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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
How Donald Trump came up with ‘Make America Great Again’ … “Make America Great Again.”  —  The four words that would help propel Donald Trump to the White House were an inspiration born years before, when hardly anyone but Trump himself could imagine him taking the oath of office as the 45th president of the United States.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's new 2020 campaign slogan is very, well, Donald Trump  —  Donald Trump, who wasted no time after the 2012 presidential election to pick his slogan for 2016, isn't waiting much longer when it comes to his reelection slogan.  —  It's “Keep America Great!”
Joe Uchill / The Hill:
Assange lawyer: Manning commutation doesn't meet extradition offer's conditions  —  The attorney for Julian Assange said President Obama's commutation of Chelsea Manning's sentence does not meet the conditions of the WikiLeaks head's offer to be extradited to the United States if Manning were pardoned.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Earnest: GOP intellectually dishonest on Manning pardon  —  President Obama's top spokesman on Wednesday blasted Republicans who criticized his decision to commute the sentence of former Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning.  —  White House press secretary Josh Earnest said GOP lawmakers have put on …
Discussion: RedState
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning's Sentence  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday largely commuted the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army intelligence analyst convicted of an enormous 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic activities across the world …
Christopher Mele / New York Times:
Obama Commutes Sentence of F.A.L.N. Member Oscar Lopez Rivera  —  President Obama on Tuesday commuted the sentence of a man convicted for his role in a Puerto Rican nationalist group linked to more than 100 bombings in New York and other cities in the 1970s and 1980s.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Reality bites: Trump's wake-up call  —  NEW YORK — On Twitter and in public, Donald Trump remains an uncompromising mix of bluster and bombast.  Behind the scenes, he's confronting, and in some cases succumbing (slightly) to, the hard truths of governing and leading a world that hangs on his every word.
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Tara Fowler / ABC News:
Trump on Intel Briefings: 'I'll Solve the Problems'  —  President-elect Donald Trump admitted that receiving intel briefings has shown him that the U.S. faces some formidable “enemies” but said he will “solve the problems.”  —  “I've had a lot of briefings that are very …
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Betsy DeVos Fight Demonstrates Donald Trump's Serious About Changing Washington  —  It's hard to grill something in just five minutes.  But that didn't stop Democrats from trying.  —  Sen. Lamar Alexander's (R-TN) decision as chairman of the Senate education committee to limit senators …
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Eliza Shapiro / Politico:
De Blasio: Don't ‘overstate the threat’ DeVos poses to city
Discussion: RedState
Rich Lowry / New York Post:   War on Betsy DeVos shows the left hates giving educational hope to poor kids
Leah Barkoukis / Townhall.com:
Ads in Dozens of Cities Offer to Pay Protesters Up to $2,500 to Disrupt Trump Inauguration; UPDATE: It Was a Hoax  —  Update: On “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Tuesday, the Fox News host exposed the group behind the ads as a fraud.  The man claiming to be the director of operations …
Discussion: The Slot and BizPac Review
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NBC News:
Democrats: Left in the Lurch  —  The curious decline and uncertain future of the Democratic Party  —  When President-elect Donald Trump replaces Barack Obama on January 20, the Democratic Party will find itself more removed from power than at almost any point since the party's creation.
Washington Post:
Man apparently sets himself on fire outside Trump Hotel in D.C.  —  A man was burned Tuesday night after apparently setting himself on fire in the street outside the Trump Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue NW, according to a public safety source with knowledge of the incident.
Michael Crowley / Politico:
Is Trump ready for a national security crisis?  —  The abrupt withdrawal of a top Trump National Security Council appointee and the dozens of high-level personnel holes across key foreign policy and defense agencies have national security experts posing a dark question: Will Donald Trump …
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump National Security Team Gets a Slow Start
John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
Democratic Rep. Gabbard Makes Secret Trip to Syria  —  The Hawaii lawmaker, who has bucked both parties on the issue of Syria, met with government officials on a “fact finding” trip.  —  Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii has just departed war-torn Damascus following a trip her aides described as a …
Houston Chronicle:
George H.W. Bush hospitalized in Houston  —  Former President George H.W. Bush was recently admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital after falling ill.  —  “He's there.  He's fine and he's doing really well,” Bush's chief of staff, Jean Becker, said.  —  She said the doctors have a couple …
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Associated Press:
George H.W. Bush Hospitalized for Shortness of Breath
Discussion: The Slot and New York Magazine
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: 'I don't like tweeting'  —  declared in an interview released late Tuesday that he dislikes tweeting and uses Twitter as a defense against media.  —  “Look, I don't like tweeting,” Trump insisted during a Fox News interview scheduled to air Wednesday.  “I have other things I could be doing.”
Discussion: CNBC, ABC News and RedState
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: I don't like tweeting
Discussion: The Week
Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
An open letter to Trump from the US press corps  —  Dear Mr. President Elect:  —  In these final days before your inauguration, we thought it might be helpful to clarify how we see the relationship between your administration and the American press corps.  —  It will come as no surprise …
Jenny Deam / Houston Chronicle:
Woodlands crowd grills Brady over ACA repeal  —  U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands, faced a skeptical and at times testy crowd Tuesday as dozens of people arrived at an afternoon meeting to make sure he knew they would not let the Affordable Care Act end without a fight.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
Price: 'Nobody's Interested in Pulling the Rug Out' on Health Coverage  —  Right Now: Four hearings for President-elect Donald J. Trump's cabinet nominees are underway in Washington, including two of the most contentious choices.  —  Representative Tom Price of Georgia …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump set to take office without most of his Cabinet
Discussion: ABC News
New York Times:
Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year  —  Marking another milestone for a changing planet, scientists reported on Wednesday that the Earth reached its highest temperature on record in 2016 — trouncing a record set only a year earlier, which beat one set in 2014.
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight, The Verge and Eschaton
Roger Simon / Politico:
Ill-informed.  Impetuous.  Reckless: The Trump years.  —  Donald Trump's goal is not to damage America or our allies.  But that may well be the result of his ill-informed, impetuous, reckless actions over the next four years.  —  What can we do about this?  Our fight is not to flee to Canada or South America.
Kevin O'Leary / CNBC:
Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary to run for Conservative leadership in Canada  —  Kevin O'Leary on Wednesday said he will join the Conservative leadership race in Canada.  —  O'Leary said he intended to run in a video posted to his Facebook page and a tweet on Wednesday morning, moments before making the official announcement on CTV.
Discussion: alan.com
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
Potentially nasty fight looms over Trump U.S. Supreme Court pick  —  Senate Democrats are gearing up for a potentially ugly fight over Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court pick, with some liberal activists urging them to do everything possible to block any nominee from the Republican president-elect.
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
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Robin Pogrebin / New York Times:
Museum Trustee, a Trump Donor, Supports Groups That Deny Climate Change
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Doina Chiacu / Reuters:
One habit Trump says he will keep as president: tweeting
Ben Popken / NBC News:
Companies Are Recycling Their Old News to Avoid Being Blasted in a Trump Tweet
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Chris Mooney / Washington Post:
Days before Trump's inauguration, State Dept. sends $500 million to United Nations climate fund
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Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
The Trump lobbying purge that wasn't
Discussion: Political Wire
Jonathan Alter / New York Times:
Joe Biden: 'I Wish to Hell I'd Just Kept Saying the Exact Same Thing'
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The Daily Beast:
New Trump Adviser Being Sued for Hiring Whites to Attack Blacks
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Sam Byford / The Verge:
Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls
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CNN:
Trump wrote inauguration speech himself
Discussion: Political Wire