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Mike Debonis / Washington Post:
Behind closed doors, Republican lawmakers fret about how to repeal Obamacare  —  PHILADELPHIA — Republican lawmakers aired sharp concerns about their party's quick push to repeal the Affordable Care Act inside a closed-door meeting Thursday, according to a recording of the session obtained by The Washington Post.
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Mike Debonis / Washington Post:
In private meeting, Pence vows ‘full evaluation of voting rolls’ over claims of fraud  —  In a private meeting with congressional Republicans this week, Vice President Pence vowed that the Trump administration would pursue a wide-ranging probe of voting rolls in the United States …
Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
Another Bogus Obamacare Argument From Donald Trump And Paul Ryan
Discussion: The Week
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's First Week: Governing Without a Script  —  The new president seems to be running his administration much like he ran his company and campaign, eager to weigh in on every issue and willing to make last-minute calls  —  A directive to revive two controversial oil pipelines awaited …
Discussion: Axios and The Week
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Trump and the Republicans Are on a Suicide Mission Together  —  And we'll all have to live with the fallout.  —  One of the things supposedly driving President Donald Trump to distraction, in what should be a celebratory first week in office, is that he isn't getting a honeymoon period from the media and the general public.
Discussion: Washington Post and The Guardian
Mike Allen / Axios:
The Bannon coup  —  White House and Hill GOP leaders are astonished …
Austin Wright / Politico:
McConnell to Trump: Do not lift sanctions on Russia
Discussion: ABC News and The Atlantic
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McCain warns Trump he'll fight on lifting Russian sanctions
David Brody / CBN.com:
Brody File Exclusive: President Trump Calls Mainstream Media The “Opposition Party.”  —  In an exclusive interview with The Brody File, President Donald Trump says the media in America is the, “opposition party.”  “I think the media is the opposition party in many ways,” Trump tells me during our sit down interview at The White House.
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Jim Miller / Sacramento Bee:
Calexit backers can begin collecting signatures to qualify for 2018 ballot  —  Backers of a proposed constitutional amendment seeking California's secession from the U.S. can begin collecting voter signatures to qualify for the 2018 ballot, the secretary of state's office said Thursday.
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Christine Mai-Duc / Los Angeles Times:
‘Calexit’ organizers can now start collecting signatures to get California secession on the ballot
Discussion: American Renaissance and Hit & Run
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
‘Calexit’ supporters can start work to make ballot
Discussion: Hot Air and RedState
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Donald Trump Blows Up the U.S.-Mexico Relationship  —  Since Ronald Reagan was first elected, in 1980, every new American President has met with his Mexican counterpart shortly after winning the White House.  Reagan travelled to Mexico before his swearing in and welcomed Mexican President …
Discussion: The Week
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Mexico's Vicente Fox to Trump: We are ‘ready for the trade war’
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump: Telephone call with Mexican president was ‘very friendly’
Discussion: ABC News and Associated Press
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
No Mention Of Jews In Trump Holocaust Statement Breaks With Tradition  —  President Donald Trump did not explicitly mention Jews in his Friday statement commemorating the millions exterminated by the Nazis, an omission that the Anti-Defamation League called “troubling” and out of step with past presidential statements.
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David Gibson / USA Today:
Trump fails to mention Jews in Holocaust remembrance statement  —  In a departure from predecessors on both sides of the political aisle, President Trump's statement Friday marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day did not mention the deaths of six million Jews — a lapse the head …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
No, the White House didn't Photoshop an image of the president's hand  —  Dana Schwartz, a writer for the New York Observer, claimed to have noticed something interesting about one of the photos displayed during President Trump's interview with ABC News that aired this week.
Sheila Weller / Vanity Fair:
How Author Timothy Tyson Found the Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case  —  With a renewed cultural interest in the 1955 murder that catalyzed the 20th century civil rights movement, an interview with the author of a new book who tracked down the long-hidden woman at its center.
The Hill:
McConnell all but rules out filibuster change  —  (R-Ky.) on Friday all but ruled out the possibility of a change to the filibuster rule this year.  —  McConnell made his comment in an interview with The Hill one day after President Trump said he wants Senate Republicans to strip Democrats …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The end of Sarah Palin is here … Remember how former Alaska governor Sarah Palin was going to use her political celebrity to build an army of like-minded politicians via her political action committee?  —  Yeah, not so much.  —  Michael Beckel of the Center for Public Integrity flagged for me this news …
Discussion: Heat Street
Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
Trump argument bolstered: Clinton received 800,000 votes from noncitizens, study finds  —  Hillary Clinton garnered more than 800,000 votes from noncitizens on Nov. 8, an approximation far short of President Trump's estimate of up to 5 million illegal voters but supportive of his charges of fraud.
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
President Trump Signs Executive Orders at Pentagon  —  President Trump today made his first trip to the Pentagon as commander in chief and signed two executive orders related to national security.  —  The first focused on what Trump described as a “great rebuilding” of the military …
Discussion: Axios and Politico
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump won't attend Alfalfa Club dinner  —  President Donald Trump will not attend the annual Alfalfa Club dinner Saturday night, an exclusive black-tie dinner — and White House roast — that every president since Ronald Reagan has attended.  —  Instead of the president himself …
Discussion: New York Times and Political Wire
Carlos Greer / Page Six:
Huge shakeup at ‘Today’ to make way for Megyn Kelly  —  More On:  —  NBC is canceling the third hour of “Today” to make way for new star Megyn Kelly, sources exclusively confirm to Page Six.  —  We're told Kelly will take over either the 9 a.m. hour from Tamron Hall and Al Roker or will replace Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford.
Mikhail Gorbachev / TIME:
Mikhail Gorbachev: ‘It All Looks as if the World Is Preparing for War’  —  Mikhail Gorbachev was the president of the Soviet Union and is the author of The New Russia.  —  The world today is overwhelmed with problems.  Policymakers seem to be confused and at a loss.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump's authoritarian tendencies are revealed once again  —  Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump attacked the media in personal, vicious terms.  He threatened to “open up” libel laws.  From time to time, he chose to ban one or another outlet from the press gaggle because he objected to its reporting.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Melania Trump wins round in libel suit over blogger's ‘escort’ claims  —  First lady Melania Trump prevailed Friday in the first round of a $150 million libel suit she filed against a Maryland blogger over a report he published last summer about claims that Trump worked as a “high-end escort.”
 
 
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Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
Orwell's “1984” and Trump's America
Fox News:
Cable exclusive: President Trump sits down with Sean Hannity at White House
Discussion: WTKR-TV, FOX6Now.com and New York Times
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Trump says sanctuary cities are hotbeds of crime. Data say the opposite.
Discussion: CityLab, Above the Law and Slate
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Didn't Think Madonna Was ‘Disgusting’ When He Lied About Her Wanting to Date Him
Discussion: Mediaite, Gothamist and Raw Story
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
New wave of anti-evolution bills hit states
Discussion: Argus Leader and Raw Story
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Donald Trump thinks he is the modern Andrew Jackson. Here is why he isn't.
Michelle Nichols / Reuters:
New U.S. U.N. envoy warns allies: back us or we'll take names
Discussion: Daily Kos
 Earlier Items: 
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
POWER DINNER: Jared and Ivanka break bread with TIM COOK and LISA JACKSON …
Discussion: TheStreet.com and Business Insider
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
A GOP Regulatory Game Changer
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
Sen. Franken: No Democrat will vote for Betsy DeVos as education secretary …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Little Mexican War
Discussion: NBC News
Kim Janssen / Chicago Tribune:
Rod Blagojevich's 20-year-old daughter Amy unloads on Barack Obama
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Althouse
Michael Wolff / Newsweek:
Why the media keeps losing to Donald Trump
Discussion: The Federalist and Politico
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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