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• Shinzo Abe, Obama, Carrie Fisher: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing - New York Times

  27-12-2016 23:51 via nytimes.com
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  Shinzo Abe, Obama, Carrie Fisher: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing
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  1. Russian officials are for the first time acknowledging one of the biggest conspiracies in sports history: a far-reaching doping operation that implicated scores of Russian athletes. In interviews with The New York Times, the officials said they no ...and more »
  
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• Graham: Trump disagrees with Senate consensus on Russia

  27-12-2016 23:47 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Two of the Senate's most prominent hardliners on Russia are framing the Washington consensus of Russian aggression as free from any disagreement whatsoever -- except from President-elect Donald Trump.
  
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• Trump taps ex-Bush official Bossert to counter domestic threats

  27-12-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Cowan PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday selected former Bush administration official Thomas Bossert as a counterterrorism adviser who will focus heavily on cyber threats. As assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, Bossert will concentrate on domestic security issues and help craft the administration's cyber security policies, the transition team said. "We must work toward cyber doctrine that reflects the wisdom of
  
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• Report: Democrats Lost More than 1000 Seats Under Obama - Breitbart News

  27-12-2016 22:52 via breitbart.com
  
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  Report: Democrats Lost More than 1000 Seats Under Obama
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  President Obama claims he could have won a third term if he had been allowed to run, but many Democrats in down ballot races haven't been as successful during Obama's presidency. Democrats lost a total of 1,042 seats at the state and federal level, ...
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• White House races to save Middle East peace process before Trump takes office - The Guardian

  27-12-2016 21:32 via theguardian.com
  
  White House races to save Middle East peace process before Trump takes office
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  John Kerry is due to lay out a US framework for an Palestinian-Israeli agreement as the Obama administration and its international allies scramble to protect what is left of the peace process before Donald Trump takes office. The US secretary of state ...and more »
  
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• Barack Obama says he was “wildly pretentious” in his college years and women found him “too intense” - Quartz

  27-12-2016 21:27 via qz.com
  
  Barack Obama says he was “wildly pretentious” in his college years and women found him “too intense”
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  In an interview with his longtime friend and political adviser David Axelrod, for the podcast The Axe Files, Obama reflected on his college years and described his life then as that of a “monk” who fasted on Sundays and preferred staying in at night to ...
  
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• Trump taps ex-Bush official Bossert for counterterrorism post

  27-12-2016 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Cowan PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump filled another post in his national security team on Tuesday, selecting former Bush administration official Thomas Bossert as the chief counterterrorism adviser in the White House Bossert is slated to focus on domestic security issues, while Trump's pick for national security adviser, retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, will handle international security matters, according to a statement. Trump's transition tea
  
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• U.S. appeals court revives Clinton email suit

  27-12-2016 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a new legal development on the controversy over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails, an appeals court on Tuesday reversed a lower court ruling and said two U.S. government agencies should have done more to recover the emails. The ruling from Judge Stephen Williams, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, revives one of a number of legal challenges involving Clinton's handling of government emails when she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. Clin
  
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• Obama welcomes Japanese Prime Minister to Pearl Harbor

  27-12-2016 20:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Seven months after President Barack Obama traveled to Hiroshima to pay his respects to the thousands who died there, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will do the same at Pearl Harbor Tuesday alongside Obama.
  
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• What the UNSC resolution means for US, Israel

  27-12-2016 20:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The United Nations Security Council on Friday passed a resolution condemning Israel's settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
  
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• Mnuchin, Price turn over tax returns to Senate committee

  27-12-2016 20:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's picks to be treasury secretary and the head of the Department of Health and Human Services have both turned over their tax returns for the past three years to the Senate Finance Committee ahead of their hearings, a committee source tells CNN Tuesday.
  
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• Rothman on Trump Taiwan call: 'A lot more winging it than people want to admit'

  27-12-2016 20:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Commentary editor Noah Rothman said President-elect Donald Trump's recent phone call with Taiwan's president -- and its diplomatic fallout -- is a sign of an incoming administration that is "winging it" more than some Republicans want to admit.
  
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• Graham: Trump disagrees with the entire US Senate on Russia

  27-12-2016 19:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Two of the Senate's most prominent hardliners on Russia are framing the Washington consensus of Russian aggression as free from any disagreement whatsoever -- except from President-elect Donald Trump.
  
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• West Virginia official who called Michelle Obama 'ape in heels' fired

  27-12-2016 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The director of a West Virginia nonprofit agency who called first lady Michelle Obama "an ape in heels" in a Facebook post has been fired and the institution put under outside management, state officials said on Tuesday. Pamela Taylor, director of the Clay County Development Corp (CCDC), which provides services to poor and elderly residents, drew international condemnation after her comment last month about Obama went viral. Democratic Governor Earl Ray Tomb
  
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• Trump Ally Apologizes for Racist Obama Letter By Saying He's Not Racist, Calling President a Traitor - Slate Magazine (blog)

  27-12-2016 19:01 via slate.com
  
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  Trump Ally Apologizes for Racist Obama Letter By Saying He's Not Racist, Calling President a Traitor
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  The New York co-chair for Donald Trump's campaign issued an apology on Tuesday for a racist screed against Barack and Michelle Obama by denying that he is racist and saying he views “Barak [sic] Obama as a traitor to American values.” ... “Obama has ...
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• Obama stabbed Israel in the back - Fox News

  27-12-2016 18:59 via foxnews.com
  
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  Obama stabbed Israel in the back
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  "The most stunning 2016 UN attack on Israel was facilitated by President [Barack] Obama when the US abstained on a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel for settlement construction. It reversed decades-long US policy of vetoing such ...
  Dershowitz: Obama "Angry And Is Trying To Get Even" With Israel; "It Is Revenge"RealClearPolitics
  Prominent liberal Harvard Law professor tears into Obama for abandoning IsraelTheBlaze.comall 25
  
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• Israeli official: Proof of US role in UN vote to be given to Trump

  27-12-2016 18:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Israel will provide detailed, sensitive information to Donald Trump's incoming administration about the US role as a covert partner in the UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel's settlements in the West Bank, a senior Israeli official told CNN Tuesday.
  
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• Obama administration is close to announcing measures to punish Russia for election interference - Washington Post

  27-12-2016 18:32 via washingtonpost.com
  
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  Obama administration is close to announcing measures to punish Russia for election interference
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  The Obama administration is close to announcing a series of measures to punish Russia for its interference in the 2016 presidential election, including economic sanctions and diplomatic censure, according to U.S. officials. The administration is ...
  Sanctions against Russia over election hacking forthcoming: reportThe Hill
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• No Trump meeting with Republic of Congo president: Trump spokeswoman

  27-12-2016 18:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has no meeting planned with Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou, a Trump spokeswoman said on Tuesday. Sassou's spokesman, Thierry Moungalla, earlier had said Sassou, a member of the African Union's High Level Committee on Libya, and Trump were scheduled for a U.S. meeting on Tuesday to discuss the political turmoil in Libya and other African issues. Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said there had never been a meeting scheduled and would not be one before Trump
  
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• Trump picks his company lawyer for special negotiator: statement

  27-12-2016 18:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican President-elect Donald Trump has turned to his long-time company's top lawyer to serve as a special negotiator for trade deals and other talks, Trump's team said in a statement on Tuesday. Jason Greenblatt, chief legal officer for The Trump Organization who served as Trump's adviser to the Middle East, will work as Trump's special representative for international negotiations, the statement said. (Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
  
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• Trump taps Bush official as top homeland security adviser

  27-12-2016 17:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named a former official in President George W. Bush's White House as his top adviser on homeland security, counterterrorism and cybersecurity.
  
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• Pearl Harbor witness calls Abe visit 'culmination of the healing' between US, Japan

  27-12-2016 17:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Twenty-year-old Robert Lee woke with a start on Sunday, December 7, 1941.
  
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• Did Obama make it all about him? - Chicago Tribune

  27-12-2016 16:41 via chicagotribune.com
  
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  Did Obama make it all about him?
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  Looking at the decimated landscape for Democrats — out of the White House, holding fewer than 20 governorships, and in the minority in the House, Senate and vast majority of statehouses — it is tempting to blame President Barack Obama for the party's ...
  1 in 7 Republicans approve of Obama's job performanceDaily Mail
  Obama's legacy is a devastated Democratic PartyNew York Postall 123 news articles »
  
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• The embarrassing moment that almost led Obama to quit politics - New York Post

  27-12-2016 16:16 via nypost.com
  
  The embarrassing moment that almost led Obama to quit politics
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  Little-known pol Barack Obama had his credit card declined at a rental car counter 16 years ago — an embarrassing moment that nearly led him out of politics, the outgoing president revealed. Obama, then an Illinois state senator, was down in the dumps ...and more »
  
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• US--Obama Vacation-The Latest - Yahoo News

  27-12-2016 16:10 via yahoo.com
  
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  US--Obama Vacation-The Latest
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  President Barack Obama greets people waiting for him outside Island Snow Hawaii in Kailua, Hawaii, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016, after the president, joined by family and friends, had shave ice during the first family's annual vacation. (AP Photo/Carolyn ...
  Comedian-in-Chief: Obama Funniest Moments as PresidentNBCNews.com
  From Obama, a final Christmas tribute to the troops he's ledFederalNewsRadio.com
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• Derek Chollet: Why Obama got it right on the Syria 'red line' - Washington Post (blog)

  27-12-2016 16:05 via washingtonpost.com
  
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  Derek Chollet: Why Obama got it right on the Syria 'red line'
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  “I don't think any of us should regret the fact that we got 1,300 tons of chemical weapons out of Syria.” President Obama and the infamous “red line” he drew on chemical weapons use by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad are Exhibit A in what detractors ...
  
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• Trump taps Bossert for counterterrorism post -statement

  27-12-2016 15:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that Thomas Bossert, former deputy homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush, would be his White House adviser on security and counterterrorism issues, according to a statement. As assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, Bossert would be Trump's top counterterrorism chief. He currently runs a risk management consulting firm and has a cyber risk fellowship with the Atlantic Cou
  
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• Defected North Korea diplomat: New US administration Kim's chance to speed up nukes

  27-12-2016 15:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  New administrations in the United States and in South Korea could give North Korean leader Kim Jong-un "an apt time" to develop nuclear weapons "at all costs by the end of 2017," a high-profile North Korean diplomat who recently defected to South Korea said Tuesday.
  
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• Spokesman: Trump's team wants to hear protesters' concerns

  27-12-2016 15:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's team plans to hear out the women demonstrators who are heading to Washington to bring attention to their issues, one of the President-elect's spokesmen said Tuesday.
  
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• Obama's other DNC moment: His credit card got declined

  27-12-2016 12:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Four years before President Barack Obama grew to national prominence as the keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, he was broke after running a losing campaign, his credit card was declined and he was quickly losing hope on pursuing a career in politics.
  
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• First female Afghan air force pilot asks US for asylum

  27-12-2016 12:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Three years ago, Niloofar Rahmani became the first woman to earn her wings in Afghanistan's air force. But her place in history as an international symbol of female empowerment and courage has effectively cost her the ability to live in her homeland.
  
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• What the immigration battle could look like under Trump

  27-12-2016 12:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The high stakes battle over immigration policy has politicians and thinkers on all sides of the spectrum preparing for battles that could last years -- leaving millions of people in the US unsure of whether they'll be able to stay in the country.
  
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• Obama Says He Would Have Won A Third Term Had He Run - NPR

  27-12-2016 10:54 via npr.org
  
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  In an interview released Monday, President Obama expressed confidence that he would have won the 2016 election had it been possible for him to seek a third term. The president's remarks were hypothetical: The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution limits ...
  Barack Obama Says He Would Have Beaten Donald TrumpU.S. News & World Report
  Obama Says He Would Have Defeated Trump for a Third TermNew York Times
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• An Oklahoma Newspaper Endorsed Clinton. It Hasn’t Been Forgiven.

  27-12-2016 04:44 via nytimes.com
  An editorial in Enid opposing Donald J. Trump brought a spate of canceled subscriptions and pulled ads, showing the raw power of partisanship in small-town America.
  
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• Defying U.N., Israel Prepares to Build More Settlements

  27-12-2016 03:05 via nytimes.com
  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his response to the Security Council’s condemnation, saying that Israel does not “turn the other cheek.”
  
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• What the UNSC resolution means for the US and Israel

  27-12-2016 02:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The United Nations Security Council on Friday passed a resolution condemning Israel's settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
  
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• When One Party Has the Governor’s Mansion and the Other Has the Statehouse

  27-12-2016 02:13 via nytimes.com
  Governors stymied by hostile lawmakers still have ways to advance their priorities.
  
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• Israel curbs working ties with nations that voted for UN resolution

  27-12-2016 01:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his nation's foreign ministry to temporarily limit all working ties with the embassies of the 12 UN Security Council members who voted in favor of Friday's resolution on West Bank settlements and who have diplomatic relations with Israel, two senior Israeli officials tell CNN.
  
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• Israel curbs working ties with nations who voted for UN resolution

  27-12-2016 01:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his nation's foreign ministry to temporarily limit all working ties with the embassies of the 12 UN Security Council members who voted in favor of Friday's resolution on West Bank settlements and who have diplomatic relations with Israel, two senior Israeli officials tell CNN.
  
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• Obama says he would have outrun Trump, but Trump says, 'No way!'

  27-12-2016 01:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Emily Stephenson HONOLULU (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast on Monday that he would have won most Americans' support if he had been able to run against Donald Trump for a third term. Barred by the U.S. Constitution from seeking a third four-year-term, the president told his former adviser David Axelrod in a podcast that Americans would have backed Obama's vision. "I'm confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could've mobilized a majo
  
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• Kerry to outline Middle East peace plan

  27-12-2016 01:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to deliver a speech later this week on the administration's vision for Middle East peace, several US officials tell CNN.
  
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• Trump to meet with Republic of Congo president on Tuesday: Sassou spokesman

  27-12-2016 00:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou plans to meet with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday to discuss the ongoing political turmoil crisis in Libya and other African issues, Sassou's spokesman said on Monday. Sassou's spokesman Thierry Moungalla, in a post on Twitter, noted that the two men were meeting to discuss ways to the end the Libyan crisis as well other broader issues affecting the continent, according to a statement attached to the tweet. Representatives for Tr
  
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• Obama Says He Would Have Defeated Trump for a Third Term

  27-12-2016 00:18 via nytimes.com
  While praising Hillary Clinton, the president said he could have “mobilized a majority of the American people,” eliciting a rebuttal from the president-elect.
  
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• Trump's main speechwriter to craft inaugural remarks

  27-12-2016 00:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Stephen Miller, Donald Trump's campaign speechwriter and an occasional warm-up act for him on the campaign trail, has been tasked with writing Trump's inaugural address.
  
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• Trump’s Health Secretary Pick Leaves Nation’s Doctors Divided

  27-12-2016 00:01 via nytimes.com
  The American Medical Association endorsed the choice of Tom Price, a physician, but thousands of doctors have opposed it, citing Mr. Price’s opinions on health care and other issues.
  
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• Axelrod: Obama looking to Bushes as a post-presidential model

  27-12-2016 00:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  CNN commentator David Axelrod said President Barack Obama had a few examples in mind for how he should handle life after the presidency: President George W. Bush and his father, President George H.W. Bush.
  
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