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Ryan Quinn / Inside Higher Ed:
This Professor Has Taken on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Opposing Vaccines — A Q&A with Dr. Peter Hotez, who has clashed with the new health and human services secretary nominee. Hotez himself helped develop low-cost vaccinations. … Dr. Peter Hotez knows vaccines.
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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Auchincloss: Senate must reject ‘dangerous’ RFK Jr. as HHS head — Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) urged the Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services in a Friday op-ed for the Boston Globe. — “Now Donald Trump is setting Kennedy up to “go wild” as secretary of health and human services.
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The Boston Globe, New York Magazine and Forbes
Gábor Scheiring / Politico:
I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary's Democracy. Here's My Advice for the Trump Era. — To dismantle the machinery of autocracy, you first need to understand how it works. — Many believed that after his first term as president, Donald Trump would end up in the dustbin of history.
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Raw Story
Politico:
Trump taps loyalist Rollins for USDA chief in surprise pick — President-elect Donald Trump has picked Brooke Rollins as his Agriculture secretary, after weeks of intense internal fighting over the role, according to two people familiar with the transition conversations.
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Victoria Taft / PJ Media:
You'll Need to Hit the Showers for a ‘Sanewash’ After This Ridiculous RFK Hit Piece — America's left just lost an election in which voters overwhelmingly rejected their current fad: that it is perfectly normal for men to be surgically converted into women, use women's bathrooms and locker rooms …
Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:
Trump Picks Fox News Medical Contributor To Be Surgeon General — Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, once a Fox News talking head, could become the nation's top doctor. — LOADING — President-elect Donald Trump has picked Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, a Fox News medical contributor, to serve as the U.S.′ next surgeon general.
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Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
John Bolton Slams Trump Cabinet Pick Seb Gorka as a ‘Con Man’ — NO CONFIDENCE — The former national security adviser called for a “full field FBI background investigation” into Gorka's academic credentials. — Never one to mince words, President-elect Donald Trump's former national …
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Politico, HuffPost, The Independent, The Guardian, USA Today, Raw Story and Mediaite
Mike Miller / RedState:
As MSNBC Continues to Swirl Down the Toilet, Its Latest Excuse for Trump's Win Is Crazy-Train Absurd — In the slim chance that you need an example to understand why MSNBC's ratings have continued to swirl down the toilet in the aftermath of President-elect Donald Trump's decisive win …
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Twitchy, Newsbusters, Townhall and The Gateway Pundit
Associated Press:
Trump's Republican Party is increasingly winning union voters. It's a shift seen in his labor pick — Working-class voters helped Republicans make steady election gains this year and expanded a coalition that increasingly includes rank-and-file union members, a political shift spotlighting …
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Pete Hegseth's Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war-crimes case — Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary was not involved in the murder of detainees, but the formative experience, which happened after he left the unit, appears to have influenced his advocacy for troops accused of war crimes.
Michael H. Brown / Washington Post:
Fred R. Harris, Oklahoma senator on Kerner Commission, dies at 94 — A liberal populist, he was once considered a rising star in the Democratic Party. He twice ran for president and chaired the Democratic National Committee. — Former senator Fred R. Harris, a liberal prairie populist …
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Jack Detsch / Politico:
Taiwan's former president says Ukraine needs US weapons more urgently than Taipei — Tsai Ing-wen's comments come after a top U.S. military leader said supplying U.S. weapons to Kyiv was cutting into stockpiles that could be used in a war in Asia. — HALIFAX, Canada …
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Jim Gomez / Associated Press:
The Philippine vice president publicly threatens to have the president assassinated — Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke.
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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Washington Post editorial warns of potential Ukraine abandonment under Trump — The Washington Post's editorial board released an op-ed on Saturday detailing the potential threats to Ukraine and the U.S. if President-elect Trump moves to strike a deal with his Russian counterparts.
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