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Five fights for Trump’s first 100 days

By Jordain Carney
Lawmakers will return to Washington in January with a full plate of controversial issues that could gum up the early days of the President-elect Donald Trump’s term.
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Five races to watch in 2017

By Lisa Hagen and Jonathan Easley
After 2016’s bruising election cycle, 2017 might seem like a break for Republicans and Democrats to gear up for 2018’s midterms. But a handful of 2017 contests could serve as an indicator of the mood of the electorate in the early months of Donald Trump’s presidency.
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By Rebecca Kheel
President-elect Donald Trump’s pledges to end the nation-building missions of the military will be tested in Afghanistan, where President Obama repeatedly came up against the reality of a country unready for U.S. forces to leave.
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Israel summons US ambassador over UN vote

By Elliot Smilowitz
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday summoned the U.S. ambassador to his country, as he increases attacks on the U.S. for not blocking a critical United Nations resolution.
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Netanyahu rips US: ‘Friends don’t take friends to the Security Council’
By Rebecca Savransky
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday blasted the Obama administration for not blocking a United Nations resolution condemning Israeli settlements in occupied territories.
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Spying after Snowden: What’s changed and what hasn’t

By Julian Hattem
Over the last three and a half years, Edward Snowden has gone from an anonymous government contractor to a global celebrity made the subject of two major motion pictures. But for all of his cultural import, Snowden’s decision to leak thousands of classified documents has done little to change the way the United States conducts surveillance.
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Trump sees Labor makeover
By Peter Schroeder
The Labor Department under President-elect Donald Trump is facing a dramatic makeover.
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China files protest over US defense bill’s Taiwan language

By Elliot Smilowitz
China on Sunday lodged a protest to the U.S. over a defense policy bill that calls for military exchanges with Taiwan.
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Assange praises Trump for bringing ‘opportunities for change’

By Paulina Firozi
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he had “mixed” feelings about the election’s outcome but offered praise for President-elect Donald Trump.
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The dangerous erosion of facts

By Juan Williams
OPINION: In a fact-free world, how does the press report on President Trump? Who will believe them anyway?
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The Washington Post: Trump in position to reshape judiciary with more than 100 vacancies
By Philip Rucker and Robert Barnes
The new Republican president will have nearly twice the number of vacancies to fill than President Obama had when he took office.
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The New York Times: Inside the Trump Organization, the company that has run Trump’s world
By Megan Twohey, Russ Buttoner and Steve Eder
For some executives, there appears to be little division between their service to the company and their service to the Trumps.
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The Associated Press: Recounts or no, US elections are vulnerable to hacking
By Michael Rubinkam and Frank Bajak
Pennsylvania is one of 11 states where the majority of voters use antiquated machines that store votes electronically, without printed ballots or other paper-based backups.
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International Business Times: Japan’s Abe seeks to send message with visit to Pearl Harbor
By Ananya Roy
Shinzo Abe also plans to meet with President Obama in Hawaii on Tuesday.
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The Wall Street Journal: Russia rules out terrorism as cause of plane crash
By Olga Razumovskaya
Russia’s transportation minister Maxim Sokolov on Monday ruled out a terrorist attack as the likely cause of the crash of a Russian military plane.
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