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Cortney O'Brien / Townhall.com:
Trump Picks Very Vocal Obamacare Critic For HHS Secretary
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, BuzzFeed and NPR
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Tom Price, Obamacare Critic, Is Trump's Choice for Health Secretary
Washington Post:
Trump picks Congressman Tom Price as health and human services secretary
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Trump names Rep. Tom Price as next HHS secretary
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Hot Air
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Rep. Tom Price officially tapped to lead Health and Human Services
Discussion: ABC News
New York Times:
Donald Trump's Lies About the Popular Vote  —  One big fear in the weeks leading up to the presidential election was that Donald Trump would try to delegitimize the results by claiming rampant voter fraud — a bogus specter he had raised throughout the campaign, particularly as his polling numbers got worse.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
War Is Peace.  Freedom Is Slavery.  Trump Won In A Landslide.  —  Donald Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway — perhaps seeking to push back on the increasing attention to Hillary Clinton's widening lead in the national popular vote — has been touting her boss's margin of victory in the Electoral College.
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: What Will The Recounts Show?
Discussion: Associated Press and The Hill
New York Times:
Challenging the Boss in Public?  For Kellyanne Conway, It's Part of the Job  —  WASHINGTON — Kellyanne Conway, one of President-elect Donald J. Trump's senior advisers, was about to board a flight back to New York on Monday morning when she caught a glimpse of the headline crawling across television screens in the terminal.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Conway plays the outside game  —  Kellyanne Conway's Sunday broadsides against Mitt Romney have exacerbated an increasingly strained relationship with Donald Trump and his senior advisers, including son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to more than a half-dozen sources involved in the transition efforts.
GovExec.com:
GSA's Trump Hotel Lease Debacle  —  As the clock ticks down towards President-elect Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration, the window is rapidly closing on the General Services Administration's opportunity to extricate itself from the Trump Organization's lease of the historic Post Office Pavilion.
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Trump's DC Hotel Is Weeks Away From Violating Its Government Lease  —  The President-elect's Trump International Hotel will present an immediate conflict of interest when he is sworn into office on January 20.  —  The 2013 lease the Trump Organization signed with the federal government …
Discussion: alan.com
Amanda Taub / New York Times:
How Stable Are Democracies?  ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red’  —  WASHINGTON — Yascha Mounk is used to being the most pessimistic person in the room.  Mr. Mounk, a lecturer in government at Harvard, has spent the past few years challenging one of the bedrock assumptions of Western politics …
Discussion: Washington Post, Daily Kos and Jezebel
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Elaine Chao expected to be Trump's transportation secretary  —  Former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao is set to be announced later Tuesday as President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Transportation, multiple sources familiar with the decision confirmed Tuesday morning.
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump's ‘Thank You Tour’ Said to Start in Ohio on Thursday  —  Aide says the lap through swing states isn't victory tour  —  Republican credited rallies for win over Hillary Clinton  —  President-elect Donald Trump will begin a “Thank You Tour” on Thursday in Cincinnati …
Discussion: alan.com and WCMH-TV
Jay Panandiker / The Lantern:
From the archives: Ohio State attacker featured in ‘Humans of Ohio State’  —  On Monday afternoon, the Ohio State Department of Public Safety released the name of the suspect involved in the violent incident near Watts Hall — Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a third-year in logistics management.
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NBC News:
1 Suspect Dead, 9 in Hospital After Ohio State Car-and-Knife Attack
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump calls for jailing, revoking citizenship of flag-burners  —  Burning an American flag should be a crime, President-elect Donald Trump wrote on Twitter Tuesday morning, punishable by a forfeiture of U.S. citizenship or a year in jail.  —  “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag …
Cathy Young / The Hill:
‘Fake news’ isn't the problem — mainstream news with an agenda is  —  “Fake news” has been a big news story for the past week.  Hoaxes and fabrications hatched by clickbait-hungry websites — or, some reports say, by the Kremlin propaganda machine—have been blamed for Donald Trump  —  's election victory.
Tegna / WBIR-TV:
Wildfires forcing evacuations in Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge … GATLINBURG - 11 PM UPDATE: Motorists fleeing wildfires in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge packed roads in and out of the towns Monday night as flames and choking smoke driven by wind swept across the area.
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CNN:
Fires force evacuations in Gatlinburg, TN; 100 homes affected in blaze
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Column Fidel Castro died as he lived — praised by useful idiots  —  Within half an hour of the Cuban government's announcement Saturday of the death of the 90-year-old revolutionary leader, cheers were heard in Miami's Little Havana.  —  Fidel Castro died as he lived: to the sound of useful idiots making allowances for his crimes.
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Fidel Castro Bet On The Wrong Horse And Died A Failure
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Donald Trump Flips Out Yet Again  —  I still wake up each morning thinking it can't really be true that Donald Trump will be president of the United States in less than eight weeks.  I mean, he's...he's—he's a willfully ignorant crackpot.  He's a ridiculous game show host.
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Trump's likely homeland security pick let an inmate die of thirst in his jail  —  More than a dozen inmates have died under Sheriff David Clarke's watch.  —  In the earning morning hours of April 24, Milwaukee County corrections officers entered 38-year-old Terrill Thomas' jail cell to find him unconscious.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Amazon Said to Plan Premium Alexa Speaker With Large Screen  —  Company may release higher-end device early next year  —  New speaker targets kitchens; to cost more than Echo gadgets  —  Amazon.com Inc. is developing a premium Echo-like speaker with a screen, a sign the world's largest online retailer …
Noah Michelson / The Huffington Post:
Dear Trump Supporter Who Sent Me Hate Mail For Being A ‘Stupid Jewish Faggot’  —  As scary as it is to know that people like you exist, I refuse to be afraid of you.  —  Editorial Director, The Huffington Post Voices  —  I returned to work on Sunday to find three envelopes from you on my desk.
Discussion: Raw Story
Yahoo:
Emma Morano, last person alive born in 1800s, turns 117  —  Rome (AFP) - An alert and chatty Italian woman, Emma Morano, on Tuesday celebrates her 117th birthday as the last known person alive who was born in the 19th century.  —  Born November 29, 1899, she is the world's oldest living person …
Discussion: The Week
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
EXCLUSIVE: Majority expect Donald Trump to keep promises  —  A majority of Americans trust that President-elect Donald Trump  —  will fulfill his campaign promises on immigration and other issues, according to a new survey released to The Hill.  —  Sixty-four percent of registered voters polled …
Discussion: RedState
 
 
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After 5 years, NC redistricting case reaches Supreme Court - but the wait may continue
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Immigration-hardliner Sessions could execute crackdown as AG
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Why we can't - and shouldn't - ignore Donald Trump's tweets
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‘Trump Effect’ Is Already Shaping Events Around the World
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Texas to implement rules requiring burial or cremation of fetal remains
Associated Press:
US investigating leak related to Petraeus case
Discussion: RedState and alan.com
Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
Pennsylvania State Department says Stein missed recount deadline
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Issa declared winner after reelection battle
 

 
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