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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
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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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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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 and Townhall
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 …
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, The Independent, HuffPost, The Guardian, USA Today, Raw Story and Mediaite
Alisa Odenheimer / Bloomberg:
Israel Says Body of Missing Israeli Rabbi in UAE is Found — Kogan had been emissary of Jewish group Chabad-Lubavitch — Government reinforces travel warnings to UAE, elsewhere — Security authorities in the United Arab Emirates have located the body of Zvi Kogan …
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Reuters, The Times of Israel, New York Times, Israpundit and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Talmon Joseph Smith / New York Times:
Biden's Chief Economist Processes the Election With ‘Confusion, Guilt’ — Jared Bernstein, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, was a leading architect of “Bidenomics.” — Since the election, Jared Bernstein, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers …
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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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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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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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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