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11:30 AM ET, January 6, 2017

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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 …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Says Focus on Russian Hacking Is a ‘Political Witch Hunt’  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump said in an interview Friday morning that the storm surrounding Russian hacking during the presidential campaign is a political witch hunt being carried out by his adversaries …
Bloomberg:
FBI Says Democrats Refused Access to Hacked E-Mail Servers
Discussion: Politico
NBC News:
Top Russians Celebrated When Trump Won, Intel Report Says: Source
TIME:
U.S. Intelligence Report Identifies Russians Who Gave DNC Emails to Wikileaks
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
Donald Trump Casts Intelligence Aside
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Former CIA chief cuts ties with Trump
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 …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump slams media on border wall: Mexico will pay us back  —  From the very beginning of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised that he would build a wall along America's southern border with Mexico and that the Mexican government, not U.S. taxpayers would pay for it.
Discussion: Political Wire and Althouse
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.
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Mattis clashing with Trump transition team over Pentagon staffing  —  The honeymoon seems to be ending between retired Gen. James N. Mattis and Donald Trump's transition team amid an increasingly acrimonious dispute over who will get top jobs in the Defense Department — and who gets to make those decisions.
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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 …
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
President-Elect Donald Trump ‘Prepared to Listen and Understand’ Intel on Russia, Spokesman Says
Discussion: Washington Post and Hot Air
Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com:
Warren announces she's running for re-election  —  WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren announced this morning that she is running for reelection in 2018, seeking a second term as US Senator from Massachusetts.  —  “I am running for re-election in Massachusetts in 2018,” she wrote in an email to her network of supporters.
Discussion: alan.com
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Elizabeth Warren / Elizabeth Warren for Senate:
2018  —  Nobody expected 2017 to start this way.
Discussion: CBS Boston
New England Journal of Medicine:
Repealing the ACA without a Replacement — The Risks to American Health Care  —  Health care policy often shifts when the country's leadership changes.  That was true when I took office, and it will likely be true with President-elect Donald Trump.  I am proud that my administration's work …
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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 …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Age of Fake Policy  —  On Thursday, at a rough estimate, 75,000 Americans were laid off or fired by their employers.  Some of those workers will find good new jobs, but many will end up earning less, and some will remain unemployed for months or years.  —  If that sounds terrible to you …
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Send in the Head Clowns  —  Democrats have been in power for so long that they've forgotten how to oppose.  Their party has been on a roll since 2005 when the botched Social Security reform, the slow bleed of the Iraq war, and Hurricane Katrina sent the Bush administration into a tailspin.
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Daniel Bush / PBS NewsHour:
‘Grow up, Donald... Time to be an adult,’ Biden says in PBS NewsHour interview
Discussion: AOL
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump Meeting With Conde Nast Editors  —  The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST):  —  The Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is suggesting that portions of a secret intelligence report about Russian interference in the 2016 election …
Discussion: Politico
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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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Bryan Bender / Politico:
Bill Perry Is Terrified.  Why Aren't You?  —  At this naked moment in the American experiment, when many people perceive civilization on the verge of blowing up in some metaphorical sense, there is an elderly man in California hoping to seize your attention about another possibility.
Tom Pepinsky:
Everyday Authoritarianism is Boring and Tolerable  —  Malaysia is a country that I know well, and whose political system I have studied closely for fifteen years.  It is also a country whose political liberalization I have long awaited.  Malaysia has a multiparty parliamentary system of government …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York Times:
Clinton vs. de Blasio for New York Mayor?  Unlikely Idea Has People Talking  —  From political circles in New York City to cocktail parties on Capitol Hill, on right-of-center Facebook pages and among left-of-center donors, two of the biggest untethered threads in New York politics are being drawn together around a single question.
Ana Swanson / Washington Post:
U.S. added 156,000 jobs in December; unemployment rate ticked up to 4.7 percent  —  The U.S. economy added 156,000 new jobs in December, according to government data issued Friday, slightly below economists' expectations, though still representing relatively strong growth.
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Tepid Hiring, but Jobs Report Shows Sustained Wage Growth
Frank Abderholden / Chicago Tribune:
Zion police back woman's account of alleged racial slur by Dairy Queen franchise owner  —  The Dairy Queen near Sheridan Road on 21st Street in Zion, where a woman's account of the owner using a racial slur toward her and her children has been backed by a Zion police report.
Discussion: WGN-TV and Raw Story
 
 
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CBS Baltimore:
Union: Baltimore City Police in ‘Crisis’ Due to Officer Shortage
Discussion: Da Tech Guy Blog
Cody Derespina / Fox News:
Email Headache Returns: New Clinton messages show passwords, schedules flowed freely
Alex Lockie / Business Insider:
The most expensive F-35 variant has hit another major snag that could take years to fix
Discussion: AOL
J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
'Don't You Say That Again': Conway and Cuomo Get Into Transfixing War of Words Over Russia Hacks
TMZ.com:
President Obama Builds a Wall for Rental House (PHOTO GALLERY)
Discussion: BizPac Review and twitchy.com
David A. Bryant / Killeen Daily Herald:
GoFundMe page: Soldier's vehicle vandalized, racial slur spray-painted
Discussion: The Root, Raw Story and Law News
Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Conservatives ready to support $1 trillion hole in the budget
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:
How Republicans Plan to Roll Back Obama-Era Regulations
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Myles Tanzer / The FADER:
Coachella's Owner Is A Republican Mega-Donor Who Has Funded Anti-LGBTQ Hate Groups
Discussion: Advocate and AOL
New York Times:
Texas Moves to Limit Transgender Bathroom Access
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Roberts Belatedly Sees Conflict, Withdraws in Top Court Case
Discussion: New York Times and SCOTUSblog
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
Head of nurses union ‘counting on’ Trump for single-payer system
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Margaret Talev / Bloomberg:
Former Trump Foe to Head Washington Lobbying Group for U.S. CEOs
Discussion: Red Alert Politics
Chrissie.Thompsonfink / Cincinnati.com:
Trump makes calls against Kasich's pick for Ohio GOP chair
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump's Twitter feed traumatizes Washington