Times:
Fox News Settled Sexual Harassment Allegations Against Bill O'Reilly, Documents Show — In the weeks after Roger Ailes was ousted as the chairman of Fox News in July, amid a sexual harassment scandal, company executives secretly struck an agreement with a longtime on-air personality …
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Rachel Stockman / Law News:
Exclusive: Fox News Settled With Fmr. Anchor Who Claimed Bill O'Reilly and Fox President Sexually Harassed Her
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
CBC: 'We may just have to kick somebody's ass' over painting removal — A spat between black lawmakers and Republicans over a painting on display in the Capitol got uglier Tuesday after multiple GOP lawmakers removed the painting for the second time in a week — and the chairman …
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Will Trump Avoid a Constitutional Crisis? — In 1785, when Benjamin Franklin, then the U.S. Ambassador to France, was set to return home, King Louis XVI presented him with a snuffbox decorated with a diamond-encrusted painting of the king. While gift-giving of this sort was common in European diplomacy …
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Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
Trump's Lawyer Says Untrue Tweets Were Hyperbolic, Gets Libel Suit Thrown Out — One of Donald Trump's lawyers just successfully got a libel lawsuit against the president-elect thrown out of court. And you're never going to believe how he did it. The lawyer successfully argued …
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New York Times:
Dylann Roof Is Sentenced to Death in Charleston Church Massacre — CHARLESTON, S.C. — Dylann S. Roof, the impenitent and inscrutable white supremacist who killed nine African-American churchgoers in a brazenly racial assault almost 19 months ago, shocking the world over the persistence …
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CNN:
Dylann Roof jury: Death penalty for Charleston church shooter
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Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
Jury sentences Dylann Roof to death for Charleston church slayings
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Power Line and Mother Jones
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Vaccine skeptic Robert Kennedy Jr. says Trump asked him to lead commission on ‘vaccine safety’ — President-elect Donald Trump asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a proponent of a widely discredited theory that vaccines cause autism, to chair a new commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity, Kennedy said Tuesday.
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Franken catches Sessions lying about his civil rights record — The attorney general-designate claimed he'd personally litigated cases. He did not. — Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, struggled on Tuesday to explain why he had listed multiple civil rights cases …
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Pew Research Center:
Behind the Badge — Amid protests and calls for reform, how police view their jobs, key issues and recent fatal encounters between blacks and police — Police work has always been hard. Today police say it is even harder. In a new Pew Research Center national survey conducted …
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