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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday largely commuted the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army intelligence analyst convicted of an enormous 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic activities across the world …
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Neil Eggleston / Blog Daily Listings RSS:
President Obama Has Now Granted More Commutations than Any President in this Nation's History — Today, 273 individuals learned that the President has given them a second chance. With today's 209 grants of commutation, the President has now commuted the sentences of 1,385 individuals …
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Chelsea Manning's prison sentence commuted by Barack Obama
Chelsea Manning's prison sentence commuted by Barack Obama
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Rich Lowry / New York Post:
War on Betsy DeVos shows the left hates giving educational hope to poor kids — MORE FROM: — The controversy over the nomination of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education has been, if nothing else, clarifying. We now know that working to give poor kids more educational opportunities …
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Casey Quinlan / ThinkProgress:
Betsy DeVos says guns in schools may be necessary to protect students from grizzly bears — Trump's Education nominee tells Newtown's former representative that bears justify the presence of guns in schools. — On Tuesday, Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's Education Secretary nominee …
Tom McKay / Mic:
Trump Ed pick Betsy DeVos cites danger of “grizzlies” as reason to allow guns in schools
Trump Ed pick Betsy DeVos cites danger of “grizzlies” as reason to allow guns in schools
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Benjamin Wermund / Politico:
DeVos dodges toughest questions about public school plans
DeVos dodges toughest questions about public school plans
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's new 2020 campaign slogan is very, well, Donald Trump — Donald Trump, who wasted no time after the 2012 presidential election to pick his slogan for 2016, isn't waiting much longer when it comes to his reelection slogan. — It's “Keep America Great!”
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
How Donald Trump came up with ‘Make America Great Again’ … “Make America Great Again.” — The four words that would help propel Donald Trump to the White House were an inspiration born years before, when hardly anyone but Trump himself could imagine him taking the oath of office as the 45th president of the United States.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump set to take office without most of his Cabinet — When Bill Clinton was sworn into office 24 years ago, every single member of his Cabinet but one was confirmed by the Senate within two days. When Donald Trump is sworn in on Friday, he'll be lucky to have half that many installed.
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
What to Watch: Closer Look at Health Secretary Nominee
What to Watch: Closer Look at Health Secretary Nominee
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Reality bites: Trump's wake-up call — NEW YORK — On Twitter and in public, Donald Trump remains an uncompromising mix of bluster and bombast. Behind the scenes, he's confronting, and in some cases succumbing (slightly) to, the hard truths of governing and leading a world that hangs on his every word.
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: 'I don't like tweeting' — declared in an interview released late Tuesday that he dislikes tweeting and uses Twitter as a defense against media. — “Look, I don't like tweeting,” Trump insisted during a Fox News interview scheduled to air Wednesday. “I have other things I could be doing.”
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David M Jackson / USA Today:
Attacked by Trump, Lewis acknowledges he boycotted Bush inauguration, too
Attacked by Trump, Lewis acknowledges he boycotted Bush inauguration, too
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Houston Chronicle:
George H.W. Bush hospitalized in Houston — Former President George H.W. Bush was recently admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital after falling ill. — “He's there. He's fine and he's doing really well,” Bush's chief of staff, Jean Becker, said. — She said the doctors have a couple …
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Karma Allen / ABC News:
Former President George HW Bush Hospitalized for Shortness of Breath
Former President George HW Bush Hospitalized for Shortness of Breath
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CNN:
Trump wrote inauguration speech himself — Washington (CNN)President-elect Trump has written his inauguration address draft himself, two senior Trump transition officials told CNN Tuesday. — Last month, Trump told guests at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, as well as presidential historian …
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Chris Massie / CNN:
Rep. Steve King: John Lewis trades on status as civil rights icon, hasn't contributed since — Rep. John Lewis returns to the Edmund Pettus Bridge — Iowa Rep. Steve King said Tuesday that Georgia Rep. John Lewis trades on his status as a civil rights icon.
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Kayleigh McEnany / The Hill:
John Lewis, Democrats are boycotting America, not inauguration
John Lewis, Democrats are boycotting America, not inauguration
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Andrew Chung / Reuters:
Potentially nasty fight looms over Trump U.S. Supreme Court pick — Senate Democrats are gearing up for a potentially ugly fight over Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court pick, with some liberal activists urging them to do everything possible to block any nominee from the Republican president-elect.
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Roger Simon / Politico:
Ill-informed. Impetuous. Reckless: The Trump years. — Donald Trump's goal is not to damage America or our allies. But that may well be the result of his ill-informed, impetuous, reckless actions over the next four years. — What can we do about this? Our fight is not to flee to Canada or South America.
The Daily Beast:
New Trump Adviser Being Sued for Hiring Whites to Attack Blacks — President-elect Donald Trump's newest White House adviser runs a real-estate company currently being sued by blacks who accuse it of racial discrimination and hiring white men to physically attack and eject them.
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Associated Press:
Trump Pick to Lead EPA Has Spotty State Environmental Record — When President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency first took office as Oklahoma's attorney general, he disbanded the unit responsible for protecting the state's natural resources.
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Eric Wolff / Politico:
Pruitt on the issues — President-elect Donald Trump's nominee …
Pruitt on the issues — President-elect Donald Trump's nominee …
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
As GOP Pushes Repeal, Obamacare Has Never Been More Popular: NBC News/WSJ poll — As Republicans get closer to repealing it, President Barack Obama's federal health-care law — or Obamacare — has never been more popular, according to results from a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal.
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Doug Palmer / Politico:
Wilbur Ross faces the Commerce Committee: 5 issues to watch — Billionaire businessman Wilbur Ross is expected to have more influence over trade policy than many of his predecessors if confirmed as Donald Trump's pick for Commerce secretary — and that's likely to be issue No. 1 for several members …
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