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• Ode to Obama - New York Times

  11-01-2017 23:55 via nytimes.com
  New York Times
  Ode to Obama
  New York Times
  But there was a calm in the midst of the storm, a rock of familiarity and stability and strength: On Tuesday night, President Obama delivered his farewell address in his adopted hometown, Chicago, as a forlorn crowd looked on, realizing the magnitude ...
  
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• Obamacare drama at Senate vote-a-rama

  11-01-2017 23:55 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Senate Republicans are poised to take the first step to repeal and replace President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law by approving a budget blueprint that they've dubbed the Obamacare "repeal resolution."
  
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• Trump's team blocks U.S. House appearance by Pentagon pick: officials

  11-01-2017 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's team has canceled an appearance before Congress by his nominee for defense secretary, retired General James Mattis, regarding a waiver he needs for the post, congressional officials said on Wednesday. The U.S. House of Representatives had been due to hear Mattis testify on Thursday and he had agreed to appear. Mattis, who retired from the Marine Corps in 2013, is technically ineligible to be defense secretary since he has not been a civilian for at least seven
  
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• House Democrats fuming over Mattis canceling hearing

  11-01-2017 23:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Democrats are fuming after Ret. Gen. James Mattis abruptly canceled his appearance before the House Armed Services Committee slated for Thursday. The move is triggering a backlash from top House Democrats who say without hearing directly from Mattis they will oppose legislation paving the way for his confirmation.
  
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• Rep. Brooks: Dems' 'war on whites' behind some criticism of Sessions

  11-01-2017 23:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks said in a radio interview on Tuesday that criticism of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, who is Donald Trump's pick to be attorney general, is part of an ongoing "war on whites" by Democrats.
  
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• Clinton aides after swirl of Trump news: We told you so

  11-01-2017 23:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's former campaign aides are venting their disappointment -- primarily with the media -- responding to a slew of reports about Donald Trump and Russia with a bitter, yet simple, message: We told you so.
  
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• 'You are fake news!' Trump presides over turbulent news conference

  11-01-2017 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ayesha Rascoe NEW YORK (Reuters) - The drama started early at Donald Trump's first news conference as president-elect. Trump, who spent much of his U.S. presidential campaign bashing the news media for what he called unfair coverage, kicked off with uncharacteristic praise for the New York Times and other media organizations. The Times, and others, had held back on reporting salacious and unsubstantiated allegations that suggested Trump could be blackmailed by Russia.
  
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• Rex Tillerson breaks with Trump on TPP, foreign policy issues

  11-01-2017 22:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rex Tillerson faces a grilling Wednesday at his Senate confirmation hearing to be secretary of state that comes after CNN reported that Russia may have compromising information about President-elect Donald Trump.
  
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• Tillerson says does not agree with Trump comments on nuclear arms

  11-01-2017 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday that he does not agree with President-elect Donald Trump's comments that it would not be a bad thing if other countries, including Japan, acquired nuclear weapons. Asked by Democratic Senator Edward Markey about Trump's comments, Tillerson said during his Senate confirmation hearing that he did not think anyone would advocate for more nuclear weapons on the planet.
  
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• Trump revives familiar role: Provocateur

  11-01-2017 22:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It's been seven months since Donald J. Trump has been at the podium taking questions from reporters. But his bravado, tart taunts of reporters, and his creative use of the facts were as dominant as they were throughout his campaign.
  
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• Meet Dina Powell, Ivanka Trump's woman in the White House

  11-01-2017 22:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Goldman Sachs executive Dina Habib Powell is joining the Trump administration in a senior role focused on entrepreneurship, economic growth and the empowerment of women.
  
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• Tillerson supports keeping Russia sanctions for now

  11-01-2017 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Patricia Zengerle and Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, said on Wednesday he favored maintaining current U.S. sanctions against Russia for now and that NATO allies were right to be alarmed by Moscow's growing aggression. Tillerson's backing for a more assertive policy toward Russia than Trump has espoused was tempered, however, by his refusal to commit to support maintaining President Barack Obama's executive o
  
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• Trump accuses U.S. spy agencies of Nazi practices over 'phony' Russia dossier

  11-01-2017 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ayesha Rascoe NEW YORK (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump escalated a fight with U.S. spy agencies on Wednesday, just nine days before he takes over their command as president, and accused them of practices reminiscent of Nazi Germany. The Republican said leaks from the intelligence community led to some U.S. media outlets reporting unsubstantiated claims that he was caught in a compromising position in Russia. "I think it was disgraceful, disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allo
  
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• Ex-CIA leader: 'Surprised' unverified intel given to Trump

  11-01-2017 22:14 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Michael Morell, former CIA acting director, told CNN that he finds it unusual the intelligence community would present President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama with a summary of information they had not yet verified.
  
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• Law firm representing Trump won Russia award in 2016

  11-01-2017 22:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Morgan Lewis, a law firm representing President-elect Donald Trump, was named the "Russia Law Firm of the Year" last year by a group that ranks legal organizations.
  
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• Trump recommits to 'major border tax' on foreign-produced U.S. products

  11-01-2017 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alana Wise NEW YORK (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday promised a "major border tax" on companies that shift jobs outside the United States, further pressuring American businesses days after Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV said heavy tariffs could force the company to shutter Mexican plants. Since the Nov. 8 election, Trump has taken to Twitter to call out by name a number of manufacturers with both planned and existing operations outside of the country. Trump, who will be swo
  
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• These are Trump's ties to Russia

  11-01-2017 22:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to have better relations with Russia. He's repeatedly stuck up for Russian President Vladimir Putin. And after weeks of side-stepping, Trump finally admitted Wednesday that Russia was responsible for hacking ahead of the election. He also denied he has any financial links to the country.
  
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• Booker takes stage to rail against Sessions nomination

  11-01-2017 22:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker gave an impassioned and unprecedented plea to the Senate to vote against Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general and his fellow senator, Jeff Sessions.
  
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• Acosta: Trump spokesman threatened to expel me

  11-01-2017 21:55 via rss.cnn.com
  
  CNN's Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta said Donald Trump's spokesman Sean Spicer threatened to expel him from Trump Tower if he attempted to ask another question after a contentious exchange with the president-elect during Wednesday's news conference.
  
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• Trump vs. his Cabinet: New splits emerge

  11-01-2017 21:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's Cabinet picks are dropping some of his signature policy positions under the scrutiny of Senate confirmation hearings.
  
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• Here's what we waited 6 months for

  11-01-2017 21:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It had been 169 days since President-elect Donald Trump -- then the newly minted Republican nominee -- took questions at an open news conference. On Wednesday, Trump broke the streak by hosting reporters, along with top aides, family and applauding staffers, for a wide-ranging, at times chaotic question-and-answer session.
  
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• Trump news conference: CNN's Reality Check team vets the claims

  11-01-2017 21:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday held his first news conference since winning the election, and CNN's Reality Check Team vetted his statements.
  
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• Trump accuses U.S. spy agencies of Nazi tactics over 'phony' Russia dossier

  11-01-2017 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ayesha Rascoe NEW YORK (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump escalated a fight with U.S. spy agencies on Wednesday, nine days before he takes over their command as president, and accused them of practices reminiscent of Nazi Germany. The Republican said leaks from the intelligence community led to some U.S. media outlets reporting unsubstantiated claims that he was caught in a compromising position in Russia. For the first time, Trump acknowledged that Russia likely hacked the Democratic N
  
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• U.S. business lobby wants smooth Obamacare repeal, warns on trade

  11-01-2017 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The largest U.S. business lobby group on Wednesday said it could be a mistake to quickly repeal Obamacare without developing a replacement healthcare insurance plan and urged the incoming Trump administration not to erect trade barriers. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce faces challenges with the next U.S. president and his team, including overcoming deep divisions on key issues like trade while trying to work together on common goals like repealing President B
  
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• White House assails Trump 'secrecy' on financial dealings with Russia

  11-01-2017 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday said U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team have refused to make public information that would put to rest questions about his and his family's possible financial entanglements in Russia. "There's ample evidence that they could marshal, to make public to refute those claims, those accusations that they say are baseless. But they refuse to do so," spokesman Josh Earnest said at a news briefing. "That kind of secrecy only serve
  
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• 'CNN never did that': Tapper fact-checks Trump

  11-01-2017 20:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  After President-elect Donald Trump criticized CNN's coverage of a two-page synopsis appended to a report on Russian interference in the 2016 election Wednesday, Jake Tapper took several of his and his team's claims to task.
  
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• Tillerson says supports keeping Russia sanctions for now

  11-01-2017 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Patricia Zengerle and Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, said on Wednesday he favored maintaining current U.S. sanctions against Russia for now and that NATO allies were right to be alarmed by Moscow's growing aggression. Tillerson, oil company Exxon Mobil's former chairman and chief executive who had extensive business dealings in Russia, refused to call President Vladimir Putin a war criminal and kept the door
  
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• Judge to weigh citizen's 'Bridgegate' complaint against New Jersey's Christie

  11-01-2017 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prosecutors in Bergen County told Judge Bonnie Mizdol on Wednesday that the case should be tossed on procedural grounds because a different judge who permitted it to advance failed to give Christie's lawyers an opportunity to speak at an earlier hearing. A lawyer for Christie also urged Mizdol to throw out the complaint filed by Bill Brennan, a retired firefighter and activist who recently announced a long-shot bid to succeed the governor in this fall's election. Christie did not attend the hear
  
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• Highlights: U.S. President-elect Trump's news conference

  11-01-2017 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - The following are highlights from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's hour-long news conference in New York on Wednesday, nine days before he takes the oath of office. TRUMP ON LATEST NEWS ON RUSSIA AND THE ELECTION Trump blasted the release of an unsubstantiated intelligence report saying he had been compromised by Russia and was vulnerable to blackmail, characterizing it as "nonsense that was released by, maybe the intelligence agencies, who knows, but maybe the intelligence agenci
  
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• What is Kompromat?

  11-01-2017 19:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Russia has denied gathering compromising information about US President-elect Donald Trump -- so what exactly is "kompromat" and how has it been used previously?
  
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• Trump says he'll make high court pick within two weeks after taking office

  11-01-2017 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday his team has met with numerous candidates to fill the longstanding U.S. Supreme Court vacancy and promised a decision on a nominee within about two weeks of taking office on Jan. 20. Trump, during a news conference in New York, indicated the importance he attached to the selection of a replacement for conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last Feb. 13. The Republican-led Senate then refused to consider President Barack Obama's nominee to the
  
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• Trump says won't divest from his business while president

  11-01-2017 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Andy Sullivan, Emily Stephenson and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would maintain ownership of his global business empire but hand off control to his two oldest sons while president, an arrangement that watchdogs said would not prevent conflicts of interest in the White House. Trump told a news conference he would resign from all positions overseeing hotels, golf courses and hundreds of other businesses and move his assets into a tr
  
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• Trump's new line: Mexico will reimburse US for wall

  11-01-2017 19:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  "Mexico is going to pay for it," has morphed into Mexico will reimburse the US for Donald Trump's proposed wall with Mexico, either directly or indirectly.
  
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• Read CNN's response to Trump's accusations of false reporting

  11-01-2017 19:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  CNN's decision to publish carefully sourced reporting about the operations of our government is vastly different than Buzzfeed's decision to publish unsubstantiated memos. The Trump team knows this. They are using Buzzfeed's decision to deflect from CNN's reporting, which has been matched by the other major news organizations.
  
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• David Shulkin picked to head VA

  11-01-2017 18:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday at a news conference that he has selected David Shulkin, current Undersecretary of Health, to be his nominee to head the Department of Veterans Affairs.
  
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• Trump: 'I think it was Russia'

  11-01-2017 18:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump's long-awaited news conference is taking on new significance Wednesday.
  
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• Tillerson says supports keeping Russia sanctions, notes Moscow aggression

  11-01-2017 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Patricia Zengerle and Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, said on Wednesday he favored maintaining current U.S. sanctions against Russia for now and said NATO allies were right to be alarmed by Moscow's aggression, but he refrained from calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal. Relations with Russia dominated Tillerson's confirmation hearing as senators pressed him on whether he agreed with sanctio
  
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• Trump: Supreme Court pick within 2 weeks of inauguration

  11-01-2017 18:47 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate a Supreme Court justice within the first two weeks of taking office for the seat of the late Antonin Scalia.
  
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• Obama's nostalgic goodbye

  11-01-2017 18:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Eight years ago, Barack Obama inspired Americans to embrace political change with the mantra "yes we can." He bade them farewell Tuesday after a historic, tumultuous presidency with the words "yes we did."
  
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• Trump says public doesn't care 'at all' about his taxes

  11-01-2017 18:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump insisted at a news conference Wednesday that Americans "don't care at all" about his unreleased tax returns.
  
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• Live: Trump's nominees testify on the Hill

  11-01-2017 18:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions is the first of Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees to face a Senate confirmation hearing.
  
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• Angry Trump blames U.S. intelligence for 'phony' Russia dossier

  11-01-2017 18:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ayesha Rascoe NEW YORK (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday angrily denounced the publishing of claims he had been caught in a compromising position in Russia and attacked U.S. intelligence agencies over the leak of the information. "I think it was disgraceful, disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out there," Trump told a news conference. Trump acknowledged that Russia likely hacked the Democratic National
  
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• Trump: Obamacare repeal and replace will happen 'essentially simultaneously'

  11-01-2017 18:26 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump said Wednesday that Republicans will introduce proposals to repeal and replace Obamacare as soon as his nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, Tom Price, is approved.
  
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• Trump says won't wait for negotiations with Mexico before starting wall

  11-01-2017 18:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would not wait for negotiations with Mexico to be completed before starting to build a wall along the two countries' border. "I could wait about a year and a half until we finish our negotiations with Mexico which will start immediately after we get into office, but I don't want to wait," Trump said at a news conference.
  
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• Angry Trump dismisses Russian dossier report as 'phony stuff'

  11-01-2017 18:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ayesha Rascoe NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday angrily denounced as disgraceful the publishing of claims he had been caught in a compromising position in Russia and said he hoped for a good relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin but could not guarantee it. "It’s all fake news, it’s phony stuff, it didn’t happen,” Trump said of a dossier that makes salacious claims about him. Trump, who was briefed by U.S. intelligence offi
  
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• Trump separating from business to avoid conflict concerns: lawyer

  11-01-2017 17:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump is separating himself from his far-flung global business empire by transferring all assets into a trust and putting his two sons in charge, a Trump lawyer said on Wednesday. Along with plans to hire an ethics adviser, Trump is taking the steps to avoid inevitable questions about a potential conflict of interest between his businesses and the office of the presidency, although his lawyer insisted he was not required to take them
  
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• Questions about Russia dominate start of Tillerson hearing

  11-01-2017 17:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lesley Wroughton and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia's actions during the U.S. presidential election and its behavior toward Ukraine dominated the confirmation hearing of Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state, as senators pressed him on Wednesday on how he would deal with aggression from Moscow. Tillerson, 64, the former chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp, faced a grilling on his views of Russian President Vladimir Putin and tough questioni
  
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• Tillerson says would support maintaining Russia sanctions for now

  11-01-2017 17:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, said on Wednesday he would support maintaining U.S. sanctions on Russia until the United States further develops its approach to the country. "I would leave things in the status quo so we are able to convey this can go either way," Tillerson said during his confirmation hearing, in response to a question on whether he thought right now is the right time to lift sanctions on Russia. (Reportin
  
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• Live: Trump's 1st news conference since election

  11-01-2017 17:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions is the first of Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees to face a Senate confirmation hearing.
  
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• Sen. Feinstein has pacemaker installed

  11-01-2017 16:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, had a pacemaker installed on Tuesday, causing her to miss the second day of confirmation hearings for Sen. Jeff Sessions.
  
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