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• Republicans may pivot on Obamacare, focus on replacement

  09-01-2017 23:50 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Senate Republican leaders, under growing criticism for not having their own alternative to Obamacare, are actively exploring moving more quickly to replace key elements of the law earlier in the year.
  
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• New York Governor Andrew Cuomo stakes out progressive turf

  09-01-2017 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo positioned his state on Monday as the "progressive capital of the nation" and proposed policies to drive a middle-class economic recovery. As part of his progressive agenda, Cuomo said he wanted to create a new hate crime task force within the State Police. Trump has drawn criticism for disparaging remarks about women and immigrants, as well as his promise to build a wall along the southern border with Mexico.
  
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• Congressional Black Caucus to re-hang controversial painting

  09-01-2017 23:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Facing off on free speech and a controversial painting that some Republicans criticized as anti-police, members of the Congressional Black Caucus will hold an event on Tuesday morning to re-hang the painting that Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter took down last week, setting off a potential political game of musical chairs.
  
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• First on CNN: Condoleezza Rice endorses Sessions for attorney general

  09-01-2017 23:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Condoleezza Rice, who served as secretary of state to former President George W. Bush, endorsed former Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions Monday to be President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general.
  
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• First on CNN: Condoleezza endorses Sessions

  09-01-2017 23:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Condoleezza Rice, who served as secretary of state to former President George W. Bush, endorsed former Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions Monday to be President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general.
  
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• Klobuchar: Experts should help investigate Russia hacking

  09-01-2017 23:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Monday Congress should authorize a bipartisan commission of experts to supplement the current Capitol Hill investigations into what 17 US intelligence agencies have concluded was a Russian plot to interfere in the US election.
  
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• Trump son-in-law Kushner to take on senior White House advisory role

  09-01-2017 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will become a senior White House adviser and work on trade deals and the Middle East, transition officials said on Monday, in a rare case of a close presidential family member taking on a major job. Kushner, 35, who is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka, is taking the job after receiving legal counsel he would not be violating a U.S. anti-nepotism law based on court rulings that the statute does not
  
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• Ryan to meet with Trump aides on tax reform

  09-01-2017 22:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Paul Ryan and his team will meet with members of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team Monday evening to discuss the House GOP tax reform framework, a senior House GOP aide told CNN.
  
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• White House blasts GOP for ethics moves, says senators formed 'cheap suit caucus'

  09-01-2017 22:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The White House lambasted Senate Republicans Monday for allowing confirmation hearings to proceed on some of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees before their government ethics vetting is complete.
  
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• WH blasts GOP for ethics moves, says senators formed 'cheap suit caucus'

  09-01-2017 22:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The White House lambasted Senate Republicans Monday for allowing confirmation hearings to proceed on some of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees before their government ethics vetting is complete.
  
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• Bernie Sanders' 23 questions

  09-01-2017 22:19 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In advance of his town meeting on CNN, Senator Bernie Sanders says it's time to talk about serious issues: these are the 23 questions he wants to discuss.
  
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• Chaffetz vows to continue Clinton email investigation

  09-01-2017 22:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz said Monday he will continue to investigate Hillary Clinton's use of a primary email server while leading the State Department, but claimed he "won't be a cheerleader" for President-elect Donald Trump.
  
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• Washington pot protesters have wary eye on Trump's attorney general pick

  09-01-2017 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pro-marijuana activists planning to light thousands of joints at Donald Trump's presidential inauguration in a call for national legalization of the drug fear a reversal of recent gains if his attorney general pick is confirmed in hearings beginning on Tuesday. Trump's nominee, U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, has long condemned use of the drug, which has been legalized for recreational use in eight U.S. states and the District of Columbia but remains
  
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• Photo shows Obama snorkeling in the Pacific Ocean

  09-01-2017 21:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A new photo published by National Geographic magazine Monday shows President Barack Obama enjoying the sights of a reef while snorkeling in the Pacific Ocean.
  
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• Top U.S. Senate Democrat says Trump's nominees need 'thorough' vetting

  09-01-2017 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate, Chuck Schumer, decried what he called undue haste to confirm President-elect Donald Trump's nominations for various top posts, saying on Monday they needed more thorough vetting. Hearings start on Tuesday for the Republican president-elect's choices for senior administration posts, beginning with U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, nominated to be attorney general, and retired General John Kelly, Trump's pick for secretary of homeland security.
  
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• Rand Paul: Obamacare replacement 'full of the consensus opinions'

  09-01-2017 21:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sen. Rand Paul, who said Monday his replacement Obamacare proposal is nearly complete, continued to push for his fellow Senate Republicans vote to replace the health care reform law the same day they repeal it.
  
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• Progressives prepare for battle against Trump

  09-01-2017 20:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  After two months of licking their wounds, progressive Democrats say they're ready to take on President-elect Donald Trump.
  
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• Ex-premier Valls seen lagging in bid for French Socialist presidential ticket

  09-01-2017 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The campaign of French presidential hopeful Manuel Valls is losing steam as the Socialists enter a crucial week in picking their candidate, polls show, a scenario that could help Emmanuel Macron. The Socialists, who have held the presidency under Francois Hollande since 2012, are not expected to come close to retaining power in the spring election. Most polls see a runoff on May 7 between conservative Francois Fillon and far-right leader Marine Le Pen, with former prime minister Fillon winning b
  
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• Schumer urges delay in confirmation hearings, says reviews incomplete

  09-01-2017 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer on Monday pushed against rushing through confirmation hearings scheduled this week for at least seven of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees, saying the nominees need a thorough vetting. "Jamming all these hearings into one or two days, making members run from committee to committee, makes no sense," Schumer said in a speech. "It is only fair that they are given a thorough and thoughtful vetting." (Reporting by Doina Chiac
  
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• Supreme Court Seems Wary of Hurdles for Refunds of Fines After Exonerations

  09-01-2017 20:43 via nytimes.com
  The justices appeared deeply skeptical of a Colorado law that makes it hard for criminal defendants whose convictions are overturned to get refunds of fines and restitution.
  
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• Jared Kushner to be named Trump senior adviser: media

  09-01-2017 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will appoint his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to the position of senior adviser to the president, media outlets reported on Monday, a potentially thorny choice in the face of anti-nepotism law. The appointment of Kushner, first reported by NBC, had been anticipated but it had been unclear what his official role would be. Like Trump, Kushner is a New York-based real estate developer with a wide net of business dealings that could pose potential conflicts of interes
  
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• Jared Kushner to be named senior adviser to the president

  09-01-2017 20:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will be senior adviser to the president, a senior transition official told CNN Monday.
  
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• Kerry apologies for State Dept. discrimination against LGBT employees

  09-01-2017 20:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The State Department on Monday formally apologized for what it describes as decades of discrimination against LGBT employees and job applicants, a rare statement meant to right wrongs that preceded current Secretary of State John Kerry.
  
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• Megyn Kelly’s Move Means Big Changes

  09-01-2017 19:42
  
  They say that a reporter should not become part of the story. But there are times when a reporter is the story. Usually, that’s when a reporter challenges a public official, such as when Dan Rather clashed with Richard Nixon in the 1970s. This year, one of the big stories is that Megyn Kelly has […]
  
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• Khizr Khan speaks out against Sessions as attorney general pick

  09-01-2017 19:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Gold Star father and Donald Trump critic Khizr Khan is voicing his opposition to the President-elect's attorney general nominee, Sen. Jeff Sessions.
  
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• The Senate gym: Sessions' unlikely bipartisan oasis

  09-01-2017 19:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Cutting deals in smoke filled rooms of the Capitol doesn't happen anymore. Sipping scotch in a senator's hideaway to help find compromise is mostly a relic of a time gone by.
  
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• Chinese billionaire teases 1 million US jobs after meeting with Trump

  09-01-2017 19:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Asia's richest man is the latest to cozy up to Donald Trump with the promise of creating more American jobs.
  
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• Trump to meet Alibaba's Ma, U.S. Senate majority leader, Univision

  09-01-2017 18:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Republican U.S. President-elect Donald Trump continued holding meetings on Monday in New York as he prepared to take over the White House from Democrat Barack Obama on Jan. 20. Below is a list of meetings for Monday, according to Trump's transition team and eyewitness accounts. BERNARD ARNAULT *Chairman and chief executive officer, LVMH JACK MA *Founder and executive chairman, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd MITCH MCCONNELL * U.S. Senate majority leader * Kentucky Republican UNIVISION COMM
  
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• Warren slams Trump education pick for never having been an educator

  09-01-2017 18:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In a scathing 16-page letter addressed to Donald Trump's nominee for education secretary, Sen. Elizabeth Warren gave a preview Monday of the questioning that Democrats plan to engage in during cabinet confirmation hearings that are set to begin this week.
  
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• Warren slams DeVos for not having been educator

  09-01-2017 18:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In a scathing 16-page letter addressed to Donald Trump's nominee for education secretary, Sen. Elizabeth Warren gave a preview Monday of the questioning that Democrats plan to engage in during cabinet confirmation hearings that are set to begin this week.
  
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• Aim is for Trump security team to be in place by Day One: U.S. Senate chief

  09-01-2017 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell met President-elect Donald Trump on Monday and said he hoped lawmakers would confirm six or seven national security appointees by the time Trump enters the White House in 11 days. With the Senate preparing for a crush of hearings to confirm appointees to Trump's Cabinet, McConnell told reporters they also discussed "getting further down the road toward repealing and replacing Obamacare." Trump has vowed to rewo
  
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• Alibaba tells Trump about U.S. store plan for China e-shoppers

  09-01-2017 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alibaba Executive Chairman Jack Ma met U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday and laid out the Chinese e-commerce company's new plan to bring a million small U.S. businesses onto its platform to sell to Chinese consumers over the next five year, an Alibaba spokesman said. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd expects the initiative to create a million U.S. jobs as each company adds a position, company spokesman Bob Christie said in a phone call. Ma called Trump "smart" and "open-minded." He said the tw
  
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• Donald Trump's big week

  09-01-2017 18:14 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump is embarking on the most crucial week of his transition into the presidency -- and, as usual, he's at the epicenter of multiple controversies.
  
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• Obama thanks Hollywood in note to Golden Globes nominees

  09-01-2017 18:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  While Hollywood took aim at Donald Trump on Sunday night's Golden Globes, President Barack Obama thanked the filmmakers and actors in a message in the show's program.
  
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• First on CNN: Matthew Shepard's mother blasts Trump AG pick Sessions' votes on hate crimes law

  09-01-2017 18:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The mother of Matthew Shepard is urging senators to oppose Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions' nomination to become President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general, citing his opposition to hate crimes legislation.
  
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• First on CNN: Matthew Shepard's mother blasts Sessions' votes on hate crimes law

  09-01-2017 18:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The mother of Matthew Shepard is urging senators to oppose Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions' nomination to become President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general, citing his opposition to hate crimes legislation.
  
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• Trump calls Meryl Streep 'overrated actress' as attack divides Americans

  09-01-2017 17:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Donald Trump called Meryl Streep an "overrated actress" on Monday after the three-time Oscar winner launched a blistering attack on the U.S. president-elect that again exposed the rift between Hollywood liberals and conservative Americans. Streep turned a lifetime award acceptance speech at Sunday's Golden Globe awards into an indictment of Trump's personality and his tough stance on immigration. "This instinct to humiliate when it's modeled by someone in the public platform by someo
  
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• On Broadway 2 politicians, 2 very different receptions

  09-01-2017 17:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The theater has always been as much a place for political commentary as for glitzy escapism, but the 2016 election and its aftermath has led the denizens of Broadway to be especially outspoken.
  
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• WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange: US hacking report is 'embarrassing'

  09-01-2017 17:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Julian Assange has launched a scathing attack on the quality of the US intelligence report that says his organization was involved in hacking the presidential election.
  
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• Inauguration announcer on being cut by Trump: 'I thought I was going to commit suicide'

  09-01-2017 17:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump is breaking from 11 presidents' worth of tradition and benching Charles Brotman.
  
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• Conway on Streep's criticism: 'Is it always appropriate to talk politics?'

  09-01-2017 16:29 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Kellyanne Conway brushed aside actress Meryl Streep's Golden Globes stage condemnation of President-elect Donald Trump, calling Hollywood a "myopic place" that wanted Trump to lose.
  
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• Obama: US climate efforts can withstand 'near-term politics'

  09-01-2017 16:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama argued Monday the election of Donald Trump and a GOP Congress will not stop US efforts to fight climate change and spur clean energy development.
  
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• Official: US Navy ship fires warning shots at Iranian boats

  09-01-2017 16:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A US Navy ship fired warning shots at Iranian boats on Sunday near the Strait of Hormuz, a US official said Monday, citing initial reports.
  
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• John Kelly, Homeland Security Pick, Isn’t in Lockstep With Trump Team

  09-01-2017 15:15 via nytimes.com
  General Kelly’s views on issues involving the Mexican border and the threat posed by Russia may put him at odds with others in the incoming administration.
  
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• Trump hits back at Meryl Streep, calls actress 'overrated'

  09-01-2017 14:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Donald Trump hit back at Meryl Streep on Monday, calling her an overrated actress after the three-time Oscar winner condemned the U.S. President-elect's imitation of a disabled reporter. Streep had turned an acceptance speech at Sunday's Golden Globe awards into a blistering attack on Trump. Streep and much of Hollywood supported Trump's rival, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, in the November election.
  
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• Russia hits back at 'unfounded' hacking allegations

  09-01-2017 14:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Russia says US allegations that it engaged in hacking during the American presidential election are "unfounded" and amount to nothing more than a "full-scale witch hunt."
  
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• Trump attacks Streep for speech at Golden Globes

  09-01-2017 14:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  After Streep criticized Trump in her Golden Globes speech, Trump fired back in a series of tweets.
  
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• Boris Johnson to meet Congressional leaders after talks with Trump's team

  09-01-2017 13:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson meets key Congressional leaders in Washington on Monday, a day after holding talks with several top Trump advisors.
  
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• Cabinet hearings: What to watch this week

  09-01-2017 13:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump's nominees for top Cabinet posts will be in the spotlight this week as the Senate holds a frenzy of confirmation hearings.
  
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• Gambian authorities close fourth radio station amid crisis

  09-01-2017 13:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gambian authorities shut a fourth popular radio station late on Sunday, staff said, further restricting opposition voices amid a political crisis triggered by President Yahya Jammeh's refusal to accept election defeat. Jammeh, who seized power in a 1994 coup, initially conceded defeat to opposition rival Adama Barrow in the Dec. 1 vote, but then called for a new election, drawing condemnation from local opponents and foreign powers. Jammeh called that a "declaration of war".
  
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