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8:05 PM ET, January 10, 2017

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CNN:
Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him  —  (CNN)Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump …
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BuzzFeed:
These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia  —  A dossier, compiled by a person who has claimed to be a former British intelligence official, allege Russia has compromising information on Trump.  The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors.
CNN:
Booker to testify against fellow senator Sessions in unprecedented move  —  Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is set to testify against Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions Wednesday in an unprecedented move during his attorney general confirmation.  —  This would be the first time in Senate history …
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Franken catches Sessions lying about his civil rights record  —  The attorney general-designate claimed he'd personally litigated cases.  He did not.  —  Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, struggled on Tuesday to explain why he had listed multiple civil rights cases …
BuzzFeed:
Letter Written By MLK's Widow That Blasted Jeff Sessions Is Missing  —  The damning letter, which helped deny Sessions a federal judgeship in 1986, was never entered into the congressional record, and all known copies are being kept from the public.  —  Sen. Jeff Sessions speaking at a rally for Donald Trump in October 2016.
Discussion: Washington Post and The Root
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Where Sessions broke with Trump
Discussion: ABC News
Andrea Ruth / RedState:
The Left Has Lost its Mind: Cory Booker to Testify Against Sessions
Discussion: IJR
Emily Bazelon / New York Times:
The Voter Fraud Case Jeff Sessions Lost and Can't Escape
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Corey Booker, No Longer ‘Mr. Bipartisan’
New York Times:
Trump Pushes Republicans for Immediate Repeal of Obama Health Law  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump pressed Republicans on Tuesday to move forward with the immediate repeal of the Affordable Care Act and to replace it very quickly thereafter, saying, “We have to get to business.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
In a new interview, Trump reveals he has no idea what's going on with Obamacare  —  Calls for quick replacement of the ACA with ... something.  —  In a puzzling interview with Maggie Haberman and Margot Sanger-Katz of the New York Times, Donald Trump weighed-in on the legislative mechanics …
The Hill:
Ryan: GOP's goal is to replace, repeal ObamaCare ‘concurrently’
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos, CNN and Political Wire
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate Dems end ObamaCare repeal protest after 5 hours
Heather Caygle / Politico:
CBC: 'We may just have to kick somebody's ass' over painting removal  —  A spat between black lawmakers and Republicans over a painting on display in the Capitol got uglier Tuesday after multiple GOP lawmakers removed the painting for the second time in a week — and the chairman …
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Vaccine skeptic Robert Kennedy Jr. says Trump asked him to lead commission on ‘vaccine safety’  —  President-elect Donald Trump asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a proponent of a widely discredited theory that vaccines cause autism, to chair a new commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity, Kennedy said Tuesday.
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David M Jackson / USA Today:
Trump asks vaccine skeptic RFK Jr. to lead study on vaccine safety
New York Times:
Fox News Settled Sexual Harassment Allegations Against Bill O'Reilly, Documents Show  —  In the weeks after Roger Ailes was ousted as the chairman of Fox News in July, amid a sexual harassment scandal, company executives secretly struck an agreement with a longtime on-air personality …
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Rachel Stockman / Law News:
Exclusive: Fox News Settled With Fmr. Anchor Who Claimed Bill O'Reilly and Fox President Sexually Harassed Her
CNN:
Obama says goodbye  —  Watch CNN Films' premiere of its documentary, “The End: Inside the Last Days of the Obama White House,” on January 18 at 9 p.m. ET on CNN.  —  (CNN)Popular but politically humbled, President Barack Obama says goodbye to the nation Tuesday night in a dramatic reinterpretation of a presidential farewell address.
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Will Trump Avoid a Constitutional Crisis?  —  In 1785, when Benjamin Franklin, then the U.S. Ambassador to France, was set to return home, King Louis XVI presented him with a snuffbox decorated with a diamond-encrusted painting of the king.  While gift-giving of this sort was common in European diplomacy …
Discussion: Political Wire and Althouse
New York Times:
Dylann Roof Is Sentenced to Death in Charleston Church Massacre  —  CHARLESTON, S.C. — Dylann S. Roof, the impenitent and inscrutable white supremacist who killed nine African-American churchgoers in a brazenly racial assault almost 19 months ago, shocking the world over the persistence …
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Liliana Segura / The Intercept:
Would Dylann Roof's Execution Bring Justice? Families of Victims Grapple With Forgiveness and Death
Discussion: Common Dreams
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Negative Views of Trump's Transition, Amid Concerns About Conflicts, Tax Returns  —  58% say Trump will be ‘too impulsive’ making important decisions  —  Ahead of Donald Trump's scheduled press conference in New York City on Wednesday, the public continues to give the president-elect low marks …
Michael Gartland / New York Post:
Al D'Amato kicked off flight after starting rebellion against crew  —  Former Sen. Al D'Amato was escorted from a JetBlue flight Monday night after trying to lead passengers in a chant protesting seating changes requested by the crew, an eyewitness on the flight told The Post.
Dara Lind / Vox:
Retired Gen. John Kelly is Trump's pick to run immigration enforcement.  Here's why Dems aren't fighting him.  —  If anything, they're hoping he'll “speak truth to power.”  —  There are plenty of Trump administration nominees that Senate Democrats are gravely concerned about.
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Roxane Gay / Harper's BAZAAR:
MADONNA'S SPRING AWAKENING  —  The pop icon on election-night prayers, aging, and bad wine.  —  Madonna has no patience for bad wine.  I learned this while sitting in a well-appointed living room at her New York City home, with Nina Simone playing softly in the background.
Andrew Kaczynski / CNNMoney:
HarperCollins pulls Trump pick Monica Crowley's book amid plagiarism revelations  —  Publisher HarperCollins said Tuesday that it will stop selling a book by Monica Crowley that a CNN KFile investigation found to have more than 50 instances of plagiarism.  —  Crowley was picked …
 
 
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Patrick Wintour Diplomatic / The Guardian:
Russia's London embassy: UK preparing anti-Moscow witch-hunt
CNN:
‘Some signed for fun’  —  Bizyukin has launched a petition …
Discussion: The Daily Caller, The Hill and alan.com
Mike Allen / link.axios.com:
Axios AM  —  Good Tuesday morning — 10 days to President Trump.
Discussion: Hot Air and New York Magazine
The Huffington Post:
Republicans Used To Care About Cabinet Disclosures. Then Trump Won.
Ana Swanson / Washington Post:
Conservatives really are better looking, research says
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Builds Political Muscle for Philanthropic Work
Discussion: Politico and Business Insider
F.H. Buckley / New York Post:
How Trump can end brainwashing on US campuses
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 Earlier Items: 
Margalit Fox / New York Times:
Clare Hollingworth, Reporter Who Broke News of World War II, Dies at 105
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
John Kerry: Transition going ‘pretty smoothly’ because it's been ‘fairly limited’
Discussion: The Week
Alex Berezow / acsh.org:
Fracking Protesters Are Putin Puppets
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Joe Biden says he will leave Washington by train on Jan. 20
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
If a Best Buy technician is a paid FBI informant, are his computer searches legal?
Discussion: Hot Air, IJR, The Week and Techdirt
Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
Warning: Abortion's Deadly DIY Past Could Soon Become Its Future
Discussion: IJR
Josephine Mendez / Herald-Dispatch.com:
Huntington High teacher suspended over racially charged tweets
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root