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8:30 PM ET, January 5, 2017

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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 …
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 …
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
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 …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Megyn Kelly Being Replaced by Tucker Carlson at Fox  —  Tucker Carlson, the veteran cable television host and conservative writer, will succeed Megyn Kelly in the coveted 9 p.m. slot on Fox News, solidifying the network's right-wing identity in prime time as it prepares to cover the administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump.
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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
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.
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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.
Meg Wagner / New York Daily News:
President-elect Donald Trump calls Chuck Schumer ‘clown,’ blasts Obamacare in typo-filled tweets
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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ABC News:
Transcript for Obama Receives Classified Russian Hacking Report, Intel Officials Mum in Capitol Hill Testimony
Discussion: Politico and Wall Street Journal
Cory Bennett / Politico:
Trump to tap ex-Sen. Dan Coats as intelligence chief
Discussion: The Hill and RedState
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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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Former CIA director Woolsey splits from Trump's transition team
Discussion: ABC News
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.
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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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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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
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
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
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
John Kerry / US Department of State:
Exit Memo From Secretary Kerry to President Obama  —  Remarks  —  Secretary of State Cabinet Exit Memo Washington, DC  —  When President Obama took office in 2009, the United States was engaged in two costly wars, faced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression …
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 …
 
 
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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:
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Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Former Bush operative Matthew Dowd mulls challenging Cruz for Senate
Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Washington Post:
How nostalgia for white Christian America drove so many Americans to vote for Trump
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Kristine Guerra / Washington Post:
A teacher and his husband were found dead in August. Police say they had sexually abused 8 boys.
Discussion: IJR
Astead W. Herndon / BostonGlobe.com:
Katherine Clark to skip Trump's inauguration in protest
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and Daily Kos
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Two contractors allege getting stiffed for work on Trump's D.C. hotel
Discussion: DCist, Talking Points Memo and The Week
Larry J. Sabato / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
2017: At the Dawn of the Age of Trump
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