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Trump: Cancel Boeing's Air Force One contract — Donald Trump on Tuesday called for the cancellation of a Defense Department contract with Boeing to build the next generation of presidential aircraft, decrying the deal as too expensive. — “Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force …
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Boeing responds to Trump: Air Force One deal is for $170M — Boeing on Tuesday responded to President-elect Donald Trump — 's criticism over the cost of a new Air Force One plane, saying the contract is actually for $170 million. — Trump earlier Tuesday tweeted that the deal was for …
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Did Donald Trump tank Boeing's stock because he was mad about a news article? — Shares of stock in aircraft manufacturer Boeing fell nearly $2 a share before markets opened on Tuesday. — The reason? A tweet from the president-elect. … Were Boeing to lose a $4 billion contract …
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Can algos trade Trump's tweets? Absolutely. Maybe. — Donald Trump sent the tweet heard 'round the defense industry Tuesday morning at exactly 35 seconds after 8:52 a.m. ET, blasting Boeing and suggesting he wanted to cancel the company's contract for the new Air Force One aircraft.
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Boeing CEO waits for Trump's trade play — Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg, right, speaks Dec. 2, 2016, at an Illinois Manufacturers' Association luncheon at the J.W. Marriott Chicago hotel downtown. Muilenburg argues that international trade is essential to the U.S. economy. (Phil Velasquez / Chicago Tribune)
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Air Force secretary responds to Trump: Boeing deal ‘complicated’
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Did Boeing Get Out Of Line? — This morning Donald Trump lashed …
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Donald Trump Sold All His Stockholdings in June, Transition Spokesman Says
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He ‘lied his a- off’: Carrier union leader on Trump's big deal — The Secret Service agents told the Carrier workers to stay put, so Chuck Jones sat in the factory conference room for nearly three hours, waiting for president-elect Donald Trump. He'd grown used to this suspense.
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Poll: Trump's Carrier deal is wildly popular — Donald Trump's first major action as president-elect — the deal he and Vice President-elect Mike Pence struck last week with Carrier Corp. — is earning high marks from American voters, a new Politico/Morning Consult poll shows.


The details of the Carrier deal have finally been released. Trump exaggerated big league.
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USW: 730 union jobs saved in Carrier deal - not 1,100
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SoftBank Pledges to Invest $50 Billion in U.S. After Meeting With Trump — President-elect met with SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son in Trump Tower — SoftBank Group Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son said Tuesday he would invest $50 billion in the U.S. and create 50,000 new jobs …
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Bob Dole Worked Behind the Scenes on Trump-Taiwan Call — WASHINGTON — Former Senator Bob Dole, acting as a foreign agent for the government of Taiwan, worked behind the scenes over the past six months to establish high-level contact between Taiwanese officials and President-elect Donald J. Trump's staff …
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Dole lobbied Trump's team on Taiwan for months
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Trump slammed as ‘diplomatic rookie’ by Chinese state media
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Bob Dole's law firm was paid $20,000 per month by Taiwan
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Source: Trump transition team requested security clearance for Flynn Jr. — Washington (CNN)Officials from President-elect Donald Trump's transition team attempted to distance themselves Tuesday from Michael G. Flynn — the son and former top aide to his father, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn …
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Trump Fires Senior Adviser's Son From Transition for Sharing Fake News
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Secret Service advertised as hot ‘new amenity’ at Trump Tower — The U.S. Secret Service is the hot, new “amenity” at Trump Tower, where desperate brokers are trying to lure well-heeled clients into the building on Fifth Avenue that has served as President-elect Donald Trump's home as well as his campaign and transition headquarters.


Senate Dems, powerless to stop Trump nominees, regret ‘nuclear option’ power play — (CNN)Senate Democrats are eager to make Donald Trump pay a political price for nominating staunch conservatives to fill out his Cabinet, hoping to exact revenge for the GOP's stubborn opposition to President Barack Obama's nominees.
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Dems seek to quash quick Mattis confirmation
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Note to Breitbart: Earth Is Not Cooling, Climate Change Is Real and Please Stop Using Our Video to Mislead Americans — Global warming is not expected to end anytime soon, despite what Breitbart.com wrote in an article published last week. — Though we would prefer to focus on our usual coverage …


House to vote this week on IRS impeachment — Rep. Jim Jordan announced Tuesday he will introduced a resolution today to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, setting up a vote this week in the House on impeachment. — “John Koskinen needs to be held accountable,” the Ohio Republican said at a forum hosted by Judicial Watch.
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House rebukes Freedom Caucus effort to oust IRS chief
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Lydia Polgreen Named Editor-In-Chief Of The Huffington Post — The New York Times' “rising star” becomes the site's second newsroom leader, following founder Arianna Huffington. — NEW YORK Lydia Polgreen, a New York Times associate masthead editor and editorial director of NYT Global …
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How to Know What Donald Trump Really Cares About: Look at What He's Insulting — The kinds of people, places and things Trump has insulted over time — Donald J. Trump's tweets can be confounding for journalists and his political opponents. Many see them as a master class in diversion …
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Half of Detroit votes may be ineligible for recount — One-third of precincts in Wayne County could be disqualified from an unprecedented statewide recount of presidential election results because of problems with ballots. — Michigan's largest county voted overwhelmingly …


Paper Owned by Trump's Son-In-Law Runs Alarming Op-Ed Calling for FBI Crackdown on Anti-Trump Protests — From the outset, Jared Kushner's New York Observer has been an instrument of the Trump campaign. — The New York Observer, a right-wing newspaper owned by Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner …
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Megyn Kelly accuses Trump social media director of inciting online abuse — The Fox News host says Dan Scavino is ‘a man who works for Donald Trump whose job it is to stir up’ nastiness and threats, and urges him to stop — Journalist Megyn Kelly, who is under armed guard after receiving death threats …
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Top Dem super PAC launches anti-Trump war room — A top Democratic super PAC is launching a war room aimed at making President-elect Donald Trump — 's life miserable as he prepares to enter the White House. — Liberal political operative David Brock, a close ally of former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton
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