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9:10 PM ET, January 5, 2017

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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 …
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New York Times:
Dan Coats Expected to Be Named Intelligence Director
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump expected to name ex-senator Dan Coats as director of national intelligence
ABC News:
Transcript for Obama Receives Classified Russian Hacking Report, Intel Officials Mum in Capitol Hill Testimony
Discussion: Politico and Wall Street Journal
Meg Wagner / New York Daily News:
President-elect Donald Trump calls Chuck Schumer ‘clown,’ blasts Obamacare in typo-filled tweets
Cory Bennett / Politico:
Trump to tap ex-Sen. Dan Coats as intelligence chief
Discussion: The Hill and Shareblue
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 …
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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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 …
CNN:
Chicago torture: Teens stream abuse of special needs man on Facebook Live
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.
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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 …
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Former CIA director Woolsey splits from Trump's transition team
Discussion: ABC News
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
Joe Concha / The Hill:   Fox likely to thrive post-Megyn Kelly
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.  —  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
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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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.
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.
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Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
Seven Tests That Can Keep Republicans from Screwing Up
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Post
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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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
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
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
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
Alana Goodman / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: At least 18 MORE Guantanamo detainees to be freed within days as Obama starts mass transfer of fanatics who have threatened to bomb and behead Americans  — DailyMail.com has learned that at least 22 of the 59 Guantanamo Bay detainees should be transferred before January 20; four were moved on Thursday
Tiger Woods:
Tiger's Blog: My goal remains to win  —  Woods pleased with his showing at Hero World Challenge and looks forward to returning to Riviera  —  This year Tiger will play in an event at Riviera Country Club for the first time since 2006.  (Getty Images)  —  I hope you enjoyed the holidays!
 
 
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