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6:35 PM ET, January 5, 2017

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Emanuella Grinberg / CNN:
4 arrested in beating broadcast on Facebook Live  —  (CNN)A young woman who broadcast the beating and racial taunting of a man on Facebook Live has been arrested with three others in connection with the gruesome attack, Chicago police said Wednesday.  —  The disturbing 30-minute video shows …
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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Pro-Trump narratives converge in one awful attack streamed on Facebook  —  If you believe discrimination against white people is rampant, that Donald Trump supporters face persecution, that Chicago is a war zone, and the media is dishonest, then your entire worldview is likely to be confirmed by one awful story.
Shaun King / New York Daily News:
KING: Stop using the attack on a mentally challenged white man in Chicago to promote a racist agenda against Black Lives Matter  —  In Chicago, at least four young black men and women did something truly awful.  On a damn Facebook Live video made public Wednesday, they allegedly kidnapped …
CBS Chicago:
Second Torture Video Shows Teen Forced To Drink From Toilet  —  CHICAGO — A day after Chicago police said they were questioning four people about a “sickening” video showing the torture of a mentally disabled teen, a second video has surfaced showing the suspects forcing the young man to drink out of a toilet.
CNN:
Chicago torture: Teens stream abuse of special needs man on Facebook Live
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
4 held after Facebook video shows torture of disabled man by group railing against Trump, whites
Washington Post:
House Republicans revive obscure rule that could allow them to slash the pay of individual federal workers to $1  —  House Republicans this week reinstated an arcane procedural rule that enables lawmakers to reach deep into the budget and slash the pay of an individual federal worker …
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
GOP revives rule allowing $1 salaries for government employees
Discussion: The Week
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Greta Van Susteren to join MSNBC  —  Greta Van Susteren is joining MSNBC, taking over the channel's 6 p.m. time slot with a new show called “For the Record,” the network announced Thursday.  —  Van Susteren's show will feature both news and analysis, working as a bridge from MSNBC's dayside news shows …
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Drudge Report:
TUCKER NEW CABLE KING GETS 9 PM FOXNEWS
Joe Concha / The Hill:   Fox likely to thrive post-Megyn Kelly
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Don't Forget That Megyn Kelly Is a Racial Demagogue
New York Times:
Dan Coats Expected to Be Named Intelligence Director  —  Retired Senator Dan Coats of Indiana is expected to be named director of national intelligence.  —  Trump Toyota tweet has Republicans and allies divided over import tariffs.  —  Anti-Trump lawyers have one more Hail Mary to stop a President Donald J. Trump.
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump expected to name ex-senator Dan Coats as director of national intelligence  —  President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name former senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.) to be his director of national intelligence, according to a Trump transition team official.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democratic lawmakers considering challenge to Trump's Electoral College victory  —  Several House Democrats are weighing a formal challenge to Donald Trump's election on Friday, when Congress meets in joint session to certify Trump's Electoral College victory.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Debts Are Widely Held on Wall Street, Creating New Potential Conflicts  —  More than 150 financial institutions hold debts connected to president-elect, analysis shows  —  The debts of President-elect Donald Trump and his businesses are scattered across Wall Street banks …
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Trump said he had $315 million in debt.  He left out $1.5 billion.  —  A new report reveals the breathtaking scope of Trump's conflicts of interest.  —  Trump filed documents with the FEC over the summer that revealed he owed at least $315 million to ten entities.
Discussion: alan.com and Common Dreams
Drew Altman / New York Times:
The Health Care Plan Trump Voters Really Want  —  This week Republicans in Congress began their effort to repeal and potentially replace the Affordable Care Act.  But after listening to working-class supporters of Donald J. Trump — people who are enrolled in the very health care marketplaces created …
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Adam Entous / Washington Post:
U.S. intercepts capture senior Russian officials celebrating Trump win  —  Senior officials in the Russian government celebrated Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton as a geopolitical win for Moscow, according to U.S. officials who said that American intelligence agencies intercepted communications …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump, Julian Assange, and the Control of the Republican Mind  —  The cruelest, most condescending, and also devastatingly correct indictment of Donald Trump's supporters was uttered not by a member of the liberal media but by Donald Trump himself, when he mentioned that he could shoot somebody …
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Meg Wagner / New York Daily News:
President-elect Donald Trump calls Chuck Schumer ‘clown,’ blasts Obamacare in typo-filled tweets  —  President-elect Donald Trump dismissed his rivals as clowns — but he still hasn't figured out proper grammar.  —  In yet another series of typo-filled tweets Thursday …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Gingrich to Schumer: Be worried if Trump focuses on you
Discussion: IJR, Political Wire and The Hill
Larry J. Sabato / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
2017: At the Dawn of the Age of Trump  —  It's already clear that the very strange political year of 2016 is bleeding over into the New Year.  How could it be otherwise?  President-elect Donald Trump, loved and hated by about equal numbers of Americans, continues to ignore or break with convention in a wide variety of areas.
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Democrats stumble toward a Supreme Court strategy
Discussion: Above the Law
Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Seven Tests That Can Keep Republicans from Screwing Up  —  It didn't take long for Republicans to make their first tin-eared mistake after winning a broad victory in November.  In fact, they had barely opened the new session of Congress before performing a pratfall that called into question whether …
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Post
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Melissa Healy / Los Angeles Times:
Less shrinkage: This is your aging brain on the Mediterranean diet  —  The study looked at a group of 562 Scots in their 70s over a three-year period.  Those whose eating habits resembled the diet experienced, on average, half the brain shrinkage that was normal for the group.  (Jan. 5, 2017)
Discussion: Infowars and Instapundit
Jessica Sidman / Washingtonian:
The Cheapest Cocktail at the Trump Hotel Is Now $24  —  And you thought the $14 cocktail was too pricey?  The Trump hotel's lobby bar has raised its cocktail prices yet again.  The cheapest option now is $24, while the most expensive is $100.  —  It's safe to say the Trump hotel's Benjamin Bar & Lounge …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:
Trump's Systematic Attack on U.S. Institutions  —  There is no T-E-A-M in “I.”  —  This was the obvious lesson as Donald Trump sold out House Republicans this week.  GOP members had sought to quietly defang an anti-corruption watchdog office.  After angry constituents phoned House offices …
Discussion: The Guardian
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
GOP aims to rein in liberal cities  —  After consolidating power in Washington, D.C. and state capitals under President-elect Donald Trump  —  , Republicans are moving to prevent large cities dominated by Democrats from enacting sweeping liberal agendas.  —  Republican state legislatures …
Astead W. Herndon / BostonGlobe.com:
Katherine Clark to skip Trump's inauguration in protest  —  WASHINGTON — In a break from tradition and from the rest of the Massachusetts congressional delegation, Representative Katherine Clark plans to boycott the upcoming inauguration of Republican President-elect Donald Trump as a form of ceremonial protest.
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and Daily Kos
 
 
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Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
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