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4:25 PM ET, January 6, 2017

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Ashley Collman / Daily Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: Gunman in custody after killing five and injuring six at Florida's Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport  —  A gunman is in custody after a deadly shooting at the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport.  —  Sources tell DailyMail.com that the shooter killed five people and injured six more Friday afternoon.
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Rebecca Hersher / NPR:
At Least 5 People Dead In Airport Shooting In Fort Lauderdale, Fla.  —  At least five people were killed and eight others were injured in a shooting Friday afternoon at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office.
CNN:
Fort Lauderdale airport shooting: Suspect in custody, 9 injured  —  Reports: Shots fired at Florida airport  —  (CNN)At least nine people were injured in a shooting at the Fort Lauderdale airport on Friday, a US official familiar with the incident said.  The shooter is in custody, according to the official.
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Five people killed in shooting at Fort Lauderdale airport, suspect in custody  —  Police said five people were killed in a shooting Friday afternoon at the Fort Lauderdale international airport that also sent several others to the hospital.  —  The suspected shooter is in custody …
German Lopez / Vox:
Shooting at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, airport: what we know  —  The shooter opened fire at the airport shortly before 1 pm.  —  At least eight people were injured and five were killed in a shooting at the airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, according to law enforcement officials.
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 …
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Jeremy Ashkenas / New York Times:
Was It a 400-Pound, 14-Year-Old Hacker, or Russia?  Here's Some of the Evidence  —  In recent weeks, President-elect Donald J. Trump has taken to Twitter to cast doubt over a United States joint intelligence assessment that Russian intelligence services are responsible for hacking …
Bloomberg:
Growing GOP Doubts Jeopardize Swift Obamacare Repeal in Senate  —  Four Republican senators express strong doubts about strategy  —  McConnell says GOP can act later in year to address gaps  —  A fourth Republican senator has voiced strong doubts about the party's current strategy …
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J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
'Don't You Say That Again': Conway and Cuomo Get Into Transfixing War of Words Over Russia Hacks  —  In a meaty interview that raged on for the better part of twenty minutes this morning, CNN New Day anchor Chris Cuomo sparred with Kellyanne Conway of the Trump campaign on a wide variety of controversies …
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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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Campbell Brown / Facebook:
I have some exciting news to share.  This month I will be joining Facebook to lead its News Partnerships team.  This is a different role for me, but one where I will be tapping my newsroom experience to help news organizations and journalists work more closely and more effectively with Facebook.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Facebook Hires Campbell Brown to Lead News Partnerships Team
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Fox News:
GOP congressman takes down colleague's sponsored ‘art’ depicting police as pigs  —  A Republican congressman took matters into his own hands Friday and personally removed a painting depicting police officers as pigs that a colleague had allowed to be displayed at the U.S. Capitol complex.
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker removes painting depicting police as pigs
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Arnold Schwarzenegger Responds to Trump Taunts  —  The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST):  —  Arnold Schwarzenegger is responding to Donald Trump's taunting on Twitter.  The former California governor says the president-elect should work as hard to represent all Americans as he did for TV ratings.
Discussion: Politico
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Corker: Trump still answers cellphone, doesn't screen my calls
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Justin Miller / American Prospect:
Jeff Sessions Is Public Enemy Number One for Voting-Rights Groups  —  Common Cause, a nonpartisan political advocacy and watchdog group, rarely wades into political nomination battles.  In its nearly half-century of existence, the group has come out in staunch opposition to just a handful …
Discussion: Advocate
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Sherrod Brown will vote against Sessions
Discussion: Daily Kos
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 …
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.
Discussion: New York Magazine and TheBlaze
TMZ.com:
President Obama Builds a Wall for Rental House (PHOTO GALLERY)  —  President Obama is taking a cue from Donald Trump ... he's building himself a wall.  —  We got photos of construction at Obama's soon-to-be D.C. rental.  You also see construction in the garage.  As we reported, it will become an office with a bathroom.
Gwynne Hogan / DNAinfo New York:
Sex Attacks Up 62 Percent in Greenpoint as Most Cases Remain Unsolved  —  GREENPOINT — There has been a 62 percent jump in sex attacks reported in Greenpoint over the last year with the majority not resulting in arrests, police statistics show.  —  In 2016, the NYPD was told about 13 rapes …
Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
Scandals Aplenty  —  The media just pretended they didn't exist.  —  Less than a fortnight after his successor was elected, Barack Obama got to work on shaping his legacy.  “I'm extremely proud of the fact that over eight years we have not had the kinds of scandals that have plagued other administrations,” he said.
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 …
Teresa Welsh / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
US drops more bombs in Obama's final year of office than in 2015  —  The U.S. dropped 26,171 bombs last year, 3,027 more than 2015.  —  According to an analysis of Defense Department data from the Council on Foreign Relations, a non-partisan think tank, the majority of the bombs were dropped in Iraq and Syria.
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.
 
 
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