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3:30 AM ET, January 6, 2017

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CNN:
Sources: Trump will ask Congress, not Mexico, to pay for border wall  — The Trump transition team says he his preference is to fund the border wall through the appropriations process  — The move would break a key campaign promise when Trump promised to force Mexico to pay for the wall
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Evan Perez / CNN:
Intel report says US identifies go-betweens who gave emails to WikiLeaks  — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has denied that Russia was the source of leaked Democratic emails  —  Washington (CNN)US intelligence has identified the go-betweens the Russians used to provide stolen emails to WikiLeaks …
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Former CIA director James Woolsey has split with Trump, ‘effective immediately’  —  Former CIA director James Woolsey will no longer serve as a senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, Woolsey's spokesman said in a statement provided to reporters on Thursday.
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 …
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NBC News:
Top Russians Celebrated When Trump Won, Intel Report Says: Source  —  Inside the Russian Hacking Report That President Obama Received Thursday 1:29  —  A senior U.S. intelligence official with direct knowledge confirmed to NBC News that the report on Russian hacking delivered …
Daniel Bush / PBS NewsHour:
‘Grow up, Donald... Time to be an adult,’ Biden says in PBS NewsHour interview  —  Vice President Joe Biden urged Donald Trump to “grow up” on Thursday, criticizing the incoming president's attacks on the U.S. intelligence community and his grasp of health care policy, which is now up for debate …
ABC News:
Transcript for Obama Receives Classified Russian Hacking Report, Intel Officials Mum in Capitol Hill Testimony
Discussion: Politico
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Former CIA director James Woolsey quits Trump transition team  —  Former CIA director R. James Woolsey Jr., a veteran of four presidential administrations and one of the nation's leading intelligence experts, resigned Thursday from President-elect Donald Trump's transition team …
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Former CIA director Woolsey splits from Trump's transition team
Discussion: ABC News
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Former CIA director splits with Trump team
Discussion: RedState
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
In Break With Precedent, Obama Envoys Are Denied Extensions Past Inauguration Day  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump's transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day …
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
President Obama Talks Race Relations, Calls Alleged Hate Crime in Facebook Video ‘Terrible’  —  President Obama said “we appear to have seen” a hate crime in the alleged attack on a Chicago man captured on Facebook.  —  “It's terrible,” the president said about the incident, during an interview with ABC affiliate WLS in Chicago.
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Chicago Tribune:
Hate crime, kidnapping charges filed in West Side attack streamed on Facebook Live  —  Tesfaye Cooper, from left, Tanishia Covington, Jordan Hill and Brittany Covington were charged with aggravated kidnapping, hate crime, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
The Daily Beast:
Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump Tangled Over Hair, ‘P*ssy’  —  Just days after the departure of host Megyn Kelly from Fox News, the network replaced one of its few Trump skeptics with Tucker Carlson, an unabashed booster of the president-elect.  —  But Carlson—who recently compared …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Greta Van Susteren to join MSNBC
Chrissie.Thompsonfink / Cincinnati.com:
Trump makes calls against Kasich's pick for Ohio GOP chair  —  COLUMBUS - On Friday, President-elect Donald Trump and Gov. John Kasich will face off in their latest battle for the hearts and minds of Ohio Republicans — and Trump himself on Thursday entered the fray.
Discussion: Politico and The Week
CNN:
FBI: DNC rebuffed request to examine computer servers  —  Clapper: Russia hacks a multi-faceted campaign  —  Washington (CNN)The Democratic National Committee “rebuffed” a request from the FBI to examine its computer services after it was allegedly hacked by Russia during the 2016 election …
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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 …
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.
Discussion: Common Dreams and alan.com
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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Washington Post:
Trump is expected to nominate ex-senator Dan Coats for director of national intelligence
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
House condemns U.N. over Israel settlement vote
Discussion: Hot Air
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 …
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CNN:
Chicago torture: Teens stream abuse of special needs man on Facebook Live
John Bresnahan / Politico:
House GOP, Trump team hatch border wall plan  —  House Republicans and Donald Trump's team are coalescing around a multi-billion dollar plan to make good on the president-elect's campaign vows to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, according to top Republican lawmakers and aides.
Discussion: Telegraph and Business Insider
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump's Twitter feed traumatizes Washington  —  Donald Trump's unique, chaos theory of presidential communications is upending Washington, leaving lawmakers, government officials and lobbyists aghast that they are beholden to a single leader's whims, not to mention the uncertainty about his true thoughts and intentions.
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
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 …
Elizabeth Preza / Raw Story:
Joe Biden blisters Trump over childish tweets: 'Grow up.  Time to be an adult, you're president'  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Vice President Joe Biden has a very simple message for president-elect Donald Trump: “Grow up.”  —  Biden made the comment during an interview …
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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Carla Marinucci / Politico:
Head of nurses union ‘counting on’ Trump for single-payer system
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg:
Former Trump Foe to Head Washington Lobbying Group for U.S. CEOs
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Maddow asks if Trump will send her ‘to a camp’
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Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Seven Tests That Can Keep Republicans from Screwing Up
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Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Former Bush operative Matthew Dowd mulls challenging Cruz for Senate
Discussion: RedState
Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Washington Post:
How nostalgia for white Christian America drove so many Americans to vote for Trump
Kristine Guerra / Washington Post:
A teacher and his husband were found dead in August. Police say they had sexually abused 8 boys.
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Jessica Sidman / Washingtonian:
The Cheapest Cocktail at the Trump Hotel Is Now $24
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Astead W. Herndon / BostonGlobe.com:
Katherine Clark to skip Trump's inauguration in protest
Discussion: The Hill, Daily Kos and Raw Story
 

 
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to €3.6B, MAUs up 19% YoY to 615M, below 617.9M est., subscribers up 14% YoY to 239M, and a €168M operating income

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Puck hires veteran journalist and TV commentator John Heilemann as its chief political columnist and partner, as the outlet expands its presence in Washington

Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
PEN America cancels its 2024 literary awards ceremony, set for April 29, after months of protests over the organization's response to the war in Gaza
 
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