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• 370 'Sister Marches' Planned For Day After Trump's Inauguration

  15-01-2017 23:55
  
  Some 194,000 people have indicated on Facebook they plan to attend the Women’s March on Washington, scheduled for Saturday, the day after President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. And 1,200 tour buses have applied for permits to park at RFK stadium that day ― six times the number that have applied for spots on the day of Trump’s swearing in.
  But march spokespeople say it would be a mistake to overlook the 370 smaller “sister marches” that have be
  
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• Trump Wants To Cut Russia Sanctions In Return For Nuclear Arms Deal

  15-01-2017 23:43
  
  LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said he will offer to end sanctions against Russia in return for a nuclear arms reduction deal with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, The Times newspaper reported.
  In an interview with The Times of London, Trump said he wanted nuclear weapons arsenals of the world’s two biggest nuclear powers ― the United States and Russia ― to be “reduced very substantially.”
  “They have sanctions on Russia - let’
  
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• Trump Threatens BMW With Border Tax On Cars Built In Mexico

  15-01-2017 23:25
  
  BERLIN, Jan 15 (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump has warned the United States will impose a border tax of 35 percent on cars that German carmaker BMW plans to build at a new plant in Mexico and export to the U.S. market.
  Trump was speaking in an interview with German newspaper Bild, which on Sunday released excerpts of his comments translated into German.
  A BMW spokeswoman said a BMW Group plant in San Luis Potosi would build the BMW 3 Series starting from 2019, with the output intended
  
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• Scottish Newspaper Nails Trump Inauguration-Induced Anxiety

  15-01-2017 23:23
  
  The Scottish Sunday Herald injected a major dose of macabre humor into its television listings for the upcoming week ― by adding a fictional review of President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration to the list.
  Reviewer Damien Love compared the upcoming event to a new episode of “The Twilight Zone” in his Sunday TV writeup, saying it’s looking to be “one of the most ambitious, expensive and controversial productions in broadcast history.”
  This figur
  
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• Trump Says Merkel Made A 'Catastrophic Mistake' With Refugee Policy

  15-01-2017 22:59
  
  LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump told the Times of London German Chancellor Angela Merkel had made a “catastrophic mistake” with the policy that let a wave of a million migrants into her country.
  “I think she made one very catastrophic mistake and that was taking all of these illegals,” the Times, via Twitter, quoted Trump as saying in an interview. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to ou
  
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• Judd Apatow Thinks Trump Will Run The Country Like It's 'The Apprentice'

  15-01-2017 22:36
  
  Judd Apatow, frequent Donald Trump basher, is opening up about what he thinks life will be like once the president-elect takes office. 
  In an interview with The New York Times, the “Trainwreck” director suggested Trump will run the country like the reality competition show “The Apprentice,” which he so famously hosted.
  “I watched an enormous amount of ‘The Apprentice,’” Apatow said. “Donald Trump sits in his office. He sends his kids to
  
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• Democrats Lead Nationwide Day Of Rallies In Defense Of Obamacare

  15-01-2017 21:54
  
  Supporters of the Affordable Care Act gathered to protest the health care law’s repeal in rallies across the country on Sunday.
  The demonstrations were in response to an appeal by Democratic leaders in Congress for a day of action against ACA repeal, the defunding of Planned Parenthood and other policies promoted by the incoming Donald Trump administration.
  Perhaps the highest-profile gathering was a rally at Macomb County Community College in Warren, Michigan, that drew thousands of peop
  
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• Trump team doubles down on rebuke of civil rights leader

  15-01-2017 21:20
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's vice president and top aides on Sunday joined the U.S. president-elect in criticizing an historic civil rights activist and lawmaker for questioning the legitimacy of his election win, opening up a new divide days before the inauguration.
  
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• Trump's EPA Pick Went Easy On Industry That Backed Him: Report

  15-01-2017 20:55
  
  With his nomination hearing just a matter of days away, Environmental Protection Agency administrator nominee Scott Pruitt is facing allegations that he gave a regulatory pass to polluters who in 2010 helped elect him Oklahoma’s attorney general.
  A new investigation by the Environmental Working Group advocacy organization revealed that Pruitt received more than $40,000 in campaign donations from executives and lawyers who represented poultry companies named in a lawsuit brought by Pr
  
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• The Oath: 35 words that make a President

  15-01-2017 20:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States
  
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• CIA Director Brennan: Trump should develop 'appreciation' for intel community

  15-01-2017 20:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  CIA Director John Brennan implored President-elect Donald Trump to put his confidence in the intelligence community and develop an "appreciation" for the effect his words could have on national security.
  
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• Toby Keith Won't Apologize For Performing At Donald Trump's Inauguration Celebration

  15-01-2017 20:33
  
  Country music star Toby Keith will perform at Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration” concert on Jan. 19 (the eve of Inauguration Day), and he isn’t sorry about it one bit. 
  “I don’t apologize for performing for our country or military,” Keith said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly, after hearing some criticism for his decision. “I performed at events for previous presidents [George W.] Bush and [Barack] Obama
  
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• John Lewis Wouldn’t Invite Donald Trump To Visit Selma With Him

  15-01-2017 19:32
  
  Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) has made it very clear that he is not a fan of President-elect Donald Trump ― so much so that he wouldn’t even invite Trump to visit Selma, Alabama, with him.
  “I would not invite him to come,” Lewis said during a wide-ranging interview with “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
  In 1965, Lewis, a civil rights icon whose work led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of that year, was badly beaten on Edmund Pettus Bridge during Bloody Sunday. He
  
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• Mark Ruffalo, Michael Moore And More Celebrities To Lead Anti-Trump Rally In New York

  15-01-2017 19:30
  
  Mark Ruffalo, Michael Moore, Alec Baldwin and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, among other high-profile figures, will lead an anti-Donald Trump rally on the eve of the president-elect’s inauguration, The Associated Press reports. 
  Organizers told the AP that they’re expecting thousands of people to attend the event in New York City, which is being put together by Greenpeace and activist organization MoveOn. 
  On Saturday, Moore announced the news on Twitter, encouraging
  
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• Trump's Rift With Press Will Grow If Reporters Are Kicked Out Of White House

  15-01-2017 19:05
  
  NEW YORK ― Donald Trump’s team is considering moving press conferences out of the White House briefing room, where they’ve been held for decades, in a potential change that has alarmed journalists just days before the start of the new administration.
  “No briefings shouldn’t move out of the White House,” April Ryan, a veteran White House reporter for American Urban Radio Networks, tweeted Sunday. “If it happens, what makes us different from Russia & C
  
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• Empty desks in the Trump White House?

  15-01-2017 19:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Staffing shortages in a Trump White House? A Supreme Court "nuclear option." And some curious polling in New York City.
  
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• This MLK Quote Sums Up The Rise Of White Supremacy Post-Trump

  15-01-2017 18:39
  
  Martin Luther King, Jr. said and wrote many poignant and profound things during his lifetime, certainly too many to count, but one quote from the Civil Rights icon feels eerily prophetic in light of Donald Trump’s presidency. 
  On July 16, 1964, King released a statement on the Republican presidential nomination of Barry Goldwater. Goldwater had ran a campaign based on a new kind of conservatism that was staunchly against civil rights reform aand implicitly pro-white. Goldwater concer
  
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• Pence: No contact between Trump campaign and Russia

  15-01-2017 18:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Vice President-elect Mike Pence flatly denied communication had taken place between President-elect Donald Trump's campaign and Russia after repeated questions in interviews on Sunday.
  
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• After Years Of Birther Conspiracies, Trump Aide Claims GOP Never Questioned Obama's Legitimacy

  15-01-2017 18:34
  
  For years, Donald Trump was the lead promoter of the theory that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not the United States, and was therefore not a legitimate president. That conspiracy was based on nothing other than the fact that Obama is black. 
  Now, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) is questioning whether Trump was legitimately elected, based on intelligence that the Russian government interfered in the presidential election to help him beat Hillary Clinton. 
  The fact that this civil rights hero
  
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• Rand previews Obamacare replacement plan

  15-01-2017 18:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday unveiled the broad strokes of his Obamacare replacement package, a measure he again said Republicans must pass "on the same day as we do repeal."
  
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• Rand Paul previews Obamacare replacement plan

  15-01-2017 18:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday unveiled the broad strokes of his Obamacare replacement package, a measure he again said Republicans must pass "on the same day as we do repeal."
  
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• Reince Priebus Warns Ethics Chief To 'Be Careful'

  15-01-2017 18:06
  
  WASHINGTON ― Incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus warned the head of the Office of Government Ethics on Sunday to “be careful” in his criticisms of President-elect Donald Trump.
  OGE Director Walter Shaub last week panned Trump’s plan to address his business conflicts as “meaningless,” marking the second time the director called on the president-elect to fully divest his assets before he assumes the presidency this week. 
  “The head of
  
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• Democratic Senator Says Russia Will Succeed If John Lewis And Donald Trump Keep Bickering

  15-01-2017 17:59
  
  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has a lot of respect for Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), but he thinks recent comments from the civil rights icon about President-elect Donald Trump go too far.Lewis said on Friday that Trump is not a “legitimate president,” due to reports of Russian interference in the election. He added that he will not attend Trump’s inauguration, making it the first one he’s missed since his election to Congress in 1986.
  “I just think that was uncalled
  
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• This Local News Segment Shows The Obamacare Danger Ahead For Republicans

  15-01-2017 17:35
  
  Popular resistance to the repeal of the Affordable Care Act has begun, with the first signal that Republicans could face major political repercussions coming from the large Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado.  
  Congressman Mike Coffman, a Republican who represents the swing district there, planned a small event at a library to meet with constituents. He expected just a handful of people, but 150 individuals showed up. Most of them, according to local media reports, were present to plead
  
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• McDonough: Obama sees Trump as 'freely elected,' defends Lewis

  15-01-2017 17:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  White House chief of staff Denis McDonough defended Georgia Rep. John Lewis Sunday against recent attacks from President-elect Donald Trump, but he did not agree with his claim that Trump is not "legitimate."
  
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• Rand Paul: John Lewis isn't immune to criticism

  15-01-2017 16:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sen. Rand Paul praised Georgia Rep. John Lewis Sunday as a civil rights icon, but said he's not "immune" to criticism from political opponents.
  
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• Mike Pence Claims There Was No Contact Between Russia And Trump During The Campaign

  15-01-2017 16:49
  
  Vice President-elect Mike Pence denied Sunday that there was any contact between President-elect Donald Trump’s associates and Russian operatives regarding the hacking of the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 campaign.“All the contact by the Trump campaign and associates was with the American people. We were fully engaged with taking his message to ‘Make America Great Again’ all across this country,” Pence finally told host Chris Wallace on “Fox N
  
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• Kerry visits site where he killed a Viet Cong soldier

  15-01-2017 16:38 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Secretary of State John Kerry visited on Saturday the very site where he killed a Vietnamese soldier in battle almost 50 years earlier, when his Swift Boat was attacked by the Viet Cong.
  
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• Bernie Sanders: 'It Would Not Be A Bad Thing' If FBI Director James Comey Resigned

  15-01-2017 16:26
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday backed calls for FBI Director James Comey’s resignation, sharply criticizing the way he handled Hillary Clinton’s email investigation during the presidential campaign.
  “I think he should take a hard look at what he has done. And I think it would not be a bad thing for the American people if he did step down,” Sanders said on ABC’s “This Week.”
  Just days before the 2016 election, Comey told Congress that the FBI was l
  
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• Mike Pence Is ‘Deeply Disappointed’ That Civil Rights Icon John Lewis Bad-Mouthed Donald Trump

  15-01-2017 16:11
  
  Vice President-elect Mike Pence isn’t super happy with Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.).“Donald Trump won this election fair and square,” Pence said on “Fox News Sunday.” “While I have great respect for John Lewis, particularly his contributions to the civil rights movement, I was deeply disappointed to see someone of his stature question the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s election as president and say he’s not attending the inauguration, and I hope he recon
  
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• John Lewis' Diverse District Bashes Donald Trump For 'Crime Infested' Slam

  15-01-2017 15:46
  
  Donald Trump not only slammed Georgia Democratic Rep. John Lewis after the black congressman challenged the legitimacy of Trump’s coming presidency, but he also ripped Lewis’ Atlanta district as “crime infested” and in “horrible shape and falling apart.” Now Atlanta residents are furious.
  “He needs to do a little more research before he opens his mouth,” local mom Monique Smith told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
  If “Trump
  
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• Alec Baldwin's Trump Takes On Obamacare And Golden Showers On 'SNL'

  15-01-2017 14:39
  
  Alec Baldwin stepped into Donald Trump’s shoes again for “Saturday Night Live” to present his own version of the president-elect’s recent press conference and talk about inauguration entertainment, golden showers and his sons, “Beavis” and “Butthead.”
  Baldwin as Trump begins in the cold open with a serious warning: “Let me answer the question that’s on everyone’s mind: Yes this is real life, this is really happening. On Janu
  
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• Why Trump's Contempt For The Emoluments Clause Matters

  15-01-2017 13:02
  
  As many people have pointed out, President-elect Donald Trump has a problem: It’s called Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, better known as the “Emoluments Clause.” It says this:“No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince,
  
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• Trump aides deny summit with Putin planned

  15-01-2017 05:30
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two top aides to President-elect Donald Trump denied a published report on Saturday that he is planning to hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin weeks after taking office.
  
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• DNC chair contenders seek unified front against Trump

  15-01-2017 04:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Over and over, the candidates to helm the Democratic National Committee stressed Saturday that they're waging a new fight against Donald Trump -- not re-fighting the old one between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Conservative pundit says Lewis' questioning of Trump 'unprecedented'

  15-01-2017 03:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A war of words is brewing between President-elect Donald Trump and civil rights icon John Lewis after the congressman doubted the President-elect's legitimacy -- and a conservative pundit says the questioning is "unprecedented."
  
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• Rights group: Rise of Trump, far-right puts 'human rights system at risk'

  15-01-2017 02:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump's victory, as well as the emergence of far-right populist parties in Europe, "have put the postwar human rights system at risk," according to Human Rights Watch.
  
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• Mark Hamill Is Back As Trump The Joker, Reading Streep Tweets

  15-01-2017 01:40
  
  The “Trumpster” is back!
  “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill has again nailed his Twitterverse-pleasing new vocation: reading Donald Trump’s creepy tweets in the sinister voice of the Joker from the animated Batman series. Hamill has been the voice of the Caped Crusader’s archenemy on the series for decades.
  After a viral reading earlier this month of Trump’s losers-taunting New Year’s Day message, Hamill has tackled the president-elect’s tweets l
  
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• Ahead of inauguration, thousands rally for immigration and civil rights

  15-01-2017 00:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Thousands rallied in Washington Saturday less than a week before President-elect Donald Trump takes office to make clear their opposition to his policies on immigration and social justice.
  
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