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CNN:
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.
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Intel Leaders Squarely Blame Election Hacking on Russia
Intel Leaders Squarely Blame Election Hacking on Russia
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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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The Hill:
Ryan: GOP's goal is to replace, repeal ObamaCare ‘concurrently’
Ryan: GOP's goal is to replace, repeal ObamaCare ‘concurrently’
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Politico, Daily Kos, CNN and Political Wire
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
The GOP Dream Of O'care Repeal Now Hinges On Coming Up With Replacement
The GOP Dream Of O'care Repeal Now Hinges On Coming Up With Replacement
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Daily Kos, The Mahablog and Business Insider
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate Dems end ObamaCare repeal protest after 5 hours
Senate Dems end ObamaCare repeal protest after 5 hours
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CNN:
Booker to testify against fellow senator Sessions in unprecedented move — Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is set to testify against Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions Wednesday in an unprecedented move during his attorney general confirmation. — This would be the first time in Senate history …
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BuzzFeed:
Letter Written By MLK's Widow That Blasted Jeff Sessions Is Missing — The damning letter, which helped deny Sessions a federal judgeship in 1986, was never entered into the congressional record, and all known copies are being kept from the public. — Sen. Jeff Sessions speaking at a rally for Donald Trump in October 2016.
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Andrea Ruth / RedState:
The Left Has Lost its Mind: Cory Booker to Testify Against Sessions
The Left Has Lost its Mind: Cory Booker to Testify Against Sessions
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New York Times:
Hearing Highlights: Sessions Questioned on Links to Xenophobia
Hearing Highlights: Sessions Questioned on Links to Xenophobia
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Corey Booker, No Longer ‘Mr. Bipartisan’
Corey Booker, No Longer ‘Mr. Bipartisan’
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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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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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Ari Berman / The Nation:
Jeff Sessions Has Spent His Whole Career Opposing Voting Rights
Jeff Sessions Has Spent His Whole Career Opposing Voting Rights
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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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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
Exclusive: Fox News Settled With Fmr. Anchor Who Claimed Bill O'Reilly and Fox President Sexually Harassed Her
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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:
Obama says goodbye — Watch CNN Films' premiere of its documentary, “The End: Inside the Last Days of the Obama White House,” on January 18 at 9 p.m. ET on CNN. — (CNN)Popular but politically humbled, President Barack Obama says goodbye to the nation Tuesday night in a dramatic reinterpretation of a presidential farewell address.
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Tré Goins-Phillips / TheBlaze:
Obama staffers can't find work in Trump's DC: ‘There are no jobs’
Obama staffers can't find work in Trump's DC: ‘There are no jobs’
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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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Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Negative Views of Trump's Transition, Amid Concerns About Conflicts, Tax Returns — 58% say Trump will be ‘too impulsive’ making important decisions — Ahead of Donald Trump's scheduled press conference in New York City on Wednesday, the public continues to give the president-elect low marks …
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Politico, TheBlaze, Pew Research Center and Political Wire
Dara Lind / Vox:
Retired Gen. John Kelly is Trump's pick to run immigration enforcement. Here's why Dems aren't fighting him. — If anything, they're hoping he'll “speak truth to power.” — There are plenty of Trump administration nominees that Senate Democrats are gravely concerned about.
Michael Gartland / New York Post:
Al D'Amato kicked off flight after starting rebellion against crew — Former Sen. Al D'Amato was escorted from a JetBlue flight Monday night after trying to lead passengers in a chant protesting seating changes requested by the crew, an eyewitness on the flight told The Post.
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Ana Swanson / Washington Post:
Conservatives really are better looking, research says — Research has found that being attractive influences many things in a person's life — their salary, their popularity and grades in school, even the prison sentences they receive. So why not their politics?
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