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12:15 AM ET, January 9, 2017

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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
UK prime minister: Trump's comments about groping women ‘unacceptable’  —  British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday criticized President-elect Donald Trump  —  for the lewd comments he was heard making about women in a 2005 tape that surfaced last year.  —  “I think that's unacceptable,” May said in an interview with Sky News.
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Theresa May says Donald Trump's lewd remarks about women ‘unacceptable’
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Pro-Trump Californians hope his victory can fuel a GOP revival in the Golden State
Discussion: The Daily Caller
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Obama: I didn't underestimate the threats from Vladimir Putin
Discussion: NBC News and The Week
Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
President Obama Says He and Donald Trump ‘Are Sort of Opposites’
Discussion: Business Insider and AOL
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:   Graham: Republicans happy about Russian meddling are political hacks
Toni Clarke / Reuters:
Senate to act this week on Obamacare repeal, McConnell says  —  The U.S. Senate will take its first steps toward repealing President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform act by the end of the week, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Christian Datoc / The Daily Caller:
McConnell: ‘First Steps’ In Obamacare Repeal Coming ‘By The End Of This Week’ [VIDEO]
Associated Press:
The Latest: Senate GOP Leader Says Dems Need to ‘Grow Up’
Discussion: Politico
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Obama says he thinks ObamaCare will survive
Heat Street:
ABC Enrages NFL Viewers With Anti-Trump ‘Black-ish’ Promo  —  The liberal ABC-Disney Television Network generated outrage during its televised coverage of the Houston Texans' victory over the Oakland Raiders Saturday night in the Wild Card round of the AFC Playoffs, but it had nothing to do with the football.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
TMZ.com:
Ft. Lauderdale Shooting — Video of First Shots Fired  —  The Ft. Lauderdale Airport shooter walked casually through baggage claim before suddenly pulling his gun out and wreaking havoc.  —  TMZ has obtained video of the shooting ... we are only showing the seconds leading up to the first shots fired and the panic that ensued.
Howie Carr / Boston Herald:
Globe gobbledygook memo ominous sign  —  Like Chipotle, the Cleveland Browns and the Democratic Party, the bust-out Boston Globe is trying to “reinvent” itself.  —  In a memo to his decimated staff this week, editor Brian McGrory says the Globe will no longer be the “paper of record” (as if it ever was).
Discussion: Instapundit
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Receives Ovation at ‘The Color Purple’  —  Hillary Clinton, who has kept a relatively low public profile since losing the presidential election two months ago, on Sunday showed up at the final performance of a revival of “The Color Purple” on Broadway.
David Mack / BuzzFeed:
“Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli Suspended From Twitter After Harassing A Teen Vogue Writer  —  This is journalist Lauren Duca.  —  Last month, Duca had a massive viral hit when she penned a Teen Vogue opinion piece that argued Donald Trump had conned the American public.
New York Times:
Meryl Streep's Golden Globes Speech  —  Turning attention away from her and toward Donald J. Trump, Meryl Streep used her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes to call out the president-elect for mocking a disabled New York Times reporter in 2015, and warned that a free press would need to be defended.
RT:
From Istanbul to Moscow, cold snap wreaks havoc across Europe (PHOTOS)  —  Bone-freezing cold, heavy snowstorms, and floods have been plaguing the European continent this week, causing power outages, traffic jams, cancelled flights, and even a stream of plastic eggs with toys washing up on a German island.
David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Reince Priebus: 'There's No Reason' To Do Background Checks On Trump's Cabinet Picks  —  Reince Priebus, chief of staff to Donald Trump, argued on Sunday that there was “no reason” to complete background checks on the president-elect's cabinet appointments.  —  The Office of Government Ethics warned …
Discussion: AOL, Hullabaloo and NPR
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump's Cabinet picks undergo grueling prep for hearings
Discussion: ABC News and Washington Post
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Tapper Grills Conway: If WikiLeaks Didn't Influence the Election, Why Did Trump Invoke Them So Much?  —  CNN's Jake Tapper had Kellyanne Conway on State of the Union, where he asked the Donald Trump adviser about the President-elect's response to the intelligence that Russia meddled with the 2016 election
Discussion: TheBlaze and The Week
Dan Mitchell / International Liberty:
A Secret Glimpse at Life Inside a Bureaucracy  —  More than two years ago, I shared a couple of humorous images showing the languorous lifestyle of lazy bureaucrats.  —  While those images were amusing, they didn't really capture the true nature of bureaucracy.
Discussion: Power Line
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Red states mull higher taxes  —  Legislators in some of the nation's most conservative states are considering new ways to boost revenue — including tax increases — after years of deep cuts and a global commodity bust that has robbed them of billions of anticipated dollars.
Yahoo:
Germany's Islamist scene growing: security chief  —  Berlin (AFP) - Germany's domestic security chief warned Sunday that the country's radical Islamist scene is not only growing, but becoming more decentralised, posing greater challenges to surveillance operations.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
Someone is trying to take down the Drudge Report — and it's a mystery who's behind it  —  The Drudge Report, the highly trafficked conservative news website, has been knocked offline for extended periods of time over the course of the last two weeks, succumbing to large distributed denial of service attacks …
 
 
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
White Hot Rage of the Left [With Pedagogical Comment by John]
Discussion: Telegraph and Daily Mail
Karl Marlantes / New York Times:
Vietnam: The War That Killed Trust
Associated Press:
Trump Has Taken Few Steps to Disentangle From Private Empire
Discussion: Washington Post
Pagan Kennedy / New York Times:
How to Destroy the Business Model of Breitbart and Fake News
Maayan Lubell / Reuters:
Netanyahu tried to negotiate a good press in return for benefits-media
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Haaretz
 Earlier Items: 
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Gun silencers are hard to buy. Donald Trump Jr. and silencer makers want to change that.
Discussion: Hot Air
New York Times:
'What's the Big Deal?' Ask Trump Voters on Russia Hacking Report
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Guardian
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Spicer: Media doesn't treat Trump with respect, cheers on Democrats
Discussion: Politicus USA and The Daily Caller
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Trump opposition sets up blue-state headquarters
Kyle Smith / New York Post:
Celebrity divas insult half of America with their Trump ‘resistance’
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
White House Red Scare
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Some founders say TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump tried banning it in 2020

Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Meta, Alphabet, and Snap beat analysts' estimates in their Q1 results, showing acceleration in advertising growth after struggling to rebound from a dismal 2022

 
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