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First on CNN: Trump's cabinet pick invested in company, then introduced a bill to help it — Tom Price in 60 seconds Story highlights — Washington (CNN)Rep. Tom Price last year purchased shares in a medical device manufacturer days before introducing legislation that would have directly benefited …
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Trump's HHS pick doesn't want to flaunt his own Obamacare bill at confirmation hearing — (CNN)Tom Price made his name in Washington as a critic of Obamacare — in fact, he has a plan to dismantle it. — But he may not want to talk about that much when he testifies before Congress this week …
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Trump, Price and Hill GOP at odds on Obamacare
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8 shot at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park in Miami on MLK Day; 2 detained — Police and fire rescue crews are on the scene after eight people were shot during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park. — According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue …
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Reporters Plead with MLK III to Attack Trump; Did Lewis Tweets Shake You ‘To Your Core?’
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Martin Luther King's Niece Voted For Trump
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Obama Loves Martin Luther King's Great Quote—But He Uses It Incorrectly
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Sources: Trump labor pick Andrew Puzder has voiced second thoughts about nomination — Washington (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be labor secretary has voiced second thoughts in recent days, because of a relentless barrage of criticism from Democrats, labor unions and other liberal groups …
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Scalpers taking losses on tickets to Trump inauguration, as secondary market interest on the mogul's swear-in wanes — Donald Trump will take office as one of the most unpopular President-elects in recent history — and even scalpers are feeling the pain. — Some flippers …


Trump Warns on House Republican Tax Plan — Donald Trump criticized a cornerstone of House Republicans' corporate-tax plan, which they had pitched as an alternative to his proposed import tariffs, creating another point of contention between the incoming president and congressional allies.
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Business Insider, The Last Tradition and Marginal REVOLUTION


Obamas, out. Trumps, in: Flipping the White House is a 5-hour sprint — When Donald Trump walks into the White House for the first time as president on Jan. 20, his suits will be hanging in his closet, his personal photos will be displayed on perfectly placed tables, and his toothbrush …
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Political Wire


Monica Crowley to forgo post in Trump White House — GOP foreign policy adviser Monica Crowley said Monday she will relinquish the senior job she'd been poised to take in the Trump White House. — Ms. Crowley, who had been tapped to be senior director of strategic communications …
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Trump has earned no respect for being the ultimate sore winner — Kellyanne Conway is walking a Dangerfield line. — “We got no forbearance. We got nothing. We got no respect,” the Trump strategist told CNN's Anderson Cooper last week, complaining about media coverage of her boss.


‘Never Trump’ national-security Republicans fear they have been blacklisted — They are some of the biggest names in the Republican national security firmament, veterans of past GOP administrations who say, if called upon by President-elect Donald Trump, they stand ready to serve their country again.
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How Trump's Pick for Education Secretary May Reignite the Education Wars — Let the education wars begin. — Donald Trump's choice to lead the Department of Education, Betsy DeVos, has the nation's teachers unions preparing to re-enter battle over public education systems …
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Politico

F.B.I. Arrests Wife of Killer in Orlando Mass Shooting — WASHINGTON — The wife of the man who carried out a deadly terrorist attack in Orlando, Fla., has been arrested in connection with the mass shooting, a law enforcement official said Monday. — Noor Salman was taken into custody …
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Fear Spurs Support for Health Law as Republicans Work to Repeal It — WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump and congressional Republicans appear to have accomplished a feat that President Obama, with all the power at his disposal, could not in the past seven years …
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Trump: Monday will be day one of administration — said the first order he'll sign as president will be to create “strong borders.” — It's something he's said before, but the promise gained attention Monday evening, after that portion of his Times of London interview was highlighted …


For Trump, Three Decades of Chasing Deals in Russia — It was 2005, and Felix Sater, a Russian immigrant, was back in Moscow pursuing an ambitious plan to build a Trump tower on the site of an old pencil factory along the Moscow River that would offer hotel rooms, condominiums and commercial office space.
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Politicus USA


Istanbul Reina nightclub attack suspect captured — Turkish police have arrested the main suspect in the New Year's Eve attack on an exclusive nightclub in Istanbul after a huge manhunt. — Abdulkadir Masharipov is believed to have mounted the assault on the Reina club which left 39 people dead.
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Public Splits on Trump's Ethics Compliance; Three-Quarters Want Tax Returns Released (POLL) — Americans divide evenly on whether the incoming Trump administration is complying with ethics laws. And while a bare majority in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll accepts President-elect Donald …
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Bruce Springsteen Cover Band Drops Out of Trump Inauguration Party — “We had to make it known that we didn't want to seem disrespectful ... to Bruce, his music and his band,” B-Street Band's Will Forte says — The B-Street Band, a popular Bruce Springsteen cover group that's performed nearly 200 gigs …
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Springsteen band cancels inaugural gig out of ‘respect’ for Bruce
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European leaders shocked as Trump slams NATO and E.U., raising fears of transatlantic split — BRUSSELS — European leaders grappled with the jolting reality of President-elect Donald Trump's skepticism of the European Union on Monday, saying they might have to stand without the United States at their side during the Trump presidency.
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